Batwoman is back in action and it’s better than ever!!! After long couple of months of not having the Arrowverse shows in my life due to the COVID-19, we are finally getting back to old nitty and gritty. Now this post will have spoilers so be warned: If you don’t want the episode ruined for you, don’t read it. Now unless you have been living underneath a rock since last May, then you know that Ruby Rose is no longer playing the role of Kate Kane aka Batwoman. We don’t really know the full, true story of her departure from the show but as of right now, she ain’t in the program anymore. Later on, it was announced that a new character will be donning the infamous cowl. An original character (who now has appeared in the comics) by the name of Ryan Wilder. The actress who would be playing her is Javicia Leslie, a bisexual black woman known for her role on God Friended Me (there was a lot of discourse over the fact that batwoman was now black, and the fact that she was an ex-drug runner since apparently it was enforcing a stereotype about black people). Now a lot of people were really upset when they announced they weren’t just going to recast the character since we spent a whole season getting to know Kate so it felt like they were getting robbed. I myself was a little nervous about this because I didn’t know how exactly they were going to handle this. But honestly based on the first episode I would like to say that they handled it quite wonderfully. Javicia Leslie is phenomenal! Her acting was on point, she was really believable as a person who literally discovers the one and only Batwoman suit and steps into the role of the iconic, infamous hero. The part where she faces her first group of bad guys while in the suit is amazing! You can tell that this is her first time doing this, and she’s actually having fun with it. Now the character has some history of martial arts so that’s good, we won’t spend an entire season of her flopping around doing her best to avoid getting knocked out. The characters backstory really is interesting. And ex-con who was in a way set up and spent 18 months in prison, did time in foster care before being adopted only for her foster mother to be murdered by goons who were apart of the Wonderland Gang (great way to tie her to the shows main villain Alice), and now she’s living in her van with a plant. She is really different from Kate Kane but I think that’s what makes her unique in a way. She truly is the definition of an underdog. Both Bruce and Kate were people who came from lives of wealth and privilege who sought to bring down the crime world while Ryan comes from the more unfortunate aspects of Gotham City. I honestly think this character could be a good person to take up the Bat mantle because of the fact that she knows firsthand how the criminals in the underground of the crime world work. Bruce and Kate may know these criminals, but Ryan seems to have grown up in their world. The episode was really good and I honestly think it might just get even better from here. I’m giving by grade for the episode a B+ and my score an 8.9/10.
Favorite line of the episode: “I’m bullet proof, bitches!”
Runner up: “I have no idea what this button does, you wanna figure it out together?”
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