Brand New, Pure ‘Gotham’ Season Trailer For Gotham’s Junkies

A new trailer for Gotham has dropped today, so come get your fix, you scum of these streets.

Let’s get one thing out of the way: This is a very good trailer for Gotham. Now for everything else: I don’t quite get the purpose. We are week two into the first season of Gotham, and yet here is another trailer that’s supposed to hype us for the rest of the season. Shouldn’t the two episodes we’ve had already aired do that already?

Regardless, it’s a very good trailer if only because it disproves a lot of concerns that at least I had about Gotham: that it would give us the shitbillionth look at Batman’s rogues gallery. Instead, Gotham is shaping up to be what it should be, a sprawling city full of monsters, and having the first season populated by rogue gallery benchwarmers sets us up for the all-stars to come out later. For example we get a clean look at Victor Zsasz, who has been in a bunch of Batman media but is still not a household name.

We have a bunch of movies, animated series, video games, not to mention COMIC BOOKS, that it’s hard to get excited seeing a villain like The Riddler again. I honestly do not care about figuring out who could be The Joker. I don’t need an origin story for everything, and I don’t need to see guys like Joker or Penguin for the dozenth time. So I really hope Gotham gives us dudes who have gotten even less exposure than the Scarecrow (who, by the way, was criminally underutilized by Christopher Nolan).

I’ll go on a long rant about what is inherently wrong with the Gotham TV show soon and I’m sure I’ll do a follow-up, an end-of-the-season retrospective about how wrong or right I was, but for now just enjoy the trailer if you really can’t wait until next week for more Gotham. You’re like the junkies that put money in the pockets of these criminal scum.

http://youtu.be/bzUJDmjBPuQ