The Mask

I love GOTHAM, but this is one of the weakest episodes I've ever seen yet. The premise: desperate, hungry young white guys have to fight each other to the death with office supplies to get ahead at some big corporation! See how clever that is? I mean, capitalism is ruthless, so let's show guys fighting to the death . . . In an office! It's like a DILBERT cartoon, only not funny.

In the meantime, Bruce Wayne is getting picked on at his fancy private school. Kids get picked on at school? Who knew? Why couldn't it have been like "The Chocolate War?" The bully gives Bruce an assignment to sell chocolates, all over Gotham, and then the Penguin volunteers to help out, only the chocolates he sells all smell like dead fish! Pretty stupid, right?

Just like this whole episode!

Perfect example of how underdone this series has become.

My one question is: why wasn't the watch (Thomas Wayne's personal timepiece for gods sake) something like a Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1 at least?

Gotham is definitely a good show. But every good show has an average filler episode every once in awhile. 'The Mask' gave an entertaining but yet a bit convoluted episode. It once again tackled several story lines that kept us entertained but also were a bit unnecessary. Bruce begins his journey, Bullock and Gordon gained a bit of respect from the GCPD, Fish Mooney is plotting against Falcone, and Penguin continues is plan for power.

I think the greatness of the past few episodes has been the ability to focus on one story and sprinkle in a few other scenes. Well instead of focusing on our first appearance of Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask, we had several plot lines that undermined the cool scenes with Sionis. By the way they called him Richard should I assume that's just another name he goes by? I don't know enough about Black Mask other than the Arkham games. I don't think we need to have Gordon be in a fight to the death every episode but when you have as cool of a villain as Black Mask, it can be forgiven.

Bruce's scenes were typical and basically the same we have had all season. And i'm assuming that's Tommy Elliot AKA the future Hush? I don't think Bruce needs to be training yet considering we are only 8 episodes in with a 13 year old? But it was still a cool scene.

Bullock's speech to the GCPD cops was actually the highlight of the entire night but I wish they would have prolonged that story and showed how rock bottom Gordon hits. So although this episode didn't do a lot to advance the overall story arc for this season, it was still a solid episode in a continuous string of good episodes Gotham has offered.

+Hush & Black Mask

+Bullock's speech

+Bruce fights back

+Writing has improved

-Barbara leaving again?

-Convoluted story

7.7/10