{"id":10281,"date":"2014-11-19T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2014-11-19T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:58:32","slug":"gotham-no-harley-quinn-but-expect-prenatal-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/gotham-no-harley-quinn-but-expect-prenatal-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gotham’: No Harley Quinn, but expect ‘prenatal Robin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gotham iconic character update: Showrunner Bruno Heller reveals that fans can expect a \u201cprenatal Robin\u201d on the Fox drama series, while rumors of Harley Quinn making an appearance this season are unfounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to do a prenatal origin story for Robin down the line,\u201d Heller tells EW.<\/p>\n

Since Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is still a young teenager on the series, his youthful eventual partner Robin hasn\u2019t even been born yet. But that doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t a way to tell a story that touches on his character. \u201cThere are no MRIs involved,\u201d Heller assures. \u201cThere\u2019s an episode coming up where we learn how Robin\u2019s parents got together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s episode introduced assistant district attorney Harvey Dent\/Two Face (Nicholas D\u2019Agosto), whose upbeat cheerfulness hides an undercurrent of rage. And still to come this season is a young version of Scarecrow. \u201cThis is not a kid being a loony Scarecrow; this is a couple episodes about how that character has evolved\u2014everyone\u2019s character is formed in their childhood to some degree or another,\u201d Heller says. \u201cHis father is involved, as is part of the [character’s] mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, young Poison Ivy (Clare Foley), who has only been seen in the show\u2019s pilot so far, will soon make a return.<\/p>\n

But one character who was heavily rumored to join the show won\u2019t be on this season\u2014the sexy psychopath Harley Quinn, who is also the Joker\u2019s jester-dressed sidekick. The character was teased at Gotham\u2018s New York Comic Con panel last month that included director Danny Cannon and a few of the show\u2019s cast members.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things about the size and scope and ambitious of this production is that\u2014it\u2019s not that there\u2019s lots of chefs in the kitchen, but there\u2019s a lot of people with opinions and views and inside knowledge,\u201d Heller says. \u201cThat aspect of the show\u2014which characters to use and when \u2014 is a source of constant discussion. And that may well have been an issue that came up and was dropped. We haven\u2019t got Harley Quinn in it. Riddler\u2019s girlfriend is coming up. And Harley Quinn is definitely planned for later on, but so far no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heller\u2019s reasoning for holding back on Quinn should please fans who have taken the stance that Gotham should introduce villains slowly rather than putting too many in the first season. \u201cYou can\u2019t just keep pumping these characters into the show in a comic book sort of way, because you get the Super Friends effect\u2014which isn\u2019t a bad effect, but then you have spaceships and need to go underwater and get wacky villains and the rest of it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to work as a character piece first. First it has to be real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Batman\u2019s arch nemesis The Joker will also eventually come into play, with Heller planning to tease the audience with different characters who might possibly turn into the iconic villain.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s easy to second guess the exact number of iconic characters to have on the show\u2014and clearly from what Heller says above, the creative team debates this internally, as well\u2014the showrunner says he\u2019s had a clear game plan from the beginning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe front-loaded [the show with iconic characters], which we had to do, both for story purposes and marketing purposes,\u201d Heller says. \u201cWe had to let people know it\u2019s not just a hum-drum police procedural, it\u2019s about these larger than life characters. If you do that you can\u2019t just say, \u2018Here\u2019s one larger-than-life character, now wait for next season.\u2019 Once we introduced those initial characters\u2014Penguin, Riddler, Ivy, Selina\u2014then we\u2019ve slowed down with those aspects and we\u2019re bringing in those iconic D.C characters in a much more measured way, which was always the intention. You have to have that amount of spice in the show to make it pop and different. Once the wheels are turning, it\u2019s much easier to bring those characters in in\u00a0subtle, organic ways. That\u2019s the plan, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

via ‘Gotham’: No Harley Quinn, but expect ‘prenatal Robin’ | Inside TV | EW.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gotham iconic character update: Showrunner Bruno Heller reveals that fans can expect a \u201cprenatal Robin\u201d on the Fox drama series, while rumors of Harley Quinn making an appearance this season are unfounded. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do a prenatal origin story for Robin down the line,\u201d Heller tells EW. Since Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-2FP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15331,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/harley-quinn-dc-digital-service-orders-animated-comedy-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":10281,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Harley Quinn\u2019: DC Digital Service Orders Animated Comedy Series","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"November 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Harley Quinn, the breakout character from the Warner Bros\/DC film Suicide Squad that\u00a0already is set up for a spinoff movie, is getting her own animated TV series. 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