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Supergirl - Season Four

Oh, my goodness! Supergirl said, "Dammit!" :lol: ;)

Top-notch episode finish for this series. I love the evil trio, and Cryer steps up as a pretty good Luthor so far with some range.

Although, I'm not sure what utility making the mansion that everybody knows is there invisible....
 
I’m honestly confused at how the writers are sexist or racist, they seem to be the exact opposite.

They're really trying very hard but they do make the occasional blunder. I don't agree with all these criticisms.

* Maggie being played by an Italian actress playing a Latina one.
* Imra being said to be an Indian descended woman when her actress is a Caucasian English woman known for playing Indian women....in India.
* The weird bothsidism to the Manchester Black vs. Agents of Liberty story.
 
Any ideas on what Lex wanted Miss Teschmacher to do when she "took care" of Lena?

I thought Lex turned on the mansion's cloaking device to make it harder for rescuers to find the front door.

Literally.

Is James' sister supposed to be sticking around for a while?
 
Oh, my goodness! Supergirl said, "Dammit!" :lol: ;)

Top-notch episode finish for this series. I love the evil trio, and Cryer steps up as a pretty good Luthor so far with some range.

Although, I'm not sure what utility making the mansion that everybody knows is there invisible....
If you could turn your house invisible, you know you'd do it at least once a day.
 
So I was pondering: Why did Lex install Eve at Catco to begin with? The show may tell us (the episode two weeks from now is entitled "All About Eve"), but the best I've been able to come up with is that it was the public entity most clearly linked with the new, upstart Kryptonian hero, Supergirl. Cat Grant had named her, scored an interview with her, and Catco appeared to have established a connection with her and her exploits in much the same way as the Daily Planet had with Superman. Add to that the presence of Superman's pal and Cat herself, and I can see where the company might have represented a nucleus of things to interest Lex.

That reasoning works pretty well for me until and unless we learn more, but does anyone have any other ideas? Or am I overlooking something totally obvious?
 
Next week's episode is specifically designed to show how Lex has been involved with Supergirl's world for the past two years, so I think we're more likely to learn about his connection to Eve in that episode than in the episode two weeks from now (despite the title "All About Eve").
 
Any ideas on what Lex wanted Miss Teschmacher to do when she "took care" of Lena?

I thought Lex turned on the mansion's cloaking device to make it harder for rescuers to find the front door.

Literally.

Is James' sister supposed to be sticking around for a while?

I just assumed that Kelly was going to be Alex's new girlfriend, considering how much screen time together they had.

If Kara had stay with Jimmy, and Kelly seduces Alex well, then Alex and Kara might have eventually become sister-in-laws.
 
* Maggie being played by an Italian actress playing a Latina one.

Those aren't very different. It's hardly uncommon for people of one European origin to play a different European origin. Heck, William Shatner was of Eastern European Jewish ancestry playing a character with a Scottish surname.

Besides, Floriana Lima's ancestry is "Italian, Irish, English, Spanish and Portuguese" according to Wikipedia.


* Imra being said to be an Indian descended woman when her actress is a Caucasian English woman known for playing Indian women....in India.

What the hell are you talking about? Imra Ardeen isn't even human.



Is James' sister supposed to be sticking around for a while?

She's been announced as a recurring player for the rest of this season and a regular in season 5.
 
Alex is still baby mad.

Kelly has to be on board with that, or they might as well break up.

In 2004, a mixed race couple on The L Word, had a very short conversation about what race their child was going to be, The white girl was going to be the biological mother, and they found a black donor, so that Jennifer Beals would not be accused of kidnapping every time she took her daughter to the park (not an exaggeration, this was a line from the show).

Another solution I've seen played out, is that a spouse's sibling offers sperm, so that the kid has the right grandparents to be part of the family biologically, even though Alex probably got the ball rolling on adopting a kid a year ago, and now she's just playing the waiting game.

Oh.

Race is barely an issue on Supergirl. Keeping in line with the program, the adoption service is going to deliver Alex an Alien baby, so it's going to be about two human women raising an alien, which in of itself is a metaphor for race and half a dozen other things, so it all works out in the end.
 
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Some thoughts--I thought Cryer did a good job, and I was a bit surprised that Lex was written somewhat in character. Given the sexism and racism of the show's writers, I was expecting Lex to be treated as Lena's inferior and bow down to her as her submissive, like Superman did to Kara. Yes, he did make the comment about Kryptonite, but I couldn't expect the writers not at least have a little of that.

However, as a whole, Lex actually came off somewhat formidable. Of course, Clark actually was written like Superman in the first appearance, before the writers decided to weaken Superman to make Supergirl look stronger. Hopefully they won't do the same with Lex.


It could also have something to do with the fact that he refused to produce a real birth certificate for a long time. He fed the flames, as a means of getting his base to cry racism. It clearly worked for him.






Because the writers clearly do not care about Superman at all, and just want to use him as a prop to make Supergirl look strong by making him look weak. They have done nothing but devalue Superman on this show ever since his second appearance. Let's not forget the writers wrote the lines, "the world doesn't need a Superman when it has a Supergirl." There is no line that proves their feelings toward Superman any better than that one.

For one, they are family, and the weak writing in that scene was topped only by the further submissiveness of Superman since. And don't get me started on the absurdity of Batman being able to last more than half a second against Superman. That's even more stupid than Supergirl beating him. Also, the whole purpose of that fight was to make Supergirl look good at Superman's expense. Wonder Woman doesn't need to beat Superman to be a powerful hero. She's powerful in her own right. Supergirl needed Superman to be written weakly to make her look like she was more important than she is in the comic world. That shows weak writing. Superman could easily have been a background/supporting character, who only helped Kara when the stakes got really big, and the story could have been written so that there were multiple villains giving each something to do. But instead, we got misandry.

Against heroes or villains, Superman should never lose--especially in a fair fight. Physically, only Darkseid could be a match for him. Struggling is fine, losing is not. You don't beat Superman by fighting him. You hurt him through people he cares about, which is pretty much everyone.

Superman can take a beating and can be down, but never out. No better example of this than Apokolips Now on the 1996 cartoon. He struggled, but even at his worst, he was ready to fight Darkseid to the death. It wasn't until Darkseid killed Dan Turpin that Superman lost--even when the war was won.



I kind of like this analogy, but Superman is more like Hogan, pre nWo of course. He is the one who fights for truth, justice and the American way. He stands for all that is good and right. He is the hero of heroes. I'm not saying no one should get in offense. I'm not saying no one can hurt him. But beat him? No. Especially someone clearly inferior like Supergirl, who shouldn't be as powerful as him, other than to satisfy some writers with chips on their shoulders.

Yawn. Are we still going on about Supergirl winning a fight vs Superman? Really? :rolleyes:
 
Saturn Girl is a blue eyed blond in he comics, but looking at a photoahopped pic of Scarlett Johansson as Saturn girl on Google has me wondering how the legionairs are so cheap that their flight rings double as bands, then...

Did Brainiac accidentally get engaged to Manchester Black for a while there?
 
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