Man, if they dropped Pattinson/Batman in episode 8 after Reeves dismissal comments, this show could potentially skyrocket to my favorite television show of all time.
Batman comes in and breaks Vic's arms for pulling his gun on Batman.ScottishFire said:
Man, if they dropped Pattinson/Batman in episode 8 after Reeves dismissal comments, this show could potentially skyrocket to my favorite television show of all time.
While that would be a very nice, very subtle nod to the Batman, I wanna see Batman come in and save Oz in the last episode when he is literally in a no escape situation. That would make me geek out so hard lolAgfromHOU said:
Just show Batman perched up on a building watching Oz, then cut to black
Did not know that. Great to hear. I would like to see some sort of mention of Batman in this show. The Penguin got chased down in a crazy car chase by a guy in a bat suit a few weeks, surely that is on his mind?AgfromHOU said:
No. I'm pretty sure they got rid of the "bat embargo" they had going around the time of TDK trilogy
Mullet twins. #ThePenguin pic.twitter.com/hXo76msc6d
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That's what I thought, too. Not anticlimactic but rather Oz being deprived of what he really wanted, to beat Maroni and claim victory.PatAg said:
Seemed in theme with other parts of the episode, what do these main characters actually want and not getting what they want
#ThePenguin
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Oz anytime his mom played with his brothers: pic.twitter.com/6tHiQgGddG
Throughout the whole series, Oz has been a ruthless, murderous traitor... but still with some level of likability. That went out the window for me when it was revealed he killed his brothers.Quote:
the reveal that Oz has basically been a psychopath his entire life - one who will do whatever it takes to get whatever he wants (in this case killing his brothers for alone time with mom)
*Oz and Sofia destroying Gotham #ThePenguin
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Bruce Wayne: pic.twitter.com/A59oD87v9F
Brian Earl Spilner said:
I loved how clear they made it where it was going. The second you saw the jealousy in his eyes when his brothers showed up at the apartment, you knew where things were going.
And it's ironic that hatch door that killed his brothers is the same one that he used to save his life while his crew got killed behind him.
Also, assuming all his guys are dead and mushrooms are destroyed, you have to wonder where things go from here for Batman Part II. I guess Oz has to start from scratch.
I think there's no way his mom survives. We know she's already ready to go. Oz will maybe "sacrifice" her as a way to accept punishment from Sofia, and then she'll either leave Gotham, or Oz/Vic kills her.
I also liked this note, and is just good writing. He told Vic that he knew about this place because he and his brothers would play down there, and now we have a WHOLE lot more backstory to that lol. Dude is a piece of workBrian Earl Spilner said:
I loved how clear they made it where it was going. The second you saw the jealousy in his eyes when his brothers showed up at the apartment, you knew where things were going.
And it's ironic that hatch door that killed his brothers is the same one that he used to save his life while his crew got killed behind him.
Also, assuming all his guys are dead and mushrooms are destroyed, you have to wonder where things go from here for Batman Part II. I guess Oz has to start from scratch.
I think there's no way his mom survives. We know she's already ready to go. Oz will maybe "sacrifice" her as a way to accept punishment from Sofia, and then she'll either leave Gotham, or Oz/Vic kills her.
My mind went more towards De Niro in Heat - he knew what he should've disappeared after the bank heist, but dude just had to go and kill Waingro.TCTTS said:
I don't often like flashbacks in episodes to when the main character was a kid, but the actor who played young Oz was spot-on, and the reveal that Oz has basically been a psychopath his entire life - one who will do whatever it takes to get whatever he wants (in this case killing his brothers for alone time with mom) - was incredibly effective.
That, and as much as I want Sofia to live/have a role in The Batman Part II, it feels like her fate was sealed this episode. She finally admitted to herself that what she truly wants is to be free - and clearly now has the means to leave Gotham behind/start a new life - but not before her blood lust gets the best of her, wanting one last time to see Oz suffer. I could be wrong, but that felt like one of those decisions a character is given, which is often a way out of their current predicament, but then they ultimately make the decision not to break the cycle and instead they inevitably fall victim to its temptation/grind (think DiCaprio's "I'm not leaving" moment in The Wolf of Wall Street, in which Cristin Milioti ironically also starred).
Regardless, I'm excited to see how it all plays out in the finale next week.
I also noticed that, and it's why details like that make this show so damn good. Os is a sociopath, he has been since he was a kid, hence what happened to his brothers. What he wants is the only thing that matters. He constructs narratives in his own head to justify what he does and who he wants to be. And since his mother has memory issues he's constantly shaping her reality as well, they only live partially in the real world, so much of what they both live in is a product of his imagination.Brian Earl Spilner said:
A small detail I liked was showing Rex Calabrese was just some random street-level thug that was having a dude beat up on the street. Nothing like the guy he's been talking up the entire show.
Kind of goes to show he built up this persona mostly in his head, the ideal of what he wanted for himself, and not based in reality.
PatAg said:
Did I miss something with the flashback, I didnt get the impression he intentionally locked them in. He just freaked out on the ladder, and slammed it shut.
Now after that, he does make the decision to not speak up and tell his Mom what happened, and essentially decides to let them die.
It felt to me like he was wrestling with admitting what he did to his mom once it was getting later in the day, but they still could have been saved at that point if he did.
I thought they did a good job of showing how that could happen, and to me is a lot better and in keeping with how this world has been presented. A lot better than some evil kid who kills his brothers on purpose out of jealousy.