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Chapters: 13/? Fandom: Gotham (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Major Character Death Relationships: Jim Gordon/Victor Zsasz, Oswald Cobblepot/Victor Zsasz Characters: Victor Zsasz, Oswald Cobblepot, Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Gertrud Kapelput, Frank Gordon (Gotham), Barbara Kean Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Vikings, Old Norse, Languages and Linguistics, Old Norse Culture and Customs, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Ancient Scandinavia - Freeform, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Not Beta Read, Secret Relationship, Explicit Sexual Content, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Pining, Assault, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Stabbing, Panic, Rape, Rape Recovery, Shame, Visions, Prophecy, Secrets, Reveal, Suicide Attempt, Intervention, Jealousy, Slow Burn, Angst, Accidental Voyeurism, Additional Characters to be added, Exhibitionism, Rimming, Intercrural Sex, Revenge

Story Summary: A group of Northmen from a small village embark upon different paths to fulfill their destinies.

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Chapter Summary: Earl Frár hosts Elof and his entourage during his village’s summer solstice festivities.

Barbara Kean, Gotham

It’s time to wrap up our summer event and get ready for the upcoming autumn~ This summer left us lovely gifts, make sure to enjoy them!

1. Of marshmallows and bad ideas by @birdwatching-goesbothways​

2. Summer moodboard by @theblackarticfox​

3. Mango Daiquiri by @lalaurelia​

4. This could be paradise by @whatwould-misha-do​

i have literally never met a person who believed gotham to actually be quality tv. 

that is because it is not. its just not good. in the slightest. 

so why did so many of us sit through 100 episodes, each 40 minutes long?

well first, we need to look at a very important aspect of story. 

stakes. 

stakes are needed in some types of story, especially high stake tv shows like gotham,  to fuel the plot, to motivate the characters, to keep things going. stakes can be small, maybe a relationship, an object, an event. the trick is to slowly raise these stakes as the show progresses to keep it interesting.

in episode one of gotham, everyone is pointing guns at each other.

gotham very quickly ends up at a very high stake zone. with lives constantly at risk. season one only really has the stakes of life and death. 

however, not only are the stakes high, since theres an ensemble, most characters have their own plot lines going on. these plot lines also need to escalate in order to keep it interesting.

however, the rate that they escalate is so wacky you cannot look away. you have to keep putting on the next episode to see what the fuck is happening. why does everyone have beef with a 12 year old. why does everyone keep coming back to life. WHY ARE THEY BUILDING A SUBMARINE TOGETHER?

you just need to know. you need to know how batshit it can get. you need to know how far they’ll go. you need to see how much bullshit happens.

the stakes have to twist and contort into insane shit because the stakes can never be “oh this character might die”, not REALLY. well, it IS if you’re *not* a known dc batman character. because the shows a prequel. a side character could die, obviously, but bruce, selina, edward, jim, oswald, alfred etc etc. all the known characters need to make it to the end of the series so they can become the characters everyone knows, so they’re functionally safe from the threat of death for the most part.

so, how else do you raise stakes? you just make increasingly insane shit happen to the characters. sure, they’re not going to die, exactly, but they’ll be traumatized for sure

(examples that happen to the characters i listed above) watch a friend fall down a hole, have a friend who loses her memory and doesn’t remember you anymore, get kidnapped by some weird court and threatened into ceasing investigation into your own company’s crimes, have your father figure get stabbed, be an accomplice in a murder, lose your mother, lose your sanity, lose your father, betray the love of your life and get psychologically tortured before being shot and pushed into a river but live because nobody dies, be frozen in a block of ice but live cause nobody dies, lose your girlfriend, lose a second girlfriend, stab your third and get stabbed back but live because nobody dies, be forced to eat human meat, be betrayed for the millionth time, die and then come back again cause nobody dies for real etc etc etc etc etc.

bar death, almost anything could happen to these characters so they kinda had to make themselves of insane shit they could do without directly killing any major characters. if a character “dies” but they’re a major player in the batman cast of characters then it’s kind of a given that they’re going to come back. oswald can’t stay dead, he needs to be the penguin, ed can’t stay frozen, he needs to be the riddler, etc

Chapters: 13/? Fandom: Gotham (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Major Character Death Relationships: Jim Gordon/Victor Zsasz, Oswald Cobblepot/Victor Zsasz Characters: Victor Zsasz, Oswald Cobblepot, Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Gertrud Kapelput, Frank Gordon (Gotham), Barbara Kean Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Vikings, Old Norse, Languages and Linguistics, Old Norse Culture and Customs, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Ancient Scandinavia - Freeform, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Not Beta Read, Secret Relationship, Explicit Sexual Content, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Pining, Assault, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Stabbing, Panic, Rape, Rape Recovery, Shame, Visions, Prophecy, Secrets, Reveal, Suicide Attempt, Intervention, Jealousy, Slow Burn, Angst, Accidental Voyeurism, Additional Characters to be added, Exhibitionism, Rimming, Intercrural Sex, Revenge

Story Summary: A group of Northmen from a small village embark upon different paths to fulfill their destinies.

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Chapter Summary: Earl Frár hosts Elof and his entourage during his village’s summer solstice festivities.

in the span of two seasons, he went from killing and cooking his step siblings, to nearly vomiting while trying pygs mystery people pie.

so like?? was he just pretending??? like, acting disgusted so people wouldnt wonder why their ex mayor is so casual about eating human flesh.

Like he definitely isn’t just casually eating people in his free time - but he is petty and spiteful and is clearly not above feeding people to other people if they’ve personally wronged him

Plus Pyg made it clear that his pies were made of homeless people and we know Oswalds kind of a snob (I mean just look at him in season 5) so he may have just been disgusted at the concept of eating meat that may be “unclean” either metaphorically or literally

As for the the disgust there´s plenty possibilities outside of moral rejection of cannibalism .. * pretending as mentioned, this was certainly the kind of setting he might want to keep some reputation intact in and not show his full crime committing self, murder is well enough for one dinner ...  * I don´t want to believe that it´s a matter of  “cleanliness” or people choice (Trish), he´s not been afraid to get dirty in the past, [hell earlier season kind of put him in the realm of nasty, with what they threw him in, and I lowkey miss his more intense earlier makeup yellowed teeth and all]  also it´s (probably) not like he really ate and enjoyed eating the “wealthy” person meat he cooked, at least they didn´t show that (The little taste in front of Grace barely counts, and I´m starting to sincerely believe his claim he tasted both siblings as in actually eating them the moment I see it :D)  * he was showcasing not so much his disgust about the food but his disgust about Pyg and the role he´s forced to play in his show aka. “you might be able to make me eat it but you sure can´t make me enjoy it, nor can you make me eat it with proper table manners” spite * my personal pet headcannon ;D ... the pies just simply tasted bad, regardless of their meat source, not everyone can be a good cook like Os  * his fear for Martin´s life might have affected his stomach and no food would have become him in that moment

fuck 'porcelain skin' describe how clammy and sickly pale he looks.

'the subtle scent of cedarwood' he probably crawled out of another lake after cheating death again.

'his hair was soft' no. it crunched loudly under edwards hand. or covered it in a layer of gel and stabbed him. we as a fandom havent decided whether he uses hairspray or gel yet.

Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

Plot twists and deviation from existing Plot Exposition. Plot twists can be fun and keep your audience on their toes but when you have to twist and bend your characters/continuity into severely OOC forms to do it then you’ve devolved from ‘plot twist’ into ‘meaningless shockvalue’.Gotham (particularly in S1) sometimes does offer a descent plot twist that works within it’s characterization and narrative. The best example, Oswald playing both Falcone and Maroni in the Gang War (as we found out via Penguin’s Umbrella), was brilliant. Harvey Bullock originally aspiring to be a white knight of Gotham early in his career was another. As was Jerome Valeska turning out to be baby!Joker at the end of The Blind Fortuneteller. …And I’ll hand it to S3, Carmine Falcone helping to orchestrate Peter Gordon’s death worked really well (for me at least). As did the twist with Oswald turning Ed into his own personal frozen butterfly. Unfortunately, the bad plot twists have started to far outweigh the good plot twists on the show. Just to name a few:-Jim Gordon secretly wanting to kill (despite all evidence to the contrary).

- Mario’s deep dark secret being jealousy when he’s known Lee for like six months or something. As opposed to, oh I don’t know, struggling to live under (or above) the Falcone name? Honestly, a secret urge to kill had the potential to fit Mario and his family history a hell of a lot better than it fit Jim.

- Butch Gilzean secretly being Cyrus Gold. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled that we get to keep Drew Powell….but there are people who have known Butch since childhood (Jimmy Saviano) and he has family that share his name (his nephew Sonny) who have never mentioned the name change from Gold to Gilzean. I suppose they could make it work but it takes some hand-waving.

- The mess with the Galavan family and the monks and how the Court of Owls would just stand by and let (probable) members of their organization annihilate each other, losing resources the court could have made use of.

- Isabella’s physical appearance, introduction, and death. Honestly, all of Isabella’s plot is one giant, senseless twist.

- The executioner/Barnes being okay with the spread of the Tetch Virus when a bunch of innocent people were bound to get killed by those infected by said virus. Yes, he’s out to punish the guilty but part of his reasoning for doing it is because he wants “the innocents to thank him”. 

-Falcone withdrawing the hit on Jim (the S3 hit) just because Lee asked him to.

- Of course, the worst plot twist of all is Alfred’s apparent love of quiche. I could literally be here all night writing bad plot twists. I’m very aware that I barely made a dent here but you get the picture.

Most disliked character(s)? Why?

Don Falcone. I was having a conversation with @mymycorrhizae about this here and I’m just going to copy and paste my reasoning: “The main reason I can’t hate Jim is because of his family. Or in this case, the lack of family and the way Jim’s image of family has been so abused. We need some flashbacks or exposition about Jim’s life after his father’s death like yesterday (this is one of the many problems that I have with Gotham’s writing). We don’t know much about Jim’s family, other than the fact that he over-idealized the memory of his father, which isn’t surprising given the manner of his death.What we do find is always revealed in a terrible manner. First by Carmine Falcone, who came along in the pilot episode to tarnish Jim’s father in the worst possible way for the most self-serving of reasons. Season One Jim, who hadn’t turned into a complete asshole yet, definitely didn’t deserve that-especially when you consider that Falcone helped orchestrate Peter Gordon’s murder. In retrospect, it’s nauseating to think of the way Carmine called Jim “son” and tried to cozy up to him like a father figure.

As a side note, I feel sorry for Mario but I really can’t dredge up an ounce of sympathy for Falcone for this reason and for Liza (I’m always going to hate Falcone for Liza).” As I said, do think that this is a genuinely good plot twist, one that fits in well with the snake-oil salesman approach that Falcone has always taken with Jim. Going back and watching the S1 scenes between the two of them is a genuinely repugnant, but oddly compelling experience. And Jim…well, I have my issues with Jim but one of the few things that he’s consistently cared about has been his father’s memory and it’s painful to think of how Falcone perverted that memory.

The same way it hurts to think of how Ed abused the corpse of Oswald’s dad, effectively spitting on the genuine devotion that Oswald displayed for his parents. Jim may not be the best person but there are some things that just aren’t okay.

Most disliked arc? Why?

The Dulmacher arc was pretty pointless but at least we got some very solid characterization for Fish, so I suppose it gets a pass. So I’m going to go with the most recent because it ties in to my answer for the next question. The whole Jim secretly wants to kill thing, as we’ve talked about before, it makes no sense. The events of the Red Queen and the trip into his psyche showed us that Jim wasn’t interested in killing. Instead we saw a Jim that was feeling depressed, terribly guilty, and was desperately trying to live up his childhood idealization of his deceased father. 

Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

1. This is more rarely discussed than unpopular but I do think that Jim still struggles with suicidal tendencies. Not as badly as he was at the beginning of this season but I believe that they’re still there. Barbara was right when she told Lee that Jim was “death obsessed” but it’s not other peoples deaths that he obsesses over most.

2. Barabara also called him a “sadist” but actually I think it’s the opposite, sadism requires forethought and intent that doesn’t really fit Jim’s actions. “Masochism” on the other hand…. I think Jim displays a certain level of purposeful masochism. (I’m not really talking about Sadism or Masochism in sexual terms, btw.)

If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

A massive yes to the bizarre plot twists.  Why did Falcone just meekly call the hit off?  That made no sense at all.  And this too:

- Mario’s deep dark secret being jealousy when he’s known Lee for like six months or something. As opposed to, oh I don’t know, struggling to live under (or above) the Falcone name? Honestly, a secret urge to kill had the potential to fit Mario and his family history a hell of a lot better than it fit Jim.

I think that while Mario might have been intended as the disposable rebound guy – there was actually so much scope for him to be really interesting, for the reasons you give above. In fact, a man who has gone into a profession that’s all about helping people, who has a conflicted relationship with his family, who’s consciously chosen not to follow in his father’s footsteps, who might fear his own propensity for violence… gee – you’d almost think that he’d have been an interesting guy for Jim to develop a friendship with?  But no – sacrificed for the dullest love triangle ever.

The events of the Red Queen and the trip into his psyche showed us that Jim wasn’t interested in killing. Instead we saw a Jim that was feeling depressed, terribly guilty, and was desperately trying to live up his childhood idealization of his deceased father.

This is more rarely discussed than unpopular but I do think that Jim still struggles with suicidal tendencies. Not as badly as he was at the beginning of this season but I believe that they’re still there. Barbara was right when she told Lee that Jim was “death obsessed” but it’s not other people’s deaths that he obsesses over most.

This is fascinating.  I feel like they just swept a bunch of stuff under the carpet to push on to the next part of the season.  Jim was in a dark place psychologically, and drinking incredibly heavily.  He just put all that to one side and also stopped drinking because he went back to work?  Not buying that.  He was having whiskey for breakfast.  

If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

 Tying into the two previous questions: I would have only hinted at Jim’s suicidal tendencies in the earlier Tetch arc and not given it (supposed) resolution so early in the season. Then in the final episode, when Jim was infected with the virus, I would have changed his (ridiculously OOC) desire to kill others into a struggle with his desire to kill himself.

It may not have had the exciting fight scenes or all the hoopla that we got in the finale but there would have been a lot more in terms of emotional resonance. Jim coming to terms with his guilt and grief and finding genuine meaning and purpose in his desire to help Gotham City himself with the assistance of others (Harvey, Bruce, Lucius) and maybe a little self-realization that he might always struggle with his demons but the name of the game is progress not perfection.

Don’t we all want to see Jim make some genuine progress, rather than the post S1 perpetual plunge that sets him ten steps back for his single step forward?

This would have been so much better, and so much more meaningful – because it would actually have been rooted in characterisation.   In retrospect, it’s completely baffling that more wasn’t done with this.  We were essentially told that our protagonist is riddled with guilt, that he’s depressed and drinking heavily, that he beats himself up for not living up to his idealised (and false) image of his dead father – and that he is suicidal.   That’s massive.  But it was just sort of glossed over, and outright forgotten when it came to the Tetch virus – when we were served up ooc-ness instead.  Such a waste.

I think that while Mario might have been intended as the disposable rebound guy – there was actually so much scope for him to be really interesting, for the reasons you give above. In fact, a man who has gone into a profession that’s all about helping people, who has a conflicted relationship with his family, who’s consciously chosen not to follow in his father’s footsteps, who might fear his own propensity for violence… gee – you’d almost think that he’d have been an interesting guy for Jim to develop a friendship with?  I love this idea!

You are so right. Jim and Mario could have had an interesting friendship and thinking back on it, the interactions they did have were fairly engaging. If the writers really wanted to use the jealousy angle they could have gone about it in a completely different and far more compelling way. Remember, after Mario’s death when Falcone orders the hit on Jim and says the following to Lee: “I cared for Jim Gordon. In some ways he was more like my son than Mario. His life is mine to take.” Okayyyy. For the moment lets set aside the incredibly bad taste shown in saying this the day after his child’s funeral, to Mario’s widow no-less, and the hypocrisy in the statement which actually gives Lee far more entitlement to Jim’s life than Carmine.

There are some genuinely interesting potential dynamics here: Does Falcone think that being the loaded gun, if not the trigger finger, that killed Peter Gordon gives him the right to step into Peter’s shoes as Jim’s father? As I’ve said, there is something very nasty about smarming up to Jim as a father figure while simultaneously being the instrument for Peter’s death. Anyway, Falcone’s words imply that Carmine was disappointed with Mario in a manner that he wasn’t disappointed with Jim. Why? Imagine if this was something that had been discussed before Mario died. It would have avoided using Lee as a plot device and the boring love-triangle troupe! We could have had the build up of a friendship that was genuine then have the virus act as a catalyst to the faultlines that Falcone had bred between his two “sons”. When Mario finally gave into the virus he could have gone after Jim rather than Lee with the outcome still being the same.It would have added much more weight (to what was already a good plot point) when it was revealed that Carmine had Peter killed.

Of course, I’m biased. There’s nothing like family dynamics escalated to the levels of Greek Tragedy to guarantee my interest, far more than any lukewarm romance. Who cares about Antigone/Haemon Jim/Lee when we can watch Antigone Jim and Uncle Creon Carmine tear each other to shreds over prolapsed family loyalties?

(As a side note, I want to know more about the relationship between Falcone and Gordon Sr. It mirrors the relationship between Hugo Strange and Thomas Wayne in interesting ways.) This would have been so much better, and so much more meaningful – because it would actually have been rooted in characterisation.   In retrospect, it’s completely baffling that more wasn’t done with this.  We were essentially told that our protagonist is riddled with guilt, that he’s depressed and drinking heavily, that he beats himself up for not living up to his idealised (and false) image of his dead father – and that he is suicidal.   That’s massive.  I agree. Jim is a walking stereotype of masculine tropes, this could have been a chance to deconstruct those tropes and explore all the fissures that trying to keep up the illusion of strength was creating both emotionally and psychologically in his character. And it still could have made for an uplifting ending for the season… at least, I know I cheered a bit when Jim found the strength to turn away from Jervis’ compulsion early on in S3. They could have done something similar to this in the finale and it would have been dialed up to 11 because the anticipation would have been stewing all year. 

ETA - Alfred’s love of quiche is the worst of all.  

thank you for asking :3 @inappropriatefangirlneeds

Jervis Tetch :

Tetch is my favourite villain and second favourite character in Gotham overall. i know that a lot of people think he got too much of a plot, but my opinion is completely opposite and i wish there was more of him, letting him be the villain outside of "revenge to Gordon" arc.

the popular ship in question h/a/ttercrow (i'm cencosring so shippers wouldn't stumble upon my vent). i'm sorry, i just think it's really bland and lacks any meaningful interaction, i don't know why everyone lost their minds on this one. i'm aware that this is a thing in comics, but this is not comics. and i still remember how all these people hated Gotham!Tetch with passion because of incest, but then suddenly loved him for brief interaction with Jonathan...

speaking of incest, what's up with people hating to even acknowledge his feelings for Alice? the core of his motivation and story arc? if they're fine with mind control and mass murdering i'm sure they could stomach sexual obsession.

Carmine Falcone:

not sure what to add even. Carmine is well written character, but not my cup of tea. i do kinda wish there would be more characters in-universe opposing the idea of him rulling as Don over Gotham. Penguin, Fish and Maroni opposed him, but because they wanted to be in his place, and Gordon at some point just gave up trying to arrest him and came up with the conclusion that Falcone is essential to Gotham, for some reason. everyone else either fear him or respect him. the closest they got to something different is Barnes in their interaction straight forwardly telling Falcone that his place is behind bars, but it was very brief.

Mario Calvi/Falcone:

for the “what´s up with people....” I mean I have read posts about purity wank in fandom that got some analysis on that, but in the end I really don´t get those ppl  ^^