I take it that this show is a melodrama - everything is heightened and taken to the 100th degree. It's made no bones about how grandiose it is in its representation of reality. Look at it as a dramatic metaphor if you want - a city that's over-ridden with crime, the government failing to help or even care about citizens who have fallen between the cracks, etc. They feel cut-off and forgotten. Would you rather watch how this plays out in the real world, the way it is now? That'd be depressing and not what I want to take my mind off things after a long day, but that's me.
I would have rather seen the evolution of Batman as fighting against the villains without the obvious city taking over melodrama. A war between crime lords and a corrupt police force could have worked without the obvious collapse that would bring in massive intervention outside of Gotham law enforcement.
Just me but when plot stupidity intervenes I find it hard to follow a show.
Selina beating up the mutant leader from Dark Knight Returns. Awesome!
Puddin'? Now where have I heard that before?
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Jeremiah isn't a prototype. He's is THE Joker. He doesn't have the name because the show isn't allowed to use it. He can't have his ironic green hair neither. His actor explains it here
https://twitter.com/cameronmonaghan/...22386437570560
They gave him dark green hair to get around the restriction
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DC's rules on Joker/Batman in television is stupid and they should feel stupid.
If he isn't called Joker he isn't Joker. We know Oswald is Penguin because people call him Penguin. We know Ed is Riddler because he is called Riddler. Until someone call Jeremiah the Joker, he is just Jeremiah.
But they can say Batman.
There are always weird rules with Batman I remember in the mid 00's
You had the Nolan films with Bale and Justice League Mortal being developed with Hammer.
Smallville wasn't allowed to use Batman hence the start of the CW tradition of Green Arrow standing in for Batman.
The Batman wasn't allowed to use Scarecrow (Who there was concept art for), Ra's Al Ghul, or Two-Face because of the Nolan films it's why they created the Ethan Bennett Clayface as their Two-Face stand in.
Once Justice League became Justice League Unlimited Batman rogues were off limits due to the Batman series.
So yeah them being allowed to allude to Joker but not saying Joker while using other characters is very normal.