I think that is a valid in-universe explanation, for sure.

So I was watching this show this morning and I noticed that when Harvey Bullock, who has been Acting Police Captain for the Gotham City Police Department for like … at least half a season? He’s been the Acting Police Captain for a while, after Nathaniel Barnes got infected with a blood disease that causes massive…

It is still not the best.

"There's only one person who can solve my riddles. JAMES GORDON, a well-known cop who is not well-known for passing Knowledge checks."

"she was smiling"

I put next week's episode in the till, where it will stay until I need to break a 100.

::goes to copy center to print up "Make American Politicians Work Small Jobs Again" signs::

It's a 25k a year salary plus some kind of per diem, and the Iowa General Assembly convenes for as long as it "has" to.

As a jackalope I will add that their campus's salad bar is terrible.

He can't help it, his shield really really needs to be shiny.

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This is cool, thanks for learnin' me.

When I was writing my comment I KNEW, I FRIGGIN KNEW, that the show must have done something to Ceres to make it more habitable by people. (I mean other than giving it an internal atmosphere,) I just didn't know for sure.

Mostly. I assume both Earth and Mars have surface-based missiles which could be fired at vessels in their orbit which could take ships out of the "sky". Those installations might need a surface invasion force to occupy.

Yeah that's a pretty fast speed.

It's really briefly mentioned in this ep that the Martian marines train at Earth normal gravity. Given the difference between Mars and Earth gravity it's similar to a Earther training at ~2.6G. They are ready to invade Earth, whereas someone living on Ceres is at ~1/36th the g of Earth.

The second part I agree with. The first part I … have some hesitation about agreeing with, because the show has bounced Jim Gordon's morality all over the place.

Jim "The Closer" Gordon

On tonight's Gotham Jim Gordon punches a guy's face off
… after Bruce Wayne starts the process.

"It's a living"