The Penguin - HBO Max The Batman Spinoff

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He wasn't born that way. We just gonna forget about this nikkas feet?:mjlol: you dont think maybe his disability is a huge factor?

Oz is like that kid in the hood that's called on to read in class, and gets mad when nikkas start laughing. This nikka is already :flabbynsick: , and has a fukked up leg/walk. The Penguin ain't a cool nickname:mjlol: I can show you nikkas with similar childhoods like Oz that became demons

What's Oz's mantra? Fukk the world. What makes someone feel like that? This show actually does a good job of showing the mentality and disposition of a lot of unhinged killers. How many nikkas die every weekend because they made somebody feel embarrassed, clowned, or played?

And what's with y'all trying to shift blame away from Oz's mama like she doesn't endorse all the fukked up shyt he does??? I know nikkas allergic to blaming women for anything but be serious y'all come on:mjlol:

Bruh u proved my point. He was born with the disability so the bullying is because of that. Before the death of his bros the only thing that was going on was the middle child syndrome of wanting attention. To do that shyt as a kid and not be remorseful and keep that secret just shows that he was a monster from jump. If he wasnt down with the mob the nikka would be a cut throat office manager

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Man if Colin and Cristin don’t walk away with Emmy’s for this it will be a travesty. Hell the show better get at least nominated. I haven’t been this engaged in a show for awhile. Every episode has been great.


If a comic book show gets Emmys and SnowFall didnt,im upping that Jazzy thread:hubie:
 

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Nah, at the start of the movie he was hunting a gang of incels doing the KO challenge, Riddler was his first massive shyt show but this Batman is more street level, Maroni escaping and Sophia (who he probably believes killed those girls) creating a new family would 100% be on his radar.



Gotta love good ol gumshoe detective Batman walking the beat
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You know damn well the people of Gotham calling Gordon "DEI Commisioneur" smh. Building a signal on Gotham PD for a "street level" vigilante who beats up jay walkers and purse snatchers. Putting your reputation and job on the line,by backing all types of rights being violated:francis:? Backing Batman only makes sense if he is really that dude in the city. So far we have seen very little evidence of that.


You maybe can explain Batman misisng in action. But now we have to wonder what the hell is Gordon thinking lol.
 

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Episode was great,was no expecting Vic to shoot buddy like that. I figured hed take him to Penguin and let him do it:pachaha:

They do a goof job of making Penguin do some heinous shyt,just when you start to think they are making him too much of a robinhood/antihero type of character. Because i was just starting to think this Penguin is too nice to be a good villian:mjlol:


If his mama dies,i think thats a rap for Vic. Killing Vic would definitely solidify his villian tag with viewers.
 

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Gotta love good ol gumshoe detective Batman walking the beat
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You know damn well the people of Gotham calling Gordon "DEI Commisioneur" smh. Building a signal on Gotham PD for a "street level" vigilante who beats up jay walkers and purse snatchers. Putting your reputation and job on the line,by backing all types of rights being violated:francis:? Backing Batman only makes sense if he is really that dude in the city. So far we have seen very little evidence of that.


You maybe can explain Batman misisng in action. But now we have to wonder what the hell is Gordon thinking lol.
again, Gordon isn't Commissioner yet, just Lieutenant
 
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Acting is great on the show, but last three episodes or so the writing is rushed if not just plain sub par at times.
The writing has been mid for its entirety. It's probably only glaringly noticeable over the last few episodes because you're starting to realize it's going around in circles with nothing new to say.

:manny:

Whatever intrigue there was with Sofia's character has been completely b*stardized by the oversaturation of Dr. Rush., which leaves little room for any nuance or mystery for us to work out on our own, which was what made her story compelling in the first place (don't get me started on her teaming up with Sal after the lengths the narrative went to make her a figure of abadonment, detachment and solus).

The buildup (if you can even call it that ) and the exchange between Os and Sal encapsulated all that's wrong with this show -

We know, narratively, that Os' life isn't going to be in any grave danger, so at the very least we should be getting some heightened sense of tension or violence to convince us otherwise. Instead what we get is some extras as goons, who appear as they've been picked off the street, randomly, who aren't in any way menacing, commanding or distinctive, which further emphasizes just how insipid and benign Sal is, whose entire existence is a plot device and not as a meaningful character.

The scene flatlines, completely, when Os is being held over a barrel of a gun and he regurgitates the same ole pitch that we've seen in every instance he tries to talk his way out of some shyt - "Listen Sal, I can give you what you want, this whole thing is yours now, you can start a whole new empire. What are you going to share with Carmine's daughter, after all the Falcones took from you."

Like, nxgga, we heard all this shyt before, in every other episode.

Then the opposing goons get into it, and all they can muster from what we see on screen is pushing and shoving, interluding to an old ass man and a cripple tussling, throwing lifeless punches on some choreographed shyt that would've been fit for Adam West's Batman from the 1960s; the only thing missing was the superimposed text and sounds effects of KAPOW!, BAM!, KRUNCH!

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Culminating in said old ass man having a heart attack, falling to the floor and Os bridged over him saying "I beat you Sal, I beat you, I win!" as if they were in the playground and Os had just took his remaining marbles.

If this show had no connection to any DC/comicbook lore, and stood on its own as a crime action-drama, the obviousness of how hilariously bad it is would be more acknowledged. I don't know if that speaks to how weak comicbook adaptions have been, where this show doesn't have high to jump to clear the bar, or if cats are that enamored by superhero shyt that they convince themselves they can't see literal shyt, despite the smell of it burning out all sensation in their nostrils.

It is truly perplexing how Marvel and DC material has paralysed all TV/film sensibilities over the last two decades. Word to Martin Scorsese.
 
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The writing has been mid for its entirety. It's probably only glaringly noticeable over the last few episodes because you're starting to realize it's going around in circles with nothing new to say.

:manny:

Whatever intrigue there was with Sofia's character has been completely b*stardized by the oversaturation of Dr. Rush., which leaves little room for any nuance or mystery for us to work out on our own, which was what made her story compelling in the first place (don't get me started on her teaming up with Sal after the lengths the narrative went to make her a figure of abadonment, detachment and solus).

The buildup (if you can even call it that ) and the exchange between Os and Sal encapsulated all that's wrong with this show -

We know, narratively, that Os' life isn't going to be in any grave danger, so at the very least we should be getting some heightened sense of tension or violence to convince us otherwise. Instead what we get is some extras as goons, who appear as they've been picked off the street, randomly, who aren't in any way menacing, commanding or distinctive, which further emphasizes just how insipid and benign Sal is, whose entire existence is a plot device and not as a meaningful character.

The scene flatlines, completely, when Os is being held over a barrel of a gun and he regurgitates the same ole pitch that we've seen in every instance he tries to talk his way out of some shyt - "Listen Sal, I can give you what you want, this whole thing is yours now, you can start a whole new empire. What are you going to share with Carmine's daughter, after all the Falcones took from you."

Like, nxgga, we heard all this shyt before, in every other episode.

Then the opposing goons get into it, and all they can muster from what we see on screen is pushing and shoving, interluding to an old ass man and a cripple tussling, throwing lifeless punches on some choreographed shyt that would've been fit for Adam West's Batman from the 1960s; the only thing missing was the superimposed text and sounds effects of KAPOW!, BAM!, KRUNCH!

44444.png


Culminating in said old ass man having a heart attack, falling to the floor and Os bridged over him saying "I beat you Sal, I beat you, I win!" as if they were in the playground and Os had just took his remaining marbles.

If this show had no connection to any DC/comicbook lore, and stood on its own as a crime action-drama, the obviousness of how hilariously bad it is would be more acknowledged. I don't know if that speaks to how weak comicbook adaptions have been, where this show doesn't have high to jump to clear the bar, or if cats are that enamored by superhero shyt that they convince themselves they can't see literal shyt, despite the smell of it burning out all sensation in their nostrils.

It is truly perplexing how Marvel and DC material has paralysed all TV/film sensibilities over the last two decades. Word to Martin Scorsese.

You don’t have anything better to do?

Take your miserable lonely ass somewhere else.
 
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