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Ok so this episode was all over the place and I have a pretty mixed bag of feelings towards it. Overall though, I was kind of let down, and I sort of knew I would be.
Liked:
– Nygma. I too could watch him play that game for an entire episode. The actor really is nailing the part.
– Jerome tease at the end.
– Clayface. It was so silly, but I enjoyed it. And I kind of liked that it was Barbara who knew it wasn’t him. Love can be very telling.
– Freeze and Firefly fight. However, I would have rather had Firefly defending her friend because she remembered who Selina actually was. It would have made for a more emotional fight.
– B.D. Wong was especially great I thought throughout.
– Fish Mooney. I love how over the top she is. It fits with Gotham. And I like she actually has a super power now. I thought they were just going to kill her off, but looks like she’ll be a major player again.
Mixed:
– Court of Owls. I just don’t know much about them so I’m not super excited about delving further into who actually orchestrated Bruce’s parents’ deaths and who actually controls the city.
Disliked:
– Strange’s demise. It felt clunky. I can’t believe he wasn’t able to set the bomb off and get out of there. It took forever. And then how he got zapped by Firefly and Freeze……no real payoff here. I get they can’t kill him either, but it was just too easy and by the end of it, I was hoping he would carry over to the next season. Since he was arrested, I don’t think he will be. Although, I suppose it is rather fitting that his experiments were his downfall.
– Another huge hiccup from Strange was him even mentioning this “court” to Jim. Because now, Bruce and Jim know there’s a higher up group responsible for everything. Clunky and stupid for a smart scientist.
– Penguin. My have the mighty fallen. The best character of Gotham has quickly become one of the worst. What happened to learning his origin story? How he gets his umbrella? How he truly becomes The Penguin? His story this season was pathetic, especially in the back half, and for him to resurface in the finale only to faint from Fish’s touch, was a letdown. He had no part in the bigger plot of the season and that’s just too bad.
– Bruce clone at the end? Literally nothing comes to mind. And if there is something I’m missing, it’s gotta be something minor from Batman lore that I am unaware of. Dumb tease. Would have been way better if it was Jerome laughing with crazy makeup on.
– Water defusing a bomb? Okay…..Thanks for the hint that you didn’t mean to even give Ms. Peabody. So neither she or Strange died. Lame.
– Lucius is just a horribly flat character. I don’t know what they were doing introducing him this season. He served zero purpose other than fixing the machine in the Wayne Manor cave/basement. Like what a snooze fest.
– Why didn’t Bruce and Lucius die? Why did Strange turn it off and interrupt Nygma? Why keep them alive? Maybe he did once care about Bruce’s father, and he’s maybe not that cruel to kill a child, but at the end of the day when all was going to Hell, he ordered all the captives to be killed. So why he kept them alive, I don’t understand.
– Gordon leaving to find Leigh. Ok, as RG pointed out, this needed to be done 5 episodes ago. Now the city is running with monsters and now you decide to leave? Good lord.
Overall some good parts, but also very clunky, an anti-climactic demise for Hugo Strange, virtual non-involvement for Penguin, and a bizarre “tease” at the very end. A somewhat disappointing finale to an otherwise much better second season.
[adrotate group="5"]Oh that’s right, the black fairy. I think that may be the last loose end (other than Maleficent and Lily) that I would like them to tie up. They tied up a lot this half season and gave us answers to some cool things, but the black fairy…that would be so intriguing. It would give Blue a villain centered around her. Give her more backstory. Sometimes I wonder if OUAT forgot that they mentioned this mysterious black fairy .
16. Maybe we will see the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion soon.
Well we already saw the scarecrow….
It shouldn’t affect them. And I think even Brigitte Hales said she like watched all the episodes before even writing hers. They should have decent understanding. Maybe not like the original writers, but there shouldn’t be plot holes and such.
I know it’s OUAT and they like to put an original spin on characters, but based on the real life events in “Saving Mr. Banks” it would be neat if they brought her in and stayed true to the books’ depiction of her – very different from the Disney movie.
I really liked Saving Mr. Banks. Mary Poppins could be Rumple’s mother maybe?
Hopes for season 6:
– The Rumbelle story line gets resolved. But I hope it’s cool how they do it. Please don’t make it a lame macguffin. There are many possibilities here. They kept whatever Hyde said a secret so they either don’t know yet, or they have a fun trick up their sleeve to show us new characters or a new world (or Rumple is going to split himself like Regina did).
– More bandit Snow. No more Mary Margaret please. Follow through on this.
– I agree with RG. More Hook with other characters other than Rumple and Emma. I’m sick of Hook “getting his revenge” on Rumple, and I’m sick of Hook’s flatness when it comes to being with Emma 24/7.
– While I do like the idea of seeing these characters with untold stories, I still would like a bigger villain to surface halfway through.
– Focus on the core group of characters more with less plot. I’m hoping since this takes place mostly in storybrooke allegedly, we’ll get less trapped in another realm and more about the heart of the show.
– I want to see Maleficent and Lily again. And I want them to be connected to Violet.
– More Violet and Henry.
– Let us in on what Hyde’s motivations actually are. You may think, well of course their going to let us know eventually…and yet we never really understood Hades.
– More Zeus. You don’t just introduce a God like that who basically is playing God and bringing people back to life and then only use him for 5 seconds.
– I would like to see the return of Merlin somehow but I know that’s not happening.
– I would like to see Mulan get her happy ending. And I would like a her to be integrated in the plot again and get a backstory.
– I want Lion King, Aladdin and Jasmine, Jafar, Mary Poppins. Not going to happen, but I want it.
– I would like to know why storybrooke looks the way it does. I thought we were going to get that answer from Hades, but all we know is that he made the UW look like storybrooke.
– Rumple’s mother! Maybe she’s Mary Poppins….
– I want to see everyone getting their selves split so we can see their dark selves run havoc. I hope it’s not just the Evil Queen.
And I’m sure many many more……
