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2 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Hadn't watched Penguin yet but how does it compare to GOTHAM?

Gotham was a live-action cartoon, more absurd and fantastical than anything Tim Burton did with Batman.

The Penguin is so grounded and realistic that a costumed crimefighter would look ridiculous in the show.  Even the Christopher Nolan trilogy looks like a comic book by comparison.

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2 hours ago, tekering said:

The Penguin is so grounded and realistic that a costumed crimefighter would look ridiculous in the show.  Even the Christopher Nolan trilogy looks like a comic book by comparison.

But in a city where most of the cops are on the take and enough psychotic experiments in Arkham, it kinda makes a bit of a fit for a masked hero

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12 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

The Arkham scenes were cartoonish and really don't fit with the rest of the show. The first real misstep in what has otherwise been a pretty good show.

I kinda feel that it ties the series to the movie a bit better, otherwise the show would seem a little too real and I liked that she 

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Got rid of Magpie brutally and quickly. 

As far as missteps, I think the previous episode just didn’t give the driver a convincing motivation to stay. It didn’t need much, but they really didn’t give any real reason for that decision.

Otherwise, it’s still the best show of the year so far

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2 hours ago, Big s said:

kinda feel that it ties the series to the movie a bit better, otherwise the show would seem a little too real

I would argue that because the show has been grounded is why it's doing as well as it is. 

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6 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

I would argue that because the show has been grounded is why it's doing as well as it is. 

Yeah, but it’s gotta have something to tie it into the movie that this spinoff was based from otherwise it’s gonna make the whole thing a bit of a mess.

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1 hour ago, Big s said:

Yeah, but it’s gotta have something to tie it into the movie that this spinoff was based from otherwise it’s gonna make the whole thing a bit of a mess.

I don't give a flying flarn about comic book movies. Like most of the movie-going public. I'm watching because The Penguin is a pretty good crime drama. If this show gains any real traction it's not because it's a comic book property.

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1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

I don't give a flying flarn about comic book movies. Like most of the movie-going public. I'm watching because The Penguin is a pretty good crime drama. If this show gains any real traction it's not because it's a comic book property.

That’s perfectly fine, there’s nothing wrong with not liking a comic book movie, but realistically speaking, this is a part of The Batman franchise. There are things like characters and events and tone that are crossed over between the movie and the show and possibly more will happen. Events from the movie are here to shape this series and more than likely, events from this show will play a part in the next movie.

There might be a bit of a chaotic comic bookish thing here and there in this show, but I don’t think there’s gonna be a lot more of that in the upcoming episodes. It’s more than likely that they did that last episode as a tie in kinda thing and the rest of the series will be back to the usual gangster stuff 

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2 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

Nice return to form with this episode. The show's good, yo. Viewership is going up for it every week.

It’s definitely a great show and back to the usual

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Penguin comes up with a plan that goes completely off course and could end in his death again, but as always he’s got something big cooking and things can’t go much more south for him at this point with just about everyone wanting him dead.

He really shouldn’t have angered Mr Krabs

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