Just a general thing. All the suspense, and really no one can ever die, because we know so many of them are part of Gotham's future.
shareAnd the weird thing is they kill off a character that is alive when Batman is around (Sal Maroni) but bring back unimportant characters at the drop of a hat.
shareIt seems like regular civilians or police officers other than Gordon and Harvey get the shaft quite often, while many of the main characters and villains keep dying and then come back. Heck, even Alfred died and came back--is that even canon?
shareWell, none of the main characters die but lots of minor, secondary and extra characters die and often in brutal ways, like getting tossed over the side of a building for no other reason than the amusement of a gang of psychopaths. After the start of the third season and watching Jarvis Tetch use his powers to get a doctor to murder his wife and commit suicide, I'm kind of done.
Call me a pussy, I don't care. I like "dark" but this show's trajectory has gone beyond dark and there are very few characters I like anymore, simply because so many of them are now unlikeable. If the goal of the show is to present a lost city where everyone is either sadistic or morally depraved, the writers of GOTHAM have succeeded beyond their goals. Even Jessica Jones, as dark as it was with Killgrave, still had likeable, moral characters and the world they lived in wasn't all bleak and hopeless. I can go through an episode of GOTHAM now and start a body count. At some point, you start getting disconnected. The young Bruce Wayne is good because he's seemingly naïve but with the right intentions, yet the writers take Ivy and accelerate her growth to this red-headed fox who murders some guy who helped her and all because he wasn't watering his plants?!? I'm sorry, but the younger version of Ivy liked plants (I guess because they couldn't hurt her and they needed her to survive) but this sudden transformation from a socially awkward pre-teen to a 20-something cold-blooded killer just doesn't work for me. It's like saying "Hey, I woke up a grown lady today and I think I'll go kill someone now," and it doesn't make any damn sense. It's more of that darkness for darkness sake. I'm sick of it. Tell a good story with some redeemable characters and even give us some understanding of a villain's motivations, otherwise your show just looks like MUDERCON 101.