YMMV / Supergirl (Rebirth)

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• Alternate Character Interpretation: Was Zor-El being cruel for quarantining an innocent person to the Phantom Zone? Or he was right when he told he couldn't put the safety of one citizen above the safety of all of them? Lar-On's transformation is dangerous, but he had committed no crime. However Zor-El tried to find a cure.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The fight with Emerald Empress in #8. Despite being hyped on the cover as the main conflict of the issue, the Empress' arrival comes out of nowhere and only lasts like four pages. In those four pages she destroys property and rants about how Supergirl destroyed her life. Supergirl has no idea what the Empress is talking about and after she disappears, the rest of the issue acts as though the fight never happened. Needless to say, fans of the Legion of Super-Heroes were incredibly pissed off at such a blatant Bait-and-Switch, hoping there'd be something more substantial alluding to the Legion's eventual return.
• Genius Bonus: Odic Force is an old but pretty obscure term.
• Older Than They Think: Some fans thought the Odic Force was a rip-off of The Mighty Thor's Odin Force.
• Strangled by the Red String: As soon as Benjamin Rubel appeared, he was regarded by long-time Supergirl fans as the newest addition to the long list of SG's lame love interests who would be gone and forgotten when his creator left. During Orlando's run, those fans found him boring, sometimes obnoxious, and often a load for Supergirl. His relationship with Kara was hardly built on before becoming official, and it was over two issues later when, as foretold, Orlando left and Ben vanished and became forgotten.
• Uncertain Audience: One of the issues which afflicted the book was that Orlando's run wanted to attract two very different fan subsets, hence pleasing nobody: New 52 Supergirl fans were not interested in a setting based on the 2015 show which completely ignored the character work, setting and unresolved plotlines of the 2011 book; and CBR show fans were turned off by the high-school setting, a D.E.O. without father-figure J'onn, a Catco without mentor Cat, Jimmy and Winn, and Alex Danvers being non-existent. As a result of it, more than half of readers had dropped the book by the second issue.

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