re: Supergirl Season One Thread

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If you don't mind my asking, what are some of these spoiler sites you mentioned and where do they get their info from? I'd like to peruse some of them to see what some of the other possible storylines might be.

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Just type "supergirl spoilers" into google and sift through the results.

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Was just going off the post by CGSC

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Well, Wonder Woman really didn't have a choice. I would explain why, but it could be a spoiler if the showrunners decide to make that apart of Maxwell's repertoire. So the more I think about it, I guess technically they could go down that storyline, but they'd either have to actually bring in Superman onto the show, or have another extremely powerful superhero introduced onto the show.

And CGSC, did they wiped Batman's memory because of her killing Maxwell, or was it because of actions they took against Dr. Light in another storyline? I'm thinking it was the Dr. Light storyline.

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Or if they really want to frick with us, they could introduce M'Gann and have her pose as Supergirl.

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Kara does her if-you're-you-then-who-is-she doubletake... "Supergirl" morphs into Miss Martian.

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Could that be Emma Caulfield's character?

Great episode. Lots of back story with Astra. Man, what Alura did is shitty using her daughter to draw astra out and not to mention, completely dangerous. If Alura thought Astra was a criminal and dangerous, why would she take the risk of her showing up with Non not being far behind?

Kara using her powers like that against Dirk had a very good result but does it come off to anyone that using her powers like that comes off as very big sister of her and intruding on privacy. Good results but questionable means.

Maxwell is defiantly going to be Kara's own Lex Luthor and he will be around for the long haul. Definitely looking forward to how that's portrayed.

Cat knowing that Kara is supergirl is not going to last. J'onn will wipe her mind of that memory and return her back to normal and kara will have to clean up her sloppiness around cat with regards leaving so many clues about supergirl.

Bump.

That was a good episode tonight. It keeps getting better and better.

Really liked the conflict with Astra. I was not surprised at all to see Alura agree with Astra. I should've know that there was more the story of Astra's imprisonement than Alura just being self righteous.

I feel like kara is well on her way to friend zoning Jimmy and Winn. I just feel it.

Who the hell is that chick max lord has in room 52? Could it be something like Galatea or Bizzaro supergirl?

J'onn looks amazing and I can't wait to see what else he is up to now that the mystery surrounding him. I have to say that I'm impressed with how he looks with the special FX.

Speaking of FX, it just looks amazing and it gives me more hope for a live action Superman show. I wonder if that could translate well to a Batman live action show?

I don't like the way they played the issue with Cat and Kara. When Cat says at the end that Kara and Supergirl look nothing alike that's patently false. They look like identical twins. They've strayed too far into disbelief for my liking. I can think of numerous ways in which Cat could tell Kara is Supergirl that Kara couldn't explain away.

I did like the way they played out the conflict with Astra for now.

But all in all there were too many things that just didn't ring true. Like when Maxwell Lord told the DEO to get off his property and they did. No federal agency with investigative power would do that at his command with an open investigation. The writers and producers are playing down to their audience.

I know it's escapism but it doesn't have to be so childish or cheesy.

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I don't like the way they played the issue with Cat and Kara. When Cat says at the end that Kara and Supergirl look nothing alike that's patently false. They look like identical twins. They've strayed too far into disbelief for my liking. I can think of numerous ways in which Cat could tell Kara is Supergirl that Kara couldn't explain away.

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I mean, she did just see them side by side, shaking hands. So I could definitely see Cat's belief all of a sudden turn to disbelief. And I think her saying that they look nothing alike was just her pride getting the better of her, and/or a way to help herself except that they aren't the same person.

With that said, at some point Cat will become suspicious again. There will be too many coincidences over time, and her investigative mind will kick in again. The ruse won't last forever. Hell, cat made a fortune figuring stuff out about celebrities and influential people.

The series is starting to work, glad I stuck around for it. There are still a few things they need to work on, like making things happen in a somewhat reasonable manner.

Here are some examples:

1. Lord Industries is major high-tech, right? Then how the hell is some keyboard scrub able to so easily hack their systems? (I work in IT, so it really shines at how bullshite this is) This could EASILY have been written as some of the alarm sensors being offline due to the damage in the building.

2. Cat Grant is brilliant and observant, right? J'onn (as Supergirl) and Kara are standing right next to one another and they look EXACTLY THE SAME. Instead of making the obvious statement of how they look so much alike, she just instantly buys into it. The writers could have made it more believable to have J'onn alter his appearance enough so that they looked more different (at least a different height). My hope is that they are sticking with the character being not so easily duped and that she realizes something must be going on so she's just playing along until she figures it out.

A weakness I've noticed with part of the combat portrayal is how Kara can beat a trained warrior with just a few fighting lessons. Granted, every show relies so heavily on montages to quickly move the story, but it would be so easy to explain if they went by something like "having been under Earth's yellow sun for so much longer than the prisoners, Kara is able to make up for her lack of fighting skills against them by being stronger, faster and having more stamina".

The chick in Room 52... The hologram looked to be of Red Tornado's arm. I don't know of a female Red Tornado, but it might be a neat tweak to the story if Lord worked on the tech to make a more biological-based Red Tornado (maybe a cyborg?). The one they had already looked like it was straight from a 60's B-Movie so any improvement should help.

The CGI seems to be improving. There was a shot of Kara flying in slowly over the convoy just after they entered the warehouse, it looked really good. I don't know if it was CGI, a loooooong shot with a zip line, both or something else but it looked far more natural than a lot of her flight shots have in previous episodes.