i have just played telltale batman for myself for the first time, and can i just say i love the parallel of
bruce wayne as an identity being stripped of everything he has (a ceo title at wayne enterprises, his literal trust in his parents, his rights when in arkham)
put beside batman as an identity being stripped of everything he has (his gadgets and tech, even his suit is literally just fabric by the lady arkham fight)
and can i just add that i love this parallel because both prevail for the same reasons. genuine love and care for others. mostly alfred. bruce doesn't need the trust in his parents because alfred is his family, depending on your route he shields harvey from any harm because they're friends.
and batman prevails again, because of bruce's affections for alfred. his determination to keep that man alive. he puts himself, his life, his identity at risk simply as an ultimatum with lady arkham. his identity, or alfred's life.
anyways bruce wayne an alfred's dynamic is my bestest thing ever and i heart heart heart yippeee wahooo
some silly telltale batman doodles cause it only took me like 2 years to get through them :') (and also two not so silly bruces because he looks sad like 75% of the time)
Telltale Bruce Wayne is so good. He is a good boy, he's Alfred's son, he is a bit awkward with people sometimes, he cares about his friends, he's full of hope for Gotham and its people. He's rich but was raised by the help and IT SHOWS, and his intelligence is from being raised by Alfred. He stays dramatically under the rain where his parent died when he is sad, he doesn't let corrupted politicians or mob boss threaten him or tell him what to do, he wants mental ill people to be treated better and doesn't punch first people who are clearly mentally unstable, he's invested in Gotham even without the cape on. (This Bruce will adopt a ton of children and be good to them. Good dad right here, will get them therapy and not be mean to them)
And he looks like a wet cat behind a screen door, pleading for the human to open it. Understandable that the local cat lady fell for him.
Yeaaah I FINALLY made it! I've been dreaming of making a little animation for this soundtrack for about 4 years now. A fool's dream comes true! And yeah, that's about how I see Bruce and poor old Al's relationship.
Battinson is half-Arkham, right? How would he interact with the Arkhams like Jeremiah and Amadeus?
OOo so I'm pretty sure this is Gotham canon which I'm not knowledgeable abt at all lol, but!
A big theme in Battinson's universe and Matt Reeves' storytelling seems to be legacy and family, and I think it's gonna play a big part in the next movie.
He could've just kept it half Kane, but I think Arkham’s gonna play a big part in the movies
the nedcan nedpan drama is so funny to me because it’s not something I would have come up with on my own but my feelings on it are so neutral and nonexistent that I’m kinda happy to just like, run with it. like oh okay sure, I don’t necessarily object to it, so now it’s a new tool to building further character dynamics.
although atm the main dynamic I can come up with is that Arthur and Alfred both think Matt is being a fucking idiot but they’d rather die than say it out loud. Alfred sorta gets it but, no, not really. maybe if Matt hadn’t been attached to Arthur’s hip for so damn long he’d have a better understanding of how nation relationships work and his expectations wouldn’t have been shattered. Arthur knows it’s a result of his parenting and is trying to figure out how and what he should have done differently. they’re both spoon-feeding Matt maple syrup in an empty bathtub. it’s the most pathetic family bonding the Kirkland family has ever seen.
if anything I think Arthur feels a bit sad and helpless because this isn’t a problem he can fix by like, glassing Romano or something. Alfred asks if the solution is to maybe glass Matthew and see if that’ll reset his brain and Arthur is just. ‘honestly maybe but I’m obligated to not let you do that.’
This was under a post on reddit talking about the suddenness of the ending of The Enemy Within and though I have no clue if this is true, its still an interesting thing to see.
The ending with Alfred felt so abrupt. It felt so wrong. He just starts accusing Bruce of all kinds of shit, and though he's a thousand percent right, it still feels completely out of no where. In my playthrough I took very good care of Alfred and at the end of every chapter I had good sentiments with him, the only thing I did that he didn't agree with was stay with Joker even through all of the stuff he did.
So the idea that Alfred was the one who shot Riddler to get revenge for Lucius actually doesn't sound like that far fetched of an idea. It's not like we haven't seen Alfred move towards violence in other iterations, and the way he reacts towards Bruce and towards the Batman operation as a whole— I feel like it makes so much more sense if you see it through the lense of a man guilty of avenging his friend at the sacrifice of his and the man closest to him's moral code.