Do you think a show based on a young Bruce Wayne would work?

[rcrush]

Like Smallville? Smallville has a lot of flaws but overall its not a bad show. I read that they were once going to write Bruce Wayne into Smallville but WB wouldnt let them do it cause of the movies coming out.


I think it would be interesting. I want to see lots of kung fu dammit.

[RushIsRot]

1. Would that cover the years when he was designing his Batman

costume, holding auditions for Robin and furnishing the Bat Cave?

[SoDesuKa]

3. Auditions for Robin

The auditions for Robin should make pretty lively television. What is it that Robin says? Holey moley?

[proteus_lives]

2. I think a mini-series covering his training journey would be cool.

But an on-going? Sounds a little tough. It would need to be dark and violent so it would need to be on FX/HBO/Showtime.

[RadicalGeek]

4. Could be interesting

A way to fill time between Dark Knight and the next movie.

[RadicalGeek]

5. Could be interesting

A way to fill time between Dark Knight and the next movie.

[Orrex]

6. I think it would fail because I'm 100% certain that they would include a young Selena Kyle

The writers/producers would simply be unable to resist the temptation to play out the "love" story between them, and the whole thing would descend into a weak game of cat and bat as each tries to conceal his or her secret life from the other.

Fail.

[Chan790]

7. The idiot masses would probably demand it...

that's how those things happen. Somewhere very early on in the creative process one writer says to another:

"Hey, wouldn't it be great if we had a bit of an unrequited sexual-tension or romantic element between {Jim/Pam, Gil/Sara, Mulder/Scully, House/Cuddy}, something to tease at but never fulfill."

or

"Perhaps we could hint at this thing from the backstory...I mean, it's a ret-con, let's just have some fun with it. Something that we can dangle like a carrot."

Then one moron starts a blog about the need to see what the writers have decided to hint at, then a few more voices join the choir. Then a few more. Then the producers catch on that it's a ratings driver and they lean on the writing staff to up that element of the show. Compromises are reached. The idiot masses, given a taste of what they want (a thing which will ultimately ruin the show), wail louder. The producers come back and push the writers further. One of several results ensues:

• The audience gets what it wants. This ruins the show. (See: CSI, The Office.)
• The writers/creators/geniuses/stars leave because they hate the direction things are going in...the show suffers before being put out of its' misery. (See: X-Files, CSI)
• The producers listen when the writers tell them "Do not give the audience any satisfaction! Just keep hinting at it and we get to keep the tension and the audiences will keep tuning in." Frequently, this also ruins the show because ever-more-absurd plot-devices must be utilized to move the action along on different fronts. (You can't just drop a storyline like that one, you have to substitute an "equally-promising" one to keep the moron producers in line.) (See: House)
  
  This is why I decided after less than a year in this field to walk-away and sign-away all my residual rights. I'm happier as a low-income wage-slave for corporate monoliths.

[DerekG]

8. There's a reason Jesus' story jumped from 12 to 30

The "wonder years" of mythic figures are best left to the imagination.