The only false moment I had was when Bruce hears about the police shooting and rushes to the station. Now that Lucius Fox (Chris Chalk) is on their little team, I'm eager to see how the dynamics will change yet further. Bruce firing Alfred – and Alfred's return, and the terms he imposes on Bruce – are going to go a long way towards changing how this character operates. I'm not entirely sure the attack was a good idea or great plotting, but it led to great results. And sadly many obsessive personalities are also found in highly intelligent people. Well, he's still way too intelligent, still way too emotionally mature in some ways – but when Alfred attacked that computer and Bruce broke down, what we got was 100% insight into how an obsessive personality forms and reacts. Last episode my concern was Bruce was turning into a stock character. The Bruce/Alfred/Wayne Enterprises storyline also made some serious progress. Don't know why, but I have a gut feeling. I'm predicting Lee will be killed sometime this season, though. His allies are being killed off one by one, or pushed off to the side, and his half-hearted side-quest to bring Harvey Bullock back into the fold seems to show he gets this, and is trying to marshal his friends and resources – what he has left, anyway. I wanted him to react more to Essen's death, however – and he should be. So does his accepting hug at the end of Bruce's awkward, adolescent confession. His quick interchanges with Lee (and her smirk at how embarrassed he is at showing any emotion) go a long way to humanizing the character. There's a few poignant moments for him in this episode, though. Gordon is still busy being stiff-cop, even when half his staff are dead. Instead after that dizzying scene we're left to wonder: these guys are terrifying, but someone else is in control. That cold laugh! When Dobkins screws up the bus explosion, and Tabitha grace-notes him as Dobkins lies in Gordon's arms, I thought at first it was Jerome's murder: and it would have been in character. From Russian roulette for control of the gang, to gassing cheerleaders to a fiery death (and it's heads or tails whether this was intended by Theo or totally random), Monaghan managed to pull it off tonight. Monaghan may become one of my favorite actors of this generation this episode showed he had the stuff. No, this week, he's seriously chilling, and he taps into the same bad-boy stuff that made me fall in love with Spike. You took a dead cliché and made it live.Īnd kudos to Jerome (Cameron Monaghan.) I thought he was over the top last week. The second and highly orchestrated attack on the police had the same effect – crimes I was blasé about on the comics page, like shooting police in a bank robbery or whatever, here turned into something so horrific I found myself wincing as each shot was fired. What Gotham does well is give you a glimpse of the human horror behind the inhuman crimes. When the Maniax first appeared and began dropping bodies on the ground – just to give the city a message – it completely reformed how I looked at the typical Batman criminal. This may mark the first time I've revised my view of comics based on a new interpretation seen on television. This was so stock in the Batman comics that you'd think the whole Arkham concept would wear thin. Plot: After one of Bruce’s friends is murdered, Batman investigates and ties the murder to an ancient society of trained martial artists.So we now have half-a-dozen escaped mental patients running around the city.One Night to Kill The Batman: Aftermath.One Night to Kill The Batman: Deathstroke.One Night to Kill The Batman: Lady Shiva. One Night to Kill The Batman: Bronze Tiger.One Night to Kill The Batman: Black Spider.Plot: Batman seaches for The Tally Mark Killer named Victor Zsasz.Plot: Batman investigates a series of burglaries,.Things go south when Bruce suffers a fatal injury, forcing Alfred to race against time to save him. Determined to take down the Gotham Mafia, he dons the Batsuit for the first time. Plot: Bruce Wayne returns from years of travel.
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