From week to week, Gordon is whatever the plot requires him to be; morally strict one week and a rule-breaker the next, wracked by guilt over his violent actions one week and then back at it the next. There is no consistency to Gotham 's version of Gordon. We should always know what he will do in the end the right thing , but this is never certain in Gotham.
David Mazouz' performance as Bruce Wayne is undoubtedly the best thing about Gotham. For someone so young, he has tremendous acting chops and has always managed to bring something compelling to any storyline he is given. However, just like with Ben McKenzie as Gordon, he is working with seriously inconsistent material. By focusing so much on Bruce's teen years it has forced the show to fast-forward through a lot of life experience that the comics show Bruce enduring as a young man in his 20s.
The show even had Bruce don a makeshift vigilante outfit and seems to be hinting that before Season 5 finishes we'll see Mazouz in a full batsuit, which is crazy. Even Smallville waited longer to show Clark Kent in a Superman costume. Unlike many of the other characters in Gotham , Leslie Thompkins hasn't been featured in any previous live-action incarnations of Batman.
She was an important if small part of Batman: The Animated Series in the early '90s, but Gotham had the potential to introduce her to a wider modern audience. Sadly, Leslie 'Lee' Thompkins bears very little resemblance to the kindly Doctor from the comics, who served Gotham City's less fortunate while also being a surrogate mother figure to Bruce Wayne.
She eventually goes down a dark path after injecting herself with the blood of Alice Tetch the Mad Hatter's sister and then proceeds to date The Riddler in season four. Sean Pertwee plays Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham and yes, you guessed it, the show's interpretation of Bruce Wayne's loyal butler is pretty bonkers. Clearly taking inspiration from the Earth One graphic novels and some other recent comic book versions of Alfred, he is a former military man. He isn't really a father figure to Bruce so much as he is an authoritarian guardian whose teaching methods are way harsh.
Because the world is harsh, right? We can see the logic in this approach, but we miss the kindlier Alfred who is always on hand to cut Bruce down to size with a dry witticism.
Oh, and this Alfred totally slaps a year-old Selina Kyle in the face at one point, then tells her Bruce's life would be better without her in it. Too far, Pennyworth! In a show brimming with ridiculous characters, Erin Richards' Barbara Kean is perhaps the most bugnuts.
To be clear, we think Richards is actually a fine actress who makes Barbara entertaining to watch, but the choice's made with her character make absolutely no sense. She started as Jim Gordon's ex-fiancee but soon went insane because of The Ogre who forced her to do some bad things. She then joined Jerome Valeska's Arkham gang, before forming her own criminal organization to rival Oswald Cobblepot's. Producers even admitted they considered turning her into Harley Quinn, or even the lesser known Magpie, which says all you need to know about how they never had a clear idea about who or what Barbara Kean should be.
The saga of Jerome Valeska has been one of the more beloved aspects of Gotham , mostly due to actor Cameron Monaghan's frenzied commitment to playing a scenery-chewing lunatic. But, that doesn't excuse the fact that Jerome's story which includes resurrections, a twin brother named Jeremiah, and countless nods toward classic Joker looks and stories makes no sense whatsoever.
The show's creators were told they couldn't use the Joker, as he was saved especially for the big screen, so their solution was to throw everything Joker-esque at the wall to see what Monaghan could pull off.
All while never saying the word 'Joker'. Sure, it's entertaining at times in a ridiculous way, but is so scatterbrained and nonsensical that it boggles the mind. Gotham has a habit of introducing original characters and developing them for a bit, before turning them into well-known characters from the comics.
For reasons, we guess? They did this with James Frain's Theo Galavan, the main antagonist of Season 2 the season Gotham embraced its insanity. Galavan was a businessman who became Mayor of Gotham City, but was also a descendant of the Dumas family. He sought revenge on those who had wronged his family, like the Wayne's. He was taken out by Jim Gordon but then resurrected by Hugo Strange and given the mantle of Azrael, the brainwashed assassin who did the bidding of the ancient Order Of St.
Like everything on the show it was a haphazard mish-mash of better ideas from the comics. Fish Mooney is another example of how utterly bonkers Gotham can be. Played with gusto by Jada Pinkett-Smith, it could be argued that Fish was ahead of the curve; the character was already wildly over-the-top even in season one, before the show had fully committed to its insanity.
Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence we return to restore the balance. Gotham, it would appear, epitomizes everything that is wrong with western civilization in the eyes of the League of Shadows: "suffering From the transcript :.
You're defending a city so corrupt we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure. Somehow perhaps due to corruption the city stands out as an example. Maybe it is because everyone knows everyone in the city is crooked, and yet no one does anything about it. Gotham, specifically the central town was the burial ground of an evil Warlock in ancient times, they say his evil seeped through the earth reaching ground of Gotham city to poison it with the warlock's evil essence, Warlock came into a new being called Doctor Gotham.
I believe he see gotham as innocent and killing the people wont bring back the intended peace, there has to be a reserve way to fight this evil, this is why he is the saviour of Gotham. Sign up to join this community.
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Its brilliant cast of villains takes center stage in a city of corruption and despair. A city that is responsible for the outward spread of evil it has spawned over decades of decadence.
Without a hero in sight, Jim Gordon takes charge, seeking justice in a city where every cop is on someone's payroll. While the show maintains a certain level of intrigue with its many characters, it can be noted that some needed more screen time than they received and some received too much.
Jason Skolimski, also known as the serial killer nicknamed The Ogre, was a suave gentleman, who did not need to abduct his victims since they willingly came with him. He would attract his prey with his dashing good looks and charming personality only to bring them back to his place and refuse to let them leave. Killing his victim when she would try to escape his grasp. Upon seducing Barbara Kean, he takes his obsession to a whole new level, torturing her to the point of insanity and then forcing her to kill her parents.
Being always attracted to the bad boy, Kringle avoided Nygma's advances, preferring her abusive cop boyfriend instead. However, after Nygma learns that she is being physically abused, he murders her boyfriend and hides the body.
Presenting himself as the new and improved, confident Nygma, Kringle finally relents to his advances only to learn that Nygma had murdered her boyfriend. She confronts Nygma, who admits to the crime. When she attempts to turn him in, he accidentally murders her.
Saviano was a powerful figure in the Falcone crime family and a childhood friend of Butch Gilzean. A brazen man by nature, Saviano wasn't even afraid to speak his opinion to Falcone himself. Though it was this confidence that eventually led to his downfall when he refused to join a coup with Fish Mooney to overthrow Falcone, stating that he had seniority and that if anyone was going to take Falcone's place it was going to be him.
After trying to get his old friend Butch to join his side, Butch decided to put a bullet in his head.
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