Let's see how they pull this off. Right now, the actor playing Bruce looks too soft to be a convincing Batman.
Two words: "Time jump"
They also said Gordon will have facial hair, and it looks like it's gonna happen, as Ben McKenzie was seen sporting it when he attended the premiere of his wife Morena Baccarin's movie, Deadpool 2:
It was a bit disappointing when they didn't do the earthquake in the season finale--they just blew up the bridges--ah well, it's probably too expensive to do and they've got a limited number of episodes to shoot.