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Karen Gillan wants to star in and direct the Batgirl movie:
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/248...batgirl-for-dc
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She really isn't too old - Babs was in her 30s before Flashpoint. New 52 retconned it so she became Batgirl at a younger age.
And in pre-Flashpoint, Jim wasn't her Dad, he was her Uncle. If they go with the latter relationship there's no reason Babs needs to be black, they can keep her looks comic accurate.
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The new issue of BATGIRL was really fun. Castellucci continues to blaze a new trail here and it totally works. Love Batgirl vs Male Fantasy Writers.
Last edited by Celgress; 01-26-2020 at 11:38 AM.
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Agreed.
While there are elements of "lose-lose situation" to the whole thing, I always prefer her as Oracle because - supporting player or not - at the end of day as Batgirl, she was (and is again) a second-string street-level hero that has been done with more unique hooks since (Orphan and Spoiler at minimum) - whereas as Oracle, her reach and influence was global.
I think giving Babs back the use of her legs was a defensible choice to make. It's not necessarily the "right" choice, but it would work from a narrative standpoint. I do think that the wheelchair served an important narrative role, in showing Babs's past so that TKJ could be kept away from the rest of the plot and narrative. In effect, firewalling off TKJ; which was something that Mairghread Scott understood. But the same goal can be accomplished without it, by the right writers and editors.
The mistake that DC did was try to keep Babs's old history, while still putting her back in the Batgirl suit. It regressed her character, and caused her post-New 52 characterisation to veer all over the place. Much better would have been to craft out a new and separate identity, as was done with Dick Grayson as Nightwing.
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They flat out deleted Helena, Steph, and Cass.
This is a fact about superhero comic books that bugs me to no end. While I can understand wanting a character returned to a more "classic" status quo, why or why do they have to (usually) factory reset everything? All the development said character went through goes straight out the window and is never alluded to again. Even Marvel who has a more straightforward continuity than DC is guilty of this (see Venom, Doc Ock, Dr. Doom & Sandman in recent years). It makes being emotionally invested in characters very difficult when anything can be rolled back with zero consequences at the drop of a hat.
Last edited by Celgress; 01-26-2020 at 08:52 PM.
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