A few weeks ago here on the Tuesday TV Touchbase, I wrote about a concept of "Too Much TV" wherein I was caught up in watching TV shows on cable channels that run several episodes in a row.
Among those shows was Gilmore Girls and one of those cable channels was Logo TV that ran episodes weekday mornings. I would catch an episode before going to work.
Until recently.
Logo TV has decided that Gilmore Girls is not gay or camp enough or something and replaced it on their schedule with episodes of the classic 1960s sitcom, Bewitched.
When I was much younger Dave-El and started to notice female women of the opposite sex, reruns of Bewitched were fuel for my hormonal fires. Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stevens was hot.
As a much older Dave-El, I still objectively understand that Samantha Stevens is attractive but I just don't care as much. Also too much time is spent with Samantha's magic forbidding dick of a husband, Darrin.
Really, I never ever understood what Samantha saw in this man.
OK, enough of this sidebar. After the break, let's get in to two super hero shows.
Stargirl wrapped it's 2nd season last week. Courtney and the JSA and some guest villains finally whomp the shit out of Eclipso.
Eclipso was out to merge Earth with this super depressing shadow realm and Eclipso would rule it all for purposes of...
I'm not sure if Eclipso had thought that far ahead. He's going to rule his combined Earth/shadow realm to kill us all, torture us all, redecorate, whatever. It's going to be bad.
Nick Taraby's Eclipso is all dark dripping with yucky black goo but he's fairly comics accurate with the half purple face and the pointy ears.
What is really creepy is when Eclipso takes the form of a 10 year old boy who drops some seriously dark, sinister threats. 10 year old boy version of Eclipso is played by Milo Stein who I genuinely hope is getting enough love and attention at home or at least has a really good therapist on speed dial. Some of the lines Milo has to deliver is some deep level dark sinister shit. And it sounds believable.
Both Dr. Charles McNider AND Sylvester Pemberton are NOT dead so the deaths of the original Dr. Mid-Nite and Starman seem to have been exaggerated.
But we watched Pat Dugan watch Starman die way back in episode 1 of season 1 so as what Sylvester's doing here, your guess is good as mine.
McNider's case is easier. The Shade didn't kill Dr.Mid-Nite; he shunted him into the shadow realm to save him from the ISA.
Speaking of the Shade, actor Jonathan Cake (yes, that's his last name) has made quite an impression and is on my short list of "would it be cool if" for Doctor Who.
The new Dr.Mid-Nite has a bit of a status quo. After 2 seasons of having parents who seen to barely tolerate her existence, Beth's parents are in on her super hero secret and are all jazzed to have a super hero in the family and are looking a designing a new super suit, something maybe in black and yellow.
Oh dear lord no. Beth Chapel's comics constume was a black and yellow monstrosity that was just... ugh! No, don't do that.
The title for Stargirl's 2nd season was Summer School but the show was shot in winter and in whatever part of Canada doubles for Blue Valley, Nebraska. The cold weather was blamed on Eclipso's "evulz" but once the bastard was defeated and the sun came out, everyone still looks cold.
The Crocks are out of prison and have bought the house next door. Courtney's new neighbors are Sportsmaster and Tigress of the ISA.
Stargirl's second season was fairly straightforward: big bad strikes, heroes fight back, bad guy wins for a minute, heroes regroup and save the day. It's basic but it was fun.
Meanwhile...
Batwoman is back for a 3rd season and it's kind of trying my patience.
Javicia Leslie still rules as Ryan Wilder, the new Batwoman. But the writers have decided that Ryan is now the CEO of Wayne Enterprises.
What the who what when now?
OK, just a year ago, Ryan Wilder was living in a van down by the river. She found Kate Kane's bat suit, put it to good use and has performed admirably along the way as Batwoman. The Bat team took her in, got Ryan a job at the Hold Up, Kate Kane's gay bar.
And now she's CEO of a major multinational billion dollar company?!?!? Did I miss a memo? Did I miss an episode?!?!?
Look, I'm willing to believe in a world where a person can put on a suit to look like a bat and fight crime but how does a person go from living in a van down by the river get to be CEO of Wayne Enterprises a year later?
Look, Ryan is smart and fierce and if anybody deserves to be running Wayne Enterprises, I'm sure she can hack the job as well as, I don't know, Bruce Wayne did. Ryan's young, female, black and gay and it's great to see that representation in a corporate board room normally dominated by old white men.
But seriously, how did she get there? As far as I can tell, the writes just decided, "Hell, why not make Ryan Wilder CEO of Wayne Enterprises?" I want to like Ryan Wilder as CEO but I think it would mean more if there had been some kind of process of getting her there instead of an ass-pull from the writer's room when they suddenly realized, "Hey, who is running the Wayne business now? Whoops! We should fix that."
Sophie Moore is still around. She's supposed to be a bad ass investigator and fighter but over three seasons, people keep getting the drop on her. After pining for Kate Kane in season 1, she seems to be developing a thing for Ryan. It seems a tad forced, some reason to keep Sophie around.
Speaking of keeping people around, Rachel Skarsten's still in the opening credits so reasons must be found to keep Alice around. She's being coerced into helping Batwoman find the missing villain weapons that got busted out of the Bat Cave last season and sent down the Gotham River.
I was happy to hear that Renee Montoya was making her Arrowverse debut this season. A character originally created for Batman: The Animated Series, Montoya has gone on to be become a respected mainstay in DC comics.
On Batwoman, Renee Montoya is holding on to the idiot ball like it's been glued there. She gets Alice out of Arkham Asylum and forces Batwoman to take her own as a partner, demanding Batwoman recovers the missing villain tech or else she will reveal her true identity. Yes, Montoya is blackmailing Batwoman to do a job she was already doing AND adds the unneeded and unwelcomed burden of babysitting a psychopathic murder queen.
Batwoman is trying my patience.
Seriously, a year ago, in a van down by the river....
<Sigh!>
Next week, a CW super hero show reaches it's SERIES finale.
Will I come here to praise Supergirl or to bury it?
And tomorrow, it's Doctor Who Is NEW! as I post about "War of the Sontarans".
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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