As much as Gotham City is changing and the power players are making their plays, a young boy is grieving the death of his parents and also changing into a person who hates what the city is, hates injustice and is trying to figure out what can be done about it all.
In a film filled with contrasts, finding quiet by traveling into the eye of the storm is a central paradox.
We get thirty minutes of commercials before the previews start at the cinema. Would it be too much to ask for a short film every now and then? I know one pretty good one; I'll bet there are others where this came from.
I get that in the first couple of episodes of a series a fair amount of repetition is necessary to accommodate the late arrivers, but Gotham seemed particularly static. I even commented to those watching with me that for the second week in a row Oswald Cobblepot killed somebody and then ate a sandwich.
Are Christian films judged by a double standard? I am going to go ahead and surprise everyone--myself included--and say "yes."
Hollidaysburg did make me want to see her competitor's film, so Martemucci did will by the series. It also made me want to see what she could do if she got to choose her own material, so she did fine by herself, too.
Jim Gordon doesn't have to be a complete failure or success in the course of this show. Rather, he has to be both a success and a failure.
Like Bill and Virginia, I'm not sure the show itself has ever articulated a convincing argument for why what it is doing is important. It has just asserted that it was. For most of Season One I agreed. After Season Two I am not so sure.
Is it okay to hate the wicked? To celebrate their downfall? If so, when? And what are the spiritual dangers of doing so?
If the central task of a television series' pilot is to convince the viewer to come back for the second episode, the premiere episode of Gotham was a success.
