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?
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.
Please tell me there was no Supergirl today and I'm not missing it because of this bullshit.
One Strip! One Strip!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.
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?
One Strip! One Strip!I can't do that. Any other suggestions, or do I just accept that I missed this one.
One Strip! One Strip!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.
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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
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.
When we're done, there won't be anything left.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.
One Strip! One Strip!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

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