Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3

[Guy Gardener]

If Clark and Jimmy were peers, then there should have been a love triangle with Lois.

Instead, Clark sets up the photojournalist with his cousin who is 13 years younger than Clark and Lois (while Jimmy is dating Lois's sister Lucy).

Weird.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If Clark and Jimmy were peers, then there should have been a love triangle with Lois.

Instead, Clark sets up the photojournalist with his cousin who is 13 years younger than Clark and Lois (while Jimmy is dating Lois's sister Lucy).

Weird.

Once again another thought that doesn't connect to the previous one.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Jimmy is a 15 year old intern college student.

Clark is a 21 year old reporter pretending to be a massive Poindexter.

I've been describing a few different but obvious disconnects these two men would have while bonding as equals because of their gaping age difference.

 

[dahj]

I see this side issue is still kicking.

*crickets*

I'll show myself out.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Jimmy is a 15 year old intern college student.

Clark is a 21 year old reporter pretending to be a massive Poindexter.

I've been describing a few different but obvious disconnects these two men would have while bonding as equals because of their gaping age difference.

Nah, you're doing it because you like finding the most outrageous scenario.
LOVE TRIANGLE!!!
SEX ABUSE!!!!
UNSANITARY TEEN COOK!!!
COUSIN HOOK UP!!!!!

You know, there are probably millions if not billions of teens and adults who have a mentor/mentee relationship or just a straight up friendship with out any thing salacious involved.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Not salacious, it's just about impossible, if the younger half can't be out after 6pm without ringing his mommy for permission, to avoid being the subject of an Amber alert.

A mentor/mentee relationship is not about being equals, but that is almost always how this plays out, where Jimmy, not James, has a work-friendship with Mr Kent and Miss Lane.

Can't drink, go to venues or strip clubs either and won't be covered in Clarks insurance, because his moms won't let Jimmy borrow her car on a school night.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not salacious, it's just about impossible, if the younger half can't be out after 6pm without ringing his mommy for permission, to avoid being the subject of an Amber alert.

Is it? I was attending Scout meetings at 6pm at age 15. No note from mommy needed.
Tossing out "Amber Alert" once again goes for the salacious interpretation.

mentor/mentee relationship is not about being equals, but that is almost always how this plays out, where Jimmy, not James, has a work-friendship with Mr Kent and Miss Lane.

How what plays out? Jimmy was a "cub reporter", basically a trainee learning the ropes from the more experienced Lois and Clark. Later with experience he becomes their equal. A normal course of events.

Can't drink, go to venues or strip clubs either and won't be covered in Clarks insurance, because his moms won't let Jimmy borrow her car on a school night.

Yeah, I don't think Perry's gonna send a young Jimmy to bars and strip clubs for a story. But continue to go for the extreme scenario.

 

[dahj]

Okay, Lena might have a decent excuse after all

 

[Romulan_spy]

Looking forward to this episode.

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[TREK_GOD_1]

Supergirl--
"Dark Side of the Moon"

SG/Kara: "I wish my day today life didn't have to have a disguise..." / "trade off" sort of rings hollow as she spends 99% of her time as Supergirl. Of course, this also seems like a line teasing SG will want to live on Argo (teaser bears that out) and/or considering telling her Lena that SG & Kara are one and the same, since she (Lena) was the last person to actively call her out on having a double life. Even if that happens, that should not erase the real ethical issues they have with each other.

Alura: Several references to her husband's heroism in saving Argo, but it would have been cool to see a flashback to his desperation during those last days.

Alex: The conversation with Collins was an interesting bit of closure, with Collins' depression / drinking his sorrows away proving he has a conscience after all.

Lena: "Sam or the world" leaves only one choice, but in the event the black rock works, that means the Kryptonite debate will continue--even if Supergirl takes a (temporary) leave of absence.

Reign: "Will you still need each other?" Telegraphing. See the SG/Kara entry.
"There is no one to pray to. There is no God..." Aggressive atheism. Not a surprise from one representing he opposite of hope.

NOTES: The Argo city CG....so cheap.

The Argo council's bickering was a soft play on just about every "last days of Krypton" argument scene ever filmed. What's good about it is that it illustrates that the culture never seems to make the right decisions at the most crucial moments--until now.

Alex having Ruby read a book on Ada Lovelace is part of the showrunners' nod to important women in history as inspiration, but her historical status has come under serious question by some modern researchers who reached other conclusions about her work. They should have picked someone like Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who left a large, uncontested footprint for mathematicians.

The teaser of Supergirl leaving earth for Argo...come on, that's not going to last, but James saying, "we're down one bulletproof superhero" naturally leads to the question, "will Superman finally show up for the final act of this Reign plot?"

GRADE: B

 

[DigificWriter]

I'm not sure on the spelling, but I'm almost 100% positive that the writers named the Dark Priestess who voted to give Kara the "black rock" after the villainess from Supergirl: The Movie, which is neat.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Selena. My thoughts are mixed on that. Clearly their version of the movie villain. Big change her being Kryptonian not Human. But in the movie Selena mixed Black Magic and Kryptonian science. Here the World Killer Cult is basically Kryptonian Black magic. So the end result is kind of similar.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I know how the movie spelled the character's name, but am unsure of how it's being spelled on the show because they pronounced it as "Sa-lay-na" instead of "Seh-lee-na".

 

[Christopher]

What I don't get is why Supergirl didn't recognize the architecture and clothing as Kryptonian as soon as they arrived. I mean, earlier seasons established that Kryptonians wore their pentagonal house crests on every item of clothing -- young Kara even had it on her pajamas. So it should've been immediately obvious to her that she was among her own people.

Odd to hear Alura say that it was Zor-El and she who had the idea to send Kara to Earth. Wouldn't that have been Jor-El's plan, traditionally?

^ I know how the movie spelled the character's name, but am unsure of how it's being spelled on the show because they pronounced it as "Sa-lay-na" instead of "Seh-lee-na".

I'm not sure which "they" you're referring to there. I'm fairly certain Anjali Jay's character here was "Seh-lee-na." I know because I envisioned it in my head as "Selina," like Catwoman. I didn't even make the connection to the movie character.

 

[DigificWriter]

What I don't get is why Supergirl didn't recognize the architecture and clothing as Kryptonian as soon as they arrived. I mean, earlier seasons established that Kryptonians wore their pentagonal house crests on every item of clothing -- young Kara even had it on her pajamas. So it should've been immediately obvious to her that she was among her own people.

Odd to hear Alura say that it was Zor-El and she who had the idea to send Kara to Earth. Wouldn't that have been Jor-El's plan, traditionally?

Jor-El and Lara were going to send Kal to Earth; it was Zor-El and Alura's idea to send Kara as his guardian.

I'm not sure which "they" you're referring to there. I'm fairly certain Anjali Jay's character here was "Seh-lee-na." I know because I envisioned it in my head as "Selina," like Catwoman. I didn't even make the connection to the movie character.

I don't remember which of the Council members addresses the Dark Priestess by name, but the way the actor pronounced it came out as "Sa-lay-na".

 

[Dick Whitman]

The way they executed Argo City from a production standpoint was severely lacking. Apparently they shot those outdoors scenes at a Vancouver park/nature preserve. It certainly shows! I have never seen any version of Krypton I can remember with green grassed landscapes. A color filter to all those scenes would have at least given it an alien look.

 

[Christopher]

Jor-El and Lara were going to send Kal to Earth; it was Zor-El and Alura's idea to send Kara as his guardian.

Sure, but the way Alura phrased it implied it was all their idea.

I don't remember which of the Council members addresses the Dark Priestess by name, but the way the actor pronounced it came out as "Sa-lay-na".

I just rewatched that part of the episode -- twice -- to see how Erica Durance pronounced the name, and it was ambiguous. I heard it as "Seleena" the first time, but I can understand how you could've heard it differently. It was sort of in between the two.

I have never seen any version of Krypton I can remember with green grassed landscapes.

Not generally onscreen, no, but in the pre-Crisis comics, it was a much more inviting world than the barren landscape that's been favored since the Donner movie.

A color filter to all those scenes would have at least given it an alien look.

The quality of the image color was subtly different from the Earth scenes, a bit redder to suggest the different sun spectrum, but not blatantly so. (In reality, the color temperature of a so-called "red star" would be pretty much like that of an incandescent light bulb, and the human eye and brain would see it as white light regardless, just with more of an "indoor" quality even outdoors.)

 

[Snaploud]

When did Alex gain super-powers? There is no way even an exceptional human athlete could have pulled off those moves.

That guy was really inept with explosives, by the way. Alex should have been dead three times over in this episode.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Interesting, I watch my local cable through their Roku app. I did not see any difference in the coloring. But in general it's hard to get my local CW channel to look that good through Roku. Even on it's the digital version everything looks washed out.

 

[DigificWriter]

I have no idea why it didn't register with me that Alura was the one who addressed the Dark Priestess by name, and now I feel sheepish.

Regarding the exterior landscape of Argo City, we never actually saw said exteriors when we flashed back to it during Season 1, so we don't actually know what things looked like "on the ground".