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shallownessGotham 2.15 Mad Grey Dawn
I was far more interested in brainwashed!Oswald’s reunion with Butch and Tabitha than Nygma taking further steps to become the Riddler especially because he seemed to be trying to kill Jim which seemed like a pointless exercise.
More interesting were the friendships renewed – Oswald (feathered, nice) calling upon Ed, who was friendly, but ruthlessly sociopathic so not that friendly and IVY! So, I thought Selina’s plan to get some money was stupid (and why would Ivy endanger a set up where she got to be the queen of shrooms?) and I thought that Bruce winding up Sonny as part of his testing himself was also stupid, but their mutual protectiveness is still sweet, and off they ran away together for Selina to stitch him up and then learn a bit more about Bruce’s damage.
Ahahah, good casting for Oswald’s papa. But who believed that the big family would welcome the previously unknown prodigal son to what may be one of Gotham’s premier families? I didn’t, and that was before I saw that Melinda Clarke would be playing his stepmother (sadly this tends to suggest that she won’t be reuniting with either Ryan Attwood or Inara Serra onscreen).
Still, setting Jim up was much better from Nygma. Lee, despite choosing Jim over and beyond, was dumped ‘for her own good’. (From her face, is Baccarin actually pregnant?)
I’d be excited about Barbara waking up, but it’s just to be controlled by a new villain in Glass.
I will admit that they posed Nygma fabulously well throughout this episode.
2.16 Prisoners
I felt that the idea of the choir was better than the execution.
I got really worried that the entire episode would be Jim in prison, because I’d have found that dull (the whole point of the opening montage was that Jim’s prison life was dull). But then the governor decided to throw him into the general population, and given his usual methods of arrest and chucking them in there, sure they’d all be civil.
At first, therefore, I was pleased we also had a bit of Oswald and his new family. But if it was meant to run parallel with Jim’s plotline after weeks in prison, it really didn’t track
More eeevil people have tried to order Jim’s death than the warden. So, again, pointless exercise. Huh, I thought Lee was carrying Barbara – of course the miscarriage could be a lie.
As it turned out, I got slightly sucked into the mini-drama of the honourable prison guard and the dippy prisoner who wanted to help Jim, even if it meant getting a kicking and worse. The simplicity of the message to carry on hoping and how crooked the warden were worked relatively well, while the family drama at Elijah’s house felt that it was a bit sub Tim Burton. But ‘Restrain yourself, woman’ was funny. It’s just that for all Melinda Clarke’s Grace’s plotting, she’s probably unleashed the Penguin and he will kill them all, so apart from giving Oswald a twistedly loving father for two seconds and more connection to the history of Gotham and, maybe, its elite, it felt like a decorative trip around a cul de sac.
Falcone’s return was underwhelming. And no, Harvey, he’s not good people.
Jim did not understand that Puck dying outside the prison was the only win there, and predictably chose to go back to Gotham to clear his name (of the murder he didn’t commit, but seeing as he faked his own death, I’m sure he’ll eventually be delighted to learn he didn’t actually murder Gallavan).
Harvey fighting for his partner was sweet. I only wish that the next episode was What Bruce and Selina Did For All Those Weeks. But I doubt it.
I was far more interested in brainwashed!Oswald’s reunion with Butch and Tabitha than Nygma taking further steps to become the Riddler especially because he seemed to be trying to kill Jim which seemed like a pointless exercise.
More interesting were the friendships renewed – Oswald (feathered, nice) calling upon Ed, who was friendly, but ruthlessly sociopathic so not that friendly and IVY! So, I thought Selina’s plan to get some money was stupid (and why would Ivy endanger a set up where she got to be the queen of shrooms?) and I thought that Bruce winding up Sonny as part of his testing himself was also stupid, but their mutual protectiveness is still sweet, and off they ran away together for Selina to stitch him up and then learn a bit more about Bruce’s damage.
Ahahah, good casting for Oswald’s papa. But who believed that the big family would welcome the previously unknown prodigal son to what may be one of Gotham’s premier families? I didn’t, and that was before I saw that Melinda Clarke would be playing his stepmother (sadly this tends to suggest that she won’t be reuniting with either Ryan Attwood or Inara Serra onscreen).
Still, setting Jim up was much better from Nygma. Lee, despite choosing Jim over and beyond, was dumped ‘for her own good’. (From her face, is Baccarin actually pregnant?)
I’d be excited about Barbara waking up, but it’s just to be controlled by a new villain in Glass.
I will admit that they posed Nygma fabulously well throughout this episode.
2.16 Prisoners
I felt that the idea of the choir was better than the execution.
I got really worried that the entire episode would be Jim in prison, because I’d have found that dull (the whole point of the opening montage was that Jim’s prison life was dull). But then the governor decided to throw him into the general population, and given his usual methods of arrest and chucking them in there, sure they’d all be civil.
At first, therefore, I was pleased we also had a bit of Oswald and his new family. But if it was meant to run parallel with Jim’s plotline after weeks in prison, it really didn’t track
More eeevil people have tried to order Jim’s death than the warden. So, again, pointless exercise. Huh, I thought Lee was carrying Barbara – of course the miscarriage could be a lie.
As it turned out, I got slightly sucked into the mini-drama of the honourable prison guard and the dippy prisoner who wanted to help Jim, even if it meant getting a kicking and worse. The simplicity of the message to carry on hoping and how crooked the warden were worked relatively well, while the family drama at Elijah’s house felt that it was a bit sub Tim Burton. But ‘Restrain yourself, woman’ was funny. It’s just that for all Melinda Clarke’s Grace’s plotting, she’s probably unleashed the Penguin and he will kill them all, so apart from giving Oswald a twistedly loving father for two seconds and more connection to the history of Gotham and, maybe, its elite, it felt like a decorative trip around a cul de sac.
Falcone’s return was underwhelming. And no, Harvey, he’s not good people.
Jim did not understand that Puck dying outside the prison was the only win there, and predictably chose to go back to Gotham to clear his name (of the murder he didn’t commit, but seeing as he faked his own death, I’m sure he’ll eventually be delighted to learn he didn’t actually murder Gallavan).
Harvey fighting for his partner was sweet. I only wish that the next episode was What Bruce and Selina Did For All Those Weeks. But I doubt it.
