by Cookie N Screen
Apathy. It’s a curse that comes from either fear, laziness or repetitiveness. Guess which one Gotham suffers from? At a recent “family” outing, my sister’s fiancé and I were generally chit chatting about the television show which dwindled into an ongoing joke. After all, did you know that Gotham is a corrupt city where Jim Gordon is the only cop who walks the line for justice? Did you get from this television show that Bruce Wayne is deeply wounded by his parent’s deaths and wishes to find their kill (though that is largely a point of Bat- Canon). And did you know that there is a turf war in Gotham? That Barbara Gordon has doubts and worries about her husband? Yeah, it’s hammered into us consistently that it’s tiring.
Apathy. It’s a curse that comes from either fear, laziness or repetitiveness. Guess which one Gotham suffers from? At a recent “family” outing, my sister’s fiancé and I were generally chit chatting about the television show which dwindled into an ongoing joke. After all, did you know that Gotham is a corrupt city where Jim Gordon is the only cop who walks the line for justice? Did you get from this television show that Bruce Wayne is deeply wounded by his parent’s deaths and wishes to find their kill (though that is largely a point of Bat- Canon). And did you know that there is a turf war in Gotham? That Barbara Gordon has doubts and worries about her husband? Yeah, it’s hammered into us consistently that it’s tiring.
Luckily, LoveCraft managed to still play with this all but kept it on the back burner for a rather thrilling episode. Well, thrilling for Gotham. Kind of like resting on your elbow for a while and it slipping off the edge.
It’s been a few days since Selina has taken up residence in Wayne Manor but it is not long before “the Child Snatchers” (instant horror flashbacks of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) come knocking for her. When Alfred realises that a “car crash victim” is actually an unnerving assassin come to take her bounty, he urges Bruce to flee with Selma, taking the privileged boy into the murky underbelly of Gotham and Selina’s life. All the while Gordon is trying to catch the snatchers and Falcone is hunting out who in his crew is the mole (hint: it’s Fish).
It’s been a few days since Selina has taken up residence in Wayne Manor but it is not long before “the Child Snatchers” (instant horror flashbacks of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) come knocking for her. When Alfred realises that a “car crash victim” is actually an unnerving assassin come to take her bounty, he urges Bruce to flee with Selma, taking the privileged boy into the murky underbelly of Gotham and Selina’s life. All the while Gordon is trying to catch the snatchers and Falcone is hunting out who in his crew is the mole (hint: it’s Fish).
There are arguably still the repetitive problems, overblown villains and head slamming references to Batman. But LoveCraft has some sort of exciting plotline that focused on the relationship between Bat-Kid and Cat-Kid (Selina and Bruce.) The assassins were also kinda cool, particularly when the female leader knocked Gordon out. Selina is the one of the flippantly best characters on the show. Though they encountered some terrible acting and strenuous plot points, the episode was altogether good. Ok – so a lot of this boils down to Sean Pertwee’s Alfred kicking some butt and straight out punching his way to find Bruce which was incredible to watch.
The fact that I am starting to run out of steam with these articles underlines just how shoddy the television series is. That, a hammy and staged television series can release an episode, otherwise poor in the hands of a better show. It is starkly boring and tedious with only the ending giving a little change to the proceedings (though we wonder how many Batman villains they can include in the new settings). Gotham now needs to stop. It isn’t getting better – it’s just getting ridiculously dull.
The fact that I am starting to run out of steam with these articles underlines just how shoddy the television series is. That, a hammy and staged television series can release an episode, otherwise poor in the hands of a better show. It is starkly boring and tedious with only the ending giving a little change to the proceedings (though we wonder how many Batman villains they can include in the new settings). Gotham now needs to stop. It isn’t getting better – it’s just getting ridiculously dull.
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