8 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gotham
5. The Turf War That Never Was
As Gotham's fourth season came to a close, we saw it referenced how both Mr. Freeze and Firefly had claimed their own respective patches of turf as Gotham fell into chaos. That meant that viewers were expecting these two rogues to be butting heads in the show's fifth and final season as a turf war played out.
The thing is, that turf war never came to pass. In fact, both Mr. Freeze and Firefly were completely absent from Gotham's firth season - with the pair only even name dropped once or twice throughout that final year.
Doing a little bit of digging on this, it turns out that there actually was an initial plan to do this particular turf war in Season 5. That plan was thrown out of the window, though, when it was revealed that Gotham's final season was to get a reduced episode count of just ten episodes. As such, several tentative plans had to be scrapped in order to streamline Season 5 into that shorter number of outings.
At a first glance, you'd never even know Mr. Freeze and Firefly exist during Season 5, but a rewatch of Gotham brings to your attention that at one point we were to get these two opposing elemental villains battling over their own claims to Gotham City turf.