The average episode of Gotham clocks in at around 44 to 49 minutes. Of those minutes, a solid chunk of them 2/3, maybe more are going to be scenes that youve already seen in previous episodes. Okay, not exactly like youve seen them before, but darn close. Whether its Jim Gordon spouting off yet another cliché-riddled diatribe on how corrupt the city is, Fish Mooney cooing to her right hand man Butch about how shell soon take down old man Falcone and seize control of Gothams mob families, Oswald Cobblepot flitting from character to character as he schemes and schemes and schemes, Harvey Bullock lamenting aboutuh, just about everything, or Bruce and Alfred having the same exact conversation about how Alfred is now Bruces caretaker, but Bruce is still technically in charge, even though Alfred argues that according to his parents will ugh. Enough. For some reason, Heller and crew seem reluctanteven reticentto let their show stretch its legs, to actually try and be the fun, comic book crime epic that it so obviously has the potential to be, were it not so afraid to step outside of its shell and try out new things. If and when that day comes, Gotham could be something really special; until then, it will have to settle for being merely pedestrian.
