rewatching Gotham for the first time in a few years i forgot how fucking corny this show is. please be normal for 5 fucking seconds any of you. need to get to ed and oz's arks NOW idgaf about jim gordon i need my gay freaks.
I will say that the one thing I appreciate about Gotham(2014) is that it didn't waste a lot of time switching from gritty mob crime show to full on comic book silliness. Superpowered human experiments running wild in the city? Galavan back from the dead with more theater kid energy than before? Incomprehensible age up for Ivy for no reason what so ever? THIS is a Gotham where Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne wouldn't even bat an eye at all the bullshit they deal with in the future.
🇲🇽 #Mexico: Protesters broke down the doors of Mexico’s presidential palace today, repeatedly ramming a truck into the building. The protests were surrounding the violent kidnapping of 43 students in 2014, which many believe was directly enabled by corrupt police.
So my labcoat for the wtnv live show came in today (bc if you can’t wear a labcoat to wtnv then where can you wear a labcoat ???)
And my dad saw it and was like “I have labcoats why didn’t you just ask me ?” And then he pulls out like seven labcoats from our basement ????? My dad is a businessman what is he doing with so many labcoats ?????
Never thought I'd see a cop show be so fucking liberal and thoughtful as to acknowledge that a person who is diagnosed with psychopathy is not, by default, a serial killer. They have "persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits" (Wikipedia) but none of that means that they are going to (or have) become a serial killer. (The show uses the word "psychopathy" so that's what I'll be using.)
The basic premise of the show, which is the Korean drama Bad Guys, is that a detective uses 3 prisoners to help him fight crime, usually people who have killed repeatedly. There's the mobster, the hitman, and the aforementioned psychopath, Jung-moon.
It later turns out that Jung-moon has been framed for the serial killings that he went to jail for. He was framed, in fact, by the detective he is now working for because, well, he was a psychopath so that meant that it had to be him, even if there was no real evidence.
But it is wrong and the show specifically states that. It was wrong, the show says, that this was done to someone no matter what they were diagnosed with. It was wrong, the show says, that the detective assumed the worst of Jung-moon because of his diagnosis. It was wrong, the show says, that Jung-moon was sent to prison for years. It was cruel and awful and wrong.
And the show never refutes that Jung-moon has psychopathy! Never! No one ever calls it into question, tries to say that he didn't do the killings because he's not obviously not a psychopath. He has psychopathy but he still didn't deserve to go to jail or be treated the way he was treated. The psychopathy is never used as a reason to make it better or understandable that he was sent away.
They even have the detective apologize to Jung-moon! "I branded you as a psychopath, blaming everything on you," says the detective. "I'm sorry. Please forgive me." There's no attempt to make excuses, to pretend that there was another reason he thought it was Jung-moon. He straight up just admits that that was the only reason he targeted Jung-moon. And he acknowledges that this was wrong and cruel of him.
The detective then gives Jung-moon his gun and tells him that he deserves to be shot by the other man. And Jung-moon puts the gun to the detective's head and says, "I can't feel the emotions you fee. Because I can't feel those feelings, I wanted to learn them. Whether it's blame, sadness, happiness, I learned from you for the past couple months." And then Jung-moon doesn't pull the trigger. He's a psychopath. He has low empathy and low self-control and he still doesn't kill the detective.
I just wasn't expecting such a nuanced, respectful, and kind look at a character diagnosed with psychopathy from a silly little cop drama which is basically just a mystery with cops being overly dramatic and a fuck ton of fight scenes. It was just incredibly refreshing to see.
put aside Dark Souls II for the moment, not getting enough out from it for the time I'm putting in. Tried to play the og Deus Ex goty edition but my computer keeps insisting it's a virus (and I tried a couple of workaround suggested by others on steam and didn't seem to work either). So back to L.A. Noire it is, a game I'm struggling to remember the control scheme for lol.
To blame or not to blame Aaron for willingly leaving his house when he suspects someone is outside of it and he has a known stalker, thus giving his potentially dangerous stalker an opportunity to sneak into his house and record him while he sleeps. 🤔🤔🤔