GOTHAM Set To Introduce Scarecrow

I'm not a fan of this show, I'd prefer everyone who is part of the Batman's rogues gallery to stay out of the show and just focus on Gordon and the corruption of Gotham and the organised crime and show the city begin to decay after the death of the Waynes so that it does become the Batman's Gotham when Bruce is old enough to don the cowl.

This actually sounds pretty interesting. A young Jonathon Crane who inherits the Scarecrow moniker from his father. I like it

What a twist!

Wow... Jonathan Crane's dad is the Scarecrow who passes on the mantle to his son?

I'm really glad I stopped DVRing this show. That sounds so forced and cliched.

@mgeoff88

Agreed . . .Throwing everything AND the kitchen sink in this first season.

Batman never threw for 12 TD passes in 2 weeks. That record belongs to Ben Roethlisberger.

@TokenNerd I'm completely agree with you 100%. The star of the show should be Jim Gordon, not The Penquin.

The thing is though, if they changed the format out of the show that much, the show would lose a lot of viewers. People are tuning into see Batman's rogues and Bruce Wayne. That's why this show was a mistake in the first place...

They should've just done a TV show about Bruce Wayne in his mid 20's who is traveling around the world learning martial arts and helping people out of dangerous situations. You can have an episode where Bruce Wayne heads to South America and learns of an escaped convict by the name of Dorrance(Bane). It turns out he escaped after being administered an early version of Venom by the prison, so Bruce feels compelled to track him down after learning how dangerous he is. And also the rumors that he was experimented on against his will attract Bruce to the case.

After Bruce barley escapes taking down Dorrance(has semi-enhanced strength due to early version of Venom) with the help of the police, you could have a scene towards the end where Dorrance is in a highly secure cell, and requests to talk with Bruce before he leaves. When Bruce comes in to talk to him, he asks Bruce what is his greatest fear. Bruce says that bats terrify him, and then Dorrance tells him that is something they have in common. But then Bruce says something like, that if you can learn to embrace your fear, you can make yourself stronger. To which Dorrance says, that fear can also break a person(foreshadowing to Knightfall). Bruce Wayne says goodbye to him, but Dorrance tells him he believe that were meant to met, and that they are destined to meet again(more foreshoading to Knightfall).

Then you have a scene where there is a doctor discussing with the warden(who is quite angry) about Dorrance escaping due to the experiment. The doctor tells the warden his is working on a never version of Venom, and that will have better security protocols in place this time. The warden gives him the doctor the go ahead to continue developing and testing Venom on Dorrance.

That's how excited I am about the prospect of a Bruce Wayne TV show. I couldn't write all that out, if I wasn't excited.

I really hope we get the actual Batman prequel TV series in the near future, but I'm not holding my breath.

After Gotham is cancelled early, I'm not sure we will be seeing another live-action Batman TV show any time soon...

@Deschain You bring up a great point. They have already tapped into Batman's rogues gallery a lot in just the first season.

When you're doing a TV show based on a comic book property, you don't bring in a lot of majors villains in the first season. That is a big mistake.

You have to hold off on having villains appear to save for them for use in later seasons. The writing is on the wall. If Gotham is renewed for a second season, I don't see season 3 happening. They've made too many mistakes with this show right out of the gate.

I don't know why they don't use characters like Hugo Strange, Vandal Savange, and (if he wasnt on Arrow) Ras al ghul. Also maybe even lesser knowns like what Beware of the Batman tried doing. I wouldn't mind if the likes of Prof. Pyg, Lady Shiva, Anarchy, etc were older than Bruce. I just dont like Riddler and Two-Face being so much older. I like that Freeze is supposed to be coming. What about that character...from Brave and the Bold...um...the black and white guy, balancing good and evil...help me out here....

Equinox! thats it

I really do wish they would do something else with the Equinox character....I really liked him.

So when are they going to introduce Condiment King?