#but i might as well have blown up Kristen's phone for a reason

[verytamenow]

Reputation Tour Movie: Reactions

On the off chance anyone has wanted to know what it’s like to deal with my commentary when I will not shut the fuck up, click that read more to get my Reputation Movie commentary!

Opening

- Taylor is the most extra bitch. I love her.

- Opening video still gives me chills

...Ready For It?

- The strobe lights make this as sometimes irritating to watch as it was live. Which is a pity because I love the performance.

I Did Something Bad

- Will idsb ever not give me chills and murder me?

- I want her to bite me when she snarls

- Her hips. The idiot giraffe is blessed.

- Her vocals

- Fuck Me Up

- The most precious happiest koala😭

- (spots a rep room wristband) lucky bitch

Gorgeous

- I’m So disappointed a step above gorgeous being gorgeous didn’t get immortalized in the tour video

- The assholes (I say out of jealousy) with the triangles. Why didn’t we think of that!

- “And I’m Taylor” Bitch I hope so. I spend so much on your ass.

- Stop looking like that Taylor it makes me feel things

Style

- I get why style made the set list and love the songs but justice for ootw

- That guitar riff gives me ALL THE FEELS

- yes bitch strut! Thank you Karlie Kloss

Love Story

- Aww all the throwback and legacy feels 

- Is it legal not to jump during this song?

- Boop.

- “I keep waiting for you but you never cum” is probably not a problem Taylor has. On either end.

You Belong With Me

- (proceeds to bounce in place because Taylor owns me)

- The parent holding up her daughter is Kristen in the future

Look What You Made Me Do

- The lwymmd pre video is my sexuality

- I want murderess snake queen Taylor to end. my. life.

- Would let her choke me

- I’m the bitch mouthing oh my god

- This is my favourite part of the tour ngl

- THAT SMIRK

- side note: also remember when we thought it was a dragon and not a snake?

- She really snapped and killed a bitch with this song

- THE INTENSITY WENT OFF AND HOW IS PIT NOT LOSING THEIR SHIT

- like mosh or something fuckers

- KARYN!

- I weirdly love the back vocals she recorded for lwymmd. The short “ah”s really make it

- The sass

- A queen

- I’m so gay

- This is why I’m doomed with whoever I date

End Game

- The disappointment Ed never guested on the tour

- The choreo for this is 🔥

- I mean all of it is but her hips

- Her legs are worth every penny of 40 million

- The hand over the face bit is an objectively weird closing move

King Of My Heart

- How do we actually make her America’s queen

- This is the softest song

- I stan komh so hard

- Like I love delicate but this is just as soft. Softer even

- I love I’m getting to see the other half of the choreo because we sat on the left side each time

- Up on the roof with a school girl crush /  Drinking beer out of plastic cups / Say you fancy me not fancy stuff / BABY ALL IT ONCE THIS IS ENOUGH

- This is the closest we’ve come to a poc love interest in anything she’s filmed. Except the End Game MV sort of.

- We didn’t stan the dancers hard enough

- The drums made this tbh

Delicate

- Oh gods I’m not ready for the delicate speech

- I’m the dude who screamed he loved her

- Bless the rainbow dress

- “Shit is that what is was on my wrist? I thought her stalker and taylurking ways had just finally gone to tracking bracelets.”

- (knock at the door) Me, pausing: umm I blocked out this entire 2 hours for our lorde and saviour Taylor Swift???

- (Scott Swift voice) I’m going back into my zone

- The lights are so pretty. No wonder Taylor loves the bracelets

- Bitch we know your unreleased stuff

- Do let’s go/battle as a surprise song and be shook

- 1! 2! 3! LET’S GO BITCH!

- Can you believe she flew right over us

- That little dance. She’s so fucking precious

Shake It Off

- B stage. Remember how she gave invisible to the gays

- And finally played breath

- The only redeeming thing for shake it off is that she made it as gay as she could

-I still wanna know what inspired “my ex man brought his new girlfriend...to the fella over there with the hella good hair” bit

- What did Di do? And who did Taylor hit on? Or is Karlie the one with the hella good hair?

- Giuseppe got down on one knee long before Karlie ever will

Dancing With Our Hands Tied

- How smug was Taylor when her jump to pop worked?

- There must have been so many I told you so’s

- It started raining. The closest I’ll ever come to a rain show.

- I can’t believe she played this song in Nashville with Karlie right there and kept her shit together

- Taylor’s never more magical then when it’s just her and a guitar

- I would give anything and go deep in debt to go to an acoustic show

- This filter was unnecessary and such a call out

- She had one fuck left and it’s name is alliterative All Too Well

- I hope she keeps doing acoustic surprise songs like this next tour. Where it’s a set thing.

- I’m so relieved she approves of lyric tattoos. Like....imagine if she didn’t and I have my entire forearm

- Put down your fucking phones and watch her be magic personified

- Also fuck this song for being so powerful

- The way she sings the bridge

- Now did she really lose the 12 minute version or is it just a little too obvious who it’s about

- Her wink! I’d die

- Is that chick okay? Did she live?

Blank Space

- The crowd walk! I’m still so so fucking endlessly proud

- Look at her!

- My precious angel reclaiming walking through her fans

- How the fuck are these people not dying tho?

- Still want her to hit me in the face with the golf club

- And kick me in the face with her boots

- This is also still my favourite mv

- It was so perfect

- This is also quality choreo. I wouldn’t have made it had it seen it right in front of me

- Gay icons

Dress

- Holy fuck dress is so gay

- Like.....we been knew but still

- This song is why she didn’t dare film in Nashville

- The vocals should be illegal

- Like, they’re NSFL (Not Safe For Lesbians)

- The first time she did that (strip tease thing) and the Nashville show were the best ones

Should Have Said No / Bad Blood

- This is still the most fucking random mash up

- I mean it works and redeems bad blood but wtf

- The person sitting on someone else’s shoulders has to really be pissing off someone else who can’t see

- Aggressive banjo

- Can’t believe she puts on a show and sells like this and Borschetta wouldn’t give her the masters. Idiot

- The dudes dangling are braver than any US Marine

- Instead she negotiated for better artist pay AND her future masters. The Legend jumped out

- I remember watching this the first time and being briefly confused because this sort of drawn out thing is what they normally do for show closing but it was too early

Don’t Blame Me

- Oh fuck here we go

- THIS IS MY FAVOURITE TOUR OUTFIT

- PERIOD

- ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

- this entire fucking performance. No words

- I love all the dude dancers had the blinders like headgear. As if such powerful sapphic love is distinctly not for their consumption

- I have found religion

- I stan a queen

Long Live / New Year’s Day

- I love she knows how many people work on the tour and genuinely appreciates their effort

- I hope this mashup sticks around, at least as the surprise song at the closing show of the next tour

- I’m not crying you’re crying

- Hold on to the memories, they/I will hold onto you is one on my favourite lines she’s written

- Along with with please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere

- Oh my fucking god stop letting her be this precious

- Remember how fucking loud we were in Denver?

- This is my favourite moment of the entire show - for her. You can tell how much it means to her

- She owns my ass and wallet forevermore

- “I had the time of my life....with you” is a whole emotional mood

- Her quick little thank you 😭

Why She Disappeared

- Oh that’s the first time I’ve heard the echos

- Those boots probably cost more than my life

- This should have been the close or open of the getaway car mv

- Imagine if it shows up in an mv next era. Starts with a car on a pink x

Getaway Car

- The 1989 neon is an interesting choice

- Is that the shift to pop being a getaway or the close of the 1989 era being one? (More thoughts on this later)

- Hits you like a shotgun shot to the Heart is a fucking amazing line

- I loved that bit straight away

- I can lowkey see getaway car being about switching labels tbh

- This last album maybe IS the getaway car (more, again, later)

Call It What You Want

- Ciwyw is one on my favourite love songs of hers

- Trust him like NO OTHER was right at her fingertips

- Who the fuck would say no to running away with her?

- I would let her RUN ME OVER, running away WITH her? Fuck yes

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

- WANEGBT/TIWWCHNT is a brilliant mash up

- But fucking ridiculous to type

- “But I’m not the friend you’ve lost lately” is the shadiest fucking line and I love it

- I’m disappointed we never got video of her recording “cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do”. I can only imagine the sass and snark

- “Taylor the mic is picking up you muttering ‘fucking prick’. You need to record it again.”

- “.....Taylor, muttering ‘backstabbing motherfucker’ isn’t any better. Maybe try it without the muttering?”

- The mouthed “I love you guys” ❤😭

- They’re not showing people collecting confetti? How unrealistic.

- Oh, there they are.

- “The words are all the same over and over again and I know that’s my fault....” still funny as hell

- “What’s a 767?” What’s it like to have that kind of money?

- Will pay to watch Taylor skip through a stadium

In conclusion: Taylor owns me. Kristen puts up with a lot from me. And I can’t wait for the next chapter.

[wordsandshawn]

Before Now - chapter 7

Previous Chapters 

Disclaimer: I know nothing about photography, but making Skylar interested in photography was the best way I could think of to make some of the main plot points work out, so please just bare with me.

7.

May 2018

Greg doesn’t know about the calls to Shawn. I don’t mean to keep secrets, but I know that if he found out he would be upset, and he wouldn’t approve. Besides, I’ve only spoken to Shawn a few times over the past couple of months. It’s really not a big deal and I don’t want it to be blown out of proportion. Greg has the tendency to do that sometimes. He’s not just protective. He can be possessive. I know it’s only because he loves me, but I don’t want to deal with it over Shawn, so I keep secrets.

Shawn invited me to a show he’s playing a couple hours away from my campus, and I haven’t told Greg. Under any other circumstance, I would have definitely said no, just like I did the last time Shawn invited me out to his show, but Shawn’s offer this time was too big for me to turn down. He invited me to come out and photograph the show because his normal photographer wouldn’t be able to be there. Up until now, my main focus in photography has been portraits, so I don’t have much experience at all with concert photography. I’ve done a few events at my University for some of the organizations, and I love photographing people in general. I’ve never been opposed to concert photography, especially because I love live music. I just didn’t have an opportunity to try my hand at it until now.  

Even at the risk of Greg being mad at me, I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t say yes to this opportunity. This could be my career one day, I’m not going to say no to this just because Greg might be mad and might not support me.

I tell Shawn I’d love to shoot the show, and he sends an email of information. I make up a lame excuse to Kristen, telling her that one of my photography professors had connections and got me this opportunity to shoot the concert. She’s completely ecstatic, especially when I tell her we’ll get in for free. I’m still trying to figure out the details of how I’m going to do this without her completely freaking out, but I didn’t trust anyone else enough to ask them to go with me and drive me. Even though she can be a crazy fan, I still trust her with my life, and I trust her with this.

The weekend of the show quickly approaches. I tell Greg I have a photography project to work on Saturday, and Kristen and I drive the two hours to the festival. She can’t stop talking about Shawn the entire two-hour drive there. I’m not exactly looking forward to her reaction when she actually sees him in person.

“We’re probably going to meet Shawn,” I tell her this when we’re about five minutes out from the festival grounds. The only reason I’m telling her is because I’m hoping that by giving her some time to prepare, her reaction will be a little less extreme, but knowing Kristen, that’s probably not going to happen.

“WHAT?” I’m afraid for a second that she’s going to drive off the road accidentally in shock.

“We’re probably going to meet him,” I repeat, even though I know she heard me the first time.

“How?” She’s still in shock.

“I told you, I’m photographing him, so I’m pretty sure that means we’ll meet him.”

“Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“Because I knew you’d freak out, just like this.” She continues to freak out and is still freaking out while we’re trying to figure out where to go. It’s a little after 2pm when we arrive. I tell the guard at the front my name, and I have to show him my ID, but then he lets us in and tells us where to go, directions to Shawn’s trailer.

Now Kristen is freaking out even more after she heard we’re going to Shawn’s trailer. I’m trying to calm my own nerves, wondering how I even got here, and what I think I’m doing. If Greg finds out, he’s going to be pissed, and I don’t even fully understand why Shawn would ask me here in the first place, after everything that happened with us, and after the way I acted toward him. We’re at the door to Shawn’s trailer, and Kristen is about to faint from excitement. I knock. The door opens, revealing someone who looks familiar, although I don’t think I’ve ever met him, “Hey,” I force myself to speak, “My name’s Skylar Evans. I’m here to photograph Shawn.”

Recognition crosses his face, and he lets the door swing all the way open. “Of course, come in. It’s nice to finally meet you.” He sticks out his hand, “I’m Andrew Gertler, Shawn’s manager.” And that’s why he looks so familiar. I’ve heard his name so many times but just didn’t put it together in my mind before he introduced himself.

“Nice to meet you,” I say. Andrew extends his hand to shake Kristen’s, and for once, she doesn’t seem like she has a lot to say.

Shawn strides over to the doorway and pulls me into a hug. “I’m really glad you came.” He says, sounding genuine. Now Kristen really has nothing to say, as Shawn introduces himself to her, despite the fact that he probably knows he needs no introduction, and of course, Kristen goes in for a hug, although, thankfully she doesn’t scream. I think she’s in too much shock to realize that this is not my first-time meeting Shawn.

Andrew speaks before anyone else gets the chance to, and I’m glad for that. “You can leave your things in the trailer. Here are lanyards for you both to wear.” He hands us each a laminated lanyard that says, SHAWN MENDES CREW with ALL ACCESS right underneath. “This will give you access to pretty much anywhere on the festival grounds, so please don’t lose them. Shawn goes on in an hour. You’re welcome to explore or hang out and just let us know if you need anything.” His phone starts ringing. He pulls it out of his pocket, and I glance at Kristen who looks at me with wide eyes, like can you believe this, I just nod a little.

Andrew apologizes, saying he has to take the call and excuses himself. Shawn introduces us to the others in the room, most of them are his band members. They looked like they were practicing something, and I don’t want to be in the way, so I tell Shawn, “I think we’ll just go walk around for a bit.” He nods, and I put down my camera bag, taking my camera before forcing Kristen outside with me.

As soon as we get outside, she turns to me. “How are you so chill? I’m freaking out.” She says, actually starting to hyperventilate.

“Breathe,” I say, before walking off to see what else is going on here. I spend the next forty minutes wandering around with Kristen and taking photos, generally enjoying the atmosphere.

The goal for tonight is to get some solid photos, but also to be able to put together around a thirty-second video for the performance. I’ve roped Kristen into helping me, which worked out well because I had my own assistant in a way.

I snap a few photos of Shawn before he steps on the stage, and then once he’s onstage, I’m able to shoot from sidestage and even directly behind the stage. At one point, I even make my way down to the crowd, standing in the space between the stage and the barriers to keep the crowd back. His set is far too short for my liking, and I fear that I haven’t gotten good enough shots, but when his performance is over, there’s nothing I can do about it.  

Shawn’s sweaty, but clearly high off the adrenaline of the show, and I’m surprised I’m feeling very much the same as he is at this moment. Taking photos and feeling the energy radiating from the crowd was exhilarating. A feeling I haven’t felt before, but can’t help wanting to feel more. 

When Shawn steps off stage, I manage to see him for a few seconds. I tell him the performance was great, and he asks how it was for me shooting it. Its honestly the most normal conversation, but everything feels so strange. I keep trying to remind myself that it’s just Shawn, that he’s Shawn. This is so out of context for the Shawn I know, for the Shawn that I’ve always known that its strange for me.

I just watched his performance and realized that he’s amazing at what he does. I knew that he was good. I’ve always known that he was good, even when he used to force me to sing with him when we were little kids putting on shows for our little siblings, it was always clear he was good.

This was the first time I saw him live since the very beginning. When he was first starting out, my whole family would always go out to support him, but after his career blew up, I started trying to avoid any attention that came with knowing Shawn Mendes, which meant I stopped seeing him live or being seen with him in public.

He hugs both me and Kristen, and I don’t even complain that he’s sweaty. I ask if he’s going to stay to see the other performers, and he only shakes his head, and I see a hint of sadness in his eyes, although I’m not sure where it came from or why he’d be sad after a performance like that in front of so many people. “We have to head out to catch a flight tonight, in a couple hours actually.” His crew is rushing around getting ready to go, and he glances over at them before looking back at us, “I wish we could stay, but I have another festival tomorrow night.” That’s crazy. He’ll be in another city tomorrow playing another show. “Thanks for coming out, though. I hope it was worth it for you.” He genuinely sounds grateful, even though I should be the one thanking him.

“Thanks for inviting me, I really hope that you like the photos.”

“I’m sure I will. I saw you during the show, you were everywhere.”

I can’t help but laugh. “Thanks, I really do appreciate you asking me to shoot this show. It means a lot.” I say, trying to convey my gratitude. 

He just nods with a smile, like it’s no big deal, even though it’s a huge deal to me. I excuse myself, stepping back and picking up my camera for a few last-minute shots. Kristen starts talking to him for a few seconds. It’s taken pretty much this entire time, but she finally seems to have regained her composure. I take a few photos of them talking before filming the interactions and some of the cleanup going on around as Shawn and his whole crew get ready to leave.

Kristen and I decide to stay and watch a few of the other performers before heading back home. I put all my gear away and find Shawn to say goodbye to him.

“Thanks for coming,” He says as he hugs me goodbye. He tells Kristen it was nice to meet her and she basically swoons.

“Are you driving back tonight?” He asks and even Kristen is taken aback by this inquiry.

I nod, “We’re gonna stay for a while, but yeah we’re going home tonight.”

“Drive safely, okay?” He says with genuine care in his voice, and Kristen nods since she’s the one driving. “Text me so I know you got home safe?” He’s looking at me as he says this, and I nod, saying goodbye and dragging Kristen away.

She’s asking about what just happened, asking if I have his number, and about a million other questions. But I rush us both out to the crowd of people, ignoring her questions and glad for a distraction.

I almost made it out of there without Kristen realizing anything. At first, she was too excited to notice that Shawn and I weren’t meeting for the first time, and then everything else we talked about was all business, nothing too out of the ordinary. I could explain it all away, saying something about how I’m sure he talks to all his photographers that way, and he’s just a friendly person. But that last one isn’t something a singer would tell a photographer he just met. No matter how I try to frame it, I don’t think I’ll be able to explain that one, and Kristen is going to be looking for the truth.

For now, the questions are left unanswered, and she’s momentarily distracted by the crowd and the music, which means I have about an hour of complete and utter bliss of live music at a festival before I have to find a way to explain to my roommate that I grew up with her favorite singer.

chapter 8

[inappropriatefangirlneeds]

Gotham s4ep21 “One Bad Day”  Personal Review

“It´s an odd time for a nap” Warning spoilers below 

* “Oh, Jim, you still think that you're the only one who can save the city.” Okay that one was lovely. Almost a bit like that one Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  I love how everyone was vaguely rooting for the same thing: Save the City! while trying to as well reach their own personal goals.  > LUCIUS FOX of course is the precious cinnamon roll that he is and just wants to save the city.  > JIM GORDON kind of just wants to save the city as well. But I do think this whole talk with Edward, as entertaining as it was it was jarring plot wise. Of course we do have the “We're gonna settle this. No, Jim. This isn't the GCPD. Here, I make the rules, so we're not gonna do this until we talk about what I want to talk about.” line that claims Edward is the one that wants to discuss  relationship stuff while Jim is the one who wants to stick to saving the city. But Jim actually brought as much into the conversation as Ed did. Especially if he indeed thinks Leslie is just using Edward he should have just kept this to himself and let Edward run into his misery and laugh about it over the whiskey into which he usually cries. But for Jim it´s at least as important as it is for Ed to plant his flag in that conversation. He´s still asserting “ownership” (for the lack of a better word..) over Leslie Thompkins by claiming he knows her better than Ed does. Ed might have the relationship and the sex but Jim still got the connection to who Leslie really is, ha ha take that Ed (to be read in Jim´s voice.) > TABITHA GALAVAN worries about the city, BUTCH GILZEAN doesn´t comment it but both want a cure for Butch.  > BARBARA KEAN was really endearing in the scene with Jerome. She goes from “not really??!” to “absolutely not on my watch”, her personal stake in it was being nice to Tabitha. How Sweet.  > OSWALD COBBLEPOT is a bit more used to situations like this. He´s just keeping an eye on his goals: Money. While waving the city issue aside “Of course not” just to scramble and struggle and scurry to do all he can to make things better once they went astray. > LESLIE THOMPKINS want´s her “legal knots untangled” and of course save the city as well. It´s a win win thing.  “We solve it and we trade the information for clemency.” “I'm trying to protect what we've built.” > EDWARD NYGMA is bound to act in Leslie´s interest “Well, then the mayor would be wise to forgive Lee and I our indiscretions.”  But he´s in fact kind of the only one to declare that he personally doesn´t give a damn about Gotham. “If Gotham becomes a rock pile, I mind zero percent. I'm only helping you because I'm with Lee now.”  The situation is however one that he´s trying to use to figure out more about his nagging “does Lee even like me” question. > Oddly the show sent BRUCE WAYNE on a much more personal quest this week. By getting him out of the GCPD he´s separated from the Save Gotham plotline. Of course you could say everything that´s against Jeremiah could be useful for that other goal but there´s a split. SELINA KYLE also is just there to “be there for Bruce” what a muffin. * “I almost got killed fighting your ex-boyfriend's rotting corpse.” Everyone is so nice and grown up to each other. I don´t like the whole Tabs, Babs, Butch relationship mess but I really like how they keep treating each other. BARBARA KEAN sees how important BUTCH GILZEAN is to TABITHA GALAVAN and just a small reminder how Tabitha was there for her is more than enough to have her agree to helping her.   JIM GORDON and LESLIE THOMPKINS agree that the past changed things but they still care for each other and respect each other. As icky as the whole situation including Edward Nygma is (rant above and below), that is sweet. Then the third trifecta is SELINA KYLE also despite all the ups and downs being there for BRUCE WAYNE and even explicitly voicing this! It´s not a I hate you but I´m here. It´s also a unmistakable I like you. Progress.  And while we´ve had all those unusual little moments of agreement between Alfred and Bruce we have ALFRED PENNYWORTH acknowledge her by basically asking her to stay for dinner. Sweet.  So JEREMIAH VALESKA and BRUCE WAYNE. I´m not feeling it > Jerome still tries to tell everyone he´s better than his brother and saneTM.  “Are you out of your mind?!” “Why do you keep insisting I'm insane? What's insane about having a backup plan?” / “I'm nothing if not sane. And reasonable. Two things my brother never valued. Which is why I'll be successful where he failed. Well, that and being vastly more intelligent.” > He´s then again acknowledging that his brother was right that there was something inside of him.  “Jerome gave me what I thought was the worst day of my life. But only by losing everything was I  able to face what was inside me.  And I believe I've seen something very special inside of you as well. But to free it, you'll have to lose everything and everyone you hold dear.”  > I feel vaguely remembered of how RA´S wanted to kill everyone that Bruce loved to change him. > While talking to Selina Kyle Bruce wonders if that one day made part of him insane and if Jeremiah saw this and wanted to bring it out. I somehow could not care less. I don´t really feel medias obsession with that “beast/evil inside man” or whatever. Like just don´t? Even Jeremiah made an effort to “just don´t”, and it would have worked if it weren’t for him getting poisoned. That´s hardly relevant. > Then we have RA´s AL GHUL and Jeremiah both obsessing over Bruce Wayne and teaming up. Okay.  > On a side note: Ra´s what good are your visions if you have to makes sure yourself that they happen? How´s that different from you know ordinary people, usually that´s called having an idea. 

* “Ah, Lucius. It's making some kind of weird noise.” “What kind of a noise?” “A bad one, and and it's it's, uh, getting all glowy.” HARVEY BULLOCK so we got the message that mob mentality wise the GCPD  is still pissed because of the Pyg scenario and blames Harvey. But all it takes to get them clapping again is some (dumb) luck of choosing the right 50% option. Okay, okay and the willingness to run up to a bloody bomb. But to be fair all the police still in the city took kind of the same risk, so we are down again to the luck thing.  Look, I love Harvey. But the dynamics of “followers”, including the Valeska ones on this show are just ridiculous. * “Detective. Don't lie to me.” “It's not looking good, kid.”  Harvey keeping to lie to himself about Jim´s likely demise was sweet though. Also hooray for another case of directly addressing an issue (Does it show that I´ve been around too much passive aggressiveness lately, and tbh struggle with that myself .. ) *  “Leave Gotham. Start a new life somewhere else. Alone.” JIM GORDON telling LESLIE THOMPKINS that she should leave Gotham and should start a new life again (2x15). Like that one time when he already did, and she left and started a new life and then Jim shot her husband. Am I a bit sensitive here or is that additional “alone” kind of not okay? Like it feels like an implied if Jim can´t have her no one should. She´s  been through so much and has done so much that she´s not worth anything more than a life in solitude? Like I get why Jim would think that Leslie couldn´t have feelings for Edward (and I agree #Kristen #framedJimlostchild etc)  but hey how about she might think it´s nice that someone is around that cares about her, and even is ready to suppress his own narcissistic goals and ways for the sake of her.. While the scene with EDWARD NYGMA and Jim Gordon tattling about Leslie was funny I hate it in terms of plot. And if Leslie & Ed´s split is going to be about Jim Gordon or in general a “this is my wifey” conflict I´m gonna murder someone. There´s already been plenty of tension in between them before they mashed Jim into this. This could be about Leslie´s ambitions and goals. As much as I´m kind of meh about the whole atoning for her Virus related sins (or her injecting herself the virus in the first place .. ) thing I like that her character got a goal in doing god (even if they haven´t really shown how she wants to reach a better situation for her people in a way that does even seem slightly plausible) while at the same getting some badass scenes and now I fear this is going to be pushed to the background for the sake of everything being about Leslies feelingz. Nothing wrong with emotions but how about we can get her not being about her feels for men and about her feels for what she thinks is her duty. * JIM GORDON got some advanced phone trolling going on. Him being on screen just like the Valeska´s before is almost as good as him keeping hanging up on Jervis Tetch.   * And “A PALE imitation of Jerome”  how on earth could he drop that one with a straight face :D * “It doesn´t matter”  What kind of crap interlude was the SCARECROW scene? Like I appreciate the view, thanks. I also very much relate to just abandoning the task once it turns out to be more difficult than expected. Like a girl against three villains who would have guessed that much trouble. But that´s just a waste of a potentially so interesting character. Like do something with that beanpole of terror Gotham! But hey .. at least his lack of commitment to the task DID in fact matter in the end!  * And srsly why is the one that got tortured going to make dinner? I get that none of the three had an easy day so how about just ordering some food? ALFRED honey make that shower a very long hot and bubbly bath, that´s the least. * On another side note: Why did they spare Alfred? Why have a stand in? Why keep Alfred alive? Did they have something more sinister planned? Bruce killing real Alfred 2.0?  * “ You do realize the city is about to be blown up? It's an odd time for a nap. “You know that she drugged me.” “Yeah. Don't really care.”  * Think. Think. Think, think, think, think, think, think” * “ sighs You're behind me, aren't you?”  * “Would you believe it? They put me on hold.” Whoever wrote JERMIAH´s lines, bless you. They are so polite, polished and yet vaguely unsettling. I love them.  Of course bless Cameron as well! * “I hope you didn't catch a cold in my brother's grave. I know those things aren't exactly designed for the living.” * “No, not Alfred”  Oh hello there Theo Galavan, long time no see ..  they really refuse to do the “beautiful morning” thing with Theo (Aka you can´t have a dying character talk about something going to be a beautiful morning  2x11 and then have them be revived 3x6 and not have them say something like oh what a beautiful morning or not as beautiful as expected) but then repeat that one line with another character ??! Gotham?!   * Oddly it´s even nice to see Oswald getting a dose of what others that went against him had to put up with buuut .. let´s get back to Oswald having the great Plan B´s n stuff again soon pls