Gotham 1.10 LoveCraft
Dec. 16th, 2014 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessThat was basically my favourite Gotham episode, right there, because it featured wee!Bruce and wee!Selina on the run in Gotham from assassins. And they were hilarious and adorable, and, frankly, they could have made it a double-length episode, with even more parkouring and back-and-forthing as far as I was concerned.
Oh, Selina, all that talk about kissing, a) made it obvious you were the one was fixating and b) made me a little sad that that’s all that she thinks, already, she has to offer, even if it was played off innocently. (But then the kiss and Alfred’s reaction made for gales of happy laughter at Bruce.) I loved Bruce standing up to her and calling her on her ‘convoluted reasoning’ etc. Although he really should have listened more to her on her turf – but overall the balance between both of them being overwhelmed kids in real danger and being scrappy survivors who will become...was well done.
And even though I loved all of that and resented most of the stuff that wasn’t Bruce-Selina shenanigans, obviously the beating heart of the episode was the Bruce-Alfred reunion. I loved seeing exactly what Bruce means to Alfred and how he went floor-to-the-pedal desperate (even beyond guilt-ridden Jim, who did remember that two children were being chased by assassins in the middle of people with Gotham’s usual topsy turvy moral compass trying to shrug it off). The scene with Fish was most amusing, and this Alfred started making so much more sense to me now.
Also butler=/= valet. Carson et al would approve. (Self, there will be no Downton crossovers.)
Of that other stuff, then, a flash of Penguin and Liza, blah blah mobsters, me spending all the scene with Gordon and Lovecraft howling at them to get away from the windows, but there were hired killers who preferred close combat rather than having a sniper on their team. Serve Gordon right for not going without back-up. I know the lady assassin was trying to become a recurring character, but she hasn’t made as much of an impact as others.
Harvey Bullock really was the sensible one in this ep (and ugh, the old lug has had a little character growth).
The scene with the Mayor, Dent and Gordon was legitimately good – although it went on too long - as Jim realised his mistake in trusting Harvey (I mean Jim wouldn’t know a good plan if it was presented to him in a gift-box and what was going on last week wasn’t a good plan). Still, I expect there to be a reset button about him working in Arkham soon, because that’s the way the show rolls. My hopes abut who Jim will encounter in Arkham have been raised by what we saw of Ivy, who was indeed scary, Selina.
Not that it will be soon, because we’re having a hiatus, but after a surprisingly good episode (of Bruce and Selina adorableness.)
Oh, Selina, all that talk about kissing, a) made it obvious you were the one was fixating and b) made me a little sad that that’s all that she thinks, already, she has to offer, even if it was played off innocently. (But then the kiss and Alfred’s reaction made for gales of happy laughter at Bruce.) I loved Bruce standing up to her and calling her on her ‘convoluted reasoning’ etc. Although he really should have listened more to her on her turf – but overall the balance between both of them being overwhelmed kids in real danger and being scrappy survivors who will become...was well done.
And even though I loved all of that and resented most of the stuff that wasn’t Bruce-Selina shenanigans, obviously the beating heart of the episode was the Bruce-Alfred reunion. I loved seeing exactly what Bruce means to Alfred and how he went floor-to-the-pedal desperate (even beyond guilt-ridden Jim, who did remember that two children were being chased by assassins in the middle of people with Gotham’s usual topsy turvy moral compass trying to shrug it off). The scene with Fish was most amusing, and this Alfred started making so much more sense to me now.
Also butler=/= valet. Carson et al would approve. (Self, there will be no Downton crossovers.)
Of that other stuff, then, a flash of Penguin and Liza, blah blah mobsters, me spending all the scene with Gordon and Lovecraft howling at them to get away from the windows, but there were hired killers who preferred close combat rather than having a sniper on their team. Serve Gordon right for not going without back-up. I know the lady assassin was trying to become a recurring character, but she hasn’t made as much of an impact as others.
Harvey Bullock really was the sensible one in this ep (and ugh, the old lug has had a little character growth).
The scene with the Mayor, Dent and Gordon was legitimately good – although it went on too long - as Jim realised his mistake in trusting Harvey (I mean Jim wouldn’t know a good plan if it was presented to him in a gift-box and what was going on last week wasn’t a good plan). Still, I expect there to be a reset button about him working in Arkham soon, because that’s the way the show rolls. My hopes abut who Jim will encounter in Arkham have been raised by what we saw of Ivy, who was indeed scary, Selina.
Not that it will be soon, because we’re having a hiatus, but after a surprisingly good episode (of Bruce and Selina adorableness.)
