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shallowness) wrote2014-10-28 07:42 am
shallowness) wrote2014-10-28 07:42 am
this city is sick
Gotham 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.