I guess the only follow up question I could ask is how would you define the essence of "interesting"? I mean, suppose for a minute, you replaced Gordon with, say, Jean Paul Valley. According to the parameters I can extrapolate from your post, his presence on panel--by virtue of being written about--is "interesting".
Obviously, I don't think that's what you mean, but I have a feeling that you're attributing more admiration to Simone's
treatment of Gordon rather than Gordon herself.
Simone has openly admitted that she was pissed off to high hell that she inherited Barbara as a cripple since she desperately wanted to write about Batgirl. Cleawrly, she was not a fan of the Killing Joke. As such, when she got a hold of BoP, she glorified her as much as possible. But obviously, this had more to do with her own bias towards the character rather than any inherent value the character objectively held. Sales, quite frankly, did not speak up for Barbara in that department: if Moore had wanted to straight up kill her off, he would have gotten his wish (that would have been fucking awesome).
Aside from pointing out that you settle way to easily, I can't really critique your enjoyment. But I don't think that you can identify "interest" by virtue of exposure. Perhaps the real truth is that she was never interesting, and Simone just tried to market her as such for the sake of her own concessions.
but, hey, 60+ minutes of fight scenes? i'll take it.
Not fight scenes in general, buuuut...Imagine the Black Widow interrogation scene played out over and over again throughout every episode of every season, and you'll have a pretty good picture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and/or Serenity/Firefly.
A sassy female or feminine lead being over-indulgently exhibited as much as possible with a bottomless bag full of quips. Her parts were the biggest weakness of that film for a reason.
