Fans of Donal Logue's work were gratified when the Sons of Anarchy, Terriers and Vikings star was cast as Detective Harvey Bullock in in FOX's upcoming Batman prequel TV series, Gotham

Gotham On The Edge:

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Bullock's Connection To Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle:

Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock in Gotham.

How The Loss Of The Waynes Sets The Stage:

Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin in Gotham.

Young versions of Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) and Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova) will appear in the show, but Gotham is described as, “the origin stories of eventual Police Commissioner James Gordon (Ben McKenzie –Southland) and the rogues’ gallery of villains that made the city infamous.” For his part, Bullock is described as, “Jim Gordon’s partner and mentor, a rough-around-the-edges detective who plays loose with police procedure, but gets results — and he does so with old-school, hard-ass panache."We recently had the opportunity to speak with the busy Logue -- who also has a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU these days -- in advance of the Vikings season finale. During the course of our conversation, we also touched on what we can expect from a series focused on a Gotham pre-Batman.Earlier this year, FOX's Kevin Reilly described the tone of the series as Nolan-esque . When we asked Louge how he felt Gotham would compare with previous depictions of the world, he said this Gotham is a city of the brink of collapse. "What I loved about it was that -- I'd read somewhere that they'd described Gotham, in the old comics, as something like, '11:11pm on a cold night, and the wind is blowing down a dirty alley.' Psychologically it has this feeling of a town that's on the edge of anarchy.""There were factors holding it in place," he continued. "Whether it be the Wayne family -- the wealthy parents of Bruce Wayne - or something else. So you catch this city just as things start to break, and this curmudgeon-y guy who's managed to survive by sometimes having to pay the Devil a little bit to help keep the peace [Bullock], he meets this guy who's actually a real principled do-gooder [Gordon]. But he's a little more capable than the other do-gooders who've come before, who have just gotten crushed by the machine, the anarchy, that is Gotham. So I think he is won over by [Gordon]. Tonally, it's interesting because the city of Gotham itself is almost like a psychological description of the Jungian shadow. So it can be anything, like, a doorway could lead to anywhere. It could be the '20s, it could be the '50s, it could be a Blade Runner-esque, futuristic thing. It was interesting finding out -- tonally speaking, it didn't really belong to a specific time or place. That's what I kind of loved about it."We know that, in the series, both Bullock and Gordon will be working for the GCPD when Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered. It seems that Gordon will form a bond with young Bruce, but what's not clear is how connected Gordon's mentor, Bullock, will be with Bruce or the teenage Selina Kyle."The connection is between Gordon and Bruce Wayne," Logue explained. "I'm certainly there for it. I'm more than anything probably concerned about it because it interferes with the proper flow. It's almost like I've seen a young doctor get emotionally involved with a patient. Or, in Law & Order, it's like Amaro, a detective who becomes too emotionally involved in his cases or allows the difficulty in his personal life to affect his ability to do his job. So I think there's a lot of parallels between those different worlds."Gotham will focus on the development of Commissioner Gordon, but it will also tell the tale of the various Batman villains and how they came to be the criminal masterminds that we know them to be. The series is already set to feature a young Edward Nigma (who will become The Riddler), who is described as a “brilliant but socially awkward forensic scientist who’s eccentric and outgoing and desperate to be liked." Robin Lord Taylor is set to play a pre-Penguin Oswald Cobblepot, "a low-level psychopath for gangster Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), who hides his sadistic lust for power behind an exquisitely polite demeanor."The pilot introduces these characters, who, Logue says, "develop in this vacuum that's created with the death of the Waynes. It's almost like the mama and papa bears of Gotham, the people who kept it together, who had all the charity fundraisers, the people who have the biggest financial stake, have passed away," the actor continued. "Also, Gordon's father, who played a big role as the DA, who had the respect of the criminal underworld because of how principled he was. So it's pretty fascinating. I kind of know what's going on with Penguin, and I know with some other characters, but the other ones [Bruce and Selina] are so young. We're just starting to get a glimpse of catching them at that moment in their lives, where they're making these decisions to become who they would become, say, a decade or two down the line, if that makes sense."

More from Logue on Gotham's villains, whether Bullock can be trusted and why Gotham is interesting even without Batman on Page 2.