@AngelFrost: I wanted to like the show and I tried to watch it, but show just strayed so far from the mark I just couldn't get past the first two episodes of the series.
The only character that I felt was done right was Barbara Gordon as Oracle since she did act and feel like the version we got in the original BOP comics, but the rest of the cast--Huntress, Black Canary, and Harley Quinn--did NOT resemble any of the characters I read about in the comics nor did they possess any of the traits I actually liked about them.
With Huntress, I liked the fact that they preserved her attitude from the comics, but I didn't like that they gave her "cat-like" superpowers. Regardless of whether it's Wayne or Bertinelli, one of the things I absolutely loved about the comic book Huntress is that this was a woman who had to work at being a superhero. This was someone who had to exercise regularly and intensely in order to achieve the physical strength, balance, endurance, and flexibility required to do the kind of work that she does. I also liked that she was a detective who utilised both her intelligence and necessary tools for solving cases. All of that was lost in the TV show version of the character, that her lack of her trademarked mask and crossbow were really the tip of the iceberg. On an unrelated note, they got Bruce wrong as well because regardless of his love life, Bruce isn't the kind of guy to abandon a kid of his, especially not his biological one. I would think that being a master detective he would discovered that Selina's daughter was also his and would have wanted to be as much a part of his daughter's life. I'm especially certain he would have taken custody of his own daughter upon Selina's death. I can understand if they didn't want Batman to steal the show and all, but having Bruce be alive and unaware of his own daughter's existence was just not the way to go.
And then there's Black Canary. I don't even know where to begin with this one, but I will say she was a complete miss from the superior comicbook version. At best, I liked that they kept the Canary legacy with Dinah's mum being the original Black Canary and her daughter becoming the second Black Canary, but this were the similarities end. Unlike the comicbook version, Dinah Jr. was not a grown mature woman who was a skilled and intelligent martial artist with the Canary Cry, she was a ditzy high school girl who hero-worshipped Huntress and was psychic. Also the Canary Cry went to her mum 'Carolyn' when the original Dinah Drake never had the Canary Cry. Out of all the characters, the show's Black Canary was especially done wrong.
And then Harley Quinn. She kept her obsession with her puddin,' she was still a psychiatrist (though she was more of a therapist in the show), and was blonde like the comicbook version. But beyond that, the TV character resembled very little else of the character, and their approach of Harley being zany but serious and calculating villain just didn't translate well on screen. Mia's over-the-top acting just didn't help.
All in all, the show had potential but it was a sadly wasted opportunity. The writers took the basic concept of the comic book series but took too far too many liberties with the characters to the point where I didn't feel like I was seeing the comic book characters come to life. I felt like I was watching a show about a different set of characters entirely.
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