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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3

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Am I wrong but was the high school used in the latest episode the same building they used on "Smallville" to represent Smallville HIgh? I was half expecting to see Tom Weilling and Allison Mack in front of the building.

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This was a great episode, one of the best Supergirl eps ever. The two actresses that played young Kara and young Alex were fantastic. They really looked like younger versions of Melissa and Chyler, it was almost scary. And they acted very well too. It really was like seeing younger versions of the same characters. The episode also made us care about Kenny and what happened. The character moments were great. This episode did everything a good prequel should do: help us better understand the characters. This episode did not just just fill in the blanks for Kara and Alex's past but helped us appreciate what they've been through together and what they mean to each other.
 
Greg Cox said:
I know. I was honestly squinting at the screen trying to figure out if they were really different actresses or if the show show was somehow using CG trickery to de-age Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh.
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The actress playing young Kara was good but the one playing young Alex was really amazing. I'd forget after a while it wasn't Chyler Leigh.
 
Christopher said:
So... Midvale gets illegal drugs smuggled in across the Canadian border? Is Midvale the Earth-38 counterpart of Riverdale...?
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Twin Peaks did it first ;)

Also, they totally should have smuggled meteor rocks instead of drugs to keep the Smallville theme going :D
 
I guess we all know that the story arcs get resolved a little faster in the Arrowverse than in the broody gritty shows but that break-up of Alex and Maggie one episode (or was it two episodes?) after the wedding was a little fast I think. Even for that universe.

The episode was very nice. Just a nice episode thrown in, where the characters can come to rest and with a nice story that adds to them also. Others praised the actors already.
 
Greg Cox said:
I know. I was honestly squinting at the screen trying to figure out if they were really different actresses or if the show show was somehow using CG trickery to de-age Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh.
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In the first couple shots of them, I was definitely wondering if they were de-aging the actors until we could see their builds were different (though it'd have to be makeup, lighting, and hair for a full hour on a CW budget). But during a lot of scenes I started to wonder if they'd had the regular actresses dub the voices. Uncannily good casting.

Commander Richard said:
Works as a backdoor pilot.
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Are hiatus webisodes still a thing? They did one for SHIELD fairly recently, though it wasn't very well-promoted. They could easily get a thirty to fifty minute miniseries of five or six shorts at Midvale High. Either a single serialized story or stand-alone vignettes. No powers, so minimal special effects.
 
ihno said:
I guess we all know that the story arcs get resolved a little faster in the Arrowverse than in the broody gritty shows but that break-up of Alex and Maggie one episode (or was it two episodes?) after the wedding was a little fast I think. Even for that universe.
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Huh? There was no wedding. They got engaged at the end of last season, and their breakup was episode 5 of this season -- and there was a 6-month gap between seasons.

And the reason it had to happen when it did was because Floriana Lima was only available for the first five episodes, due to other work committments. Otherwise the writers wouldn't have broken them up at all.
 
Oh, I thought it was a wedding. I was refering to that party when her dad showed up, which was well done.

Well, you know what they say: "Better to laugh without a reason than never to have laughed at all". ;)
 
ihno said:
Now I see why I mixed it up, a small weeding party without church would look much the same.

We don't have those Bridal Showers here, at least they are not very common (or have a special name).
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1. Bridal showers are what boring women do who are too dignified to have a dildo fight in front of their grandmother, when the men are at the stripclub making it rain.

2. How overgrown was the church that they needed a weeding party? Or are you saying that the happy couple paid the priest for the venue with yardwork?
 
Guy Gardener said:
1. Bridal showers are what boring women do who are too dignified to have a dildo fight in front of their grandmother, when the men are at the stripclub making it rain.
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The word sounded a bit filthy to me but I have a dirty mind.
Something like the Glory Hole from Orville, which was not a Glory Hole at all.

2. How overgrown was the church that they needed a weeding party? Or are you saying that the happy couple paid the priest for the venue with yardwork?
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I can't follow you. Was there a priest? Was there a church? Maybe I should rewatch the episode in question and pay attention this time. ;)
 
I've finally got some time to watch Monday's episode, and less than 10 minutes in, the show have us something I wasn't expecting: Kara getting the "mom talk" from Eliza rather than Alex.

And then we go straight into a present-day "sister fight" and a flashback sequence of "sister fights".

My only complaint right now is that the show can't seem to not 'fudge' its internal timeline, and cast actresses who, at least for me, look too old to be playing mid-teenagers even though I know that one of them, Izabella, is only 16.
 
DigificWriter said:
My only complaint right now is that the show can't seem to not 'fudge' its internal timeline, and cast actresses who, at least for me, look too old to be playing mid-teenagers even though I know that one of them, Izabella, is only 16.
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Well, that just fits in with the general Smallville homage. Tom Welling was as old at the start of that series as Clark Kent was at its end over nine years later. Although Kristin Kreuk was only 18 at the start of the series, playing 15, I think.

And of course, casting adults as teenagers has been commonplace since classic TV, including the original Adventures of Superman TV series. Jimmy Olsen was supposed to be a teenager, but Jack Larson was 23 when the show began and nearly 30 when it ended. And then there was the episode "The Boy Who Hated Superman," where the teenaged "boy" in question was played by a 28-year-old actor.
 
If the show were following its own internal timeline, Kara and Alex would've been 15 and 16, respectively, at the time of these flashbacks because, in the present, they're 25 and 26, but Olivia (Alex) looks like the adult that she is (she's 18) and Izabela (Kara) looks like she's 17 even though she's actually 16 as noted.

Also, repeating Smallville's mistake of casting actors who were way too old for their roles isn't a good thing.
 
DigificWriter said:
and Izabela (Kara) looks like she's 17 even though she's actually 16 as noted.
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Seriously? What makes you think you can even tell the difference between a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old? Human aging isn't that uniform. Hell, I was occasionally asked for my ID to prove I was an adult well into my 20s -- maybe even my early 30s. Conversely, I had a high school classmate who towered well over 6 feet and had a full beard by 9th grade.


DigificWriter said:
Also, repeating Smallville's mistake of casting actors who were way too old for their roles isn't a good thing.
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I didn't say it was good, but it's naive to call it a "mistake." Obviously there are valid and necessary reasons (i.e. child labor laws) for casting adults to play teenagers, and TV and movies have been doing it for as long as there have been TV and movies (and it was probably also quite common in live theater before then).

Besides, it's amazing that they managed to find two people who looked so much like Benoist and Leigh and were good enough actors to emulate their deliveries. Demanding that they be the perfect age too is just getting greedy.
 
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