Meanwhile, a bunch of TV shows are cancelled, including Batwoman. I was skeptical at first about them writing out Kate Kane, but they managed it all right and moved on. What's weird are these commenters on the internet spamming every cancellation article to declare "justice" for Kate Kane and be angry at the show for "betraying the source material." You mean the comics? Aren't comics famously convoluted, resetting every few years, with multiverses allowing many versions of each character? There's multiple kids who became Robin, multiple Batgirls, multiple Supergirls, and yes, multiple Batwomen in the comics. So why are you so upset about Kate Kane getting written out of one TV show? They didn't even kill her off. Weirdos.
My HBO Max stopped working for a week or so, but then just as mysteriously, it fixed itself. So I tried to catch up on shows I wanted to see. Both Julia and Moonshot were disappointments. First, Moonshot was a stupid title for a romcom about going to Mars, and Lana Condor's character Sophie did not feel equal to her costar's. The movie definitely started out from Walt's perspective and spent maybe half an hour on his mediocre feelings and dreams before finally getting to Sophie's feelings about her boyfriend Calvin. It's complicated, because Calvin's mother took Sophie in when she became an orphan, and it felt strange that the entire family moved with him to Mars and left her behind, while still pretending that she was family to them. Why should she date Calvin, when he should be more of a foster brother? It felt like she was with him out of gratitude to the family. Very cringey. Plus all the shenanigans on the spaceship were solved with a dumb reveal, and "you can never escape yourself" cliches left the Mars trip feeling very pointless.
Julia tried to cultivate this girl power energy, but the writing was so strangely illogical, and they acted like PBS was full of self-important snobs who don't get good television. It acted like that lady producer personally invented syndication when she kept selling the TV show to other stations. Plus, if you have been removed from Julia's show to work on another show, the way to ingratiate yourself is to sell the hell out of the book show, not the cooking show you've been removed from. The way you prove you're valuable, is to do the job you were given. Also, they kept talking about how Julia's husband was so supportive, but they kept showing how her husband was jealous of her increasing fame and success. It makes me angry and irritated all the time, and I haven't even finished all the episodes. Definitely not going to see season 2.
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