In the comics Naomi's adoptive father is from Rann. He and Dee were combatants in the Rann/Thanager War stranded on Earth.
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Yeah: I've been watching that character on the show looking for any hints of that.
Could switch it up and make it the mom
Wasn’t a huge fan of this episode. Hopefully it picks up again next week.
A live action Captain Comet. What an age we live in...
Agree it was the weakest one so far. Plus I missed the Superman name-drops.
No accounting for taste. This is the first one that mostly engaged me, though I still find Naomi's colorful band of friends annoying and cliched, and impatient students resisting their mentors' lectures about the importance of first principles and learning discipline are a cliche too. But the story is finally starting to move forward some, it seems, especially at the end. I'm so glad Naomi and her parents came clean to each other. I'm tired of stories driven by people hiding the truth from their loved ones.
But we got a Zatanna name-drop, confirming what I was unsure of -- that it's not just Superman who's fictional on this Earth, but the wider DC Universe.
I think Naomi has too many friends. I think they could develop the friends better if there were fewer of them. They’re just pretty bland.
I wasn’t expecting Captain Comet, er um Adam Blake to appear. What happened to him? He stayed behind. Was he captured or did he get away?
I wasn’t expecting Captain Comet, er um Adam Blake to appear. What happened to him? He stayed behind. Was he captured or did he get away?
Good point. I agree, there are maybe a couple of friends too many.
I didn't even know there was a Captain Comet.
I don’t think they use Captain Comet a lot. He’s been around since 1951: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Comet
Interesting character. straddles the line between DCs SF stories of the 50's and the super-hero revival of the Silver Age. He's popped up a few times over the decades.
Looking at the Wikipedia entry of Captain Comet and I see that he’s another super hero with a mother named Martha. 
Looking at the Wikipedia entry of Captain Comet and I see that he’s another super hero with a mother named Martha.
It was a common name once. I think I once read or saw a story where people were talking about how common certain names were in certain generations, and they used the example of more than one person having an Aunt Jane, and I thought, "Hey, I have an Aunt Jane!"
Looking at the Wikipedia entry of Captain Comet and I see that he’s another super hero with a mother named Martha.
Why did you say that name?
Sad to say that my interest in this is really starting to wane. Unless things get a lot more interesting in the next episode, I'll probably call it quits. It's all a little too shallow, yet light and bubbly for the kind of stakes it seems to be implying are on the table, and the supporting characters are basically cardboard cut-outs.
At first I thought the stilted, overly sanitary mendacity of the world and characters was a deliberate affectation and facade for what's really going on, but the more I see the more it feels like it's actually taking this tone in earnest.
At first I thought the stilted, overly sanitary mendacity of the world and characters was a deliberate affectation and facade for what's really going on, but the more I see the more it feels like it's actually taking this tone in earnest.
I had an Aunt Martha (sorry, I said the name...). I was thinking recently of all the names of my generation that aren't around nearly as much with the kids (Jennifer, Jessica, Stephanie, Stacy, Karen(!), Mark, John, Steve, William, David, Michael, Robert, etc. etc.). For a while there everyone's name sounded like it was from the old West (Ethan, Jacob, Emily, Madison) and now they sound like something out of Jane Austen (Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Sophia, Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and so on). Jane is probably coming back soon.
Okay... Naomi, the world's biggest Superman fan, is told that her adoptive parents literally found her as a baby after she fell out of the sky, and that she may have been sent to Earth to protect her, and it doesn't remind her of anything? I was expecting her to say either "Could I be from Krypton?" or "Hm, maybe this is why I like Superman so much."
At least we finally get confirmation that Naomi is from a parallel Earth, specifically Earth-29. So I guess the reference to the group called "The 29" is not about how many of them there are.
I only just noticed that the shield tattooed on Dee's right shoulder has the Hawkman logo in its center. I'd been semi-assuming that the tattoos were the actor's own and the character was written to match, but I looked up photos, and it seems he has no tattoos in real life. That's a really elaborate makeup job.
I'm still totally uninvested in the high school stuff and most of the sidekick characters. Why did the writers throw in an escape room? And what did Naomi's speech toward the end have to do with running for class president?
At least we finally get confirmation that Naomi is from a parallel Earth, specifically Earth-29. So I guess the reference to the group called "The 29" is not about how many of them there are.
I only just noticed that the shield tattooed on Dee's right shoulder has the Hawkman logo in its center. I'd been semi-assuming that the tattoos were the actor's own and the character was written to match, but I looked up photos, and it seems he has no tattoos in real life. That's a really elaborate makeup job.
I'm still totally uninvested in the high school stuff and most of the sidekick characters. Why did the writers throw in an escape room? And what did Naomi's speech toward the end have to do with running for class president?
At this point, I honestly feel like the show pulled a bait-and-switch on me as a Superman fan. He was all over the first two episodes, as a physical presence, and as a frequent topic of reference and discussion. But these last couple of episodes have been like, "Super who, now?"