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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1

(I'm starting to feel like a prick.)

People who are upset shouldn't be watching TV.

Didn't the Eiffle Tower get blown up, or thrown into the sun at the beginning of Superman II?
 
JD said:
For all anybody knows there could be residents of places where it airs who were there and are home now, and watch Supergirl who might be upset by the episode. Or there could be people who watch it who have French family members or friends who were hurt or killed. It's better to just not take the chance of upsetting people.
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Or maybe they just think that their audience won't be in a mood to watch a TV show about bombings two days after the attack on Paris. I mean, you wouldn't want to air a plane crash movie two days after a horrific, real-life plane crash.

It's irksome for us SUPERGIRL fans, but it's not unreasonable.

(That being said, I thought pulling the BUFFY finale way back when was an overreaction, since there had been no real-life incidents of a giant hell-serpent attacking an American high school.)
 
Rampaging Mirakuru Soldiers attacking Starling City a couple years ago.

I can see that being distasteful to play hours after the Paris event, but Supergirl isn't that sort of show (yet). I'm actually wondering what if I'm very wrong, and this scrapped episode is a very, very close parallel to Paris?

"100's of people dead because Supergirl failed".

Which would skew the entire tone of the series in ways that you'd not expect until Darkseid arrives, and starts rounding up slaves from Barneys in down town National City.
 
Guy Gardener said:
How did she go for a decade without trying to fly?
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I guess the suggestion is that she just got settled into her normal human life and no longer felt the need to fly anymore. Or maybe she just didn't want to take the risk of it being seen or filmed by anyone.

But yeah, you'd think she still would have found some secret out of the way place to fly now and then. Especially given how much she clearly seems to enjoy doing it.
 
I'm DVRing the episode tonight. Whether I hold out until next week to watch it may depend on what people say about how much "Livewire" references or skips over events from HDSDI. Could I ask that someone address that question here after seeing the episode, and that people use spoiler coding for at least the initial few review posts? (If I decide it's worth waiting, I'll probably avoid this thread until next week.)
 
Christopher said:
I'm DVRing the episode tonight. Whether I hold out until next week to watch it may depend on what people say about how much "Livewire" references or skips over events from HDSDI. Could I ask that someone address that question here after seeing the episode, and that people use spoiler coding for at least the initial few review posts? (If I decide it's worth waiting, I'll probably avoid this thread until next week.)
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I second that, though, i am still not sure if iTunes will have the episodes in reversed order or if they will simplay wait a week to release both anyway.
How much in advance are itunes releases set in stone?
 
The episode's not over yet, but I'm not detecting a lot of continuity issues from not having seen the other episode. There was a brief offhand reference implying that they'd been dealing with bombs going off recently, and I suspect we've missed a beat in the James/Lucy relationship.

I don't know if this ties in at all with the previous episode, if this is new information, or is something that's already been referenced and I missed it...

Mr. Danvers is no longer with us. Dean Cain does appear in flashbacks, however. And we learn in this episode that there may be more to it.
 
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Here comes the potential bigger arc: Henshaw is responsible for the fate of Kara's father, however, considering the DEO now has a powered villain in custody, and Henshow being not quite human, I see the sisters investigation ultimately leading to a Henshaw forming his "anti-Kryptonian" squad (a plot seen with S.T.A.R. Labs in Justice League Unlimited).

Cat knowing Kara has foster parents cannot be a passing detail. If she's suspicious enough (as she is about Supergirl) , she will wonder if Kara's "dead parents" story holds water.

The line "that should probably change" pretty much guarantees that she will dig deeper.

I don't know what it is, most adapted versions of Livewire, whether it is this one, or the one from the WB Superman: the Animated Series come off as more annoying than threatening --and I do not mean her alter ego career.
 
It would not surprise me if someone is still alive. The old trope of no body is found. This goes even farther we never even see a death scene.
 
Answering Christopher's request from earlier, here's the references to HDSDI present in Livewire:
1) Kara makes a figurative bomb reference, and Winn makes a joke about being glad that it's figurative rather than literal
2) Kat references her son Carter
3) James and Lucy are officially a couple again and Lucy and Kara are friendly towards one another
 
I am hopeful that the DVD and Blu rays have the episodes in production order. Its always baffled me as to why arbitrary network decisions influence the order of episodes in later media outlets. Particularly when the network the series aired on did not produce it.

The 1 and 2 episodes of Lois & Clark which followed the Pilot where switched by ABC. Its really obvious because the true follow up episode directly continues from that Pilot. For whatever reason Warner Bros continued to air the reruns of the episodes in syndication and on the DVDs in that altered order.
 
Dick Whitman said:
The 1 and 2 episodes of Lois & Clark which followed the Pilot where switched by ABC. Its really obvious because the true follow up episode directly continues from that Pilot. For whatever reason Warner Bros continued to air the reruns of the episodes in syndication and on the DVDs in that altered order.
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Yeah, I wish I'd known that before my recent rewatch.
 
I am not sure how you watched it but on the DVDs you have got to switch the 1st and 2nd discs a couple times to watch the episodes in the correct order. The 1st disc only has the Pilot episode and the 3rd episode in production. So its really annoying to watch the first 4 episodes in order.
 
^Oh, then I couldn't have watched them in order, since I rented them one at a time from Netflix. Well, I could've gotten them from the library, I suppose.
 
I'd advise everyone DVRing the show to confirm that next week's episode will actually get recorded. See how this week's episode was branded, check your options, and/or if possible double-check that next week's episode is actually getting recorded while it airs. The reason is because, on my DVR, "Livewire" was branded as "How Does She Do It?", because the schedule data wasn't updated in time for airing. If they correctly brand next week's episode, then it could appear to be a rerun. If necessary, I can simply manually override and record the episode anyway, even though my machine might "think" that it has already recorded it.

Regarding "Livewire," it was very good. I was disappointed most with Helen Slater's performance. It didn't seem dynamic enough compared to the other actors' performances. With its focus on family dynamics and parent/child as well as mentor/apprentice relationships, it would have been a really good Thanksgiving episode. Love triangle, I see you!
 
So they skipped an episode (bombing reference) in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris, but this seemed more in theme with the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday anyway.

Interesting villain. I hadn't heard of Livewire until tonight; I didn't know she was created by Bruce Timm for the animated series. I knew water was going to figure into her defeat.

It was also good to get a glimpse into the Danvers family's past. It appears they had ties to the DEO even before Alexandra was recruited.
 
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