I had a surprise today when I noticed that The Blacklist, Sleepy Hollow and Gotham had aired last night, but I only had a chance to watch them later on this evening. And as you might have noticed I had reservations in regards of how Gotham would go down. So I can happily now tell you that all the characters except Albert fit the series. The problem with Albert is that he isn't acted by Michael Caine, and to me Mr Caine's Albert in the Dark Knight series was the best. There's no doubt it. But in this one, the only weak character I noticed so far was Mr Riddler.
I for one cannot understand what Mr E.Nigma would be doing in the Gotham PD CSI division, when it was kind of obvious from the first meeting that he has lost bats from the bell tower. Or then maybe he has couple of extra ones doing copious rounds just to drive him mental. Of course I have to admit that I don't know E. Nigma's full history, as I've just seen him in the comics books and in the old series, before he showed up in the 1995's Batman forever. And to be honest I wasn't pleased for such a brain being ridiculed by the Batman.
But Batman isn't in this series in any other form than a small "fabulous rich" boy under guardianship of Albert. However it doesn't mean he cannot have some friends, and as surprising as it was, the Catwoman was lurking at Wayne's Manor fence when Detective Gordon drove off from there. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's some sort of early love angle in the play when we go down this series.
I certainly will be tuning in as the weeks go by even if there's no big central plot out there other than who committed Wayne's murders?