Batman is a staple in the world of superheroes and his legacy is only matched to Superman’s. There have been many other people to dawn the mantle of the Bat. The newest version of Batman… rather Batwoman has aired on the CW. Does the show live up to the legacy of the Bat? Let us find out.
Gotham is a staple destination of the DC universe. It is not the bright and happy city like Metropolis or Central City, where Superman and the Flash reside. This dark and gloomy city is littered with criminals all around but there is someone who fights the crime. If you were thinking Batman, you are wrong. Batwoman has stepped up to the plate and picked up the mantle of the caped crusader. She keeps the city that she grew up in safe and tries to find a purpose that she believes she was destined to do.
Training with her master and trying to find her purpose in the world, Kate Kane goes through brutal training. She gets kicked out of the Military due to the higherups finding out she is gay, which lead her to travel the world and train. She returns home to Gotham due to her ex-girlfriend getting kidnapped by a gang. Nobody is there to help since Batman mysteriously vanished three years prior. Kate stumbles upon her cousin’s abandoned office building, where she finds a secret door that leads into a cave. There, she sees the Batman suit. She realizes that her Cousin Bruce Is Batman and decides to take up the mantle in his place.
Kate Kane, also is known as Batwoman (Ruby Rose), tries to keep her city safe by portraying herself as the famed Batman. She feels abandoned by Batman because he let her mother die when she was a child. Kate doesn’t want anyone to go through the struggle that she went to without a mother. Therefore, she fights for the safety of the city. Beth Kane (Rachel Skarsten) is Kate’s sister who was thought to have died with her mother. She is alive and well but wants the city to know abandonment like what Batman did to her and her mother. She tries to prove a point by abducting Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy) who is Kates’s ex-lover. Sophie works for Kate’s father’s security company called the Crows. Kates’s father, Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott), made the Crows to keep Gotham safe after his wife died and Batman left.
The show is mediocre at best with a lot more low points than high. Batman fans may feel a bit disrespected on the way the franchise is being represented. With a plot twist that is predictable and flat acting, Batwoman is cringy and channel changing worthy. The show comes off as feministic with the hard push of girl power. It is force fed down the viewer’s throat to try and prove a point that this is lady Batman. The main selling point of this is that it connects with the other CW superhero shows like The Flash and Arrow.
The die-hard Batman fans, including myself, will be heartbroken by this reiteration of the Bat. The show has stained the image of the superhero. Batwoman is for the teenage girl demographic, it may be hard to watch for anyone older than fifteen. The show is below average with below-par action scenes and is slow-paced. It is perfect for background noise when performing tasks like eating and texting. With all being said, Batwoman did not live up to the legacy of the Bat.
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