Officer Wayne: Dinner Date

[jeriendhal]

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

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[seawasp]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I also have a terrible foreboding that something Bad is going to happen to either Harvey himself, or Selina, and either way that headache's not going away in a good way.