After Suicide Squad's Creative Failure, Is DC Giving 'Gotham' And 'Arrow' More Leeway?

It's the new year, and TV shows are starting to finally filter back to the airwaves, including Gotham last night. While fansites have been reporting this for a while now, it was the first time that I realized that the show was actually bringing back Cameron Monaghan's Jerome, the show's "proto-Joker" that was (spoilers) killed off anti-climactically in a frankly fantastic arc that seemed oddly short, given the caliber of the performance and the importance of Joker to the entire Batman universe. But now Jerome is back, at least for another few-episode arc. Gotham has crafted a new plotline where despite Jerome's death, a cult is trying to resurrect his corpse Frankenstein-style so he can come back and wreak more havoc in Gotham. I do not believe the timing of this is coincidental.