Show? Please, "historical documents"

Easter eggs are hidden, so, no.

I don't know what year it is exactly in "Gotham" but it's definitely pre-smartphone.

I have a pet theory that Ivy Pepper doesn't become Poison Ivy after all, she's just a red herring who will get killed in a "shocking twist" (and then we'll see young Pam Islay touring Gotham Botanical Garden on a school field trip or something so as to let the audience know we were had).

I thought they were like birds and just had a cloaca.

She'd be jailbait rocket at this point.

Only one mobster left to betray, hang in there

That's a good twist, although it means Batman will be fighting a woman in her 50s - not much of a physical challenge.

A little buff for a Somali. More of a Zulu pirate.

I have to wonder why Alfred at least doesn't hire some private detectives for additional security. Thomas and Martha were assassinated, the Manor invaded, Bruce almost lost. The police, with a couple individual exceptions, are useless and/or corrupt. And Bruce is determined to keep investigating. I don't care…

I enjoy Oswald but it should be said that his character is not changing or developing into the Penguin we know; he already is Penguin and his arc consists of him getting older, fatter, richer, and more secure in his position in the underworld. The only characters that are changing are Nygma, Bullock (becoming a…

Heroin, I guess.

Penguin stabbed like 8 people on this show - his simpering act is just an act.

I remember reading an interview with Singer where he said that Returns comes after II, and assumed that yes, the boy came from the tryst in the Fortress of Solitude. But then, as you say, the desertion of Earth for 5 whole years, when he JUST SAW what happens when he so much as takes a weekend off to romance his…

Howard is a lot like Tony (or vice versa ) but I enjoy seeing the references to Howard Hughes and (in Iron Man 2) Walt Disney.

With so much corruption so openly abetted in Gotham, I would appreciate some kind of scene with at least a reference to the FBI and state police being helpless because blah blah blah.

Are Cat and Ivy still living in her apartment?

There is the case of the Wayne murders, but apparently even Gordon doesn't care about that anymore. Only the world's greatest detective can solve that case…

I'm not sure Kringle actually likes him, just maybe feels sorry for him or she senses that the dude is not stable and is trying to keep on his good side for when he inevitably snaps.

Bruce is 12 in this; assuming that this is the origin story for the Batman of 2015, it would be taking place in the late 1990s or even as late as 2000. The Ford that Gordon drives is mid 1990s. They'd have Scully and Mulder type phones, certainly.