9 Things I Learned from the Start of 2015’s Fall Television

It was slow release week for comics books, so I did what any overworked writer-by-night would do when given the opportunity for free time: I watched television with the hope that it might jumpstart my getting something down on paper. Fortunately, it was a big fall premiere week, so I learned a lot. Here are my takeaways from the start of the 2015 fall television season. 1) We have to go ahead an start admitting that Gotham is trash, fam. I don’t even have punchlines for that. We just have to start living with it. Moving on.

2) The absence of indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennett (Hayden Panettierre) from the Heroes Reborn roster proves that she’s invulnerable to just about everything except Nashville contract obligations.

3) Luchadores are more useful during metahuman McCarthyism than they are during the Vampire Apocalypse. Heroes Reborn is basically like the formerly alcoholic ex that just got out of rehab and looked you up to try and prove they’ve changed. It had its strengths and weaknesses, but one thing it had working in its favor was a luchadore vigilante (that looks shockingly like the Arrow) named El Vengadore that helps people with superpowers find safe haven. Granted, the guy didn’t last very long, but he was more useful in a five minutes fight scene than the Silver Angel has been in the whole second season so far of The Strain (better known as Peter Russo: Vampire Hunter). Guillermo Del Toro has accomplished the impossible and given birth to a show that, des…