Gotham Robin Taylor Lord is Oswald Cobblepot

[shauner111]

As soon as he started laughing when he was hitting the guy with the pipe, that sold me. I was like "this dude is going to be an awesome pain in the ass".

 

[The Joker]

Best Penguin since Burgess Meredith. He stole the first episode. I have ALWAYS loved The Penguin, and it's great to see him get the spotlight in this new show and be depicted so well. I can't wait to see Taylor go darker with the character, and hopefully don the monocle and start smoking from a cigarette holder.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

Watching his rise to power in the criminal underworld should be cool

 

[Rowsdower!]

Really digging this portrayal. He's like an evil cross between Ben Linus and Pee-Wee Herman. That scene where he slashed that poor guy's throat at the end was shocking.

 

[Mindreaper21]

I've always hated Penguin, but after the Arkham games and now this, I'm liking this "pill-head loony bird".

 

[shauner111]

Really digging this portrayal. He's like an evil cross between Ben Linus and Pee-Wee Herman. That scene where he slashed that poor guy's throat at the end was shocking.

That's a good call, he does remind me of Ben Linus a bit.

 

[Necrosis Boy]

Actually, I would have prefered NOT seeing him come out of the lake later. Felt a little bit redundant and the scene were he resurfaces was too much on the nose, over-the-top whatever. Bad pilot.

 

[Sawyer]

Felt too redundant? What, because of the multitude of other scenes in the pilot where he comes out of the water and murders someone?

 

[Guts]

Felt too redundant? What, because of the multitude of other scenes in the pilot where he comes out of the water and murders someone?

Well the pilot did start out with Cobblepot jumping out of a puddle and murdering Bruce Wayne's parents. Seeing him come out of the river and kill the fisherman was meant to bookend the pilot.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Actually, I would have prefered NOT seeing him come out of the lake later. Felt a little bit redundant and the scene were he resurfaces was too much on the nose, over-the-top whatever. Bad pilot.

 

[Jason Kane]

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

My favorite scene of the pilot was him with the baseball bat.

 

[Bathead]

My favorite scene of the pilot was him with the baseball bat.

Yeah, he looked like he really was enjoying himself.
Sick bastidge. t:

 

[Rodrigo90]

Penguin enjoying inflicting pain on people? Preposterous

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/09/29/gotham-preview-penguin-jim-gordon/

Gotham Star Talks of Penguin's Debt to Jim Gordon, Bond With Mom Carol Kane
By Matt Webb Mitovich

As the premiere of Fox’s Gotham drew to a close, it was sink or swim for Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin, after do-right Detective Jim Gordon faked killing Fish Mooney’s snitch and instead shoved him into the river, with orders to never darken the city’s streets again.

Yet something in the way Oswald eyed the city skyline upon later resurfacing from the water (and killing a kindly fisherman, to boot) tells us that Gotham has not seen the last of this natty, nasty bird.

Taking us inside Oswald’s mind during that closing moment, actor Robin Lord Taylor tells TVLine, “He’s thinking that he’s never going to be powerless again, and that he won’t let anyone stand in his way” — a credo made clear in this week’s episode (airing Monday at 8/7c), as Oswald takes his first steps in Gotham City’s general direction, suffering no fools (and certainly none that dare call him the P-word) along the way.

“He’s immediately learning how to play people off of other people,” Taylor says of his ambitious alter ego’s journey. “His fearlessness in terms of achieving what he wants — which is to run Gotham City — and the lengths to which he goes will surprise people.”

Of course, Oswald would not have lived to see another day had Jim Gordon not spared his life, setting the stage for what Taylor says is his favorite relationship on the series. “Penguin is completely indebted to him. However at the same time, they’re rivals,” the actor notes. “Their ultimate goals, good and evil, are disparate, but at the same time they need each other. It’s an incredible dynamic that you rarely get to play with someone, and Ben [McKenzie] is such a fantastic actor to share this experience with.”

Gotham viewers will begin to witness the most important relationship in Oswald’s life, meanwhile, when Carol Kane (The Princess Bride) this week debuts as his old-world mother, Gertrud Kapelput.

Taylor sums up the mother/son bond as “interesting,” then lets out a chuckle before elaborating. “Oswald’s mother is the only person he trusts in Gotham City, which is a good thing and a bad thing,” he points out. “For a person like Oswald, who is somewhat depraved, to trust and love anyone… there has to be something a little sadistic going on there.

“I’m not going to say ‘Norman Bates,'” he alludes, “but I guess I just did!”

 

[Michael Frost]

Just passing by to drop my love for this actor/portrayal.

I'm really interested in his arc and his rise to power, let's hope they don't rush it and write it properly, the performance is there for him to give. He even has the look going for him, it's a match made in heaven.

I have a feeling we'll see him climb the ranks through Fish Mooney's piece of the pie first so that's a confrontation definitely worth waiting for.

 

[Human Torch]

So at what point will he become obese,spit out black goo and ride around the sewers in a big yellow duck?

Cuz,y'know,that's what Penguin is all about.

 

[Rodrigo90]

If its not in the first episode (I wouldn't know since its not on in the UK) then I'll be royally pissed off

 

[PyroChamber]

Anyone else think Mooney's club could be the future Iceberg Lounge?

 

[bullets]

Anyone else think Mooney's club could be the future Iceberg Lounge?

Was just thinking that earlier

 

[Kane52630]

I can definitely see it.

 

[Human Torch]

If its not in the first episode (I wouldn't know since its not on in the UK) then I'll be royally pissed off

 

[DrMylesOBoogie]

Robin Taylor Lord is making everything work. Fantastic portrayal of a character I never really found interesting until now.

 

[Herolee10]

The thing that I like about Robin's performance is that he's really able to get viewers to emphasize with him at times when he's presenting Oswald in a more calm manner, but at the same time...he can automatically turn on the brutal psycho killer switch quickly within a realistic manner.

 

[DrMylesOBoogie]

The thing that I like about Robin's performance is that he's really able to get viewers to emphasize with him at times when he's presenting Oswald in a more calm manner, but at the same time...he can automatically turn on the brutal psycho killer switch quickly within a realistic manner.

Yes he's brilliant. He's walking a line of being really damn likable despite the horrible things he's done. Credit to the actor.

I hope, like Arrow did, they realize what is working well with this show and develop it around those aspects. It's almost a 50/50 split with me on the cast. The elements that are working, I'm not seeing enough of because we have to contend with characters the dropped the ball with. And they are mostly the ones they made changes to from their comic book counterparts such as Barbara, Montoya and 'The Goddamn Alfred'.