Bruno Heller Is An Idiot

Gotham is an awful show. There's no two ways about it.


In terms of coherence, character development, etc, it horribly falls flat. And the cherry on top of this shit sundae is the blatant disregard for the characters of the Batman mythos. Villains are introduced years before Bruce becomes Batman, supporting characters like Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen are tossed to the side, and actually GOOD story concepts like the Court of Owls are dragged through the muck.


I know I've said I've grown exasperated with Batman, but Batman fans...I share your pain. I really do.


And it got better. During the Edinburgh Television Festival, showrunner Bruno Heller had this to say:


"I don’t think superheroes work very well on TV...Probably because of the costume thing."


He went on:


"TV is about real people and faces and not so much about magic and the supernatural things...The tricky thing about Gotham is that “it has to be both a crime procedural and a mythic, epic, grand comic book saga...It’s a tricky combination because you have to keep it real and unreal at the same time.”


First:

Fuck you.


Second..."a mythic, epic, grand comic book saga?" Young Justice was a comic book saga. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is an ongoing comic book saga. Your piece of shit show is barely pulling by due to the connection with the Batman mythos, and you aren't even doing that correctly!


Third, your show is unreal. VERY unreal. Nobody acts or talks like a human being. The dialogue is ear bleedingly bad. You have NO idea how to write female characters. I could go on, but I don't want to be here all day.


In conclusion Bruno Heller: You are an idiot and a failure. You have failed in simple storytelling. You have failed as a creator. You have failed the legacy of one of the greatest superheroes of all time. So word of advice: yank your head out of that pile of cocaine and actually watch these other shows. And learn how to do it right, or not at all.