send in the clowns...
Oh, Gotham. What am I to do with you?
I sat down to watch the episode on TV on Monday night and realised that the 'Previously' section included stuff I hadn't seen and I needed to do some catching up, which I managed last night.
1.15 The Scarecrow
More of the Cranes, and they weren’t joking in the warning about the gore. Ew. (I was having a TV supper.)
Scarecrow-shaped anvils abounded.
Jim and Harvey were about as smooth about Jim’s girlfriend working with them as they are topnotch detectives.
Nygma made me laugh a couple of times. That was disconcerting.
Falcone and Maroni felt well-matched in stature, equals, especially after Maroni went to threaten Oswald.
Good grief, Oswald’s crush on Jim was to the fore in this episode.
Aww, Bruce. Stop making me care about father-son traditions with your poignant, pale face. (Seriously, stop. I blame you and Selina for keeping me watching this show.) I was wondering why I should care about Bruce in the country, but I suppose they wanted to contrast his relationship with Thomas with what Gerald was doing to Jonathan, which was pretty much child abuse, so blah, blah the future Dark Knight rises - to Alfred, there in his father’s stead, and, eventually, to sunrise.
1.16 The Blind Fortune Teller
We started off with the question of whether a night at Oswald’s (where, in fairness, the piano playing was worse than his mother’s singing) is a better night than one at the circus? But, as not!Inara said: circus brawl! For quite some time, it seemed like both she and a snake were better detectives than Jim.
I didn’t think we were going to get much of Barbara and her squatters - it’s like the perfect set-up for a sitcom, really, but we only got the gag of wee!Selina advising the quite desperate Babs on clothes and how to get Jim back...
Oh, get a tent, John and Mary.
Fish playing at civil rights leader to get out of her prison (ah, I didn’t get the significance of the eye thing at the end of the last episode) was more fun than how she got to be boss in the last ep. Twisted, but effective. Certainly deserving of the grand exit at the end of the ep.
And we got more of Bruce drawing his own comic book. Aww. About as subtle as the clowns, I snarked.
But we had another one of those ‘look at us cast a young actor for this transformation scene’ moments (see also future Two Face), and, so far, I think they struck gold with their Jerome/the potential Joker. At first, he seemed backward or damaged, and then the similarity to Cicero was there, but then BOOM! we got a really quite convincing Joker.
That was supported by Bruce showing his steel before the patronising shareholders, although he’s probably moved too early, and the return of bug-eyed Victor and his gift for Oswald. Beyond Oswald’s reaction and the question of what he’ll do when Fish comes back, I think they should have let Butch be dead storywise.
But the stuff about thanking Jim for getting the future Robin’s parents together and what they’d call their son was way too heavyhanded.
I liked Leslie more in this episode than I have so far (almost to the point where I wish she’d dump Jim because she can do better.)
So the Fish strand was pretty strong and the last fifteen minutes had some really good bits. Why can’t you be more consistently like that, then, Gotham?
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/167716.html.
I sat down to watch the episode on TV on Monday night and realised that the 'Previously' section included stuff I hadn't seen and I needed to do some catching up, which I managed last night.
1.15 The Scarecrow
More of the Cranes, and they weren’t joking in the warning about the gore. Ew. (I was having a TV supper.)
Scarecrow-shaped anvils abounded.
Jim and Harvey were about as smooth about Jim’s girlfriend working with them as they are topnotch detectives.
Nygma made me laugh a couple of times. That was disconcerting.
Falcone and Maroni felt well-matched in stature, equals, especially after Maroni went to threaten Oswald.
Good grief, Oswald’s crush on Jim was to the fore in this episode.
Aww, Bruce. Stop making me care about father-son traditions with your poignant, pale face. (Seriously, stop. I blame you and Selina for keeping me watching this show.) I was wondering why I should care about Bruce in the country, but I suppose they wanted to contrast his relationship with Thomas with what Gerald was doing to Jonathan, which was pretty much child abuse, so blah, blah the future Dark Knight rises - to Alfred, there in his father’s stead, and, eventually, to sunrise.
1.16 The Blind Fortune Teller
We started off with the question of whether a night at Oswald’s (where, in fairness, the piano playing was worse than his mother’s singing) is a better night than one at the circus? But, as not!Inara said: circus brawl! For quite some time, it seemed like both she and a snake were better detectives than Jim.
I didn’t think we were going to get much of Barbara and her squatters - it’s like the perfect set-up for a sitcom, really, but we only got the gag of wee!Selina advising the quite desperate Babs on clothes and how to get Jim back...
Oh, get a tent, John and Mary.
Fish playing at civil rights leader to get out of her prison (ah, I didn’t get the significance of the eye thing at the end of the last episode) was more fun than how she got to be boss in the last ep. Twisted, but effective. Certainly deserving of the grand exit at the end of the ep.
And we got more of Bruce drawing his own comic book. Aww. About as subtle as the clowns, I snarked.
But we had another one of those ‘look at us cast a young actor for this transformation scene’ moments (see also future Two Face), and, so far, I think they struck gold with their Jerome/the potential Joker. At first, he seemed backward or damaged, and then the similarity to Cicero was there, but then BOOM! we got a really quite convincing Joker.
That was supported by Bruce showing his steel before the patronising shareholders, although he’s probably moved too early, and the return of bug-eyed Victor and his gift for Oswald. Beyond Oswald’s reaction and the question of what he’ll do when Fish comes back, I think they should have let Butch be dead storywise.
But the stuff about thanking Jim for getting the future Robin’s parents together and what they’d call their son was way too heavyhanded.
I liked Leslie more in this episode than I have so far (almost to the point where I wish she’d dump Jim because she can do better.)
So the Fish strand was pretty strong and the last fifteen minutes had some really good bits. Why can’t you be more consistently like that, then, Gotham?
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/167716.html.