![]() Payoffs were also a big problem as both the midseason and season finales faltered in big ways. Penguin playing Falcone and Maroni against each other. Gordon asking Penguin for a favor (multiple times, never learning a lesson that the show seemed to insist he'd learned). Gordon getting in over his head with an investigation that targeted his fellow cops. The show also spun its wheels quite a bit, even repeating many of the same beats over and over. We could have NOT seen her entire Dollmaker arc and she he could have still just shown up with those new henchman, dressed all ridiculously like that, and the overarching story wouldn't have felt any different. ![]() Especially since when she did eventually show back up in Gotham it felt like more than a few story beats were skipped. The most arduous example of this was Fish's entire side adventure with The Dollmaker. It all smacked of a series doing its best to stretch things out to 44 minutes, 22 times. ![]() But they were shoved in anyhow and usually given hacky morsels of story. Play There were many times when an episode didn't need Penguin.
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