Yeah I guess I just continue to be confused by Gotham's confusion on whether it's a "every week is a zany new case" or "this is a serialized story" tv show, possibly because it's trying to be both at the same time.

Yeah okay those two shows seem to be mentioned a lot as being actually good network shows. Okay, one day I'll have to try em out.

I'm hoping that season 2 keeps the terrible cat jokes and lets Bruce try out some terrible bat jokes.

I've handled a Han or two in my life.
Wait.

Wait is this about the ending of Mass Effect 3?
Wrex is that you?!?!?

I'm just a messenger, Dr. Tetch. Because fast as fast can be…they'll never catch me.

I took really good notes in gchat tonight check this out.

This episode brought back Barbara's parents and even their … butler? who haven't been on screen since ep12, which aired three months ago. But it didn't bring those characters back to do much with them. They were returned so that they could die; the butler not even on screen. They could have brought in entirely new…

Is it? Hmm.

1 So Gotham delivered part 2 of a 4? part episode plot arc, in which the Ogre meets and seduces Jim's loved one. … no, not the loved one he actually loves (and he tells her for the first time this episode! aww!) but the one he was with at the start of the season who he hasn't talked to ever since she "left town" to…

Looking through the tapes I wasn't able to find Coulson ever saying that to May, so, yeah, you're right.
And edited to say that everyone who mentioned the Theta Protocol back in December said that Coulson said it to a Koenig, not Melinda. So this episode does appear to be the first time she heard about it.

Yeah treating gifted as people instead of assets would be the best case scenario for why Coulson is being stingy about talking about Theta Protocol.
His dad being on the Index … is an interesting dark horse possibility.
Someone commenting at another discussion on this episode mentions that Coulson told May a while ago…

"Could the Theta Protocol be the first steps toward introducing Avengers Academy to the MCU?"
Yeah, thank you for providing a possible name. With SHIELD no longer "in charge" of the Avengers after the events of The Winter Soldier (IIRC, although my memory here is foggy at best) it seemed like Fury and Coulson both…

I look forward to next week's episode resolving all of these seemingly big important questions by … telling us more about Fish Mooney.

"Go ahead Bruce. Just touch it. Alfie wants you to."

So the Ogre abducts people (apparently all young women) and holds them hostage for weeks or months before getting sick of them, murdering them, and apparently just leaving the bodies out somewhere with his calling card.
Okay, sure, Gotham City is a terrible place that kind of thing just happens, whatever.
The GCPD have…

Bruce was giving that booty a good long look… his hands trembling … hoping to touch…

The really quick plot summary of Captain America: Civil War that exists IIRC mentions that the world's governments are going to basically demand that supers register themselves, with Tony Stark being pro- that idea and Steve Rogers being anti- that idea, and the other supers having to figure out where they stand in…

Like a lot of other things in the MCU I think they are hoping that the audience remembers something that happened a few movies/years ago…

Something that could help this show give more sense to the Coulson's SHIELD v. Gonzales's SHIELD (which I will annoyingly refer to as CSHIELD and GSHIELD) conflict is to give the audience a quick flashback to the Avengers. Remind the audience that Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD, thought that it was a great idea to use…