GOTHAM Bringing 'Firefly' To Season Two, But Casting Choice Reveals A Major Twist

GOTHAM Bringing 'Firefly' To Season Two, But Casting Choice Reveals A Major Twist

Season two of Gotham looks set to put the focus on Bruce Wayne's future Rogues Gallery, and that's going to include introducing Firefly! However, the casting choice made for this pyromaniac villain reveals that they're taking the character in a very different direction...

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By JoshWilding - Aug 17, 2015 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Gotham
Source: TV Line
TV Line reveals that Firefly is coming to season two of Gotham, but in an interesting twist, he is about to become a she. The site has confirmed that Michelle Veintimilla (Those Who Kill) has been cast in the role, and that the character will have a two episode arc in the fifth and sixth instalments of the Batman prequel's second season. This version of the character is named Bridgit Pike, a woman who is enslaved by her brothers (a notorious gang of arsonists) and forced into the family business. When she catches the eye of Selina Kyle, the young Catwoman and the soon-to-be-Firefly team up to put Bridgit’s firestarting skills to good use. But after a deadly encounter with the Pike Brothers, the meek Cinderella is transformed into a vengeful supervillain, hell bent on destroying those who have wronged her. That sounds like an interesting enough approach...what do you guys think? As always, be sure to let us know your thoughts on this Gotham news in the usual place.
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ComicalDisaster
ComicalDisaster - 8/17/2015, 3:40 PM
called it before I opened the article.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/17/2015, 3:44 PM
This show needs costumed vigilantes and villains.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 8/17/2015, 3:44 PM
.......

@monkeyballs

I see that @gusto and @blackandyellow are at it again!

MasterTaffer
MasterTaffer - 8/17/2015, 3:44 PM
She's hot.

Thank you, I'll be here all week!
TheEpicJuicebox
TheEpicJuicebox - 8/17/2015, 3:47 PM
...
osideous
osideous - 8/17/2015, 3:47 PM
Knew it. The only big twist would be to cast the role as female.
PredatorRIsing
PredatorRIsing - 8/17/2015, 3:49 PM
She is gorgeous but now this show is no prequel to Batman at all since Heller is making this act of Controversal race and sex changes keep going after he chose make the show a nightmare by making Barbara act crazy and with Jim choosing the wrong woman like a jerk whose lost some of the responsibility he had since the begining
WinterOstritch
WinterOstritch - 8/17/2015, 3:51 PM
Cool.
Never cared for Firefly that much besides him looking cool, so I'm okay with a gender bend and a new origin
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 8/17/2015, 3:53 PM
...
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 8/17/2015, 3:53 PM
@infiniteMonkey

Like how it was not going to make it past four episodes last year........... the people who are watching this show are not avid comic book fans so they do not know better.
speedyg33
speedyg33 - 8/17/2015, 3:53 PM
"This show needs costumed vigilantes and villains."

Nope, the show needs Batman!
soberchimera
soberchimera - 8/17/2015, 3:56 PM
I thought it would be Nathan Fillion.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 8/17/2015, 3:58 PM
@Jollem Damn I didn't see your comment before I posted mine.
MisterSuperior
MisterSuperior - 8/17/2015, 3:59 PM
Geez....at least Arrow's version was Garfield Lynns.
dinoSlider
dinoSlider - 8/17/2015, 4:06 PM
When I glanced at the headline, all I saw was "Firefly Season Two Casting" and I got excited. Then I actually read what it said and was overcome by a wave of indifference.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 8/17/2015, 4:08 PM
I'm cool with this.
dckizzle
dckizzle - 8/17/2015, 4:08 PM
Better get mr freeze right and clay face
dckizzle
dckizzle - 8/17/2015, 4:08 PM
Should do bane
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 8/17/2015, 4:22 PM
My guess this one won't have a jetpack either. Smallville and Arrow didn't, so I feel this one will do the same. The reason Firefly is cool is because of that, yet every show drops it.
MyNameIsKhan
MyNameIsKhan - 8/17/2015, 4:22 PM
Hopefully this season is good...
nibs
nibs - 8/17/2015, 4:37 PM
"Major Twist" "very different direction"

damn josh you are a piece of shit
rabid
rabid - 8/17/2015, 4:41 PM
Lots of ways this could go and lots of ways to connect it to the male version later if they want.
@dckizzle
Last season started the set up for Bane with Fish's story and the first version of Venom. I keep thinking that the black dude who captured Fish for Dollmaker might be King Snake.
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 8/17/2015, 4:51 PM
plot twist: She's a transgender so still male.
CyclopsWasRight
CyclopsWasRight - 8/17/2015, 5:19 PM
Didn't Arrow have Firefly before, I don't remember
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 8/17/2015, 5:27 PM
I hate procedural shows like Gotham.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/17/2015, 5:55 PM
I like the show but...




...that moment when you realise that all of Batman's villains are apparently successors to pre-Batman villains.
KingEmperor
KingEmperor - 8/17/2015, 6:42 PM
Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
Retribution13
Retribution13 - 8/17/2015, 7:15 PM
You know, I never doubt the ability of this show to come up with the stupidest of shit.

Can't wait for Bruce to become Batman by the time he's pushing puberty.
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