Spoilers Batwoman - Season 1
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This could be an interesting way to allow Kate Kane to still be Batwoman. She gets a face change so people won't hunt her down.
Same as it was from day one: because Rose and Kate Kane are both "out"...as in "of the closet".
I know they say it's not to do with her injury but I remember before the show started that she wanted to be like Stephen Amel and do her own stunts, so I imagine that frustration has to play a part in her decision. Can't be that fulfilling playing Batwoman if you can't do any Batwoman stuff.
Wasn't most of the harassment from gay people who didn't think she was queer enough?
Yes.
Shocking news. I hope she finds peace and contentment (and respite from the idiotic harassment).
As for the show, perhaps the long break will work in the show's favour--a recasting will be less dramatic nearly a year later than a couple of months. Regarding the "how"--don't care, as long as it is done well. A superhero show does give more leeway than a more traditional drama (can't really imagine recasting "Red" Reddington, even after one season, if James Spader had left, for example). I remember the recast of Spartacus some years ago (illness took the original lead away, and he died not too long after leaving the show). While we don't have comparable information here, I'm inclined to go with the producer cited above (the one who doesn't work on the show) who described circumstances for which actors abandon a seemingly great gig.
A bummer for sure (I was a fan from day 1) but, in the end, I hope she's well and the show is not prematurely cancelled, for the sake of all the other people who work on it.
As for the show, perhaps the long break will work in the show's favour--a recasting will be less dramatic nearly a year later than a couple of months. Regarding the "how"--don't care, as long as it is done well. A superhero show does give more leeway than a more traditional drama (can't really imagine recasting "Red" Reddington, even after one season, if James Spader had left, for example). I remember the recast of Spartacus some years ago (illness took the original lead away, and he died not too long after leaving the show). While we don't have comparable information here, I'm inclined to go with the producer cited above (the one who doesn't work on the show) who described circumstances for which actors abandon a seemingly great gig.
A bummer for sure (I was a fan from day 1) but, in the end, I hope she's well and the show is not prematurely cancelled, for the sake of all the other people who work on it.
Kate disappears/quits causing Alice to "disappear" too. Sane-Beth takes up the cowl. She is Kate's twin after all.
I actually like her better as Kate Kane than Batwoman. For some reason I never liked her in the mask. I did like the relationship she developed with Supergirl, Luke and Mary,
Her quitting makes you appreciate the women who have helmed their own series from Lucy Lawless, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Mulgrew in the 1990's, to Mary Mcdonnell, Joanne Kelley, and Tina Fey in the 2000's, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Morrison , Melissa Benoist, Caity Loitz in the 2010's or the megalithic multidecade spanning Mariska Hargita or Ellen Pompeo. Talk about superwomen!
Whomever they pick, I hope she keeps the quiet intensity of RR.
And I see no reason to acknowledge the switch. They didn't do so in Spartacus until the end credits of the series finale, but that was a different situation entirely.
I'm saddened by this news. Ruby Rose was a great choice for the role. Whatever reasons she may have, I wish her the best. There aren't that many female superhero leads on network TV. Her replacement will have some big shoes to fill.
Yes, in addition to the larger group of people harassing her who weren't gay. The group of gay people died out as their interest moved on and the bigots stayed on because they have no lives. Those bigots did enjoy using the gay people as cover though and continue to do so.
Sad news;(
I was just thinking about shows where the lead actors left after the first season, and until you mentioned Spartacus, I was thinking it was odd that pretty much every previous example I could think of was from an SF/fantasy series -- John Haymes Newton on Superboy, Michael O'Hare on Babylon 5, Kevin Kilner on Earth: Final Conflict, Christopher Eccleston on Doctor Who, and now Ruby Rose. Ian Hendry on The Avengers is a borderline case, since that show definitely became SF/fantasy as it went on, but I'm not sure if it had done so yet when he was involved. (At least, I don't think Spartacus had any fantasy elements. I gather it was a straight historical drama.)
One case that comes close was the sitcom 8 Simple Rules, whose lead John Ritter took ill and died after shooting the first 3 episodes of its second season. And I'm tempted to count Shazam!, which recast Captain Marvel after the first 3 episodes of its second season, but Captain Marvel wasn't technically the lead character, Billy Batson was (and at the time Shazam! was just his transformation call, not the hero's actual name).
Any other cases where the lead actor of a series left after just one season, but the show continued with the lead character replaced or recast? There are certainly a number of cases where it was done with supporting or ensemble cast members -- Dr. Watson in the Granada Sherlock Holmes, Jimmy Olsen in Lois & Clark, Capheus in Sense8, etc. -- and of course numerous cases of lead actor changes in later seasons (Doctor Who made it a trademark of the series). But losing the actual lead actor after just one season is a more striking event.
you have wonder how some-one who was out of the closet at 12 wasn't "gay enough".
First live action series of an openly gay character played by an openly gay woman. Should have been a celebration not a condemnation.
I think for most people it was, but certain factions had a vested interest in playing up the minority of gay protestors as a distraction from where the real hate was coming from, as Awesome Possum said.
This is going to be a Superboy situation where the main character stays the same but the actor behind that character changes.