Warning: This article contains spoilers from Sunday’sBatwoman,titled “Bat Girl Magic.”
The title ofBatwoman’s season 2 premiere asked “What Happened to Kate Kane?”
and Sunday’s episode answered that question (to an extent).
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But, it turns out that was a lie.
But should we (and Alice) trust that Safiyah actually has Kate because she did just lie?
“I don’t see why not,” showrunner Caroline Dries tells EW.
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“She seems to have Kate’s necklace.
Like you know, she has proof of life, so to speak.
Dries made Safiyah the one responsible for Kate’s disappearance because she wanted to avoid a terrible TV trope.
And so I really wanted to create a mystery around her disappearance.”
On top of being Alice’s mentor back in the day, Safiyah also has a crush on Alice.
“Of course, Alice is straight and is not going to fall in love with her back.
So Safiyah has to find other ways of showing Alice her affection without crossing a line.
So it’s definitely complicated but not in like an oogy way.
Like, I am my ancestors!'
That’s how I felt when I put it on.
I still do.”
It doesn’t get messed with."
The new costume is also a hit with the rest of the cast, too.
I was like a little kid again," says Camrus Johnson, who plays Luke Fox.
I was so astonished like she looked so beautiful and powerful, and badass!
I feel like in episode 3, I was able to express all of those things."
“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, duh!
She can’t be wearing Kate’s suit because that would feel like hand-me-downs,'” says Dries.
Because I’m not shy about saying I never really liked the red wig.
I never understood its purpose in the comic, let alone on our show.
But it just never quite felt like this is what Batwoman would wear, in my opinion.
It was just too feminine for me.
Whereas this was feminine in all of the right ways of just like powerful.
I got chills when I saw some of these drawings, and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah.
That’s what we have to do.’
I had to go to DC and be like, ‘Can we lose the red wig?’
And they’re like, ‘We love this.’
That was all I needed as encouragement.
So that’s how that happened."
