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shallownessFinally, all caught up with Gotham.
Gotham 2.21: A Legion of Horribles
Selina escaped pretty niftily and even beat Firefly, so I didn’t know why she couldn’t make the appointment with Bruce, other than he needed to do something, like feel guilty and go off to Arkham to face off with Strange and they wanted to make use of that time Jim worked at Arkham.
Sadly, the days of Strange and Peabody seem to be coming to an end with this talk of employers and masters, not to mention the amused hubris with Fish (finally! I think we all knew she was coming back since the end of the last season). Amused hubris is still hubris.
Harvey should do all the press conferences.
Nygma is also much more entertaining in Arkham than he was in the GCPD.
So Bruce and Strange had their little chat about Thomas Wayne and I grumbled that half of Bruce’s DNA came from his mother.
We found out what Selina had been doing all this while, namely trying to get out and underestimating Firefly, which seems about right.
Uh-oh, a Fish with the power of compulsion by touch!?
The mask (of course) worn by the lady ordering Strange reminded me of an owl, but I don’t know the comics well enough to hazard a guess about her identity.
A1 survival instincts when it came to it from Selina – finding the flaw in Strange’s tendency to give his reanimants such grandiose identities.
Things slowed down right at the end, just so they could dangle the various bad situations the main players were in that they’ll have to get them out of in the season finale.
2.22 Transference
Oh, goodie, not. This episode featured Ben McKenzie gurning as Not!Jim.
Trippy episode, between the drug’s effect on Jim and Bruce’s vision under his drug (the only excuse for the flashback to the Waynes’ death was seeing how much the kid has grown). And then the end, where we were meant to find ‘the monsters’ scary and too much for their rescuer’s perceptions, but I just assumed the show hadn’t decided what they looked like, until we saw Bruce’s clone in a Tim Burton wig. (But in an episode that had a doppelganger already, that seemed a tad lazy.)
Cue almost everyone turning up at some point from Penguin, who promised much but delivered little, and his current associates on the outside; Nygma after his first clash of wits with Bruce pushed back inside; Fish stealing Strange’s sidekick; the inevitable fire vs. ice battle, with two of his monsters zapping Strange. Oh, and as for the big question of who runs Indian Hill/Gotham, well, obviously, it’s next season’s big bad (or Gotham’s HYDRA if you will).
The whole Bruce-Selina interaction was PERFECT: there’s a bomb, I apologise, go to safety, a spat over who’s the boss. She OWNS him. For life. I shared her amusement over the Secret Council meaning he just couldn’t give up his obsession, to Alfred’s dismay. I mean, Alfred was all like ‘chase girls! Even that one on the car! PLZ’. Nothing doing.
On the other hand, Firefly-Bridget did not track from the previous episode and was thrown under the plot bus.
It took Barbara to recognise that ‘Jim’ wasn’t himself. Even allowing for their normal parameters on this show, Harvey and Alfred were incredibly stupid. The whole ‘Harvey is the boss’ thing was rather worrying. So, Barbara walked away, but I was disappointed to see her so needy about Penguin’s approval.
It was a bit of a hot mess, really, with the whole nicking off action movies like the ridiculous business with the bomb. And they couldn’t even kill off Glass. Okay, in an episode where Fish had returned from the dead, that would have had minimal impact, and he was more entertaining than Gallavan/Azrael, but urgh. Fish was fun, though. But as a whole, it left a ‘that was it?’ feeling behind.
ETA: Rec me all the BB!BatCat stuff...
Gotham 2.21: A Legion of Horribles
Selina escaped pretty niftily and even beat Firefly, so I didn’t know why she couldn’t make the appointment with Bruce, other than he needed to do something, like feel guilty and go off to Arkham to face off with Strange and they wanted to make use of that time Jim worked at Arkham.
Sadly, the days of Strange and Peabody seem to be coming to an end with this talk of employers and masters, not to mention the amused hubris with Fish (finally! I think we all knew she was coming back since the end of the last season). Amused hubris is still hubris.
Harvey should do all the press conferences.
Nygma is also much more entertaining in Arkham than he was in the GCPD.
So Bruce and Strange had their little chat about Thomas Wayne and I grumbled that half of Bruce’s DNA came from his mother.
We found out what Selina had been doing all this while, namely trying to get out and underestimating Firefly, which seems about right.
Uh-oh, a Fish with the power of compulsion by touch!?
The mask (of course) worn by the lady ordering Strange reminded me of an owl, but I don’t know the comics well enough to hazard a guess about her identity.
A1 survival instincts when it came to it from Selina – finding the flaw in Strange’s tendency to give his reanimants such grandiose identities.
Things slowed down right at the end, just so they could dangle the various bad situations the main players were in that they’ll have to get them out of in the season finale.
2.22 Transference
Oh, goodie, not. This episode featured Ben McKenzie gurning as Not!Jim.
Trippy episode, between the drug’s effect on Jim and Bruce’s vision under his drug (the only excuse for the flashback to the Waynes’ death was seeing how much the kid has grown). And then the end, where we were meant to find ‘the monsters’ scary and too much for their rescuer’s perceptions, but I just assumed the show hadn’t decided what they looked like, until we saw Bruce’s clone in a Tim Burton wig. (But in an episode that had a doppelganger already, that seemed a tad lazy.)
Cue almost everyone turning up at some point from Penguin, who promised much but delivered little, and his current associates on the outside; Nygma after his first clash of wits with Bruce pushed back inside; Fish stealing Strange’s sidekick; the inevitable fire vs. ice battle, with two of his monsters zapping Strange. Oh, and as for the big question of who runs Indian Hill/Gotham, well, obviously, it’s next season’s big bad (or Gotham’s HYDRA if you will).
The whole Bruce-Selina interaction was PERFECT: there’s a bomb, I apologise, go to safety, a spat over who’s the boss. She OWNS him. For life. I shared her amusement over the Secret Council meaning he just couldn’t give up his obsession, to Alfred’s dismay. I mean, Alfred was all like ‘chase girls! Even that one on the car! PLZ’. Nothing doing.
On the other hand, Firefly-Bridget did not track from the previous episode and was thrown under the plot bus.
It took Barbara to recognise that ‘Jim’ wasn’t himself. Even allowing for their normal parameters on this show, Harvey and Alfred were incredibly stupid. The whole ‘Harvey is the boss’ thing was rather worrying. So, Barbara walked away, but I was disappointed to see her so needy about Penguin’s approval.
It was a bit of a hot mess, really, with the whole nicking off action movies like the ridiculous business with the bomb. And they couldn’t even kill off Glass. Okay, in an episode where Fish had returned from the dead, that would have had minimal impact, and he was more entertaining than Gallavan/Azrael, but urgh. Fish was fun, though. But as a whole, it left a ‘that was it?’ feeling behind.
ETA: Rec me all the BB!BatCat stuff...
