As for the Penguin name, wasn't Fish calling him her Penguin before she beat him?
I believe it was her henchman Butch Gilzean who initially called him Penguin in the scene where they were beating the man out behind her club. Presumably he got the nickname due to his beaklike nose and the suit he wears. The later injury and limp only exacerbates the use of the nickname he despises.
Decent first episode, but after shown mercy, why would the Penguin slash some old bum's throat for a ham sandwich?
Because he's ruthless and only cares about himself. He'd just endured a savage beating, been locked in a trunk, believed he was going to be shot, fallen into a river that must've been ice-cold (we saw snow on the ground at the Wayne estate, so this is winter), and swum a considerable distance across that river to reach the other shore, all with injured legs. That's bound to take a lot out of a person, so it's understandable that he'd be starving and desperate. A normal person would've begged for the sandwich, but he's a sadistic and ruthless criminal, so his impulse was to kill for it.
All Gorden's juniors in the book are now his seniors. gotta get used to that.
Pretty much what happened in
Smallville too vis-a-vis Clark.
-Montoya and Crispin. I hope it was the intent, and I'm not reading into it. But they came across as more ambitious than righteous.
I don't know where Crispus Allen stands, but Montoya, in her scene with Barbara, seemed genuinely disgusted by what she believed to be Gordon's corruption. She can't be part of the current system without being tainted, but I suspect she's redeemable. I mean, it's Renee Montoya. In the comics, she's a superhero, the Question. So they wouldn't make her a corrupt scumbag, would they?
-That apartment. Despite the explanation, the impression was that If the good cops steal that much, the bad cops must live like kings.
But it's not Gordon's apartment, it's Barbara's. She's the rich one.
Eh, I'm still going to argue the idea of "TV healing." We'll see how it plays out and while you may certainly be correct, I don't think his beating is a proper evidence. It happens all of the time in TV and movies where people receive severe beatings and injuries and come out of it okay after they crouch behind a barrel for a while and let their health-bar refill.
I really don't follow your reasoning here. We were shown a scene where the character was clearly beaten around the legs, and the very next time we saw the character, he was limping badly -- a limp that we see he retains in the preview for the next episode. It's obvious there was an intentional cause and effect there. You don't normally see beating scenes that concentrate on the legs, so clearly that was chosen specifically to set up his limp in the following scene. Given that the Penguin has long been known for his waddling walk, at least since the days of Burgess Meredith if not the original comics, it's clear that the intent here was to show the origin of that gait.
