He didn’t just have a point, he was completely in the right. Kara is a horrible journalist. Putting out the warning may be a great public service, but it’s bad reporting and publishing on her own blog is a complete breach of contract. She needed to be fired. (Also, what is “CatCo”? Is it a magazine? Daily paper? What? and “CatCo” is not a good name for a publication.)
Also, Alex should have been fired for what she did. So what that her dad’s “a good man,” as long as they’re not going shoot him on sight, it doesn’t matter if anyone else “believes in him” (whatever the hell that means). They can bring him in, lock him up, and work out the details while he’s in custody.
This week annoyed me.
OTOH - Kevin Sorbo & Teri Hatcher - that seems fun.
Bobbylibdem wrote: " So exactly what was Supergirl pushing against to stop that spaceship? I guess that calls into question as to what provides her propulsion when she flies. And wouldn’t that have been a good time to say “hey Superman, a little help here”?"
Mon-El can’t fly (in this version), and Martian Manhunter said he couldn’t get there in time.
I thought about Superman, as well, but you can’t think about those things too much or it kind of breaks the universe. It’s like reading an issue of Spider-Man and wondering why the Avengers don’t show up to help out every time Spidey’s facing a tough opponent. They don’t because it’s not their book. Same thing here. It’s Kara’s show, not Clark’s. We just have to accept that Supergirl is on her own most of the time, apart from those allies who are already part of the show (excepting crossovers).
I was excited to see Teri Hatcher’s name in the credits, and disappointed that she was only in a tiny scene at the end. I’m sure she’ll be more prominent in later episodes. I wonder if she and Dean Cain will have any scenes together. I haven’t heard much about how they get along these days.
Now if they could only get Lucy Lawless to show up along with Kevin Sorbo…
What’s Hudson Leick doing these days? I’d love to see her pop up as a villain on one of these DC shows.
It just occurred to me that Lexa Doig is playing Talia Al Ghul on Arrow, which is in the same multiverse as Supergirl. They sometimes do crossovers, so there’s at least the possibility of an Andromeda reunion with Doig and Sorbo.
This thread reminded me that the story line where the President is apparently an Alien in hiding has completely been dropped so far.
I’m thinking maybe CADMUS does something that effects all Aliens on Earth and the President being effected is how she gets “outed”.
Semi related thought: in the comics CADMUS is a government agency (an off the books, secretive one but still one created and funded by the US). I wonder if we will learn the TV CADMUS is not the terrorist organization it seems but more the Anti DEO).
I wonder if Lena knows her assistant is in cahoots with her mother. If so, she might be inclined to hire a new assistant. Someone she trusts, and who has extensive experience as a CEO’s assistant, and who happens to be out of work at the moment…
They bet we’d have a woman president. They bet wrong. I’d guess they’re not in a hurry to revisit it.
I also like Lena. She seems to be the most competent character on this show.
For a moment, I actually thought/hoped they’d brought in the Andromeda for a multiverse crossover, but of course Mon El’s bad father fits the show’s theme.
It’s fun to try and shoehorn Kryptonian superpowers into the laws of reality. Some of the ideas people (including DC’s own authors!) have come up with in the past include:
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[li]Kryptonian flight is a reactionless drive. This is how they can stop, accelerate, and make turns in space.[/li][li]Krptonian skin feels soft and yielding like normal skin, and yet deflects bullets, because it’s a non-newtonian fluid like cornstarch-and-water. The harder you hit it, the harder it gets.[/li][li]Kryptonians can pick up enormous objects (like skyscrapers and ocean liners) without them breaking under their own weight, because they posess “tactile telekinesis.” Touching an object allows them to affect it as a whole.[/li][li]Kryptonians derive the enormous amount of energy the expend by subjecting all the food they eat to nuclear fusion in their gut. The fusion process can proceed all the way to iron, extracting every last erg of energy. (This would also mean they poop iron. Brings a whole new meaning to “the man of steel”, eh?)[/li][/ul]
In Superman #233, all Kryptonite on earth had been transformed into harmless iron. A criminal who was unaware of the change attempted to use some against Superman, who promptly snatched it out of the astonished bad guy’s hand and ate it!
So tonight, they kept mentioning musicals, theater, singing, etc. over and over again. Subtlety is not this show’s middle name.
And the preview for tomorrow shows Jesse L Martin (RENT), Victor Garber (Godspell), and John Barrowman… did he do Broadway?
The plot developments in this episode seemed a bit off. The A-plot should have been Kara finding out that Mon-el is the prince (to absolutely no one’s surprise but Kara), but that seemed to be relegated to the background in favor of the B-plot, Winn’s girlfriend being an art thief (which was a surprise). Are the parental units going to be sticking around? Seems like a waste of some good stunt casting if this was all we see of them.
I’m surprised Kara didn’t point out to Mon-El that, as the future ruler of Daxam, he could bring an end to slavery. If his parents designate a new heir, I’d bet he or she wouldn’t do that.
So are the only Daxamites alive the ones who were off-planet (or immediately got off-planet) when Krypton exploded? Because I’m hoping at least one survived: the girl Mon-El left behind. I’d like to see that confrontation. Since she’d have his powers, that would be a good fight, and probably one Kara would not interfere with.
Which brings up another point: I know, Superman and Supergirl are the only surviving Kryptonians. Yet Kara told Alex that she’d been to other planets as a girl, and that one man (wonder who he was?) also survived the blast until he was killed by the guard. Seems like there should have been some other people off-planet. Business trips or diplomatic/military missions.
I’m just going to be a total comic book geek, and fixate on the fact that Winn compared his alien girlfriend’s strength to She-Hulk.
So…Marvel Comics exist within the DC Universe? She-Hulk is a thing that Winn can read and know about? I wonder if the Marvel Cinematic Universe also exists? Like, does Winn watch Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and think to himself, “Too bad there can’t be a TV show about Kara. That would be awesome!”
