sh9000 Posted March 15, 2022 Posted March 15, 2022 (edited) Please post about toys and other topics in their own threads. Edited May 7, 2022 by sh9000 Quote
pengbuzz Posted March 16, 2022 Posted March 16, 2022 lol Looks like Grampa Oswald didn't take his Metamucil and is a bit constipated Quote
Bolt Posted October 14, 2022 Posted October 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Thom said: why? Because of Gotham and Pennyworth. And because DC can't get most of their movies right. Quote
Big s Posted October 14, 2022 Posted October 14, 2022 I liked the Penguin and all, but not sure about dedicating an entire series to the character. He seems more like a good badguy boss man, but not so much the focus of a series Quote
TangledThorns Posted April 12, 2023 Posted April 12, 2023 2 hours ago, 505thAirborne said: GOTHAM meets The Sopranos. Quote
Mog Posted April 12, 2023 Posted April 12, 2023 Apparently, the actress that plays Avasarala in The Expanse is also in this. At least, we know she can cuss with the best of ‘em. Quote
TangledThorns Posted April 13, 2023 Posted April 13, 2023 12 hours ago, Mog said: Apparently, the actress that plays Avasarala in The Expanse is also in this. At least, we know she can cuss with the best of ‘em. Shohreh Aghdashloo is in everything!! LOL. She looks great for 70 too! Quote
TangledThorns Posted June 20 Posted June 20 How many teasers do we get before the trailer? lol That being said we'll check it out of course. Do recommend watching GOTHAM if you hadn't seen it yet. Robin Lord Taylor's Penguin is my most favorite yet! Quote
Raikkonen Posted July 28 Posted July 28 (edited) Forgotten about this. And they're seriously doing the whole "Isn't really a villian. Just a miss-understood good bad guy." 🤦♂️ Edited July 28 by Raikkonen Quote
no3Ljm Posted July 29 Posted July 29 On 7/28/2024 at 11:43 AM, Raikkonen said: And they're seriously doing the whole "Isn't really a villian. Just a miss-understood good bad guy." 🤦♂️ Aren't they all? Quote
TangledThorns Posted July 29 Posted July 29 On 7/28/2024 at 2:43 PM, Raikkonen said: Forgotten about this. And they're seriously doing the whole "Isn't really a villian. Just a miss-understood good bad guy." 🤦♂️ Kinda like Tony Soprano, lol. Quote
no3Ljm Posted July 29 Posted July 29 Do we need to wonder where is Bruce/Batman while this story takes place? Quote
Raikkonen Posted July 29 Posted July 29 3 hours ago, no3Ljm said: Aren't they all? Walter White started all this. But's it's damn hard copying him. 3 hours ago, TangledThorns said: Kinda like Tony Soprano, lol. Nothing miss-understood there. Straight up murderous thug. Exactly how the original Penguin is. 2 hours ago, no3Ljm said: Do we need to wonder where is Bruce/Batman while this story takes place? Somewhere in the Multi-Verse 🤣 (It's the now the favorite story patch of all these franchises' writers.) Quote
Thom Posted September 17 Posted September 17 On 7/29/2024 at 3:54 PM, no3Ljm said: Do we need to wonder where is Bruce/Batman while this story takes place? There's a scene in the trailer where they show water flooding an intersection. Without any further checking, I think this may take place during the Batman. Quote
azrael Posted September 18 Posted September 18 3 hours ago, Thom said: There's a scene in the trailer where they show water flooding an intersection. Without any further checking, I think this may take place during the Batman. The series begins about a couple of weeks after the events of The Batman. Gotham is still cleaning up the flood water and is a metaphor for the events in the underworld now that Falcone is dead. There is a flood of potentials into the scene to take over the Falcone empire from The Penguin to Sophia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) to Salvatore Maroni (Clancy Brown). Quote
Big s Posted September 20 Posted September 20 Just watched the first episode last night and I liked it. It’s got a real uncomfortable humor to it that I wasn’t expecting. And more uncomfortable car ride scenes than any episode of any show I’ve ever seen. I think that’s definitely an odd record to have. It’s got a good amount of uncomfortable meal scenes as well. And a good amount of uncomfortable meetings. I think this sets up for the most uncomfortable scenes in a single episode of any show ever made. Quote
sh9000 Posted September 21 Author Posted September 21 Weeks Ahead Trailer. Inside Episode 1. Behind the Scenes of Gotham. Quote
Big s Posted September 30 Posted September 30 Watched the new episode last night, and either this show is really great or it seems better because I expected it would be a let down. If anyone would have said that I’d be excited week after week about a show starring the Penguin a few years back, I’d have thought they were crazy. But here I am watching that show and surprised how entertaining it is. Spoiler I love the fact that he comes up with thin plans held together by duct tape and somehow when that doesn’t hold, he flips that falling apart plan and somehow sticks it back together int a new plan. My favorite thing going on in this episode is his stupid plan to have that kid plant jewels to frame one of the higher ups. I kinda cringed and thought to myself that these were all expensive cars that belong to mob bosses and hit men. There’s no way nobody would be watching them. I totally expected the kid to find a sneaky way to drop them into the car only to find that that plan really was as stupid as it sounded and there was a guy watching the cars Quote
Bolt Posted October 1 Posted October 1 I really enjoyed the first episode, to my surprise. Will definitely be watching more. Quote
Big s Posted October 1 Posted October 1 29 minutes ago, Bolt said: I really enjoyed the first episode, to my surprise. Will definitely be watching more. Definitely a surprise. I thought I’d be disappointed for sure Quote
Tking22 Posted October 1 Posted October 1 I'm a bit baffled at how good this series is, only two episodes in I know, but it's a damn solid start, Colin is killing it as Cob. Quote
Big s Posted October 1 Posted October 1 6 hours ago, Tking22 said: I'm a bit baffled at how good this series is, only two episodes in I know, but it's a damn solid start, Colin is killing it as Cob. It really is far better than a character like the Penguin deserves. This seems to be a pretty common reaction. I think everyone thought a comic book villain spinoff would probably be a bad idea, especially of a character that is a bit lower on the totem of best Batman villains. And maybe the reason this works is that he’s never really portrayed as a good guy gone bad, just a bad guy that is playing a dangerous game to gain notoriety and control. It also sets up for the most dangerous world a character like Batman could exist in. Quote
Big s Posted October 14 Posted October 14 While I feel like last weeks episode was the weak episode of the series Spoiler Mainly because I wasn’t convinced that that kid after being given the perfect excuse to leave with his girlfriend that seemed to really be looking out for him that he would’ve chosen to stay. It still wasn’t an overall bad episode. This week the show was back on track and back to its wild ways. Spoiler Loved the Arkham stuff and that it really shows a messed up Gotham that a character like Batman could exist in. Sure the Magpie thing was a little silly and felt like they couldn’t get another chance to use Harley Quin, but then they just kinda made her a carbon copy. At least she’s dead now. Overall another amazing episode of a show that I really wasn’t all that interested in when it was teased and still can’t wrap my head around the fact that I’m excited every week for a new episode of a show based on one of my least favorite characters from Batman. the last couple episodes really showed how crime and insanity could run rampant in a city like Gotham and while I wanted to see a new The Batman movie, now I really can’t wait to see how he deals with all the destruction from the last one and all the crazy stuff going on with these crime wars and whatever other madness is going for a power grab in the city. Quote
TangledThorns Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Hadn't watched Penguin yet but how does it compare to GOTHAM? Quote
Big s Posted October 18 Posted October 18 36 minutes ago, TangledThorns said: Hadn't watched Penguin yet but how does it compare to GOTHAM? It blows Gotham away. I think the problem I had with Gotham is that there was no Batman to worry about and I didn’t think it was bad, just that I really didn’t care much for the show. I didn’t feel like a bunch of crazies would be there and really only got through a season of the show before I got bored. I honestly thought I’d be bored with this show as well. I never liked the Penguin and couldn’t imagine a show about him being interesting at all. This show isn’t some goofy series that tries to explain how some down to earth guy somehow loses it and becomes the villain. He’s already a bad guy. He just finds ways to weasel into situations and sometimes screws those up and has to recover and adapt to survive ever escalating aspects of the story. He’s trying to get to the top and you get the feeling that any slip up will get him or someone else killed. And he’s such a weasel that even when things do go wrong, it’s got this high tension feel to how he might just get out of things, but it’s gonna change other parts of his messed up plans. The show lives in the shadows of the disaster at the end of The Batman. It’s a chaotic city that had a massive disaster and the criminals are taking big risks. Some are just the average thief’s others are gangsters trying to find their place in a power vacuum where the crime big crime bosses are either in jail or dead. It’s clear that the Penguin wanted more power, but when things get heated an he makes a huge mistake, he decides to shoot for the moon. The disaster gives reasons for more police corruption due to so many people losing homes family or other property. Spoiler This show really gets into showing a bit of Arkham in the last episode, and how the people running it treat the people inside as experiments more than people that need real treatment and care. Or in some cases take money to help convince other patients that they might truly be crazy so others on the outside might not believe anything they say in defense of their situation Quote
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