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Re: Supergirl TV Series
« Reply #200 on: December 08, 2015, 11:49:04 PM »
(No one wants to be Firefly.)
Is 13 years "too soon"?

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Re: Supergirl TV Series
« Reply #201 on: December 08, 2015, 11:55:17 PM »
I know, I almost threw a "too soon?" in there.  :)
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« Reply #202 on: December 09, 2015, 04:16:12 AM »
Is 13 years "too soon"?

(almost getting tears watching poor Inara)

Inara is doing quite well on Gotham thank you.  Not that I don't want more episodes or another movie mind you.  I think they should do a Next Gen sort of thing but use the survivors as a bridge to the new series and also as semi regulars.

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« Reply #203 on: December 09, 2015, 04:27:36 AM »
I liked last night's episode quite a bit.

I thought the series got off to a so-so start, but it's improving. I just wished they'd pace things out better. The early plot-line involving the aunt feels premature to me; more like it should be a late season development leading to a cliff-hanger finale.

Maybe they felt rushed to get a lot into a half-season due to being unsure whether they'd get to make more or not.

I think they are cramming so much into it because the showrunners know that CBS will happily kill off any series that can't maintain high fan interest throughout the current season.  On the big three these days no series is allowed to gradually build an audience.  They either have the numbers after 4 episodes or they are gone.  SHIELD probably wouldn't have survived if it hadn't had the built in audience from the movies and from Clark Gregg.

Fortunately all the other network superhero series are on the CW which is more than happy to give even struggling genre series an extra season to try and gain or regain an audience.

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« Reply #204 on: December 09, 2015, 07:22:08 AM »
I was expecting Hank Henshaw to turn out to be some sort of cyborg.  But instead there was an interesting twist.  Don't really care for Zodette, though.
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« Reply #205 on: December 09, 2015, 02:22:28 PM »
Don't really care for Zodette, though.
I concur.

This is the major story-arch element I felt should have been left for later. Or left out entirely; it's hard for me to buy into the last survivors theme when there's so many other apparent survivors.

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« Reply #206 on: December 09, 2015, 05:08:51 PM »
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I wasn't familiar with Jemm before this but my first thought was 'wow, what a lame looking Despero.' after finding out it wasn't Despero my first thought was 'wow, what a lame clone of Despero'.

I think we're lucky they had renewal issues though. If this were on the CW they'd have dragged the Henshaw suspicion thing on for the whole season. It seemed kind of clipped but I'll take that over the alternative any day.

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« Reply #207 on: December 09, 2015, 09:48:52 PM »
I was expecting Hank Henshaw to turn out to be some sort of cyborg.  But instead there was an interesting twist.  Don't really care for Zodette, though.

FYI, doing a google search for "jemm supergirl" brings up a news article revealing that plot twist.

I'm not watching the show, but I wanted to know who Jemm was.
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« Reply #208 on: December 09, 2015, 10:05:17 PM »
When I want to find out more about a character, I go straight to Wikipedia.  Which is generally a safe choice if you avoid the In Other Media section.
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« Reply #209 on: December 09, 2015, 10:15:56 PM »
I will be somewhat let down if at some point Astra doesn't demand that Kara kneels before her :P
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« Reply #210 on: December 16, 2015, 07:57:11 AM »
So Astra is a superpowered ecoterrorist?  She's not getting any less lame.

And what an asinine place to end an episode.
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« Reply #211 on: December 16, 2015, 02:22:54 PM »
It looks like that the only way for Kara to persuade Cat that she's not Supergirl would be to find a shapeshifter who could take on her form and be in the same place as her at the same time.
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« Reply #212 on: December 16, 2015, 04:39:09 PM »
It looks like that the only way for Kara to persuade Cat that she's not Supergirl would be to find a shapeshifter who could take on her form and be in the same place as her at the same time.
... does she happen to know any shapeshifters? >.>

And isn't showing up with your double (e.g., Alfred in a batman costume) a common trope to protect the secret identity?

I enjoyed the episode, and can let a few less-believable bits to slide by.

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« Reply #213 on: December 16, 2015, 07:30:57 PM »

I enjoyed the episode, and can let a few less-believable bits to slide by.

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Wait, the part where the glasses and ponytail weren't an effective disguise anymore was a 'less-believable bit'?

I kinda thought her leaving Cat to deal with the emergency (not to mention the reluctance to take off the glasses) ruled out any way of putting the secret ID back in the bag. Presumably they'll just let Cat keep the secret, either out of the goodness of her heart or because Kara has the goods on Cat's son and Cat's view of the world wouldn't let her rule out a retaliatory reveal.

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« Reply #214 on: December 16, 2015, 10:40:15 PM »
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Wait, the part where the glasses and ponytail weren't an effective disguise anymore was a 'less-believable bit'?

I kinda thought her leaving Cat to deal with the emergency (not to mention the reluctance to take off the glasses) ruled out any way of putting the secret ID back in the bag. Presumably they'll just let Cat keep the secret, either out of the goodness of her heart or because Kara has the goods on Cat's son and Cat's view of the world wouldn't let her rule out a retaliatory reveal.

I just want to say something about Superman and Supergirl's secret identity. What bothers me the most is that they are the only superheroes who doesn't wear a mask and disguise their voices like everybody else in the DC Universe. How the hell nobody doesn't recognize who Clark Kent/Kal El and Kara Zor'el is. All they're wearing is glasses and a ponytail for Supergirl and then all of a sudden when it's time for Superman or Supergirl to save the day they take off their glasses and clothes and fly off!!! Like WTF?? It's like when I wear glasses everybody knows who I am but, when I take my glasses off people think I'm a different person. It's still me but, without the glasses. <--- That last example is my real life experience I do wear glasses. I can't believe Cat is the ONLY person who figure out who Kara is. It's weird...............  >:( >:(

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« Reply #215 on: December 17, 2015, 12:21:09 AM »
The Christopher Reeves Superman was pretty convincing, in that it was a total shift in style and tone, that went along with the glasses and comb-over.
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« Reply #216 on: December 17, 2015, 12:31:07 AM »
On the subject of shapeshifting Martians, some White Martians will apparently be making an appearance in episode 11.
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« Reply #217 on: December 17, 2015, 01:26:42 AM »
On the subject of shapeshifting Martians, some White Martians will apparently be making an appearance in episode 11.

But they're shapeshifters...maybe they're just more green martians :P

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« Reply #218 on: December 17, 2015, 03:05:04 AM »
I just want to say something about Superman and Supergirl's secret identity. What bothers me the most is that they are the only superheroes who doesn't wear a mask and disguise their voices like everybody else in the DC Universe. How the hell nobody doesn't recognize who Clark Kent/Kal El and Kara Zor'el is. All they're wearing is glasses and a ponytail for Supergirl and then all of a sudden when it's time for Superman or Supergirl to save the day they take off their glasses and clothes and fly off!!! Like WTF?? It's like when I wear glasses everybody knows who I am but, when I take my glasses off people think I'm a different person. It's still me but, without the glasses. <--- That last example is my real life experience I do wear glasses. I can't believe Cat is the ONLY person who figure out who Kara is. It's weird...............  >:( >:(

As someone already said, Chris Reeves did the best job of conveying the idea that Clark Kent and Superman were actually two different people.
 
The comic book Kara Pre-Crisis used to wear a wig in her civilian ID.

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« Reply #219 on: December 17, 2015, 05:41:52 AM »
Spoiler for Hidden:
Wait, the part where the glasses and ponytail weren't an effective disguise anymore was a 'less-believable bit'?

I kinda thought her leaving Cat to deal with the emergency (not to mention the reluctance to take off the glasses) ruled out any way of putting the secret ID back in the bag. Presumably they'll just let Cat keep the secret, either out of the goodness of her heart or because Kara has the goods on Cat's son and Cat's view of the world wouldn't let her rule out a retaliatory reveal.


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