Your timeline confusion explicitly calls out Riverdale, which fully broke my brain. I could accept that this was an anachronistic no-time, but then, after a 7 year time jump, Veronica says "it's 2020". They all watch Love Simon in the theater, which in this world had to have come out 8 years earlier
Also, I didn't remember this until reading your article, but Bruno Heller created both Rome and the Gotham/Alfred shows, so it might just be a word he likes.
Listen, I told you my brain was already broken from Martha Wayne at an orgy where Iron Butterfly is playing, if I hadn't been warned that there was another crazy tie-in I might have actually cracked.
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To me, it was a prequel to the Nolan movies, with the premise, “if old Alfred is Michael Caine, that means young Alfred is Young Michael Caine.”
What’s it all about, Alfie? Who can say?