#gotham recaps? reactions? me screaming about batcat

[wearetakingthehobbitstogallifrey]

Gotham 4x16 (spoilers below)

-so Tetch has been trying to hynoptize people and stuff okaaay now I get why the guard is listening to music I thought that Arkham’s security measures were ridiculously lax (not that strict measures would do much good, this is Arkham after all

-LOL “Mr. Tetch” and “My dear Mr. Crane” I have a feeling these two psychos are gonna be fun together and oMG EW WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU BREwING IN THE tOILET UGH

-Jerome is a terrible creepy murderous evil psycho and yet he is also funny and GENTLEMEN WHEN I SAY MEET ME AT THREE HAIRS PAST THE MOLE I DO NOT MEAN FIVE HAIRS PAST

THIS VILLAIN TEAMUP IS GOING TO BE A TRIP

-Harvey I love you but can you NOT be so bitter?  Like jeez I get it Jim messed up and it was pretty bad and feel free to rib him about it for a while but gosh you don’t have to twist the knife every time you open your mouth—he’s trying and that’s better than any other cop in Gotham

-Harvey: I had a thought

Jim:  I’ll alert the press

LOL

And then

Harvey:  what if Jarvis hypnotized us when we were on the phone

Jim:  oh good, so we’re either hypnotized or idiots

-OH GOSH JARVIS ISN’T PULLING PUNCHES

-okay I know the Gotham PD is a bit chaotic right now what with all the Arkham escapees they are trying to capture and put back behind bars but Bruce and Selina WALK RIGHT IN TO THE GCPD DRESSED IN THEIR BBY BATSUIT AND CATSUIT AND NO ONE BLINKS AN EYE OR ASKS THEM WHY THEY ARE THERE AND OH THERE GOES SELINA BREAKING INTO JIM’S OFFICE TO STEAL JEROME’S FILE

(sidenote, the bickering and eye-glares are in top form batcat is flourishing!)

-Barbara: *literally dying from a headache*

Tabitha: lol get over it

Barbara: yeah okay you got a point there

-Ra’s: *resurrects Barbara with Lazurus water* everyone hates you, everyone hates me, there’s like a similarity thing going on

Me: mhhmm makes sense I guess...

Ra’s:  so now I’m gonna make you the Demon’s Head

Me: WUT

-Harvey:  yeah same story all around.  All they remember is they were driving then they were here then it was cluck cluck here a chick there a chick

LOL Harvey cracks me up

-OMG NO BRUCE CRACKS ME UP HE’S TRYING TO DISTRACT HARPER FROM CATCHING SIGHT OF SELINA AND HE PRETENDS TO BE DISTRAUGHT BECAUSE JEROME MIGHT WANT TO KILL HIM AND I’M SORRY SON YOU NEED TO STEP YOUR PRETEND CRYING GAME BECAUSE WAS THE WORST THING EVER LOL

-so now Jarvis has a bunch of people lined up on a rooftop waiting to jump at midnight, and if police go near them they are set to jump then, so in conclusion Jim needs a lasso

NVM he’s gonna need a MILLION lassos

-AAAAAAHHHHH BATCAT

Okay so Bruce is being all serious and justice-y and I Let Jerome Live And Now I Am Responsible For Him (which is very brave and very Bruce and very Batman) but Selina is like BRUH your ego needs its own carseat and then Bruce just looks at her and then leans in close and Selina is like *smiles* HE IS GONNA KISS ME but then Bruce just OPENS THE DOOR and Selina is torn between disappointment and rolling her eyes and smiling and she gets out huffily but also can’t help but smile and Bruce kinda smiles too I JUST CAN’T BECAUSE THEY BOTH BELIEVE DIFFERENT THINGS BUT THEY STILL BOTH LIKE AND ADMIRE THE OTHER PERSON AND THEY TOTALLY WANNA KISS BUT BRUCE IS ANNOYING SELINA AND SELINA DOESN’T UNDERSTAND BRUCE’S DRIVE TO ACT AND I LOVE BATCAT WITH MY WHOLE HEART AND SOUL

-I don’t know enough about hypnotism to know if this is how hypnotism actually works, but kudos to Harvey for jumping in that car (also can we take note that no matter how angry Harvey is at Jim he still does reckless things knowing full well that Jim has his back?)

-annnd Jerome is gonna be stew? doubtful, Scarecrow has been scarce this episode, pretty sure he’s about to make a grand entrance

-Harvey seriously needs to stop getting hypnotized

-OMG I WAS WRONG BRUCE WAYNE STEPS IN TO...SAVE JEROME?! SUCH A BATMAN MOVE.  BRUCE IS NOT HERE FOR THE MURDER STUFF

-aight, Barbara has the guts to stand up to the League of Shadows, I’ll give her that, but still Barbara: *kills one guy who seriously underestimated her, then faces twenty or so trained assassins who will not underestimate her* who else wants a shot at the title

twenty or so trained assassins: *raises their weapons*

Barbara: I may not have thought that through

-EVERYTHING BETWEEN JEROME AND BRUCE IS FREAKING SPECTACULAR I WANT TO QUOTE EVERY BIT AND NOTE THE LOOK ON BRUCE’S FACE WHEN HE GLANCES AT JEROME’S UNCLE WHEN HE IS KILLED, AND THEN WHEN BRUCE SHOUTS NO TO STOP JEROME FROM KILLING THE GUY WHO IS LITERALLY CHOKIG THE LIFE OUT OF HIM (BRUCE)

MY BATMAN SON

-OMG JIM JUST SHOT JARVIS STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HAND

-AND SELINA SHOWS UP WITH A WHIP AND A SMILE TO SAVE BRUCE’S LIFE EXCEPT SHE IS LIKE TIME TO SHOOT JEROME AND BRUCE STOPS HER AND BOY IS SHE GONNA BE MAD (BUT I AM REJOICING BECAUSE OF REASONS, LIKE THE FACT THAT BRUCE’S AND SELINA’S FACES WERE LIKE TWO INCHES APART)

-well I was wrong Selina isn’t mad she’s not happy, but she isn’t MAD, and all I can say is that she knows Bruce and why he is the way he is and even if she doesn’t UNDERSTAND it she still respects him enough to let him be who he is AND ALSO THAT LINE OF HERS “JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON’T TAKE SO MUCH RESPONSIBILITY THAT YOU GET YOURSELF KILLED” SHE FREAKING CARES FOR HIM GAH

-I gotta say, for however psycho Barbara can be, she has guts

-JIM SAVED EVERYONE BY TELLING THEM TO SAVE EACH OTHER.  NICE

-LOL Harvey with the backup stash of alcohol and also PSA PSA PSA THE JIM GORDON/HARVEY BULLOCK BROTP LIVES AGAIN

Harvey:  you know what I was thinking when I got in that car?  I was thinking I can do this reckless thing, because if things go south, Jim Gordon will save me

*CRIES FOREVER* IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL

Jim:  I judged you for a long time and I shouldn’t have

YAASSS

Harvey:  what you know about me is just the tip of the iceberg, there are no heroes here

Jim:  there are no heroes here *CUE HARPER OPENING THE DOOR AND ANNOUNCING THAT “THE WAYNE KID” IS ON THE LINE*

ASDFGHJKLHDFJADHFJKALHGDFJKDF JUST YOU WAIT JIM GORDON JUST YOU WAIT BATMAN IS COMING

-I LOVE JIM AND BRUCE’S DYNAMIC SO MUCH “I’LL SEE YOU AT ST. IGNATIUS JIM, YOU CAN YELL AT ME THEN”

(but also I wonder if Jim is going to be able to easily make the connection between Bruce and the future Batman)

-ah that’s where Crane got to