Iain Glen?
Spoilers "Supergirl": the 6th and final season
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He was suitable as an aging Bruce Wayne. Kind of looked like Adam West.
Unless the Titans were completely off book, this is the Batman who kills.
If he has no guilt after shooting 15,000 starving homeless muggers with "treatable" mental health issues, dude must have drank everything alcoholic in the county.
DC/CW top four ranking:
1.Black Lightning
2.Superman and Lois
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3.Batwoman (season one)
4.Supergirl (season one)
How did Arrow,The Flash and Legends not make the list? I know most of them went downhill in the later seasons though I think Arrow stayed relatively solid up until the end even if it was no longer at it's peak.
I've gotta disagree with you there, I'd put Supergirl at it's best right up there at the very top of the Arrowverse.
I said top four, and to start, there's no way any of the series you mentioned were in a first or second place over Black Lightning and Superman and Lois. Third & fourth place--the same.
I think I might put them over Black Lighting but one thing is for sure and that is Black Lighting didn't have as many bad seasons as those shows also had. It was very consistently good. In fact the only bad season was it's last season. Especially when they had to recast the younger daughter for most of the episodes.
Black Lightning's last season was hardly "bad," but it did take a slight dip in quality, for the first time in its stellar run.
Sadly it seem to be treated as the proverbial bastard stepchild.
I really hated the daughter being recast because she was my fourth favorite character on the show. The top 3 would be Black Lightening, Gambi and the great villain that was Tobias Whale. Of course I liked the mom and Thunder as well. As Painkiller once he became painkiller. Kind of boring as the boyfriend but not so when they made him a baddie as well, though more a baddie because he was a victim.
"It" meaning the show? Yeah, I mean, it was clearly the most consistently high-quality -- in writing, production, you name it -- of all the CW DC series, at least pre-Superman & Lois. One has one's suspicions of why it was ignored by so many, and they don't speak particularly well of the viewer base.
I really loved China Anne McClain as well, but it isn't like the producers had any choice in the matter. Their options were recast, write her out, or kill her (the character). I thought the replacement actress did a fine job in a kind of crazily conceived role, and at least we got McClain's triumphant return in the series finale.
Black Lightning had fine viewership early on, which fell off steadily over the course of several years just as it did for the other shows. The ratings were in the same ballpark as Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl.
I can't say that the thing you're implying did not happen, but I don't believe the ratings actually show that.
Black Lightning was by far my favorite, but that was followed by the early seasons of Flash, Arrow and Legends. Supergirl, I really enjoyed and it was a lot better than Legends and Flash at one point--but Batwoman I never really thought found its groove. Regardless I loved watching all the series, even though every one of them had at least one, and most several, really bad seasons.
Dunno about ratings, but what I do know is that it was largely ignored by people who did not ignore the other CW DC shows. Sites that reviewed the other series didn't review BL. Getting Blu-rays after the first season, back when every other show was getting them promptly and automatically, was delayed, and ultimately only happened through Warner Archive. And the show's threads on this very forum were practically ghost towns compared to the other series, with even the first season topping out at a mere 20 pages.
At least they happened. Still waiting on Stargirl season three. Harrumph.
I think one of the things that hurt it early on was it being in it's own universe and not connected to the rest of the Arrowverse. You also didn't have any crossover characters or events for the most part.
Almost forgot about Stargirl. I really liked the show as well.
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