Slob mentality.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Two episodes into Gotham's third season and Gordon's still not a cop! Thank goodness. Like I wrote back in my review of the premiere, I hope this break from the GCPD last a good while because, as it's been well established, he's lousy at law enforcement.
He's a hell of a good friend though, I'll give him that, because this week, for the sake of saving Harvey he gave up his chance at a million bucks AND he recklessly incited a riot that got both citizens and Indian Hill mutants killed. Yup, that was his plan to help Fish escape. He asked Penguin to turn the angry villagers on the cops and storm the building (which also put cops lives in danger too) so he could lead her out the back and turn her over to Penguin...
TO BE MURDERED!
Yeah, he doesn't need to wear a badge anytime soon. He's fine right where he is as a boozy, bitter brat. His new disheveled gig is even helping him with the ladies as he and Valerie wound up kissing at the end (as Leslie rolled back into town).
"Burn the Witch" steered Penguin toward the popular vote, handed Hugo Strange over to Fish, and aged-up Ivy (now played by Maggie Geha) so that she could quit being a street urchin. The show's producers have stated why they changed Ivy -- something something about wanting to utilize the character's seductive nature -- and that's fine, I suppose. It's not like they were doing anything with her as a kid. She was just a peripheral player in Selina's world. An Easter Egg, mostly, with no real journey.
Now, since the show's never had any clear rules regarding how it doses out the Batman-verse (aside from "no Batman"), she's a grown up and confused plant-loving psycho wandering the cityscape. Will she eventually mellow out into someone more keen and conniving or will she just continue to murder people who don't water their ferns? We'll have to find out.
The final story here, in "Burn the Witch," involved Bruce balking and backing down in front of the Court's Katherine (DC's Kathy Kane?) and creating an uneasy truce. It was a moment he felt ashamed of, though at the same time a bit of peace. He was a nice moment there, at the end, with Alfred, talking about what he might do with his new un-obsessed life. Ballroom dancing, perhaps? Nope. As it turned out, Wayne Manor was about to get broken into for the umpteenth time. This time by Bruce's screamo clone.
The Verdict
When I talk about enjoying Gordon's time away from the GCPD, I'm half-joking. I'm just going with the flow here, and the flow is that Gordon is, at best, an irresponsible mess. In "Burn the Witch," he made one of the most boneheaded calls on the show so far when he triggered the angry mob so that he could save himself and Harvey. A good friend, sure, but Jim's not exactly the embodiment of justice we've come to expect from the character. At least it was good to see Strange return. And yes, I did kind of like seeing Penguin spare Fish's life. It at least showed us that he's more honorable than Jim (though we knew that).
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