Superman could've handled that missile with ease.
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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Well ok, that I can see working. But regardless, it seems a bit silly to me to rip an episode because it didn't depict ICBMs in a perfectly real world way. When most of the audience isn't going to know the difference anyway.
That's not called "shitty writing," that's just writing for a fun and comic booky superhero show.
All of this talk about catching missiles is bringing a classic to mind....
Then wouldn't he have taken the ring with him?
And it's time travel. He could spend months in the 31st century and come back 10 seconds after he left.
Traditionally, though, he wasn't supposed to do that...he'd return to the present according to how long he'd been in the future...to avoid aging issues and whatnot.
Got me on the first one, though.
Got me on the first one, though.
^ Exactly. Keep the aging in real time. Go to the future for two months? Come back two months later in the present. You don't want to keep doing this and end up being 45 when you're supposed to be 35.
Nice that Winn has a new love interest who can take his mind off of Kara. Wish she was a more passionate kisser though. What kind of kiss was that?
I thought the same thing. Supes is slower because he's more careful.
Nice that Winn has a new love interest who can take his mind off of Kara. Wish she was a more passionate kisser though. What kind of kiss was that?
That's a pretty bold statement to make, the assumption that most of the audience is as ignorant as you may be on a particular subject. And of course it could have been completely avoided by using something other than an ICBM, but they specifically said it was an ICBM in the episode. Along with the numerous other inaccuracies this one, singular episode produced.
Considering that those of us talking about "shitty writing" were talking about the whole of the scene, then yes, that is called "shitty writing." Everything about the scene was not only inaccurate, but illogical and nonsensical even within the confines of the information the episode itself provided. As for the ICBM itself, it's nothing that a half second of research would have revealed. Which includes but is not limited to having ever watched just about any other movie featuring one in action.
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Except he's Superman. Depending on the version of the continuity, he either ages more slowly than a human or is effectively immortal.
They weren't working on that premise in the Silver/Bronze ages. He didn't age to us, but in-universe, he was supposed to be aging normally. They even did potential future stories like "Superman 2020" that showed us an old grandfather Supes.
Maybe it was because Vandervoort, but the whole time I kept thinking of this, which was, IMO, Smallville's one actual "Superman" moment:
^ I don't even remember that but that was actually pretty cool. Funny he climbed the missile too but going spaceborne and separating was rather nifty.
I remember that scene and thought about it during last night's episode.
The point you're missing is that Supergirl did not suffer from something as life threatening as Kryptonite before going after the missile, so there's no excuse--after the fan pandering line about being faster than Superman--for her to struggle to reach it.
I never saw the point in expecting consistency when dealing with superheroes with superstrength and superspeed because physical accuracy has never been a thing with comics[/quote]
You are incorrect. For example, Spider-Man's maximum strength was once said to be at a level where her could lift or press 10 tons. Since that mid 1980's description, how often has he ever lifted anything of greater weight?
To be fair, he wasn't even flying in that scene. He just jumped.
At one point in the Post Zero Hour LSH Brainiac 5 got an upgrade and became Brainiac 5.1. For a little while after that he wasn't a jerk, but that didn't last.
It's not just the fact that she seemed slow. The entire scene was nonsensical. First the fact that only one missile was launched. Then she tries to *deflect* the missile in a random direction and just let it fly. A *nuclear* missile. Because to hell with anyone who doesn't live in National City.
Then the fact that she was clearly fast enough to catch up to the missile in the air, but for no reason whatsoever wastes time climbing up the side of it instead of just landing at the front. Then she has trouble opening a tiny little panel even though we've seen her rip huge chunks of metal with no effort.
Then she falls off the damn missile and repeats the whole thing over again because the writers apparently couldn't think of any better way to try to build tension than to show Supergirl struggling to lift her own weight climbing the side of a missile. That was probably the most annoying part, because it did absolutely nothing to add any real tension. Everyone knew she was going to reach the panel in time - this is Supergirl - and the visual of her straining to climb was both boring as hell and interminably long, especially the second time.
Then, after all this effort, she 'ends' the threat by punching in a code. Because that's exciting. And then she drops a nuclear missile right in the middle of National City. Because once it's disarmed, it's perfectly ok to just let a nuclear warhead fall to the ground from a good 50 -100 feet in the air.
It was shitty writing, all the way through. There were about a million different ways that it could've been done better, most importantly starting with the fact that if they had just made the threat actually hold up to the apocalyptic claims Indigo made, they could've presented Supergirl with a real challenge that didn't rely on her being a complete moron in order to make the problem feel urgent.
It probably is. Those things are very carefully designed not to go off by accident, breach containment, or otherwise endanger the people who live and work around them. There was a 1961 B-52 crash where a partially armed nuclear missile plunged into a muddy field at 700 MPH and didn't go off or leak radioactive materials.
Wow, thanks for the casual insult. And who's to say Indigo didn't bypass the typical launch and separation routine and have the thing fly in a straight line right to the city?
It's just bizarre to me that people are making such a big deal out of this. And not, say, all the times Kara or Barry superspeeds someone out of the path of a bus without somehow killing them instantly. It sounds to me like people who just have a beef with the show in general, and are looking for any opportunity to trash it further.
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What insult? All I said is that you assuming other people are ignorant about a subject simply because you are is a bold statement. I'm pretty ignorant about cars, but I don't go around assuming everyone watching a show like Top Gear has no idea what they're talking about.
As for making a big deal, it seems more like you're the one making the biggest deal of all, trying to defend the show against a genuine, honest, and most importantly well-deserved criticism about the episode. Maybe you enjoy shitty writing, but not everyone does.
As for making a big deal, it seems more like you're the one making the biggest deal of all, trying to defend the show against a genuine, honest, and most importantly well-deserved criticism about the episode. Maybe you enjoy shitty writing, but not everyone does.
I tend to assume that both their powers involve some kind of inertial damping, much like the kind necessary to rationalize the behavior of spaceships in most SFTV/film. For the Flash, it's probably some aspect of the Speed Force, and for Kryptonians, it's probably associated with their levitation/flight ability (or, in the post-Crisis version, the skintight forcefield that makes them invulnerable).