Month: May 2016

Gotham is not a perfect show, and maybe not even a good show. I’m not going to defend the crazy pacing of Penguin’s rehabilitation/relapse storyline, the utter waste of Tabitha or pretty much any of Bruce’s dialogue, at any point, ever. I’m not going to pretend I’m not disappointed by the ways in which its second season has failed to live up to my highest hopes.

But there’s this notion about Gotham, most abrasively trumpeted by The AV Club, but parroted elsewhere as received knowledge, that Gotham is a show that struggles with its identity, and particularly that it’s “two shows, and never knows which it wants to be at any time” or some variation thereof.

This is not true now, nor has it ever been true. Gotham has a perfectly coherent identity, possibly one of the most rigidly-defined identities of any show on television right now.

Continue reading “Stitches May Strain, but Sutures Don’t Split: In Defense of Gotham’s Gothic Identity” →

(Author’s Note: This is a bad article that makes a bad argument, and I only keep it up because I link to it in a better article refuting the argument of this piece. I strongly advise reading that article before or after reading this one, or better yet, not reading this one at all.)

In the very near future, all four superhero shows that will be airing on The CW as of this autumn – Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl – will have a four-way crossover event, as announced by the network’s president, Mark Pedowitz.

Congratulations, nerds, you have finally crossed the line from merely damaging the properties you claim to love to actively destroying them.

Continue reading “Congratulations, Nerds, You’ve Finally Ruined Everything” →