How Should ‘Batwoman’ Handle Recasting After Ruby Rose’s Exit? (POLL)
Ruby Rose is hanging up her cape after one season of Batwoman.
The actress is leaving the CW drama, and given that she played the titular character, it’s no surprise the series is recasting Kate Kane/Batwoman.
“Warner Bros. Television, The CW, and Berlanti Productions thank Ruby for her contributions to the success of our first season and wish her all the best,” Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television said in a statement.
“The studio and network are firmly committed to Batwoman‘s second season and long-term future, and we — along with the show’s talented creative team — look forward to sharing its new direction, including the casting of a new lead actress and member of the LGBTQ community, in the coming months,” they continued.
While the Season 2 premiere is still at least months away — right now, Batwoman is set to return in January 2021 — we’re taking a look at the ways that the series can explain the recasting and asking you to vote for what you want to see.
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Face Transplant
Somewhat fortunately, there’s a built-in way to swap a person’s face right in the show. In fact, it played a significant role in the end of the season. Alice (Rachel Skarsten) gave Hush (Gabriel Mann) the new face he wanted — Bruce Wayne’s (Warren Christie) — in the last scene. The villain could just as easily do the same with her sister for nefarious purposes, maybe even just to mess with her.
There could even be a quick news broadcast to kick off the new season — “Kate Kane has been found after X weeks/months in Alice’s clutches, but she’ll never be the same …” And this could even be used to further Jacob’s (Dougray Scott) against the masked hero he doesn’t know is his daughter. “Where was Batwoman?” the world could be asking. He could think the vigilante failed his daughter and be even more eager to take her down.
Or someone else could be behind the face transplant. We have no idea who might be introduced in the second season who could use Alice’s tricks… like, say, Safiyah? Executive producer Caroline Dries did say that she would be Alice’s “match.”
Safiyah
We heard about Safiyah throughout Season 1, but she’s set to enter the picture next year. The EP also teased that Julia (Christina Wolfe) and Alice would have her as a common enemy, and just imagine if Safiyah has something to do with changing Kate’s appearance. Julia and Kate are still close, and Alice could be annoyed that someone else went after her sister when she wants to be the one to stop her.
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Barry Messes With the Timeline
Barry (Grant Gustin) changed things over on Arrow — fortunately, “Crisis on Infinite Earths” brought back baby Sara and kept JJ after he changed Diggle (David Ramsey) and Lyla’s (Audrey Marie Anderson) daughter to a son by changing the past — so who’s to say that something can’t go wrong next season on The Flash and affect Batwoman? Maybe in trying to create the artificial speed force to save his speed, he accidentally travels back in time and somehow Kate looks different when it’s all said and done.
A Quick Nod or Nothing at All
Maybe the show won’t even address the fact that there’s anything different about Kate other than something like, “you’ve changed” or “new haircut?” Or maybe no one will say anything at all and they’ll just move forward as if the new actress was in the role the entire time.
A Meta or Alien Intervenes
Remember, Batwoman, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Black Lightning (and the upcoming Superman & Lois) are all on the same Earth now. Maybe a villain we’d be more likely to see on one of the other shows comes to Batwoman to open up the season premiere and the ensuing fight leads to a change for Kate.
Some Other Plot Point
As a superhero series and given everything else that has happened in the Arrowverse, anything is possible.
Batwoman, Season 2, January 2021, The CW
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I hope the show does not paint itself in a corner because they must find a LGBTQ actress. Find an actress that can act. The character is a lesbian, I don't know why the actress has to be. In that case my vote would be Jessica De Gouw (The Huntress from Arrow).
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It's a comic book show. Comic books change artists all the time, often with radically different takes on a character's appearance. Make the "new haircut"joke (or she returns after a visit to the spa and says she feels like a new woman) and move on.
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I think no mention is best, however if they feel they have to do a comic book take on it-blame it on Barry.
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I, myself, watch Batwoman primarily because of Rachel Skarsten (Alice)...
How about replacing Ruby Rose...now that Blindspot is ending...with Jaimie Alexander???
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As long as she doesn't need all the tattoos she has on Blindspot, it could work, though not being a lesbian, she might have a harder time being considered, as they plan to replace Ruby with another LGTBQ actor.
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I was just thinking that...neither of the 2 stars of Brokeback Mountain...nor Eric Stonestreet on Modern Family...nor Darren Criss on Glee...etc. etc. etc....were "LGTBQ actors"...
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....and she joins a long line of leading actors who become self-enamored in their new-found stardom in their first major role, abandon that role as "beneath" them and immediately sink low into the lonely nothingness as they resume their previous non-celeb role in the que of unemployed actors, their ego getting the best of them once again.
Well....maybe not. Hopefully not. But probably so.
As Curly Bill said to the dying Marshall Fred White in Tombstone...."BYE."
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While I can't speak with any certainty, there were some reports around a while ago that she had surgery for very painful fused discs in her back that she sustained while doing stunts. It may be a more practical medical matter than ego. I wouldn't categorize her as David Caruso just yet. 🙂
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I think having her get horribly burnt from head to toe and then use some experimental medicine that Wayne Enterprise invested in that would activate and deactivate Genes and DNA. Saying once she's giving the medicine it'll deactivate some DNA and genes that makes her look the way she does now and activate other DNA and Gene from ancestors that would slightly change her appearance or greatly change her appearance but it was the only way to save her life and get her body to start regenerating cells but the end result is that she looks like her great-great-grandmother now instead of her grandmother
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Let be next actress Stephanie Beatrice
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Just brush it off and recast with someone who doesn't have a totally different look to her.
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just change the actress, no need for "face change" or any other lame excuse, ANY actress will be better, and people will forget abouy the terrible "actress" that left the show, simple.
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1001 possibilities. First suggestion; Rose takes off looking for Bruce under mysterious circumstances; Probably dead, possibly not. Another woman shows up looking for Batwoman, turns out to have been a BatGirl a decade or so ago on one of the earths that merged at the end of Crisis. She needs help righting some wrong. The BatGang (comprised of LFjr & the 30 or 50 people that seem to be in on the secret), manages to help her. During which she suits up and impersonates BW to fool someone, End of episode they vote & she gets to carry on, perhaps with a modified suit (How they LOVE to make variants of the super's outfits to sell more toys). Storyline evolves over episodes so others wear the suit at need, but only one at a time, sometime to establish alibis to fool others who figure out the BW identity. In comic land's universe putting on a wig is a completely convincing disguise to fool anyone. . . Perhaps even recruit SuperGirl to wear the suit for an episode in case someone injured but BW is needed. 1001 possibilities.
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