Since it first premiered back in late September, Gotham has more or less played by the prototypical television procedural rulebook, with each case of the week mirroring the very same tropes that weve seen played out on countless CBS shows for years now, albeit here tinged ever so slightly with just enough comic book idiosyncrasies to justify the series reputable title. Unfortunately, this adherence to procedural methodology is also mirrored in the way that the show handles its villains. Balloonman. The Electrocutioner. The Spirit of the Goat these arent exactly the baddies that we're itching to watch Gordon and Bullock take down. Lets be honest: we want the baddies, those deviant evildoers who we most associate with the Bat-brand. Joker, Two-Face, The Riddler (the actual ruffian, not the irritating knockoff-version who weve gotten so far), Bane, Ras al Ghul, even someone slightly more fantastical like Killer Croc or Manbat. Now those are real villains. Jada Pinkett Smiths Fish Mooney is amusingly vivacious from time to time, and to the shows credit, it has given us a formidable-enough rendering of serial killer Victor Zsasz. But if Gothams going to continue to hold a weekly space on our DVRs, its first going to have to get us interested in what its doingand what better way to do just that than having one of Batmans most iconic baddies drop by for a visit?
