For those who want the write-up.
https://deadline.com/2020/10/the-cw-...it-1234603475/
You know why the wig was a good disguise for Kate? Because in the show, Kate had naturally brown hair. So a red wig helps to disguise her even more.
So what could be an even bigger give away to a secret identity than going around with that big ass afro with red tips? She takes the cowl off- guess what? She still has a big-ass afro with red tips!
I do like that they covered back up the neck. It's the one intelligent decision they've made.
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I love the updated costume, the gauntlets, belt, cape and the rest of it are an improvement.
But I am still not happy that Kate Kane has been replaced for a brand new character.
They made the gauntlets more comic accurate, like the title card going more comic accurate, all whilst not using the Batwoman from the comics. Kinda jarring IMO. Don't like the bat symbol on the belt personally, but the rest is nice.
Don't like that they kept the red and black, I've been over this ad nauseum, but each of the Batgirls have distinctly different looking suits for a reason, and even Babs and Cass no longer have the same color scheme to their suits (though the styles of their suits were very different before anyway). I know you wouldn't get Kate and Ryan mixed-up, but even so, it shouldn't be so hard to chose a different color scheme. In the comics Kate has the red and black for a religious reason, in the tv series the significantly weaker birthstone reason - what will be the OC's reason other than that's what the previous Batwoman used as their color scheme.
Overall, yeah it looks nice, still not going to watch the show though. Have fun those that do though.
What's the point in only dying like two strands of hair? Though I guess it means it won't look like that God awful Starfire wig
It's vaguely interesting to note that in the Nocturna ep of season 1, that woman at the bar (the vet) commented to Sophie about Batwoman's leather suit, and Sophie told her it wasn't leather. The new suit looks like it could be leather as opposed to Kate's fabric one. There'll be some in-universe thing about it not being leather of course. Also takes the opposite direction of the Flash series, where his early suits were leather before changing to fabric in later seasons, just interesting.
Wonder when will they show a trailer for the upcoming season?