Clearly the respective impacts of allegory and social commentary aren't really your thing.
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3
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Clearly the respective impacts of allegory and social commentary aren't really your thing.
Or bald. Probably both.
It’ll all be Superboy’s fault. Just you wait.
She'll not turn rotten until it's time for the character to leave or the show to end.
No, it'll be Barry's!
Hmmmm?
Why can't there be a Lena Luthur on Earth 1?
Katie could be dealt a completely different personality to act with, just like Tom.
Why can't there be a Lena Luthur on Earth 1?
Katie could be dealt a completely different personality to act with, just like Tom.
And a Lena Luther...and a Lena Louthor...and a Lena Luthar
Well.
Lovewell.
Lovewell.
True. Looking at the so-called "Timmverse" or DC animated universe, having a super-guest star show up...or just knowing that someone might show up was one of the exciting elements of the original Justice League series. Aside from the core team, it felt like a comic when a problem was so great, outside help was required. That's been a successful plotting device in comics since the Silver Age, and should be used when a story so obviously goes in that direction. In Supergirl's case, its just using one--the most logical guest star character being her cousin. His appearances have been few and far between, so whenever he shows up, it can be seen special and/or important, particularly if he helps bring down the final curtain on the Reign/Worldkiller arc.
Well, on that point, we will need to wait and see, but there's no believable way Superman should not have some comment/involvement once he learns of more of his own people survived, no matter what occupies his time on earth.
Probably.
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Wow. I could not possibly think the message this episode was trying to convey about guns was more appropriate and important, but the delivery was wincingly artless even by Supergirl's unsubtle standards. Surely there are ways to get this kind of thing across without the dialogue turning into wall-to-wall talking points.
Still, better than saying nothing, I guess? And I do appreciate the show staking out a clear position, as opposed to Arrow trying to present all points of view in their Very Special Gun Episode, and taking none themselves.
Still, better than saying nothing, I guess? And I do appreciate the show staking out a clear position, as opposed to Arrow trying to present all points of view in their Very Special Gun Episode, and taking none themselves.
Supergirl--
"Not Kansas"
SG/Kara: "It doesn't feel real." Telegraphing...
The entire "hollow" / finding/accepting-herself-as-Kara business was addressed in seasons one and two. Hitting the rewind button on what was supposed to be a bridge she crossed is thin plotting just to get her the off-world conflict, when there's no way she's staying on Argo.
Oh, gee...Kara and Mon-El, dressed in flowing white, slow motion walking through the arboretum. Steps on the road to adultery-ville! Yay! Toss marriage and the wife's heart over the shoulder like so much trash! Great message.
Alura: Something almost says she will die in the final Worldkiller story, leaving SG in one of two positions: feeling more alone that ever, or realizing that she always had family on earth (that aforementioned bridge she crossed earlier in the series).
Selena / Dark Kryptonian / Coville: I will be glad to see the end of Coville.
James: Too bad there were not more stories centering on J'onn involved with James and Winn's adventures / partnership. That's an interesting avenue not explored.
James' "Miss Tessmacher!" nod to Gene Hackman's Luthor.
"The only weapon one needs is a shield." -- Guardian America mixed with the falling anvil-like message of not needing offensive weapons.
Lena: "It could be revolutionary." Potentially, a new way of Lena doing something others find questionable.
NOTES: Clumsy, immature gun control arguments looking for a quickie solution. Not much depth to the "why and how" of gun advocates or gun control supporters, yet the showrunners are stumbling all over it as A Very Special Episode. The series cannot make some larger, effective comment on the issue by copy+pasting headlines, borrowed/modified statements or situations from real life, then provide a feel-good moment of J'onn removing all lethal weapons from the DEO.
Further, Lena being a gun owner should not be a deal breaker with James (although it feels like writers laying down tracks for that), as he's fine with just about everything else she does, yet still loves her.
GRADE: C
"Not Kansas"
SG/Kara: "It doesn't feel real." Telegraphing...
The entire "hollow" / finding/accepting-herself-as-Kara business was addressed in seasons one and two. Hitting the rewind button on what was supposed to be a bridge she crossed is thin plotting just to get her the off-world conflict, when there's no way she's staying on Argo.
Oh, gee...Kara and Mon-El, dressed in flowing white, slow motion walking through the arboretum. Steps on the road to adultery-ville! Yay! Toss marriage and the wife's heart over the shoulder like so much trash! Great message.
Alura: Something almost says she will die in the final Worldkiller story, leaving SG in one of two positions: feeling more alone that ever, or realizing that she always had family on earth (that aforementioned bridge she crossed earlier in the series).
Selena / Dark Kryptonian / Coville: I will be glad to see the end of Coville.
James: Too bad there were not more stories centering on J'onn involved with James and Winn's adventures / partnership. That's an interesting avenue not explored.
James' "Miss Tessmacher!" nod to Gene Hackman's Luthor.
"The only weapon one needs is a shield." -- Guardian America mixed with the falling anvil-like message of not needing offensive weapons.
Lena: "It could be revolutionary." Potentially, a new way of Lena doing something others find questionable.
NOTES: Clumsy, immature gun control arguments looking for a quickie solution. Not much depth to the "why and how" of gun advocates or gun control supporters, yet the showrunners are stumbling all over it as A Very Special Episode. The series cannot make some larger, effective comment on the issue by copy+pasting headlines, borrowed/modified statements or situations from real life, then provide a feel-good moment of J'onn removing all lethal weapons from the DEO.
Further, Lena being a gun owner should not be a deal breaker with James (although it feels like writers laying down tracks for that), as he's fine with just about everything else she does, yet still loves her.
GRADE: C
When I saw the episode description about DEO weapons getting out to the public, I was hoping that the weapons designer would be John Henry Irons. It'd be cool to add Steel to the Arrowverse, although I guess he'd be a bit redundant with Guardian there already.
Interesting that when Arrow did a gun-control episode last year, it tried hard to strike a middle ground, but this episode, while trying to give both sides a fair hearing, ended up taking a firm stand against guns. I guess the difference is that it's after Parkland, with a stronger sentiment among many Americans that enough is enough.
Meanwhile, isn't it a bit contradictory for Kara to say that Argo was the city where she grew up, and that it was rebuilt almost exactly, when last week she didn't recognize it at all when she first arrived? And it certainly doesn't look like the city where the Krypton flashbacks in season 1 were set.
Also, according to the Arrowverse Wiki, it was stated or implied at some point that birds didn't exist on Krypton, but in the scene shot in the Bloedel Conservatory (the geodesic dome), there was a shot where a bird hopped between branches in the foreground.
It also surprised me that Kara's outfits didn't have the El crest on them, when we've seen before that the family crests are ubiquitous on Kryptonian clothing. I guess maybe they hadn't had time to make custom outfits for her, so she was wearing something more generic.
It amuses me that the boy Mon-El cured with his future tech is named Val, which on Syfy's Krypton is the name of Seg-El's grandfather (Val-El).
Interesting that when Arrow did a gun-control episode last year, it tried hard to strike a middle ground, but this episode, while trying to give both sides a fair hearing, ended up taking a firm stand against guns. I guess the difference is that it's after Parkland, with a stronger sentiment among many Americans that enough is enough.
Meanwhile, isn't it a bit contradictory for Kara to say that Argo was the city where she grew up, and that it was rebuilt almost exactly, when last week she didn't recognize it at all when she first arrived? And it certainly doesn't look like the city where the Krypton flashbacks in season 1 were set.
Also, according to the Arrowverse Wiki, it was stated or implied at some point that birds didn't exist on Krypton, but in the scene shot in the Bloedel Conservatory (the geodesic dome), there was a shot where a bird hopped between branches in the foreground.
It also surprised me that Kara's outfits didn't have the El crest on them, when we've seen before that the family crests are ubiquitous on Kryptonian clothing. I guess maybe they hadn't had time to make custom outfits for her, so she was wearing something more generic.
It amuses me that the boy Mon-El cured with his future tech is named Val, which on Syfy's Krypton is the name of Seg-El's grandfather (Val-El).
There's sometimes a fine line between evenhanded and gutless. As I suggested above, I appreciate that Supergirl at least took a stand (however clumsily).
Whereas my interest perks every time he appears. I still think "The Faithful" was a series high point, and certainly one of this season's two best episodes (the other being "Midvale").
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