#bridgit pyke

is kind of weird after the USA presidential election this year 😭

Spoilers for season 3 episode 16/17:

I love Oswald and think he had more potential as mayor than Aubrey James, but that's in a world where the person in power needs to have connections to the crime world!! 😐

And oddly enough, this real-world election, which happened about 6 years after similar events in the show, was kind of similar to Oswald rise to power after Ed's betrayal:

Both gained a part of the people he wanted out of the city the last time: A big part of Oswald's campaign was getting "Hugo Strange's monster" out of Gotham but they were his "Army of Freaks" the second time around — one of Trump's big things during his first campaign was building a wall bordering on Mexico, whereas the third time he tried to get elected, he managed to gain support from Latino Americans, including people whose family member could have to leave under his policies 😯

Not to mention that they both tried to steal the election.

At the moment watching Gotham and the news can be a bit much for me, do any people feel similar?

Cause so many of the things Americans are facing are dystopian elements in gotham:

police corruption (immunity)

a criminal, who has and will contintue to express his dislike of (certain) people, becoming their leader

bad healthcare (abortion too probably, maybe contraception 👀)

poverty

families breaking apart

gender-based violence (I hope no-fault divorce won't be ended)

ostracism/deportation

If you want to see specific examples, here's the edit I made of the parallels:

The Dystopian World of Gotham (Can Be Seen as a Modern AU/Parallels to the USA in 2024) on Youtube (I recommend you watch it there because of the format but it's also on Tiktok)

In any case: please someone edit chief of staff!Ed with eyeliner 💚 Like next to tanned!Oswald or something 💜 Let's ignore that Trump has an actual chief of staff too 🤫

@gothamnetwork’s October Event: Villains Halloween Special

Transformations - Physical (1/2)

Bridgit Pyke to Firefly

Victor Fries to Mr. Freeze

Ivy Pepper to Aged-up Ivy to Poison Ivy

Farewell Gotham Callenge: (Day 15) Free Choice - Favourite Hugs

With all the discussion about what Fish's death meant to Oswald and the tragedy and irony of it all, I'm surprised no one has talked about this ^ yet: Freeze and Firefly watching Oswald grieve for her.

Cause, this is actually quite a significant moment as well: both Victor and Bridgit have experienced tragic losses before, so they know how Oswald feels in that moment, which means this was probably the first time that both of them were able to truly emotionally connect with Oswald.

Which could be a turning point for the both of them, because so far, they both have not really been getting anything out of joining Oswald's Freak Family yet, aside from constantly being annoyed by each other's presence and doing whatever oswald/fish wanted from them. And clearly part of the reason why both of them joined him in the first place were not just the individual promises he made to them, but cause they both seem to have taken a liking to Ivy (especially Bridgit) and not really cause they wanted to be part of Oswald's Army. so technically, at this point, it's actually only a matter of time for both of them to start wondering why they should keep on doing it, if they haven't gotten anything out of it for themselves yet.

However after witnessing Oswald genuinely caring about someone dying, which is surely something neither of them really expected of Oswald, it could change their opinions about him and give them a reason to want to stick around regardless.

Which I really hope they're going to do, because, aside from the fact that it would be great if they kept freeze and firefly around more often now, the thing is, with Oswald finally opening his Iceberg Lounge now, his permanent business place in the canon, it means it's also about time Oswald finally really gets a true, permanent crime family around him, as in, people who actually want to work with him constantly and not just cause they're forced to like it was mostly so far the past 3 seasons. cause if they really want to finally establish Penguin as the future crime lord of Gotham (which they pretty much confirmed that they're going for now with his plans for the lounge), they can't keep letting him be surrounded by people anymore now who will immediately abandon or betray him whenever things get rough for him cause they never really cared for working for him. and what better way to start out his future crime family than with Ivy, Bridgit and Victor? cause all four don't just have in common being considered Freaks, but experiencing tragic losses in their past/having crappy lives growing up, so they already have the perfect way to connect on a personal level.