Spoilers Batwoman - Season 2
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I will admit during the episode that I was wondering if the whole think with Ruby Rose was a bit of fake out but yeah know otherwise now.
I'm not sure how this decision to recast the role now has anything to do with what the truth surrounding Ruby's departure may or may not be.
As an aside, I've realized that, for as much as I personally might be frustrated with the execution, switching the focus of the series from Kate to Ryan is no different than, hypothetically, telling the story of The Killing Joke, Stephanie Brown's ascension as the new Batgirl, and Barbara's transformation into Oracle within the pages of an ongoing Batgirl comic series.
Right. How many Flashes are there at this point?
An okay episode. I really want this whole kryptonite-poisoning thing to be over, but it looks like it's still not done yet. Still, I guess it's cool that the solution comes from the Bat-team instead of Ryan being indebted to a supervillain for her cure. But it's an absurd coincidence that her beloved plant just happens to be the cure she's been seeking. Well, just throw it onto the pile of coincidences around Ryan.
As for the big twist everyone's talking about, I was very confused by all the articles about the "big reveal" at the end, because I didn't remember that the necklace was Kate's. When Safiyah led Alice into the cell filled with red gemstones on chains, I somehow thought they were preserved samples of Kate's blood, and that the shot of the necklace at the end meant that some new killer connected to Safiyah was going around draping those necklaces on their victims.
Anyway, I'm pleased by the new casting news. When Rose's departure was announced and there were early speculations about recasting, both Wallis Day and The Magicians' Jade Tailor offered themselves as candidates, and I thought either one would be a great choice. Although I have no idea what this means for the storylines now.
I was just as confused. Last night I posted a comment I later deleted. Basically saying where was the reveal Kate was alive. I saw the scene with the bandaged person and the necklace but made no connection to Kate. I guess it shows how little I am invested in this show to remember stuff from past episodes.
This is where those "Previously" recaps come in handy. I don't know if they had one on the broadcast version (they didn't on the website), but it would've been a good place to re-establish Kate's necklace so we'd have it freshly in mind.
I didn't make the connection either - was more thinking the producers had told a porky when they said Kate wouldn't be killed off after Alfred's niece came was there with the DNA report etc.
I watched broadcast and do not remember. They would have to get Ruby Rose’s permission and pay her to use old footage of her.
I was more focus on being told Kate’s body was found.
Part of this is the unavoidable side effect of a show that was only one year into its run -
Loses its Lead
Is on Hiatus for almost a year due to pandemic.
recaps were absolutely needed. Or more clear in the episode itself.
I was more focus on being told Kate’s body was found.
Part of this is the unavoidable side effect of a show that was only one year into its run -
Loses its Lead
Is on Hiatus for almost a year due to pandemic.
recaps were absolutely needed. Or more clear in the episode itself.
Not necessarily, since the necklaces Kate and Beth wore were established in a flashback to their childhoods.
Well, "parts" were found. How that reconciles with her apparently being intact remains to be seen.
Who needs daytime soaps, we got Batwoman!
But will we get a BatJet?
Will Luke fix the issues with the Bat Sub?
Is shark repellant on the utlity belt really a stupid idea?
Is shark repellant on the utlity belt really a stupid idea?
To be fair, in the movie where it was introduced, the Shark Repellent Bat-Spray was stored on a rack in the Batcopter, and Robin had to pass it down to Batman. Although in season 3's "Surf's Up, Joker's Under," it was indeed in Batman's utility belt (but then again, he was also wearing bathing trunks over his Bat-suit).
Speaking of stupid ideas, though, why did Luke wait to tell Ryan about the HALO drop until she'd already been on the plane for hours? Surely the time to prep her for that would be before she left. (Also, for someone who'd never heard of a HALO drop before, she sure seemed to skydive like a natural.)
The Entertainment Weekly interview reveals that Wallis Day initially auditioned for Ryan Wilder, which tells us the character wasn't conceived with a specific ethnicity in mind (although they certainly leaned into the possibilities once Leslie was cast). So your very cynical assumption here is evidently wrong.
I thought that was a questionable time to insert comedy. And the assassin later seemed like she came out of a Peter Sellers Pink Panther movie.
Ethnicity had nothing to do with the decision to introduce Ryan Wilder in lieu of initially recasting the Kate Kane role. It was a purely narrative choice that wasn't handled the way that I think it should've been given the circumstances in which the series found itself due to both the pandemic and Ruby Rose's decision to leave, but , in concept, it turns out that Dries and Berlanti did in fact have a plan.
Wow, this is kind of huge. I loved Day on Krypton. Almost makes me wish I were still watching Batwoman, but I pared my Arrowverse viewing down to just Superman & Lois, Supergirl, and Black Lightning this season.
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