Perhaps this is Gordon on his way to becoming the man we're used to by way of finding out the hard way what is wrong, what is unacceptable, and what works in law enforcement in Gotham? I mean, yes, he's done some pretty bad things, but his goal hasn't changed that I have seen.
That's what I keep saying -- he
can't be that. It won't work anymore, not now that he has at least two counts of murder to his name. If they hadn't had him cross that line,
then what you suggest would still be possible, but it isn't anymore. He can't become the commissioner without spending the rest of his life lying and hiding and covering up his crimes, and that means everything he would do as commissioner would be predicated on acts of corruption and injustice. And no matter how much good he tried to do, he'd still be a liar and a hypocrite and a murderer hiding from prosecution. If anyone under his command ever tried to reopen those cold cases, or found a lead that would incriminate him, he'd have to shut down the investigation or falsify evidence or otherwise commit more acts of corruption that would taint him even worse. Something like this just does not go away. That's wishful thinking -- or bad writing.
On another topic, I have to say that I LOVED the Penguin's attack on the party using lookalikes a few episodes back. I busted up laughing, and the other people in my living room were looking at me like I was insane (not unusual, to be honest) until I pointed out that he was doing something the Penguin did in both the Adam West Batman series and in the second Keaton movie - using an army of penguins to do his bidding!
When did he have an army of penguins in the '66 series?
I have no confidence in the producers or writers of this show to "redeem" Gordon. From what they have done so far, they don't have it in them.
Indeed, they seem to be more interested in seeing how dark they can make him. They'd rather do a mob show or
The Shield than a Batman origin. I read that they recognized that having Gordon kill Galavan would be a major departure from the expected path for the character, but that they chose to take it anyway. Being true to the Gordon we know is clearly not their primary goal anymore. They're telling their own story in their own way.
Which is something I respect in principle; really, the makers of an adaptation
should feel free to reinvent the story in their own way, because there's no point in just copying what already exists. But the story they've decided to tell, a story about a good cop being irredeemably corrupted by an unbeatably evil city, is too depressing and unheroic to have any appeal for me. I don't like stories about people failing to be better. That's why I lost interest in
LOST. At first, it was an interesting series about flawed characters working to redeem themselves and make amends for their past mistakes, but then it became so successful that the producers had to stretch out their planned story arc to fit a longer run, so they trapped the characters in holding patterns or regressed them to repeat the same bad behaviors they had been outgrowing. So a story of people redeeming themselves became a story of people just endlessly screwing up and failing to learn, and that was not at all interesting to me.
Looks like Galavan could come back though, so regardless of what any real-world laws say, Gordon won't have a murder behind him if that happens. Maybe that's what the writers were thinking.
Except there's still the felony murder he committed in the pilot. Again, they'd have to completely ignore how laws really work. But then, it's not like they bother to respect how anything really works, like dialogue or characterization or human emotion.
