Essen is a man. He is, in fact, Montoya’s partner 
Montoya strikes me as a good cop but not a good friend.
Unless I’m missing something, Sarah Essen is the captain, and Crispus Allen is Montaya’s partner.
:smack::smack::smack:
Sarah Essen, in the comics, was Gordon’s second wife (after Barbara divorced him). So a relationship between them wouldn’t be exactly unprecidented.
(She was later murdered by Joker during…No Man’s Land, IIRC.)
Whew. Thought I was losing my mind. I didn’t know who Essen was so I googled it and thought it was his captain. To have looked it up and still got it wrong was highly embarrassing.
Anyway, I suppose Montoya and Allen will be as nice as the writers want, and Harvey Dent has everyone fooled. I wonder if Dent will get to become a villain during the show, or he’s just another future character we get to meet early.
Depends on what you mean by “villain”. The history of Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent being friends in adulthood prior to the business with the acid toss is a fairly significant part of the character’s mythology, so I don’t see them pushing that back into the current timeframe. They may, however, bring in more indications of the characterization I mentioned earlier, where pre-Two-Face Dent has some major issues that cloud and darken his judgment when under stress.
Best lines from the last episode:
Eddie: “What kind of tool steals a yellow Humvee?”
Joe: “What kind of tool buys a yellow Humvee?”
Man, the level of stupid in this last epi was crazy. Wayne Manor has no security other than a gardener and a butler?
IIRC, there was a Batman villain called the Wraith, whose origin paralled Bruce’s, in that his parents were thieves who were shot dead by Jim Gordon the night the Waynes were murdered. It seemed like Ivy’s attitude was something like the Wraith’s, blaming the law for her father’s death.
There’s a gardener?
not any more…
That was from the last episode of The Flash.
I am not anticipating a crossover.
He’s pushing up daisies, now.
D’OH! :smack: You’re right. I’m so confused …
Flash could totally rid Gotham of crime in five seconds.
I don’t know why but even though this was not a great episode, it kept me interested and went fast, a sign for me that I enjoyed it. But, yes, all involved are stupid.
Wayne Manor is not next to some highway, it’s off on its own. The fact that the gardener even tried to help her instead of immediately running was foolish. And why didn’t he have a walkie talkie?
It’s unfortunately canon but I never understood why Wayne Manor, when Bruce was a kid, didn’t have a full staff of cooks, maids, gardeners, etc. I get why not when he’s older but Alfred should be more of a chamberlain at this point.
I did like the adventures of Kat and B, though, to give Bruce a bit of that side of it. I even liked Ivy, even if they have mangled that story. Funny that Ivy makes others feel uncomfortable.
OMG, the terrible acting by the lead assassin! WTF was someone thinking casting her? Her fighting was awful, her lines terrible! When she did that awful round house kick, I gave up on her abilities.
The other gem was that I did like that Gordon didn’t shirk from calling it in when his gun was used. And the mayor couldn’t get rid of him but could put in as a security guard was good to me.
So, a train wreck, to be sure, but one I watched until the end of it.
vislor
When Jim with his cheesy pursed-lip tough-guy growl talks to Dent with his cheesy wide-eyed tortured delivery, I want to crawl into a hole.
The “cat-like” posing and other mannerisms that have been a hallmark of every live action Catwoman are even more ridiculous when done by a little girl.
Is this the first time in anything reasonably canonical that we’ve seen ANY second staff person at Wayne Manor? I can’t think of a prior example.
No, as he was careful to point out, he is a butler, which is the head of all the household staff (except sometimes cooks). If his sole purpose was to take care of Bruce, he’d be a valet - which he haughtily dimissed.
She reminded me of some of the fifth-raters that Babylon 5 used. I can only assume she has… other talents. :rolleyes:
A gardener that, one presumes, Bruce and Alfred knew and trusted, maybe even liked. But hey, all’s well that ends well, I guess. Bruce is safe, and Selina even returned the jewelry! We can laugh about it now! …Too bad about ol’ Jerry, though…