Afterward, Kate decided to leave Gotham City and search for her missing cousin Bruce Wayne, bringing an end to her story for now.
And as if that parental drama wasn’t enough, Ryan will also have her hands full dealing with the fact that all the trophies Batman collected from his rogues – like Penguin’s umbrella, the Mad Hatter’s hat, and Poison Ivy’s growing vine – are now loose in the world and free for anyone to pick up and cause mayhem with.
CAROLINE DRIES: Yeah, it’s our way of wrapping up her journey.
And as we’ve discussed before, it was that delicate dance of trading off leads at the beginning of the season, so we didn’t want to overpopulate the show with Ryan’s personal world while we were still transitioning to a new Batwoman.
So if you’re a child that’s been through the foster system your entire life, I think there’s always this question mark hovering over you of, “Where did I come from? Who gave me my looks? Who gave me my interests?” For Ryan, that’s something she’s going to grapple with – how much does she want to know? – in season 3.
Even in season 2, she was still grappling with the loss of her mom and how Alice fits into the equation of who her family is.
One of my desires on the show, because I love Rachel so much, is making sure Alice continues to be on the front burner of the drama.
But we know, thanks to her relationship with Ocean and obviously with Kate, that there is something worth fighting for inside of her.
The tease we’re making the audience is, “These are loose out in the wild.” So anyone can literally come and pick them up.
DC was so awesome about it because we’re always looking, and as are they, for new ways of showing canon characters, and some of these characters have been done so many times that we’re always looking for that new angle.
The suit is awesome, and if you put on the suit you’re probably going to kick some major butt, but there’s more to being a superhero than putting on a suit.
One sort of thing that’s been coming up on Twitter a lot when we could pursue a love story, which is what we ended up doing with Alice.
That’s like one of the main reasons I did the show: When I turn on TV, I want to see a lesbian love story.