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shallowness) wrote2015-06-10 07:44 am
shallowness) wrote2015-06-10 07:44 am
Gotham season finale
Gotham 2.22 All Happy Families Are Alike
I appreciate that the rationale for quite a bit of this episode was ‘It’s the season finale’.
Quite a good opening – Fish FINALLY returns to Gotham and makes quite an entrance, being patronising and enigmatic around Selina. Then there was Bruce breaking stuff to find out his father’s secrets – awww. I find his tendencies adorable. And the attack on Falcone was explosive, even if lacking in thoroughness. Also, he was patronising towards the hen.
Yes, fine, Leslie, agree to counsel your boyfriend’s traumatised/dead-eyed ex. Good call. Take Kevlar and weaponry. Or not. (I presumed Jim was going to come rescue her.)
Heh, Jim thinks MARONI is a hothead. I giggled my way as he Chow Yun-Fatted his way through the hospital.
Oh, Selina, fine, be in Fish’s gang, woman’s got charisma, but don’t try to emulate her hairstyle. (Actually, it’s not fine. I love Selina, I don’t want her killing out of sadism. And the more I think about it, the more I think we were shortchanged on seeing their relationship develop.)
Jim and Penguin grimacing/miming didn’t help me set the borderline hysteria aside.
And then nearly everyone looked surprised that Fish killed Maroni, which set me off again. Because what did they think she was going to do? She might have surprised herself, but not me.
I don’t think the episode was meant to be so funny, but the bombast and daftness like Falcone randomly deciding he was retiring kept me giggling.
The Fish vs. Penguin fight with the pay-off of torn Butch was MUCH more entertaining than the slasher girl-on-girl action. I am sad that Fish, one woman among so many men and quite capable of bringing chaos in her wake, has probably gone. (Has Barbara? I don't care. I don't like what they did with her.)
Penguin perched on top of a building in victory was a nice image.
Falcone’s story about Jim’s father was tedious, especially as we’d just seen Nygma get his own moment of crazy, (the Joker had far more impact in one episode than dragging Ed around as they have) proving that Gotham is going to need more than a lawman soon. Which the show admitted with Bruce and Alfred finding the Batcave. And although song name...
As for whether I’ll continue watching, I don’t know. Some of the nastiness has really put me off. Add to that that the show is more about Jim (we had three or four Bruce episodes and Selina's screentme was conditional on them dragging her into Fish's family), and watching him bumble around and get validated for stuff that irritates me is wearying. Although I’ve enjoyed Penguin, he wasn’t exactly surprising by the end of the season – oh look at him try to talk his way out of another situation with men he recently tried to kill.
I appreciate that the rationale for quite a bit of this episode was ‘It’s the season finale’.
Quite a good opening – Fish FINALLY returns to Gotham and makes quite an entrance, being patronising and enigmatic around Selina. Then there was Bruce breaking stuff to find out his father’s secrets – awww. I find his tendencies adorable. And the attack on Falcone was explosive, even if lacking in thoroughness. Also, he was patronising towards the hen.
Yes, fine, Leslie, agree to counsel your boyfriend’s traumatised/dead-eyed ex. Good call. Take Kevlar and weaponry. Or not. (I presumed Jim was going to come rescue her.)
Heh, Jim thinks MARONI is a hothead. I giggled my way as he Chow Yun-Fatted his way through the hospital.
Oh, Selina, fine, be in Fish’s gang, woman’s got charisma, but don’t try to emulate her hairstyle. (Actually, it’s not fine. I love Selina, I don’t want her killing out of sadism. And the more I think about it, the more I think we were shortchanged on seeing their relationship develop.)
Jim and Penguin grimacing/miming didn’t help me set the borderline hysteria aside.
And then nearly everyone looked surprised that Fish killed Maroni, which set me off again. Because what did they think she was going to do? She might have surprised herself, but not me.
I don’t think the episode was meant to be so funny, but the bombast and daftness like Falcone randomly deciding he was retiring kept me giggling.
The Fish vs. Penguin fight with the pay-off of torn Butch was MUCH more entertaining than the slasher girl-on-girl action. I am sad that Fish, one woman among so many men and quite capable of bringing chaos in her wake, has probably gone. (Has Barbara? I don't care. I don't like what they did with her.)
Penguin perched on top of a building in victory was a nice image.
Falcone’s story about Jim’s father was tedious, especially as we’d just seen Nygma get his own moment of crazy, (the Joker had far more impact in one episode than dragging Ed around as they have) proving that Gotham is going to need more than a lawman soon. Which the show admitted with Bruce and Alfred finding the Batcave. And although song name...
As for whether I’ll continue watching, I don’t know. Some of the nastiness has really put me off. Add to that that the show is more about Jim (we had three or four Bruce episodes and Selina's screentme was conditional on them dragging her into Fish's family), and watching him bumble around and get validated for stuff that irritates me is wearying. Although I’ve enjoyed Penguin, he wasn’t exactly surprising by the end of the season – oh look at him try to talk his way out of another situation with men he recently tried to kill.