In the post-Crisis / Byrne era, Lex was the former owner of the Daily Planet, FWIW.
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3
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And my favorite Arrowverse show returns better than ever.
Kara leaning in hard on being Supergirl as a way to 'hide' from her pain is so totally in-character that I really can't picture her having any other reaction, even though doing so made her mind of unlikable. I like that she's snapped out of her funk, though, especially now that she gets to work for her "bestie" Lena.
Adrian Pasdar makes a really great adversary as Morgan Edge, and it'll be interesting to see what happens next with him.
Cat Grant as President Marsdin's Press Secretary is a genius move that gives the show a way to have Calista pop in without taking her away from her family and also makes complete sense for the character.
I knew what the show was planning in regards to introducing us to Odette Annable's Reign, but I was still caught off guard by how casually she entered the story as Samantha Arias. I did like the way they used Bloodsport's attack on the waterfront to both expose her abilities and what is presumably the pod she arrived on Earth in, and the coda with Kara's dream image of Alura being present in her dreams and morphing into a ghoul is just begging to be fleshed out and explained.
Alex asking J'onn to give her away was a fun scene, although it does have me slightly worried that the writers are going to go the cliched route of telegraphing this storyline so heavily because they're not actually going to follow through with it, which would be massively disappointing.
I'm giving Girl of Steel a 9.5, and can't wait for next week.
Kara leaning in hard on being Supergirl as a way to 'hide' from her pain is so totally in-character that I really can't picture her having any other reaction, even though doing so made her mind of unlikable. I like that she's snapped out of her funk, though, especially now that she gets to work for her "bestie" Lena.
Adrian Pasdar makes a really great adversary as Morgan Edge, and it'll be interesting to see what happens next with him.
Cat Grant as President Marsdin's Press Secretary is a genius move that gives the show a way to have Calista pop in without taking her away from her family and also makes complete sense for the character.
I knew what the show was planning in regards to introducing us to Odette Annable's Reign, but I was still caught off guard by how casually she entered the story as Samantha Arias. I did like the way they used Bloodsport's attack on the waterfront to both expose her abilities and what is presumably the pod she arrived on Earth in, and the coda with Kara's dream image of Alura being present in her dreams and morphing into a ghoul is just begging to be fleshed out and explained.
Alex asking J'onn to give her away was a fun scene, although it does have me slightly worried that the writers are going to go the cliched route of telegraphing this storyline so heavily because they're not actually going to follow through with it, which would be massively disappointing.
I'm giving Girl of Steel a 9.5, and can't wait for next week.
I'm sorry, but the old Kara can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh... 'cause she's dead! 
A solid season opener, both in dealing with the aftermath of last season and slowly setting up the board for this year. Glad to have the Arrowverse back on.
By the way, where was this Earth's Green Arrow to join the fight against Edge's Undertaking?
A solid season opener, both in dealing with the aftermath of last season and slowly setting up the board for this year. Glad to have the Arrowverse back on.
By the way, where was this Earth's Green Arrow to join the fight against Edge's Undertaking?
This makes no sense.
A cloaked submarine to make earth quakes, to knock over a statue?
The night before, 5 goons with crow bars and lighter fluid would have actually got the job done.... Unless civilian casualty was part of his plan?
Is he trying to drive down the property values in Capital City so that building his condos, and building condos at a nexus of alien invasions and terrorist attacks sounds like a dapper way to make money you ####ing tosser.
A cloaked submarine to make earth quakes, to knock over a statue?
The night before, 5 goons with crow bars and lighter fluid would have actually got the job done.... Unless civilian casualty was part of his plan?
Is he trying to drive down the property values in Capital City so that building his condos, and building condos at a nexus of alien invasions and terrorist attacks sounds like a dapper way to make money you ####ing tosser.
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He wanted to knock down the whole waterfront, luckily the statue just happened to be in the neighbourhood he was looking to redevelop...
I kinda wish they hadn't made him such an obvious baddie right off the bat, though. It would've been nice to have a more ambiguous antagonist like Max Lord. Although I like it best if they could bring back Lord himself and pick up that dropped thread with the Omegahedron from the end of season 1.
I'm surprised how rarely Morgan Edge has been depicted onscreen. This is only the second show that's used him as a major character, Smallville being the first (where he was played by Rutger Hauer at first and Patrick Bergin after "plastic surgery"). He had a cameo in a Justice League episode (voiced by Brian George) and was namedropped in Super Friends, and Superman IV and Lois & Clark had similar media-mogul/criminal characters that may or may not have been based on him, but that's about it. Well, I guess he wasn't really a major Superman-mythos character outside of the '70s and '80s.
I do find it rather an implausible coincidence that, out of the entire surface of the Earth, both Reign's pod and Mon-El's pod just happened to come down in the same city where Kara Zor-El ended up living and working. Is there something about that location that attracts alien visitors and technology?
There could be... perhaps a geomagnetic anomaly or some sort of underground element of alien origin that attracts such things- or they all shared the same navigational systems with a defective firmware version.
It seems Reign is going to be the ambiguous one this season, so I guess they felt another more straight up bad guy was in order to be complementary.
Cheap waterfront property?
70's Lex did the same thing with California. Which wouldn't be so smart, since his deeds wouldn't be honoured, after the government collapses, and US currency devalues and vanishes.
00's Lex did the same thing with AMERICA... All of it. Yes, I'm going to create a weather event so traumatic that America will sink as I build a new continent out of kyptonite, that I suspect will be somehow abundant with alien weapons technology which I can use immediately to hold Lexannia... Yup, after I sink America, China and Russia are just going to leave me as the master of the new green island the size of 40 Texas', and totally ignore the humanitarian crime of murdering a billion people, because I'm whacking Canada and South America too, and respect my international property claims on the new continent because hypothetically there's lasers somewhere, that after I find them, can hold off the Russian and Chinese armies all by myself.
00's Lex did the same thing with AMERICA... All of it. Yes, I'm going to create a weather event so traumatic that America will sink as I build a new continent out of kyptonite, that I suspect will be somehow abundant with alien weapons technology which I can use immediately to hold Lexannia... Yup, after I sink America, China and Russia are just going to leave me as the master of the new green island the size of 40 Texas', and totally ignore the humanitarian crime of murdering a billion people, because I'm whacking Canada and South America too, and respect my international property claims on the new continent because hypothetically there's lasers somewhere, that after I find them, can hold off the Russian and Chinese armies all by myself.
Well, if the rumors are true, Maggie is as dead as Lincoln, so yeah, Alex making a big deal about an event that will not happen (or end in a bad way) is a well worn plot device in movies and TV. I will not be surprised if the wedding does not happen, or they rip the unforgettable conclusion of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with a villain killing Maggie.
Especially Captain Marginalized Man, AKA James. Anytime he asserts himself is always a welcome thing...but it always goes back to his being an afterthought.
Which is why this series needs to stop cloning ideas--particularly well known ideas--from other DC/WB productions. The second the waterfront plot was revealed, one cannot help but think of Superman the Movie. There's a wealth of other evil schemes the writers could have dreamed up. Speaking of cloning ideas, Supergirl's brief bout of unconsciousness (while underwater), only to revive to rejoin the conflict was too close to "dead" Superman reviving in space during the final battle in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
There's no sinking involved this time though, this is more of your garden variety S1 Arrow Merlyn's "lets knock a neighbourhood down to get rid of those pesky poor people" plan than either of those.
Pretty meh...this series has really slipped to the non-essential viewing pile. Timewaster at best but not much more.
I thought it was okay. Not sure why Supergirl can't breathe underwater if Kryptonians can fly in outer space. Still it made for a fun action moment. Can't wait to find out about what is going on with the woman with a daughter who seems to have powers. Favorite scene was Alex asking J'onn to walk her down the aisle at her wedding. Lena Luthor buying Katco was something I predicted way back when we first started to speculate on what we might see this season. Granted I thought she might be more hands on in running the place but maybe they will let James Olsen do more of that instead of being a second rate superhero. Katt Grant taking a job as press secretary seems beneath her status. Would't that be like Mark Zuckerberg taking that kind of job?
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I liked it.
From the Morgan Edge initial conference when Lena and James were Supergirl's rah rah chorus, to everyone (except Winn) slowly calling out Kara for her actions of the last 6 months.
I thought the submarine idea was off base given the inability to hide the wake of the torpedo, but liked how Monel's hallucination forced her awake when she was stunned by an exploding torpedo.. Kind of like when hallucination Monel made her wake up from her daydream in the Fortress of solitude in last year's finale.
And of course I liked how Kara allowed Monel's demand to "WAKE UP!" inform how she would live the rest of her days... at Catco, at the DEO, with her sister and her best friends.
Now, what is going to happen to Ruby when mom goes full bad guy.
From the Morgan Edge initial conference when Lena and James were Supergirl's rah rah chorus, to everyone (except Winn) slowly calling out Kara for her actions of the last 6 months.
I thought the submarine idea was off base given the inability to hide the wake of the torpedo, but liked how Monel's hallucination forced her awake when she was stunned by an exploding torpedo.. Kind of like when hallucination Monel made her wake up from her daydream in the Fortress of solitude in last year's finale.
And of course I liked how Kara allowed Monel's demand to "WAKE UP!" inform how she would live the rest of her days... at Catco, at the DEO, with her sister and her best friends.
Now, what is going to happen to Ruby when mom goes full bad guy.
They can fly in outer space, but they can't breathe up there either in this version.
I feel the same way. I loved this show when it started, and I enjoyed the beginning of last season, but the end of last season really soured me on it because I'm so sick of the politics. Cat Grant, while always quick with the quip, has become nothing more than a smug, obnoxious, jerk who throws her politics in people's faces in the probably the least effective way possible.
It really isn't a good strategy to make a show that offends the view of half the country.
When the show actually decides to be a superhero show, it's much better. But the last few episodes, dating back to last season, have been more about promoting an anti-conservative agenda than a story about Supergirl.
Thankfully, this hasn't spread to the other 3 shows, but I really wish they would purge the politics.
In this version, they can neither fly nor breathe in outer space. In the season 1 finale, when Supergirl flew Fort Rozz out into space, Alex warned her that she wouldn't be able to fly back without an atmosphere to push against. She was stranded in space until Alex came to rescue her in her space pod.
The post-Crisis continuity established that Superman couldn't breathe in space or underwater, but could hold his breath for a very long time. Same for the DC Animated Universe, since their Superman needed a spacesuit.
If Clark and Kara need air how did they survive in their pods as a baby and young girl in a trip from Krypton to Earth? Those ships couldn't possibly contain enough air to last that long.
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Presumably they could reprocess carbon dioxide back into oxygen, like how plants maintain the oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere despite all the animals and fires and such using it up. That's a fairly common sci-fi technology, explicitly or implicitly. Look at most any Star Trek spacesuit (let alone the animated series' force field belts) and you'll see it doesn't have much in the way of an air tank.
And of course, it's a given that they would need air in their space pods, because they were launched from Krypton and didn't gain superpowers until they reached Earth (or at least the Sol system).
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