Team GATV Roundtable: Looking Back At Arrow Season 6 & Forward To Season 7

Are you excited for Batwoman?

CRAIG: Absolutely. When this question was written for the roundtable, we didn’t know she might be getting her own show! I’m excited about that, as I think Caroline Dries is a good choice to write. Now if only they’d cast Cassidy Freeman in the role!

STEPHANIE: YES! I’m always excited for more female action heroes and LGBTQ representation. I’m curious to see what tone this character and potential series take because DCTV is kind of all over the place tonally and that could be a major factor in her success.

MATT: I don’t know about excited, nothing against Kate Kane. As Arrow has been a de facto Batman show in a lot of ways, which is inevitable given the comic character’s origins, it’ll be fun to see them finally incorporate explicit aspects of the Batman/Batfamily mythos into the show. I do like the idea to go with Batwoman. My initial reaction is always one of puzzlement when they don’t introduce a Superman or a Batman to meet a lead character like Oliver Queen first before tossing in deeper dives on those specific continuities. But I like the idea that Batman is already established and this gives us a fresh angle into that. Plus, the first time adapting the character in live action is always a fun challenge, especially now that they have a whole show planned around her in the works.

MELISSA: I want to be excited, but I don’t know her character through any medium but Wikipedia. So I’ll say I’m open to being impressed but I don’t have a lot of expectations one way or the other.

Originally I was going to express my hope that she would be used in the crossover to make the existing characters of the Arrowverse shine, since that is why I tune into the crossovers, not to watch characters I have no personal investment in. But with a Batwoman show in development, I now expect the crossover to be a kind of backdoor pilot. So I hope they take great care in how they tell that story.

My least favorite crossover remains the one that focused far too much on the introduction of Vandal Savage and the Hawks. Our favs were just the supporting characters in what essentially was someone else’s story. For now, I am cautiously optimistic the producers won’t repeat the same mistakes of the past.