Perfect opening-night crashers. Make it happen, CW.

Brainy: “Leviathan was responsible for killing off the dinosaurs.”

Oliver still wears pretty heavy eyeblack under the mask.

I also loved that Julia and Luke are BFFs and how that wrong-footed Kate and left her unexpectedly as the 3rd wheel in the Batcave 

To expand:

And Constantine’s band can play on the weekends! 

I don’t think any of the ArrowVerse shows have officially been renewed for next season yet but given how Batwoman has solidified the Sunday night ratings for them it is a very safe bet 

I mean no matter how accepting you are “oh I’m bi and the boss’s daughter who I never talk about was my ex” is a helluva bombshell to drop out of nowhere. Especially when as previously noted, Sophie deliberately lied about never being in school with Kate at all.

Okay so we didn’t really need to see the whole backstory of why Sophie decided to stay closeted to stay in the academy. It was already explained in the pilot and was pretty understandable. What currently makes Sophie unlikable is her marriage to a guy while seemingly mooning over Kate.

Crisis definitely needs to have a party at Kate’s bar.

There are still so many precipices for her to be dangled over while a bunch of tied-up schoolchildren nervously watch a timer tick down and a villain snarls “Choose!” at Batwoman.  No way we are spending that nickel already. 

Obviously the two merged together in a teleporter mishap.

A few random thoughts.

I guess I was hoping to see the show acknowledge that Sophie might be bi, and actually have an honest relationship with her husband, which would have been equally refreshing to depict.  

Kates lipstick is like Olivers grease paint years.

He was. The only time we saw Real!Jacob was when he was in the car (and the flashback, obviously). 

“- Soooo...they just completely abandoned looking for the assassin because the caught Batwoman?”

Fighting before teaming up is such an annoying trope. Kate & Julia let the Rifle escape for no reason!

Intellectually I knew it was Julia, but I was really hoping it was Kara wearing the suit.