Perfect Xero

I like James Frain but it's pretty hard to buy him as a Batman level martial arts master/super ninja.

Maybe I was thinking of Mon El from the Legion of Superheroes. Or maybe it was something from Superman: TAS or just some fan theory I took to heart? Oh well, I always thought it was a solid explanation for why such a technologically advanced species (one that gains god like powers under yellow stars at that) didn't have any off world colonies and at least a few ships worth of people off planet at the time Krypton exploded.

It's possible, but they do tend to use the excuse that Kryptonians were extremely isolationist and had outlawed space travel to explain why Clark and Kara were the only two to survive Krypton.

Batman doesn't operate within the law though, everything he does is illegal, everything Gordon does to work with and help him is also illegal. Batman is the antithesis of Barnes' speech. The law doesn't work, the system is broken, if you want to make Gotham a better place you have to be willing to go outside of the law and the system, maybe dress up as a bat while you're at it. Just don't cross the line and start killing in pursuit of a better Gotham. Gordon is the guy who started the series believing in the law like Barnes, but has now become the sort of person who will one day think that the guy who dresses up like a bat to beat up criminals is someone that he can work with rather than arrest on sight.

I thought they just decided that the pranking was fun and got in on the act.

IIRC the show was on Tuesdays in Season 1. Being moved to Wednesday Nights between The Middle and Modern Family really helped the show find an audience.

I do love that Penguin apparently came across a half buried body in the woods next to a picnic, then just stole a sandwich and went on his way.

Zoom injected Barry with the speed dampening serum after their terminal velocity fall/fight, right?

So Jim is responsible for the actions of Barbara and the Ogre because he did his job and went after a serial killer rather than looking the other way and giving him free run to murder people?

I can't help but think that Lee admitting that Gordon "killed a man for Penguin" in front of a bunch of witnesses (and whatever recording devices the Galavans might have set up) is going to cause major problems for her and Gordon at some point.

Well, he could have easily tied it in to how the Allies learned from the mistakes made after WWI and offered forgiveness to Germany and Japan after WWII and the world is probably a better place for it today.

It's very probable if that's how they want to frame the story. For all we know superman's adventuring in this world has mostly been rescuing people from disasters and throwing down with another alien or a robot from time to time. There are two Kryptonians on this show, one who has been secretly watching and plotting against Superman for over a decade, and the other who is his cousin that he sent his best friend to help learn the ropes on how to be a hero. If neither of these two know about Kryptonite at all, the simplest answer is that Superman doesn't know about it either. If they have some idea of how Kryptonian powers work they can predict how they'll respond to the properties of Kryptonite. They've had access to the ship that Kara came to Earth in. They recruited Kara's sister, did they not use that access to run scans on her, to collect a bit of DNA?

I think the Galavans are hilarious as these larger than life comic book villains at the center of Gotham, and I think they're intentionally played and written to have an element of dark comedy to them. Theo (and the whole clan) wouldn't work nearly as well for me if Frain was trying to do a serious, layered portrayal rather than embracing the role of theatrical villain.

How long he's been operating has nothing to do with it though, nor do other continuities, he's either encountered it in this world or hasn't. The DOD having it simply means that the DOD found a way to hurt him, and have weaponized it, which, again, doesn't require his knowledge of it.

If Aunt Astra doesn't know what Kryptonite is after being on Earth hiding and plotting for over a decade, and Kara doesn't know, it would stand to reason that there's a good chance that Superman doesn't know what it is either.

Other than Empire (and, to a lesser extent, Rosewood) Fox is pretty weak in general right now, Gotham is actually one of the highest rated (non Empire) shows on the network.

I was so impressed that Gordon seemed to have learned something from his dealings with Loeb last season and was actually playing things close to the vest with his suspicions about Theo, then he reverted back to Season 1 Gordon who can't resist calling out the dangerous person in a position of authority that he knows is dirty. Since family is such a big theme this season, maybe we'll find out that Gordon and Selina are related somehow, and the complete lack of guile is a family trait.

I see Theo and Tabitha as more like Fish and Butch than Penguin and Butch or the Pikes. Fish inspired real loyalty, meanwhile Penguin and the Pike rely on brainwashing and threats to keep people in line. Butch was crazy loyal to Fish and basically existed only as her sidekick (until Fish got run off and Falcone forced him to be Penguin's second), but it was a genuine loyalty and not robotic like his forced loyalty to Penguin. Which is how I see Tabitha, she's not brainwashed or forced, she's Theo's sidekick because she wants to be Theo's sidekick. Which is still creepy, but a different type of creepy, IMO.

This is more my issue, it's a well worn trope on TV and film, and normally I'd just roll my eyes at it, but this show recently did a whole storyline about rape and consent but still don't seem to see anything questionable about presenting the, "Oh, she's just confused about her crazy emotions, I know how she feels better than she does, so I'll grab her and kiss her and really give her something to think about," trope. The show already did a scene a lot like that between Bay and Emmett back when she was dating Noah, but that was before the whole Bay/Tank story happened which changes the lens at bit.

Silver/Natalie is pretty, but hardly dresses or acts provocatively or seductively on the show IMO, and hasn't done anything so far to indicate that she's there for sex appeal or to be "jail-bait" (she certainly doesn't seem to be attempting to draw the interest of any of the adult characters so far), if anything her appeal to Bruce seems to be that, in addition to being pretty, she's nice and sweet. I get that angle with Selina and Jim, that she's a kid and maybe he thinks she's not a lost cause, but .. at the same time he seems to have an awful lot of compassion for her to basically just shrug off that whole attempted murder thing. As for Tabitha, I don't really see her like that.I think she genuinely likes the plans and insanity he comes up with and he enjoys her indulging her sadistic side. At times they almost strike me like kids who are playing at being villains. She enjoys being in the role of badass assassin/enforcer to Theo's "criminal mastermind", so she'll keep playing at that part for as long as it amuses her. At the same time, when she gets bored with his efforts to rub shoulders with the Gotham elites, she'll say something shocking just for the fun of it.

Maybe just don't kiss people as a way to make them decide how they feel about you?

When someone is telling you that they're not interested and you just grab them and kiss them? Yes. It's textbook sexual assault.

This show does an entire storyline about rape/sexual assault/consent, including scenes where they make sure to show "loving" couples getting affirmative consent as a response to the idea that asking for consent is "lame" and "unsexy" and "no one does it". Then in this episode they have Bay telling Travis that she's not interested in him like that, and he just grabs her and kisses her and basically tells her that he knows she feels it too, which seemingly changes Bay's mind about him and has her talking about what a good kiss it was. Pretty sure that's sexual assault, show. It's sending the message that you can just ignore when someone is telling you no, and force yourself on them because they don't know what they really want or are just "playing hard to get", and they'll like it so it's okay.

Well, technically all he promised was to do everything he could to keep Bridgette safe, and I think he did everything he could have given the situation. It didn't work, but crazy throws a wrench in most plans. I'm also not sure why Gordon seems to feel like he owes Selina much of anything, so far last season she lied to him about the Wayne investigation, broke in to his and Barbara's apartment, and she aided Fish in attempting to murder him and Bullock (as Harvey reminded him in this episode).

They said that she didn't have any classes after 10 AM that day.