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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3
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Plus years of DEO trainjng.
True--remove the obvious CG background, and it was like any random day at the park.
Without a doubt, and any dramatic interest is lost when the audience knows she's in no real danger.
It's been twentyish years now, fashions change, although probably stuff from back then would have been retro and in again by now.
Green Arrow does that kind of thing sometimes too...
Decent episode, it was interesting to see Tuvok advocating that the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
So is Selena on Earth not a hologram, but actually this Selena communicating with Earth all along?
Ah, okay.
Yep. Also, I know they were trying to make Alex look heroic in the scene with the advanced grenade, but she came off as a bit of an idiot. Throw the grenade away from the civilians, Alex! You can't assume that the bomb-thrower is going to be inept enough to give you all that time to get the bomb into the conveniently-placed "coal disposal unit."
But there were civilians everywhere.
I rewatched the scene. You're right. That was probably her best choice.
The area where Mon-El helps the kid looked to me like a shanty town. That would imply that Argos City has a class system with the upper class living comfortable lives in the nice looking city and the lower class living in poverty outside the city. Considering that Kara's mom mentioned that Argos city has learned from the mistakes of Krypton's past, it would seem that Argos City still has a few things to learn about making a society more egalitarian. I think that would be worth exploring.
When Winn gave her that new high-tech battle suit. I got the impression it was built using Legion technology from the future (though I'm not sure), and Winn said it was designed to boost her abilities so she could hold her own in combat against superbeings, so I assume there's more to it than just palm magnets. It's probably body armor, and it may have some strength-boosting attributes too.
Yeah, it's really polite of TV car (and bike) bombers to build their bombs with a time delay and an audible charging cycle so the heroes have time to leap away.
It was very subtle. TV shows these days do digital color-correction tricks so routinely to convey a certain subliminal mood or tone to a scene (or to differentiate flashbacks or dream sequences, like the washed-out colors inside the Thinker's mind on The Flash last week) that I imagine most viewers don't even notice. I only recognized it because I'm a science fiction writer and I've studied things like what the light quality would be under a red sun, so I was predisposed to pay attention to that.
It's been twentyish years now, fashions change, although probably stuff from back then would have been retro and in again by now.
Fashions are more likely to change in a city that's part of a larger network of interacting communities, so that there's an influx of new ideas and influences. A small, isolated community will generally change more gradually, if at all. And even so, they wouldn't completely replace the buildings. Kara should've recognized the cityscape as Kryptonian architecture immediately.
Oh, and it's actually been 39 years since Krypton blew up. Don't forget Kara's suspended-animation stint in the Phantom Zone. Although that means Alura is in her upper 70s and remarkably well-preserved. I thought it was only under a yellow sun that Kryptonians aged so slowly.
I wondered the same thing.
The final scene where Selena is communicating directly with Reign would definitely seem to suggest that, yes.
Not necessarily, though. Remember that Supergirl has an Alura hologram to guide her, and most every incarnation from Superman: The Movie onward has had a Jor-El hologram guiding Superman (and Krypton has the Val-El hologram guiding Seg-El). I think what we've seen to date has been a hologram operating independently, but now that Selena has learned about Reign being active on Earth, she's reached out to make direct contact.
5 soldiers from Argo, and Reign would be a smacked up poser.
That's possible too. That makes more sense actually. The Selena we saw in Reign's fortress seemed like the same type of hologram as the Alura hologram guiding Kara.
Besides, the real Selena surely has her own life on Argo City and wouldn't be at the beck and call of the Worldkillers every single time they activated the hologram. (Just imagine... Reign puts in the crystal, and five minutes later, Selena shows up groggy and in a bathrobe. "Whaa...? I only just managed to get to sleep!")
From the trailer for next week's episode, I predict that Kara will return to Argos City, and expose Selena as the dark priestess responsible for Reign. The Council will be grateful to Kara and agree to help her in defeating Reign.
Nope -- until last night, the Arrowverse Wiki had her listed as "Fortress of Sanctuary hologram." (And didn't even credit Anjali Jay as the actress.)
Actually I suspect that Selena and Reign will somehow be responsible for destroying Argo City and Kara will have to lose her mother all over again. Note that there were clear veins of glowing green on the underside of the asteroid -- undoubtedly kryptonite. Traditionally, Argo City was protected from the kryptonite below by a lead shield that eventually proved inadequate, causing all Argo's people to die from the radiation, which is why Zor-El and Alura sent Supergirl away to Earth. Here, it's the mineral that's protecting them, and Selena seems to intend to use it in her plans for the Worldkillers, so she may rob Argo City of its supply and cause its destruction, or something like that.
I noticed the tents and wondered if that was the implication of the area right outside of the city. If SG sees a class system in place--one she cannot change, it would burst the bubble of her return to her homeland and be the reason she returns to earth, but find herself inspired to correct similar problems on her adopted planet.
....and Coville's cult. That's the backend sub-plot moving toward the season finale.
Yeah, I definitely think that Kara will have a problem with Argo's class based society. And the Council is probably going to be a bunch of douche bags who only care about their own survival and power. We kinda saw that in this episode with "Tuvok"'s speech. So yeah, Kara will see the unfairness of Argo society and the douchery and corruption of the Council and it will cause her to be disillusioned and return to Earth. Of course, I think Alura will be a "good guy" who tried to make things better on Argo but found resistance from the Council. It's a shame really that the show will probably have to make the Council bad so as to get rid of Argo. Heaven forbid, we change the status quo too much or do something actually interesting!
My theory kinda reminds me of what they did on Stargate Atlantis where the team discovered real Ancients on a ship but they turned out to be douches and got killed off so that the show could reset things back to the status quo. I am afraid Supergirl will do something similar: introduce us to an interesting Argo City, but then make the Council bad and corrupt and get rid of Argo to conveniently reset things back to the status quo by next season.
True. I suspect that Alura will help Kara get rid of Coville's Cult. This episode seemed to really hit us over the head with the idea that Krypton has a responsibility to clean up its mistakes. I think it was mentioned several times, with the references to the world killers but also Fort Rozz. So I think Alura will see that Coville's Cult is a byproduct of Krypton's mistakes and therefore, she has a responsibility to fix it.
Apparently Tim Russ's character is named Jul-Us, and is apparently original, since I can't find a reference to an existing character of that name.
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