The creators of Gotham literally said: "We're going to have to get really creative here because Warner Brothers and their legal team are not going to deny us the right to have the Joker on our show because of Jared Leto" 🤣🤣🤣
This show is basically the Riverdale of the DCU and I mean that as a compliment
I'm gonna run y'all through a brief list of plotpoints and I am not making up a single one of these. And I want to preface this by saying each of these plotpoints are all just from ONE SEASON of this show
The Penguin gets electro-shocked into being a good person, Alex DeLarge from Clockwork Orange style and during this time he meets his long lost dad. His dad loves the fact his son is a "Dashing gangland kingpin" and is all set to leave him the entire family fortune which pisses off his dads gold-digging wife and awful children. So his step sister tries to fuck him to get him to keep them in the will. When this doesn't work his step-brother offers to try and fuck him next. The step-mother, not willing to follow in the footsteps of Corey Chase, comes to the conclusion that re-enacting the plot of a Families Tied porn scene ISN'T going to work and so she instead poisons her husband to death and she and her kids make Oswald their live in cook. When he finds out he MURDERS HIS STEP SIBLINGS, COOKS THEM AND FEEDS THEM TO HIS STEP-MOTHER
Michelle Gomez shows up for two episodes as an assasin talent scout that operates out of a crime lord lesbian bar and she sends a face eating cannibal to try and kill Jim Gordon
Jim Gordon's ex wife becomes a supervillain who ends up in a bisexual polyamorous relationship with a BDSM assasin and her brother (God there's so much incest and cannibalism in this show it's like an episode of Game of Thrones...or a gathering of the RNC), a supervillain with an ancient grudge against the Wayne Family who wants to use a string of false flag supervillain terror attacks to get himself elected mayor. Jim Gordon LITERALLY HELPS A CRIME LORD MURDER HIM. However, the batshit insane mad scientist who is the head of Arkham Asylum resurrects him as a nigh-unkillable zombie assasin that's been brainwashed to believe he's a Holy Warrior of the Order of Azrael, a Knight Templar cult. This leads to him going on a killing spree as said unkillable zombie soldier. He dies for the second time when the Penguin shows up on the lawn of Wayne Manor out of nowhere with a rocket launcher, blows him up and then just peaces out
The head of Arkham who is turning people into monster men and undead marauding ghouls is doing all this because he's employed by an Owl Cult that had the Wayne's killed and he spends every single second that he's on screen chewing the scenery so hard that he's leaving teethmarks in it
#it’s a hell of a show#i couldn’t get through more than 3 seasons of it#but it wasn’t boring#the sheer quantity of bullshit that it delivered was incredibly impressive#i did absolutely love penguin in it though#one of my favourite tv characters#homicidal gay little weirdo (affectionate)#so fucked up#riddler too#that duo were such great fun#i mean jim gordon himself was usually boring af#but everyone else
The show basically deciding sometime halfway through season two that it didn't want to be a crime drama about Jim Gordon but would instead like to be a black comedy about Gotham's villains was honestly such a good call <3
the more it just embraced being fuckin insane the better it got :D
And yeah, the show deciding to make Penguin and Riddler a Toxic Yaoi supervillain couple was CHEFS KISS <3
I support Gay WRONGS as well as Gay Rights :D
For real, as much as a fever dream as this show was, it earns my love for fully embracing the soap-opera level character dramas (looking at you evil twin Joker-lite), queer campiness of comic books, and just living with the fact that Gotham is a city that makes everyone a crash out.
