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Huh.....
There's the Bruce Wayne I was expecting. And he finally got under Selina's skin and discomfited her. That was awesome.
Alfred almost gave psycho-b$#+! what for.
Damn! Theo got skillz. Mad skillz.
Almost forgot.....
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Haven't seen last night's episode yet, but yeah, that's cool.
Would have preferred Joe Chilton, though, aka Joe Chill.
Yay! I've not watched it yet, but I can't wait to see Bruce's spine grow in. ^_____^
Good episode. Makes the whole "Secret order of ancient monks that exist because f&&! you" thing slightly more palatable (the Dumas didn't turn into religious nuts, they just indoctrinated some schmoes so they'd have an absolutely loyal army of pain immune cultists).
Nice. The guy who was "Lazlo Soot" (Tommy Flanagan) in the Smokin' Aces films is 'Tom'.
Why didn't the coppers slip on a pair of galoshes before slogging through the sewers. *facepalm*
GREAT to see Bruce's spine, in spades. Silver's lucky he left her alive.
For an Old guy, Alfred remains pretty capable. Would've loved to see him boot the psycho-byotch out a window.
Gordon's fixing to get booted off the force .. oh, stunners. Zip ties, that's some decent quality suck.
AZ's right, Theo does have some skills.
Looking forward to next Monday's episode.
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Turin, the reality is that old guys are still guys. And girls probably average at least 100 pounds less than most guys these days. Physics cannot be altered by political correctness, I'm afraid... ;)** spoiler omitted **
Looking forward to next Monday's episode.
All the more reason Alfred should've booted her butt through the glass. ;)
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Hmmmm……
For a bunch of non-pain feeling martial artists, those monks sure did get their asses handed to them.
I ended up fast forwarding through most of the parts with Silver and Bruce in the cell. I did catch the part about him saying his favorite animal was an owl. Interesting. And I liked when he was walking out with Selina and Alfred at the end and said he they needn’t have helped because he had his own escape plan.
Leslie pregnant with Jim’s kid – WTF?!?
Teases for Hugo Strange and Victor Fries. Nice.
I’m liking Lucius more and more. Can’t wait to see more of him.
And it looks like Nygma’s cat is out the bag. Now they at least know he was in cahoots with Penguin.
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Did everybody catch Fish floating in Professor Strange's stasis tank?
I hope that was tongue in cheek more than anything else, she should not come back (because I don't think Gotham will make it to season 5 anyways).
I did like that you see Penguin grab the umbrella and uses it but your not sure what he is doing with it until you see Galavan.
Hmmmm……
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"Leslie pregnant with Jim’s kid – WTF?!?" The two actors are a couple in real life and she's now pregnant in real life as well. I think they thought it would be better to add it to the show instead of dropping her or only showing her from the neck up for the next 9 months or so.
So like...
Now that Gordon is a cold-blooded Murderer, will future Batman have to arrest him?
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Did I blink and miss the point of Helzinger's character? He seems to have done nothing but beat up Gordon and then wandered off to a bar. Kind of lame for a hand-picked cohort, even if he was always meant to be temporary.
Oh my god, they really did kinda forget him. Now that Galavan-arc is over, they did not show him again did they?
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Hey, new episode! At long last, or something. Gotham continues to be something of a roller coast of a show. Some parts I like, some parts I reeaaalllyy don't like.
Though in this new episode I really liked BD Wong as Hugo Strange. Really creepy and oozing that evil genius type of smartiness. If that's a word.
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Did he have a deep enough voice?
More like "Soft Spoken Sadist" kinda voice. It works, since BD is quite short and not near as bulky as Hugo is in comics and other media. He has unnerving gaze though, and really sounds like someone whose position and station gives him a right to be cruel and oppressive. Smooth talker, though.
He's doing a pretty good Hugo Strange, yeah. Not much on the look, besides the outfit (which he really PULLS OFF, hot damn), but I never liked how insanely buff he seemed for a shut-in psychologist anyway.
The Mr. Freeze stuff was...okay. They already had great material to work with, and I'm liking the actor, but it seems like they're already petering out on it. If the next episode is any good we'll know.
@BigNorseWolf - It seems they did...but when?
Also: between scenes at Arkham and the bus crash, how many classic Batman villains have been tentatively identified? I only got Killer Croc and Mad Hatter.
Also also: wow, I barely tolerated Fish Mooney in the first season. I felt like she was being shoved down the viewers' throats as a badass we all needed to respect; I couldn't see that the character doing anything to earn our respect.
Fish 2.0 - takes the badass up a level, and does earn some of it, but it was too late for me, I already hated the character, I was glad she got taken out.
Fish 3.0 - Oh, for Pete's sake! She's back and has superpowers?!? Will no one rid me of this troublesome wannabe crime lord?
DNA isn't hard to come by, and if you're working for his company and you know he's on your trail killing him and replacing him seems like a contingency you may need to plan for.
I hope Mad Hatter wasn't one of Dr. Strange's created. His backstory explains his crazy so well already there's no need to brainwash him into it. (though I did read the producers confirmed Mad Hatter for S3.)
Last night's episode had a brief visual of an Arkham inmate in a suitably styled hat, and a few weeks back Strange selected Alice in Wonderland as a good source for a "story" for one of his resurrected stiffs, before Fish came back with an intact memory.
It seems like they want to use Strange to explain the more bizarre "future classic" villains, even if they're never introduced on the show. Jerome was looking like an obvious proto-Joker until he got killed...now we know that's not an impedement.
Fresh corpse/resurrected amnesiac/given a "story" goes a long way toward explaining some of the weird manias and motifs a lot of them have.
The joker laughed as the monsters got off the bus, so I think its safe to say Jerome is wandering the streets of Gotham once again. Who was the girl monster with the close-up....anyone know?
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So... I just heard Fish is back. It seems dropping the series was indeed the right choice.
I hope Mad Hatter wasn't one of Dr. Strange's created. His backstory explains his crazy so well already there's no need to brainwash him into it. (though I did read the producers confirmed Mad Hatter for S3.)Last night's episode had a brief visual of an Arkham inmate in a suitably styled hat, and a few weeks back Strange selected Alice in Wonderland as a good source for a "story" for one of his resurrected stiffs, before Fish came back with an intact memory.
It seems like they want to use Strange to explain the more bizarre "future classic" villains, even if they're never introduced on the show. Jerome was looking like an obvious proto-Joker until he got killed...now we know that's not an impedement.
Fresh corpse/resurrected amnesiac/given a "story" goes a long way toward explaining some of the weird manias and motifs a lot of them have.
It was a really weird way to go... but I think I LIKE there being a definitive source for all the crazy going on in Gotham. I mean... we're still 10 years early for Batman to stop it, but the idea of all these mad scientists coincidentally going mad in the same city is a BIT far fetched... and some of those old origins work better as 'an origin Strange planted in their minds...'
I at least like it better then the particle accelerator excuse in Flash
I think i like gotham better as just that kinda place where an 8 foot tall aligator person doesn't get a second look
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Anyone watch the season premier last night?
They sure introduced a lot of characters, but most I couldn't identify. Was the one guy supposed to be
Also, not a fan of Gordan being able to take the villains down relatively easily - why need Batman?
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So... I just heard Fish is back. It seems dropping the series was indeed the right choice.
Dropped in to see if season 3 was worth picking up.
Seems I got my answer.
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So... I just heard Fish is back. It seems dropping the series was indeed the right choice.
Dropped in to see if season 3 was worth picking up.
Seems I got my answer.
I can't blame you. Not sure I would watch it at this point if it wasn't for my wife still liking the show.
I'm giving it a little more time...this premiere episode though. =/
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I know he gets credit as being one of the first to figure out Batman's identity through Psychology or something. I think he may have wanted to replace him or something goofy...but every time they bring him in, it involves figuring out Bruce's identity.
He was also a big player in Arkham City, arguably the best of the Arkham games.
One of the very early Batman villains. Showed up in Detective Comics #38
Fixed it for comic history.
pre-Crisis version: Yes, recurring villain in the 40's. I think the character disappeared for several decades, reappearing in the 70's.
A 70's storyline has Strange running a private hospital for Gotham's elite, where he turns them into monsters. Bruce Wayne checked in to be treated for burns received as Batman, and Strange discovered his identity at that point. He then tried to auction that information to Gotham's top villains. That didn't work out like he planned.
post-Crisis Strange was first brought in to help a police task force capture Batman, he once again figured out Batman's identity, and he at some point he sets up a lab to turn longtime inmates of Arkham Asylum into monster men.
I'm not a comic book person and as such know very little of the universe (I've had little interaction with the DC universe except for the corny Batman TV series as a kid and the two Tim Burton movies as a kid (really liked the movies btw) and the Nolan series when I was abit older), but I'm enjoying the series. My favorite is by far the Penguin. He's just so wonderfully unctuous, slimey and plotting. As far as I'm concerned he's my ultimate penguin, much as the Dark Knight's Joker is my ultimate joker.
Can't stand Fish Mooney though. I feel that Jada Pinkett Smith is way overacting and I don't feel the character has any power except for plot armor.
Honestly, Penguin is why I keep watching. I like his entire plot threads and subplots.
Season 3 just hasn't been good. I think I'm about done.