Yahoo News Gotham's Erin Richards reacts to latest huge Barbara twist
Note: This article contains whopping spoilers for the latest episode of Gotham season five, '13 Stitches'.
If there was one thing that would help us get over Barbara Kean's failure to transform into Harley Quinn, it's what happened in yesterday's (February 14) episode of Gotham.
While it might have been Valentine's Day for those outside of Gotham City, our latest trip to Gotham wasn't exactly romantic. There was, however, some big love-related news.
Barbara Kean is pregnant. With ex-fiancé Jim Gordon's baby. Well, that's what happens when you go from being lovers to adversaries and back to lovers.
Speaking to TVLine about Babs' biggest twist yet, actress Erin Richards teased that a Kean-Gordon baby may actually be "pretty unifying".
"What happens is actually pretty unifying in a way, which is I guess a bit of a shock," she explained. "Because that incident could either completely break everything, or unify [it]".
As expected, Barbara's surprise came at a difficult time for Ben McKenzie's Officer Gordon, who found himself on the brink of a reunion with Lee Thompkins after a mind-control chip was removed from her brain.
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Although acknowledging that "a lot of people" want to see Barbara and Jim get back together, Erin Richards added that things will be more a lot more complicated than that.
"I think that for a while it was not in the cards, but for seasons four and five, we wanted Barbara to have a redemption," she teased, before hinting at a love triangle.
"It sort of leads to a Barbara/Jim/Lee triangle - and a kind of coming-together of Barbara and Lee that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible," she said.
We can't wait to see where this one's going. Move over, Jeremiah.
Gotham season 5 airs on Fox in the US. No release date has been announced for the UK yet.
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