Even in the finale he didn't.
Every scene showing him to was CGI, wasn't it?
Every scene showing him to was CGI, wasn't it?
Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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Consider the alternative.
If they'd done the best job possible, and made Welling look like a mental patient.
If the reveal at the end had been super perfect.
The entire internet would have still complained.
The screw you, was the only logical move they had available.
Why get called ####s for no good reason, when you can be called ####s for a superb reason?
Wow, loved this episode.
The Mars flashback story was holding me spellbound. I felt I was watching some of the most comic book-like scenes yet put to celluloid since this golden age of comic book TV started.
I almost want to say it is my new favorite show, but the Cat and son sub-plot brought it down.
The Mars flashback story was holding me spellbound. I felt I was watching some of the most comic book-like scenes yet put to celluloid since this golden age of comic book TV started.
I almost want to say it is my new favorite show, but the Cat and son sub-plot brought it down.
Correct. In fact its been rumored that the S symbol was CGI added to Welling in that final shirt open scene. Not sure of that but it would not surprise me. The only image of the scene we have ever been shown are fan screen captures. You would think some kind of behind scene photos of him wearing just the shirt would have surfaced by now.
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I just found the quote about J'Onn's cookies in an interview with David Harewood IGN posted on Sunday.
So it looks like it will be Chocos, not Oreos.IGN said:
Leverage.
I could have lived without the cookies. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice running gag, but it's not essential.
Well I guess there's precedent for that, since they also CG'd in the same costume for Routh's shirt rip in the alley in SR (originally he hadn't put the costume on yet and had to rush back to the Daily Planet before saving the plane).
I've following the show closely as well as the board posting but I haven't said much...
1) I spotted Hank as Martian Manhunter early, I was surprised no one caught all the clues. I feel this part of the story has been very well done.
2) The episode when Kara lost her powers, I felt was totally a missed opportunity. When was the last time she had no powers? When Krypton exploded and she was put into a space ship. This SHOULD have been why she was so freaked out, and the writers should have explored this. What we got was bubblegum. While I recognize the series is pretty lite on character development I was totally disappointed that they ignored this opportunity to make her a real person.
3) Please don't think that Cat Grant has anything to do with Feminism. Feminism is not about replacing "Old White Men" with "Oldish White Women" so that they can bully their underlings, fire people at will, and generally enjoy the benefits of a patriarchal society the way "Old White Men" have been doing. If you don't understand this, you need to retake "Women's Studies 101."
4) General Lane was one of the worst acted characters I have ever witnessed on mainstream TV. Let's just yell at everyone and be against all the main characters and call it a plot.
5) I laughed out loud for a full five minutes when Kara's sister stated that Kara was immune to acne, all the while the camera in HD showing her acne scar above her eyebrow. Benoit is beautiful and doesn't need to hide her acne scars, but for god's sake let's drop the absurd dialogue about it.
5) How the hell does Alex have a PHD in "alien studies", be a master of martial arts, handgunning, repelling from helicopters, etc. etc. etc. at the ripe old age of no more than 26?
6) Alex has to shut the hell up with J'onn. You know what you don't get to do? Tell someone what decisions they have to make and how they should live their lives. Practically every sentence she has been saying to J'onn since she discovered he has powers is to tell him what he should be doing. This completely depersonalizes (* I could easily say dehumanizes, but let's stick to the script) J'onn and turns him into a three century old child being controlled by a helicopter mother.
7) Kara has the benefit of advanced schooling up until the age of twelve in a culture that would consider us the stone age. She seems to have no concept of physics, chemistry, mathematics, philosophy, biology, etc. unless some human takes her by the hand and explains it in way an eight year old could understand. Kara needs to be better than she is being portrayed. She is Supergirl for god's sake.
On the whole I find the show to be pretty poorly written, characterized, scripted, and planned out. It is reasonably amusing and fills some of my need for tv superhero spam, so I keep watching it, but really it is a pale comparison to Smallville. That is not a compliment.
1) I spotted Hank as Martian Manhunter early, I was surprised no one caught all the clues. I feel this part of the story has been very well done.
2) The episode when Kara lost her powers, I felt was totally a missed opportunity. When was the last time she had no powers? When Krypton exploded and she was put into a space ship. This SHOULD have been why she was so freaked out, and the writers should have explored this. What we got was bubblegum. While I recognize the series is pretty lite on character development I was totally disappointed that they ignored this opportunity to make her a real person.
3) Please don't think that Cat Grant has anything to do with Feminism. Feminism is not about replacing "Old White Men" with "Oldish White Women" so that they can bully their underlings, fire people at will, and generally enjoy the benefits of a patriarchal society the way "Old White Men" have been doing. If you don't understand this, you need to retake "Women's Studies 101."
4) General Lane was one of the worst acted characters I have ever witnessed on mainstream TV. Let's just yell at everyone and be against all the main characters and call it a plot.
5) I laughed out loud for a full five minutes when Kara's sister stated that Kara was immune to acne, all the while the camera in HD showing her acne scar above her eyebrow. Benoit is beautiful and doesn't need to hide her acne scars, but for god's sake let's drop the absurd dialogue about it.
5) How the hell does Alex have a PHD in "alien studies", be a master of martial arts, handgunning, repelling from helicopters, etc. etc. etc. at the ripe old age of no more than 26?
6) Alex has to shut the hell up with J'onn. You know what you don't get to do? Tell someone what decisions they have to make and how they should live their lives. Practically every sentence she has been saying to J'onn since she discovered he has powers is to tell him what he should be doing. This completely depersonalizes (* I could easily say dehumanizes, but let's stick to the script) J'onn and turns him into a three century old child being controlled by a helicopter mother.
7) Kara has the benefit of advanced schooling up until the age of twelve in a culture that would consider us the stone age. She seems to have no concept of physics, chemistry, mathematics, philosophy, biology, etc. unless some human takes her by the hand and explains it in way an eight year old could understand. Kara needs to be better than she is being portrayed. She is Supergirl for god's sake.
On the whole I find the show to be pretty poorly written, characterized, scripted, and planned out. It is reasonably amusing and fills some of my need for tv superhero spam, so I keep watching it, but really it is a pale comparison to Smallville. That is not a compliment.
Um, okay then. I disagree with most of those, but number 7 is probably a fair point. Although at the same time, we see Barry having to be told what to do an awful lot as well, despite being a supposed science wiz and CSI tech. So it's obviously just one of those conceits we have to live with on a show like this, so the other characters can be seen contributing in some way.
And this isn't even trying to be a deep or complex superhero show, so it seems a bit silly to rip it for not being one. It's just trying to be a light and fun popcorn show (like a Chuck or Lois & Clark back in the day), and I think it does that pretty darn well.
And this isn't even trying to be a deep or complex superhero show, so it seems a bit silly to rip it for not being one. It's just trying to be a light and fun popcorn show (like a Chuck or Lois & Clark back in the day), and I think it does that pretty darn well.
I'm glad J'onn had a little more backstory, especially to the benefit of those who weren't familiar with the Martian Manhunter's character. The genocidal White Martians that annihilated his people and killed his family would stop at nothing to destroy him too. Killing one of them wouldn't have made J'onn a monster; it was self-defense as much as it was about revenge. I remember Tawny Cypress as Simone Deveaux from NBC's Heroes.
The interaction between Cat and her estranged son wasn't too mushy and was done just right, though I have to admit, Kara overstepped her boundaries by playing mediator between mom and son. But at least her intentions were good.
The interaction between Cat and her estranged son wasn't too mushy and was done just right, though I have to admit, Kara overstepped her boundaries by playing mediator between mom and son. But at least her intentions were good.
Sure is easy to say that way after the reveal. Given the only real clues were his glowing eyes, evil overtones he had until his reveal at which point he miraculously became a good guy, and character name, all of them pointed to Hank being, well, the same Hank Henshaw from the comics.
Uh, I'm not following you here. If anything, she should have just had trouble performing everyday actions that we all take for granted, but which someone who's been immune to just about everything for the decade or so pays no nevermind to. Picking up something hot, for example.
No idea why you mentioned Krypton exploding, nor what you're even talking about there. Why would her losing her powers have caused any connection to that?
Unfortunately for you, that's how the vast majority of vocal feminists on the Internet think, act, and speak. Even more damning, few of the so-called "real" feminists speak up against them, which is code for "yeah, we agree, we're just not going to say anything."
You realize she was a teenage girl before she gained those abilities, right? And that she was in the Phantom Zone for about another decade where she was effectively stuck at that age. Annnnnd that it takes some time to absorb the rays of Earth's sun before a Kryptonian becomes fully powered. So there was ample opportunity for her to have had acne in the past. Assuming it is an acne scar at all, and not some other minor injury she suffered as a girl.
The same way a lot of TV characters do. Doubly so in a comic book show. You might as well be bitching about Cisco on the Flash if you're going to do that, and countless other characters as well.
Doesn't seem to stop you from telling her what to do. Or in this case, what not to do. At least she has the benefit of being a fictional character in a drama, which is all about, you know, drama.
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Did they really have a press release that Blonde actress a few pages back (Hope Lauren) was gonna be sleeping in a bed quietly for one episode, before she was off camera surgically/genetically altered to look just like Melissa/Kara and never be seen/used again?
Bait and switch.
Bait and switch.
Looks like next week we've got Bizarro Supergirl!
Sweet.
I am looking forward to it too!
The real Bizarro Supergirl was Fire breath and Cold Vision.
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