āAw, Harvey, how can you be mad at me for standing at your desk and using your pen to sign your professional death warrant right in front of you, because you made one mistake that could easily be attributed to post traumatic stress, serious drugs, and other medical problems?Ā Come on, donāt be a bitch.Ā When you come back from fully recovering from the hideous wound you sustained because yet another weird criminal has a boner for me, Iāll let you sit at my knee and take dictation.ā
Yeah, Jim, butā¦ most of the people who are dead as a result of Oswaldās ascent are bad people?Ā I doubt that anyone is crying over someone like Maroni.Ā Fish, though I love her, was not a good personā and remind me, actually, who killed her the second time, the time that stuck?Ā Theo Galavanā¦ next.Ā Grace van Dahl, et alā does Jim even know about them?Ā Hugo Strange breaking the laws of man and God to the tune of immeasurable suffering in Indian Hill was made possible by a deal brokered by Falcone, who was an agent of the Court of Owls.Ā Thomas and Martha Wayne, The Only Victims That Matter TM, were killed when Falcone was in town.Ā If Theo could waltz into Gotham when Oswald was in power, he probably could have done the same with Falcone in charge.Ā Jerome may have been aided by Theo, but he killed Sarah Essen of his own volition, because he was traumatized and angry at the world; Falcone couldnāt have stopped someone like that- no more than he could have stopped Gerald Crane, or the Ogre, and Falcone was quite possibly in league with Francis Dulmacher, so really, Jim?Ā Really?Ā Really, really?Ā Really.Ā Really???
Really?
Harveyās justified ire and bitterness added five years to my life.
Presentingā¦.The Use ofĀ āFreakā in Gotham (so far)
Lisa and I have been talking about this for months (especially regarding itās pejorative queer-coded use) and I have (finally) collected every (as of 4×03) reference
to someone in Gotham being called a freak or being described as one:
Unsurprisingly Oswald and Strangeās Monsters are called freak the most, with Azrael, Bridgit, and Ed tied for second place.Ā
The only people to self identify as a freak are Ivy and Oswald.Ā
Cops are the biggest users of the word, accounting for almost 1/3 of these (and Bullock accounting for more than half of those).Ā Ā
None of Strangeās Monsters are ever referred to directly as freak. Oswald is referred to directly 3 times, and Bridgit and Ed are referred to directly 2 times.Ā
Freak is used almost exclusively used for villains and true to comics, villains of a particular type. Even when Fish has powers, sheās wasnāt called a freak, and Mafiosi are never freaks, only masked villains (to quote Harvey āanother freak in a mask, awesomeā) and those with super abilities. (Which makes Oswald here so interesting since in the comics heās much closer to a gangster type, and in Gotham too, than the freakish masked villain type, hence the queer-coded pejorative discussion. Ogden Barker calls Oswald a freak immediately after referring to him as a āfruitcake leprechaun soā¦ And both Ed and Oswald end up killing someone in reaction to being called a freak)
Thereās a ton more info in the document (including the full line, who said it, if at was said directly, and if it was a self identification) which can be found hereĀ but this feels like enough to be getting on with. And Iāll update the list as we go through s4,Ā
[*] at the beginning of the quote means the line refers to more than one person and has been entered again separately for each personĀ
oswald gets called a freak even more than iād thought, poor thing. no wonder he uses it for himself – likeĀ āpenguinā, sometimes itās better to take a word for yourself to lessen the sting and take back some power. iām sad they havenāt followed through with the whole freak family thing so far this season for exactly that reason; it was such a nice idea. and i 100% agree about the whole queercoding thing.
(also, it doesnāt surpise me at all that harvey is the one calling people freaks most of the time. that kind of thing seems to be his shtick.)
Just the sheer differences in tone, appearance, and emotion. My bby has come so far and has so much love and forgivness ;-;
Ask him.Ā He understands what it is to bring something into being.Ā It is a part of you.Ā Forever.
Good-bye, Fish.Ā Donāt come back.
I have very mixed feelings about this. Because I absolutely hate Fish and Hugo so Iām salty with Oswald cause he didnāt kill them but at the same time I have this feeling that is just kinda like aww
My frst reaction when I first saw this scene. Now I just get so many feels and wish Mama Fish was around :’(
š„ There is beauty in destructionš„ 