Gotham season 4 finale: Will the latest death stick?
Will that stick? It’s hard to tell with a show like this but for now, we have to assume the worst here that Butch Gilzean a.k.a. Solomon Grundy is actually gone once and for all. There are only so many shootings that a guy like that is going to survive, even with the Solomon Grundy transformation. The saddest part of this death was the simple fact that Grundy had just become Butch again before Penguin shot him in the hurt. This was his revenge on Tabitha for what she did years ago to his mother — this was an eye for an eye, otherwise known as him playing the long game and making her suffer for something that started many years before.
In describing his reaction when he found out the news to Variety, Drew Powell had the following to say:
It was a mix of a lot of emotions. Obviously I’m so close to this group. This show has really been an important show in my career. I moved my family from one coast to the other. I’m now kind of forever linked in this really cool world of DC and Batman lore. It’s really special for me. But the cool part was that the overwhelming feeling I had was not anger or resentment or sadness — although there was some of sadness — but it was gratitude. I just felt so grateful that I’ve had four great years of this. Look, who knows what’s to come, but I can feel like I’ve done good work and had a great experience.
Given that Grundy is around in the Batman comics it’s fair to imagine him finding a way to survive here again, but we do think that the show does have to make a death stick eventually and that’s not something they’ve done all that much of over time. There are some other characters in precarious positions now (see Lee) and we’re a little more confident in their future.
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