Gotham (Fox) [** Spoilers **]

Aska

Victor has always be a great addition to an episode.

Ivy is some eye-candy too

Frank O. Pinion

Long wait until the series finale...

S5E10:

I Am Bane

- 21st March
S5E11:

They Did What?

- 18th April (rumoured airdate)
S5E12 (Series Finale):

The Beginning...

- 25th April

Only 3 episodes left, but six weeks until the finale.

CastorTroy

About this week

Bane sounded very like Dark Knight Rises Bane.

And prediction based on this week

I'm guessing Barbara dies leading them to name the daughter after her

Though now we have to wait until April 18th for some reason. Did Fox realise they have nothing to fill the slot so decided to stretch it out?

Chancer3001

Ah jaysus the wait between episodes is sick
Spoilers below....


This weeks episode is absolutely class. One of my favourites.

Penguin and riddler being the comic goody baddies is class.

The scene with barbara shooting in the wheelchair would make a cool poster!

Bane looks better now. Sounds good. Few cool scenes walking through the fire.

New lady looks like shes made from plastic

Daxve

So they are getting a 6'4" double to play Batman in the time jump but close ups of the face will be David Mazouz under the cowl and he will voice Batman.

Daxve

Mr. J trailer (they still aren’t allowed to call him Joker). Interesting design choice the hair is the oddest part but that may have been forced on them by WB.

https://twitter.com/Gotham/status/1112800548544143360?s=20

CastorTroy

New episode out and finale next week

So this week was pretty much the series finale with next week basically acting as an epilogue.
This one got pieces into place such as Penguin's eye, Barbara being named, Bruce heading off and Jim getting his new job.

I did a wee rewatch of the opening scenes from the season premiere and unfortunately they didn't match up. Things like Oswald getting ready in his office and the siege taking place at night to smaller things like positions on the barricade.

ERG89

I don't know who plays Nyssa Al Ghul but she is so terrible her acting reminds me of the Mortal Kombat movies.
Considering how big the plot points were for this & the wait it was a pretty weak episode.

jaxxx

Daxve wrote: »

So they are getting a 6'4" double to play Batman in the time jump but close ups of the face will be David Mazouz under the cowl and he will voice Batman.

I could tell it was his voice in the trailer for the final episode. Obviously it's been modified, but I like it. Cannot wait for next week.

CastorTroy wrote: »

About this week

Bane sounded very like Dark Knight Rises Bane.

And prediction based on this week

I'm guessing Barbara dies leading them to name the daughter after her

Though now we have to wait until April 18th for some reason. Did Fox realise they have nothing to fill the slot so decided to stretch it out?

Regarding your prediction, I was full sure that that was gonna happen this episode.

I'm curious why her hair is long and red in the future. It's obviously a prelude/shout-out to young Babs when she would inevitably don the cape and cowl, (so obviously) but like why the change from short and blonde? Unless she's a natural red head all this time.

Agent Coulson

One of the original cast stepped down and is being recast for the finale episode.

OmegaGene

Agent Coulson wrote: »

One of the original cast stepped down and is being recast for the finale episode.

Well that’s a strange one

EoinMcLovin

OmegaGene wrote: »

Well that’s a strange one

Statement from the actress. Finale is set 10 years later so can understand why she would want the role recast with an older actress
https://twitter.com/camrenbicondova/status/1119316098166423552?s=21

CastorTroy

I know Lili best from Banshee but will see how she does in this. I'm guessing she'll be less naked.

Agent Coulson

Hopefully not a naked Catwoman would be a ratings puller.

corkie

CastorTroy wrote: »

I know Lili best from Banshee but will see how she does in this. I'm guessing she'll be less naked.

Had to look her up, briefly known her as 'New Clementine' ~~ Westworld.




Hope Camren Bicondova, get's more film/TV roles soon, she played the role well.

The White Wolf

Very gracious of Camren as she's been a highlight I'm the show. Thought she was stellar in season 2 in particular. Will be weird seeing Mazouz do a convincing

10 year time jump

but I don't begrudge him one bit - kid has been dreaming of this moment for years.

ted1

Camren would have been only 12/13 when she got the role. Probably got a poor contract. She’s a great actress and will hopefully do well for herself.

Agent Coulson

An enjoyable finale.


I feel sorry for Mazouz......

We never get to see him in the finale or as Batman that was a body double and I'm not even sure it's his voice used.

Simmons was grand but nothing Carmen couldn't have done herself.

smilerf

Good finale but apart from Penguin and Selina nobody aged. They could have tried

The final season is starting on E4 very soon, according to a trailer I seen!

The White Wolf

Agent Coulson wrote: »

An enjoyable finale.


I feel sorry for Mazouz......

We never get to see him in the finale or as Batman that was a body double and I'm not even sure it's his voice used.

Simmons was grand but nothing Carmen couldn't have done herself.

Was that not Mazouz's face possibly aged up at the end? I'd say it was his voice alright with effects applied.

Great way to finish off anyway; was a reminder of what this show was capable of at its best.

OmegaGene

I have the last 3 episodes left to watch for this evening, looking forward to it

jaxxx

I WANT MORE! As finales go, granted it wasn't 10/10 spectacular but it was pretty damn good!

The scene where Bruce saved Jim and Barbara-Lee, that batarang to Jeremiah's hand!

I do wish we actually 'saw' Bruce in the time jump. But I guess because they re-cast Selena, it wouldn't make sense to have him look the same and she not. It was a shame it wasn't Camren herself cos she was one of the highlights of the show, but gotta respect her decision for the recast. That scene between Selena/Bruce almost tugged at the heartstrings. Love the way that ended when he asked her to return the diamond and she said no chance.

I think it was David's voice that was used, with effects obviously.

CastorTroy

I was beginning to think they were going to pull a Smallville.

Clearly Jim and Bullock have good eyesight to see him from that far away.

Still a bit confused as to why Harvey was so scared considering Jeremiah's plan seemed pretty much just to get Jim to Ace.

And it was David in the costume and his voice used. When he was talking to Jim in the warehouse, you could tell it was his voice behind the effects

Clareman

Now that is how to finish off a show, I was surprised to see Bullock survive to the end but the finishing really setup a great potential Batman series, you wouldn't have to change anyone. I agree with recasting Celina, the actress playing her is only 19 ffs, I'm glad they didn't recast Bruce though, just leave him as an aloof billionaire was spot on imo

Am I the only 1 that wants to see a Penguin/Riddler spin off, probably the best portrayal of the characters in the DC universe yet.

Clareman

OmegaGene wrote: »

Ah so bullock survives then
Cheers for that spoiler

Sorry about that, but the episode has aired so I didn't think I needed to spoiler my post.

Clareman

OmegaGene wrote: »

Didn’t you notice the pattern of others using spoiler tags
We aren’t all at the same pace

I just noticed the network referenced in thread title as well as the reference to spoilers in it also. If it was the same day of the release I might have thought something of it but I was over a day after the release so I didn't see the need

Chancer3001

Agree 100% penguin and riddler need a spin-off.

Theyre such good actors and have buckets of charisma.

The creator of gotham is making an unrelated alfred pennyworth series.

Meh.

bren2001

OmegaGene wrote: »

Didn’t you notice the pattern of others using spoiler tags
We aren’t all at the same pace

Didn't you notice the spoilers warning in the thread title. Dont click into a thread if you aren't up to date with the show if you don't want to see spoilers. It's your own fault.

jaxxx

OmegaGene wrote: »

Didn’t you notice the pattern of others using spoiler tags
We aren’t all at the same pace

[***Spoilers***] literally in thread title.............................


Honestly I'd love to see it continued from this point on. Isn't going to happen but I'd love a live-action Batman TV series (don't mention that cr*p with Adam West a million years ago). NOT PART OF THE ARROWVERSE EITHER, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!



There are rumours of a Selena spin-off, seemingly her 10 years while Bruce was gone. The director is trying to fight for it anyway. Would love to see Penguin and Riddler in it too. But then again they were banged up for most of them 10 years.

Chancer3001

Id love if another station came in and bought it to continue.

It was a really well done show.

Think the highlight for me was jeremiah being "killed" in season 2.

leggo

Have to say, I watched Batman Begins last night and I prefer a lot of the casting in Gotham to that. Alfred and Falcone were both infinitely better than their big screen counterparts. Gotham suffered a bit because of network necessities, i.e. having to produce a lot of episodes per season so having to manufacture drama at the expense of a coherent narrative sometimes. But I thought, on the whole, it was fun as hell and the people involved seemed to love it and give their all. I’ll miss it.

Sudden Valley

Thought the penultimate episode was much better than the last episode. Not seeing an aged up bruce wayne made it seem like they had a body double for the batman scenes so the scenes between Selina and Bruce had no resonance. Glad to see Barbara surviving til the end.

Chancer3001

Barbara looked hot with the new hair. Suited her.

Defo thought this episode was better than the last couple.

Didnt really get the harvey bit tho. Or how "saying his name" somehow did something

OmegaGene

Found the last episode a bit of an anti climax and the shot of batman’s face at the end looked terrible like it was photoshopped, they didn’t bother ageing the characters apart from selina

JP Liz V1

brian_t wrote: »

The fifth and final season of Gotham starts on E4 on Sunday May 12th at 9pm

:cool:

Shane St.

Found final season a bit all over the place.

Sparko

Well that finale was fairly meh. I stuck with this show out of habit, enjoyable at times but glad it's done. The script in the finale was clunky as hell with every second line being about the

ten year timejump

- we get it, trust your audience to be able to keep up without smacking them over the head with it!

Also it's a bit of a slap how

little the Bruce Wayne actor featured, and how Selina was recast. I read that she requested it or something but still very odd treatment of a series regular.

cena

Sparko wrote: »

Well that finale was fairly meh. I stuck with this show out of habit, enjoyable at times but glad it's done. The script in the finale was clunky as hell with every second line being about the

ten year timejump

- we get it, trust your audience to be able to keep up without smacking them over the head with it!

Also it's a bit of a slap how

little the Bruce Wayne actor featured, and how Selina was recast. I read that she requested it or something but still very odd treatment of a series regular.

The show was meant to be about jim Gordon from what I have read