Look I know I shouldnāt be supportingā¢ Sam uley because of what he did to Leah but like itās not really his fault and correct me if Iām wrong cause again Iām only on chapter 7 of new moon so idk if we get more information but like Sam is 20 in new moon and thatās still quite young I mean really itās older than like Bella and Jacob but itās still young and he just one day finds out he can become a giant black wolf and now heās stuck at the reservation he canāt leave, he canāt go to college be start a life heās stuck being the tribes guardian for the rest of his life and again 20 is pretty young but then others start turning and he finds out his pack is just a bunch of children stuck in a role they only found out existed after they turned and were no longer able to go back and like o get it that itās a point of pride but like imagine how annoying it would be to go out everyday protecting your people and you get people making condescending comments about you because of it *cough* Jacob *cough* *cough* like itās kinda tragic that he had to become the alpha and then once he takes the role and makes hard decisions people treat him like heās heartless
Itās actually almost fatherās day now and I feel really guilty about having you wait almost a month, but there was a queue of request that I had to do before this, and I only recently got to finish themā¦I am so very sorry.
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 ā fingered for the (non-)death of orphan boy Martin. But on top of that injustice, he must contend with the Ā chaos personified that is Jerome Valeska, who fancies the asylum his personal playpen.
Before the Gotham castās recent Tumblr HQ panel, TVLine spoke with Robin Lord Taylor about Cobblepotās 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 theyāre opposites. Itās 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 heās innocent! He didnāt do anything. I mean, relative to Oswald he was a good person. [Laughs] He did the right thing [faking Martinās death], so to find himself still betrayed, still back in Arkham, everything he has worked for taken away due to false pretensesā¦. Itās 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. Itās his playpen.
TVLINE | And you two have never even had a scene together before, right? Cameron and I? No, we havenāt. Weāve never interacted. And this was something the two of us have been talking about, since Season 1. Thereās 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 āprofessionalā regard? Or does he dismiss him as a loose cannon? Like, āYouāre sloppy.ā I think itās terrifying for him, actually. He finds himself in Arkham, under the control of a madman, and thereās no angle he can work. Thereās no potential outlet that he can use to gain control. Itās too far gone, so itās really, really terrifying to Oswald. His focus from the second heās there is to get. out. ā whatever it takes.
TVLINE | And it might takeā¦ doing Jeromeās bidding? Doing Jeromeās bidding; he has to navigate with him. He also has to figure out, that if help has to come from outsideā
TVLINE | Heās burned all his damn bridges. One would think! Butā¦.
TVLINE | Who is Oswald most angry with, stuck there behind bars? Heās most angry with Zsasz (Anthony Carrigan); heās a huge part of it. And obviously Sofia (Crystal Reed); heās directed all of his anger at her.
TVLINE | Zsasz playing dumb about the ādeadā kidā¦. That betrayal hurt, man. Oswald is angry at Sofia; I think heās just more heartbroken by Zsasz, to be honest. Heās 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 fāking 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 otherās lives, and itās a really, really great moment. And itās unexpected; I donāt 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 thatās why I think itās unexpected but it gives our show a groundedness and a reality. Like, things arenāt just tossed away. The characters remember the people that have hurt them. Itās bingeable TV!
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