If in making going the full way with this being a prequel to Bruce's tenure Batman, and giving Saved by Canon to as many characters are possible, then it's possible that Falcone can't die in this show - since he's a major fixture of Batman's early years. Maroni either, incidentally, since he's important to Two-Face's origin.
Though of course, if they do Two-Face's origin over the course of the show and/or drastically alter things even further, then neither of them may necessarily have that Plot Armor anymore.
edited 14th Oct '14 1:34:38 PM by KnownUnknown
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Shouldn't Harvey Dent be around the same age as Bruce and Selina. I know with this show they're able to take liberties but in his origin, he was probably Bruce's closest civilian friend before the accident.
I wonder if Cobblepot will continue to use penguin species as pseudonyms, considering how little he seems to like the moniker. I'd imagined he would embrace it around when he (likely) kills off Fish, so that was a surprise.
Yeah, but they've apparently casted him as an adult. Go fig.
Penguin's rise as a mob-boss makes perfect sense, especially given Gordan saved his life.
Who hired the assassin ? I assumed Penguin but he wouldn't have the money. Was it actually mobs ?
It's possible that the deal was for Penguin to pay him on completion of the job, with money he was assuming he would have at the time after his plan of robbing Maroni.
That's a lot of playing with fire, but then that seems to be Penguin's forte in this series.
edited 14th Oct '14 3:48:41 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
I like it but where'd he get the goons? "Wanna rob the mob for me?" doesn't seem like something you can put on craigslist.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Would that it were so simple.
I just want to say that I find Maroni hilariously cliche. He acts and sounds like a wannabe Godfather character, with grandiloquent language and florid gesticulating. Falcone comes off as way more threatening than this clown.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
I think that might be part of the point of his character.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins
Indeed. Falcone runs Gotham and seems more like a kindly old business man. Maroni is just pretentious and is clearly not as capable..
I wouldn't be surprised if Penguin gets powerful enough within Maroni's family as it grows to eventually split, leaving Maroni back to square one as the Penguin takes half or so of his goons with him and ultimately starting his syndicate.
This is a title.
New episode tonight. Name is "Viper". What's that about?
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...Kobra maybe?
Probably not but you never know...
(It's probably Baby Shiva or something)
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins
This is a title.
What was Shiva like as a baby? Was she killin dudes like fifty times her size with her bottle? Smothering them to death with a soiled nappy?
edited 20th Oct '14 5:02:42 PM by Eagal
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Oh crap does the title mean Bane's venom?
edited 20th Oct '14 5:05:49 PM by VeryMelon
This is a title.
Green liquid in a bottle that says Breathe me. What could possibly go wrong?
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Looks like you called it, Melon.
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That's two superhero shows in a row with liberal arts professors with dark secrets that end up being super strong. Agenda? I think so.
More seriously, "most guys in your position would've freaked out" is a pretty good description of Jim Gordon in general, isn't it?
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
This is a title.
In a city like Gotham the ability to keep a cool head in the midst of chaos is a valuable asset.
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Yeah, this's shows showing the effects of venom on people.
Man, Bruce is bright but damn is he naive.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
This is a title.
Even middle management is evil.
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Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
I loved that sign that the first user of the drug had at the beginning.
Sometimes, you just gotta try honesty.
Wow, Fish Mooney and that Russian are in bed together......literally. That was unexpected.
One Strip! One Strip!
At first I wasn't sure I read it right, then I realized its Gotham.
Anyone thinks Falcone is going welcome Penguin with open arms if he kills Fish when her little trick fails?
Maroni will die, within three episodes. Penguin will take all of his men.
Falcone doesn't need to die in season 1. Fish does, especially now that the season has been extended, but Falcone I see lasting as a sort of Big Bad.
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Also, if Fish dies and they have another season villain take her place, I hope its yet another actor of Jada Pinkett-Smith's calibre or better and it becomes a Gotham tradition.
edited 14th Oct '14 1:19:51 PM by FFShinra