Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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It will be interesting to see how involved he is, and how Kara's aunt will take the implied threat of the two "S" characters working together.
One, I'm talking about sexism in general and how a representative of the mainstream media is allowed to laugh at / support a crude attack on males. Oh, I know some of Mika's ilk believe mistreatment can only come from men, but that lie was shattered long ago.
Two, if this Western society has moved to the point where a so-called professional representative of a major network can support / laugh at a disgusting "joke" which is actually a real problem for real men (and she did not care about the offense)...if society has moved to the point where a candidate for president of the United States can make and expect to get away with such a thought/language on the public stage, then there's a significant problem only those with a myopic political view of life will deny.
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And is clearly not an homage to the name of the network that's airing the show....
And is clearly not an homage to the name of the network that's airing the show....
Certainly not, because it's on the Columbia Broadcasting System, not the National Broadcasting Company.
One explanation I recall seeing is that Krypotnians are radically far-sighted. Being so far-sighted its difficult (but not impossible) for them to read and operate in a near-sighted world. Again, they *can* do it but it maybe takes some bit of effort, like squinting your eyes to see details. The glasses helps focus their near-sight vision so they can do mundane things like read and such in day-to-day operations, like at their jobs.
Anyway, I just watched the pilot on my DVR and liked it. It has that sort of light, goofy, vibe from it I expect from CBS; but it had a sense of fun to it. Though I quickly grew annoyed with the "him" treatment of Superman. I'm guessing this is rights-related or an attempt to fuzzy the line between this series' continuity and the movie continuity.
I did like how Kara pointed out the "S" on her suit was her family's Coat of Arms and not the "symbol for hope" concept used in "Man of Steel." It's interesting how just the way people speak of Superman makes him seem grander and more like the figure he should be than what was established in his own damn movie two years ago.
Interesting twist on Kara's origins, but it always varies a bit from source to source. Though I think making the Phantom Zone this null-space one can escape from was an odd choice, but whatevs.
I don't entirely like their use of Cat Grant, mostly because I don't like Calista Flockhart as Cat. I guess I just don't "see" her as Cat, I see Cat as younger and prettier than Flockhart and not as much as this "Devil Wears Prada" bitch and more of just a woman who cares more about trivial things and gossip than she does actual news. Even accepting this as an "older Cat" this use of her feels off.
Interesting set-up for the pool of villains. So we get these escaped prisoners instead of the "Meteor Rock Mutants"?
I'll hang on to the series for now. I like enough to keep watching. From the first episode it's fairly paint-by-numbers TV fare, hopefully it gets bolder and takes more risks as it progresses.
So, Kara can't/couldn't get acne? Then why does she have an acne scar/boxscar on her forehead?
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I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread that the "official" behind-the-scenes explanation is that she used to need special glasses to block her x-ray vision before she learned how to control it. Maybe that will show up in dialogue sometime.
Whatever the reason was, it didn't last past the pilot. Episode 2 overtly name-drops Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Perry White.
The "hope" explanation originally comes from Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright in the comics, I believe. The "coat of arms" thing goes back to Superman: The Movie. And episode 2 of Supergirl does give it a specific meaning, though not "hope."
People have been escaping from the Phantom Zone since it was introduced. Kind of useless as a story device if they don't. (Although the first person to escape from it was Superboy himself, after he was trapped there in Adventure Comics #283.)
So, Kara can't/couldn't get acne? Then why does she have an acne scar/boxscar on her forehead?
Left over from her youth on Krypton? I'm still wondering how she can have pierced ears.
Did "young Kara" have the acne scar?
On the pierced ears, maybe created by a Kryptonian metal from her ship, sort of what Superman likely uses to shave with.
She created the piercing holes in her ears with the Kryptonian implement and inserted the studs before they self-healed.
^Post-Crisis Clark shaves by reflecting his heat vision off a mirror (a technique also used in Lois & Clark). The "all Kryptonian materials are indestructible under a yellow sun" idea was abandoned in the reboot.
I never liked or bought the "reflecting his heat vision" idea. It's just too complex and too messy. He may able to perfectly aim and control his heat vision but we're talking about precise precision here to reflect his heat vision in a manner to get skin-close to the hairs on his face without going too far and knick into his face (I suspect couldn't be covered with a piece of toilet paper) or not far enough and leave him fuzzy. So aside from that Post-Crisis example, I suspect "now" (however we want to look at that in the comics, as well as in the media universes) there's some other method whether it be using a Kryptonian material that may not in itself indestructable but strong enough to harm Superman. Hell, say he takes a regular razor blade and tips it with some form of Kryptonite that can cut his hairs without causing him serious pain and harm like Green-K does. (This being like diamond-tipped blades being used to cut stones and rock.)
Either of those options makes more sense than "reflecting his heat vision to nanometers away from his skin so as to shave. What, Kara does this to her underarms and legs?
Shaving is always messy. That's why we get better with practice. Clark's had plenty of time to figure it out.
First off, it's certainly possible to focus a medical laser beam precisely enough to target tissues just below the skin without affecting the skin itself, so targeting just above the skin should be possible too. As for the precision, this is Superman we're talking about. He's not just a blunt instrument; he has superfast reactions and reflexes, microscopic vision, and precise bodily control.
I mean, think about it. Clark could break anyone around him in half with a single careless gesture. He could smash any object he held with more than the barest fraction of his strength. Imagine how carefully and precisely he has to control every single move he makes just in order to function in the human world without destroying everything around him, let alone without giving himself away as Superman. The kind of precision you're talking about is no different from the kind he has to apply every time he takes a step or picks up a pen or opens a door or shakes a person's hand. If he didn't have enough control to shave with heat vision, he wouldn't have enough control to pass as human at all.
And let's not forget the George Reeves Superman series, where the Daily Planet building was actually L.A. city hall!
There was that Wonder Woman episode MeTV showed recently where the Griffith Observatory, one of the most recognizable Los Angeles area landmarks, was passed off as being some other observatory close to Washington, DC. Come to think of it, there was a Mission: Impossible episode that passed the same observatory off as being in some Eastern European country.
Hair (other than the follicle) and nails are considered to be dead tissue. If one absolutely must have an explanation for something as silly as how Clark cuts his hair it would most sensibly be based on that distinction - saying that dead Kryptonian cells and tissues are no more indestructible than any other kind.
That would certainly have fit reasonably well with the Byrne-era explanation of Clark's powers in general.
Human beings shed about a pound of dead skin cells per year. Think about all that indestructible dead tissue.
That would certainly have fit reasonably well with the Byrne-era explanation of Clark's powers in general.
Human beings shed about a pound of dead skin cells per year. Think about all that indestructible dead tissue.
I can understand why people might find her grating, but personally I find this Cat Grant to be far more fun and interesting than any of the previous versions I've seen. And I especially love the dynamic that's been established between her and Kara so far, and the way she's been set up as this sort of half-antagonist and half-mentor (to the point where Kara is actually asking her for advice at times on what Supergirl should do).
And it's also clear that the writers and Flockhart enjoy hinting around that Cat may know more than she's letting on (whether she actually does not), which is also a lot of fun to watch.
All that Kryptonian dead skin in the Kent Farmhouse... That's like walking on broken glass, if broken glass could shred army boots.
I just recently finished rewatching Lois and Clark season 1, and its version of Cat Grant (Tracy Scoggins) was virtually useless, just there to be a comic-relief nymphomaniac and almost never given any hint of more dimensions or allowed to contribute anything meaningful to the stories.
I gather there were two different Cat Grant characters in Smallville, a one-shot guest and a later recurring character (with the identical name being handwaved as a coincidence), but I remember nothing about either. Young Justice featured Cat as a TV-news talking head from time to time, but nothing more.