Gotham - FOX TV Show Discussion

[TsukiSentinel]

Show got renewed for a 3rd season!

Which also means it's getting renewed for a 4th season no matter what!

[Kirby101]

Wrong forum

[tabo61]

Pretty clever how Nygma framed Gordon.

[Desean101101]

Pretty clever how Nygma framed Gordon.

Yup Nygma got Gordon real good.

[The Darknight Detective]

I'm always amazed with the extreme lawlessness of the city of Gotham juxtaposed with it's super-speedy judicial process.

[Frontier]

I'm always amazed with the extreme lawlessness of the city of Gotham juxtaposed with it's super-speedy judicial process.

You would think the trial of Gotham's "top cop" Jim Gordon would be the trial of the century, but then we get a time-skip and the verdict is already delivered .

Granted, Galavan's trial probably would've been the trial of the century if it had gone through. Gotham is certainly not a legal drama .

[tabo61]

That prison episode was pretty good. That corrupted warden make's a good villain.

[The Darknight Detective]

That prison episode was pretty good. That corrupted warden make's a good villain.

Good episode. Too bad about Puck, though.

[ouroboros]

Good episode. Too bad about Puck, though.

Was Puck supposed to have any sort of comics-analogue?

[The Darknight Detective]

Was Puck supposed to have any sort of comics-analogue?

I don't know. I have been running that through my brain the past few days myself.

[heyevaxx]

What a great episode! And mostly with main cast members being featured. I hope the rest of the season goes like this.

[ABH]

Not bad, but a bit of a reset for Penguin, Gordon, Bruce... and then there's Barbara...

Things have really changed for Eddie, though.

[tabo61]

I liked how every time Nygma said a riddle to Gordon he knew the answer.

[Chrysalis_Changling]

anyone else disappointed in how we could have had a real batman tv show like this? if only WB didn't think movies were the only way to generate interest for their characters

[PurpleGlovez]

So, this show is absolutely insane, but god help me, I've really been enjoying this season. My ultimate hope is that they eventually do a Reaper storyline. The Reaper is in that small box of storytelling opportunities that actually makes sense for this time frame, and I've been thinking about it ever since this show was announced.

*spoilers for this episode*

With that being said, you know what? This new Galavan-as-Azrael thing is really cool too. At least they've built it up over the course of the entire season and it really feels deserved, like they didn't just plop Azrael into an episode and go "well, there he is!" So, I would actually be okay if they massaged this into the canon. The idea that, before Jean Paul's father, this guy called himself Azrael briefly and they can even keep his whole mayor storyline and whatnot. I wouldn't mind them bringing Fish Mooney over too. This show is actually adding some things to the mythos that I kind of like, or in some cases at least don't mind, which surprises me.

But yeah, it would debatably be cooler if we could just get a straight-up Batman show, with some of these brilliant actors playing the fully-realized versions of their characters (Cory Michael Smith! He was absolutely chilling last episode.) And it's interesting they're having Hugo Strange be so involved with the Wayne deaths - but remember, they could still throw us a curveball at the last second with the Court of Owls coming up and there's still the possibility that Matches Malone wasn't actually the one who killed them (they'll have to pull some fancy footwork with that one, though.) All in all, this show isn't perfect, but I'd still say it's a must-watch for Batman fans or fans of gritty-but-still-colorful crime drama.