Gotham's initial treatment of young Selina Kyle felt like a bad joke. Leaping about on rooftops, stealing with a devil-may-care attitude, and thumbing her nose at the entire police force, the way this child was characterized was almost comically bad. Things changed for the better in the show's more recent episodes though, which featured a budding, tentative friendship between Kyle and a young Bruce Wayne. Providing some much needed character development, these later episodes helped put Selina in a more realistic context. They showed her behaving more like a recognizable teenager, and even helped suggest how Wayne's friendship with Kyle could potentially affect his own journey. Of course, this hasn't changed the fact that Camren Bicondova's acting has remained largely stilted and unconvincing (but it's still early on in the show's history).