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« Reply #220 on: December 17, 2015, 11:17:29 AM »
I can't believe Cat is the ONLY person who figure out who Kara is.

The other evening, I attended a Christmas party at the gym where I exercise, and I chatted with a young woman who wore her hair down, which stylishly framed her face. The next night, a girl I had seen at the gym many times before, always with her hair pulled up and back, greeted me as if she knew me. It took me a few moments to realize, it was the same young woman from the party. I had not recognized her just because her hair-style was different.

Guys are dumb sometimes, which helps to explain why men can't pattern match beyond Clark and Kara's eyeglasses. But, why can't women see that Kara is Supergirl?
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« Reply #221 on: December 18, 2015, 02:46:29 AM »
The idea that a secret identity would be so easy to protect is definitely one of those "less believable bits", and in choosing those words I was trying to be kind.

It's not believable at all. Sure, there are people who will be fooled by that sort of change in appearance, but not enough to protect a secret identity of an extraordinary person. Look at how often famous people get caught trying to go out in public to shop and so forth without being harassed by fans. Then imagine in our modern times trying to be super-someone in secret with cameras, other surveillance and so forth everywhere. I'm sure it was sellable to kids in the 1930's, but today, I feel it's just part of the total set of superhero assumptions we rationalize or ignore away so that we can enjoy the genre's stories.

Because I don't believe people can have super-strength, laser-beam eyes or fly around either; but as a package with a secret identity, I'll let it all slide and enjoy the story. :)

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« Reply #222 on: December 18, 2015, 04:10:20 AM »
Ah ok, i thought you were saying that the failure of the secret ID was less believable.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I like that they piled on an extra layer of ridiculous by having Cat figure it out from coincidences but still be completely thrown by the glasses though.

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« Reply #223 on: December 30, 2015, 08:20:27 AM »
A promo for the first next episode on January 4th - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8BN4u1__NA
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« Reply #224 on: January 01, 2016, 04:27:33 AM »
Well, I've given up on watching any Paramount or CBS products for the foreseeable unless I pirate them.  I am really angry at Paramount for suing Axanar and don't want to put any more money in their pockets.  They have succeeded in getting to me as much as NCSoft.  Paramount has never bothered with Star Trek fan films or series before.  They have in fact encouraged it to keep the Star Trek property alive and in the minds of fans.  But then along came Axanar which has the heart of TOS and looks fantastic.  Paramount just doesn't want anybody saying that their latest movie or the upcoming series are good but not up to Axanar standards.

If you have no clue what Axanar is then shame on you.  Some great mainstream actors are involved including Tony Todd and Gary Graham just to mention the alliterative ones.  Go watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA
Prelude to Axanar.  It's the setup for the movie.  And this was done on a shoestring budget.   The full movie which was kickstarter funded should be fantastic and put The Fast and the Trekiest to shame.

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« Reply #225 on: January 01, 2016, 05:08:50 AM »
Once you start officially getting money from people, you've moved beyond "fan film".  Getting Kickstarter funding for a project involving properties you have no rights to doesn't seem like a particularly bright idea.
When you insult someone by calling them a "pig" or a "dog" you aren't maligning pigs and dogs everywhere.  The same is true of any term used as an insult.

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« Reply #226 on: January 01, 2016, 05:13:30 PM »
Star Trek Continues did a Kickstarter and Paramount said nothing.
Star Trek Renegades the same
Star Trek Farragut the same
Star Trek New Voyages the same

The difference is they all look like fan productions and the acting in general is really bad.  Axanar looks professional with quality acting.  It's a fan production just like all the others.  Unlike the other productions Axanar deliberately removed Star Trek from their name so as to minimize their violation of the CBS intellectual property and so that their website wouldn't be found when googling Star Trek. Paramount and CBS are just being selective in their protection of their trademark because Axanar is good.

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« Reply #227 on: January 01, 2016, 06:05:20 PM »
Other people getting away with being criminally stupid doesn't make following suit any better an idea.  I've seen companies do some asinine things in the name of copyright/trademark protection, but this seems pretty reasonable. It'll be too bad if they can't work something out out-of-court that's amenable to all parties, but it seems like Paramount is well within their rights.
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« Reply #228 on: January 01, 2016, 07:26:07 PM »
Star Trek Continues did a Kickstarter and Paramount said nothing.
Star Trek Renegades the same
Star Trek Farragut the same
Star Trek New Voyages the same

The difference is they all look like fan productions and the acting in general is really bad.  Axanar looks professional with quality acting.  It's a fan production just like all the others.  Unlike the other productions Axanar deliberately removed Star Trek from their name so as to minimize their violation of the CBS intellectual property and so that their website wouldn't be found when googling Star Trek. Paramount and CBS are just being selective in their protection of their trademark because Axanar is good.

Or because CBS has a Star Trek show in pre-production now and they didn't before. There's no reason to boycott Supergirl because of all that though. Aside from the face-spiting nose surgery-ness of boycotting in general you can just 'get them back' by not paying for the hilariously misguided web service they're trying to piggyback onto new Star Trek.

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« Reply #229 on: January 01, 2016, 09:56:11 PM »
Some traditional Kryptonian neck-snapping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQcSoYoA58k


And Kara trying to show Cat just how totally normal and non-super she is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJyJBM8R6KE
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« Reply #230 on: January 02, 2016, 01:53:26 AM »
Or because CBS has a Star Trek show in pre-production now and they didn't before. There's no reason to boycott Supergirl because of all that though. Aside from the face-spiting nose surgery-ness of boycotting in general you can just 'get them back' by not paying for the hilariously misguided web service they're trying to piggyback onto new Star Trek.

I know I don't have to.  But I have to.  Just like not playing any NCSoft games doesn't bring COH back but I'm still not going to play any.

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« Reply #231 on: January 05, 2016, 08:46:50 AM »
Spoiler for Hidden:
You'd think J'onn could have maybe avoided the whole negotiating with terrorists and prisoner exchange bit by maybe using some combination of intangibility, telepathy, invisibility and shape-shifting to at least attempt an escape that wouldn't blow his cover.

But aside from that, that episode just struck me as really terrible. Can't put my finger on anything too specific, just a general taint to it. Maybe not so much the episode but more a building worsening. Might be that it's falling into the Arrow pattern of having a different irrational tirade every week. Might be the trite heroism lectures that seem like the tagged on moral bits at the end of He-Man. Not sure, just, not really optimistic about future episodes if it keeps going this direction.

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« Reply #232 on: January 06, 2016, 05:54:45 AM »
The other evening, I attended a Christmas party at the gym where I exercise, and I chatted with a young woman who wore her hair down, which stylishly framed her face. The next night, a girl I had seen at the gym many times before, always with her hair pulled up and back, greeted me as if she knew me. It took me a few moments to realize, it was the same young woman from the party. I had not recognized her just because her hair-style was different.

Guys are dumb sometimes, which helps to explain why men can't pattern match beyond Clark and Kara's eyeglasses. But, why can't women see that Kara is Supergirl?

So true.  Hair color and length, even what they wear can through off your ability to recognize someone.  I remember a woman in high school who had the most wonderful waist length blonde hair and one day she cut it shoulder length and I simply didn't recognize her (admittedly from behind).  More recently a woman at work that I worked closely with every day, who normally dressed extremely casually was doing a date night with her husband and he was picking her up so near the end of the day she changed into a dress, rearranged her hair and did her makeup.  When I first caught a glance of her I thought marking got a new person working there (since unlike software development, marketing always dressed to the nines).
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« Reply #233 on: January 06, 2016, 05:58:36 AM »
Max really went from sly dog who's up to something to paranoid nutjob.
When you insult someone by calling them a "pig" or a "dog" you aren't maligning pigs and dogs everywhere.  The same is true of any term used as an insult.

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« Reply #234 on: January 06, 2016, 01:14:23 PM »
Max really went from sly dog who's up to something to paranoid nutjob.

He needs to grow out his facial hair a bit to allow him to twirl his mustache properly :P
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« Reply #235 on: January 22, 2016, 09:18:43 AM »
Holy carp!  Didn't realise Winn was Winslow Schott Jr.
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« Reply #236 on: January 22, 2016, 10:08:07 AM »
Also:  Terrible bullets bouncing off effect.  And a highly trained agent didn't notice a new camera with a light attached to her purse?
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« Reply #237 on: January 23, 2016, 02:42:23 AM »
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« Reply #238 on: January 26, 2016, 03:27:42 AM »


You know, I was actually hoping
Spoiler for Hidden:
the White Martian wasn't going to be a bad guy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
It's a little cliche to have the whole "One Race is Good, the other is Pure Evil" thing going on.

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« Reply #239 on: January 26, 2016, 03:39:27 AM »

You know, I was actually hoping
Spoiler for Hidden:
the White Martian wasn't going to be a bad guy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
It's a little cliche to have the whole "One Race is Good, the other is Pure Evil" thing going on.

Yeah but that's the way it has been in the comics forever.  So it would have been worse to change it.