I love how Batwoman breaks the bo staff thinking it's detachable, and instead she just breaks another gadget. It must be a record
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So...she's got Tim's bo-staff, and she can separate them into tonfa's like Dick's escrima sticks. I don't see her dual-wielding guns like Jason, but maybe she'll someday swing around a sword like Damian. I wonder if part of the reason she's using weapons more is because she's become less convinced of her hand-to-hand fighting?
I still have a hard time believing Kate really cares about Mary that much. They hardly interact outside Batwoman and Kate seems to blow off Mary any chance she gets. Makes all of Mary's efforts just seem wasted. I guess you know what they say about "you don't know what you have, until you lose it."
So this really is all just a revenge plot by Alice to get payback from the family that abandoned her and for the woman who stole her life, at least from Alice's perspective.
"Joker, Riddler...Alice." What, no mention of Two-Face? Penguin? Do we not mention that name after his mayoral debacle?
I will give Alice this much...she fretted so much about her dress, but what she went with really stole the show
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Catherine may not have suffered her comic counterpart's fate of being stuck in comic book limbo, but I can't say death is a much better end. I also can't say I really cared or liked her all that much, but I also don't think she deserved to be put in such a cruel and unwinnable position. At least she got to go out saving her daughter and acknowledging how proud she is of Mary.
Kate Kane may be a sister...but above all she's a daddy's girl. And Alice learned that even being her sister won't protect you if you harm her father.
Man, Kate really didn't accomplish anything in this episode. She didn't catch Alice, Catherine died, Mary hates her, and her father was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. What a way to go into Crisis, huh
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Nothing sets someone on the path to being a vigilante more then a dead parent. It'll be interesting to see what Mary does now that her mom is dead and she hates Alice. She wants nothing to do with Kate, but will she support Batwoman capturing/killing Alice?
Sophie is caught in a bisexual love triangle. I would like to think breaking them up might save Tyler, but I'm still betting on him dying at the end of the season.
I wonder what Jacob took more personally...his wife's murder, or getting framed for it? Or both. But he really didn't seem to beat up about Catherine's death, even if he was in the middle of divorcing her from his perspective, though she was still his wife. Maybe he's just internalizing it.
I think the show wants me to believe Jacob and Kate are serious about bringing down Alice and have lost all faith in her, but I just don't. Family doesn't work like that, otherwise Alice wouldn't be as obsessed with them as she is when she keeps denying she's Beth.
I get it's setting up Crisis, but I have to imagine how random that Nash Wells scene at the end would be for anyone who only just watches this show.