Jamie! Mulan, AKA: Valerie! I shall continue to think she’s Mulan and that she finally escaped the ONCEiverse and changed her name to Valerie.
I like Valerie alot, the lady’s got spunk! She impressed right off the bat when she’s bombarding the Mayor and Barnes with questions, not being willing to buy into their half answers. And the way her eyes lit up when Penguin came in spilling truth tea all over the place was great.
“I get drunk when I want…I sleep. Cause saving Gotham isn’t my job anymore..” This is an interesting new take on Jim. He’s been “dark” before but not “morose” and here’s he’s almost without hope; a vigilante before Gotham’s Baby!Batman can grow up. In order to be the hero Gotham needs, can you do it alone? Subtle foreshadowing for Batman too.
I’m all about the foreshadowing. Seeing a Jim Gordon who has been through this phase in his life adds a dimension to his future relationship with Batman. I think maybe Valerie’s enthusiasm to do her job in a way that she believes will help the city, will rub off on Jim and bring him out of the hopeless, bounty hunting funk he’s in at the moment and eventually inspire him to go back to being a cop.
Also, we can’t mention that quote from Jim about drinking without also mentioning, “And do you really think I don’t get drunk when I want? *slurp*” from Harvey.
Also, we can’t mention that scene without me mentioning that I love Lucius.
LOL at Penguin bringing Nygma a puzzle box, a sweater, and biscuits. Like some sort of bizarre married couple.
The Nygmobblepot shippers must have been in HEAVEN over that scene! I liked Ed making the little origami penguin and telling Oswald that “Penguins. Eat. Fish.”
Leah moved on that quickly? It was only a few weeks in between leaving Gotham and when Jim went to find her, right?
She left Gotham while he was in jail, didn’t she? And he was in jail for some time because there was that montage of him outside in the yard at the jail through different types of weather to indicate the passing of seasons. I don’t recall if it was specified at what point during his stay in jail that she left town?
What on earth is Fish wearing?? What is that cape??
Are you really surprised that Fish got herself a cape tho? When she was walking and it was all billowing out, it kinda looked a bit like a manta ray gliding along, so maybe that’s what they were going for with the fishy aesthetic? I did really like the collar part on it.
Still really confused by Clone!Baby!Batman
Can we take a minute to give props to David, because for such a young actor he’s going a great job of playing these two characters so distinctly.
Speaking of child actors, while the ageing up of Ivy is still in the “RLY now is that necessary” basket, at least they did find a nice way of working the “how” of it into the story, by having that guy who ages people grab her for just a second before she fell.