Batwoman on The CW -

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Well, Black Mask has a speech about how society at every turn just wants to stop them from doing their jobs while propping up an unethical and self-righteous vigilante who makes having laws and due process pointless

Which is kinda hilarious, cause that is exactly the key flaw in Batwoman.
The crows kept Gotham as safe as they could and now the city is blowing sugar up a lesbian's ass for beating up random people for petty reasons. She does not incarcerate criminals. She does not make Gotham safer. In fact, both Batwomen this far have made Gotham a great deal less safe by letting literal mass murderers run wild for no fucking reason.
Now everyone is telling the cops and crows to get bent, cause there are a few black sheep amongst them, who this far all have lost their job at the cops/crows when their co-workers found out they were doing scummy shit.
It's so fucking bizarre how the show gives Mask lines that pretty much lampshade why everything in the show sucks. It's like his dialogue is written by the only self-aware writer in the room and everyone else is just too braindead to realize that Mask is tailor made to take the piss out of the show.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

EDIT: Also, Jacob’s out.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Black Mask opens this episode so hammy and fake I thought he was about to start speaking like a youtuber: "Hey there, Gotham Fams; Welcome to your revolution"

He has a pretty piss poor 'rise up' speech, which is literally 'The Police suck, the bank sucks, the Government sucks, but I don't so join me for a vague and undefined liberation!'

Black Mask has somehow shut down all of the city's power. His plan is to get the city to fear Black Mask and then have Roman Sionis kill Black Mask so that they love him... If this plan worked, what did he think was going to happen? That his reputation boost would immediately crown him king of Gotham or some shit? Or was this entire season a convoluted marketing scheme?

Ryan: Okay, what did I learn from that Spider-Man movie... Uh... Oh, right, I'm nothing without the suit, nothing without the suit.
Every other Bat Fam member: *Specially trained for not having the suit because they knew they wouldn't always have access to all the gadgets and armour*

Ryan: This suit isn't mine...
It isn't Kate's either, she stole it too. I know the writers probably really wanted to make a Batman show and had to settle with Batwoman, but stop treating it like we're dealing with Batman.

Also, I love how this episode is about Ryan feeling powerless without her suit and yet her fight with Kate doesn't really use the suit anyhow.

Luke starts looking through Lucius Fox's stuff and finds the Batwing suit his Dad made for him. Seriously, he never thought to look here and there was just a suit waiting around for him, no need for our tech geek character to make it himself.

Completely Serious scene:
"Alice, you killed my Mom."
"I said I'm sorry. I apologised. What more do you want?"

Alice says she's already paid for her crimes because Sofiya killed her boytoy.

And then Alice just suddenly jumps to going "Well your Mom died in childbirth, so you're a murderer!" kinda out of nowhere. I get they needed a reason for Ryan to put her in her place (because her being a domestic terrorist isn't enough reason), but geez.

Mary finds that Tavaroth has been wheeled to her clinic (he was presumed dead after Black Mask injected him with Venom) and immediately is whining that she has to save people she doesn't like. Damn that hipocratic oath that she has to follow now that she's gone legit, if Jacob didn't make do this she could have just let Tavaroth die!

Tavaroth freaks out because venom just makes you a blind rage monster... Yeah, they specifically say the problem with Bane was that he was mindless beserker even though Bane is supposed to be a pretty cunning and well as strong guy who only went into blind rage when he overdosed on Venom.

Batwing swoops in and one punch k.o's Tavaroth. And that's his contribution. I'm not fucking kidding, that is literally all Batwing does in his introduction episode, and me typing this is already making the sequence seem much longer and impactful than it really is.

Also, while all this was happening, Batwoman gave a letter to the newswoman that announces her retirement because she's nothing without her suit, inspiring the city the fight for themselves by... Making jack'O'Lanterns out of the masks Black Mask left across the city. Apparently this signals defiance and helps... Somehow.

Alice takes Joker's flower from Black Mask's collection and sprays his face with acid, and then he proceeds to, for some reason, put his mask back on and thus making it stuck to his face like in the comics. And that's how our main villain goes down, a few short words and then an acid slap.

Ryan and Alice fight Kate on the same bridge where Alice and Kate's Mom originally crashed, and somehow spraying Kate with Snake Bite will bring her back. Kate gets sprayed and her and Alice go over the edge, crashing into the water below and almost drowning. They wash up upon the shore and Kate's back. But *gasp* this heartwarming moment is interrupted by those terrible police pigs who come down to arrest Alice and drag her away while all Ryan and Kate can do is watch.

The city is saved and Ryan is at her parole meeting, where they ask her 'Have you changed since being released and how?'. And Ryan says she hasn't, because she remains convinced that she's innocent and that she's found her power. And the board vote for her to be released. Yes, she admitted she learned nothing, told them she doesn't see herself as having committed a crime and said she feels better. The SNL skit about the guy confirming that he'd continue eating people after he's released had a better parole argument than this.

Kate tells Sophie that it's never going to happen and leaves to go find Bruce.

Ryan bribes guards just so she can personally tell Alice to go fuck herself, but before the season ends ALice has to reveal that Ryan's mother is alive... And then we cut to plant tendrils rapidly growing as to imply that Poison Ivy is the mother. I was joking when I said that months back. JOKING!

Also, with Dougray Scott not return we have the entire climax of the Kane family drama without Jacob involved.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Starting to think Gotham may have been actually been the best writing in comic book TV shows after all.

 

[A man of no consequence]

This show made it past 3 episodes? Wow.

 

[The Nothingness]

Poison Ivy could be Ryan's mom? The ginger erasure continues

 

[verissimus]

Starting to think Gotham may have been actually been the best writing in comic book TV shows after all.

What about Daredevil?

 

[Miller]

Also, Jacob’s out.

I guess he got tired of the shit that they gave him to do.

What about Daredevil?

The first season was great then it became a Netflix show.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Ryan bribes guards just so she can personally tell Alice to go fuck herself, but before the season ends ALice has to reveal that Ryan's mother is alive... And then we cut to plant tendrils rapidly growing as to imply that Poison Ivy is the mother.

This show is like the makers actively go out of their way to make the most terrible decisions, use the most obnoxious and overused tropes, the absolutely worst hottakes and most asinine brainfarts. . . and the show is still going.
Logically, I'd assume the writers are deliberately doing a shitty job as some sort of social experiment to evaluate just how much shit you can push under a political umbrella before the cult members start to realize it's shit.
Or maybe it's like in The Producers and they desperately try to make the show bomb by going out of their way to make the worst possible choices and the show for some stupid reason just prattles on and on.

 

[Vault Boy]

The only reasons this show is still limping along is pure spite and money laundering.

For real, I suspect that there's some fuckery going on behind the scenes involving the executives bankrolling this shit.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Poison Ivy could be Ryan's mom? The ginger erasure continues

How does one come in Poison Ivy anyways? Even though this show will magic away penises, she still can't be touched that way.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

How does one come in Poison Ivy anyways? Even though this show will magic away penises, she still can't be touched that way.

They had Batman kill the Joker just so Kate could be justified in killing people. Clearly they’re going to do whatever they want.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

How does one come in Poison Ivy anyways? Even though this show will magic away penises, she still can't be touched that way.

I dunno, they buried her in soil and masturbated over her?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I dunno, they buried her in soil and masturbated over her?

My money is on "immortality-flower dildo". You just know there's going to be some immortality-flower-shenanigan explanation -- which would be pretty fucking amazing, given that her death supposedly transformed her stupid flower into a magic cure-all potion, so now we might get the inverse of that as two mutually exclusive backstories for the same character.
Fuck, if they had any balls, they'd go for a Poison Ivy Troon with an immortality-flower dilator.