After Bridgit Pike rejoins her brothers, a new spark of courage ignites within her, as she chooses to take control of her future. Meanwhile, Kringle and Nygma’s relationship will take a new step and Penguin and Galavan continue to battle for control of Gotham City’s underworld.

Gotham‘s sixth episode continues last week’s episode which had Bridgit running around setitng fire and Selina helping her in a weird way. The plot of Selina helping Bridgit doesn’t make too make sense in that she wants to protect her, and also wants her to help do some crimes, and then get her to run for it. It’s all over the place as far as story, and other than moving Selina’s character along a bit, it’s an idiotic plot point that tries to shoehorn in yet another villain and does so in an idiotic way.

The episode’s tone is all over the place, much like the plot, in that the series still doesn’t know if it wants to be Burton or Schumacher and does neither really well at all.

That figuring out of tone applies to Nygma’s story which is so shifted from the comic version, it’s almost as if they don’t know the essence of the character. He’s slipped into more and more of a psycho killer instead of someone wanting to play games with Batman (who doesn’t exist yet). Nygma is the one who wants to prove he’s the smartest one in the room, not a hands on killer.

The episode wraps up with what it thinks is some dramatic fashion, but again shifts the tone for a more horror infused vibe. It’s all leading to somewhere, I’m just not convinced it knows where that is.

Overall Rating: 6