And it only took THIRTY EPISODES

[sarren]

Gotham has finally *clicked* with me. I dutifully plodded through season 1 because my housemate likes it and because Batman is my favourite superhero and because I loved Gary Oldman's version of Jim Gordon (and shipped him with Bruce Wayne SO hard) And I like Ben McKenzie from Southland, so a show about Jim Gordon pre-Batman days, I was SO ready to love this.

And then it just didn't do much for me, probably because it is as much about the origin stories of the villains as it is about Jim Gordon and boring earnest teenager Bruce Wayne. Last week we'd got about up to 2.3, maybe and I actually said to my housemate, I'm just not interested in villains...

(and then we went to see Suicide Squad and about a third of the way in after they'd introduced the characters and send them on the mission it occurred to me I was watching a film about villains and was worried I'd be bored, but then they started bonding and supporting each other so I enjoyed the film, yay).

So my take away from s1 was, I liked Jim. I liked Harvey (once he started supporting Jim and on the path to redemption) and I liked Alfred, for his care for Bruce and because Sean Pertwee is a sexy mofo. And everyone else bored me. Because I don't care about the villains shenanigans.

I did go looking for Jim/Harvey fic and discovered that the main pairing in this fandom is Jim/Oswald Cobblepot aka the Penguin. Which made me boggle a bit, but I figured we'd be seeing more of them interacting, and that has indeed been the case, but i still had NO interest in the Penguin as a character.

Then s2 started. Jim got darker and more interesting and he and Harvey are close and that makes me happy *sigh*


BUT then Alfred fucking slapped a teenage girl hard across the face WTF (and was then verbally cruel to her) so has earned my contempt and I no longer find him attractive *sorry*

BUT THEN THE PENGUIN. Got more interesting. As did Ed Nygma (aka the Riddler at some point probably), previously utterly repulsive and creepy AF, at some point has turned into a HOT AF creepy villain...

AND THEN THEY MET AND I AM LIKE HELLO WHAT HAVE WE HERE


SO MANY ADORABLE PHOTOS OF THE ACTORS TOGETHER


like this

and this

and this




Robin Lord Taylor, who plays the Penguin, has a cool twitter

Apparently I CAN LIKE AND SHIP AND BE INVESTED IN VILLAINS. Hannibal ruined me




I'm a little surprised by the transformation of Barbara into a villain - I haven't read every Batman comic ever so I don't KNOW that's not canon somewhere, but I'm certainly wondering if they plan to still have her marry and have kids with Jim or if they've just gone down a different path. That's all cool. The actor who plays Barbara looks like she's having hella fun, and I like Lee, whatevs, I always enjoy watching Morena Baccarin


But I intensely disliked the way they did it because my absolutely pet hate is the terrorisation of women, so having her *broken* by that random serial killer just pissed me off, because, hello Harley Quinn. Grr.



(So i think I'm about up to 2.11 now, but am not bothered about spoilers, fyi)

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[tehomet]

Sean Pertwee!

Holy sugarbombs,I love him! I must watch Gotham!

BUT then Alfred fucking slapped a teenage girl hard across the face WTF (and was then verbally cruel to her)

Oh. *discards plans to watch*

The lad who plays the Penguin is cute, though, based on your photos. :)