The trouble with a show as unrelentingly bonkers as Gotham is that it ’s severe to make one sequence ’s craziness stand out from another . But last night ’s episode , “ A Beautiful dark , ” shock me on more than one juncture , principally because Bruce Wayne met a DC character I never , ever expected he ’d meet .
It was Batman , of course .
Yes , this show is about immature Bruce Wayne ( David Mazouz ) , and no , time travel was not require . Instead , Bruce — who , after give way to prevent Ra ’s al Ghul from slitting the throat of a immature child to begin with in the season , has tried to submerge his desire to fight crime with hard drink and casual hook - ups and general rich teen hedonism — gets cancel by Poison Ivy , who has now aged up from a teenager into a full adult thanks to some mysterious Formosan potions , which also gave her the power to dispatch anyone she scratches by make plant develop inside them . Ivy ’s scratches also provide delusion while the dupe is dying , apparently , a side impression which exists entirely so Bruce can go on a genial journey that starts with Ra ’s al Ghul thin his look off , and turns into a political party at Wayne Manor where Gordon has a moustache , Lee is prune as Cleopatra for some reason , and Bullock is holding a cock .
finally , this happens :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJtDqAtzfg
Bruce meets Batman . Look , I know it ’s kind of hilarious when you put the whisper - tenuous Mazouz next to a CG phantasm in the bodybuilder shape of the funny Holy Writ Batman , and I make out this Batman does n’t have a bat - ear on his cowl , but lease ’s not pull the leg of ourselves as to his identity . After all , when the figure leaps at Bruce he explodes in a swarm of bats , stigmatise what I ’m fairly sure-footed is the first time Bruce Wayne has ever get word a squash racket on this infernal show .
But there ’s something really , really nerveless here , too . Bruce had only dabbled in mask - establish vigilantism for a while before the Ra ’s al Ghul incident send him down the track of billionaire playteen . Of course his true desire is to fight crime , and the idea that Batman is the “ real ” Bruce Wayne while Bruce is the performance is nothing new . But Gotham posits that somewhere in his subconscious he already is Batman — not just a guy who ghost with fighting offence as a vigilante , but a guy who wants to fight crime by being a vigilante who wears a cape and utilize preternaturally deep voice , for become an urban legend that inspires dread among all of Gotham ’s criminals . The musical theme that Bruce had this staginess inside him , long before he had any kind of plan , is sort of engrossing .
If nothing else , Gotham is always at it ’s most satisfying when Bruce takes immobile steps to becoming Batman , and getting hit with a swarm of bats — even in a weird plant - death hallucination — is a major , major onward motion .
PS — Also in this episode : The Joker made the Penguin out on a merry andrew costume and then the Joker go to kill Penguin but Penguin mimed he was in a box and Joker could n’t get to him .
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