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Officer Wayne: Dinner Date

Mar 31, 2015 05:43

Scene: The Chez Ritz, the fanciest restaurant in Gotham City. Harvey Dent is sitting at a table with a raven haired woman at his side. Harvey gets up to greet Bruce as he approaches ( Read more... )

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seawasp March 31 2015, 10:51:46 UTC

See, THIS is the kind of thing Gotham should have done: an alternate timeline, not trying to juggle the prequel timeline. Both it and Smallville suffer from the limitation that they're trying to prevent changes that would transform the future that we expect; Clark has to become Superman, Lex Luthor has to become a supervillain, Bruce Wayne has to become Batman.

jeriendhal March 31 2015, 11:45:30 UTC

Never going to happen. Even in the Elseworlds there's always a Batman. :(

I realize much of the appeal of the Batman comics is watching Bruce dress up in the suit and beat the crap out of people with amazing gadgets, but I wish there was more about what he does as Bruce Wayne. I always enjoyed those parts in the early seasons of Batman: TAS

seawasp March 31 2015, 12:27:05 UTC

Oh, I could see them doing it. I would expect that *EVENTUALLY* something would happen to push Officer Wayne over the edge into being the Goddam Batman, but you could do several seasons of Officer Wayne before you had to let the inevitable course of history take over.

jeriendhal March 31 2015, 12:31:39 UTC

Actually one scene I haven't written yet has Unnamed Love Interest or Alfred finding a notebook in Bruce's drawer with lots of Bat symbol and Bat suit sketches. He ends up snatching it back and explaining when he was wandering through Asia he "A lot of silly ideas...".

seawasp March 31 2015, 12:33:22 UTC

Which shows that the template is there, and when X is killed horribly by Y villain, it would be easy to justify the appearance of the Batman.

Or mix it up with someone ELSE becoming the Batman...

jeriendhal March 31 2015, 12:45:21 UTC

Well the intent was to show Bruce had thought about being Batman and rejected it as not the best use of his time. (not that "Billionaire Beat Cop" makes much MORE sense).

OTOH an impressionable and grieving Dick Grayson might find something useful there...

seawasp March 31 2015, 14:05:05 UTC

I was looking at what would be *practical* to do. As you point out, there's pretty much no way that you could publish such a story where there was NEVER a Batman, but one could explore a lot of the potential of Officer Wayne and changing a lot of history before having the Batman (with whoever you wanted behind the mask) show up. In a way, that's an ideal story design. You have a ready-made way to "change it up" whenever you feel that the Officer Wayne material is starting to run thin. And if Bruce DOES go there, there's a whole SLEW of conflicts -- with himself, with others -- that he never had previously, because he never tried DOING it a different way before ( ... )

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