Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and again in the 1974 version. The ways in which humans deal with death are also at the focus of this play, as are the futility and nihilism some encounter when confronted with imminent mortality. Similar ideas are found in Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", which Williams excerpted and added as an epigraph to his 1974 version. These lines are appropriate, as Thomas wrote the poem to his own dying father. Additionally, in one of his many drafts, in a footnote on Big Daddy's action in the third act, Williams deems "Cat on a Hot
Things That Go Boom and tenth for the night, behind "The Orville", "S.W.A.T.", "Life in Pieces", "The Wonderful World of Disney", "Mom", "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "Young Sheldon", "The Big Bang Theory", and "Thursday Night Football". "A Dark Knight: Things That Go Boom" received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a "good" 7.0 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, ""Gotham" had the chance to do something really dark and defining with Penguin, but pulled the rug out from under us, and also, in turn, the drama from this episode. On top of that, Pyg now apparently gets