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Gotham, s2e07 and s4e11: It wasn’t always fun.

In which Kristen Kringle is reduced to the status of a bicycle or a beloved sweater.  No dignity, even in death.

P.S. Edward also mutilated her body before ultimately dismembering Kristen, piling her body parts into a trunk, and dumping it in a shallow grave.  And then he killed some poor rando, and threw that guy on top of her.

He also toasted himself while “burying” her.

That’s an excellent point: he reframes her murder as the moment of his ‘rebirth’ or ‘unification’, or whatever the hell he calls it-  Which flies in the face of the argument that he might have killer her accidentally- which he did not.  He’s a scientist and an anatomist, so he knows exactly how much pressure applied to the throat would be fatal.  He wasn’t dissociating when he murdered her, he wasn’t experiencing a delusion or a hallucination- so it wasn’t even “Bad Edward” who physically extinguished her life.  “Bad Edward” only manifested afterwards- as he did when Edward murdered Tom Dougherty and disposed of Tom’s body, possibly experiencing a psychotic break.  In the clumsy pseudo-scientific visual language of Gotham, it’s possible to read “Bad Edward” as nothing more than the externalization of what Edward already knows about himself, that he’s a murderer.
Anyway, any philosophizing about Kristen’s death in the grand scheme of Edward’s narrative arc is asinine, because we saw exactly how it happened.  He told her that he’d killed Tom.  She, not surprisingly, wasn’t thrilled to learn that she’d slept with a murderer, and threatened to tell the police.  What probably sealed Kristen’s fate: her oblique threat of sexual assault (”You’re going to go to jail, and they’re going to do terrible things to you”).  Of all of Edward’s protestations, “I’m not like that” alone seems desperate, genuine.  Maybe one day, the writers will give us some sort of explanation for Edward’s bizarre, painful, destructive relationship to sexuality and gender, but until then- we’re left with the unequivocal image of him strangling a woman half his size to death in her underwear (right after sleeping with her, as though there needed to be a greater connection between sex and death) because she said he was unmanly.

This is my exact issue with his “character development”. 

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