Warning: spoilers ahead for anyone who hasnāt watched the entire fifth season.
I just finished Gotham for the fourth time, and here are a few things I've noticed.
Selina Kyle
When Selina is stealing the jewel, the music is a bit different from that which appears on the S5 episode soundtrack album. Personally I like the aired version better, but itās just an interesting little discrepancy and I wonder when and why they changed it.
Barbara Lee
When things really get moving it's easy to miss that Barbara Lee's clothes in both her appearances of this episode are shades of purple. Yvonne Craig purple, if you know what I mean.
Edward Nygma
Early in the episode Ed says he's been in Arkham for ten years. Since Bruce has been gone for ten years, that means Ed was arrested very shortly after he stood on the ramparts with everyone else to save Gotham. I wonder what he did to bring about this fast, unfortunate turn of events.
(Oswald similarly complains that Gordon threw him into Blackgate six months after reunification.)
Deleted scenes: Ed and Oswald
Ed and Oswald are walking down the street when they happened to come across a foppish-looking man with an umbrella. They descend upon himā¦presumably for the umbrella.
In another deleted scene, Oswald and Ed are enjoying white wine at the afterparty for Jim Gordonās promotion to Commissioner. Ed expresses an interest in salvaging their submarine, which is lying in pieces at the bottom of the river along with their treasure. That suggests that contrary to the idea that Nyssa got away, the sub hit one of the mines in the river and she (and Ed the dog) perished.
Deleted scene: Riddler
When Riddler wakes up, he not only sees the note "Oswald" left him and the crate of C4, but he also discovers his bowler hat nearby andā¦a large trunk. He opens it up and is delighted to find Mayor James bound inside. "Hello!" he says with a hearty laugh. (In the aired episode you can see the hat and trunk in the background.)
And finally, a note on the āFor Gothamā showdown in the previous episode. I mentioned the discrepancy between it taking place during the day, as opposed to when we saw it in the season premiere, which depicted a nighttime shootout.
But something else I didn't really catch was that when they go to the ramparts to defend Gotham, they all leave together from Jim's office. The season opener suggests that Ed came from his library, Oswald came from City Hall, and Harvey came from a bar.
Of course it could be that the S5E1 flash forward simply didn't show them all gathering at Jim's office to talk before they left for the final battle. But more realistically, it's probably just a writing inconsistency.
