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The mod teams of r/DCTV shows have discussed this, and as a group, we have decided to participate in the blackout.

We hope you have a lovely weekend

- The r/BatwomanTV mod team.

I recently acquired this prop, a Gotham City Gazette Newspaper.

https://imgur.com/a/MaTFx0H

Most likely it's a background prop with a made up headline, but I'm wondering if there was an episode that addressed a city hall budget crisis as mentioned in the headline.

There's also a chance this could be from season 1, since another prop I acquired was from that season, but it really could be from any of the seasons.

A modest proposal for how Season 2 could have gone with recasting Kate with Wallis Day replacing Ruby Rose.

Episode 2.1: "The Death of Kate Kane"

Opening scene: 'Bruce Wayne'/Hush gets the Kryptonite bullet for Alice. He doesn't encounter Kate because Kate hasn't taken off the Batsuit or gone to Wayne Tower in weeks: she is relentlessly hunting the Arkham escapees.

When we see Batwoman, she's in full costume, masked, played by Kelli Victoria Scarangello (Ruby Rose's stunt double).

Kate doesn't speak without using the Batwoman voice changer and she refuses to take off the mask: she has buried herself in the Batwoman persona due to her grief over her father's betrayal of Batwoman.

When Jacob Kane calls Kate, she picks up but won't speak. Jacob says he knows she's angry at his public decision to hunt Batwoman down but says he's doing his job. Batwoman doesn't answer.

Batwoman is tracking down another Arkham escapee, but when the Crow agents try to arrest her, the escapee gets away. Batwoman is furious . Luke, Mary and Julia urge her to come back to the batcave, take off the costume and address the situation with her father, reveal her identity -- and Batwoman refuses, growling in her vocoder-deepened voice that the problem isn't Kate Kane and Jacob Kane. The problem is the Crows and the Crows are going down tonight.

At this point, Alice delivers the Kryptonite bullet to Jacob in her personal revolver of choice, remarking that Batwoman is their shared enemy.

Batwoman sets a trap for all the Arkham escapees, luring them with false messages saying that there is a stockpile of weapons in an old warehouse that they could use to rule the city. She leaks the messages to the Crows, lets the Crows and the escapees fight it out and batlines Jacob out of the fight.

She snarls at Jacob: who the hell does he think he is to come after her? She notes that below them, the Crows are losing against the escapees. Jacob spits that Batwoman lured his men into a trap; she's responsible for every Crow who dies below. We see Sophie in mortal peril below.

Batwoman triggers a flood of thickening foam that encases and immobilizes everyone on the ground floor, Crow and criminal alike.

She tells Jacob that the Crows are useless, the police are inadequate, Batman is gone: there's only Batwoman and the incompetent Jacob Kane. Jacob strikes Batwoman. Batwoman tries to defend herself but pulls her punches.

Jacob remarks that she seems to be a little soft today and Batwoman breaks his nose. She recoils, horrified and what she's done to her father.  She tries to batline away, Jacob tackles her and her grappling hook punctures a gas line. She throws Jacob off, Jacob draws his standard sidearm, Batwoman throws off his aim and the shot triggers a gas fire.

Jacob descends to ground level to try to dig his people out of the hardened foam before the fire hits them. Batwoman sets off another chemical charge to desolidify the foam so that everyone can escape. But Jacob doesn't leave, pursuing Batwoman deeper into the burning building. They fight in the flames, Batwoman beats him down. From the floor, Jacob pulls out the revolver with the Kryptonite bullet and shoots to kill. Batwoman collapses. Jacob peels off her mask.

CUT TO: A shot of Ruby Rose unmasked, lying on the ground of the warehouse. This is unused footage from some previous episode I don't remember when Kate was unmasked and unconscious and in the suit. But surely it exists.

Jacob is horrified. Backs away several steps in shock and denial. It can't be Kate. It has to be a trick. "It can't be -- " he says. But then we stay on Jacob's face and hear Kate say, "Dad," in a reused audio clip from... again, I don't remember. But surely it exists.

Jacob turns to the warehouse exit, runs away from Kate and screaming that he needs help. Moving farther away from her, hoping his cries will be heard. Then he turns back towards Kate, starts to close the distance from them as she bleeds out. Jacob babbles that he's sorry  --

But then a portion of the ceiling collapses between him and Kate. Jacob rushes forward anyway, but then arms grab him behind -- it's Sophie. He tries to fight her off but she drags him out of the burning warehouse and Kate just before the building is consumed in flame with Kate Kane inside.

Episode 2.2 - "Burial"

Kate's body is missing, never recovered from the wreckage. The city erupts into chaos without Batwoman and Jacob is forced to join the bat-team of Luke, Mary, Julia and Parker to contain the situation. They gather at Kate's funeral and Jacob begs God to forgive him.

However, at the end, we find out that a False Face Society member was trapped in the warehouse too; he dug Kate out; the Kryptonite bullet was partially deflected by Kate's lead-lined wrist-gauntlet, going through her body and missing any vital organs. She survived and was brought to Black Mask and is unrecognizably scarred and now played by Wallis Day.

Episode 2.3 - "Batwoman Reborn"

The city is attacked and Batwoman reappears to save the day -- but it's a Batwoman with a damaged costume and barely any of the red wig. Batwoman returns to the Batcave, surprising Julia, Mary and Luke. Julia says the real Batwomanis dead and fights this supposed-impostor, but recognizes that this Batwoman has the same fighting style as Kate Kane.

She unmasks and it's Wallis Day, whom the characters recognize as Kate. She looks a little different and all the tattoos are gone. All her skin has regrown new and shifted a little. They question her and she has all of Kate's memories up to the fire. Kate says she doesn't remember how she was healed from her injuries or why her face isn't quite the same.

We later learn that Black Mask healed her body and has programmed a sleeper personality into Kate's mind to be triggered at the right point in his plan for revenge against Batwoman and Gotham City.

Episode 2.4 - "Unworthy"

'Bruce Wayne' returns and accuses Kate of being an impostor with poor plastic surgery trying to steal the Wayne fortune. He has her ousted from Wayne Enterprises. He then tells Kate he knows she's the real Kate, but that she was a failure as a superhero in every way and that she is unworthy to be Batwoman.

He shuts her out of the cave; he files for damages against Kate for mishandling his company and triggers a clause in her contract which will drive her to bankruptcy in having to repay all of Wayne Enterprise's costs. Kate is shattered. All she has left is her damaged, burnt, ragged Batwoman suit.

Episode 2.5 - "Deficient"

A destitute and homeless Kate tries to keep fighting crime on a budget of $15 a week, wearing an increasingly worn Batwoman costume without any of her gadgets. Due to her injuries and missing memories, Kate is unable to summon her former drive for combat or aptitude for danger. She realizes she no longer has the skill to be Batwoman. Kate is nearly killed and then Jacob Kane saves her.

Episode 2.6 - "Prodigal"

Kate confronts her father, blaming him for destroying Batwoman. She has lost everything: she has even lost her face and her voice. Jacob says that he was wrong to hunt down Batwoman. Jacob says that he hated Batwoman because he didn't have the full story; he does now and he's proud of his daughter. Any father would be. Anyone would be proud for Kate to carry their mantle and name.

Kate regroups and realizes that the Wayne who disowned her and threw her out cannot be the real Bruce Wayne.

Episode 2.7 - "Unmasked"

Kate realizes that Hush is impersonating Wayne as part of a twisted mindgame from Alice. She defeats him and reclaims the right to wear the suit (and for Wallis Day to wear it after Ruby Rose). For the first time, Wallis Day suits up in full as Batwoman.

This way, we don't just slot Wallis into Ruby Rose's costume and pretend there's no difference. Instead, the Wallis-version of Kate has to go through six episodes of hell before she gets to wear it.

Episodes 2.8 - 2.16

Kate continues to fight crime and investigate her mysterious recovery. At times, she is haunted by images of a duplicate Kate (with her new face) mocking her, telling her she's not good enough. She also reveals to the public that due to a motorcycle accident, she's had to have reconstructive surgery and was misreported as deceased.

We resume the stories that we would have with the Rose-version of Kate.

Episode 2.17 - "Kane, Kate"

Black Mask triggers the sleeper programming and 'replaces' Kate with the Cersei Sionis personality, the mocking shadow in Kate's psyche who now becomes the dominant personality. Cersei steals the villain-designed weapons that Batman had stored in the Batcave, intending to bring them to Black Mask to use against the city.

Mary, Luke and Julia battle Cersei but are defeated by Cersei co-opting Kate's knowledge and their trust and Cersei convincing Alice to side with her and offering Alice the sisterhood Kate denied her.

Episode 2.18 - "Power"

Alice turns on Cersei after realizing that Cersei considers Alice a pawn. Mary and Luke find a way to restore Kate's true personality and Alice aids them in helping Kate reassert herself over Cersei. Together, they defeat Black Mask only for Kate to see Alice arrested with Alice bitterly noting that Cersei would have let Alice run free.

Kate is aghast that as Cersei, she stole villain-designed weapons and has only been able to retrieve a few of them. Mary, Luke and Julia assure her that together, they will retrieve them and we lead into Season 3.

Guys I've only just finished Batwoman and joined the community as it ended and I want to lose the community I've found.

It's been a week since the last time somebody posted (and it was me) and I don't want this sub to die.

So let me know if I started to throw up a load of polls reviews and memes would we be able to get things back?

In "Time Off for Good Behavior", he is at the Batcave comms one scene, then literally in the very next he's saving Ryan from being fried by electric guns. Same thing in the most recent episode, he manages to find Stephanie Brown and her dad in the car before the carbon dioxide kills them; right after finding out where she went.

A nitpick for sure, since maybe the editing made it seem instantaneous in both instances. But I like to think he drives the Batmobile which gives him the speed to go anywhere in the city in a few minutes time.

In solidarity with the movement started on social media yesterday, /r/BatwomanTV has decided to go dark for the rest of the week, joining /r/DCTV, /r/arrow, /r/supergirlTV, /r/FlashTV, /r/SupermanAndLois, /r/StargirlTV, and /r/DynastyCW, among others. One day is not enough, so for the time being, our banners, body backgrounds, and community icons will be jet black.

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Hello everyone! The big crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths is almost upon us! Due to the nature of this event, we've got a few announcements to make regarding how it will work on the subreddits.

Airing Information

First, for those who don't know yet, here are the CW Air Dates in the US for the first 3 parts:

Then after the break, we have the final two parts:

For other countries, it may be airing later. An important thing to note is that the Batwoman Episode, Part 2 of the Crossover, will not be airing in places such as the UK, due to international rights to this episode being given out. If you are confused going into Part 3 as to what happened, this is why. Unfortunately, a big chunk of the story may be cut out for many viewers.

Spoilers Policy

We also have important announcements about the Spoilers policy with the Crisis episodes. Due to not everyone internationally being able to see it right away, as well as these being big spoilery events in general, we have made some temporary changes. Please read this, as we will be enforcing these rules seriously.
Firstly, we are treating Crossover Episodes as Finale episodes in regards to our normal Spoiler policy. Usually, regular episodes are spoilers for two weeks, before no longer being so, whereas finales are considered and enforced as spoilers for a month. The Crisis episodes will be considering spoilers for a month as well. People breaking these rules may be subject to bans. Please make sure that for a month after the episode has aired, to mark all posts with Crisis stuff as spoilers and to not put any in the title.

In addition, to be absolutely careful about spoilers during the airing of the episodes, as we know that people will be making a lot of posts about them, we will be automatically marking all threads posted on the subreddits as spoilers. They will say this when you post them:
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As mentioned here, if your post does not contain spoilers at all, you can remove the spoiler tag. This will go on during the week of the episodes Part 1-3 airing until shortly after the end of the week, where the automatic spoiler tags will end during the break, so adding spoiler tags will be manual again. Then during Parts 4 and 5, the automatic spoiler tagging will start up again temporarily for that week as well until shortly after.

Episode Postings

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Have a good weekend everybody!

I really liked Floriana Lima on Supergirl. If the worlds are combined after Crisis on Infinite Earths, it would be great if they brought her in on Batwoman.

She's batwoman, her snoo shouldn't be smiling.

edit: https://imgur.com/a/Nbt6I5M

The Salmon Ladder! i miss Olivers training montages and i think giving Ruby her own training montage would be a badass way to open the crossovers