Batwoman Javicia Leslie IS Ryan Wilder/Batwoman

[Web-Head]

Batwoman Taps Javicia Leslie to Replace Ruby Rose in Title Role

 

[Havok83]

Never watched the show outside of the crossover but I'll check it out now

 

[Flash525]

Never heard of her before, but it's not Ruby Rose so I'll give season two a chance. Call me curious, but does anyone know if the actress is LGBT?

 

[Rorschach2012]

As a huge fan of DC and Batman... this is a horrible show. I love Hush and even that wasn’t enough to get me to watch

 

[SupermanFan]

I’m happy with the casting, just not a fan of the direction they’re going in. Would have been better to recast KateKane and if you still wanted a new Batwoman then have a proper handing over the cowl.

 

[moviefreak]

Never heard of her before, but it's not Ruby Rose so I'll give season two a chance. Call me curious, but does anyone know if the actress is LGBT?

bisexual

 

[Flash525]

bisexual

 

[Sorath]

So let me blunt this is flat out utterly dumb. Kate Kane has always been Batwomen. They would been better of just re-casting the character. I get they want to add diversity to there line but there was much better way of doing it then they did.

Personally they should have just scrapped the show all together and revamped it with Luke and called it Batwing. I'm not a big fan of the Batwing comics but at least that I could get behind and understand. If they felt the need to have a black female superhero they could have gone with Naomi. That two would have made so much more sense.

What there doing with Batwomen makes absolutely no sense. I don't know I just can't get on board with this. I loved the first season. I really loved Alice and found her to be my favorite character. Now I'm just done with the show.

 

[Thome216]

I think they really wanted an original character with no back story. That way they could do whatever they want with her without upsetting the fan base anchored with Kate Kane. It's a cheap move considering they are using the Batwoman brand without actually having the correct character.
(Much as many complained about them using the Bat brand without Batman...)
This next season might still be good, but as someone who watched the first and liked it, I'm half expecting to drop this just as I did LoT. Again, I'll give her a shot though.

 

[Mysteryman]

I have a feeling Kate Kane might be a bigger part of this.

 

[Dark Raven]

I think they really wanted an original character with no back story. That way they could do whatever they want with her without upsetting the fan base anchored with Kate Kane. It's a cheap move considering they are using the Batwoman brand without actually having the correct character.
(Much as many complained about them using the Bat brand without Batman...)
This next season might still be good, but as someone who watched the first and liked it, I'm half expecting to drop this just as I did LoT. Again, I'll give her a shot though.

What if they planned this all along and were intending to get rid of Kate Kane anyway? Maybe that could be part of why Ruby Rose walked as they were going to relegate her to a supporting character.

Maybe this will be like Beneath the Planet of the Apes where James Fransiscus was searching for Charlton Heston (after he didn't want to return for the sequel to the original). Finally Heston's character showed up at the end only to be killed off, but not before detonating the nuclear bomb that supposedly killed everyone.

 

[Primal Slayer]

What if they planned this all along and were intending to get rid of Kate Kane anyway? Maybe that could be part of why Ruby Rose walked as they were going to relegate her to a supporting character.

Maybe this will be like Beneath the Planet of the Apes where James Fransiscus was searching for Charlton Heston (after he didn't want to return for the sequel to the original). Finally Heston's character showed up at the end only to be killed off, but not before detonating the nuclear bomb that supposedly killed everyone.

lol

 

[Legendver2]

So they're really going full Patience Phillips with this.

 

[Dark Raven]

So they're really going full Patience Phillips with this.

Looks that way. They should even introduce Patience Phillips into the show now and have her flirt with the new Batwoman as her nemesis/ love interest. They can even give her the same awful costume with all those huge rips in it.

 

[SV Fan]

SO I don't pay attention to spoilers so what exactly was the purpose of recasting Batwoman?

 

[Primal Slayer]

SO I don't pay attention to spoilers so what exactly was the purpose of recasting Batwoman?

"I did consider the soap opera version for a hot minute, selfishly, because we had a couple episodes already written, and transition-wise, it would be seamless [since] we already started breaking Season 2. But upon further reflection, and [EP] Greg [Berlanti] helped me make this call -- and he’s way smarter than me about this sort of stuff -- he’s like 'You know, I think we should just reboot the character in terms of reboot Batwoman as a different character.' Just to also respect everything that Ruby [Rose] put into the Kate Kane character."

 

[fan4stic]

"I did consider the soap opera version for a hot minute, selfishly, because we had a couple episodes already written, and transition-wise, it would be seamless [since] we already started breaking Season 2. But upon further reflection, and [EP] Greg [Berlanti] helped me make this call -- and he’s way smarter than me about this sort of stuff -- he’s like 'You know, I think we should just reboot the character in terms of reboot Batwoman as a different character.' Just to also respect everything that Ruby [Rose] put into the Kate Kane character."

I think that's not a strong reasoning? Selifishly? Come on. I think that's handwaving events.

Apart of me also sees that as maybe them not wanting to bother with the character.

 

[HRPUFFSTUFF]

this no body for kate is their way of having their cake and eating too. if the new girl works great no more changes are needed and if not they just have kate show up alive and well taking over.

but you can tell with the first episode form season 2 that they just tied up all the plot points from the end of the last season with hush because it would have nothing to do with this new batwoman.