It’s interesting. What was Batman prepared to do if the dude was too drunk to give up the information?
That’s not a criticism of BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER, by the way. There’s a whole bunch of ways they’ve portrayed the character, and obviously they’re not gonna have him straight-up murder an unarmed guy who isn’t a supervillain. I suppose I’m just wondering whether this is going to be Just Starting Out Batman, Hard-Edged Batman, or a combination of both.
It looks good, any which way. Mind you, I like Batman shows, so I’m easy to please.
The gender swapped Penguin disinterests me.
It’s supposed to be set in the 1930s, but nothing about this show bears any resemblance to that era. If you want to do a 1930s Batman, fine, but use the technology and customs of that era to make the story live in that time period. This is just a generic Batman story dressed up in a really poorly tailored replica of a 1930s suit.
In the first episode, Penguin has a giant artillery piece mounted on her(?) ship. Batman boards the ship, takes out all her henchmen, and when it comes time to defeat the Penguin, he doesn’t punch her. He could have punched her in the face and prevented her from firing off the round that destroyed the police station, but he doesn’t. He’s not above throwing an unconscious man into the water where he almost certainly drowned, but he won’t punch Penguin. It seems to me that punching Penguin in the face would be the more moral choice than allowing an artillery shell to explode in the middle of a densely populated city.
Detective Montoya could be an interesting character, but no. She’s a full-on girlboss, and that isn’t particularly interesting. They could do a story about how she has to overcome both the corruption in the Gotham Police and the sexism that would have pervaded the place, but no. She’s sassy and outspoken, leaning out of car widows and shooting at bad guys and telling district attorneys that she isn’t intimidated by them. It’s silly to simultaneously claim that women are historically oppressed, and then erase that oppression in stories about the past.
I think two episodes are going to do it for me.