Gotham 110 - "LoveCraft" (11/24/14)

Love Love Love Alfred in this ep. He's a true badass.

I'm really beginning to warm up to Kat.

 

As a person not familiar with Batman, that sure is one gigantic asylum. You got to have a lot of crazy people to fill that thing up.

 

And there was the scene where people were lined up for miles, coming off the buses. Like a scene from a prison camp, people everywhere.

Lots of crazies in Gotham.

 

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Just got caught up on this show. Binged five episodes this week. I'm really liking the way they're able to combine both procedural and serial elements into the plot and keep it all interesting. And I'm liking the way they're fleshing out the characters. I do kind of wish they weren't focusing so much on Bruce and that it was more just about Gordon rather than about the way Gordon helps Bruce.

 

This is more the fault of the original comics rather than these writers, but why introduce two characters with the first name "Harvey"?

 

They're from different eras...by the time Harvey Bullock came along, Harvey Dent was pretty much just Two-Face. And I doubt anybody suspected at the time that Bullock was going to turn into a fairly substantial character in the Bat-World.

 

At least they could just call him 'Harv' or something.

 

Do none of the people in your life have the same first name?

 

My life is not a scripted TV show. On a TV show, it's cumbersome to have to deal with and write around. So you avoid it, because you get to control what everyone's name is.

When Steve Buscemi was on the Sopranos, they gave his character the first name "Tony." I never understood that.

 

Is that any worse than James & Barbara having kids named James & Barbara?

 

This is more like George Foreman naming all his kids "George."

 

Great in real life. Possibly confusing for TV if they go that way.

 

And I like it when they do things like that. It's more realistic.

 

It can be confusing when you have a lot of interchangeable look-alike characters you haven't gotten to know, but by the time the show introduced Dent, Bullock had been around and prominent enough, and they are distinct enough, that I doubt anybody's too confused...

 

I'd rather see a story about Gordon and how the other criminals got their start too. We've seen the Bruce/Batman story lots.

But from what they've shown of Bruce it not totally terrible to see it again. I just don't want it to become the "little" Batman show.

 

When I was reading the comics, Bullock was usually referred to with his last name.

 

But again, the two characters were created 40 years apart. And there were probably thousands of characters in between. Eventually, you run out of first names!

 

Which they could do here.

But in this episode, when they barge into Fish's place, she greets him with a big "HARVEY!"