{"id":7935,"date":"2020-03-16T06:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T10:45:06","slug":"batman-lucifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/batman-lucifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman & Lucifer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Batman<\/a> prequel Gotham<\/a> starts off remarkably good, basically a crime drama with some action elements and a moderate streak of eccentricity, but as it progresses events become increasingly unhinged. So while there are a few good bits in the second season (the third is garbage), ultimately I can’t recommend watching beyond the first.<\/p>\n

I specifically avoided watching The Dark Knight Rises<\/a> when it was released mainly due to a review that said it was more a Bruce Wayne movie than a Batman movie. That review ended up being spot on. More problematic though is Bane<\/a>; why does he sound like an English aristocrat? His voice is beyond disconcerting. Overall I’d say Batman vs. Superman<\/a> tells this sort of ‘aging Batman’ story far more competently, with a far more believable villain, and a much bigger payoff.<\/p>\n

Lucifer<\/a> meanwhile turned out to be a hybrid of buddy cop police procedural and urban fantasy familial drama. In quite a few ways it’s reminiscent of Castle<\/a>, and so far it’s the only DC<\/a> TV series I’ve seen that manages to avoid deteriorating over time: What you get in the first episode is what you get in the 40th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Batman prequel Gotham starts off remarkably good, basically a crime drama with some action elements and a moderate streak of eccentricity, but as it progresses events become increasingly unhinged. So while there are a few good bits in the second season (the third is garbage), ultimately I can’t recommend watching beyond the first. I specifically avoided watching The Dark Knight Rises when it was released mainly due to a review that said it was more a Bruce Wayne movie than a Batman movie. That review ended up being spot on. More problematic though is Bane; why does he sound like an English aristocrat? His voice is beyond disconcerting. Overall I’d say Batman vs. Superman tells this sort of ‘aging Batman’ story far more competently, with a far more believable villain, and a much bigger payoff. Lucifer meanwhile turned out to be a hybrid of buddy cop police procedural and urban fantasy familial drama. In quite a few ways it’s reminiscent of Castle, and so far it’s the only DC TV series I’ve seen that manages to avoid deteriorating over time: What you get in the first episode is what you get in the 40th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[172,466,180,174,173,464,176,192,29,64,62,412,411,30],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related","tag-action","tag-batman","tag-comedy","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-comic-relief","tag-dc-comics","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}