Thursday, October 1, 2015

Agents of SHIELD vs. Gotham

This week I saw Gotham and the Season 3 premiere of Agents of Shield.  I'd like to think I'm unbiased in this, but everyone has a bias when they write their opinion.  I'm a huge Batman fan, I've got comics, and collected stories, and I even have a Batman Christmas ornament, an action figure, and a Batman blanket I got from the kid section at Walmart for my recliner at home.  It seems to me though that Marvel takes their properties far more seriously, than DC Comics does.  The Whedons keep things connected and realistic.  Casting is excellent, and with some very small mentionins of politics involved, its relatively apolitical which is a good thing, because they don't anger one side of the other, and can keep a larger fan base.  Agents of Shield seems quick paced because its getting a lot of action, whereas Gotham seems quick because they're trying to cram so many things into one episode.  Gotham while clearly not the campy Batman show, actually reminded me of that old show for some reason.  There's too many psychotics.  It got confusing, and frankly after seeing one police commissioner get killed in The Dark Knight, seeing another one get killed in Gotham, was redundant.
Agents of Shield seemed more cohesive.  The Whedons have a solid grip on good storytelling and can mingle TV and movies into one fluid story.  I think DC has had a lot of problems, though The Dark Knight trilogy was a tremendous step in the right direction, it seems to be a backtracking with Zach Synder casting Ben Affleck as Batman and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor.  Its bad when fans cringe at a movie they still won't be able to see till next year.  It seems to me that success of Agents of Shield is great storytelling and the feel that you're watching an hour long movie each week, not an hour long TV show.  You feel like you're witnessing real events, with Agents of Shield, like I'm participating in events by watching them, but wth Gotham I knew I was watching a story so to speak.  I didn't get lost in it.  I was just watching it.  Agents of Shield has the capacity for making you forget reality, Gotham just reminds you you're still living in reality.  Though I will say this, the kid playing Bruce Wayne on Gotham is likelier a better Bruce than Ben Affleck will be.

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