Season premiere title is The Adventures of Supergirl - http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/07/supergirl-episode-201-title-revealed.html
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That could be a clever title that means more than it seems. Could they be taking a page from the Peter David Supergirl story "Many Happy Returns"?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1320924.Supergirl
In that storyline, a Kryptonian rocket crashes in the vicinity of the John Byrne era Supergirl; and the occupant turns out to be the original, younger Silver Age Supergirl from the 1960's comics. The two are then left to work together to figure out what's going on; the solution ultimately being parallel reality.
So the occupant of the rocket on the CW series could be the little girl shown in the flashbacks last season; the season premiere then introduces us to the adventures of Supergirl (the little girl in the rocket).
As for the resolution, they could give a rope-a-dope to comics fans and have it turn out that her origins are actually Cadmus related instead of alternate reality.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1320924.Supergirl
In that storyline, a Kryptonian rocket crashes in the vicinity of the John Byrne era Supergirl; and the occupant turns out to be the original, younger Silver Age Supergirl from the 1960's comics. The two are then left to work together to figure out what's going on; the solution ultimately being parallel reality.
So the occupant of the rocket on the CW series could be the little girl shown in the flashbacks last season; the season premiere then introduces us to the adventures of Supergirl (the little girl in the rocket).
As for the resolution, they could give a rope-a-dope to comics fans and have it turn out that her origins are actually Cadmus related instead of alternate reality.
^ I'm not sure what "little girl shown in the flashbacks last season" you're referring to, because the only little girls we've seen in flashback are Kara, Alex, and a random girl that Kara saved from a car explosion.
I wouldn't put it past the writers to play with something along the lines of that "Many Happy Returns" storyline, though, especially since whatever is in that pod is most likely going to be the catalyst for Clark showing up.
I wouldn't put it past the writers to play with something along the lines of that "Many Happy Returns" storyline, though, especially since whatever is in that pod is most likely going to be the catalyst for Clark showing up.
Of those you mention, which was Kryptonian with super powers?
I still hope that it is Superboy in the rocket.... the clone from Cadmus Superboy. At some point they can kill their new Superman off screen and follow his Death from Kara's point of view, and get a version of Reign of the Supermen in there to boot - how awesome would it be to see the body of Jeremiah Danvers as the Cyborg Superman?
I don't see how he could've ended up in a rocket from Krypton, though. Both of the known Kryptonian space pods are accounted for: Kal-El's is in the Fortress of Solitude and Kara's is in DEO Headquarters. So how could Cadmus have gotten hold of one?
We don't know what kind of Kryptonian tech arrived with the other Kryptonians.
The pod could have come from another universe, if they want to try to connect it to the main Arrowverse... Earth 1's pod, perhaps.
It could be connected to the Eradicator, in my hopes for Reign.
If Cadmus is somehow responsible, they on one hand could be trying to hoax the public with the arrival of a Kryptonian, even though it is just their Superboy clone. On the other hand, they could have sent someone up in the pod as part of an experiment of some sort, maybe trying to replicate the conditions that they believe may be related to Kryptonians powers in a yellow sun or some nonsense lol.
Just what was present in Fort Rozz. Would that have included the same design of pod used by the House of El? Given that Alura ran the prison, possibly. But it's hard to say. The thing is, traditionally the ship that brought Kal-El to Earth was just a miniature prototype for a spacefaring technology Krypton hadn't yet perfected, which is why it was only large enough to hold a baby and why there weren't more survivors. But in Supergirl, we have at least two identical pods, and it's been established that Krypton had contact with many alien species and that Kara had personally been to a dozen worlds. The show hasn't yet explained the paradox of why they didn't have larger or more numerous ships with which to evacuate more of the population. So it's impossible to say whether these pods are an invention of Jor-El's or a commonplace Kryptonian design. I'd prefer it if they stuck with the former, since a lot of Jor-El's traditional role in the mythos has already been shifted to Alura, so I'd like him to retain at least his role as a spacecraft inventor. And if that were the case, then a pod of that design could only have come from the House of El.
Which would make it even more unlikely that Cadmus would've had it.
That's an interesting thought.
Except the origin story for the clone is that he was "hatched" too soon. Cadmus's plan was to force-grow him to adulthood, program him to be their slave, and pass him off as the real Superman, but the Newsboy Legion's own adolescent clones (or the JL's sidekicks in the Young Justice version) broke him out before he was ready. So why would they attempt a hoax with an underage clone? Unless they already had the ship ready when he was prematurely awakened.
Still, I'd think that Kara's supersenses could easily differentiate an Earth-tech replica of her pod from the real thing.
Strictly speaking, it was called Adventures of Superman, no article. The Adventures of Superman was the name of the '40s radio series, the 1942 novel by the radio series's writer George Lowther, a comic series that ran from 1986-2006, another comic that began a few years ago, and a 1988 BBC Radio miniseries. Then of course there's the '66 Filmation cartoon The New Adventures of Superman and its semi-namesake Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Plus the Superman Adventures tie-in comic to Superman: The Animated Series (which included a special issue titled Supergirl Adventures).
I'm thinking that it's some version of Superboy because...
If there's an award for hairsplitting, you can count on my nomination.
...they're supposed to be bringing back the actor who played teenage Kal-El in Kara's vision in a recurring role.
If there's an award for hairsplitting, you can count on my nomination.
Yeah, but since we already know they're doing a Cadmus storyline, he may well be connected with that instead of being the one in the space pod. As I said, there aren't really any good grounds at this point for expecting the pod to be connected to Cadmus.
Well if Jor El was a spacecraft designer, then it is quite possible *or even likely* that his designs were commonplace *everywhere*, possibly even as the standard tech of Krypton. I know that some versions of Krypton have them as a previously spacefaring race that has become a very isolationist society over time, don't ask me which version though lol. Yeah, I wasn't saying that Cadmus would be related to the possibility of it being Earth 1s pod... .guess I got off track with speculation; by that point I was no longer referring to the Superboy theory. Back to the Superboy theory, though; Instead of "hatched" too soon, I could see them desiring a teenage version, with the hopes of indoctrinating him young to their cause, or, alternanately. experimenting with the idea that the powers activate during puberty, and trying to use some combination of Kryptonian tech and the yellow sun radiation to try to get their clone to manifest. There are really a ton of possibilities open here.....
Could have been reverse-engineered from one of the ones that we know about.
As I said, I'd expect Kara's senses to be able to distinguish between real Kryptonian tech and a knockoff made with Earthly stone knives and bearskins.
Of course the next scene we see could be Kara noticing just that.
TemporalFlux: If they were doing a Many Happy Returns homage, the Kara in the rocket would be coming from somewhere else, and this would be the first time we, as an audience, would have seen her, so she wouldn't be the Kara we've already seen and been following for 20 episodes.
What made David's story work is that the majority of the readers did recognize the 1960's Supergirl and knew she clearly shouldn't possible. The best way to emulate that reaction with the television series audience would be to put the recognizable young Kara actress in the "she clearly shouldn't be possible" role.
Anyway, it really seems you're trying awfully hard to be confused. If you don't like the idea, that's cool - but I'm tired of playing the "pick it apart" game.
I understood exactly what you were saying there.
Sure it could, he could always be the motivating factor behind a bigger plot. Maybe Cadmus or somebody else finds out he's Kryptonian and they want to capture him to study him. Then of course there'd be the added drama of trying to keep a super powered dog secret and under control. It could even be a motivation for Clark to pop up if he finds out that Kara has his childhood dog.
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