User blog comment:Rafe Adler/Best Cliffhanger This Season of Arrowverse/@comment-3221148-20160527070017/@comment-3221148-20160528092043

Gotham's main point of weirdness is its two radically different seasons. Season 1 is (sort of) your average police procedural, but with extra campiness and some paranormal. Season 2 fully embraces this campiness and becomes the supervillain extravaganza show.

It had it lows, but, IMHO, it's the best out of all DCTV. Arrow even started way unlike its comic origins, yet nobody called their writing decisions stupid. And, yep, since this is a separate multiverse from the comics or the movies, it doesn't really matter.

By making the rogues come earlier than Batman the show subverts the "superhero's fault" paradox (the one where a superhero is blamed for the armies of freaks that come to terrorize the city as soon as one appears). Instead, it is the Batman that is the answer to supervillains, it's like reverse of the "escalation" described by Gordon in Batman Begins.

On "just isn't enough material", I'd say the Gotham is not using ENOUGH material, instead trying to capitalize on the origins of the A-list villains. Using Court of Owls is a smart decision (the Court was introduced late in the comics, and it made no sense that such an ancient and powerful organization tied with Batman's past would just ignore Batman's activities before that, so them being an early season 3 villain works better). What they need to do, is expand on all the tutors that Bruce trained under during his teenager years, have him travel around the world in summer, SHOW us how Batman gets his myriad of skills. Oh, there's much more material to work on.