So I was expecting this show to be absolute trash, but then I watched it and I'm kinda... hooked?
Not hooked on the melodramatic bs teenage drama you can expect from most CW shows, of course. That is here, and it is indeed the worst part of this series.
The mystery of Bruce's death: how he died, why he died, and IF he even really died, that is the most compelling part of this show.
And the fact that this series brings to live-action a group of Batman villains that comic readers have been dying to see jump from the page to the screen is another exciting factor.
We finally get a Court of Owls story and a Talon that is uncompromisingly comic book accurate.
I was expecting it to be pretty tame when it came to the action scenes, but we see Talon just cutting people's heads off, and then Fed-exing it straight to GCPD.
Of course, it's not John Wick level of fight choreography and direction. It's closer to Taken in that regard; the hundred cuts and shaky cam kind of fight scenes.
So if you're expecting that, you'll be disappointed.
But if you're like me, and you were expecting this series to be complete garbage, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised that this show is... not bad.
Not hooked on the melodramatic bs teenage drama you can expect from most CW shows, of course. That is here, and it is indeed the worst part of this series.
The mystery of Bruce's death: how he died, why he died, and IF he even really died, that is the most compelling part of this show.
And the fact that this series brings to live-action a group of Batman villains that comic readers have been dying to see jump from the page to the screen is another exciting factor.
We finally get a Court of Owls story and a Talon that is uncompromisingly comic book accurate.
I was expecting it to be pretty tame when it came to the action scenes, but we see Talon just cutting people's heads off, and then Fed-exing it straight to GCPD.
Of course, it's not John Wick level of fight choreography and direction. It's closer to Taken in that regard; the hundred cuts and shaky cam kind of fight scenes.
So if you're expecting that, you'll be disappointed.
But if you're like me, and you were expecting this series to be complete garbage, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised that this show is... not bad.