oh, now she's gone and I'm out with a friend
Gotham is a mess, but it has seeds of a show I could enjoy - Donal Logue is really good as Harvey Bullock and Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney grabs my attention and holds it hostage every time she's onscreen. I see people call her OTT or annoying, but I think she's exactly what a lady mob boss on a show set in Gotham City should be.
As I said on Tumblr last night, now I want the story where Annalise Keating from How to Get Away with Murder is her lawyer. They grew up together (Philly and Gotham are not that far from each other), and took different paths to power. Now as adults, Annalise gets the call to defend Fish (?! I feel like she needs an actual name her friends call her; just saying "Fish" makes me think of Abe Vigoda.) and they have hot antagonistic reunion sex. You know you want to write it for me
I also think the kid playing Bruce was good in his scene last night though if they could have used the Batman song from The Lego Movie, it would have been eleventy million times better. DARKNESS. NO PARENTS. SUPER RICH. BEST MOVIE BATMAN EVER. Ahem.) but I still do not like what they're doing with Alfred. And also Jim Gordon needs to show some personality soon, because right now he's not very compelling.
I was thinking about this on my commute home tonight, and if I were the one writing this show, I would have done it slightly differently - keeping the elements that they've given us, I would have had Cobblepot be the parallel/foil for Gordon. Sure, he works for the mob, but he's trying to be a decent guy! I would have started him out as the smartest guy in the room just trying to survive in shark-infested waters, not a homicidal cretin with mommy issues. And then he could be get angrier and more corrupt and more broken over the course of the series, just as Jim Gordon gets more and more worn down trying to be the lone righteous man in the GCPD.
I mean, this is not revolutionary - I feel like they could have easily done a DC universe version of The Wire, where Fish Mooney is Avon Barksdale and Cobblepot is Stringer Bell, trying to go legit but not being able to etc.
Right now, as I said, I feel like it has elements that could work, but ugh, they need to stop the winking-and-nudging about the comics, and just go for it.
Arrow comes back next week and The Flash starts, so at least there'll be some actual entertaining superheroing going on soon on my tv.
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Sleepy Hollow
OH MY GOD I WAITED ALL EPISODE FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THEY WERE RAISING FRANKLINSTEIN'S MONSTER AND THEN ABBIE DID. SHOW, YOU GET ANOTHER SEASON OF GOODWILL FROM ME JUST FOR THAT.
I mean, we also had a threeway fight between Franklinstein's monster, the Headless Horseman, and the Horseman of War with a flaming sword, PLUS Abbie Mills being a badass and getting in the middle of it when necessary.
I also loved Ichabod's bank rant. Ichabod Crane vs. the 21st Century is BRILLIANT. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
I didn't love Katrina deciding to stay with the Horseman and Henry, because it does feel like a contrived way to keep her and Ichabod apart and also keeps her a prisoner, but hopefully it will mean she's better integrated into the main storylines more often. And hopefully she'll get more characterization. I like the idea of her being a mole, and she's certainly good at secrets, so we'll see how it goes.
I'm also reserving judgement on the new sheriff in town, mainly because I want her to be tied into the mythos and be another weapon in the fight against the apocalypse, even if she and Abbie remain wary or even antagonistic. I just don't want her to be 1. EVIL, or 2. the boring bureaucrat who throws up roadblocks because they don't know the supernatural is real and the apocalypse is coming. That's boring. I want better than that. I liked her scenes with both Jennie and Abbie, so I have hope, but we'll see.
Mostly, I am still cackling over FRANKLINSTEIN'S MONSTER.
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As I said on Tumblr last night, now I want the story where Annalise Keating from How to Get Away with Murder is her lawyer. They grew up together (Philly and Gotham are not that far from each other), and took different paths to power. Now as adults, Annalise gets the call to defend Fish (?! I feel like she needs an actual name her friends call her; just saying "Fish" makes me think of Abe Vigoda.) and they have hot antagonistic reunion sex. You know you want to write it for me
I also think the kid playing Bruce was good in his scene last night though if they could have used the Batman song from The Lego Movie, it would have been eleventy million times better. DARKNESS. NO PARENTS. SUPER RICH. BEST MOVIE BATMAN EVER. Ahem.) but I still do not like what they're doing with Alfred. And also Jim Gordon needs to show some personality soon, because right now he's not very compelling.
I was thinking about this on my commute home tonight, and if I were the one writing this show, I would have done it slightly differently - keeping the elements that they've given us, I would have had Cobblepot be the parallel/foil for Gordon. Sure, he works for the mob, but he's trying to be a decent guy! I would have started him out as the smartest guy in the room just trying to survive in shark-infested waters, not a homicidal cretin with mommy issues. And then he could be get angrier and more corrupt and more broken over the course of the series, just as Jim Gordon gets more and more worn down trying to be the lone righteous man in the GCPD.
I mean, this is not revolutionary - I feel like they could have easily done a DC universe version of The Wire, where Fish Mooney is Avon Barksdale and Cobblepot is Stringer Bell, trying to go legit but not being able to etc.
Right now, as I said, I feel like it has elements that could work, but ugh, they need to stop the winking-and-nudging about the comics, and just go for it.
Arrow comes back next week and The Flash starts, so at least there'll be some actual entertaining superheroing going on soon on my tv.
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Sleepy Hollow
OH MY GOD I WAITED ALL EPISODE FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THEY WERE RAISING FRANKLINSTEIN'S MONSTER AND THEN ABBIE DID. SHOW, YOU GET ANOTHER SEASON OF GOODWILL FROM ME JUST FOR THAT.
I mean, we also had a threeway fight between Franklinstein's monster, the Headless Horseman, and the Horseman of War with a flaming sword, PLUS Abbie Mills being a badass and getting in the middle of it when necessary.
I also loved Ichabod's bank rant. Ichabod Crane vs. the 21st Century is BRILLIANT. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
I didn't love Katrina deciding to stay with the Horseman and Henry, because it does feel like a contrived way to keep her and Ichabod apart and also keeps her a prisoner, but hopefully it will mean she's better integrated into the main storylines more often. And hopefully she'll get more characterization. I like the idea of her being a mole, and she's certainly good at secrets, so we'll see how it goes.
I'm also reserving judgement on the new sheriff in town, mainly because I want her to be tied into the mythos and be another weapon in the fight against the apocalypse, even if she and Abbie remain wary or even antagonistic. I just don't want her to be 1. EVIL, or 2. the boring bureaucrat who throws up roadblocks because they don't know the supernatural is real and the apocalypse is coming. That's boring. I want better than that. I liked her scenes with both Jennie and Abbie, so I have hope, but we'll see.
Mostly, I am still cackling over FRANKLINSTEIN'S MONSTER.
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people have commented there.