That was a great episode last night. I don’t know what they plan to do with Hank- why can’t the DEO have two alien good guys? The scene where Kara finds Winn having sex in the closet was hilarious. Boy, that dark side of SG is really dark. Love the scene where she’s in the bar shooting (popcorn? peanuts?) at the liquor bottles.
Nice callback to Superman III.
Yeah, nice callback, but is it really possible to propel peanuts like that; wouldn’t they just disintegrate when they hit her fingernail?
Or should I save that comment for one of the TV/movie nitpicking threads?
If she moves her finger at normal speed until she contacts the peanut, and then super accelerates, the peanut should stay intact. Kind of like gently picking up an egg, and then throwing it hard enough to break against something else - if you aren’t careful, it might break in your hand, but it normally won’t.
I’m not convinced that would make a difference. It’s really a matter of time. When the peanut impacts the bottle, it goes from V[sub]peanut[/sub] to 0 in a very brief time, say 1/1,000 of a second. I don’t have a spec sheet for the peanut, but presumably that exceeds the permissible G load. If you increase the time it takes to stop the peanut, by catching it in some sort of peanut absorbing gel, you could keep the nut[sup]*[/sup] intact.
The same logic applies for the acceleration from 0 to V[sub]peanut[/sub]. Do it gently enough and you can get any velocity you want. I’m just not convinced that a 1" finger flick is gentle enough to get to bottle-breaking speed.
- Yes, I’m aware it’s a legume. It’s not like I’m submitting for peer review.
This reminds me of the bit in various Superman media where he swings at a baseball with a bat, and knocks the ball ten miles away.
Nuh-uh. Neither the bat nor the ball could withstand that kind of impact.
Nice dramatic business, but violates various laws of physics. (Yeesh! Physics and super-powers are only very distantly related anyway! Many superpowers require “psionics” – e.g. “magic” – as an explanation.)
(e.g., are there really enough ambient X-Rays in the environment for anyone to be able to see via X-Ray vision? Seems to me all you’d see is darkness.)
Just as they recreated the classic Flash of Two Worlds cover when they introduced Jay Garrick, they have now recreated the Who is the Fastest [del]Man[/del]Person Alive? cover for the Supergirl/Flash crossover. My money is on Barry to win.
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only on the dope folks, only on the dope.
As for the episode - I didn’t get ‘evil supergirl’ - I got bitchy girl with powers - nothing she did (up until the battle with the cops/Johnne) was ‘evil’ - throwing Cat off the building was close, but honestly - I think Cat kinda deserves it about 2/3 of the time. Did enjoy the episode - not really griping -
Thanks, that’s pretty much the vibe I was going for.
It’s like Bruce Lee’s 1 inch punch. Science.
Most of Superman/Supergirl’s abilities are best explained as telekinesis, rather than strength. They can flick peanuts at bottles in the same way that they’re able to pick up huge objects without shredding them.
I fear a tie.
Which will affect me like Red Kryptonite.
Is that how it’s supposed to work? I always thought that Kryptonians actually generated x-rays and shot them through objects.
Silver-Age Superman always generated the beams himself.
Will it turn you into a dragon, a non-powered giant, a dwarf, an ant-headed humanoid, a lunatic, or an amnesiac; make you unable to see anything colored green; grow incredibly long hair, nails, and beard; render you totally powerless; give you the ability to read thoughts; lose your invulnerability along the left side of your body; split you into an evil Trion and a good Clark Kent; render you unable to speak or write anything but Kryptonese, the language used on Krypton; grow an extra set of arms; swap bodies with the person nearest to you; rapidly age you; or give you multiple personality changes?
Hold on. Let me fix that for you:
“…and give you multiple personality changes?”
Yes. Exactly.
I was bothered by the red kryptonite being a human creation. Back in my day, red k was just another naturally occurring strain which affected Kryptonians in a unique way for each specimen and the effect only lasted 48 hours.
It was a* Superman III * movie thing, not a comics thing.
No, that’s a comic thing from way back. Whenever the writers got stuck for a story, Supes would get exposed to some Red Kryptonite and hijinks would ensue.
Right. Some of the effects were silly (like Superman growing a beard), but generally fun.
Of course, when Superman encountered gold kryptonite, you always knew it was going to be a dream or something as it would sort of kill the franchise.