Spoilers Supergirl - Season 5

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Wrong quota.

Azai Tesfai was brought into replace a lesbian.

When I mentioned the term of quota, it was about the fact that for a regular black actor leaving, we get a regular black actress entering and of course, to justify this choice, producers introduced her as James sister, sister we had never heard of before.
Would not it have been better to take an actress from another ethnic group, like an asian - under represented in the show - woman, with a complete different backup, like the new girl in the town
It seems that Kelly Olsen's character was created to mainly play Alex's love interest. Well, let's just hope that she will be less blank than her brother and have a something serious and consistent next to than playing Alex's girlfriend...
Plus, my interrogation is, will Alex/Kelly's relationship be convincing? After only one scene together at the hospital while James was hospitalized, we wonder where was the spark of love at first sight (and the deleted scenes showing Alex trying to confort Kelly was not more convincing either, IMHO), while with Alex/Maggie, it was clear very quickly that there was something, maybe indefinable at the beginning, but it was there. Same for Kara/Lena, there is an alchemy even if producers present it as a deep friendly connection and it's ok for me.

("Maggie" went over and did some stellar work on season three of Punisher.)

I don't know this actress but it seems to me that Floriana Lima did her job (=acting) with conviction, as a lesbian cop, who was proud of who she was and knew what she wanted in her life.

As I tried to say the last time, I don't care about skin color, gender or sexual tendancies of actors/actresses (and their characters). I only care about them doing their job convincingly enough that viewers can believe in their performances. For them, that is the minimum, right?! And according to this criteria, Mehcad Brooks's performance as James Olsen was inconsistent and even flat. Even Olsen as The Guardian was ridiculous.

Oh and regarding James Olsen's character, I have a question: in the 1st part of season 4, we learnt that further to Lena's intervention with the DA, Olsen won't be
be pursued for his actions as The Guardian but he was ordered too not to put on his suit again or otherwise he would go to jail. With Winn's departure in the 2nd part of the said season, the Guardian's storyline had been abandoned but I was surprised to see that James Olsen was wearing his suit again in published pictures of season 5's premiere. So, will the DA's office will end up suing him for violation of the agreement passed between the DA and Lena? Hey, that could explain Olsen's departure from our TV screen. That, or a forced departure from National City to avoid prosecution, and to start again on new bases.

Blond gay doctor on Grey's Anatomy keeps getting a new blond lesbian Doctor, every time her old blond lesbian girlfriend doctor figures out what's wrong with her. The audience would get confused if there were ever more than two lesbians on the show at any one time. (Brooke Smith, Jessica Capshaw, and at least one other Blond actresses. Sara Ramirez is not blond.)

Hey, Jessica Capshaw was great (fresh, funny but also able to be dramatic when it was necessary -> I was impressed by her performance in "Invest in love" 6x08) as a lesbian pediatician!
Very disappointed to see that Capshaw was so slow to get a new regular role in a show. She deserves a good role.

Naveen Andrews got shitcanned last month. Instinct is cancelled.

Ah, blame it on bad luck but his acting perofrmance would deserve better, that's sure.

 

[Guy Gardener]

As I tried to say the last time, I don't care about skin color, gender or sexual tendancies of actors/actresses (and their characters). I only care about them doing their job convincingly enough that viewers can believe in their performances. For them, that is the minimum, right?! And according to this criteria, Mehcad Brooks's performance as James Olsen was inconsistent and even flat. Even Olsen as The Guardian was ridiculous.

Lima was born on 26 March 1981, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She is an American nationality and is of Irish, German, Italian, and English ethnicity. There is no information about her parents on the internet.Oct 5, 2018

Lima is not black.

They got rid of an American woman and brought in a new American woman.

What about Kelex? (Kill Lex? I think Clark has some serious problems he is suppressing.)

Alex probably has permissions to get into the fortress by herself, and the robot will obey her, just like as if she was one of the aliens... So if she just needs to harvest some DNA, and a few hours later Kelex will hand back a perfect three year old human, what exactly is stopping her?

Please don't be Jimmy's DNA.

On one hand Jimmy sucks, on the other hand, using sibling DNA is a good way to keep both halves of a LGBT couple in the loop as blood relatives, and it gives the grandparents less to snark about.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Lima is not black.

They got rid of an American woman and brought in a new American woman. .

I never wrote that Lima was black (Kelly Olsen/Azie Tesfai is though). I only refered to Maggie as a fit romantic partner for Alex. As for her origins, if I remember well, she was an American citizen whose parents were Mexican, right?!.

Please don't be Jimmy's DNA.

Que Dieu me damne!

On one hand Jimmy sucks, on the other hand, using sibling DNA is a good way to keep both halves of a LGBT couple in the loop as blood relatives, and it gives the grandparents less to snark about.

<chuckle>

 

[Guy Gardener]

Oh!

I see what I did.

Mechad Brooks is leaving?

Did not know that.

Thought you were talking about Lima in the beginning.

Sorry.

Which is sad becuase I think the actor could do better if he had anything to work with. I lost all respect for "Jimmy" when he got a weight bench in his office at CatCo.

Winn and Maggie are the only people who left "recently" of note.

Calista has been gone for a dogs age.

When I was talking about babies earlier, I was thinking about Alex going to proffer Maxwell Lord... Although his live feed into Kara's apartment is probably still running, so he might just present himself gentlemanly at her darkest hour.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

And according to this criteria, Mehcad Brooks's performance as James Olsen was inconsistent and even flat. Even Olsen as The Guardian was ridiculous.

More on all things James Olsen when he makes his fifth and final appearance in this new season.

 

[Tuskin38]

https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/09/25/supergirl-kara-lena-relationship-season-5/

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

More on all things James Olsen when he makes his fifth and final appearance in this new season.

Even if I know that it is Mehcad Brooks decision to leave (dixit to focus on other projects), I think that according to his charater's situation in the show, it was the best thing and the right time to do it . James Olsen went nowhere almost from the beginning as well in his professional live (with the arrival of a new CatCo's boss, he should return to his job of photographer - which seems not really exciting -, as on private side, he has no love interest in view and still less a hobby -> for me, he became the Guardian for the wrong reasons. And without someone to guide him like Winn or Brainiac when he wears the suit, he is lost).

 

[JD]

I think you mean "will not"? She explicitly said she didn't want to kill Supergirl.

Yeah, I meant not. My brain tends to be faster than my fingers. There are times I've had to go back and add words or letters I missed three or four times on one post.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, I meant not. My brain tends to be faster than my fingers. There are times I've had to go back and add words or letters I missed three or four times on one post.

You're not alone. I've seen a lot of people do that -- leave out the word "not" when its absence completely inverted the meaning of the sentence (though the real meaning is usually evident from context). I've long found it weird that it's the single most important word in the sentence that gets so consistently omitted.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/09/25/supergirl-kara-lena-relationship-season-5/

Further to that information, Kara/Lena's shippers are going to create the craziest scenarios in their heads and in the end, they will end up being disappointed.
Indeed, producers and writers will never have the balls to pair them as a romantic couple (they'll already have their hands busy with Alex/Kelly and Brainiac/Nia Nal), while it might have been interesting - if done correctly - to see a Super & a Luthor, sharing a love relationship, especially after the full of hatred one Superman and Lex shared. It would have been a sign of hope that things can change for the better... Well, it must be my romantic and optimistic sides which go out!

But for my part, I really begin to be excited to know that we will see a focus on Kara & Lena trying to rebuild their friendship slowly but surely with ups and downs (once Lena's anger & Kara's feeling of guilt past) throughout the season because well beyond the crises that they could cross and they did, especially when Kara was Supergirl, they really care about each other.

 

[Guy Gardener]

K..

Lena can kill Jimmy.

Turn herself into a real villain, even if it's by accident.

I binged some Smallville last week, and therein do you know who killed Smallville Jimmy?

Sam Witwer (Doomsday).

Bring Ben Lockwood (Sam Witwer) back next year to kill Jimmy Olsen.

In the coming years, how many times can Witwer kill Jimmy Olsen?

Every time some new actor gets cast as Jimmy in a new SuperPerson production, they nearly immediately get a prank call from Sam Witwer: "I'm coming to get you, Jimmy."

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Lena can kill Jimmy.
Turn herself into a real villain, even if it's by accident.

It could go either way at this point, but if Lena kills him out of her own interests, there should be no redemption arc and gloss over the fact that she would be a murderer...but that is exactly what would happen.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I really hope they cut McGrath loose, finally. This show desperately needs some edge.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Lena can kill Jimmy.

Wait, I thought that producers said to love so much Mehcad Brooks, they "looked forward to James returning to National City at some point to visit his sister Kelly, and his super friends", what means tha they have no intention to kill of his character, right?!.
So, according to this declaration, I don't think that James Olsen will be Lena's first victim of her supposed "revenge". On the other hand, that he is seriously hurt by one of her inventions and be forced to leave National City or that she refused to support him again if the DA Office decides to pursue him, is very possible.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

I really hope they cut McGrath loose, finally. This show desperately needs some edge.

Firstly why? It seemed to me that her character, Lena Luthor, was quite popular in the fandom (and not only for the Kara/Lena's shippers)... . It's not the fault of Katie McGrath's acting if her pairing with Mehcad Brooks didn't work and Lena/James sucked miserably.

Second, it was said that season 5 will focus in great part on Kara/Lena's relationship and I really don't think that once they will rekindle their friendship at the end because I don't see any other way around it, McGrath's character will be cut loose especially if there is a 6th and maybe last season.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Lena used to be Morgan LeFay on Merlin.

Supercool baddie.

Evil cut loose.

Katie has been sitting on her hands for a few years now.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Exactly. She's arguably the best actor on the show - at least since Cali left - and has four seasons of nothing to show for it.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Firstly why? It seemed to me that her character, Lena Luthor, was quite popular in the fandom (and not only for the Kara/Lena's shippers)... . It's not the fault of Katie McGrath's acting if her pairing with Mehcad Brooks didn't work and Lena/James sucked miserably.

But the actress can try to bring more out of a plot for her character--that is, if she found it lacking. But overall, your view that the pairing "sucked miserably" is a showrunner problem....

 

[Guy Gardener]

We should have seen some tasteful love scenes, and the some untasteful love scenes. Get some use out of that weight bench in his office.

Jimmy dresses up as Superman, for sex with Lena, and half the way through all that banging, Lena stops calling him Superman, and starts calling him Supergirl.

 

[David cgc]

Exactly. She's arguably the best actor on the show - at least since Cali left - and has four seasons of nothing to show for it.

I think Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME thought you meant "cut loose" in the sense of "fire," not as in "let her cut loose and show off some real acting."