6 Times Gotham Improved Batman's Mythology (And 4 Times It Failed)
5. Allowed The City To Breathe
Fox
Across a wide variety of mediums, over multiple decades, Gotham
City has so often simply been the city which is the backdrop to so many of Batman's battles.
What Gotham the show did so well, is that it allowed its
titular city to breathe and become its own beast. Sure, anyone who’s ever read
a single Batman comic will likely be aware that Gotham City is intended to be
its own character, yet we’ve never seen that play out in a way anywhere remotely
close to how the city was handled in Gotham.
By not solely focussing on one person’s journey, and by
exploring so many corners of Gotham’s dingy streets, the series managed to make
Gotham City its own monstrous locale. Each Gotham building, each Gotham street,
each Gotham room, they all felt like individual beings in their own right.
Never in the world of Batman – well, bar possibly the iconic
Batman: The Animated Series – has Gotham City been treated with so much respect
and care by a creative team.
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