With a little over a month to go to the end of Season 1, how do you all feel about your Character's development and progress at this point? Are you accomplishing the story you've wanted to tell? Did you hope to be further along? What are some of the things you're looking forward to for next season that you didn't get to accomplish this season?
I'm more than a little mixed on how and where I've taken Bruce for the season, if I'm to be honest. For one thing, I do take pride in the fact that unlike many, many, way too many attempts in the past, I've yet to stop or really bail out on this version of Batman for whatever reason. The sheer fact that I've pushed ahead and told myself to just keep writing no matter what is a pretty shocking thing, if you know my track record for burning out fairly quickly. That tells me that I'm in it for the long-haul, and leaves me excited to explore future seasons.
However. Because I chose to go a more aimless, introductory route with my initial arc, and because that took up most of the season to complete (I didn't even plan to feature Deadshot, Ivy, or Jessica Jones), not only did I not get to a majority of what I had wanted to introduce, I also really haven't even scratched the surface of Bruce's fractured psychology. For whatever reason, the way I wrote Batman in UOU went from being a very bare-bones origin phase of the character to just being rather comfortably the character itself with sprinkles of the problems I wanted him to have. And the overall state of Gotham was meant to shift and change alot more, with the mob being phased out for the supervillains, but that's obviously not the case. Nashton was actually supposed to be the lynchpin of that and be
the villain of this season, but so far he's been a background player. There was also alot more meant to be done with Selina Kyle and Barbara Gordon, who'd respectively be closer to becoming Catwoman and a legitimate ally of Batman's, but there just wasn't time. And perhaps most ambitiously, I actually wanted to do a whole origin story arc that showed Bruce going from ski-mask vigilante mode to donning the cape proper, since that's a story I've been dying to tell.
So I'm in a bit of an odd place where if I could do it all again, I'd make some serious changes. But I'm also not entirely regretful. I've had fun, and when it comes down to it, I don't think I nessescarily did a bad job at improvising an entire story. It certainly sets up interesting possibilities for Season Two. But there are many, many things that had to be moved to either a future season or scrapped entirely because of how the story panned out, and that does leave me feeling as though I didn't accomplish what I wanted to. So, eh. I'm very torn.
Though, I've got a big post coming up that'll be the first part of what sets the stage for Season Two - not to mention a crossover that I'm very excited for. And if I can throw Batman into the mix of the MME, that'll be the icing on the cake. So I'm still excited to move forward and tell these stories, they're just happening in a way and at a pace that I wish I had taken more control over.
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