Season one of Batwoman attempted that and had utterly ridiculous things like heads in freezers, showdowns in the middle of brightly lit stadiums, and Rachel Skarsten’s villain Alice.

Within the span of just a few months, Batwoman recast its lead actress and is now set to usher in….

There’s a real energy to the scenes she shares with actors from the first season, and over the two episodes I watched, I could see the cast really coming together and clicking.

However, the biggest improvement for the superhero series may be from having Ryan as the lead instead of Kate Kane.

Ryan has a lot of very understandable and believable rage that ultimately manifests in the season two premiere (“What Happened to Kate Kane?”) when Hush tries to murder her with a kryptonite bullet.

The show makes it clear that there is no trace of Kate’s body and that means she can absolutely return at some later date (perhaps with a little of the facial reconstruction surgery that soap operas like to use when they recast actors).

With Javicia Leslie set to lead Batwoman following Ruby Rose’s sudden departure, the series’ second.

The first season wanted to point out how absolutely terrible it was that Gotham outsourced its policing to a private company with no oversight, but that rarely worked when everyone Kate cared about worked there and she had zero desire to encourage them to find other employment.

Kate often felt like a dumb jock who decided to take on the world because why not.

Ryan feels like a smart woman who genuinely wants to help make the world better, and not just for herself.

After a year of wondering where the heck Kate Kane is, Batwoman has finally found her, and her name’s Ryan Wilder.

Why does she give a speech to Mary and Luke like she’d been practicing it for weeks in the mirror just in case she ever happened to find the batsuit and become batwoman

Because we need to exposit so Mary and Luke can exposit the same information again while looking into Ryan while Ryan exposits about Kate