Sometimes these shows want to be about something different than Batman, but get sucked into the Batverse so hard that no one else gets to breathe. Plus, I genuinely feel like if it had a better handle of the canon it was working with, it could have been much more. I loved the sometimes shallow badassery of it all, and as I rewatched it, I could see all the things that the show wanted to be-especially when it comes to the bond between Helena and Selena, something we never see, but hearing about it from Helena’s point of view perfectly expresses the grief she feels.
The cliché, bad girl/good guy, girl power stuff really worked for me. It’s just like full-body Barb Wire ridiculous, but if my parental makeup was Catwoman and Batman, I’d wear it. Helena’s costume is terrible, but god do I love it. I watched the whole thing live as it aired, and I think, subconsciously, I wanted to get a tongue ring because Ashley Scott had one on this show. At least Mark Hamill voices Joker in these flashbacks.ĭespite all of this, I have weird nostalgia for the series. All this is shared through the narration of Alfred, because naturally, in a show about women, we want the male narration to open it up with one of the most sexist moments in comics. Apparently, in the future, Batman defeats The Joker in a good old tête-à-tête, and in response to this, Joker decides to take revenge by stabbing Selena Kyle in the street while walking with Helena (sporting her side-ponytail braid of innocence) and also committing the Killing Joke attack on Barbara Gordon. Plus, the whole story begins with the fridging of Catwoman/Selena Kyle. She just dies in a situation that is very unclear and is pretty much forgotten by the next episode, despite all the issues the character brings up. The visual they use for the Canary Cry is trash, and I think that they sort of fail to understand how the character works, even though I think the performance was good.
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Plus we do get to see the sonic scream version of the Canary with Dinah’s birth mother, Carolyn, played by Aunt Becky herself, Lori Loughlin. But that is only my opinion.ĭinah is now an … oracle, who has no real combat knowledge and almost gets assaulted by Jesse from Breaking Bad. Overall, I don’t mind there being a new version of Dinah with different powers, since, after all, Dinah is a legacy character. There is so little disabled representation in comics and to see Barbara being treated so poorly and endued with such an ableist mindset is disappointing.” I wish the writers of the show, when the committed to having Barbara be Oracle, could have also committed to allowing her to continue to adapt to being this new kind of hero without feeling the need to have her walk. I do not say this because I think Barbara shouldn’t find ways to reclaim her ability to walk, or that there is anything wrong with it, but to quote Lizzy Garcia on her piece about Barbara Gordon, “Erasing Barbara’s disability whether it is for the sake of a good story or not is still disheartening. I know for some people, Barbara returning to Batgirl is a good thing, and in many ways it is, but I think it was also really important to show that a superhero in a wheelchair is still a superhero. Plus, it sucks that they use the Killing Joke origin story for Barbara, when we could have seen her get injured in the line of duty, which could have given her the same injury, but have it based on her own line of work.
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So what went wrong, and as someone who has rewatched the series and proudly owns it on DVD, could it have been saved if the series had been allowed to continue into a season two? Shemar Moore plays a hot cop.ĭespite the series debut garnering ratings of 7.6 million viewers-which, at the time, was the network’s largest premiere in the 18–34 demographic-it was canceled after ratings fell sharply in subsequent weeks. Meanwhile, Harley Quinn has taken up the crime world that Mistah J left behind, while also posing as Helena’s psychiatrist. Dinah, rather than having the Canary Cry, has precognitive and telekinetic abilities. Helena has taken after her estranged father professionally, becoming a crimefighter, but because, in this universe, her mother, Selena Kyle, was a metahuman, she is also a metahuman with cat-like reflexes. The story took place in “New Gotham”-same place new name-which was abandoned by Bruce Wayne for “reasons,” though he is still very much alive (I guess he would agree with the ending of the Nolan trilogy).
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