Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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It's weird though, how strongly Superman believes that premarital sex is a no-no.
Is one of his superpowers Super-Celibacy?
Because if Kal-El believed in premarital sex, he wouldn't have to break the law to make out with his cousin. If you think about it, doesn't that mean that he is obeying the law to make out with his cousin while living in sin?
Is one of his superpowers Super-Celibacy?
Because if Kal-El believed in premarital sex, he wouldn't have to break the law to make out with his cousin. If you think about it, doesn't that mean that he is obeying the law to make out with his cousin while living in sin?
So...they're freely dropping the names Superman and Clark Kent, and Jimmy knows that they both belong to the same person....
(I don't have to call him James, do I? He's been Jimmy for 74 years.)
I see they didn't waste any time putting together Team Super.
(I don't have to call him James, do I? He's been Jimmy for 74 years.)
I see they didn't waste any time putting together Team Super.
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^ He's 6 feet 4 inches of muscle. You will call him James. 
And you know, it's funny to see a Jimmy Olsen who eclipses Superman in terms of size and stature.
And you know, it's funny to see a Jimmy Olsen who eclipses Superman in terms of size and stature.
How many meanings is that damned S going to accumulate?
They also didn't waste any time getting Kara some face time with her aunt.
They also didn't waste any time getting Kara some face time with her aunt.
Lol, Superman is sounding seriously conflicted in that panel, like he really really wants to make out with his cousin right then.
If it's from the Silver Age (which it likely is), there was a lot of hliariously batshit stuff going on with DC then. Like that time Jimmy Olsen went to a parallel Earth run by cosplayers, and became their slave.
It's better than the comic where a radiation wave kills all the men on the planet, other than Superman, and all the babies he puts in women (by artificial insemination) afterward rip their way out like Xenomorphs.
^ Just as sick as Luke perving on Leia, and should be as buried as that ESB cut scene between the two.
The episode--
Supergirl being clumsy and causing doubt / the need for DEO training is the logical step.
how long before Maxwell Lord partners with her enemies.
The DEO training angle is interesting, even before the bottom of that relationship is strained. Nice attention to detail that Supergirl does not know how to fight.
How long before their supply of Kryptonite is used against Supergirl--either by the saw-it-coming / not-what-he-seems Henshaw, some sideline sub-agency within the DEO, or stolen by...?
Nice, timely moment: Henshaw's stabbing of Astra with the Kryptonite shard--but the aliens have to target the DEO to eliminate the threat.
The one thing I do not want to see is a romance with Winslow. The fawning geek thing is played out.
Pleasing nod: Plastino Chemicals--as in Al Plastino, Golden and Silver Age artist for Superman/boy, Adventure Comics, and other classic DC characters
- Not thrilled with the villain of the week but at least it segued into Astra's arc.
- Benoist's look is a little different. Guess they took a little time to find just the right look.
- I like how they've added a bit of realism to Supergirl's powers. Whenever she tries to move large things like planes and ships, she does some damage.
- Lots of Superman references. They could have felt overdone like name-dropping but they didn't, for the most part. Cat's Perry White reference felt like that name-dropping.
- I like the look of Krypton. Reminded me of Coruscant.
- The kryptonite blade wasn't lethal enough. Hopefully it was the low-grade stuff. She shouldn't have been able to fly out of there with that thing in her leg.
- Henshaw was less of a dick. He's coming around. But what is he?
- As with Arrow, they don't waste time. The show is advancing nicely. Next week... Cat confronts Supergirl.
- Benoist's look is a little different. Guess they took a little time to find just the right look.
- I like how they've added a bit of realism to Supergirl's powers. Whenever she tries to move large things like planes and ships, she does some damage.
- Lots of Superman references. They could have felt overdone like name-dropping but they didn't, for the most part. Cat's Perry White reference felt like that name-dropping.
- I like the look of Krypton. Reminded me of Coruscant.
- The kryptonite blade wasn't lethal enough. Hopefully it was the low-grade stuff. She shouldn't have been able to fly out of there with that thing in her leg.
- Henshaw was less of a dick. He's coming around. But what is he?
- As with Arrow, they don't waste time. The show is advancing nicely. Next week... Cat confronts Supergirl.
Interesting that Kryptonite is so super-secret in this version that even Kara didn't know about it.
^ It's definatley something that Superman and the right authorities would want to keep secret.
I think stuff like that works better if Superman and the DEO have had some sort of working relationship, but they're indicating that isn't the case.
I believe in the Donner movie, Superman did not know about Kryptonite either, as Luthor explained its source before hanging it around Superman's neck.
But in this version he's been Superman for years, so you'd think he'd have encountered it first, and might have warned Kara about it.
Truth is that the show is having its cake and eating it too...freely referencing established aspects of the Superman mythos, but also indulging in "firsts" that should be old news in a world with a well-established Superman.
Truth is that the show is having its cake and eating it too...freely referencing established aspects of the Superman mythos, but also indulging in "firsts" that should be old news in a world with a well-established Superman.
So, what's up with Henshaw's glowing red eyes? Is he one of the Fort Roxx (or whatever it is) escapees, too? Or will we find out there's something more benign later, after a few weeks of making us think that he's possibly bad?
I missed glowing red eyes?
Apparently.
I'm not sure how they can continue to have such production values each week, let alone a superbattle but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. They also I hope made Cat alittle more human to people, she's just as much a mentor to Kara as the others are. And it looks like the show is already getting their Scooby gang together.
This was even better than the pilot, and the pilot was terrific. This one addressed a lot of the questions and issues I saw raised about the pilot -- they name-dropped Superman (and the whole core cast) freely, they featured Kara's recollections of Krypton and how that background makes her different from Superman, and I think they softened Cat a bit, in performance if not in writing. And they focused more on James's past as Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which helps give us more of a throughline from the Jimmy we know to this more experienced journalist. (Interesting discussion about why the glasses disguise works, too.)
Lots of action too, lots of rescues as well as superfights. Good flight scenes and heroics. The kryptonite room that let Alex fight Kara was a clever idea, and they're definitely not holding back on the aggressiveness of the fights between female characters. And I'm loving it that Benoist is spending more time dressed as Supergirl than as Kara. I don't think we've seen a show where the superhero spent more time in costume than in street clothes since Batman '66 -- other than occasional episodes of Power Rangers.
The humor and banter are very much in the vein of the other Berlanti shows. It struck me today that Kara is basically the love child of Felicity Smoak and Barry Allen.
Lots of action too, lots of rescues as well as superfights. Good flight scenes and heroics. The kryptonite room that let Alex fight Kara was a clever idea, and they're definitely not holding back on the aggressiveness of the fights between female characters. And I'm loving it that Benoist is spending more time dressed as Supergirl than as Kara. I don't think we've seen a show where the superhero spent more time in costume than in street clothes since Batman '66 -- other than occasional episodes of Power Rangers.
The humor and banter are very much in the vein of the other Berlanti shows. It struck me today that Kara is basically the love child of Felicity Smoak and Barry Allen.
Right after Henshaw refers to Kara as "Supergirl" to Alex (which he told her not to repeat to her sister), he walks away and his eyes momentarily glow red.