Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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That Kara lookalike looked nothing like Kara/M. Benoist. I caught a glimpse of Red Tornado's arm. Was she connected to the arm? Is Max going to make her Tomorrow Woman?
That "Jane Doe" is clearly meant to be the show's version of Bizarro Girl.
As for how and why Max had Red Tornado's arm, Alex dumped it on his desk back in Red Faced, and he clearly held on to it.
As for how and why Max had Red Tornado's arm, Alex dumped it on his desk back in Red Faced, and he clearly held on to it.
Bizarra is actually the Bizarro version of Wonder Woman, weirdly enough
http://www.comicvine.com/bizarra/4005-62046/
Was she supposed to assume Kara had ready access to a shapeshifter that could fly?
What conclusion was she to draw when faced with both Supergirl and Kara together physically, including touching?
Non trying to heat Vision in Superman II.
Take care, that was a stare to beware.
Take care, that was a stare to beware.
i wonder how lack of Gotham will affect ratings? i am guessing 'Superhuman' only grabbed a fraction of the audience for a fraction of the time
I'll say it outright. I would have preferred it if Cat confirmed Kara's secret. It would make their relationship much more interesting.
So she fires Kara. Good. She treats her like shit all day. I don't care how many friends she has in that building, being treated like a body slave by your immediate superior is mentally and even physically draining, even for someone who can bend steel in her bare hands, and eventually you need to get away from that. And it's not like she'd be out of work for long. J'onn Henshaw indicated he'd take her on. That would likely mean better pay plus benefits and hazard pay, and she'd have people much better at keeping secrets helping her protect hers.
As for Cat, she went from somebody who would potentially be intriguing to somebody who's just annoying again.
So she fires Kara. Good. She treats her like shit all day. I don't care how many friends she has in that building, being treated like a body slave by your immediate superior is mentally and even physically draining, even for someone who can bend steel in her bare hands, and eventually you need to get away from that. And it's not like she'd be out of work for long. J'onn Henshaw indicated he'd take her on. That would likely mean better pay plus benefits and hazard pay, and she'd have people much better at keeping secrets helping her protect hers.
As for Cat, she went from somebody who would potentially be intriguing to somebody who's just annoying again.
Bizzaro... But want about Matrix?
Originally, Matrix was tech plus wounded mirror universe Lana Lang.
Or it could be Linda Lee and the Earth Angel, Power Girl or Andromeda.
Sucker in the Christians to bolster in the ratings, if they can be turned around confused enough to think that this is a do over of Touched with an Angel.
(Actually the do-over of Touched by an Angel, is Singed, Sealed and Delivered (same people behind the camera) where they exchanged the mysticism of Jesus and Angels for faith in the purity and human dedication of the US Postal Service. Sickly sweet, but actually quite enjoyable.)
If Max is place holding for Luthor, then bedding Matrix is part of his story.
Shit.
I had totally forgotten about Cir-El.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(Cir-El)
Oh.
We haven't seen Lucy in a few episodes.
Maybe Lucy gets turned into Superwoman like she was in the comics.
This actually makes things easier for Jim to pick Kara over Lucy, since it's almost certainly a death sentence for a human to make love with a Kryptonian. "Not dying" during coitus is probably the inch that won out Lucy over Kara when Jim was trying to decide where he want's to hitch his horse.
(Yes, I did think "Horse" was a metaphor for his emotional well being to enter into and commit to a relationship, right up until I realized that you'd think that I was talking about his penis being a horse. You're disgusting. Take a shower.)
Originally, Matrix was tech plus wounded mirror universe Lana Lang.
Or it could be Linda Lee and the Earth Angel, Power Girl or Andromeda.
Sucker in the Christians to bolster in the ratings, if they can be turned around confused enough to think that this is a do over of Touched with an Angel.
(Actually the do-over of Touched by an Angel, is Singed, Sealed and Delivered (same people behind the camera) where they exchanged the mysticism of Jesus and Angels for faith in the purity and human dedication of the US Postal Service. Sickly sweet, but actually quite enjoyable.)
If Max is place holding for Luthor, then bedding Matrix is part of his story.
Shit.
I had totally forgotten about Cir-El.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(Cir-El)
Oh.
We haven't seen Lucy in a few episodes.
Maybe Lucy gets turned into Superwoman like she was in the comics.
This actually makes things easier for Jim to pick Kara over Lucy, since it's almost certainly a death sentence for a human to make love with a Kryptonian. "Not dying" during coitus is probably the inch that won out Lucy over Kara when Jim was trying to decide where he want's to hitch his horse.
(Yes, I did think "Horse" was a metaphor for his emotional well being to enter into and commit to a relationship, right up until I realized that you'd think that I was talking about his penis being a horse. You're disgusting. Take a shower.)
No, he gave it back to her. She let him have a look at it, then he just took a quick look at it and handed it back. Although he was able to somehow divine that Red Tornado was remote-controlled just through a quick glance at the arm, which was puzzling. Maybe he had some kind of hidden scanners in his office and got their report relayed to him through HUD contact lenses or an earbud or something.
And what he had in the lab this week wasn't the arm, it was a hologram of the arm.
But the conclusions she drew before were still sound. It's not like absolute belief and absolute disbelief are the only two options. A good journalist, like a good scientist, remains skeptical and considers all the evidence on both sides of a question. As a journalist, she's surely been hoaxed before. And she lives in a world full of superpowered beings, aliens, robots, and the like. So she shouldn't just blindly accept this single piece of data and erase everything else she knows. It's a strong piece of evidence against her hypothesis, but there are still questions it hasn't satisfactorily answered -- like how Kara overheard the chairman of the board, or how Kara's broken arm suddenly healed the moment Supergirl came back onto the scene. (That was Kara's most egregious error of all.)
So it would be out of character for Cat to forget she ever suspected Kara of being Supergirl. Her confidence in her conclusion has been shaken, yes, but she should still be watching and thinking and maintaining the healthy doubt that's essential to competent journalism.
After all, in the Silver Age comics and '50s TV show, Clark "proved" to Lois over and over that he wasn't Superman, and yet she remained suspicious and was never quite sure she hadn't been hoaxed in some way. And Cat prides herself on being smarter than Lois.
I'm rather staggered that FOX could get away with running a show called Superhuman right opposite Supergirl. I know from experience that some people don't notice every syllable in a word; I've encountered a couple of people who heard about my novel Only Superhuman and assumed it was about Superman. So some viewers seeing a show called Superhuman might mistake it for a Superman-related show. (Heck, I accidentally typed that title as "Superman" just now.) I'd think CBS wouldn't be too happy about that.
The only conclusion a regular person would make: that Kara and Supergirl are not one and the same. I'll say it again, Cat is not a mind reader, and her "investigative" skills have not provided one bit of on-screen evidence that would lead to uncovering Supergirl's ID.
No, it would not, since Cat serves no practical purpose in Kara's life...until Benoist's husband is shoehorned in as a romantic interest / son of Cat. ..and don't be too surprised if Cat uses the son to continue pursuing the secret identity nonsense.
Because she's designed to be annoying. That is the problem with a character meant to be a bitchy foil. The characterization is so extreme that attempts to humanize her with her family woes still do nothing to justify her biting, complaints, and manipulation. No amount of personal whining justifies 24-hour asshole mistreatment of all around her.
Scott Bakula wanted to prove that his son Chuck was the Human Intersect, so he threw a knife at his face to see if he'd catch it.
Chuck caught the knife and totally outed himself.
Later Chuck wanted to prove that Brandon Routhe was also a human intersect, so during a military tribunal attempting to convict Chuck as a traitor, Chuck threw a knife at Brandon, who had the good sense not to catch the knife, letting it go into his shoulder up to the handle, so as to keep his secret that he was a human intersect.
Chuck caught the knife and totally outed himself.
Later Chuck wanted to prove that Brandon Routhe was also a human intersect, so during a military tribunal attempting to convict Chuck as a traitor, Chuck threw a knife at Brandon, who had the good sense not to catch the knife, letting it go into his shoulder up to the handle, so as to keep his secret that he was a human intersect.
Fine. All the more reason to be rid of Cat Grant. If she serves no purpose in Kara's life she serves no purpose on the show either, so Kara should quit, take J'onn Henshaw up on his job offer and reduce Calista Flockford to recurring status.
My thing was a media mogul knowing for a fact that Kara is Supergirl would make her interesting because of how she might use the information, especially if Kara leaving would make her feel slighted.
But whatever...your way works too...
I get all that. I submit that she doesn't have to be quite that annoying, and not being that annoying would make her more watchable. The writers, obviously, like her that way, so, yeah, let Kara quit and reduce Ally McBeal's contract.
I don't think this issue is as dead as it seems right now re: Cat having figured out that Kara is Supergirl. I think it will eventually resurface, but for now, J'onn's ruse worked as intended.
Heck, it might be fun to resurrect the old Silver Age dynamic of the superhero's suspicious coworker constantly trying to expose their secret identity and the hero having to come up with new ways to keep them from getting proof.
And I think there's precedent. This show's portrayal of James Olsen is much closer to the pre-Crisis comic-book version of the character than most prior screen adaptations -- Superman's best friend, Lucy Lane's boyfriend, a potential love interest for Supergirl, an intrepid reporter-hero in his own right. People assume he's a revisionist take on the character, but he really isn't; it's just that the public's perception of Jimmy is based more on Jack Larson and Marc McClure and Justin Whalen than on the actual comics character who had his own self-titled series for twenty whole years. So these producers know their deep DC history and aren't afraid to use it.
And I think there's precedent. This show's portrayal of James Olsen is much closer to the pre-Crisis comic-book version of the character than most prior screen adaptations -- Superman's best friend, Lucy Lane's boyfriend, a potential love interest for Supergirl, an intrepid reporter-hero in his own right. People assume he's a revisionist take on the character, but he really isn't; it's just that the public's perception of Jimmy is based more on Jack Larson and Marc McClure and Justin Whalen than on the actual comics character who had his own self-titled series for twenty whole years. So these producers know their deep DC history and aren't afraid to use it.
Bizarra is actually the Bizarro version of Wonder Woman, weirdly enough
http://www.comicvine.com/bizarra/4005-62046/
But Bizarro Lois was always "Bizarro Lois" back in the Silver Age.
If Supergirl fights Bizzaro Supergirl in the very next episode, that's sure to raise Cat's eyebrow.
As a former student of high school Spanish, I have trouble dealing with that.
That wasn't her being convinced, though. She was bailing out of a potentially embarrassing situation where her bold conclusion could turn out to be ridiculous. And she had just talked down Supergirl with convinction, a moment before getting a reason to question her judgement. She felt “Uh-oh, I may have embarrassed myself, let's do emergency damage control.” She is yet to examine her past conclusions and think “OK, how could I get this so wrong, and why are my eyes deceiving me that those two women look exactly the same?”
IOW, I am not definitely Cat Grant, but I'd do exactly what she did, whilst still not being fully convinced.
(I also don't think what I wrote is what the writers would be going with, though.
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Considering the Martians power set, Hank wanted to be captured, and chose to stay unrescued. If the Kryptonians ever left him alone a little, he temporarily had unrestricted access to that base to sabotage the shit out of it, or find out all their crazy secrets.
Lois is an anagram of soil which is a synonym for earth which is the name of the planet we live on.
Lois is an anagram of soil which is a synonym for earth which is the name of the planet we live on.
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