Seems a lot of people want Wallis Day to be the new Kate Kane:
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/...s-day-krypton/
Seems a lot of people want Wallis Day to be the new Kate Kane:
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/...s-day-krypton/
They can't - there is no multiverse after Crisis, and it's a bit too early to make a new one.
God no, last thing we need is some face transplant storyline for the lead.
Best answer is don't bother explaining it. Just recast and move on, maybe make a joke, but don't have her being a different actress be a plot point.
There is a multiverse after Crisis on Infinite Earths this is established by showing Stargirl, Doom Patrol, Teen Titans, Swamp Thing, and Brandon Routh's Superman on different Earths at the end.
God no, last thing we need is some face transplant storyline for the lead.
Best answer is don't bother explaining it. Just recast and move on, maybe make a joke, but don't have her being a different actress be a plot point.
That is the best answer, just don't bother explaining it just make a joke in the first episode and in the crossover, and move on, but if there has too be an explanation just make it Batwoman is injured in a bomb blast that requires her to have reconstructive surgery.
Another actress who want the role:
https://www.cbr.com/batwoman-magicia...ace-ruby-rose/
Well Stargirl maybe.
Also a new multiverse can also mean new ways to detect them and new ways to get there and that the heroes don't know about them yet.
There is no addressing it, Kate gets a drastic haircut because she needed a change, that is all.
Other shows have recast their lead character:
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/...ey-survived/#1
Of the fancasts so far, Wallis Day has the most resemblance to RR, physically:
Source: https://twitter.com/wallisday/status/878511143614132225
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In most (not all) of the cases on that list, the character left with the actor, and a new character/actor - new name, new backstory, somewhat different personality - filled in the narrative role of the previous character.
They could do that with Kate/Batwoman if they wanted to, but I don't think they will. They could use some soap-operish face transplant/reconstructive surgery/whatever to replace the actor and not the character. Or, as people said, they could just put in a new actor and say nothing about it at all. (The new Darrin looked a lot like the old Darrin. But the new Becky didn't look much like the old Becky at all.)
I don't have a dog in this fight (and please do not have dog fights - they're cruel!), but I am curious to see what they'll do.
Doctor Bifrost
"If Roy G. Bivolo had seen some B&W pencil sketches, his whole life would have turned out differently." http://doctorbifrost.blogspot.com/
I think it was said that it was their third-highest-rated show in 2019, the thing is just that the the second half of the season that aired in 2020 had much lower Ratings, and the Ratings of the arrowverse shows are in general only a fraction of what they initially were.
In the beginning Arrow and Flash had 3 Million+ viewers per episode, at the moment most of the shows (including Batwoman) are down to 600-800K viewers per episode, only Flash is a little bit higher with roughly 1.25 viewers per episode.
Doctor Bifrost
"If Roy G. Bivolo had seen some B&W pencil sketches, his whole life would have turned out differently." http://doctorbifrost.blogspot.com/
After the Crisis in 1986, the publisher insisted there was only one universe and one timeline. Yet immediately after the D.C.U. was created the continuity kept shifting. Some of this was explained as being like aftershocks and the continuity hadn't completed resolved itself. You had one continuity in THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE. Another in Byrne's MAN OF STEEL. A new new version of Captain Atom. One version of Hawkman after Crisis, a different after HAWKWORLD. One Jason Todd after Crisis, another after "Batman: Year One." One Hal Jordan after Crisis, another after EMERALD DAWN. And so on with several characters. And yet this was all supposed to be in one universe in one continuity. Until finally they did ZERO HOUR, but after that there was still supposed to be only one universe and not a multiverse.
So I see an opening to explain away the changes in continuity in the Arrowverse, post-Crisis, as the universe still trying to get its act together.
To me the conflict is intentional. They've explained that the Earth-Prime heroes can't detect other universes, using the methods from before. So as far as they know, there is no multiverse. To them it seems like there is only one universe. That leaves the door open for them to discover the multiverse later. To me that all makes sense and I don't see it as an error.
What doesn't make sense is that there were only seven paragons and they, plus Lena and Nash, remembered the old multiverse and the old continuity. Everyone else, post-Crisis, was supposed to have no memories of that and to them the post-Crisis continuity was the way things had always been. The only reason they knew otherwise was because Martian Manhunter gave them a headache. But a character like Cisco on THE FLASH should know the post-Crisis continuity like the back of his hand and it should be the old continuity that confuses him--whereas they've played it the other way around on THE FLASH--as if all the main cast members are from the old continuity and are surprised by this new world.
All of these cracks in reality could be explained as the universe resettling, like a house after an earthquake.
I don't like the soap opera solution, like with Roman Brady on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, where you have actors of different heights and body shapes who are supposed to be the same character after a facelift. That's what frustrates me about Mouse. I can buy that he can become someone else if they are more or less physically similar to him, but it doesen't make sense within the rules they've given us that he can become people who are so far different from him.
If he was Clayface, I could buy that.
If they use face-switching for Kate Kane, then they would have to get an actress physically similar to Ruby Rose for me to buy it. And I think they should have the freedom to cast the best actress for the part, without trying to make her look similar to Ruby Rose. That's why some cosmic explanation--the Spectre burped--would work better for me.
Last edited by Jim Kelly; 05-23-2020 at 08:51 AM.
This article has an extensive list of possible candidates:
https://www.looper.com/211169/underr...e-as-batwoman/
Their list is:
Stephanie Beatriz
Jane Levy
Rachelle Lefevre
Bridget Regan
Phoebe Tonkin
Ashley Platz
Alexandra Daddario
IMO not that keen on any of their suggestions, but we'll see what happens.
Still going to agree with the apparent majority that Wallis Day seems best.
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