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EDIT - 4:00 pm Pacific, May 19, 2021 - Context of the 1st nights scenes added, and photos from the 1st night, as well as a couple additional scenes of the Batwing outfit from the bottom half.
Over the last 2 nights Batwoman has been shooting scenes for the season 2 finale in an alley in downtown Vancouver.

On the 1st night, they shot a couple scenes. Early on this did a scene with cars on fire, and a hulked up bad guy raging (now know it is Jesse Hutch as Russel Tavaroff ... aka.. potentially Menace) tipping over a garbage bin, while men in Black Mask masks walk around with weapons... I then left for a couple hours, because a massive thunderstorm hit, it was so intense, the production even shut down for about half an hour for it.
A bit later, they moved to the other end of the alley. There they did scenes with the hulked up character chasing Nicole Kang, and her stunt double up several flights of emergency stairs. While Kangs double did much of the harder work like the going from the ladder to the stairs, and getting dragged down the stairs by the villain, but Nicole did her fair share of work on it, including running up several cases of stars at a notable pace over & over again.... of course, that all leads into the 2nd nights starting scene.... where Mary Hamilton finds herself falling over the edge of the stairs. What will happen to Mary?

But the spoiler you all are here for. Camrus Johnson was on set tonight. If you did not see my prior Batwoman blog from a month ago HERE you may not have known yet the result of the big Batwoman episode 14 cliffhanger where Luke Fox gets shot.

But an even bigger spoiler than the fact Luke is alive came out tonight, as the crew tried to hide the reveal that Mr. Fox has his OWN superhero suit.... and while they definitely covered it pretty well, before they were aware that I noticed, I did snag a couple partial sets of the new suit Luke is sporting.... now the question is, will his new superhero name be something Batty? or Wingy?

One thing that was interesting, was a piece of set dressing they used. There was a large fence that had a tarp on it, that had spray painted grafitti on it, and I am curious if any of it means anything.... so I added a couple photos of it. Clearly a couple attempted bats are painted on there, and other things, including a question mark.... hmm??

Also, on the 2nd night, the last thing they shot was a scene out on a sidewalk with a huge box out there..... full of black masks that were being handed out to everyone... which explains the first night scene.

Batwoman season 2 is in currently on Sunday nights on The CW in the U.S.

You can find my other Batwoman blogs HERE

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THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "BATWOMAN" SEASON 1 EPISODE 4 titled " Who Are You".
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On Friday night I came across the next program in the ever continuing DC Comics Arrowverse for The CW, Batwoman. They were shooting scenes for episode 104. If you are thinking "wait, did you not already do episode 104 a few weeks ago?", you would be correct. But this was for additional scenes that they either did not have time to shoot at that time, or, they decided later to add. Every show does them from time to time, it is rare for me to report on the original, and pick up scenes though.... especially at the same location.

The crew was back at the Vancouver Club building in Downtown Vancouver. Of course last time I was there, I got to exclusively report o seeing the Batwoman costume out and about for the first time in Vancouver publicly, just not worn by the shows star, Ruby Rose. That night a pair of stunt doubles had the costumes on. While Ruby was dressed as Kate Kane.

The opening scene I saw shot was a young girl and her mother standing in front of the "City Of Gotham Museum Of Antiques". The girl reaches down to grab something off the ground, shows her mother, when a moment later some major incident catches everyones attention and they all look up, and forward in panic.

After that scene. It was time for some stunt work. The stunt doubles did a great scene where Batwoman takes a running jump off a staircase, does a roll, and lands next to a child who she then protects all in 1 motion. As someone who was pretty athletic when I was younger, I will say, the ease this stunt person did the scene with amazes me. This actually would officially be the first time I saw Batwoman in action, as the last time I just saw the people coming & going from the building. After the stunts team did the heavy lifting, the shows star came in, for the first time I have heard of anywhere in Vancouver on set in her full Batwoman outfit. An important detail too is, this confirms that by episode 4, she will have the full costume we all see in the promo images. It was reported by anyone that has seen the full pilot already, she does not end up with the full design in the pilot.

Once Ruby was on set as Batwoman, a scene was shot with her, and a young child actor where she protects the child from a threat, while pulling out a Batarang and making the would be threat aware she isnt messing around. Once the threat seems to be done, the young girl emerges from under Batwomans cape, says something to Batwoman, and Batwoman allows her to touch her face/mask.

The one interesting thing I noticed during the evening was, that at one point they changed the generally white Batsignal to a dark red (in the photos, the red doesnt seem nearly as dark as it did in person... maybe it will look darker on TV). I dont know if this was something specific for this scene, or if Batwoman will have an all red logo all the time. Guess we will have to wait and see.

After that scene, they went on a lunch break, and I opted to end my night there, as I had been working another set earlier in the day, and this was going on 10+ hours of sets for me.

Batwoman will debut on The CW in the U.S. this October.

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So far the series has filmed a lot in places that are not terribly visible. This was the 5th set I had been to for Batwoman, and it was the first time I really got a clear look at a scene done for the show. That said, it was not till the 3rd night of their shoot. This episode is being directed by Holly Dale, a veteran director of all of the Chicago (Med, Fire, & P.D.) shows, as well as Timeless, Reign, Castle, & Law & Order SVU, and many more.

On the first night, they shot all interiors at the Vancouver Club. This time, the club was repurposed to be a museum. On that night I saw a bunch of well dressed people going in & out of the building through out the evening. But the real shocker for me was when I saw not 1, but TWO people dressed as Batwoman come out at one point. Neither of which was the shows lead Ruby Rose. A bit later, I finally for the first time since the show came back to start filming season 1, I saw Ruby at set.... unfortunately it was as she was leaving for the night at 4 AM. But at least I can finally confirm she isn't just a figment of everyones imagination as many may wonder after her cancellation of San Diego Comic Con.

On the second night, again interior shooting was done. Again on that night I saw someone in the Batwoman costume that was not Ruby. In fact, I did not see Ruby till almost the end of the night as she showed up to work. During 1 tour I took away from the set during the night to investigate a different film set I was given a tip about, I came across their circus, and snapped a couple shots of some of the trailers there. Most notably was Sophie Moore, but more interesting was the non-regular cast I saw. A trailer for "Magpie doppleganger", and trailer for "Batwomen" and more curious one for "Batmen". At one point in the evening I did think I saw a guy come out in Batwoman gear, but my camera at night is far from reliable, so by the time it decided to do its job he was long into the darkness that surrounded much of the building. I saw a couple women dressed in short blond/silver hair and leather pants. Were either of them the "Magpie doppleganger" I saw the trailer for? Was 1 of them actually Magpie? I usually would think it could just be the stunt double of the actress, but 1 was a white woman, and the other Asian. So I am less sure that it was a stunt double, and not perhaps 1 being the doppleganger, and the other being the actual Magpie. I did at one point see a Sophie Moore (unsure if it was Meagan Tandy, or her double. Lighting was not ideal there outside of right in front of the door) walk out, but never saw her return. I left this set earlier than the night before, at around 3 AM because they had turned off all the outside lights, and most of the inside lights for whatever they were shooting, so being able to see anything was pointless.

The third night they moved outside. Unfortunately, it was a busy night for me, and on top of it, there was inexplicably a massive crowd around the set for much of it after the first two nights there being less than 5 people total, suddenly a crowd of 60+ was there at one point. So I did not spend a lot of time there, and missed a scene that Ruby shot as Kate Kane later in the evening on the sidewalk. When I first got there I saw a variety of "Gotham" themed vehicles parked along the street. I find it funny that "Gotham Taxi" has a basic 7 number phone number. Gotham is supposed to be a city of 10 Million+, and Vancouver is a city of 600K and they have 3 area codes. Time to update the phone numbers a bit. Reality has passed the idea you can get away with a 7 digit phone number in a metro area now.

While I was there however, I did see a scene shot that I never really quite understood. It seemed to have a bunch of the gallery guests out on the sidewalk for some reason. It seemed the boom mic was following this blonde girl in glasses, as she moved from 1 area where a couple of women flanked by CROWS security came up to talk to her, then several feet away she seemed to be talking to a different group of women. Was this Margaret Pye aka "Magpie"? I cant say for certain. I was unaware at first when I was shooting it that the woman on the head set might have been the focus of the scene. It wasnt till I looked at my photos later and noticed the boom mic was following her, and she was the only person in both parts of the scene. I left not long later as the crew were working hard to keep people from seeing the scene at all, and I didnt think there was much there to really see. Apparently I should have stuck it out, as I said earlier, Ruby did a scene out there that you can see in this gallery HERE from Celebrity Wotnot (unlike my photos, you very much will have to PAY to use theirs.... so be warned.).

Want more Arrowverse materials?

BEHIND THE SCENES of Arrow go HERE
AUTOGRAPHS for Arrow go HERE

BEHIND THE SCENES of The Flash go HERE
AUTOGRAPHS for The Flash go HERE

BEHIND THE SCENES of Supergirl go HERE
AUTOGRAPHS for Supergirl go HERE