Gotham double-bill
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shallownessGotham 4.8 Stop Hitting Yourself (via catch-up)
Cory Michael Smith had fun impersonating Penguin. Ed tried to smack down Lee’s return to self-righteousness, but she hasn’t made a target of herself for the top crime boss to come after. And I agree it’s a stupid catchphrase. Nice suggestion that the joint was doing well from the upgrade in the fight club’s owner’s cozzie.
(Jim zzzz.)
LADIES! Tabitha’s attempt to bring up Selina properly is vastly amusing as Selina becomes more and more Catwomanny, but is still, as Babs pointed out, a teenager. The trio were fun playing off Penguin (I’d think Babs and Tabitha would know what comedia dell’arte is, thanks) and each other with great snark. And then the deliciousness of them coming to the fight club as Babs saw Lee and Tabitha saw Butch.
I enjoyed Babs and Lee’s interaction. Selina, of course, had to do the work of kidnapping Ed. Fortunately, he was very stupid.
(Jim and Harvey zzzz. HELLO, Lucius Fox in your snazzy suit.)
Sofia’s advice about getting a hobby turned into Penguin mentoring his very own orphan, with a cherubic face and the dark heart of bullies’ victim (it’s Gotham). Sofia also turned out to be behind Jim’s promotion offer. I liked her look, she seemed to look younger at times, and the red of her bag and lip worked well with the black.
I really enjoyed all the lady interaction, the way their different expertise helped them, and their team work, as Grundy was slow to access Butch’s memories.
Enter Firefly (did she and Selina interact in season 3?). Lee brought her down, using Chekhov’s gun nicely and Babs (being an opportunistic psycho) brought Cherry down more permanently. Lee grasped the code of the Narrows that was so important to Selina, but not to Bridget or Cherry.
The visuals are always strong in this show (I’d love to see some season 4 icons), but I also liked the music when Jim gave the officers their bullets and, quite sincerely, the scene where Jim called Harvey out on his weakness. Harvey got one final punch about the bill Jim owed (call back to Sofia doing her bills earlier? It was a decent script, so I think so.)
Lee ended up a leader, just as Jim did, although she didn’t ask for the help of a mobster to get rid of Penguin. I mean, she asked Ed’s advice, but it’s hardly the same. So Jim was a leetle bit hypocritical about breaking with Sofia, who has both dug in and overplayed her hand with Oswald.
Gotham 4.9 Let Them Eat Pig (watched live)
Pretty good although the women quotient went right down to Sofia and Harper, who didn’t interact, and there was the usual erasing of Martha Wayne. I may have opined something like ‘but who actually gave birth to Bruce?’
Bruce was ANGRY and acted out. Alfred tried the old camping trick. Bruce telling him to be his butler and not his father cut like a knife. I take on board that he held Ra’s al Ghul responsible for his parents’ death, but I still don’t think he’s dead. That shouldn’t make such a difference to what Bruce is going through, but it’s not that involving.
We were always a step ahead of New Captain Jim Gordon because we’d heard all about Sofia’s planned charity fundraiser – you’d think Gotham’s high society would just send a cheque and a polite refusal to all invites by now. Harper gave away her relative newness by asking if they should wait for back up (obviously, they should have, but this is Jim Gordon they weren’t) and got stabbed and kidnapped as a result. Jim then went in all alone to face knives and guns, because of course he did. I really liked the slo-mo of his fight with Pyg, though. They caught some epic faces.
Pyg upped the ante with cannibalism. Killing the homeless people just seemed cruel. While it was horrific – and I speak as someone who avoids horror in general and would put cannibalism on my DNW list, I found it so heightened and camp that I wasn’t queasy. This was assisted by the comedy of Pyg’s volte faces and the performative aspect (I expected Sweeny Todd, we got Chicago). I hope we’ll see him after the next jail/asylum break out.
Sofia, Penguin and Matrine (I both want him to run as fast as he can away from Gotham and get therapy and stay forever and be Penguin’s mini-me) made for a Burtonesque found family. (And what kind of conversation did they have with the actor and his parents about the script?) Dysfunctional, but Penguin has iven up on pretending he doesn’t have feelings for Martine and yielded to his feelings for Sofia in letting her survive. (Would the fact that Jim didn’t kiss her back make him feel better? No.)
They’re trying to make her out to be a master chess player – for a second it looked as if Martine was her plant, but no. But by having her throw herself at Jim (why?) they’re weakening her, not humanising her.
I love looking at Lucius in a suit, but he really shouldn’t be carrying out post mortems in them. However, Gotham is a world where (well-informed) reporters wear hats and Sofia wears gloves, and operates by its own rules, so…
Cory Michael Smith had fun impersonating Penguin. Ed tried to smack down Lee’s return to self-righteousness, but she hasn’t made a target of herself for the top crime boss to come after. And I agree it’s a stupid catchphrase. Nice suggestion that the joint was doing well from the upgrade in the fight club’s owner’s cozzie.
(Jim zzzz.)
LADIES! Tabitha’s attempt to bring up Selina properly is vastly amusing as Selina becomes more and more Catwomanny, but is still, as Babs pointed out, a teenager. The trio were fun playing off Penguin (I’d think Babs and Tabitha would know what comedia dell’arte is, thanks) and each other with great snark. And then the deliciousness of them coming to the fight club as Babs saw Lee and Tabitha saw Butch.
I enjoyed Babs and Lee’s interaction. Selina, of course, had to do the work of kidnapping Ed. Fortunately, he was very stupid.
(Jim and Harvey zzzz. HELLO, Lucius Fox in your snazzy suit.)
Sofia’s advice about getting a hobby turned into Penguin mentoring his very own orphan, with a cherubic face and the dark heart of bullies’ victim (it’s Gotham). Sofia also turned out to be behind Jim’s promotion offer. I liked her look, she seemed to look younger at times, and the red of her bag and lip worked well with the black.
I really enjoyed all the lady interaction, the way their different expertise helped them, and their team work, as Grundy was slow to access Butch’s memories.
Enter Firefly (did she and Selina interact in season 3?). Lee brought her down, using Chekhov’s gun nicely and Babs (being an opportunistic psycho) brought Cherry down more permanently. Lee grasped the code of the Narrows that was so important to Selina, but not to Bridget or Cherry.
The visuals are always strong in this show (I’d love to see some season 4 icons), but I also liked the music when Jim gave the officers their bullets and, quite sincerely, the scene where Jim called Harvey out on his weakness. Harvey got one final punch about the bill Jim owed (call back to Sofia doing her bills earlier? It was a decent script, so I think so.)
Lee ended up a leader, just as Jim did, although she didn’t ask for the help of a mobster to get rid of Penguin. I mean, she asked Ed’s advice, but it’s hardly the same. So Jim was a leetle bit hypocritical about breaking with Sofia, who has both dug in and overplayed her hand with Oswald.
Gotham 4.9 Let Them Eat Pig (watched live)
Pretty good although the women quotient went right down to Sofia and Harper, who didn’t interact, and there was the usual erasing of Martha Wayne. I may have opined something like ‘but who actually gave birth to Bruce?’
Bruce was ANGRY and acted out. Alfred tried the old camping trick. Bruce telling him to be his butler and not his father cut like a knife. I take on board that he held Ra’s al Ghul responsible for his parents’ death, but I still don’t think he’s dead. That shouldn’t make such a difference to what Bruce is going through, but it’s not that involving.
We were always a step ahead of New Captain Jim Gordon because we’d heard all about Sofia’s planned charity fundraiser – you’d think Gotham’s high society would just send a cheque and a polite refusal to all invites by now. Harper gave away her relative newness by asking if they should wait for back up (obviously, they should have, but this is Jim Gordon they weren’t) and got stabbed and kidnapped as a result. Jim then went in all alone to face knives and guns, because of course he did. I really liked the slo-mo of his fight with Pyg, though. They caught some epic faces.
Pyg upped the ante with cannibalism. Killing the homeless people just seemed cruel. While it was horrific – and I speak as someone who avoids horror in general and would put cannibalism on my DNW list, I found it so heightened and camp that I wasn’t queasy. This was assisted by the comedy of Pyg’s volte faces and the performative aspect (I expected Sweeny Todd, we got Chicago). I hope we’ll see him after the next jail/asylum break out.
Sofia, Penguin and Matrine (I both want him to run as fast as he can away from Gotham and get therapy and stay forever and be Penguin’s mini-me) made for a Burtonesque found family. (And what kind of conversation did they have with the actor and his parents about the script?) Dysfunctional, but Penguin has iven up on pretending he doesn’t have feelings for Martine and yielded to his feelings for Sofia in letting her survive. (Would the fact that Jim didn’t kiss her back make him feel better? No.)
They’re trying to make her out to be a master chess player – for a second it looked as if Martine was her plant, but no. But by having her throw herself at Jim (why?) they’re weakening her, not humanising her.
I love looking at Lucius in a suit, but he really shouldn’t be carrying out post mortems in them. However, Gotham is a world where (well-informed) reporters wear hats and Sofia wears gloves, and operates by its own rules, so…
