this city is sick
Oct. 28th, 2014 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessGotham 1.03
The phrase that's been rattling around my head about this show is 'aggresively fine'.
Following on from what's come before, Jim now has to deal with a vigilante, and the visual of the balloon pulling up the bad guys into the air felt very Batman, both ridiculous and effective. I felt I should have realised who was behind it, because I had a 'Hey, It's That Guy' moment when he brought in Selina.
The usual problem remains, Gordon is less compelling, especially because we've got such broad brush-strokes, than other characters. I can't wait for Selina and Bruce to cross paths or to see Oswald and his Mama. Fish and Oswald are slightly more fun, because they're bad, and I do commend the show for having Oswald turn up at Jim's, because even though his creepy glee at his homecoming was fun, watching him be a sociopath with a switchblade threatened to get old.
But still, young Bruce is the most compelling.
Montoya and her partner are fairly terrible cops. They prance around being self-righteous, get one clue, pounce on it and don't get any actual evidence.
The attempt to make Barbara less of a perfect girlfriend - a bisexual occasional (?) druggie - clearly interested me, because that's when I took in that the (preposterous) apartment was a clocktower.
But the balance between the case and the other strands is decent.
Harvey Bullock is no Seth Cohen, though.
I need to catch up on Agents of SHIELD, which returned to British screens last Friday, or make a decision not to carry on watching the show, I suppose.
The phrase that's been rattling around my head about this show is 'aggresively fine'.
Following on from what's come before, Jim now has to deal with a vigilante, and the visual of the balloon pulling up the bad guys into the air felt very Batman, both ridiculous and effective. I felt I should have realised who was behind it, because I had a 'Hey, It's That Guy' moment when he brought in Selina.
The usual problem remains, Gordon is less compelling, especially because we've got such broad brush-strokes, than other characters. I can't wait for Selina and Bruce to cross paths or to see Oswald and his Mama. Fish and Oswald are slightly more fun, because they're bad, and I do commend the show for having Oswald turn up at Jim's, because even though his creepy glee at his homecoming was fun, watching him be a sociopath with a switchblade threatened to get old.
But still, young Bruce is the most compelling.
Montoya and her partner are fairly terrible cops. They prance around being self-righteous, get one clue, pounce on it and don't get any actual evidence.
The attempt to make Barbara less of a perfect girlfriend - a bisexual occasional (?) druggie - clearly interested me, because that's when I took in that the (preposterous) apartment was a clocktower.
But the balance between the case and the other strands is decent.
Harvey Bullock is no Seth Cohen, though.
I need to catch up on Agents of SHIELD, which returned to British screens last Friday, or make a decision not to carry on watching the show, I suppose.
