First of all I have to give a big shout out to Cameron Monaghan for easing me through the transition from Jerome to Joker. I feel like his acting and line delivery foreshadowed what they wanted to do with the joker character. I might be mad that he isn't the joker but am also very happy that he is the person that made the joker.
Now let us analyse what happened on the show. Well it turns out Jerome has a long lost twin brother with the alias Xander who's real name is Jeremiah Valaska.
They started of introducing him as the polar opposite of his crazy brother but it turns out that he is also quite crazy and from my expectations,he might have had a hand in Jerome's madness which is poetic because Jerome returned the favour.
Now if you're still confused and want to get spoilers,let's get right to that. So it is revealed that Jerome enlists Thatch and Scarecrow to break out of Gotham with him for two reasons,one of which was to drive Gotham crazy like him using laughing gas (or as us DC Stans call it "Joker Toxin") and his other plan was to finish some "good 'old family business".
Jerome has a twin brother who was separated from Jerome because he(Jeremiah) lied to their mother about Jerome trying to kill him....which evidently means Jerome wasn't all that bad at first but he was simply misunderstood. Jerome tries to mess with Gotham's sanity with one of his usual grand gestures and when that fails(and he dies) he keeps a fail save installed for his dear brother Jeremiah in form of a specially created laugh toxin which fully unlocks the mad man in Jeremiah and makes him.....THE JOKER!!!!
Now to the jist of it all,I think in a previous season they did something with Jerome inspiring a whole lot of people who could be potential jokers. I liked that version a whole lot more because it feels more realistic and they could have easily kept a new joker hidden for many more seasons to come or at least till when Bruce became a whole lot more seasoned crime fighter.
Speaking of Bruce,this episode made him have a very good friendship with Jeremiah...so much so in fact that the package with the special laughing gas given to Jeremiah by his brother Jerome actually had Bruce Wayne written on it and I think that was a nice way to start the rivalry although ideally its the Joker VS Batman,this will be Joker VS Bruce.
The Gotham Writers decided to bring in a twin brother out of no where to pass on the joker legacy too which I didn't like at all. But it does mean one thing,we'll get more of Cameron's acting but I feel like he won't be as eccentric as he was playing Jerome for obvious reasons. This new Joker(yes Jerome was still a joker to me) seems like he'll be a whole lot more like his alter ego Jeremiah....calm,smart and batshit crazy!.
Honestly speaking though,the Gotham writers have done a great job with Jerome and I hope for them to kill him off(for good this time) they have bigger plans for his brother and new joker Jeremiah. Cameron really outdid himself because he's still on the show yet people are still pissed because he's no longer Jerome he's just plane old Jeremiah (I hope am corrected).
What did you think of what Gotham did? Did you like it? Do you feel disappointed or are you just in between like me...leave a comment saying how you feel.
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