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Not sure why you're worried there will be no resolution given Mooney is new to the history. Actually, other than not killing Falcone or Maroni or the Penguin, seems to me they can do whatever they want.

No! Not the continuity!

Because Jim was all 'wah wah wah crime'. Bullock had his priorities in order.

Also, why hasn't Jim contacted the FBI about corruption in Gotham? And why hasn't Cobblepot used some of the money he stole to get surgery on his foot? And why hasn't OSHA stopped the plan to have a waste disposal plant next to low-income housing?

The guy playing Nygma was clearly given instruction to tone it down. Which was probably a good call …

Most annoying moment: Not only is "Cat" shoehorned in, and not only does she feel the need to slide down the hood of a car, but she makes a very loud and obvious THUMP at the beginning when she hits the roof. C'mon, sound guys, can you at least make her SOUND like a cat? Just freakin' sloppy.

"the campiness of her persona clashes dramatically with the gravely serious approach to the subject matter" …

Said assistants helped him kill millions of people, so arguably they might have seen that he was a bit of a deranged madman, but whatever. I'm sure you can also defend Ozymandius's computer prompting a user to "add a rider" to a password. My point is that posts like these are just trying a little too hard to shit on

What that scene needed was for the victor to finish it with a gun or a big ole piece of lead pipe. THAT'S the Gotham I know and vaguely love! Or for the defeated to get up and choke the supposed victor out. Again, I don't mind camp/grit but they can be infinitely more clever about it. (They have, in some other scenes,

Reminds me of the scene at the end of Watchmen where Ozymandius poisons the wine of all of his assistants after congratulating them and thanking them for their service. Ugh. Stuff like that made the book practically unreadable, am I right?

Killing people in Gotham and then avoiding its crack police force does not, for some reason, seem to be particularly challenging.

One thing about mass murdering mercenaries, they are fastidious about taking care of their health, even to the extent of insulting their psychopathic employers by turning down sugary snacks.

What kind of idiot is going to turn down a fresh cannoli?

The kind of stuff that bugs me:

Maybe the problem is that the Marvel universe is less over-the-top than the DC, I don't know. The DC universe is one in which you can theoretically talk about villains like "The Riddler" and "The Joker" with a straight face, not a wink-and-a-shrug or some apologetic dialogue. In an earlier review Sava complained about

I'm not saying there aren't valid complaints, but I'd like a reviewer that started with the idea to embrace the camp/grit combo as opposed to whining about it. Complaining about "heavily exaggerated villains" in a pseudo-superhero show is just dumb.

Can we get a different reviewer? This is like reading a Doctor Who review that's really concerned about the nonsensical science and internal inconsistency across all the different Doctor's behaviors and timelines. Not invalid complaints, if that's what you care about, but really not the point of the show.

I'd love to see a review of Cloak and Dagger — my sister and I recently rewatched it and thought it held up amazingly well, though the airport security back then, yeesh …

How in the hell did Daniel find Sarah, and what in the hell happened with the crash? It looked pseudo-intentional but I saw no steering wheel turn and I can't imagine where this intersection is without any stop sign and everything is completely tree-lined.

I'm on it, Whovian! Lucky 113.