‘The Flash’s Final Season Failed Batwoman

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for The Flash Season 9 Episodes 1-6]Batwoman fans rejoiced when the news broke that Javicia Leslie would be returning for the ninth and final season of The Flash. While Batwoman fared better with its cancelation than other Arrowverse shows and ended with its story mostly resolved, the prospect of a proper epilogue for Ryan Wilder was exciting. But now that Leslie’s brief tenure on The Flash is complete, it’s clear that the show never intended to give Ryan Wilder a last hurrah. Instead, it used her as a prop for the stories of its own characters at the cost of the story and of Ryan herself. The result is an unsatisfying epilogue that fails Batwoman as a show and a character.