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shallownessGotham 1.13 Welcome Back, Jim Gordon!
So, which is the most incompetent, the cops for letting a witness be killed at the station, or the mafia for making it so easy for Butch to escape? Well, the cops have Jim Gordon and his amazing detective skills (not) and his stupid charging in at any cost to do what he thinks is right. Meanwhile, Fish resisting torture like a champ was much more interesting than a lot of what they’ve given her to do.
BRUCE is back...to chasing after Selina. No, it’s not like that, Alfred! (Except of course it is, a little.) Thank goodness I’ve started reading fic, because I want to fastforward to when the kids become Batman, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, because I want that in addition to their interactions now.
My favourite scene was Selina turning up at the manor. It opened with a dash of ramnticism and there was Bruce was all caught up feelings about his parents’ death and her. He handled her so, so badly that of course she freaked out, clung to her independence and threw him a sucker punch (get used to it, Brucie.)
I do enjoy Penguin and the mother who made him. But by the time Jim turned up, they’d overplayed it. So, for every good bit with Penguin, there was double the amount of stuff I could have done without.
I thought they over-sentimentalised Butch’s loyalty to Fish, sure, I’ll buy he’d stick to her after hitching his ride to her in the last episode, but this much? Also, I didn’t think they’d done enough leg-work on the Fish-Harvey kiss.
But the episode mostly looked extremely stylish.
1.14 The Fearsome Dr Crane
Striking opening, before we returned to the fall-out, the best of which was Selina Kyle, squatter, getting caught and fighting her way out. Sadly she dived out of the episode.
Given Jim’s detecting failures, Bruce’s dismissal of him made total sense to me.
At least Maroni had suspicions about Penguin for Fish to feed. But he went a little too far in threatening him...I thought the gun Penguin picked up would turn out to be empty, but the blanks were funnier. Anyway, as we all know Oswald’s going to face Batman, it’s no surprise that he survived, although I thought the manner of it – talking and lying his way out – was apt. And it all feeds into his sense of invulnerability. Great final shot of him looking ugly, mad and brooding in the bus that was taking him back to Gotham.
Poor Captain, none of the men working for her listen to her.
Meanwhile stupid Jim and Harvey are almost as bad as Nygma with their flirting, and yet it seems to work???
Papa Crane and the glimpse of Scarecrow (yay, a younger male supervillain) deserved better. We deserve better than a cutaway from what was being built up as a fearsome fight. I just want the freaks to come out and play instead of a stupid cop hero and his stupid but marginally more entertaining partner taking up most of the screen time. I wish I could watch an edited (filleted) version of this show. If I were to rank the shows I’m watching in order, this would be close to the bottom, probably above Revenge, because of Bruce and Selina, but I’ve been watching the other for years, so it’s hard to let go. For so many’s destinies to be fixed, the ride you get in a prequel has to be much better than this.
So, which is the most incompetent, the cops for letting a witness be killed at the station, or the mafia for making it so easy for Butch to escape? Well, the cops have Jim Gordon and his amazing detective skills (not) and his stupid charging in at any cost to do what he thinks is right. Meanwhile, Fish resisting torture like a champ was much more interesting than a lot of what they’ve given her to do.
BRUCE is back...to chasing after Selina. No, it’s not like that, Alfred! (Except of course it is, a little.) Thank goodness I’ve started reading fic, because I want to fastforward to when the kids become Batman, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, because I want that in addition to their interactions now.
My favourite scene was Selina turning up at the manor. It opened with a dash of ramnticism and there was Bruce was all caught up feelings about his parents’ death and her. He handled her so, so badly that of course she freaked out, clung to her independence and threw him a sucker punch (get used to it, Brucie.)
I do enjoy Penguin and the mother who made him. But by the time Jim turned up, they’d overplayed it. So, for every good bit with Penguin, there was double the amount of stuff I could have done without.
I thought they over-sentimentalised Butch’s loyalty to Fish, sure, I’ll buy he’d stick to her after hitching his ride to her in the last episode, but this much? Also, I didn’t think they’d done enough leg-work on the Fish-Harvey kiss.
But the episode mostly looked extremely stylish.
1.14 The Fearsome Dr Crane
Striking opening, before we returned to the fall-out, the best of which was Selina Kyle, squatter, getting caught and fighting her way out. Sadly she dived out of the episode.
Given Jim’s detecting failures, Bruce’s dismissal of him made total sense to me.
At least Maroni had suspicions about Penguin for Fish to feed. But he went a little too far in threatening him...I thought the gun Penguin picked up would turn out to be empty, but the blanks were funnier. Anyway, as we all know Oswald’s going to face Batman, it’s no surprise that he survived, although I thought the manner of it – talking and lying his way out – was apt. And it all feeds into his sense of invulnerability. Great final shot of him looking ugly, mad and brooding in the bus that was taking him back to Gotham.
Poor Captain, none of the men working for her listen to her.
Meanwhile stupid Jim and Harvey are almost as bad as Nygma with their flirting, and yet it seems to work???
Papa Crane and the glimpse of Scarecrow (yay, a younger male supervillain) deserved better. We deserve better than a cutaway from what was being built up as a fearsome fight. I just want the freaks to come out and play instead of a stupid cop hero and his stupid but marginally more entertaining partner taking up most of the screen time. I wish I could watch an edited (filleted) version of this show. If I were to rank the shows I’m watching in order, this would be close to the bottom, probably above Revenge, because of Bruce and Selina, but I’ve been watching the other for years, so it’s hard to let go. For so many’s destinies to be fixed, the ride you get in a prequel has to be much better than this.
