this may be weird but i saw your tags on that selina kyle post i wanted to ask why don't you like what they've done to selina in the show? as someone who hasn't really read the comics, i don't really have anything to go on and im curious lmao
okay okay so i’m not super well versed in selina’s history so if i get any of this wrong i apologize and everyone is encouraged to come educate me because she’s amazing and i love her, but! in the comics she varies between sex worker/cat thief and con artist/cat thief depending on the continuity, and as far as i know it’s canon that her biological father is heavily implied to be carmine falcone. she survived on the streets on her own from a young age by engaging in petty crimes and thievery, which the show demonstrates p well. the thing that bothers me about the show though is that is kind of... idk, softens her up?
like,selina didn’t come from a safe, happy place. her family was broken and abusive, she had to support herself by getting into dangerous situations from a very young age. i feel like the way she’s presented in show-- clean clothes that look like they came from hot topic, healthy, never any sign of being in a physical fight-- kind of glosses over and erases that, and it takes away a lot of the reader’s/watcher’s ability to understand her. i don’t like the comics erasing her history as a sex worker either for the same reason. selina kyle is a very complicated, nuanced character, and you don’t have a hope of understanding her without her full backstory. and like-- it makes total sense that they wouldn’t want to show a little girl getting beat up and stolen from and all the other nasty stuff that selina had to deal with, and i totally support them not wanting to depict violence against women/violence against children more than necessary. but by not showing it with selina, they’ve kind of made her look like she’s just trying too hard to be ~super edgy and street smart~.
i mean, ilike what they’ve done with her and bruce, and i think it’s a really neat twist to have her present when his parents get shot because it connects them on such a deep level and sets the stage for their future as batman and catwoman. i like that she seems to be taking care of baby ivy and i like the way they’ve developed her relationship with the gcpd. i just feel like the way they present her is really romanticized and censored and it detracts from her character to me.
