# Supergirl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892 "2015-10-27T18:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/321 "2016-02-24T05:07:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Did I miss something, how did they handwave it? Flockhart is good, but I’m not quite sure the writers have figured out her character yet. Is she such a callous boss that she can’t even be bothered to get her assistant’s name right, or is she the calculating type who’d get it wrong on purpose to keep her staff intimidated and on their toes? I figure it’s more that, if Cat started using Kara’s correct name, it would be tantamount to Cat admitting that she’d been wrong about something. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/322 "2016-02-24T13:42:46Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Like this show overall, this episode was decent, but a missed opportunity to be great. Did the DEO not even consider the idea that they should collaborate with this guy? After all, he’s doing exactly what they’re doing, isn’t he? > > There could have been a great story arc where they started out working together but eventually started to find his methods too extreme, etc. > > (Or even better, it could play out kind of the way it did, and then it turns out at the end that the professor was making up his “oh, it was just to save my family” story and was in fact a mass murderer, but good-hearted Kara let him go free, or something.) I had pretty much exactly the same thought. Um, this dude is taking care of your escaped mega-villians problem, why not let him keep it up? Weren’t the first five guys he offered mass murderers? Given how the DEO seemed to have no problem with indefinite detention for human civilians, I’m not sure why they’d be unhappy about executing alien felons. I also thought the happy professor was going to turn out to be much worse than he was, but I wonder if his 18 year sentence was to show that Kara’s mom, for all Kara loves her, was really a hanging judge back on Krypton, handing out the max sentence for even minor crimes. Could be been an interesting “Fort Rozz may be maximum security, but for the police state that was Krypton it’s just another place to dump political dissidents” storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/323 "2016-02-24T17:19:53Z")
Yeah I think the Kira/Kara thing is like how the mother in law in Bewitched purposely got the the husband’s name wrong all the time: it’s a power thing. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/324 "2016-02-24T19:37:24Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Yeah I think the Kira/Kara thing is like how the mother in law in Bewitched purposely got the the husband’s name wrong all the time: it’s a power thing. If the head of Catco Worldwide Media needs that sort of petty bullshit to feel a sense of power over the girl who gets her coffee she’s more insecure than Ally McBeal. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/325 "2016-02-24T19:56:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If the head of Catco Worldwide Media needs that sort of petty bullshit to feel a sense of power over the girl who gets her coffee she’s more insecure than Ally McBeal. Sadly, I think this is fairly common in real life with power-tripping bosses, CEO level or not. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/326 "2016-02-24T19:57:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If the head of Catco Worldwide Media needs that sort of petty bullshit to feel a sense of power over the girl who gets her coffee she’s more insecure than Ally McBeal. 😉 +1 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/327 "2016-02-25T02:31:29Z")
Kara: I miss Astra. Alex: I didn’t! (My husband came up with this.) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/328 "2016-02-25T04:40:56Z")
It occurred to me that, given that Supergirl has super-hearing, people should really cool it with those “We need to tell Supergirl that I, Alex Danvers, her adopted sister, really killed her Aunt Astra!” “No, Supergirl must never know that it was actually you, Alex Danvers, her adopted sister, who killed her Aunt Astra! We must let her go on thinking it was me, her boss ‘Hank Henshaw’ the shapeshifting Martian dude, who killed her Aunt Astra, even though I did not actually do that” conversations. I think Supergirl is generally polite enough not to eavesdrop, most of the time, but still, you’d think people who work with a Kryptonian would start talking like mobsters making telephone calls, just by sheer reflex. “We need to tell You-Know-How about the thing. You know, that the person everyone thinks took care of that isn’t really the person who actually took care of it.” “No, that would be a bad idea. That thing needed to be done, but uh, a certain person doesn’t need to know who did it.” ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/329 "2016-03-02T19:42:15Z")
Well, it looks like keeping a secret from Kara lasted for all of two episodes! This has to be a new record in superhero TV shows. Also, Lucy and Jimmy finally give in to their lack of on-screen chemistry. Unfortunately it gets replaced with the lack of on-screen chemistry between Winn and Bitchface. At least Mystique Jr. was sorta interesting, especially her interactions with Non. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/330 "2016-03-02T19:56:27Z")
Minor confusion from someone who has not regularly read comics for many a decade. How can this blue gal be “Braniac 8” when Brainiac was a contemporary of Supes and Brainiac 5 is in the 30th century? And why is she blue instead of green like a good Brainiac should be? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/331 "2016-03-02T20:08:14Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Well, it looks like keeping a secret from Kara lasted for all of two episodes! This has to be a new record in superhero TV shows. I missed the show last night. However, let me cite a previous post: > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There is much that this show gets right, but it has a bit of a _Three’s Company_ problem; if the characters would just talk to one another for two minutes they could save themselves boatloads of drama. Now Hank doesn’t want Kara to know it was Alex who killed her aunt. She will find out. And then she’ll stress out about not knowing who she can trust, but it will bring them closer in the end. No lie on this show lasts for more than three episodes. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/332 "2016-03-02T20:21:52Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Minor confusion from someone who has not regularly read comics for many a decade. How can this blue gal be “Braniac 8” when Brainiac was a contemporary of Supes and Brainiac 5 is in the 30th century? And why is she blue instead of green like a good Brainiac should be? Supes in the 30th century is a time-traveller, so I have no problem with a later version showing up earlier in the timeline. They even showed a League ring in the Fortress of Solitude, so there is time-travel in the show. That said, maybe I heard wrong, I thought she was just another of Brainiac’s species that had gone rogue, not a next iteration of Brainiac. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/333 "2016-03-02T20:22:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I missed the show last night. However, let me cite a previous post: You really missed it if you were looking for it last night (Given that the show comes on Monday :D) But your point stands. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/334 "2016-03-02T20:26:47Z")
[Brainiac 8 (Indigo)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_%28comics%29) I had to look up everything about her, since I stopped reading the continuity regularly after the last _Crisis_. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/335 "2016-03-03T00:07:57Z")
Apparently the Legion flight ring that Supergirl saw in the Fortress of Solitude is the exact same one (i.e., they used the same footage) that the Flash saw when he was traveling between Earths. Is Indigo supposed to be Supergirl’s own personal Brainiac? Or is that something they changed for the show, as they did with Bizarro. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/336 "2016-03-03T22:04:00Z")
“Toyman Junior, you’re our computer expert. Fix this.” And he does. Cat Grant knows how to delegate. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/337 "2016-03-06T06:14:29Z")
Some nice Supergirl on Supergirl action (I never watched Smallville, just a Laura Vandervoort fan) but each episode is losing me a little bit more. It’s the epitome of the “comic books are for little kids” sterotype, with every single aspect rendered into the most simplistic possible black and white, childish worldview. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/338 "2016-03-15T11:44:51Z")
This week’s was a really great episode. She really nailed the performance of both “evil” Supergirl and especially her despair when waking up from it. It also seems like it will have real consequences. I also loved the Superman 3 reference with the peanuts 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/339 "2016-03-15T11:56:51Z")
Evil Kara was channeling too much of Cat’s snarkiness, but without the charm. We didn’t really see much of the angry Kara that made the incredible heat-vision rage-face. I blame the writer more than the actress, though. Also, the DEO is getting to have the same problem afflicting S.T.A.R. Labs and the Arrowcave - too many people wandering into the supposedly secret lair. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892/340 "2016-03-15T16:16:05Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > This week’s was a really great episode. She really nailed the performance of both “evil” Supergirl and especially her despair when waking up from it. It also seems like it will have real consequences. I also loved the Superman 3 reference with the peanuts 🙂 Yeah, although I thought having Cat record a message in her office to be played on a loop didn’t quite work. If Catco includes a news network, have one of the anchors report what’s going on as news. It just didn’t seem to fit any sort of proper editorial voice. Kara was awfully broken up about saying mean things to people, but didn’t seem to have much sympathy for the person she actually got fired. And after he was caught in the closet with Siobahn what was Winn apologizing for? If anything, doesn’t Kara owe him an apology for spying on him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl/735892.md?page=18)