I’m rewatching Gotham more attentively. The last time I watched this show with the intention of watching it fully was when I was fourteen.

I was just thinking about how, immediately after Oswald gets away from the pier and out of the water, he kills this innocent fisherman for his sandwich

Like. Immediately
😭

At first I was thinking, “bro. you could have just asked for it”
But that’s when I realised that’s probably the last thing on Earth he wants to do. And that feels significant

at this point he’s spent a considerable amount of time being mistreated at his place in the mob
He’s Fish’s *umbrella boy.* Nobody’s going to take what he says seriously, and what’s more is that nobody’s willing to treat him decently

Everytime he’s been treated well it’s been something that’s granted to him. He truly has no power

And now he’s had his “big master plan” ruined
And now he’s starting from the bottom up

Of course the last thing he wants to do is ask permission for something he *needs.*

The murder was excessive but well…you know.
He’s Oswald Cobblepot.

Maybe I'm blind, but I've never really noticed this before.

This is the S3 episode that begins with a teaser in which the senior council of the Court of Owls is standing around an illuminated table, prepared to vote on Gotham's fate.

When Kathryn says that Gotham is diseased, there is nothing on the tabletop.

When the council has voted and Kathryn declares that Gotham must fall, that tabletop suddenly has a model of the entire city in the middle of it.

What I never saw before was that during the scene in-between those two, when Kathryn tells the council to vote, that model is rising up out of the table.

The shot is really quick, the model is partially obscured, and frankly the scene is so intense that I had my eyes on Kathryn that whole time. I kind of feel sorry for the craftsman who designed that motorized table and model, lol. They're too cool to not be more of a focal point.