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This Thursday on Gotham (Fox, 8/7c), The Penguin has a real joker on his hands, as he learns the current lay of the land inside Arkham Asylum.
Oswald of course is no stranger to Arkham, but this time he finds himself behind bars for fraudulent reasons — fingered for the (non-)death of orphan boy Martin. But on top of that injustice, he must contend with the  chaos personified that is Jerome Valeska, who fancies the asylum his personal playpen.
Before the Gotham cast’s recent Tumblr HQ panel, TVLine spoke with Robin Lord Taylor about Cobblepot’s conundrum.
TVLINE | What pray tell is the Oswald/ Jerome dynamic going to be like? What are they going to want from each other? You have Jerome (played by Cameron Monaghan), who is chaos, and you have Oswald, who is control. So you can imagine, there are ways that those can integrate, but at the same time they’re opposites. It’s a really intricate dance that they both have to do, to figure each other out. Oswald is at his lowest of the low, and it has extra significance this time because he’s innocent! He didn’t do anything. I mean, relative to Oswald he was a good person. [Laughs] He did the right thing [faking Martin’s death], so to find himself still betrayed, still back in Arkham, everything he has worked for taken away due to false pretenses…. It’s just devastating to him. When we come back, we see him in that state. And now he has to contend with Jerome, who essentially runs Arkham. It’s his playpen.
TVLINE | And you two have never even had a scene together before, right? Cameron and I? No, we haven’t. We’ve never interacted. And this was something the two of us have been talking about, since Season 1. There’s a really exciting dynamic to explore. But Oswald definitely recognizes him from when he was on the news, and they have that connection through [Theo] Galavan, too.
TVLINE | Does Oswald hold Jerome in any “professional” regard? Or does he dismiss him as a loose cannon? Like, “You’re sloppy.” I think it’s terrifying for him, actually. He finds himself in Arkham, under the control of a madman, and there’s no angle he can work. There’s no potential outlet that he can use to gain control. It’s too far gone, so it’s really, really terrifying to Oswald. His focus from the second he’s there is to get. out. — whatever it takes.
TVLINE | And it might take… doing Jerome’s bidding? Doing Jerome’s bidding; he has to navigate with him. He also has to figure out, that if help has to come from outside—
TVLINE | He’s burned all his damn bridges. One would think! But….
TVLINE | Who is Oswald most angry with, stuck there behind bars? He’s most angry with Zsasz (Anthony Carrigan); he’s a huge part of it. And obviously Sofia (Crystal Reed); he’s directed all of his anger at her.
TVLINE | Zsasz playing dumb about the “dead” kid…. That betrayal hurt, man. Oswald is angry at Sofia; I think he’s just more heartbroken by Zsasz, to be honest. He’s the reason Oswald is there. And also, Oswald knows that its really Sofia that has done this, but for her to be able to take a career criminal like Zsasz and turn him into a f–king rat? That takes talent.
TVLINE | What other characters will you be interacting with? The Riddler and the Penguin (Cory Michael Smith) come back into each other’s lives, and it’s a really, really great moment. And it’s unexpected; I don’t think people will expect the way this happens. (See exclusive photo above from the March 15 episode.) It also kind of shows one of my favorite things about the show, which is that these characters take the lessons and the experiences of the past and they change and they grow and they evolve, as the years go on.
Everything that happened between the Riddler and the Penguin last year that broke them apart, t changed who they are, so they are different when they come back together. And that’s why I think it’s unexpected but it gives our show a groundedness and a reality. Like, things aren’t just tossed away. The characters remember the people that have hurt them. It’s bingeable TV!
The animators went nuts in this one! Top – not only did Craig Tucker drive 6 hours to Nebraska to see Mister Hankey the Christmas Poo, he also has a Twin there! There are clearly TWO Craig Tuckers here! There is also the notorious Orange Craig, and Blond Clyde. And Brimmy is an evil little SOB, too. He’s pissed, as he and Blond Clyde throw Molotov Cocktails! Token Black and Kevin Stoley are there as well. Kevin has brown hair, though. And green shirt Clyde? Is this Blond Clyde’s brother, as that kid cries the exact same way.
Even though the death lists all come from the same place, each London reaper has a different method of keeping track of their workload.
Grell, during the Jack the Ripper arc:
Grell, by the time we get to the Blue Sect arc:
William always seems to use a binder with colored flags. This first pic is from the Jack the Ripper arc:
Ronald Knox’s, in the Campania arc. The cover looks like it could be woven leather:
This one shows the inside of Ronald’s death list. Looks a bit like a daytimer, a small binder for keeping track of appointments, notes, etc. The inside cover also looks like it has dividers, like ones you might see inside a wallet, for sticking notes or business cards:
A chapter cover during the Campania arc shows Ronald dropping calendar pages out of his hat. They seem to have come from his death list:
This suggests that Grell’s new death list is ALSO a daytimer/appointment book…. It might have BOTH the info on expected deaths AND nail appointments. LOL!!
It will be interesting to see Othello’s death list, if he has one (since he’s in forensics, not soul collection)….
Does Kuromyu2 or the Story of Will the Reaper OVA show Alan and Eric’s death lists?
I’ll go look for those and the German reaper’s death lists later 🙂
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 