We saw the Gotham pilot last Nox at Comic - Con , along with a couple thousand other people . It was not as sorry aswe fearednor as honorable as we hoped . But Donal Logue savorless - out kill the role of Harvey Bullock . He ’s so good , you ’ll wish Jim Gordon was n’t the main character .
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Donal Logue : This is give-up the ghost to get tell a lot in the run - up to Gotham ’s premiere but : Logue ’s Bullock is capital . A caboodle of the player in the show are clearly settling into their character , which is fine — it is just the pilot . Some multitude are a little flat and others have gone full cantonment . Not Logue . In the very conventionalised earth Gotham inhabits ( it ’s a cool , if sometimes jarring mixture of retro and mod ) , Bullock is the only one who feels like a real , three - dimensional soul or else of a character . You feel his history with the city and its denizen . You know he ’s not a utter cop , but you also feel that he ’s a sound guy cable . And he ’s comical , in a wry , beat - down path .
Jada Pinkett - Smith : Okay , hear me out . She ’s like the mirror - poetry version of Logue . If everyone in this show fall somewhere between “ ridiculous caricature ” and “ three - dimensional character , ” she and Logue would be the two anchors of that spectrum . She ’s utterly absurd . But she is have got the time of her life as Fish Mooney , and it ’s really entertaining . There ’s a scene where she auditions a comic telling dreadful jokes that is a admiration , just because of how many outlandish and over - the - top call on her theatrical role takes .
Not a Single Character Is emaciate : keep for Fish Mooney , not a single eccentric we expend time with is n’t a version of an already famous DC character . Selina Kyle does n’t have much to do in the archetype , but she flutter around on the edges . The captain isSarah Essen , Edward Nygma demo up as a forensic scientist ( he ’s also a standout , although mostly comic reliever ) , Oswald Cobblepot turns informant to Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen . Even a sojourn to a small-minded criminal leads us to young Poison Ivy . It ’s like a fanfic AU , lay out in a police station . Law and Order : Gotham City .
Great Style : The retro - noir feel makes you excuse the fact that masses stand in shadows having loaded conversations about the seedy underbody of the world . That ’s how film noir work , so you live with the pastiche . Plus , it looks great to have people in these clothes , cars , and sets . The little touches that are n’t geological period , like Fish Mooney ’s red bangs , give it a style all its own . However , the old cars do clash badly with the cubicle earpiece . I ’m bet they get the mix aright in the end , though , because it ’s for the most part great . Especially the law post , which is glowering and made of Natalie Wood and not the office building or gamy - tech A-one - Apple store we ’re used to seeing on TV .
Jim Gordon : It ’s hard being a perfection of virtue in Gotham City . It really is . It ’s also , unfortunately , boring . Part of his journey is going to have to be quickly gaining some semblance of uncouth mother wit , because his utter commitment to the police and doing thing by the al-Qur’an means he often does thing that make him bet like an retard . He ’s like Carrot when he first shows up in Discworld ’s Guards ! guard ! , only he ’s not meant to be funny . Plus , he has the bad luck of spending a lot of the episode with Bullock , who is n’t a caricature . But we call up Ben McKenzie ’s up to the challenge .
Alfred Pennyworth : Oh god , pop this characterization with fire . He ’s described by the show as a “ A tough - as - nails ex - leatherneck from East London . ” And when he shout at Bruce Wayne to “ Get his bloody arse down here , ” I wanted to put my fist through the screen . It ’s one of only two scenes he has in the pilot AND IT ’S SO BAD .
Save Alfred ( WHY ? ) , the Gotham pilot was a serviceable introduction to the new earth . There ’s a lot to set up , and they did it admirably . come in for the tasty Batman continuity call - outs , stay for Donal Logue .
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