When Michael Chiklis sat down to discuss GOTHAM S3 at San Diego Comic Con over the summer, besides talking about his daughter Autumn’s love for Comic Con, he teased new things coming for Captain Barnes – the “inherent tension” between these two characters had always come from Jim going the “Vic Mackey” route and Barnes trying to stay on the right side of the law. He teases “something crazy happens.” And I cannot wait!

Writer and producer on GOTHAM, John Stephens, didn’t waste any time giving us a ton of great new character scoop when we sat down to discuss it all at San Diego Comic Con in July. It sounds like the seasons is moving full steam ahead, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.

At San Diego Comic Con over the summer, Morena Baccarin promised that we’ll see Dr Lee Thompkins right from the get this season on GOTHAM, starting tonight. She and Jim had a rough time of it, and Jim and Leslie are in “very different places.”

When we caught up with Drew Powell (Butch Gilzean, GOTHAM) at San Diego Comic Con, he told us that he finds himself back with Penguin when S3 takes off tonight on FOX. They’re “up to no good, as usual.” The character seems to always find a way to get out of his jams, sometimes with hands and sometimes without! Drew also said that sad-sack lovelorn Butch is back – Tabitha really did a number on his heart, and he has to deal with that. Looking forward to a new battle we can expect this season.

Alfred is The Action Butler, as Sean Pertwee pointed out (mention his father being known as the Action Doctor), and this season will start off with him and Bruce in a fairly good place. They went through a lot in these first two seasons and as Bruce starts to grow up into the Batman we all know, it sounds like Alfred will be there to prop him up along the way.

Ben McKenzie promises us this year that Jim is a “disillusioned man” when GOTHAM season 3 starts up. Having lost his career, his love, his child, he’s lost himself. At Comic Con in San Diego, he previewed what we should expect from the season – new relationships, for him, for the good Dr, and the prospect of double dates (they don’t sound likely).

With the S3 premiere coming tonight at 8/7c, GOTHAM: Mad City looks like they are going to burn through story at a fever pitch. Ed Nygma is fully embracing his lunacy as the season starts, and Cory Michael Smith gave us the scoop on what to expect. He warns that Ed will be a great friend to you as long as you realized that Ed is always the smartest one in the room!