This show really went off the rails about 8 or so episodes ago. When I started watching the show, it was more a show I wanted to like than a show I did like. A show about Jim Gordon being a cop? Yeah, I can get down with that. And at first, the show was struggling to find it's footing, but it started to pick up, and I thought it was going to start getting good. The show managed to take Penguin, who is a character who I've never liked, and make him interesting, and he's easily the best part about this show (though that's not exactly a high bar). The show peaked with E7,
The Penguin's Umbrella, which was pretty good, and it was the show started to develop. Then it dipped a bit, but not enough to be much of an issue, I still held out hope, and then it went on mid-season break,
Hoo boy. It came back from the mid-season break and it gave us some shitty episodes, and then it went completely off the fucking rails. Spoilers for up through E22:
God, does this show get stupid after the mid-season break. Jim gets transferred to the Asylum, and they fail to do anything interesting there, and then shuffle him back after a couple episodes. It was pointless, does little to develop anything story-wise, except introduce his new love interest, who isn't compelling, and could've easily been introduced without it.
Then we have the episode with the Graysons, which was fucking dumb as balls. And the way that episode treats magic as possible, when the show as every indication of being set in the real world annoyed the hell out of me, and it's probably the worst episode of the show so far. It was fucking stupid.
This Ogre villain isn't really all that compelling, and he just feels like a poor man's Patrick Bateman. Know what I want to do every time I see him? I want to go watch American Psycho again. Cause it's way better than this drivel. His acting for the character just feels... I'm not sure I can quite put my finger on it, but something about it seems very off. Hollow? Forced? Not sure. Maybe it's just because of how much it reminds me of Christian Bale's far superior performance in American Psycho.
Fish. Fucking Fish. Fish fucking Mooney. When the show started I didn't much mind Fish. She wasn't exactly a great character, but I could tolerate her. Ever since she was almost killed she's become absolutely insufferable. Know what they should've done? Killed her. And... Bruce? Her right hand guy, his name is slipping my mind right now. Their escape seemed cliche, hollow, a cop-out (to killing them), and stupid. They should've just died, sometimes characters need to die to tell a good story, but apparently that's not something that Gotham is interested in doing. The arc with her on the fucking island with the organ collector is pointless, irrelevant to the main story, uninteresting, and dumb. It just makes me want to tune out, and it feels like shitty filler. I can't be brought to care about her, nor do I know why the show expects me to give a damn about what happens to her. She can die for all I care. More than that, I want her to fucking die at this point. But now she's escaped, and going back to Gotham, and probably about to do something that won't be in any way a good story.
Huh. That ended up far more critical and angry than I expected. Oh well.
A couple more general complaints. The show has a lot of cheesy elements to it, like malos pointed out in his OP. I don't mind the cheesy mafia stuff too much. Sure, it's cliche, but I can deal with that. The cheesy cop stuff bugs me a bit more, but it's not too much of an issue. Though both are a detriment to the show. Sometimes though, it gets to be just too much. But I digress.
Young Bruce Wayne is an insufferably annoying little shit who annoys me even more than Fish. Bruce, right now you are just a little boy, and you are a precocious little shit, and a pretentious bastard. I groan anytime he's on screen. I don't want to watch you try to act all adult and mature, I don't want to see your fucking face. I just want this show to focus on Jim Gordon, the cops, Penguin, and the mob for now. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's at least something that doesn't make me want to punch the screen. Young Selena Kyle can be annoying at times, but for the most part I don't mind her.
I don't know why I still watch this show. Seeing as there are only 3 episodes left for the season, I might jump ship after that.