Typical of networks in assuming everyone will make some correlation, and end up offended / up in arms.
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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Typical of networks in assuming everyone will make some correlation, and end up offended / up in arms.
Except that in this day and age, the delays tend to be shorter. When Buffy's "Earshot" and "Graduation Day, Part 2" were delayed after the Columbine massacre, the latter was delayed nearly two months and the former for five months. But the Mr. Robot finale a few months back was only delayed a week. Sad to say, we're getting used to these sorts of things as they happen more often.
My DVR episode descriptions have been updated. It does show "Live Wire" is shown for tonight. Next week it has one of those generic descriptions for the whole series. There is no episode title. Something like "Young Kara learns to use her powers in order to protect National City". That is a not a exact quote but it gives an idea.
Well, Wikipedia is showing that the episodes after "Livewire" have not been moved up, at least not yet. Which would suggest that next week's episode will be either "How Does She Do It?" or a rerun. But they may not have decided yet.
It's too bad about the episode postponement, but understandable.
After watching the Pilot episode my wife and I decided that we would let our daughter watch it to see if she like it, and she did, so it has become our first family TV show. It's a bit hard to watch it with her because of all of her questions, but it's still fun to be able to watch a superhero TV show with my little girl. Every time Supergirl is in a fight she is always saying "She needs to use her heat vision!" I think she really likes that power.
I thought the third episode was the best so far, and so did my wife. I really liked the chat she had with Clark at the end of the episode. I know it's a Supergirl show but I'd really love to see a proper Superman/Clark Kent guest appearance some day.
After watching the Pilot episode my wife and I decided that we would let our daughter watch it to see if she like it, and she did, so it has become our first family TV show. It's a bit hard to watch it with her because of all of her questions, but it's still fun to be able to watch a superhero TV show with my little girl. Every time Supergirl is in a fight she is always saying "She needs to use her heat vision!" I think she really likes that power.
I thought the third episode was the best so far, and so did my wife. I really liked the chat she had with Clark at the end of the episode. I know it's a Supergirl show but I'd really love to see a proper Superman/Clark Kent guest appearance some day.
I'll be very surprised if they don't air the episode next week. The similarity to the Paris attack is probably tangential at best, and the show has such a sunny and family friendly style that I doubt we'll see many people even get injured in those bombings, let alone killed.
Yeah, the chat with Clark was super-awesome.
I'm bummed about the rescheduling. Hopefully, it's just a postponement.
I'm bummed about the rescheduling. Hopefully, it's just a postponement.
Honestly, it sounds to me like she'd be better at being Supergirl than Supergirl.
These shows have sooooo many times when a character could resolve an issue or a battle easily but don't because it would spoil the story the writers want to tell. The heroes have to be dumbed down. So far I've been pretty pleased with Gotham and Arrow most of the time (easier, I guess, since the characters mostly don't have powers), and I haven't wanted to yell at Barry too often, but everyone in my living room has yelled at Kara at least once, this early in the series. (Pretty much all at once when she did one particular thing last episode.)
TNT is showing a repeat of the season premiere instead of the previously scheduled episode. I'm wondering whyABC aired Quantico last night since that shows deals will a terrorist bombing when everyone else is pulling episodes dealing with that subject..
I'd rather enjoy the series in order so I think I'll pass on tonight's episode and wait a week or two to see what happens, hoping that 1x04 will show up sooner rather than later. If it's later, then I may have to suck it up.
That did occur to me. I hope that's not the case.
Well from the glimpses I've seen of Quantico, most episodes are more about the soapy goings on at the FBI training academy in the past. And the big terrorist attack is something that already occurred in the premiere, and not something actively happening in current episodes.
At least Kara has the excuse of being new at this. We'll have to see if it gets any better with time.
How did she go for a decade without trying to fly?
And I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Supergirl stops the bombings and brings the bombers to justice.
With these situations I don' think it's so much not wanting to make people angry, as it is not wanting to disturb people who might have been involved in the incident or lost someone in it. I know in this case with it happening half-way around the world the chances of that are pretty slim, but it's still better safe then sorry.
The same thing happened after Oklahoma City. The whole finale that year on Melrose Place was built around Marcia Cross blowing up the apartment complex. The show had to drastically re-edit the episode to cut out any egregious or overly insensitive scenes. As it aired, it was a lot more ominous with Cross' character Kimberly giggling like a maniac when Michael and Sydney managed to wake everyone up to evacuate to the courtyard, before she proclaimed "It's not as bad as it looks.... it's worse!"
They saved the actual footage of blowing up the apartment complex for four months later when season premiere aired, and we able to use the stuff they'd cut.
TL;DR: shows and networks do this out of sensitivity. It's not a bad thing. I'm glad CBS (and TNT now, apparently postponing the next episode of Legends for similar reasons) are being cognizant enough to do so.
They saved the actual footage of blowing up the apartment complex for four months later when season premiere aired, and we able to use the stuff they'd cut.
TL;DR: shows and networks do this out of sensitivity. It's not a bad thing. I'm glad CBS (and TNT now, apparently postponing the next episode of Legends for similar reasons) are being cognizant enough to do so.
Supergirl airs in Three countries.
England, America and Canada.
Sure it's globally saddening, and a few moments of respect, but the directly effected have no legal capacity to watch Supergirl or be denied watching Supergirl, so the entire prospect seems like pandering for credit from social justice warriors, or a paranoid fear of shouty people who are nine degrees removed from the French tragedy but still willing to boycott at the moment their petty-coats are ruffled.
England, America and Canada.
Sure it's globally saddening, and a few moments of respect, but the directly effected have no legal capacity to watch Supergirl or be denied watching Supergirl, so the entire prospect seems like pandering for credit from social justice warriors, or a paranoid fear of shouty people who are nine degrees removed from the French tragedy but still willing to boycott at the moment their petty-coats are ruffled.
For all anybody knows there could be residents of places where it airs who were there and are home now, and watch Supergirl who might be upset by the episode. Or there could be people who watch it who have French family members or friends who were hurt or killed. It's better to just not take the chance of upsetting people.