How can you super blow if you can't super suck?
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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Didn't he do that rather often? Sucking in gases? I read the comics form the bronze time (I guess it's called that) years ago.
I find it a little sad that her boss was tricked with the classic "Clark and Superman" together trick. In my comics Superman also had a ton of robots to do that for him. Maybe that's why they rebooted. Anyway, I am losing focus, sorry.
I don't really care how plausible her powers are. I find it more implausible that the Kryptonians haven't taken over the earth yet.
I find it a little sad that her boss was tricked with the classic "Clark and Superman" together trick. In my comics Superman also had a ton of robots to do that for him. Maybe that's why they rebooted. Anyway, I am losing focus, sorry.
I don't really care how plausible her powers are. I find it more implausible that the Kryptonians haven't taken over the earth yet.
In spy fiction, there's a plausible reason for meeting in public places...less likely to be bugged, and lots of background commotion to make it harder to hear them if you are trying to eavesdrop.
Then doesn't the same principle apply to other situations where characters are discussing secrets?
Not saying that it doesn't...but if you're trying to keep your famous alter ego a secret, it doesn't do to blab about it within earshot of others. Whereas overhearing a snatch of a covert operation might be lost on a casual listener.
Control is over rated.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooo much paperwork.
Oh, and the dissent!
Suicide bombers!
Astra Zor-El has maybe 20 Kryptonian convicts, and as many more alien convicts working under her.
That doesn't sound like a bunch of bureaucrats, statesmen, and politicians to me.
There's nothing she couldn't get from Earth as it is now, that she couldn't get as it's absolute ruler after 8 decades of pacifying the natives and culling them into manageable numbers.
Astra is Space Green Peace, not a Space NAZI.
Her endgame is for the planet not to be an unlivable mess, killing all animal life and humanoid life on it, which at the moment includes herself, her husband and niece.
I'm not sure what her plan is, but it's shit.
All she had to do was introduce advanced technology that would fulfill the planets total energy requirements at zero cost financially and environmentally, that could not be weaponized by the apes in charge of the planet... Which of course would destroy the oil industry, and bring on a massive fiscal apocalypse that would make the Great Depression look like a divot.
Astra says that the world is in danger environmentally, and that she is here to save it.
However, is this danger from the usual suspects, or is someone smart like Lex Luthor or Maxwell Lord figured out how to tap the Earth's core for power, which is the same dimwit idea that blew up Krypton.
Humans shouldn't be within 10,000 years of figuring out how to do that, unless Kryptonians had been tapping their core for 10,000 years, and started doing it when they were at about our level.
Smells like Brianac to me.
Oh. If Lois and Clark are married or close to being married, shouldn't that make Lucy and Kara Cousin-In-Laws, or at the very least. bridesmaids buds... What is the collective nouns for bridesmaid?
Is Astra a general in the Kryptonian military, or a general in Space Green Peace?
You'd think that all of these alien criminals would want to go home?
Although maybe "home" isn't their planet of origin.
Point is that if the "prisoners" they go back to where they come form, where every other person has identical powers, they're ordinary, frakk being super criminals, they'd probably be librarians (10 points if you remember where that is from) but why were the now dead and blowed up Kryptonians volunteering to host a prison in their Phantom Zone?
40 planets didn't contract Krypton to receive their over powered problematic scum, because then Astra would have a hundred soldiers of every species we've seen so far at her command, and this show does not have that budget. The Phantom Zone is how Krypton dealt with Alien crime (by Crime I mean hobo drifters making crop circles and probing yokles.), and the only indigenous criminals ever in the last 1000 years, had been Astra and her ecosoldiers.
A crimeless culture.
Crime had to be reinvented to stop Krypton being murdered by it's greedy political leaders and wrong science.
No seriously, how is Astra the bad guy?
Save the world, get a bail out, and buy an island.
It's that easy.
You'd think that all of these alien criminals would want to go home?
Although maybe "home" isn't their planet of origin.
Point is that if the "prisoners" they go back to where they come form, where every other person has identical powers, they're ordinary, frakk being super criminals, they'd probably be librarians (10 points if you remember where that is from) but why were the now dead and blowed up Kryptonians volunteering to host a prison in their Phantom Zone?
40 planets didn't contract Krypton to receive their over powered problematic scum, because then Astra would have a hundred soldiers of every species we've seen so far at her command, and this show does not have that budget. The Phantom Zone is how Krypton dealt with Alien crime (by Crime I mean hobo drifters making crop circles and probing yokles.), and the only indigenous criminals ever in the last 1000 years, had been Astra and her ecosoldiers.
A crimeless culture.
Crime had to be reinvented to stop Krypton being murdered by it's greedy political leaders and wrong science.
No seriously, how is Astra the bad guy?
Save the world, get a bail out, and buy an island.
It's that easy.
@Guy: Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.? Or that new tv show that I haven't watched? Well, I'm not the biggest DC expert here I guess.
I have no idea, the background stories in the tv superhero shows are often a little weak if you look at them with rational eyes. I remember the discussion between Astra and her Kara's mum where Kara's mum told her that she's been convicted and has to go to prison now. I must have missed the trial I guess. To me it seems the sisters was judge, jury, executor etc. pp. all in one person which is a bit simple.
Astra's name reminds of a car from Opel though.
No, I think they would use their new powers to their delight on earth. Kryptionians seem to be like humans. Give humans power and they lose their cultural values totally. Like Lynndie England or like the German Police Bataillons in the WW2 (Christopher Brown called them "pretty ordinary men") etc. pp. Why would Kryptonians be different?
In the last episode we saw Astra's husband killing an underling by breaking his neck. That underling was obviously not from Krypton but shouldn't that evoke some disciplinary problems? I would not work for a superpowered being that occasionally cracks my or other people's neck. So the whole thing is a bit convoluted with contradictions. To me it doesn't add up.
I enjoy the show anyway but don't take it seriously.
Or that new tv show that I haven't watched? Well, I'm not the biggest DC expert here I guess.I have no idea, the background stories in the tv superhero shows are often a little weak if you look at them with rational eyes. I remember the discussion between Astra and her Kara's mum where Kara's mum told her that she's been convicted and has to go to prison now. I must have missed the trial I guess. To me it seems the sisters was judge, jury, executor etc. pp. all in one person which is a bit simple.
Astra's name reminds of a car from Opel though.
No, I think they would use their new powers to their delight on earth. Kryptionians seem to be like humans. Give humans power and they lose their cultural values totally. Like Lynndie England or like the German Police Bataillons in the WW2 (Christopher Brown called them "pretty ordinary men") etc. pp. Why would Kryptonians be different?
In the last episode we saw Astra's husband killing an underling by breaking his neck. That underling was obviously not from Krypton but shouldn't that evoke some disciplinary problems? I would not work for a superpowered being that occasionally cracks my or other people's neck. So the whole thing is a bit convoluted with contradictions. To me it doesn't add up.
I enjoy the show anyway but don't take it seriously.
Vartax committed suicide rather than being taken in the pilot?
The Husband's name is Non.
Non was the mute brute from Superman II.
Fort Roz crashed into Earth ten years ago.
They ain't done ####.
Laid low and did what they were told.
Followed Astra's mysterious plan.
Unless they're into weird domination role play, why would he be a lieutenant and she a general if their ranks were made up crap? (I'm suggesting that their ranks are not made up crap.)
In the pilot they assume that Alex is the crashing plane was a target because she was in the DEO.
What if Astra was trying to semiorphan Kara, to make the girl malleable and open to recruitment? "Hi, I just killed your sister, so why don't we hang, braid each other's hair and other teenchick stuff."
Well, that kinda hellabackfired didn't it?
The Husband's name is Non.
Non was the mute brute from Superman II.
Fort Roz crashed into Earth ten years ago.
They ain't done ####.
Laid low and did what they were told.
Followed Astra's mysterious plan.
Unless they're into weird domination role play, why would he be a lieutenant and she a general if their ranks were made up crap? (I'm suggesting that their ranks are not made up crap.)
In the pilot they assume that Alex is the crashing plane was a target because she was in the DEO.
What if Astra was trying to semiorphan Kara, to make the girl malleable and open to recruitment? "Hi, I just killed your sister, so why don't we hang, braid each other's hair and other teenchick stuff."
Well, that kinda hellabackfired didn't it?
Thanks for naming her husband.
Superman II : why doesn't Sarah Douglas get a role? She's the best, I like her since I saw her in V.
From the pilot I remember that Kara's mother didn't say things like "I love you" or "We want to save your life" but "you must take care of your cousin", which I found a little odd for parents to do.
So what's about the librarians now?
Superman II : why doesn't Sarah Douglas get a role? She's the best, I like her since I saw her in V.
From the pilot I remember that Kara's mother didn't say things like "I love you" or "We want to save your life" but "you must take care of your cousin", which I found a little odd for parents to do.
So what's about the librarians now?
It's a bastardization of a line I saw said as a kid on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, about this weedy nerdy looking guy, who was from a heavy gravity world, which is why on a regular gravity world he was a murderous elephant juggling bounty hunter, but if he had stayed home, he probably would have been a Librarian.
Is it possible that Clark is intellectually challenged?
Is it possible that Clark is intellectually challenged?
The pilot starts just as they're about to launch, the "save your life" bit is kinda obvious from the planet blowing up all around them, and Alura does indeed say "I love you, Kara"...
@Doge: The scene didn't work for me. Maybe she said "Love you" too. I will rewatch the season when it's finished certainly.
That's worth at least 15 points.
Loved Buck Rogers too as a child but it wasn't too great when I watched the pilot again last year. Sad, I had been a big fan ot Twiki of course and Tim O'Connor.
Found no typos on his messages. Why do you think it? Because he doesn't appear? He should I think. Are they afraid that he would steal her the show?
That's worth at least 15 points.
Loved Buck Rogers too as a child but it wasn't too great when I watched the pilot again last year. Sad, I had been a big fan ot Twiki of course and Tim O'Connor.
Found no typos on his messages. Why do you think it? Because he doesn't appear? He should I think. Are they afraid that he would steal her the show?
It's possible that Kryptonians don't feel or express love like we do.
In the recent movie, Kryptonians are a clone race.
They don't ####.
They've evolved beyond rutting like animals, and talking about chemical reactions in their bodies as if that bubble and fizzy were cogent logical thoughts.
Maybe these Kryptonians abridge the emotional spectrum too, and maybe they don't.
Thinking about Green Lantern Rings, and other power rings.
Does the universal emotional reserve the rings draw power from, does that reserve woft out to give regular people emotions, or does the expression or creation of emotions feed the reserve. Life creates emotion or emotion preserves life?
Does an unemotional people, a planet of practically Vulcans starve or gorge the universal emotional reserve.
The Universe dies when the well runs dry.
The use of Green Lantern Rings drains the universe's emotional well and hasten heat death "incrementally".
Proximity to a planet of unemotional people would effect the emotional reserve for better or worse, or the Rings welltap is constant?
Maybe that's why they need the hand held batteries to regulate the rings flow?
In the recent movie, Kryptonians are a clone race.
They don't ####.
They've evolved beyond rutting like animals, and talking about chemical reactions in their bodies as if that bubble and fizzy were cogent logical thoughts.
Maybe these Kryptonians abridge the emotional spectrum too, and maybe they don't.
Thinking about Green Lantern Rings, and other power rings.
Does the universal emotional reserve the rings draw power from, does that reserve woft out to give regular people emotions, or does the expression or creation of emotions feed the reserve. Life creates emotion or emotion preserves life?
Does an unemotional people, a planet of practically Vulcans starve or gorge the universal emotional reserve.
The Universe dies when the well runs dry.
The use of Green Lantern Rings drains the universe's emotional well and hasten heat death "incrementally".
Proximity to a planet of unemotional people would effect the emotional reserve for better or worse, or the Rings welltap is constant?
Maybe that's why they need the hand held batteries to regulate the rings flow?
Clark has human level emotions.
Clark has a human level intellect.
A dog wouldn't think Clark was mentally handicapped if Clark had the intellect of a dog.
I'm assuming that all Kryptonians have a high IQ and a low EQ, since with humans there's a consistent inverse relationship between those two characteristics.
If Jor-El was a psychopath, he would know that his son, with a normal Kryptonian IQ of 310 would go insane and kill himself from being trapped on Earth running with apes barely into their industrial age... The only way to protect Kal-El, if he already wasn't a jabbering moron, was to lobotomize the child until his IQ was potentially maybe 140.
Not bad for a human.
But on Krypton, this boy wouldn't be allowed out of the house without a padded helmet.
Kara doesn't act like she has a superior intellect. Also Astra or Non don't act like they're supersmart. Non is a grumpy neck-breaker. The attack on the house of the bad guy Mr. Lord wasn't a great sucess either.
So I don't see a hint that Kryptonians are that much different. If they are supposed to have an IQ of 300, the writers of the episodes certainly don't have it.
And the Kryptonians all died with their planet (except a bunch of criminals and two children/teenager).
So I don't see a hint that Kryptonians are that much different. If they are supposed to have an IQ of 300, the writers of the episodes certainly don't have it.
And the Kryptonians all died with their planet (except a bunch of criminals and two children/teenager).
Non and Astra have a diabolical plan ten year in the making.
Geniuses.
Willing to kill anyone getting in the way of that plan.
Sociopaths.
Kara is well adjusted because she was raised by Humans and Kryptonians.
She is the best of both worlds.
Geniuses.
Willing to kill anyone getting in the way of that plan.
Sociopaths.
Kara is well adjusted because she was raised by Humans and Kryptonians.
She is the best of both worlds.