Spoilers Supergirl - Season 5

[JanewayRulz!]

What--no Dallas or Batman (;66) style opening for this series?

Evidently not...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmcNu9-q2Cze-OLWJ66MgYg9Fd8kHNyWR

There is a one using the Superman theme that makes me feel very nostalgic.

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If you aren't into nostalgia...

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If that wasn't strange enough for you...

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I was afraid this next one would just be slow motion jiggles but it turned into my fav because it made Lucy Lane and Samantha Arias series regulars!

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[SAndrews10]

That BAYWATCH one was incredible!

 

[Mr. Adventure]

That BAYWATCH one was incredible!

Works way better than it has any right to.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Supergirl
Season 5 / Episode 14 - "The Bodyguard"

SG/Kara: She continues to complain about not being able to get relationships right. Telegraphing.

"I'm avoiding my own reality." Yawn.

Alex: It was good that she realized that not being at the DEO has her she lacking purpose--just like J'onn once that character was booted from the organization.

Why call Supergirl (other than a forced dilemma on the writer's part) when this recently employed DEO agent should been able to drag J'onn out of the burning house with no problem...

Lex / Brainy: Aside from his Leviathan interests, at least he had the sense to tel Lena notto second guess her plans (evil plans) because of anything Supergirl thinks.

Rojas / Dey: Dey's "I'm a journalist. We put ourselves in danger to show our readers the truth.." Ah. the return of the showrunners making unrealistically sweeping PR statements about the news media they love so much.

Lena: Still moving ahead with her Non Nocere / eugenics program. She does not want to puppet master people? BS. Altering human beings against their will is the textbook definition of that. Now, her great string-puller program has brought out violent reactions to a subject's original emotional/response state, until she's rewarded thanks to Lex's help.

Amy / Todd Sapphire: Not a bad reason to attack Obsidian, but she belongs in jail for all of the collateral damage she's caused.

NOTES: The opening VR scene of the dragon should appear video-gamey, but all it managed to do is show its just as bad as the CG used for the "real world" FX shots.

GRADE: C-.

 

[thribs]

Did they say Star Sapphire or Todd Sapphire?

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Todd. His name appeared in the article found by Brainy, and in the journal written by his wife, I believe.

 

[TheMadCloner]

I thought it was alright. At least it reestablished some storytelling momentum for the final half of the season.

They're obviously setting up Lena and Rojas to be going down similar paths of both thinking they're doing good and helping people, when in reality each of their plans are morally questionable. Supergirl will only be able to turn one of them back to the good side, I wonder which one it'll be.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

They're obviously setting up Lena and Rojas to be going down similar paths of both thinking they're doing good and helping people, when in reality each of their plans are morally questionable. Supergirl will only be able to turn one of them back to the good side, I wonder which one it'll be.

It should be Rojas. She's honestly trying to honor her father's work/memory, and is troubled by her association with the Leviathan gang. Lena is a different animal: she constantly pretends her human experimentation / plot to alter mankind without their consent is not patently evil. That makes her immoral beyond belief and not a sympathetic character at all.

 

[Christopher]

I'm really not a fan of the "technology is dangerous, connecting online cuts us off from each other" mentality of this season. That's decades out of date. Many of us find more connection to others online, especially introverts like me who have a hard time going out and interacting face-to-face with new people. In past seasons, Supergirl has had some really meaningful things to say about genuinely important social and political issues, but this time their viewpoint is misguided. (I mean, whatever happened to the Kara of season 1 who was constantly trading texts with cousin Clark, and whose best friend was Winn the computer nerd?)

 

[Romulan_spy]

Supergirl with Friends intro:

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[David cgc]

I'm really not a fan of the "technology is dangerous, connecting online cuts us off from each other" mentality of this season. That's decades out of date. Many of us find more connection to others online, especially introverts like me who have a hard time going out and interacting face-to-face with new people. In past seasons, Supergirl has had some really meaningful things to say about genuinely important social and political issues, but this time their viewpoint is misguided. (I mean, whatever happened to the Kara of season 1 who was constantly trading texts with cousin Clark, and whose best friend was Winn the computer nerd?)

It'd be interesting to have a less trite commentary on the dangers of the internet. Hell, at this point, it's probably an easier case to make that technology is letting us connect with real people in a way that's a little too intimate and real, exposing things that we as a society are used to keeping private in living memory, but that were closer to the surface in older, more pugnacious times (oddly enough, they did sort of walk up to that with Lena's subplot, where the political prisoner suddenly had all his feelings of injury and rage at being mistreated amplified as soon as he was insulated from consequences by his tormenter becoming a pacifist; it'd be very easy to turn that into a parable about "keyboard warriors"). I saw an interesting observation yesterday that I'd never consciously picked up on (but also never realized someone else could miss), that switching platforms is viewed as an escalation in on-line etiquette; emailing someone directly because you were upset at something they posted on a forum, for instance, is regarded as being as overt as showing up at someone's workplace about something they said down at the pub.

Admittedly, 100% effective VR is kind of world-breaking technology for the very lotus-eater reasons they're building up to, so they have to build up to writing it out since they introduced it in the first place, but there are more apt stories they could do about that; how people behave differently in different on-line and real-world spaces, what happens when those walls are broken down by companies that want to make money by just pervasively connecting different islands of sociability without any thought (for instance, the story about a girl who took very careful pains to use all of Facebook's privacy features to their fullest extent, but was nonetheless "outed" by the platform when it showed something with privacy settings she didn't control to her parents). They could do a story about how alien immigrants use it to find communities, either amongst others of their species around the world, or in places where they can adopt a different identity. Plenty of possibilities.

 

[TheMadCloner]

It should be Rojas. She's honestly trying to honor her father's work/memory, and is troubled by her association with the Leviathan gang. Lena is a different animal: she constantly pretends her human experimentation / plot to alter mankind without their consent is not patently evil. That makes her immoral beyond belief and not a sympathetic character at all.

Most likely scenario is Lena "redeems" herself by talking down/stopping Rojas.

There's a chance she uses Non Nocere on Rojas to save Supergirl at some point too. I'd put the odds at 10:1 that happens.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I wonder what would happen if "someone" used Non Nocere on Lena?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"It's a Super Life," the Mxyzptlk episode, was excellent, and easily among the top ten Supergirl episodes.

Supergirl's new pants costume looks absolutely beautiful under bright white light, as seen in the most recent episode "The Bodyguard," under which the different hues and textures that comprise the different blue sections of the suit are more differentiated than usual.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

I wonder what would happen if "someone" used Non Nocere on Lena?

Like Lex, the so affectionate brother? I guess that Lena would be under control, ready to commit the unthinkable (even if Lena and Kara are on bad terms with each other, Lex perfectly knows that what can think Kara is still important for his sister so, I wouldn't be a surprised if Lex used Lena as hook to trap Kara and then force Lena to harm her... . A Luthor would have hurt or killed a Super and he would not have got his hands dirty with Kara's blood, for sure!
But as a scientist, I think that she would be ready to use herself as a cobaye, in order to stop harming "innocent" people like prisonners.

 

[Kirk Prime]

I wonder what would happen if "someone" used Non Nocere on Lena?

This would be a tremendous plot twist. It would involve stronger writing. It would also be karma, yet it would not redeem Lena.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

A-yup.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.eonl...regnant-expecting-first-child-with-chris-wood

Congratulations, Melissa and Chris!

 

[Guy Gardener]

I wonder what would happen if "someone" used Non Nocere on Lena?

A fool who thinks that they are doing the right thing, does not know that they are doing the wrong thing.

So, no difference?

 

[thribs]

Seriously? They killed Dean Cain? I know the actor is a bit mad these days but that just seemed unnecessary.
They could always get Superman to replace Supergirl. Might give the show a rating boost.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Supergirl
Season 5 / Episode 15 - "Reality Bytes"

SG/Kara: "If I want to take a night off, there's someone there who can save the day."
Yeah, sure. She never said that about the forgotten Guardian. ..and its not like Nia is only dealing with superpowered threats--she's fighting basic criminals as well (and Guardian appeared to be able to handle that level of crime more often than not), yet Nia is not questioned at all. In fact, when James tried to explain his reason for being Guardian, initially, it fell on deaf ears.

I take it the Jeremiah tag could be the excuse for Benoist to eventually take maternity leave .

Alex / J'onn / Kelly: The Filler Trio. Alex has been reduced to not much more than an afterthought, and Kelly? Why was she added to the series?

Nia: "This happens more than you can possibly know" Sooo, that justifies entrapment and wanting to kill the attacker?
"A few hours, then I'm doing this my way."
Sooo, that justifies entrapment and wanting to kill the attacker? No.

NOTES: Not much to the would-be A-plot concerning Nia. The showrunners were intent on making this the "message" show of the season (so far), but it never felt natural (as it should have been), it was more about getting to the Nia being violent and Kara's expected speech, instead of laying down the seeds of a character coming to grips with the hard realities of life--including not resorting to revenge without someone hand-holding her back from the edge.

For all of the hype about Maines being added the series, the SG showrunners have not done much with her at all; she's largely been an accent to scenes, rather than driving the material until now, and even in this case, the B and C plots cut into what could have been a more thoughtful character study of Nia.

The ending was a major rip of the most famous scene from Coma (1978)--

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GRADE: C+