David Mazouz (Touch) has been cast as the preteen Bruce Wayne, sentenced to a solitary life after the tragic murder of his wealthy parents. Serious and soulful, young Bruce relies on the guidance and protection of Alfred Pennyworth and James Gordon.
(Note: As has been reported previously, GOTHAM is the origin story of Commissioner James Gordon and not a “Batman” show. Please note for stories that David is playing the young Bruce Wayne — not Batman.)
They’ve cast a “preteen” Bruce Wayne (the actor’s actually 13) for the new Batman-related series Gotham. Early reports suggested that plans for the show had the final scene being Bruce Wayne putting on the Batman costume. If that’s really the case, they’re apparently planning on it running for a loooooong time.
Recently Watched: House of Cards Season Two | The World That’s Coming
Recently Watched: House of Cards Season Two | The World That’s Coming
So, I finished House of Cards season 2 this weekend.
Over at my rarely-updated own site, I gripe about the second season of House of Cards. Really, I should’ve inserted spoilers, but I didn’t. The Internet has trained me too well.
The 10 Best Moments From Seth Meyers’ First Week on Late Night
The 10 Best Moments From Seth Meyers’ First Week on Late Night
If 12:30 is too late for you to stay up to catch Seth Meyers’ first week as Late Night host, here’s your handy recap.
As with the first week of Fallon’s Tonight Show, I did a tl;dr clip round-up for Seth Meyers’ first week on Late Night. I touch on it in the piece, but to be more blunt here: This was a rough first week, and the show’s not gelled in the slightest yet. But I’m very curious what it’ll turn into (including whether or not Meyers gets more comfortable as late night host).
Lena Dunham to Pen Archie Comics Arc
Lena Dunham to Pen Archie Comics Arc
Archie Andrews has a new pal in Riverdale, but this one is going to shake things up far more than any fight between Betty, Veronica and Cheryl Blossom over Archie’s heart. As revealed by the New York Times, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been named as the new chief creative officer at Archie Comics.
Ignore the (oft-evolving) headline – this is me talking to Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa about his new gig as Chief Creative Officer for Archie Comics (Yes, Lena Dunham’s writing gig is mentioned in the story, but it’s a very, very small part thereof. But, as that detail gained traction, it gained prominence in the headline…).
This article was amended on 3 March 2014. The original stated that Bradley Manning took Ellen’s selfie. In fact, it was Bradley Cooper. This has been corrected.
From here.
They correctly talk about “television phones” and electric toothbrushes, but mostly the 12 writers who gathered in 1963 to predict and debate the future were way off target. We’re not yet immortal, the routine nature of space travel is yet to come, and the coffee we drink is not generally laced with amphetamine to improve our mood.
The dozen science fiction writers, including Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke, were part of a Playboy magazine panel predicting what life would be like after 1984. At Tate Britain, visitors will be able to watch a filmed reconstruction of the predictions using actors.
From here.
Recently Watched: House of Cards Season Two
So, I finished House of Cards season 2 this weekend (Like season 1, I found myself exhausted by binge-watching and took a break midway through, before returning to binge-watch the final episodes), and as the season went on, found myself wondering what the hell happened to the show I’d enjoyed so much the first time around.
It’s not that the second season is a bad show, but it’s — everything that I didn’t like about the first season amplified, I guess? I don’t want to spoil those who haven’t seen it/finished it yet, but there’s a flabbiness to the plotting/overall arc of the season that combines with a misguided belief in its own navel gazing (Yes, yes, I get it: Machiavellian white guy is fighting with other Machiavellian white guy and they’re using everyone around them as pawns, do something exciting with that idea please) and increasingly cartoonish plot developments that just got me down, as much as there were things that kept me watching.
(One of those things: the way the series portrays Claire Underwood, which is either nuanced or schizophrenic depending on how generous you’re feeling towards the writers at the time. Her arc this season was at times thrilling and amazingly frustrating, the latter especially as the season went on, which may in fact be intentional for future developments.)
It wasn’t just the ridiculousness of the plot by the end of the second season — seriously, I can’t tell you how much I want the third season to open with someone asking “No, really, how did that actually happen?” just to acknowledge quite how stupid it got at the end there — but the fact that, by this point, the show had created a rhythm by giving us two seasons where Frank plots, is almost stymied, and then ultimately succeeds in his goal. And, for that matter, that that rhythm includes Frank always beating everyone else.
This, obviously, is setting us up for a third season where Frank fails through overconfidence/overreach/whatever. The problem is, that’s just not going to be vaguely believable at this point because the House of Cards universe is apparently one in which Frank can steamroller over everyone with the arguable exception of Claire. The conflict from British original collapses in the American version because of the lack of power struggle the latter had between Francis Urquhart and the King — a powerful thorn in his side that Urquhart couldn’t replace. Instead, to watch Frank fall, we’re either going to have to go through an increasingly convoluted series of plot twists to power up an existing character, or wait for the introduction of some kind of crusading Mary Sue to save the day.
I enjoyed the second season, don’t get me wrong — but when The West Wing feels more realistic as a political drama, I can’t help but feel that something’s gone wrong in House of Cards-land somewhere along the way. Third season, do your thing and prove me wrong.