This past week.....the network folks finally came up and reviewed the season 3 numbers and said 'enough'.....show is cancelled.
I made it through 3.5 episodes of season one of Batwoman, and I'll make these five observations:
1. If you were thinking it'd be at the level of 'Gotham'? Well....NO. It just wasn't that type of show.
2. This Mabel Cartwright bad-guy villain from season one....was on my bad list as a marginal '6'. Whoever did the writing just couldn't invent a decent bad guy.
3. Whole slant was hot-lusty Batwoman, who was a lesbian fantasy situation (mostly). But I think 50-percent of viewers wanted mild sexual erotic stuff....more than catching bad guys or saving the world.
4. At some point in production of season one....Ruby Rose (original to play character) was told she wasn't lesbian-enough.....to be Batwoman, and this became a social media blitz. The fact that she was lesbian in real life.....apparently didn't filter into the management folks.
5. They avoided a 50-50 mix of comedy/serious stuff. This was the plus-up of Gotham.....they could put on some wild comical stuff, and it entertained you. Maybe it got better in season two.....but I never got around to that.
End of the Batwoman story business for TV? Oh, I'd say for a full decade.....we won't talk about this stuff.
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