Ah yes, Chekhov's key-gun.

As usual, the show's geography confused me, and so I'm going to see if I missed anything.

George Lucas, welcome to AV Club.

The show veers between "so bad it's good" and "so bad it's … crap". Depending on the viewer, it veers between these between episodes or within episodes. I fall more on the latter perspective; I think that scenes themselves vary wildly between good attempt to holy hell why is this on television.
I think that…

No no no don't worry Gotham is kind of set up to be a "prequel" to the Batman characters we know and (?) love. Barbara Kean in Gotham is a wealthy art gallery owner who is engaged to Jim Gordon but then over the course of the show … things change.

"We really need to make an episode about how it's bad that police officers shoot unarmed minorities at alarming rates"
"We already did that last year, with "The Magic Bush", where we dehumanized people by comparing them to drones"
"Oh well let's try again and also try to make some sort of joke about ISIS or something"

It's been a heck of a ride.

starkitty explained why Barbara is insane now.
"Reasons."

The show can't remember (… or doesn't care, and is amused that the audience cares) if Alfred is Bruce's legal guardian until Bruce comes of age, or Bruce's employee, who can be terminated at Bruce's discretion. It just chooses whichever of those is more appropriate for the episode being written and goes with it.

Bruce is new at the detective business. He's gonna screw up a lot until he becomes The World's Greatest Detective (!!!)

::looks this up at the Gotham wiki::
::it has nothing informative to say on this matter::
Okay so whatever we can make up our own answers to these questions and those answers are all correct. Good.

My face is not convinced that Once Upon a Time is doing anything effectively.
But then I remember that it's somehow still on the air so I guess things are alright in OUaT land.

It was a lot of duct tape for one person. Maybe it was placed on very very quickly

I don't entirely understand if a legal minor can transfer gigantic amounts of stock of a major corporation so I was confused on if Bruce Wayne could even enact the plant Theo wanted. I guess his guardian, Alfred, was there, so Alfred could sign the documents agreeing to let Bruce give away billions of dollars?!?!? But…

::wakes up suddenly::
Bad dream.

Yeah sometimes the wardrobe department remembers that Barbara Keane is
1) wealthy (or from a wealthy family or whatever)
2) owned (or maybe still does?!?!?) an art gallery

We're gonna have to agree to disagree on that :-/

I'm excited by all these episodes having titles AND subtitles because maybe it means that each half-season is trying to be its own entity. So if I don't like Gotham, in January it'll be new. Again!

The coat she appeared at GCPD HQ in? LOVED IT
SHE WAS GORGEOUS but her wedding dress was … not … at all gorgeous?

I uh. Hmm.