Finale Forecast: How can ‘Gotham’ season 2 wrap everything up?
We don’t want to minimize at all how much we’ve loved the second season of “Gotham.” It’s amazing how this show has grown over the past year and a half. What started as a cop show in a cheap Halloween costume has become of the most complex, fascinating comic-book shows out there. There’s a great cast of characters at the center of it, and the writing has embraced some of what we know the Batman universe to be. We’ve got people coming back from the dead, over-the-top costumes, and Bruce Wayne starting to act a little bit more like Batman.
So how the show is going to wrap up its craziest seasons yet? That’s a difficult question to answer succinctly, but we’re going to do our best at it in the latest Finale Forecast article.
What could happen – Given that B.D. Wong is only a recurring character, we imagine that one way or another, Hugo Strange will be stopped. We’re not sure that “Gotham” has made him a Big Bad per se, but he is the most prominent villain at the moment and everyone from Oswald to Barbara to Freeze to Azrael is tied to him. You have to figure out what is to be done with him.
We also figure that there will be some sort of appearance / mention of Lee Thompkins (Morena Baccarin has been on maternity leave), we’ll see the Penguin rise more to prominence, and characters like Selina Kyle and Harvey Bullock will be given more to do.
What should happen – We should really set the stage for another big villain for season 3, whether it be Clayface, more Freeze, or Barbara becoming more than someone who flames out after every couple of episodes.
Also, we’d like to see Jim Gordon get back on the straight and narrow once more, since the Commissioner Gordon we know from the Batman comics is more of a moral center than Batman. Right now, Gordon’s one of the most free-wheeling guys around mired in a world of gray. We need him to be a little more by-the-book just to give this show a longer life. (There’s no chance Jim would realistically live longer than a couple of years given where we are right now.)
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