3×09 “The Executioner” thoughts!
GENERAL: Ehhhhhhhh. Not feeling this episode at all. Yes, there’s some good Nygmobblepot stuff (which I’ll always enjoy) but like @thedarkonedearie and I talked about above, it’s marching toward a predictable end. The Barnes storyline is fine but it’s nothing to write home about–and Barnes’s dialogue is clunky and the acting is the definition of scene chewing. And, my god, Ivy is not a thing I need. Ever.
We need the Mad Hatter back.
LIKED
–Ed and Oswald have breakfast together because they are basically married. #Nygmobblepot
–Ed hugged Oswald (usually it’s the other way round) (I die) #Nygmobblepot!
–“She ate all my food. It’s her.” LOL
–“You put me in your painting…” #Nygmobblepot
MIXED
–Barnes’s arc of “being the law” fits with his character but *man* the dialogue of his opening exposition is clunky and awkward.
–Sooo is Baby!BatCat not a thing????
DISLIKED
–I hate–hate–everything about Ivy’s storyline. I’m so glad the writers felt the need age up a totally peripheral character only for her to become a sexual object instead of letting her age and develop organically. *sarcasm*
–Nope, sorry. My Ivy rant isn’t over yet. Why is this even necessary? She was only in a small handful of episodes in the past two seasons; she made little to no emotional impact as a character except as “canon mandated.” This is…tedious and repugnant. It sours what is, overall, a really great season.
–I thought I was done ranting about Ivy….apparently not. So they aged up her body but not her mind because everything she says and does demonstrates this. So she has the mentality and maturity of a 14 yr old but the body of a 20+. A body she’s using, freely, to seduce and rob men but without the cognitive ability to understand what she’s doing.
–“When you’re dressed like this, guys just come up to you and give you stuff!”
–Drink every time Barnes says “I am the law!”
–Gotham, I get it! Jim and Lee still love each other even though they’ve both claim to have moved on. How about you move on and end the triangle and just put them back together already.