Instead of looking like an episode of the wire, Gotham is a retro-flavored urban wonderland filled with towering art deco skyscrapers, majestic hindenburg-like airships, and swinging jazz clubs packed with flappers. it's a dangerous place, but also the sort of colorful city where it actually seems halfway plausible that a nocturnal crime fighter in a bat costume might be a beloved celebrity. in this version, Bruce Wayne is still a bit of a brooding loner with questionable social skills, but his serious demeanor is regularly played for laughs, and his loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth occasionally acknowledges that his employer's "hobby" is a slight eccentricity at best, and a full-on sign of madness at worst; Bruce and Alfred have a dynamic that should instantly remind book-lovers of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with Bruce even tinkering with suits of armor in Wayne Manor and occasionally fencing with Alfred in his downtime.
