But it makes it look as if he just dropped her off and then left which means Superman is a real dick.
Yeah, but that's par for the course.
But as "Jimmy" said, he, Kal, wanted her to make the decision as to when herself. And you can't have big blue watch over Metropolis and visit the cuz on holidays.
What exactly is wrong with female empowerment anthems?
CBS doesn't need "the fandom". It's a national network, and the number of comic books fans out there is rounding error on their demographics. The CW doesn't rely on "the fandom" for Arrow and the Flash. Their target audience is 18-34 year old women, who typically aren't comic book fans. I suspect CBS is aiming at the same demographic. They don't need "the fandom" if they can get a chunk of the regular population; it'll be a audience than all the fans put together.
Because it turns the show into yet another Felicity or something on ABC Family. She's FREAKING SUPERGIRL. That's plenty empowering without her leaning to stand up to either of her "bosses" or how to date guys who aren't jerks. As for the demographic CBS is desperately looking for a show that can appeal to the younger audience, as you say the 18-34 demo or even younger 18-29. CBS may have the most watched show on TV in the US with NCIS but it's 18-49 demo tells a different story. They are barely keeping up in the demo against shows with half the viewers.
You always need fandom to stoke the fires for something as offbeat genre wise as a superhero show in primetime. CW is a tiny network, they can get away with it and Flash, their number one show in ratings, would be considered a middling success on large networks. AoS survives on ABC because ABC and Marvel are Disney and they understand the synergy they get with AoS between the MCU releases. Gotham on Fox, who knows. It's more of a police/mob drama than anything "super hero".
NBC is bringing back Heroes and CBS needed something to fill that gap in genre and with the same production company that succeeded with The Flash and Arrow that shows the range from light hearted fun to darkly dark dark of the darkness, CBS stepped up and paid the piper for Supergirl. You don't think WB wouldn't try to make as much as they can from a major network Vs their "own" for a property than can reference Superman without ever saying his name. They likely presented CBS a list of what's off the table, future movie properties, and told them to pick anything but those.
Yes you need fandom because if there was enough scuttlebutt that the show's terrible, like the Wonder Woman pilot, it wouldn't get off the ground. At least now it's up to the mundanes to keep the show on the air.