Told y'all Fish is the bridge to the masks. I feel like Gotham is fucking up though. It's going the Smallville route and relying too much on the mythos to fill in the gaps for wackness. What separates Gotham from ANY other cop drama besides Batman Easter Eggs? The show is supposed to be about Young James Gordon, but what makes him interesting?
He can't be corrupted because Gotham is corrupt, and James Gordon is not corrupt. I feel like this show is one of those ideas that sounded great in theory, but the idea of Young James Gordon is actually wack in execution when you stop going "OMG! Batman reference!" When I saw the episode title, I said, "Venom has to be mentioned." Then it was. Then I said, "Besides that, what was good about this episode?"
Bruce, Penguin, Fish, Maroni--the same things as always are strong and none of those are Gordon. Gordon is Ray Donovan status: the least interesting character in his own show. Why the fuck did Selina steal the wallet in front of Gordon at the beginning?
End of the day: Gordon is surrounded by people more interesting than him on every level. More interesting on the cop level? Bullock. More interesting on the human level? Bruce. More interesting on the criminal level? Penguin, Falcone, Maroni, Fish, etc.
It's like the longer Gotham goes on the more the Batman excitement wears off and the more its flaws are beginning to show. The show is surviving off strong performances of weak material pertaining to the protagonist. It's like the writers started writing and realized there was nothing interesting about Gordon. I'd rather Gotham focus on the world from Penguin or Bullock's perspective.
This extra bland Gordon shit is the loan fuck up.