How the Snake Lost Its Legs the butterfly, the snake, and the cheetah. Each consists of three to eight sections named in the style of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories", with titles like "How the butterfly got its spots" or "How the snake elongated its body", though a couple of sections use "Why?" rather than "How?", as in "Why the fly twirls his penis" (it rotates during embryonic development under the control of different genes). In these chapters, Held explains the mechanics of evolutionary developmental biology, complete with accounts of what genes such as hox, hedgehog, and engrailed do to shape bodies. The third part is
How the Riddler Got His Name nicely sticks to its metaphors throughout. Well played." Vinnie Mancuso of "New York Observer" wrote, "Straight up, this episode as a whole is terribly paced ... But underneath the mess episode writer Megan Mostyn-Brown has a ton of genuinely clever fun with Eddie and Oswald's relationship." Lisa Babick of TV Fanatic gave the series a perfect 5 star rating out of 5, writing ""Gotham" hit it out of the park this hour not only by giving us The Riddler but also by setting up other exciting storylines to take us through the rest of the season." Robert Yanis, Jr. of