The second season premiere of Gotham takes a long hard look at itself in the mirror and hits the nail on the head: 'Sometimes the right thing is the ugly thing." So they've given up and become a comic book. A nasty one at that. It's not exactly good, but I guess it's a little better than it was.

The engine's still sputtering a bit, but I think it turned over on this show's third try, an uneven episode that at least has enough going for it to rise above the mundane. Rising above the mundane is a good thing. Keep it up.