Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2
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I did find it hilarious that Snapper had to explain the difference between a news story and op-ed piece. Has Kara ever even read a newspaper before now?
There are limits to exposition too. We don't see in cop shows a precinct captain saying to a rookie: "see, these are handcuffs and you can use them to secure a suspect", or if you prefer, a starship captain explaining to a freshly graduated cadet from Starfleet Academy: "Do you see those little lights? They are called stars!"
hmmm, maybe that's the long game, Lena's device always shows green to not raise suspicion and then the results are tested/downloaded/shown/whatever afterward. Maybe she's sussed out Supergirl's identity and Kara doesn't even know.
Exactly! And Winn has to explain to her the five Ws! Did Kara at least read the Wikipedia page about journalism?!?
And in a show about journalists you might get a somewhat more nuanced treatment of the news education of a neophyte reporter - but not as half-a-B-story on a show about a super-strong woman who flies around beating up aliens.
The premise is stupid regardless of the particular subject. Here we have the boss of an organization that has to spend his precious time to explain the basics to someone who has not the faintest idea how to do his/her job. And this someone clearly skipped every possibly queue to the job. And still the show depicts Mr. Carr as the bad guy, when he has been more than patient!
Yeah, I haven't seen anything bad/evil/irritating about Snapper Carr other than him being irritated by the incompetence around him. Jimmy is doing a shitty job (right down to dictating headlines before there's even a story), and Kara is completely incompetent at hers. The fact that he's actually trying to help both of them do their job suggests more that he's not a bad guy than it does that he is.
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Jimmy in particular is completely unqualified. You don't just go from art director to CEO of a media conglomerate and expect to have any credibility.
Kara's prejudice against Daxamites seems reasonable because she left Krypton when she was 12...she was reacting based on something that had been drilled into her as a child that she'd never had the opportunity to rethink as an adult.
I think that people are overthinking the alien detector thing...the entire purpose of Kara using her heat vision on it was to make it malfunction. But...
I think that people are overthinking the alien detector thing...the entire purpose of Kara using her heat vision on it was to make it malfunction. But...
As designed by L-Corp's head of R&D, Dr. Gaius Baltar.
except in this day and age, so much of the what's passing for journalism is little more than opinion laced with a few facts (though I know it's not exactly new concept) so Kara might well have read a news paper and found it to contain material like what she wrote.
Lena Luthor commented she expected as much.
As I watched the episode I wished our modern media worked as Snapper laid it out.
Forget the journalism stuff, Catco isn't putting out a newspaper, but a magazine. If it's a weekly like People or Us, there is still lead time between issues, and when a magazine goes to press.
How do you have a hard hitting investigative news section published quickly. The are obsolete before they are even printed. And if you want to do a decent article you don't have people scrambling around in days and push something out.
The entire reporter angle for Kara is screwed up from the get-go.
How do you have a hard hitting investigative news section published quickly. The are obsolete before they are even printed. And if you want to do a decent article you don't have people scrambling around in days and push something out.
The entire reporter angle for Kara is screwed up from the get-go.
He's there to provide some conflict within the organization. Kara and James will always be more important to the show than Carr. Patience is not one of this guy's qualities...and you don't get to be patient with your boss; it works the other way around.
So now the character understands in no uncertain terms who's the boss and who's the employee. The heroes can get back to punching aliens.
The show forced Snapper Carr into a ridiculous confrontation with James just to "double down" on the idea that he's an a-hole, and the only thing it accomplished was to undermine and drown out the message he was trying to impart to Kara that you have to be unbiased in journalism.
Not really. Anyone can watch the episode and see that he's right - and portrayed as right - in the case involving Kara's story and wrong in the confrontation with his boss.
Actually, he's an idiot in his confrontation with James and lucky that Olsen is a fair minded guy who clearly appreciates his abilities.
Actually, he's an idiot in his confrontation with James and lucky that Olsen is a fair minded guy who clearly appreciates his abilities.
When you have him acting like an idiot a-hole sticking his nose where he shouldn't, the idea that he was trying to impart to Kara gets drowned out, and therein lies the problem.
Jimmy might not have the stones to fire anyone.
Jimmy might not have permission to fire any one on a management level.
Catco probably has several cross media publications that hammer the public from dozens of different directions.
Jimmy might not have permission to fire any one on a management level.
Catco probably has several cross media publications that hammer the public from dozens of different directions.
James is the new CatCo CEO, picked by Cat herself; he therefore has the authority to kick Snapper out on his rumpled behind, and he really should have.
Oh, we can't give the audience too little credit because it's a comic book - there's no real ambiguity about Carr's being right about Kara's errors - in fact I'm sure viewers sensed where that scene would go when her piece was read aloud.
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