Attention, Gotham storywriters, producers and all around head honchos: contrary to what you might have been led to believe by the impressive box office successes of such comic book blockbusters as Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, or Iron Man 2, we your humble viewing audience do not - we repeat, do not - require every episode of your wonderful program to feature everysinglecharacter thats on your considerable roster. Were perfectly fine if Nygma needs to hunker down for a while and hammer out his plan of attack with Ms. Kringle, or if cute little Selina wants to take the night off from her usual alley slinking and rooftop hopping, or if Barbara just isnt feeling up for yet another evening of leaden pillow talk with her on again/off again lover. If youd rather take a week or two off from these riveting character portraits, then please, by all means, do so. Your best episode thus far, Penguins Umbrella, focused entirely on a single story the escalating mob war and to wit, centered only on the characters that were actually direct players in the action, like Gordon, Mooney, Cobblepot, Carmine Falcone, and Sal Maroni. That episode proved that all of you are more than capable of coming together to turn out a finely tuned, well paced hour of television that doesnt feel totally schizoid. We are confident that its a trick that you can pull off again.
