It just keeps getting worse and worse

[turtlefu]

Well, I thought it would never happen, I thought DC's plans for "greater diversity" was going to keep one good thing they had going. But No.

I really think I have now completely lost all faith in DC.

Comments

[greenmask]

How old would you have to be for "redhead batgirl" to be a proper oh, of course nostalgia wave?

[cloud_wolf]

More than a decade ago if you're thinking about the DCAU. More than two if you're actually talking about the comics. =_=

[greenmask]

I thought it was a while!

That's, what, probably no-one under thirteen will be particularly swayed by red hair under the cowl?

And speaking only for myself, but "badass lesbian" would have been waaay more of a draw in my mid teens than, what, "a female", even if batwoman is a different character to batgirl. They still LOOK the same.

[cloud_wolf]

Seriously, this is what bothers me too. They have a redheaded Batwoman, and they have a teenage cheerful Steph. This really accomplishes nothing.

[arbre_rieur]

That's, what, probably no-one under thirteen will be particularly swayed by red hair under the cowl?

Not at all. There were Batman cartoons after the "DCAU." Barbara Gordon was the Batgirl in those too, the latest being BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, a cartoon so recent that its final episode hasn't even aired yet.

[greenmask]

Bummer that they did that, then. Coulda used a more recent Batgirl in Brave and the Bold, it seems to have goodwill to spare.

Even so, though, that's not nostalgia, if it's recently aired.

[turtlefu]

Even then, DCAU Batgirl was only Barbara in name only. Her mannerisms and personality was pretty much Stephanie Brown.

[cloud_wolf]

Exactly. Which is why this fucking burns.

[arilou_skiff]

Well, I grew up on reruns of the 60's Batman show, so... 1984?

[hyperactivator]

Well there is the fact that she has been featured in just about every Batman cartoon for the past twenty years.

And Steph and Cass....haven't.

That is who this is suposed to atract.

[practicalcat]

Yeah, but if you're going with that logic, John Stewart should be made the main Green Lantern.

[mistersandman]

When I think about how badly disappointed I was when I discovered John Stewart wasn't the "real" Green Lantern, I can kind of understand the desire to make Babs Batgirl again.

[practicalcat]

And if they were making John Stewart the number one Green Lantern, I'd be less annoyed at Babs-as-Batgirl. But since they aren't, I just see them going "let's make it like it was when I was younger, screw everything that's happened since". And that makes me much less willing to cut them slack.