~Matt Key
Out from Fox today is a new promo video for their hit series, Gotham, their DC Comics show based in the Batman mythos that follows the rise of Detective Jim Gordon within the GCPD.
The promo highlights the work that their new boss, Captain Barnes, a character with a “Hard-nosed attitude” who “immediately changes the culture of the GCPD.” Played by actor Michael Chiklis, Barnes puts the strike team together to help Gordon root out all the really bad criminals.
As we learn in the video, Barnes will, ultimately, serve the narrative purpose of helping Gordon “find his belief again in the system and remind him why he took up the badge,” and puts together this Strike Team Alpha “that can root the really bad guys and go straight after them.”
If you saw this week’s episode, then you’ve already seen just what we’re getting with this season. The strike team worked together to save one of the mayoral candidates from Zsazz, who was in tip-top form, absolutely formidable in his talent for murder and just how unafraid he was — standing out in the open, firing off shot after shot despite the strike team unloading their guns on him. If that’s what we get every episode, then all the lessons the producers learned from season one are paying off.
As Ben McKenzie says in the video, this season is “the rise of the villains, but it’s also the rise of the good guys.”
The video ends with Strike Team Alpha squaring off against Firefly. Fingers crossed the show continues to move at this pace.
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