I always felt hugely in the minority for not being a fan of Tennant's Doctor, but yeah I find him really hyper and o/t a lot of the time. I constantly got the feeling that he was trying too hard and playing up to the kiddies in the audience, instead of just letting himself be the character in the way that Chris did. I did like Matt's Doctor though, but I'm definitely pleased that they cast someone older this time and are stepping away from the ~cool Doctor~
And yeah, I guess they want to reinvent the character of Alfred a little and bring their own take to it, but he just feels like too much of an East-end thug wannabe to be an accurate portrayal of the character. I don't want an Alfred that's going to be all, 'What the bloody hell are you doing, Master Wayne' lol. I'm not that familiar with the comics, but I'm sure that Alfred is supposed to be a stabilising presence in Bruce's life, not flipping out on him and unable to keep his cool? And I want to like Gotham because I really like the atmosphere of it and the production design, it just feels to me like they keep overstepping from fun campiness to cartoonishly bad and they need to find the line between that, especially if they're going to play the detective story straight and aim for gritty realism there
I agree about Penguin and The Riddler being among the most interesting characters so far
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Date: 2014-10-09 08:17 pm (UTC)And yeah, I guess they want to reinvent the character of Alfred a little and bring their own take to it, but he just feels like too much of an East-end thug wannabe to be an accurate portrayal of the character. I don't want an Alfred that's going to be all, 'What the bloody hell are you doing, Master Wayne' lol. I'm not that familiar with the comics, but I'm sure that Alfred is supposed to be a stabilising presence in Bruce's life, not flipping out on him and unable to keep his cool? And I want to like Gotham because I really like the atmosphere of it and the production design, it just feels to me like they keep overstepping from fun campiness to cartoonishly bad and they need to find the line between that, especially if they're going to play the detective story straight and aim for gritty realism there
I agree about Penguin and The Riddler being among the most interesting characters so far