It lacked the great violence of last week's episode, and I'm still loathing Jada Pinkett-Smith's 'acting', but I'm still watching. I'm in agreement with those who think that far too many of the iconic villains have been introduced way too early, Penguin should basically been given at least a season to himself, with the likes of Nygma or Dent portrayed as being similar ages to Bruce and Selina, allowing their psychoses to be examined properly, rather than shoehorned in. But now that we have the characters, Dent's sudden flash of near-murderous rage would have worked better if we'd seen more of him as 'Mr Nice Guy' to begin with, but his use of the double headed coin as a trick to help others rather than as a cheat for himself was a nice touch. Bruce and Selina interacted well, and we saw Bruce already beginning to explore the path that will ultimately lead to the Batcave and the Bat-suit, while at the same time taking a misstep that allows Selina to explain just how dangerous an undertaking it will be! The swimming pool scene was kind of dumb though, why Bruce had to train fully dressed escapes me. The bomber was portrayed as having initially been an idealist of some sort, so his building a nail bomb to take out the guards at the munitions factory kind of jarred, personally I considered that more violent than last weeks fistfights. Penguin's discovery of Fish's 'weapon' and Ms Mooney's destruction of a large quantity of Falcone's cash reserves were interesting developments,hopefully that story will continue to hold the interest, Barbara is becoming increasingly disappointing as a character; it's one thing to run away from a traumatising experience, it's another thing again to run straight back to a former lover! Lastly, an appeal to the showrunners; I don't want to see pre-teens sucking face, please. On the other hand, DO NOT make Bruce Wayne too inhibited to take Selina up on her offer!
Review of Harvey Dent
