Rise of the Villains reached a mid-season finale on Gotham.
It’s been a bloody, action-packed first half of the season with the death and birth of the Joker legend, the arrival of mad monks from Batman mythology and Barbara‘s deadly wedding ceremony gone wrong. They were all pieces of a revenge plot that goes back to a war among Gotham City’s first families.
In Worse Than a Crime the villains have risen and have the upper hand with our heroes on the run or waiting to be killed. Young Bruce Wayne was being held and waiting to be served on the sacrificial altar, Alfred was hurt and on the run after a near fatal encounter with Galavan’s psychotic sister and James Gordon turned to unlikely allies to save the Son of Gotham as Galavan‘s endgame raced to a climax with huge hints as new villains rising.
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Theo Galavan revealed he’s a descendant of the Duma family who were exiled from Gotham City by the Waynes. Galavan unleashed the Maniax in his bid to become the Mayor and then imported insane murderous monks of The Order of St. Dumas to “cleanse” Gotham and ultimately kill Bruce Wayne as the killer climax of his revenge.
After the law and order fails to keep Theo Galavan behind bars, a determined Jim Gordon goes in guns blazing with The Penguin, who is out for revenge after Galavan had the mob boss’s mother killed.
As the clock ticked down for Bruce, Jim and Penguin’s crew closed in for a major battle with a big twist. Just when you thought Cobblepot was going deliver painful retribution on Galavan….Gordon stops the beat down then shoots Galavan. The shocking twist happened on the Gotham pier where Jim faked shot Oswald in the very first episode. It’s a surprise move for the one good cop left in Gotham. How far down this dark path will Gordon follow?
Two classic Batman villains will rise when the series returns.
Nathan Darrow joined the cast as Wayne Enterprises scientist Victor Fries aka Mister Freeze. We saw Freeze and his weapon but his back story could come in February when the show returns. In the comics Fries attempted to save his terminally ill wife Nora by freezing her until a cure for her condition could be found. We only saw the costumed Freeze stalk and freeze a victim followed by the show’s title sequence on ice.
Freeze’s addition could be a sign producers are moving closer to having The Court of Owls as part of the show. In the Batman comics, The Court of Owls are a secret society who employ assassins called Talons to enforce their agenda. The Court used Freeze’s technology to keep their army of killers on ice. A big hint was dropped in tonight’s episode when Bruce revealed owls were his favorite animals during an interrogation/sedution with Silver St. Cloud.
The other evil addition is Professor Hugo Strange. This Golden Age bad guy was one of the Batman’s first recurring foes and the first to uncover his secret identity.
In the finale, Galavan’s corpse in an underground Wayne Enterprises lab run by a “Doctor Strange” which could signal we’ve not seen the last of Galavan. The Doctor’s assistant even said “Strange has high hopes for this one.” Strange is a genius in the fields of biology, chemistry, psychology and his crimes include turning innocent Gotham residents into monsters and inmates into zombie-like enforcers. Could the Doctor orchestrate Galavan’s resurrection? And did you see a woman in one of Strange’s tubes with the signature shocking pink hair streaks of Fish Mooney? Could Strange and Freeze form an unholy alliance to bring Galavan and Fish back?
New footage of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice debuted in tonight’s episode.
By Editor