The Gotham finale
Gotham 5.12 The Beginning
Bruce did go to Nanda Parbat-adjacent territory then, although the previouslies were far more about Jeremiah (yay!) than Nyssa.
!0 Years Later and most people had new hairstyles. Well, not Harvey, and Jim’s caterpillar ‘stache was rightly mocked by Babs, who’d gone back to long hair and respectability, deciding to play ‘size of my tower’ with the boys. Erin Richards’f face is really in the animated series style when framed like that.
Nygma, in his cracked glasses, had to give us exposition in Arkham, while being the angry kind of unhinged and possibly bringing Jeremiah out of a vegetative state just before his Puddin’ rescued him. (Accidental or intentional?) (Accidental vindictiveness, it turned out.)
I was very excited at the stunt double doing catburgling, chuckling at Lee’s line about Selina being an It girll while we were seeing that she’d also become Catwoman, and then HAVE THEY RECAST HER!? HAVE THEY SERIOUSLY? When Monaghan (caked in make-up) is back, Lee just lampshaded how she and Jim hadn’t aged/changed and…well, let’s see if they’ve recast Bruce, then, because you’re going to have the same age issues with Mazouz, and this is not the most realistic show and have they learned nothing from the endless Ivy recasting?
HACKLES UP, but hoping this is a fake-out (e.g. that the rustle wasn’t early Batman, but the real Selina), I press ‘play’ again.
Oh,yeah, some plot-related stuff around the escape from Arkham, but we know it wasn’t Nygma on the other end of Harvey’s call (Tetch? Harvey seemed determined, not hypnotised, though.) Oswald or ‘Oswald’ seemed involved in Nygma’s rescue.
The older Penguin look was perfect. I loved that they’d set up the monokcle with the eye injury, the new silhouette and the still volcanic temper.
Ugh, that flutter that startled was definitely Bats. The voice was distorted. The audience was a step ahead of Jim and Harper, and I loved the silhouette of a face Batman created as he jumped through the window. Again, accident or intention from the production team? Before I forget, great use of shadows throughout.
In Penguin’s grand rehash of that time on the pier, he tried to make his relationship with Jim one for the ages (history says Batman-Joker, babe), and while he continued his petty histrionics, Jim realised he wasn’t the mastermind behind whatever was going on.
More nu!Selina - and the actress isn’t bad, she has the same hair and I like the timbre of her voice, it’s just that she’s a Selina I haven’t been invested in for years. However much her relationship with Alfred remains spiky, with Bruce as its focal point.
Nygma, who will hate being not!Oswald’s pawn, got new glasses (and an overly fussy outfit). I LOVED Babs and Selina taking him down. SIRENS! (I only vaguely remember Mayor James and the callback.)
Anyway, they figured out there was a bomb and everyone evacuated, bar Team Goodies (Babs made a choice and is now a sainted mother), which made Jim’s worry that nobody was stepping up to protect Gotham seem silly. I would have doubted Lee if of course the place wasn’t going to be blown up.
Jim and Harvey got on the same page, and Jeremiah dropped the comatose act.
Oswald and Ed reunion! Their screaming faces as the Bat descended tickled me hugely. As it did Lucius and Alfred, who presumably spent the last ten years chumming up.
The scene at the club was creepifyingly nasty - the combo of feisty Barbara Lee in danger, Babs’s terror and Harley (formerly) Echo’s demise. They’d gone full Joker, again with the self-referentialism at the factory, as the former Jeremiah’s obsession with Bruce revealed itself. HE TOTALLY KNOWS WHO BATMAN IS (and the fact Jim won’t means he deserves the ‘brain dead’ appellation.) Which is to say, Batman saved the day.
Bruce stood Jim up for the unveiling of the beacon, because he had to have an impassioned/awkward/inconclusive convo with Selina (who probably knows who the man dressed like a bat is). This was on a rooftop, of course. She laid bare her heart, he didn’t apologise, I don’t blame her for not returning the diamond. And, okay, that clearly wasn’t Mazouz doing the voice, so I took the liberty of feeling equally bad for both young actors who gave us wee!BatCat and then got dumped. And appreciate how the show made this finale about the birth of Batman.
Nobody seems to have learned anything about the appropriate level of security for Oswald and Ed, but they were two of the most entertaining things about this episode. Alfred pontificated, and then we had a glorious shot, sweeping up, past a gargoyle of Batman, all growed up.
They did their best there. My biggest beef was about shorting Bicondova and Mazouz. I liked the line between referentialism, because the show has always been silly OTT, and the suggested grand sweep of the plan. They pitched the Joker just nasty enough.
I then went online to find out who played Selina and learned that Bicondova had announced that it was partly her decision to have someone else take on the role as an adult. I’ve sat with that for a few days, and my initial reaction is still what it was (but then I wanted them to go back and reshoot Little Women in 2002 because Samantha Mathis is not Kirsten Dunst.) It helps that Bruce was mainly Batman, lurking in the shadows, while there was a lot of Selina airtime.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/395939.html.
Bruce did go to Nanda Parbat-adjacent territory then, although the previouslies were far more about Jeremiah (yay!) than Nyssa.
!0 Years Later and most people had new hairstyles. Well, not Harvey, and Jim’s caterpillar ‘stache was rightly mocked by Babs, who’d gone back to long hair and respectability, deciding to play ‘size of my tower’ with the boys. Erin Richards’f face is really in the animated series style when framed like that.
Nygma, in his cracked glasses, had to give us exposition in Arkham, while being the angry kind of unhinged and possibly bringing Jeremiah out of a vegetative state just before his Puddin’ rescued him. (Accidental or intentional?) (Accidental vindictiveness, it turned out.)
I was very excited at the stunt double doing catburgling, chuckling at Lee’s line about Selina being an It girll while we were seeing that she’d also become Catwoman, and then HAVE THEY RECAST HER!? HAVE THEY SERIOUSLY? When Monaghan (caked in make-up) is back, Lee just lampshaded how she and Jim hadn’t aged/changed and…well, let’s see if they’ve recast Bruce, then, because you’re going to have the same age issues with Mazouz, and this is not the most realistic show and have they learned nothing from the endless Ivy recasting?
HACKLES UP, but hoping this is a fake-out (e.g. that the rustle wasn’t early Batman, but the real Selina), I press ‘play’ again.
Oh,yeah, some plot-related stuff around the escape from Arkham, but we know it wasn’t Nygma on the other end of Harvey’s call (Tetch? Harvey seemed determined, not hypnotised, though.) Oswald or ‘Oswald’ seemed involved in Nygma’s rescue.
The older Penguin look was perfect. I loved that they’d set up the monokcle with the eye injury, the new silhouette and the still volcanic temper.
Ugh, that flutter that startled was definitely Bats. The voice was distorted. The audience was a step ahead of Jim and Harper, and I loved the silhouette of a face Batman created as he jumped through the window. Again, accident or intention from the production team? Before I forget, great use of shadows throughout.
In Penguin’s grand rehash of that time on the pier, he tried to make his relationship with Jim one for the ages (history says Batman-Joker, babe), and while he continued his petty histrionics, Jim realised he wasn’t the mastermind behind whatever was going on.
More nu!Selina - and the actress isn’t bad, she has the same hair and I like the timbre of her voice, it’s just that she’s a Selina I haven’t been invested in for years. However much her relationship with Alfred remains spiky, with Bruce as its focal point.
Nygma, who will hate being not!Oswald’s pawn, got new glasses (and an overly fussy outfit). I LOVED Babs and Selina taking him down. SIRENS! (I only vaguely remember Mayor James and the callback.)
Anyway, they figured out there was a bomb and everyone evacuated, bar Team Goodies (Babs made a choice and is now a sainted mother), which made Jim’s worry that nobody was stepping up to protect Gotham seem silly. I would have doubted Lee if of course the place wasn’t going to be blown up.
Jim and Harvey got on the same page, and Jeremiah dropped the comatose act.
Oswald and Ed reunion! Their screaming faces as the Bat descended tickled me hugely. As it did Lucius and Alfred, who presumably spent the last ten years chumming up.
The scene at the club was creepifyingly nasty - the combo of feisty Barbara Lee in danger, Babs’s terror and Harley (formerly) Echo’s demise. They’d gone full Joker, again with the self-referentialism at the factory, as the former Jeremiah’s obsession with Bruce revealed itself. HE TOTALLY KNOWS WHO BATMAN IS (and the fact Jim won’t means he deserves the ‘brain dead’ appellation.) Which is to say, Batman saved the day.
Bruce stood Jim up for the unveiling of the beacon, because he had to have an impassioned/awkward/inconclusive convo with Selina (who probably knows who the man dressed like a bat is). This was on a rooftop, of course. She laid bare her heart, he didn’t apologise, I don’t blame her for not returning the diamond. And, okay, that clearly wasn’t Mazouz doing the voice, so I took the liberty of feeling equally bad for both young actors who gave us wee!BatCat and then got dumped. And appreciate how the show made this finale about the birth of Batman.
Nobody seems to have learned anything about the appropriate level of security for Oswald and Ed, but they were two of the most entertaining things about this episode. Alfred pontificated, and then we had a glorious shot, sweeping up, past a gargoyle of Batman, all growed up.
They did their best there. My biggest beef was about shorting Bicondova and Mazouz. I liked the line between referentialism, because the show has always been silly OTT, and the suggested grand sweep of the plan. They pitched the Joker just nasty enough.
I then went online to find out who played Selina and learned that Bicondova had announced that it was partly her decision to have someone else take on the role as an adult. I’ve sat with that for a few days, and my initial reaction is still what it was (but then I wanted them to go back and reshoot Little Women in 2002 because Samantha Mathis is not Kirsten Dunst.) It helps that Bruce was mainly Batman, lurking in the shadows, while there was a lot of Selina airtime.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/395939.html.