For a second there, it seemed like the finale of Batwoman wasn’t going to happen. But it’s here, and it’s a pretty fitting end to the first season.
“O, Mouse!” combines two of the different types of episodes that primarily made up season one. Some episodes revolved around minor villains, which sometimes felt like they were holding back the Alice storyline or something greater—fillers, if you will. And then there were the Alice-centric episodes. These were great and emotional, but also sometimes felt like they might be rehashing the same things. Tonight’s finale episode moves Kate’s story forward through a combination of this season’s storytelling methods, creating significant momentum for Season 2.
After Luke and Julia’s captivity last episode, and Kate knowing that Alice has the decoded journal with the kryptonite information, the audience and Team Batwoman are waiting for the other shoe to drop. In the meantime, Kate has to deal with one of the Arkham escapees. But how does one do that when their father will (probably) shoot them on-sight? They just do.
At first, the Tim “The Titan” storyline feels like just another subplot that added to that “filler” feeling mentioned above. It gets more interesting the more Kate and Mary dig into his story, but that seems to be extent of it. But the Titan storyline actually ties so many aspects together and connects to a bigger plot this season, which is Jacob Kane’s disdain for Batwoman. Titan’s story also highlights Jacob’s unfortunate part in a broken system. It delivers a bigger message here: Everyone loses when corporations and greed fuel systems of good. Take Gotham’s healthcare system. Mary runs a makeshift hospital without proper necessities because healthcare is so out of reach for those in Gotham. Another example is the police force. The Crows exist to bring military-level protection to the elite of the city because Gotham’s police force is inadequate. Of course, this leaves out the poor and those that can’t afford a safe neighborhood or situation.
And then Titan rounds it out on the entertainment front. Athletes can’t have a safe playing field or work environment because those in power are only worried about themselves and making money. So, when a powerhouse like Tim “The Titan” should be deemed “out of commission” because of his injuries, his wellbeing is thrown to the side in favor of keeping him on the field. Which, in turn, puts everyone more at risk because of his outburst that gets him sent to Arkham. It smacks the viewer in the face and makes Jacob’s actions that much worse. He’s always been on the wrong side of this equation, but this episode makes it blatantly obvious.
“O, Mouse!” also showcases how tightly aligned Supergirl and Batwoman’s stories are with each other. Audiences saw this a bit during the last two crossovers, and more so with the “Crisis On Infinite Earths.” Kate was in awe of Kara and didn’t seem to see herself on the same footing as a Kryptonian. But after the Crisis ended and Kate became the Paragon of Courage, her bond with Kara has grown stronger. Kate’s journey as Batwoman this season has also strengthened her confidence as a hero. She started this gig as a vigilante to save her sister. But now that that’s not a priority because it’s not feasible, Kate is Batwoman for the city of Gotham. Just like Supergirl’s selfless claim to fame, Batwoman is now a full-fledged hero.
Kate also holds her friendship with Kara in high regard. She knows that Kara trusts her enough to hold onto something that could end Kara. But it’s also, now, something that could mean death for Kate. But Kate continues to live up to the “Paragon of Courage” title—she puts Kara’s wellbeing ahead of her own by not allowing Luke to destroy the last kryptonite on this Earth. This increases the chances that Alice will find the kryptonite Kate’s keeping and destroy her with it.
Getting into Alice’s sticky head, she has a one-track mind. Kate’s betrayal proved too much and basically short-circuited her twin’s messed-up head. Alice needs to be “full, complete, and happy” before she can leave Gotham, and the only way to achieve Nirvana is by killing Kate. The audience’s relationship with Alice is jumbled, like her connection with Kate. She’s made up some of the show’s best moments, but at what cost? It’s evident that the only way Alice will stop trying to harm Kate and her friends is if she’s dead. Will Kate be the one to deliver that blow?
One of the most painful moments in this episode is the last scene with Mouse. He and Alice are just two traumatized kids, forced to live with their burdens. Up until now, they’ve clung to Alice In Wonderland, often escaping to that narrative. And, of course, made it their actual identities. That might have been the first sign that things weren’t right when Alice suggested burning their book. It would signal a burning of their traumatic past, and their captor August Cartwright. But it’s also Alice’s lifeline to who she is now. There’s no way she was actually going to burn it.
Alice’s poisoning of Mouse is like anything Alice does; it’s all for self-preservation. It’s a bit weird because Alice has protected and fought for Mouse up until this point. But just like Joker is with Harley Quinn, when push comes to shove, he’ll choose himself over her any day. And even though it’s painful for Alice, in her twisted brain, it’s the right choice. It’s very much an “If I can’t have you, no one can” mentality since he was going to leave her if she didn’t give up her “kill Kate” plan. And she needs to finish it.
Speaking of siblings, ever since Mary finally caved and told Kate that she knows she’s Batwoman, their relationship isn’t as strained. Shocker. The Alice situation disintegrates completely by the end of this episode, and Mary and Kate’s bond strengthens. Kate’s chased an illusion of what Alice could be. Then, she got what she dreamed of when Beth came on the scene. But this whole time, Mary has been right there. Mary is such a good person that she hasn’t blown up like a lot of people would have, and it all paid off in this episode.
Mary confronts Jacob at the Bat-Signal about working with Batwoman. For the first time this season, someone close to Jacob confronts him about how he privatizes public safety, making it available to only the rich. Mary points out that helping Batwoman would possibly change the public perception of the Crows. They adore Batwoman because, unlike the Crows, she fights for them. She’s their hope.
This is part of the reason why Jacob’s betrayal leaves them reeling. Sure, he doesn’t know Kate is Batwoman. But he completely disrespected the trust she gave him, which she did in Gotham’s best interest. Jacob’s hate for the vigilante is understandable to a point—it undermines his job, and Jacob doesn’t see that he can trust her—however, to order a firing squad on her? His desire to be judge, jury, and executioner shows Jacob’s willingness to do anything to bring Batwoman down, even forgoing honor.
Mary tells their dad that the Crows are just a device to make money for Jacob. For once, instead of having security for the sake of capitalism and lining his wallet, Jacob should team up with Kate for the sake of just doing good. Mary says he should back Batwoman up because of what she means to the people of Gotham. There is personal motivation behind opening the Crows up to the public, as well. And his betrayal of Batwoman not only shits on Batwoman, and Kate and Mary by extension, but also Gotham.
Looking back, Batwoman soared in its first season. There were some pacing issues at the start and episodes that felt lackluster in comparison to others. But it dove into the character of Kate Kane, really highlighting her issues with emotional ties. It showed viewers her growth from selfishly putting on the suit and cowl, to being willing to die for the people of Gotham. “O, Mouse!” wasn’t initially intended as the season finale. And it feels that way in the beginning. But the end is really what pulls it together into a pretty good finish. Plus, the cliffhanger is worthy of season two hype.
Stray observations
- First off, thank you for your patience while waiting for another review! Very happy to be back for the finale.
- Alright, since I’ve been gone, my excitement at Kate’s exes interacting has turned to… definite surprise at them now being an item. Kate can’t catch a break in the romance department, especially since another favorite of mine (Reagan) turned out to be a backstabber as well! Maybe Kate needs to look outside of Gotham for a girlfriend.
- Regardless, something tells me that maybe Julia isn’t being so forthcoming about why she’s back in Gotham. We know, now, that she has ties to Safiyah, which is a connection to Alice. Safiyah is the only person who Alice is truly frightened of, which makes me think Julia is still within her grasp. But maybe she really is just on the run from her. Whoever she is.
- That Bruce Wayne face reveal was top notch. It pulls in the mystery behind the character and ensures that the fact that Kate will welcome into Wayne Enterprises with no issue.
- Hopefully, this kryptonite connection brings about more crossovers with Supergirl. Maybe the way to go with crossovers from now on isn’t a massive one each year. But instead bringing it back to how Arrow and The Flash used to do it in the beginning; little episodes here and there. Kate and Kara are such a joy together, so fingers crossed.
- Lastly, thank you to so many people for reading my reviews and thoughts throughout this season. It was my first time reviewing a TV show on a regular basis and for The A.V. Club, and the responses made it even better. See you in next season in some for another! God knows we need to see how the Bruce Wayne reveal goes over for Kate.
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I know they didn’t intend that as a season finale, but damn if that last season isn’t a perfect cliffhanger. Though that being said, all the angst over the “last shard of Kryptonite” is kiiind of of undercut by the metric ton of the stuff they threw around on Supergirl last week. I know they promised a Batwoman/Superman crossover next season but Kara had dang well better show up at some point too.Oh, and Mary is the best.
I’m sure Kara will show up sooner rather than later. My guess is that next year’s crossover was supposed to be Batwoman/Supergirl until a combination of Melissa Benoist’s pregnancy and Covid tanked it.
Yeah I was gonna say, Kate clearly hasn’t been paying any attention to what’s happening in National City. Or shot Kara a call.
I’m still upset that it’s going to be Batwoman/Superman. It should be Kate and Kara, dammit! They even set up for more of their relationship in the crossover!
You probably either know or guessed this, but for everybody else…the logistics of having a Supergirl/Batwoman crossover with Melissa’s maternity leave were just too great.
Oh sure. And I don’t know it for certain, but it feels like the network is leaning into Superman over Supergirl because the latter is more famous, never mind that the former has been central to Arrowverse for years now. I’m sure you’re right about Melissa Benoist being pregnant adding a wrinkle, it just makes me feel disgruntled cause I would’ve loved a crossover centered around Kate and Kara.
I also think it’s because Batwoman and Superman are the two Arrowverse shows that will be on HBO Max. So both parts of the crossover will be on one platform. And they’re the future of the Arrowverse. Flash/Supergirl/Legends only have a few more seasons left while Batwoman and Superman and Lois are just getting started.
Well, let’s be honest, Supergirl is closer to the end of its run than the beginning. The future of the CW’s DC lineup is Batwoman and the New New Adventures of Lois and Clark, so it makes sense to have those shows do a crossover.That being said, if Kate never visits National City I’m going to burn the CW to the ground.
Also Stargirl & Arrow Jr., depending on how those do.
They first have to pick up Green Arrow & the Canaries, and Stargirl is a DC Universe show first, so it’s not going to be a lineup anchor for the CW. The way Arrow was, or the Flash is. There is Black Lightning as well, and I could very easily see that being the old dog in the CW DC lineup in a couple year’s time…Well, except for Legends, which will never die, Beebo willing.
Based on their love of Arrowverse shows, Canaries getting picked up seems likely.
You’d think, but the fact that they released next season’s schedule and it wasn’t there makes me think it’s not as sure a thing as i once figured. I know, I know, Pedowitz says discussion are “still ongoing” but network execs say a lot of things so who knows.
Could be a Corona thing, it’s thrown a lot of things off.
Well, this wasn’t supposed to be the finale so I can excuse some things. However what the hell was this plot involving the football dude. They tried to tell us he wasn’t really a bad guy because concussions or whatever but he made some very calculated moves when getting his revenge, like purposefully paralyzing and coming up with a way around the cops so he could kill his coach (And if that last one wasn’t him and it was actually the Crows, good job getting one of your own killed guys).Also on the bad side, Mary & Jacob’s relationship. I liked their scene together but watching it just reminded me that those have interacted like twice this entire season. I really wish this show had fleshed out their relationship but oh well.On the good side I liked Mouse’s death scene because his relationship with Alice was actually established. It was a nice sign of how far gone she was. Although again, I have no idea what the end game for Alice was. Was she going to die trying to get revenge? Was she going to get caught and go to jail again? Was she going to skip town anyway? I don’t know but what I do know is that there was way too much of her this season and there needs to be less of her in the next one.Nice that they did actually have Tommy Eliot complete his Hush story arc by the end of the season. That one could go interesting places but I think at this point everyone should be immediately suspicious of him considering all the face swapping that went on this season.All in all, there were parts of this season I liked but I didn’t like the total package.
However what the hell was this plot involving the football dude. They tried to tell us he wasn’t really a bad guy because concussions or whatever but he made some very calculated moves when getting his revenge, like purposefully paralyzing and coming up with a way around the cops so he could kill his coach (And if that last one wasn’t him and it was actually the Crows, good job getting one of your own killed guys).With them calling him “the Titan,” I thought there’d be a reveal that his “steroids” were actually Titan, the knock-off of Bane’s Venom from the “Arkham” video games. It’d explain his deal a lot better than just “insensitivity to pain.”
It also seemed a bit… insensitive? I assumed that they were going to go a ‘he was a victim of weird experiments’ direction. Instead, they went with ‘he suffered a brain injury, so of course he became a calculating psychopathic serial killer’. Which just seems a bit crass, really.
“Steroids” “Sexy cheerleaders.” LOL“Until I can talk to her, we can’t destroy it.” As if I didn’t want Supergirl to pay a visit enough already.Jacob gonna Jacob. you’re a private security force with no accountability to anyone, but sure, get on your high horse.I can’t believe we’re out of Mary Hamilton for the year.
I guess finding out that his security force was corrupt wasn’t enough to shake his faith. Or maybe because it was apparently only that one guy, I don’t know.
a normal human might look at a 20-year history of corruption from one of his officers and wonder what ELSE he’s been missing…not Jacob Kane! screw that other independent crimefighter who’s not answerable to anybody!
Look, there’s good money and power to be gained from this job, and having someone running around doing this for altruistic reasons is making the rest of them look bad.
On Batwoman…Luke: I just destroyed the last bit of Krypton (except for Kate’s shard).Meanwhile on Supergirl…Leviathan proceeds to use piles of the stuff to try to stop Supergirl.The only argument you could make is that the DEO, who Leviathan stole it from, wouldn’t exactly be shouting from the rooftops that they had a stockpile of the stuff. Also the events of both finales would be happening at roughly the same time so it’s possible that news of stuff being thrown around downtown National City wouldn’t have made the news, and thus reached Kate/Luke/Mary, yet.
A genuinely excellent episode. Batwoman had a very strong first season, as most of the CW superhero shows do (Legends being the only real exception). The Bruce Wayne reveal, which has roots in the comics, was stellar. Hopefully reviews continue in 2021 when the show returns.
This week in Mary is the Best: calling it a “Bat Huddle”; referring to Gotham as a Greek Tragedy.I’m actually kind of relieved Mouse is dead. Their relationship was just running in place for so long, and I kept waiting for one of them to turn on the other.Jacob really just is the worst. I get there’s fair reason for him to be upset with Batwoman’s actions in Arkham last week; there’s still just way too much of pot-calling-the-kettle-black with his whole ‘war on vigilantes’ he’s got going on.I know it probably wasn’t planned for, but that does make for a hell of a cliffhanger.
Yeah, the extrajudicial killing of a brain damaged person of color (who had surrendered) is a pretty bad look too for Jacob.
Oh for sure.Though I’m also thinking it’s bullshit for a privatized police force that is answerable to no one to try to claim the moral high ground over a crime-fighting vigilante that’s answerable to no one.
I was really hoping the Lucius Fox murder mystery was going to lead to a conspiracy that would result in the downfall of the Crows. Maybe someday.
It led to a conspiracy of one guy being behind it who apparently knew a bunch of people who can help cover up crimes.
A part of me can’t help but root for the Crows to fall, though I recognize they’re a reliable source of conflict for the show.And as we saw tonight, they make for great Red Shirts.
I was just thinking that the Crows are Batwoman’s DEO. I kind of hope it has the same fate. Except Jacob is still around in some capacity.
Well, given that Jake Kane hasn’t been arrested yet, presumably his mercenaries are in some way licensed by, and hence accountable to, the government (local, state or federal). Since they clearly – and brazenly – have been acting in ways ordinary bodyguards aren’t allowed to do.
Of course, given how corrupt Gotham is, that’s not saying much in practice. But it is a real difference: Jake is presumably acting legally, and is (indirectly) democratically accountable, whereas Kate isn’t even pretending to obey the law, and is accountable only to herself.
I wouldn’t say the Crows are answerable to no one. They’re employed by the city, and their activities are public knowledge. If people aren’t happy with what they’re doing, they can be fired.
Hoping this is follow-up as well as other questionable Crow shenanigans
I hope to god they explore this next season and don’t cop out
He hadn’t really surrendered. We saw that Kate was starting to get through to him, but from the distance the Crows were standing, there’s no way they could have known that. They just saw him still trying to press his machetes down into Batwoman.
– Two people with shotguns went after him, and because they don’t want to kill anybody, he got away. This is why you don’t have a no kill policy or use reduced lethality munitions.
– I like the team-up of Alice, Mouse, and Hush.
– I’ll bet that that guy looked like the ref that penalized him.
– Was that professor one of the three Lone Gunmen?
– You know, you could just wrap the kryptonite in a chunk of concrete and drop it in the middle of Gotham Bay.
– When she says run, you run, Dumas.
– And now Alice’s madness consumes her.
– I expected the betrayal, but I also expected Mary or Batwoman to have a crowd of people to harangue the Crows and basically force them to let her go.
– Now Kate has been betrayed by someone she loves. Just like Alice.
– And there’s our Bruce Wayne.
– I always thought that Alice would make Tommy look like Bruce, but I didn’t think that she’d put it to that use.
– The parallels between Kate and Alice’s stories are so very poetic. I REALLY hope that they’re intentional.
– I keep seeing people complain that Hush feels small. Remember that this is his beginning. Most supercriminals spend years developing into the dreaded beings that they would become.
Yes, Byers! That’s who the geologist was! I knew he sounded familiar.
On the kryptonite: yup, very CW-stupid. World-travelling billionaire real estate developer with mad science stuff in the basement… and can’t think of any way to hide something from a sewer-dwelling mad woman other than a choice between ‘destroy it!’ and ‘keep it on your desk!’ ?
[…hang on. Hereditary billionaire ‘Gotham’ real estate developer whom everyone thinks is some feckless wastrel, and who continually breaks the law yet insists that they are doing it all for the greater good and reassures themselves through the adoration of a baying base of fans who don’t care about the rule of law? Is Batwoman just really subtle Trump propaganda/fanfiction!?]
I feel like it should be a bigger deal that they basically revealed who will be playing the CW Bruce Wayne/Batman from here on out…
Warren Christie from Alphas, I think a solid choice as Bruce WayneIt will be interesting seeing him try to bluff Kate and Luke next season
I had never seen him in anything else where he didn’t have a stubble and oh boy does he look like Bruce – and hot!Though at first glance I thought it was Colin Donnell and thought “Oh wow Oliver made Bruce in the image of his BFF”
I barely recognized him clean-shaven, either
Alphas!
I enjoyed the episode but it really felt like they had no idea how to adapt this as a finale. It was much less a cliffhanger ending than a “we’ll see you next week” ending. Supergirl on the other hand crushed it.
Well, Batwoman still had two more eps left on the docket after this one. Supergirl had almost finished shooting their finale and they basically combined footage from episode 19 and 20 to make a finale. So it makes sense that Supergirl’s episode works best as a season finale because part of it is actually from the season finale.
Good point. It just seems like the episode of Batwoman is getting much higher praise than it should be. It was still good but I was disappointed in it.
Of all the CW shows, this one had the least bad finale. It at least felt like a cliffhanger.
Man, having the last shard of kryptonite just sitting in a picture frame is a terrible hiding place when the Batcave is right there! It’s like Kate wants it stolen.
Also… why kryptonite? It hasn’t been shown to be exceptionally hardy prior. They couldn’t have gone with Nth Metal or something?I just hope when the shows come back in… fuck, seven month(!)… they don’t keep the villians around for more than a couple episodes and drag the plots on longer. Alice, Leviathan, Mirror Lass have been around too long already.
And, hopefully, they let Lex’s plotline just carry on in Superman & Lois where Lex belongs.
Nth metal would have been an amazing name drop. But back in Silver age, anything from Krypton on Earth was relatively as invulnerable as the Supes.
Solid enough way to end the season, even if this wasn’t the finale anyone intended to make. I’d say my only disappointment is that, now that they’ve introduced a version of young Bruce Wayne (i.e. Tommy-Bruce), we’ll need a new way for justify getting Kevin Conroy back as Old Bruce. And I REEEEEALLY want to see him back.
I hope they cast Rose Leslie as a villain next season so she can bitch about “The Foo-kin’ Crows.” Every time Jacob does something stupid, I hear her voice in my head.
Give us Rose Leslie as Whisper A’Daire, & go full serpent or GTFO!
That would be brilliant, actually.
Only disappointment of the Bruce Wayne reveal is that it means we need a different excuse to see Kevin Conroy return as Old Bruce. That has to happen in Season 2, if possible.
This Bruce does seem… weirdly young? The actor’s 44 and if anything looks younger. That seems pretty young for a guy who became a famous playboy/businessman/vigilante, defeated a series of criminal masterminds, including some with running vendettas (Luke talking about Joker not being heard from again makes it sound like he wasn’t just around for a summer…), and then vanishing three years ago…
I think I’ll be the first to say it: CoIE was a big mistake. The different shows are trying to tell different stories that simply don’t work if they’re on the same earth. Kryptonite is super-rare on Batwo-Man’s show yet the DEO stockpiles it like toilet paper on Supergirl’s show. Freeland is quarantined, police-stated, and attacked by Markovians on Black Lightning’s show, all because people want the secret of developing superpowers that exists only in Freeland … or Central City, or National City, or Star City.So, what have dividends have we received on merging the worlds? We got Beth back for an episode, but other than that, nothing. It’s caused no end of hassle, especially over on “Supergirl”. While Lex Luthor as a beloved public figure has worked well, we could have gotten that some other way that doesn’t require the Flash to live on the same world.
It for sure was a test to see which show could better handle the speed bump. And a peak at shows’ creative teams. Plus pregnancies … plus coronavirus … god, I don’t envy them.
It is indeed difficult to see what the point of it all was. It was already arguably too easy for the stories to cross streams as it was, what with everyone having interdimensional teleporters. If they’re not meaningfully going to use the advantage of having them on one world – to bring their stories together – then surely the bad outweighs the good.
Based on this episode, the existence of Kryptonite is not public knowledge. So as far as Luke knows, the one chunk of Kryptonite he has in the cave is all there is; he doesn’t know about all the Kryptonite at the DEO the same way most people don’t know there’s a secret metahuman prison underneath Star Labs.
I’ve never complained when Arrowverse shows moved away from the source material, but Jacob Kane is so much better in the comics where he’s basically the Luke character — providing support in the field while also giving pep talks (though they were more of the tough love variety). Yes, he becomes Batwoman’s enemy down the line, but even then it works because their relationship is so well defined and it’s more about how to fight the war on crime and not ‘my private army is somehow not vigilantism because we get paid.’ Quentin Lance in S1 Arrow covered this territory much better, and nothing he did in the first three seasons made it impossible to bring him into the fold down the line. Hard to imagine Kate and her dad sharing a heartfelt moment like Ollie and Quentin did in the final season of Arrow now.As for the episode itself, it definitely works as a finale and I’m glad they actually went with the Bruce Wayne face (but does it mean the end of comics accurate Hush costume, or will Tommy still wrap up to unleash some mayhem from time to time?). It’s where I thought they were going when Alice first promised Tommy a new face, but I dismissed it because I didn’t think CW would pass up the opportunity to reveal their Bruce Wayne casting long before the episode aired. If I have one complaint it’s that the episode synopsis said one of Gotham’s “former heroes” returns to settle a score, and while technically accurate it was clearly written that way to get us excited for a Dick Grayson or other Batfamily character sighting. Felt like a cheat.Still, Batwoman had a strong debut season. Not quite as good as Flash or Black Lightning, but definitely on par with Arrow and Supergirl.
From an interview I read with an EP, they specifically wanted someone matching the physicality of actor playing Hush (Gabriel Mann) because it will still be Tommy as Bruce and also they want to keep Hush around.Agreed about Kate and Jacob – it doesn’t look like Kate as Batwoman can trust Jacob and the divide is too large.
Jacob sucks. I find him at this point less deserving of redemption than Alice, whose bad circumstances he is to blame for several times over
I wondered if they were trying to go the Moira Queen route with Jacob (as she spent much of first season suspiciously acting like a villain) though her motives were always driven by her children, which made her a lot more interesting. Jacob just seems delusional and mad with power.
I initially saw comparisons between Jacob and Moira too. But Moira was a better parent, a better schemer, and a better character than him
Mary = MVP for life.Honestly I hope next season sees her bringing down the Crows with a social media campaign championing Batwoman and exposing their myriad sins.
Speaking of Mary and social media. I desperately want a crossover where Mary bonds with new Zari. I know they come from different times, but when has that ever stopped the Legends?
… well now I want that too!
I will forever not understand why Kate doesn’t treat Mary like a true sister, much less the goddess we can all see she is. WTF was with that “You don’t know him like I do. He’s my dad.” crap? I’m glad that Mary called her out on it, and not at all surprised that Mary was right. Kate needs to figure out who her only decent relation is pretty damn quick and start appreciating her.Speaking of Mary, I hope she’s not neglecting her clinic for bat huddles. It’s great to have her part of the team, but she was doing good work and I hope it continues. I know they blew up her building a while back, but she can afford a new place. Considering she was willing to literally burn $2.5 Million to save Kate a couple episodes again, I would think she could use some of her inheritance to rebuild and buy better equipment.
Not surprisingly, it does not seem like Alice will a one-season and done big bad, nor will she be making a face turn and joining the good guys anytime soon. I am glad, Rachel Skarsten is so goodMouse was such a tragic character, well played by the actor. Though he was obviously a victim I never warmed up to him that much in part because he was complicit in keeping Beth/ Alice imprisoned (he could have freed her) Luke-Mary and Sophie-Julia are both very slow burn relationships, which makes me like them both more. I hope for more development & heat there next seasonJacob sucks. There, I said it
He caught a bad case of Batman-growley-voice too. And he’s not even a Batperson!
I did have the thought that Luke has some very useful information for the people of National City…but they are all a little busy right now. This was probably one of the problems with the pandemic (apparently they were also going to have that picture be one of Kate and Kara, and it probably will be, but they didn’t have any pictures of the two of them and couldn’t add it in later, I think there was a costume problem or it was very much a picture of Melissa and Ruby). But here its not as bad as early Arrowverse days where Cisco would have some really good information for the people of Star City and just never passed the information on.
“My sister is trying to kill me. What’s happening in your world Kara?”
“I teamed up with a pair of Martians to defeat three primordial gods from killing 4 billion people.”
“Uhh… wow. Suddenly my problems don’t seem quite so large.”
“No more secrets,” says Kate. Does this mean she’s going to tell Luke that she met Superman? Overall, though, I felt the finale closed on some strong notes after a very awkward beginning; the dialogue for Mary in the beginning felt especially stilted. The Bruce reveal works especially well after reading reports of a BW/Superman & Lois crossover in 2021 (hopefully).
Hoping the crossover involves something as simple as Bruce getting out as Hush because he doesn’t know Superman is Clark.
It’s a pity all the villains suck except Alice. Do these writers hate Hush more than me? I’m still waiting for badass Killer Moth!
So much of the “season finale” is wasted on a footballer turned vengeful
machete murderer. “The Gridiron Made Him A Grindhouse Gonzo!” is what
it would say on the episode’s cover if it was a Silver Age comic.
Jacob Kane on the warpath against Batwoman for spurring Alice’s escape. It seems
like Julia & Luke could’ve deescalated that by explaining it was an
accidental side effect of of rescuing them. Kate could also just tell
her father her secret identity. (He knew from day one in the comics.)
It’s much more aggravating than early Arrow where Detective Quentin Lance was on The Hood’s case for all those archery murders.
Alice made a perfect replica of Bruce Wayne’s face
from dead tissue in a sewer with minimal equipment & grafted it
onto someone with different bone structure! Since Batman was already
established by the Kane twins’ bat mitzvah, this improbable Bruce mask
is also too young & doesn’t look enough like Kevin Conroy.
I really liked the scene of Alice poisoning Mouse, if only because we got to see her in a mode other than “Wide eyes, wiggling fingers, and talking in a stereotypical Crazy Person voice while quoting Alice in Wonderland.” I find her whole shtick really tiresome at this point.
Anyone else think Alice looks extra cute in those glasses?
Alice needs to be “full, complete, and happy” before she can leave Gotham, and the only way to achieve Nirvana is by killing Kate.
She doesn’t want to kill Kate, she wants to kill BATWOMAN. If she wanted to kill Kate there are dozens of easier ways to take her out when she’s not wearing the Batsuit, as one of your GMG colleagues pointed out.
Alice knows that her sister is Batwoman. She knows where her sister lives. She has interacted with her sister multiple times on this show while Kate is in normal people clothes. It seems to me that it would be incredibly easy to just, I don’t know, shoot her in the head when she’s out buying groceries? Or poison a drink she’s getting with one of her exes? Or gas her and everyone she cares about at her club? This is not hard Alice! You do not need the most valuable mineral in the Arrowverse to kill your sister because you know your sister is Batwoman and consequently have very easy access to her when she is not in her suit.
Kate & Tommy need to recreate this scene!
I found the episode well done with one annoying thing, Can anyone please get Dougray Scott (Colonel Kane) to stop the over acting. I get that the character is supposed to be hard nosed, but ffs the over intensity is as bad as burning your toast.
So it’s just been announced that Ruby Rose is quitting the show, and now they have to recast Batwoman for Season 2. https://tvline.com/2020/05/19/ruby-rose-leaving-batwoman-season-2-recast/
Seeing a black man tortured by the system being executed by a corrupt police state was horrifying.
Just finished streaming the season, and I have to say I find it really odd that CW is not recasting Kate Kane after Ruby Rose’s departure. It seems like the whole show centers around that character and her relationships with Jacob, Alice, Sophie, and Mary. I guess it will be interesting to see how they change things up with the new character.