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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5276: Sep 1st 2021 at 7:33:26 AM

Somedays I forget what laws heroes have to break in order to uphold social order and protect the people. My bad I guess.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#5277: Sep 1st 2021 at 11:50:03 AM

Yeah sorry, but Kelly becoming Guardian is still forced as hell.

Nia, what are you doing girl? sad

But yeah, overall solid episode.

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5278: Sep 7th 2021 at 7:28:48 PM

Anyone getting the sense Nia is going to be more of the hero to fight Nyxly than Kara? And was it weird that Orlando got an extra episode to be the sympathetic poor man needing help? Was last episode too happy so he show had make sure we knew that "this is a struggling man" and he is representing a group? Also I know Nyxly's thing kept Nia in her own plot, but why did it need to be like this for the episode?

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#5279: Sep 9th 2021 at 3:32:57 AM

Oh Nia, what have you unleashed? Poor, poor soul.

Nice social commentary this episode.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#5280: Sep 14th 2021 at 7:18:37 PM

Bah! I missed the early airing of Supergirl to watch WWE NXT, and now I find out that instead of the 9:00pm airing, there's gonna be a Special Edition news update on the recall election.sad

Please tell me there was no Supergirl today and I'm not missing it because of this bullshit.

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5281: Sep 14th 2021 at 7:43:55 PM

I don't know! My airing got interrupted by Baseball!

PointMaid Since: Jun, 2014
#5282: Sep 17th 2021 at 5:15:33 AM

You can stream it on the CW site. That's what I always do.

Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5283: Sep 17th 2021 at 4:31:20 PM

The only two plot points I cared about from this episode.

Main plot Mxy had a bad relationship with Nyxly. Mxy is in a crystal and now we're on a McGuffin quest for a few episodes.

Lena Luthor plot So Lena's mother was in actuality a Newfie Witch? And Lena has the gift of Magic in her. I don't think this is going to matter until the finale when Lena saves the day somehow.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#5284: Sep 18th 2021 at 3:54:36 PM

So I guess magic is the main thema of this season after all. Well, at least it fits better here than it did with Arrow.

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5285: Sep 18th 2021 at 7:14:37 PM

Except that Supergirl technically already dipped into magic through the Worldkillers as they had some supernatural elements to their creation.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#5286: Sep 20th 2021 at 6:48:05 PM

Right. I need a place to stream episode 11 since I missed it last week completely, it doesn't seem to be on On Demand, and since I'm in Canadian, I can't stream it for free on the CW website. Anyone got anything for me on that front?

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Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#5287: Sep 20th 2021 at 11:20:57 PM

Use an american VPN tongue

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#5288: Sep 21st 2021 at 8:17:49 AM

I can't do that. Any other suggestions, or do I just accept that I missed this one.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#5290: Sep 21st 2021 at 8:50:40 AM

No money in iTunes...or for iTunes.sad

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5291: Sep 21st 2021 at 7:19:51 PM

So we got an episode on Kelly. With a whoooooooooooole lot of poverty implications. And using the Race card quite a bit. Oh look it's David Ramsey for a cameo. And he mentioned Jefferson Pierce as well as James. Is Supergirl shouldering the burden since Black Lightning got canned, because this show is also canned. Was it too much to expect Nyxly to simply come in during the climax saying "That doesn't belong to you." before taking her energy back and leaving the people back to regular injured as opposed to magic related injured? Also Kelly's Guardian suit does not look good. Hopefully this is finally the end of seeing Orlando and Joey since the Councilwomen is now behind bars presumably.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#5292: Sep 26th 2021 at 5:32:50 AM

Still not 100% sold on Kelly becoming Guardian, but dang, what an emotional episode this one was.

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#5293: Sep 26th 2021 at 3:24:30 PM

[up][up]Genuinely thought this episode was somehow shoehorning in a subplot about R. Kelly and I was about to drop.

I knew there was a new Guardian this season but didn't know who.

Unrelated but while I dropped this at Season 2 I always had some interest in how it progressed. Hearing that it's ending I'm sort of happy so that it doesn't drag on like Flash and Arrow.

I'm sort of glad it's canned. The feminist tones got nauseating the moment they called Supergirl a feminist superhero because she stopped a random crime. I think the CW's intentions are always good but they drop the ball whenever they want to talk about something like that gun episode in Arrow and the Girls Night Out episode in Flash and whatever that Helen of Troy nonsense was in Legends. Haven't seen Black Lightning enough to complain but at least it felt more genuinely metaphorical than being Anvilicious.

Things that always bothered me like

  • the clumsy reactionary metaphors - an Alien Registration Act, patriarchal 5th dimension politics, triggers and panic attacks, an alien gay bar
  • Jimmy Olsen being a cool black guy who Kara has the hots for
  • Cat Grant's character in general
  • Mon-El's entire toxic masculinity story arc and all of the dialogue that invited

Maybe none of these things were meant to appeal to me. Maybe that's why they feel corny and tacked onto me. Maybe they mean a metric phuckton to somebody else whose never had a character on TV they latch onto. I don't know. I

I will say I always thought this show was well shot for the budget it ran on. The fight scenes were some of the coolest I'd seen in the CW verse since the first time Flash and Thawne fought.

I think Melissa Benoist is a good actor and has the look down, but I saw a video recently comparing how different she is from the vastly more interesting comics Supergirl, and I have to agree Benoist's take feels like they just made a female Clark Kent and ran with it. Which was interesting enough back when we didn't think Superman would ever truly have a face or his own show. I do wish we'd had a less goody two shoes Kara. I think a slightly disinterested in humanity personality would have been interesting to follow.

The Season 3 villain whatsherface Worldkiller gave Kara one of the most iconic beatdowns I've ever glanced at on Youtube.

I never cared for Lena Luthor's character or shipping her with Kara. Nothing wrong with the actor but I waited for her to go villain for a while, nd I'd imagine Lex was introduced so she wouldn't have to and he could be the Hate Sink. I respect that people do, but in hindsight I think the show leaned too hard on that relationship and got too attached to her. Which is a problem the CW has had with Oliver and Merlyn, Barry and Thawne, any of the miscellaneous tagalongs in Legends.

I unfortunately stopped paying attention when Cryer's Luthor was the big bad and only saw him in Crisis. He's alright. I still wish Rosenbaum had returned but I'm glad we got that Snmallville cameo. I wasn't impressed with his fights from Season 4 (or wss it 3?)

I can't say I was pleased with Mxypitlik either.

The musical crossover was funner than I imagined and actually got me watching more musicals.

Barry and Kara made this show special once upon a time. This was the second big crossover and got two shows on two different networks together, kicked off a ton of crossovers. I loved that.

Supergirl goes down as one of if not the first girl/female led superhero shows I saw ignoring Jessica Jones. It did a couple of things I never expected like that awesome fight with Astra, introducing Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter. It along with Flash set the pace for crossovers going forward and I appreciated that.

It wasn't my favorite CW show but it was still worth a look.

Edited by FOFD on Sep 26th 2021 at 6:55:35 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#5294: Sep 26th 2021 at 6:33:11 PM

[up]It seems like watching the show is not for you.

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DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
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#5295: Sep 26th 2021 at 6:45:49 PM

It is a bit funny seeing people wishing that CW Kara were closer to her comics self/that she were "darker" and "more morally grey" or "cynical" because a lot of what drew me to the show was that she wasn't that. I'd gotten tired of seeing all the dark, gritty, and brooding superheros by the time Supergirl started airing that seeing Kara being her sunny, optimistic self who genuinely loved being a hero felt like a breath of fresh air. Now, I'm not incredibly familiar with the comics, but I get the feeling that if CW Kara were more like her comics self, I probably wouldn't have bothered watching the show.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#5296: Sep 26th 2021 at 7:24:19 PM

I would say it is nice that they went with a more lighthearted and idealistic portrayal of the character but they fumbled the execution by transplanting a lot of Clark's traits onto Kara.

Its pretty lazy admitably.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 26th 2021 at 7:31:46 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#5297: Sep 26th 2021 at 7:53:04 PM

Though it did allow them to do some new stuff with Clark.

Like, he's a dad in the comics now, and so that gave Superman & Lois a new niche to tackle with him.

Superman being Superman while raising two sons.

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OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#5298: Sep 26th 2021 at 8:13:27 PM

His youngest hanging out with Damian and Connor being besties with Tim Drake.

Damian and Jon even had a series of comics together for awhile I recall

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#5299: Sep 26th 2021 at 8:18:52 PM

Super Sons yes, Damian and Jon had a whole series.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5300: Sep 26th 2021 at 8:29:40 PM

It's so weird that the one most like Jonathan in Superman & Lois isn't named Jonathan, and vice versa. Jordan looks exactly like (an older version of) Jonathan, has Jonathan's powers, and thus has Jonathan story of learning to tackle being like his father.

CW Jonathan has none of that, but I guess maybe CW Jonathan has what you could kind of squint and call a version of comic's Jonathan's personality and it was intended as a fakeout? I dunno. I just know it messes me up every time I see the show.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 26th 2021 at 8:44:27 AM


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