I’ve always had this issue with Kryptonians. Yellow suns are not exactly rare in the galaxy. And even if there’s some wavelength that only Sol emits which makes Kryptonians like unto gods, it’s not like Superman keeps it a secret- everyone seems to know what Earth’s sun does to him and others of his race. Any Kryptonian out there would be racing to try to get some of that for themselves.
Katie McGrath (pronounced McGraw) in the role of Lena manages an American-enough accent about half the time, and the rest of the time either speaks in a neutral mid-Atlantic pronunciation or lets out a touch of Irish here and there.
I caught the rebroadcast of this week’s episode. I’m not entirely clear (to be more precise, I have no freakin’ clue) why the Kryptonians are trying to change the Earth to make it habitable for them. Just bring all the residents of Argo City down now; they get superhero powers and are on a world with all the buildings and infrastructure they could need. What, exactly, is the point of killing the world?
I didn’t have a problem with “nuke-yoo-lar”, but why the hell are they calling what’s happening “terraforming”? “Terraforming” comes from “terra”, and means to make something Earth-like. It doesn’t get much more Earth-like than Earth.
I suppose it’s possible that Serena is concerned that most of the Kryptonians wouldn’t like to commit genocide but wouldn’t look too closely if Serena said “hey, we just found this conveniently empty but otherwise perfect planet” - that could have been an interesting plot. But if that was the idea, it didn’t come across.
Yeah, I spotted that terraforming glitch too. Kryptoforming, no, sounds like they’ll turn the planet into Superdog. Kryptonaforming, doesn’t quite work either.
Yeah, maybe, but if they want an undeveloped, uninhabited planet, isn’t the galaxy pretty much chock full of them? It’s like buying a house next to a vacant lot, then knocking the house down and building a new one.
And if they have their hearts set on Earth for some reason (“blah, blah, prophecy, blah, blah”), there are easier ways to get it. Just land an advance party in a little coastal town somewhere and start passing out blankets laden with Kryptonian Smallpox to the friendly natives.
Serena would have found them a planet (Earth) “mysteriously” uninhabited, but with convenient infrastructure (houses, etc.) still in place and domesticated plants and animal compatible with Kryptonian biology. Places like that might not be that common.
(the analogy forcing itself into this post is with the early British colonists in New England, which very conveniently found abandoned houses, cleared ground and plowed fields when they arrived).
Are you sure? I got the impression that Reign is causing typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes,[sup]*[/sup] enough to pretty much wipe out all the people, bridges, cheese shops, etc. so that whoever moves in next will have to start pretty much from scratch.
And there was some line like “there are tsunamis in Madagascar”, “she’s at the core of the Earth, that’s close to Madagascar.” Huh?
- Smog?
It’s a bit hard to tell how extensive the damage is intended to be (the original plan might have been for Blight/Pestilence to kill the people while the other two just did enough random violence to keep any effective response from happening). I’m pretty sure that wrecking up the infrastructure required to keep 6 billion humans in good condition would leave enough stuff around for a very comfortable life for a few hundred Kryptonians. But all this is wishful thinking on my part - trying to find the coherent plot that might have been intended when the season was originally planned, but which is now clearly not there anymore…
No, it’s the power (or whatever) going through the Earth’s core, coming out close to Madagascar. The antipode of Madagascar is in the north Pacific, between Hawaii and Mexico. That’s close enough to southern California to fit in with National City’s supposed location.
With her sword and magic hellllll-met.
My bad- it was SPEAR and magic hellll-met.
Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!
EDIT: Looks like others have beaten me to it. Damn you.
Magic helmet?
magic helllllllmet!
SPOILERS for the season finale:
If she plucked Mon-El’s ring off his finger and carried it with her back in time, wouldn’t she still have it? Then when Mon-El handed her his ring at the end, she should have had TWO legion rings!
Really, Kara? Time travel? Go ask your old friend Barry whether it’s ever a good idea to change the future by time travel. Heck, go ask your new friend Brainy, who’s now stuck here in the past because of time travel.
It took two Kryptonians, three Legionnaires, two Green Martians, and Jimmy Olsen to save National City from the seismic catastrophe. In the meantime Superman was off saving Madagascar (the whole island!) all by his lonesome. At least they remembered that Superman still exists on this planet.
I found this season finale, and the past couple of episodes, extremely underwhelming. It’s like the writers had one episodes’ worth of material but had to stretch it out over three episodes. So much other stuff was crammed in, like J’onn saying good-bye to his father, that none of those plot points got the attention they deserved. The season finale alone spent almost half the time setting things up for next season.
At the end, when Supergirl was having that heart-to-heart talk with Mon-El, he said “You did everything perfectly!”. She only grinned. I half-expected her to say, “Yeah, but it took two tries to do it. By the way, I took your legion ring back in time, so now we’ve both got one!”
Oh – and they dropped another hint that Lena is going to turn out to be a villain.
Like it wasn’t obvious when she said “nuclear physics” and pronounced it “nuke-you-lar.” Only a cad pronounces it “nuke-you-lar.”
Yay! This horrible season is over! Maybe going forward we’ll get the good Supergirl back.