Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2

[matthunter]

As for Kara's apartment, Cracked has commented before on TV characters who have homes well beyond their apparent means, probably due to the issues in filming a realistically-sized set or, more cynically, still driven by the American acquisitional culture.

Joe West on The Flash lives in a damn nice house for a cop's salary, for example. Now in some US cities property can be cheap, but c'mon.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Joe West on The Flash lives in a damn nice house for a cop's salary, for example. Now in some US cities property can be cheap, but c'mon.

He' a detective who has been on the job for about 30 years. I think he's doing alright

 

[Snaploud]

How Kara affords her apartment according to the Executive Producer.

"In my mind, Mrs. Needleberg, who lives next door, is older and she got the apartment in the building a lot time ago," Adler says. "She gives Kara a break in the rent in return for being her super. But also, Kara doesn't need to be worried about the area she lives in. If she's looking over her shoulder for the guy following her, it doesn't really matter."

So, her explanation is that Kara a) lives in a fancy apartment that happens to be in the worst part of town and b) she has plenty of time (despite working as Cat's assistant and Supergirl) to handle all the minor complaints in an apartment building (acting as the building's superintendent).

I prefer the explanation that she turns coal into diamonds.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The problem is that he was right. A girl with no experience and she didn't attend any School of Journalism or similar. And they imposed Kara on him not as an intern, but as a full fledged reporter. He was right to be a little pissed.

Yes, he was right--and in referring to her as entitled; she does not have the education (when was that mentioned?) or experience to support giving her that kind of position. She needs to earn it, like anyone else, and not have it handed to her all because of Cat.

 

[Christopher]

Look -- out in the hallway! It's a plumber! It's an electrician! It's... Supersuper!

 

[matthunter]

He' a detective who has been on the job for about 30 years. I think he's doing alright

Yeah, but in the flashbacks to Barry's adoption he's in the same house! Did he inherit it?

 

[sojourner]

Yeah, but in the flashbacks to Barry's adoption he's in the same house! Did he inherit it?

It's called a mortgage.

 

[Noname Given]

Look -- out in the hallway! It's a plumber! It's an electrician! It's... Supersuper!

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(Couldn't Resist an opening. )

 

[Skipper]

The same way any freelancer in any field (like, say, me) gets paid for their work -- one sale at a time. Kara's income should depend on selling her work regularly, either to CatCo Magazine or to other publishers (since stringers/freelancers aren't exclusive to a single company).

According to this site, the average salary of a secretary to CEO in United States is $72,559 with an average bonus of $1,836 . I doubt that as a freelance with no experience in that particular field she is doing any better. Unless she is, I don't know, the Mozart of Journalism.

 

[Snaploud]

Unless she is, I don't know, the Mozart of Journalism.

Kara Danvers: the Mozart of Journalism
"The girl of steel brings you words of gold."--Cracked.com

 

[Christopher]

According to this site, the average salary of a secretary to CEO in United States is $72,559 with an average bonus of $1,836 . I doubt that as a freelance with no experience in that particular field she is doing any better. Unless she is, I don't know, the Mozart of Journalism.

Where did I or anyone else suggest that she would be doing better? The point of this new arc is that it's an advance in her career. That's not just about how high her salary is, it's about responsibility and experience and taking a chance on something new in her life. It's basically a civilian-life parallel to her arc of becoming a superhero last season.

 

[matthunter]

It's called a mortgage.

Yeah, got one of those. Had to be earning a damn sight more than I did at the start of my career to get one. Except in the subprime era (and we know how that ended), banks generally want to be assured you have the salary to pay them back before they approve a loan.

 

[Snaploud]

We can believe a man can fly...but the idea that a cop could afford a mortgage...? That's too crazy even for this forum.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Cops in NYC make anywhere from $81,000 for police officer to $100,000+ for Detectives and Lieutenants.

 

[Snaploud]

I'm looking forward to season 8 when one of Barry's rogues goes back in time to get Joe to sign that sub-prime mortgage.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Cops in NYC make anywhere from $81,000 for police officer to $100,000+ for Detectives and Lieutenants.

New York (or just Manhattan if one feels like being a smug elitist) real estate prices are insane because it is a tiny island with no room to build.

A one room closet in the Village would probably cost the same as a house with four bedrooms and two toilets in almost any other city/surburbia on the main land.

Or at least that's what I saw on Girls recently.

Hannah had an explosive orgasm when her agent told her her rent per month in Iowa, for practically a mansion compared to New York standards.

 

[Reverend]

One of the many things the Marvel Netflix shows got right was in their protagonist's accommodations. Jessica Jones lives in a three room rathole of an apartment, Luke Cage lives above a bar (then a barber) while Matt Murdock only has a sweet corner pad with roof access because someone installed a massive LCD billboard across from his window (which matters not to a blind man) and tanked the property value.

 

[urbandefault]

Most tv shows have the main characters, especially the single ones, is housing far bigger than they could afford in the real world. Look at That Girl, a single woman in the 60s struggling to build a career as an actress in New York. Her apartment looked massive.

I accept it because they need the room to shoot the show. In universe, those apartments are much smaller.

One time they got it right was Clark's first digs in Lois & Clark. One room.

 

[Noname Given]

Most tv shows have the main characters, especially the single ones, is housing far bigger than they could afford in the real world. Look at That Girl, a single woman in the 60s struggling to build a career as an actress in New York. Her apartment looked massive.

I accept it because they need the room to shoot the show. In universe, those apartments are much smaller.

One time they got it right was Clark's first digs in Lois & Clark. One room.

Well, with 'That Girl' -- wasn't her Daddy (and or Donald) rich to begin with?

 

[urbandefault]

Well, with 'That Girl' -- wasn't her Daddy (and or Donald) rich to begin with?

You may be right. I may be crazy.