In these uncertain meter , it ’s prissy to have constants in our aliveness , whether they be ally , class , or Gotham . It ’s genuinely comfort to me to have a go at it that the show , which is on the face of it about the eventual rise of Batman , is still hard at employment score certain it is getting the Batman mythos as relentlessly incorrect as possible .
That voice like a jibe , but I actually do n’t mean it to be . I do enjoy Gotham , much as I bask Frank Miller ’s evenly inaccurate , even more bonkers All - Star Batman . I like that Gotham does n’t just not give care about comical book accuracy , it ’s actually start out of its means to thwart any arithmetic mean a Bat - buff might have . Case in point , last dark ’s third time of year , in which the youthful , future - Commissioner Jim Gordon has abandoned the GCPD to become a bounty huntsman , which seems to be a valid profession of which he is the only penis . Gordon , traditionally represented in the comics as the noblest of human beings , who believe in the law above all else , now only manage about getting paid and drunkenness . He has essentially become Harvey Bullock , which is pretty venturesome when you commemorate Gotham already star Harvey Bullock .
That ’s not the weird moment of the premiere , nor is the fact that the resurrected Fish Mooney has a small army of low - budget X - Men under her control , including Man - Bat . ( No , not the longtime Batman villain Man - Bat ; this is a totally unlike military man is who also partly a Bat . ) Nor is it Penguin ’s conclusion to not kill Tabitha Galavan , the woman who mangle his mother , solely because his underling Butch would be really sad if he did ( this is especially bizarre when you recollect that Butch snitch Penguin about 40 times over the last two seasons , even if Penguin cared about his employee ’s feelings at all ) .
The weirdest matter in the episode also is n’t the breakthrough that the young Ivy Pepper , who is famously being metamorphose from a young teen to a 20 - something sexpot this time of year , will undergo this transformation by being groped by a creepy erstwhile humans who has the power to make people age . ( This part happen in last night ’s premiere , but Ivy and Creepy Old Dude toppled off something apparently to their deaths , but obviously Ivy will survive , having only been aged to sex kitten status . ) This is sure as shooting eldritch , but mostly it ’s just all variety of wrong .
Nope , the uncanny thing — and the Gotham - iest thing — is the tantrum where unseasoned Bruce Wayne visits young Selina Kyle , the future Catwoman on a rooftop . Now , any normal show would choose to telegraph Selina ’s future by placing her with a cat . It ’s not pernicious , of course , but Gotham has never been a subtle show .
But it ’s also not a show interested in doing thing the sanely , either . Because when Bruce meets up with Selina , she is … uh … well , she ’s lean a pigeon coop . A pigeon coop . The lady friend who will become Catwoman is contain care of birds — raspberry that , it should go without saying , that have never been remark in any form or at any point on the show . It come out that these pigeon survive exclusively for this one scene , just so Selina could interact with an animate being that was absolutely , positively not a cat .
Oh , it should probably go without saying , but the long - hirsute , possibly superpowered Anti - Bruce Wayne clone that escaped from Dr. Hugo Strange ’s laboratory last year was also hanging around the pigeon coop on the exposed rooftop for apparently hours , but was never noticed .
Gotham , never change .
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