Well, up until now I have avoided this TV series for quite a while. So rather than taking a deep binge, I just watched the two latest episodes to catch up, since much of this season seems to have been about catching all the Pokemons / MacGuffins / Batman trophies anyway. Some time was wasted in these episodes talking about Catwoman and Flamingo, neither of whom materialized of course.
Episode 5 was a horror/slasher thriller starring one of Batman's most disturbing villains, Professor Pyg (created by Grant Morrison in 2006).
The good thing about it is that there was a fair amount of peril: three beautiful women in tight party dresses stumbling around, half-paralyzed, trying to avoid a killer who also isn't very mobile or fast - he just shambles around himself impeding his own movements with ineffective weapons like cleavers, while wearing a vision-impairing pig mask. The bad thing is that there is pretty much nobody in costume. There are no superheroes in the movie "Panic Room."
Episode 6 had promise, and I was really looking forward to Mary's transformation into Poison Mary.
Unfortunately, although she makes almost orgasmic transformation sounds with her back turned, NOTHING changes about Mary at all except a green tint in her eyes. You'd think that Isley's photo-chemicals might tinge her eyebrows or lips green, or give her streaks of green hair, but there's nothing. It's a bit unconvincing, as is the lack of a costume while she is fighting Batwoman and Batwing in that lovely domed Bloedel Conservatory (yes it's a real botanical garden location in Vancouver). Fashionable boots, tight booty shorts and a long coat are not a costume, Mary Hamilton.
As Maskripper points out in his review, there's a real missed opportunity when Mary ensnares Luke in the vines, but then doesn't put Batwoman in the same kind of limb-stretching peril. Instead, she covers up Batwoman entirely with leaves so we can't see her struggle or her facial expressions, and then somehow, Montoya is able to remove all the leaves from Batwoman with one single ill-aimed slash of an axe?
It'll be nice to see Mary in that sexy costume once she actually wears it ( hopefully in the next episode). But I feel that the show itself - and the actress Nicole Kang herself, who is excited to play the role - are basically fibbing about Nicole being "Poison Ivy". She's not. She's Poison Mary. There's a whole different actress who's going to be playing Poison Ivy later on in this season. It seems as if the producers were attempting to use misrepresentation (swapping the identity of a character) to achieve representation. Ain't that the way with these folks pretty often?