I more or less hate the show too, but I find the Mazouz/Pertwee scenes are usually pretty solid. I keep watching in hopes the writers will eventually figure it out and write everyone else off the show.
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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David Mazouz plays Bruce Wayne on Gotham. Sean Pertwee play's Alfred Pennyworth on Gotham, the Wayne family Butler. Yes, Sean is the son to that Pertwee. 
Kinda. There's been at least a few who've visited various aspects (and difficulties) of being a speedster. The most notable example I can think of off the top of my head is Danny from Next Men; he can run about 200mph or so, but doing so burns straight through his footwear and burns his feet. I also remember some burning off their clothes, and even one who died as soon as he learned he had the power after practically vaporizing himself by running uncontrollably into a wall or something, but I'll be damned if I can remember where that's from.
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Yeah. I must have got my signals crossed there. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more, since I usually skim through all these threads in one giant gulp.David Mazouz plays Bruce Wayne on Gotham. Sean Pertwee play's Alfred Pennyworth on Gotham, the Wayne family Butler. Yes, Sean is the son to that Pertwee.
Regarding Spidey's strength, he was actually an early example of a character who had a well-defined strength limit...in the early comics of the '60s, they were saying that he had the proportional strength of spider, which was being able to lift about 40 times his own weight. Now depending on Peter's weight, that would be more in the 3-4 ton range, rather than the 10 that the OHOTMU upped it to--Presumably, Spidey must have gotten a good workout from all those years of fighting villains and whatnot.
As to whether comics writers and artists have realistically kept within those set limits...that's another thing entirely.
Mark Gruenwald and his artistic collaborators explored the effects of super-speed a bit more realistically in Squadron Supreme and D.P.7. (I had to look up the title of the latter, it was one of those "New Universe" books.)
As to whether comics writers and artists have realistically kept within those set limits...that's another thing entirely.
Mark Gruenwald and his artistic collaborators explored the effects of super-speed a bit more realistically in Squadron Supreme and D.P.7. (I had to look up the title of the latter, it was one of those "New Universe" books.)
"You hate the show" is the fallback for anyone struggling with the fact that Supergirl has various problems. I guress we should be like a couple of YouTube reviewers (I'll leave nameless) that explode with "oh, that was great!!!" about everything in the series
Whether you realize it or not, you are contributing to the page count by trying to push back against the opinions you do not like. That happens often in The Walking Dead thread, JJ-Trek threads, etc.
...and welcome to the message board....
But that's just the thing... Ever since the iconic "If This Be My Destiny...!" storyline in Amazing Spider-Man 31-33, one of Spidey's defining tropes has been ending up in situations where he faced seemingly impossible odds but was able to push beyond his normal limits of strength and endurance through sheer will power and refusal to give up. The fact that he's forced beyond his limits but keeps striving anyway is the whole point. Heck, I even homaged that sequence in my own Spidey novel, although I had him overwhelmed mentally rather than physically.
None of which pertains to his ability to flick a dumpster around with one finger. If anything, making him capable of too great of feats in too casual a manner undermines the more meaningful limit-pushing situations that you allude to.
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Full dumpster or empty dumpster?
Looking closer, I think it's supposed to be a train car:
It's a box car in a train yard?
Paladin has k-mart level ironman armour that lets him lift/press 1 ton (my head told me that. I don't know why. But twenty years ago I had all this shit memorized.)
Paladin tilted that boxcar 30 degrees, it's already almost flipped over, and Peter is ten times stronger than Paladin.
Also, that clipart is 25ish years old.
Paladin has k-mart level ironman armour that lets him lift/press 1 ton (my head told me that. I don't know why. But twenty years ago I had all this shit memorized.)
Paladin tilted that boxcar 30 degrees, it's already almost flipped over, and Peter is ten times stronger than Paladin.
Also, that clipart is 25ish years old.
I don't think so, but with so many flying kryptonians around and their evil global plot she's likely to venture out there by the end of the season.
Oh, I definitely hope they have the best safeguards possible, and I fully admit that I don't know what the abilities of those safeguards are - maybe they're much much better than I would expect. At the same time, I seriously doubt any military officer who just casually let a nuclear missile fall to the ground from that height would have much of a future in their career from the point on. Taking any unneccessary chance
with that kind of destructive force is just dumb.
Yeah, that was actually another irritating moment in this episode. Especially since that ground didn't even look that sturdy to start with.
For the record, I don't hate the show. But I don't like it much, yet, either. I started watching because I love superheroes and I've learned several times over in the past ten years that these new movies and tv shows, when done right, are a great way to get into more cool superheroes that I never used to follow back when I still had the opportunity to to follow comics. I'm still watching right now because it's not so bad that it's unwatchable (the way Arrow is), so I'm trying to give it a chance to improve.
The Flash was a show that had lots of problems for me, as well, from the start (and it still isn't as great as it could be) but it improved greatly over the first season. Its now a show that I honestly enjoy and has introduced me to a whole new hero/mythology. I'd love for Supergirl to turn out the same way, but it's just not happening yet. If it doesn't happen by the end of this season, I'll probably just let it go.
Your approach of "oh, that was shit!!!" about everything in the series isn't much better either.
Almost every episode you go on a nitpicky multi-page tirade on some thing you really don't like about this show, but I've never seen you argue that passionately about anything you do like on this show.
So sue me for getting an impression you don't like this show
I had a few geek out moments with the Indigo episode! I've been watching the show but it hasn't really been grabbing me, but there were a few moments here. Fortress of Solitude! The Key! Legion Flight Ring! (that particularly set me off, it promises the show is going to go BIG in the future) Indigo! (I actually read those comics with her!) Smallville-Supergirl!
I do think Indigo's costume looked pretty bad, though. Could it have been any close to Movie Mystique?! I did a google image search and I much preferred it when she had green skin, purple hair, and a silver dress.
I do think Indigo's costume looked pretty bad, though. Could it have been any close to Movie Mystique?! I did a google image search and I much preferred it when she had green skin, purple hair, and a silver dress.
I caught it too. Plastino's name has shown up in a number of signs in the show so far. Plastino, of course, co-created Supergirl with Otto Binder, although the show only lists Superman's creators Siegel and Shuster in the opening credits due to the vagaries of creator contracts. So the producers like to find other ways to sneak Binder & Plastino's names into the show. (They also created Brainiac and the Legion of Super Heroes, so it's appropriate that there was a name drop in this episode.)