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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 24, 2017 14:22:58 GMT
So last night we had an episode of Supergirl that promised we would see our heroine in an epic adventure on Mars. Well the parts on Mars were not epic but they were pretty good. Unfortunately half of the episode took place back on Earth where we were subjected to watching the Maggie and Alex soap opera show (UGH!). This is supposed to be a comic book superhero action show, not a soap opera.
I won't even get into the political pandering which was so forced and out of place that it didn't even match the world building that the show has created up until now.
So, if you DVR's it skip the parts on Earth and just watch the parts on Mars and you will have an enjoyable experience.
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Post by General Kenobi on Oct 25, 2017 0:03:38 GMT
Am I the only thinks it weird they call it a lesbian bridal shower instead of just a bridal shower?
Come to think of it the shower seemed far too girly for the way Alex and Maggie have been depicted so far.
Did anyone think the reason Maggie's dad was homophobic made no sense? How does racism make you wish your daughter was straight?
At any rate it felt odd and was done just because they didn't have enough material for the A plot, and needed a lot of padding to get the episode to fit the rumored time.
Weird episode. Though the Mars plot was really good and J'onn reuniting with his dad was heartwarming.
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Post by DC-Fan on Oct 25, 2017 0:07:01 GMT
His reasoning was that he had been treated as a 2nd-class citizen his whole life and he worked his butt off to gain respect (his town even elected him their Sheriff). Now he thinks that since she's a lesbian she'll be treated as a 2nd-class citizen also.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 25, 2017 3:23:35 GMT
Am I the only thinks it weird they call it a lesbian bridal shower instead of just a bridal shower? Come to think of it the shower seemed far too girly for the way Alex and Maggie have been depicted so far. Did anyone think the reason Maggie's dad was homophobic made no sense? How does racism make you wish your daughter was straight?
At any rate it felt odd and was done just because they didn't have enough material for the A plot, and needed a lot of padding to get the episode to fit the rumored time. Weird episode. Though the Mars plot was really good and J'onn reuniting with his dad was heartwarming. I guess it isn't PC to have a Hispanic man object to homosexuality based on morality or religion. The weirdest thing to me was the fact that now President Lynda Carter (Cat's idol and boss) must agree with President Trump because she is the President that is building a wall LOL. They are so obsessed with their political points that they don't even try to maintain the world that they have built on the show.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 10:53:45 GMT
The problem is they have made every superhero show into a soap opera show with the relationships and the funny thing about Supergirl is she never had a main love interest like Superman has with Lois Lane or Spider-Man has with Mary Jane. She also didn’t have all these side characters and while I am happy they added LGBT representation to the show I feel a ‘Batwoman ‘show with Maggie Sawyer as Kate Kane’s main love interest would have been WAY better and they should have kept Kara single and not had any side characters. I would much rather see Power Girl, Comet, Twilight, the Legion, Superboy, Buzz and Batgirl and other characters who actually appeared multiple times in the ‘Supergirl’ comic books over Alex, Winn, James, Mon El, Maggie and Cat. Drop the secret identity especially the glasses since it was Superman who wore glasses – Kara and Linda wore wigs, drop the newspaper and most of all, drop the nerdy persona that is Clark Kent and not Kara Zor-El.
I think they humanized her too much having her grow up around humans and by doing so the writers have lost an important part of the character which separated her from Clark and in every comic book of Supergirl/Kara I have read going back to the earlier comic books Kara was more Kryptonian ‘cause she spent more time on Krypton than Clark and that caused her to be less trusting of humans than Clark and less human in general. I personally would have preferred the original ‘Supergirl’ Smallville spinoff with Laura Vandervoort as Kara over the one we have now ‘cause ‘Smallville’s’ version is the closest thing we have had to a ‘real Supergirl’ in live action– she was more Kryptonian, she had the attitude, the edge and she even won the Miss Sweet Corn Pageant and was a model in Season 10 which were all things taken from the old comic books and while I enjoy this show and don’t think it’s as bad as that horrible adaption of ‘Birds of Prey’ which was nothing like the comic books and Gail Simone and Chuck Dixon both put down in interviews it makes a lot of the same mistakes.
With ‘Birds of Prey’ the writers never read the comic books and tried to make it into a Batman show instead of a team show with the Huntress taking over Batman’s spot and Barbara and Dinah having some strange Mother/Daughter relationship instead of being best friends the same age who formed the Birds of Prey together with the Huntress joining later. With ‘Supergirl’ they have tried to make it into a Superman show with a female lead and I doubt the writers read the comic books before the show and you can see it in everything from the glasses, the geeky Clark Kent persona and Kara working as a reporter as I mentioned above and the final scene in the first episode where Kara confronted Maxwell Lord which was a direct copy of the scene where Superman confronted Lex Luthor in the pilot episode of ‘Lois and Clark.’ If this show was made by Marvel I think they would have got sued for it. The worst thing the writers have done is making it that she can’t fly in space when Kara spends a shitload of time flying around in space in the comics and met Reign when she was looking for the remains of Kandor. It is the equivalent of making 'The Flash' without him being able to run back in time or to the future and was a key element that should have been kept.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 31, 2017 15:24:40 GMT
Last night was an interesting episode featuring a cult that worshipped Supergirl. It was a nice temporary change of pace and it only had a little bit of Maggie and Alex angst.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 6:06:52 GMT
Last night was an interesting episode featuring a cult that worshipped Supergirl. It was a nice temporary change of pace and it only had a little bit of Maggie and Alex angst. Yeah. I thought this week's episode of 'Supergirl' were good and I liked the parts with Reign at the end and am looking forward to finding out who or what it was that was awoken in the final seconds of the episode. It looks like there is going to be a new villain in town.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 7, 2017 17:26:10 GMT
So this week we had another pretty good episode (minus the awful Alex and Maggie drama of course). But it was a good and non-formulaic plot. I also like how they are slowly building towards the Reign plot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 17:57:14 GMT
Season 3 seems good so far.
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Post by dazz on Nov 7, 2017 18:34:01 GMT
Did anyone else get annoyed with the once again stupid inability to maintain Supergirl's power level, in S1 she lifted an entire Kryptonian prison ship so heavy the DEO had to leave it where it landed, in this she cant hold half a plane by one hand? wtf is that shit, that should be like carry a load of bread fro Supergirl.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 7, 2017 19:52:23 GMT
Did anyone else get annoyed with the once again stupid inability to maintain Supergirl's power level, in S1 she lifted an entire Kryptonian prison ship so heavy the DEO had to leave it where it landed, in this she cant hold half a plane by one hand? wtf is that shit, that should be like carry a load of bread fro Supergirl. Yes, they do have that problem a lot. As soon as she said "I can't hold both" I said "why not?" She has lifted many things that were far heavier than that plane. It's the curse of the overpowered superhero. They are always just as strong as the script requires at any given time.
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Post by dazz on Nov 7, 2017 22:27:55 GMT
Did anyone else get annoyed with the once again stupid inability to maintain Supergirl's power level, in S1 she lifted an entire Kryptonian prison ship so heavy the DEO had to leave it where it landed, in this she cant hold half a plane by one hand? wtf is that shit, that should be like carry a load of bread fro Supergirl. Yes, they do have that problem a lot. As soon as she said "I can't hold both" I said "why not?" She has lifted many things that were far heavier than that plane. It's the curse of the overpowered superhero. They are always just as strong as the script requires at any given time. No it's the curse of lazy writing, you can justify it easily by having it not be she cant hold the weight but that holding the plane up like that isn't possible due to the strain on the metal, we just saw the front half snap off so they just established the metals not adamantium level strong, it's also bad they didn't just have her save Lena then the plane given she can move at least at speeds of Mach 3 and the plane wasn't falling that fast, hell the fact the plane was still falling despite her holding it was fucking stupid, she could have flown in grabbed Lena then grabbed the other half of the plane lickity split.
This is what annoys me because writing a valid enough excuse for that scene to play out like that isn't hard, also makes no sense if they are building up to a Supergirl Vs Reign battle how imposing a threat is it if Supergirl is constantly shown struggling with such trifle feats?
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Post by fantoma on Nov 7, 2017 22:33:32 GMT
1. There's nothing "awful" about that. 2. It's not drama but a romantic relationship, with its ups and downs. 3. Stop being such a narrow-minded homophobic prick. 4. No one is forcing to watch the show, right?
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Post by dazz on Nov 8, 2017 10:48:09 GMT
1. There's nothing "awful" about that. 2. It's not drama but a romantic relationship, with its ups and downs. 3. Stop being such a narrow-minded homophobic prick. 4. No one is forcing to watch the show, right? Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing.
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Post by fantoma on Nov 8, 2017 11:52:13 GMT
1. There's nothing "awful" about that. 2. It's not drama but a romantic relationship, with its ups and downs. 3. Stop being such a narrow-minded homophobic prick. 4. No one is forcing to watch the show, right? Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing. LMAO!! Is that the best you've managed to come up with, dum dum? Talk about lame & ineffective. My so-called "entry" is the opposite of "shallow minded" with any kind of "soupcon" of alleged straight bashing, you sad moron. If any is shallow minded, it's the crap written by yourself and a few others, as you are clearly opposed to Alex & Maggie's relationship because you're homophobic. Not all of the pseudo drama in the CW shows is awful. Some of it is actually great and some relationships are not crappy at all. These people can write "romance thing". As witty comebacks and sarcasm are clearly not your forte, it's best if you avoid trying, in vain, to use either one ever again.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 8, 2017 15:13:57 GMT
1. There's nothing "awful" about that. 2. It's not drama but a romantic relationship, with its ups and downs. 3. Stop being such a narrow-minded homophobic prick. 4. No one is forcing to watch the show, right? Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing. Oh, I put that person on my blocked list. There's no point in trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone who immediately defaults to hurling insults at people.
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Post by dazz on Nov 8, 2017 15:15:44 GMT
Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing. LMAO!! Is that the best you've managed to come up with, dum dum? Talk about lame & ineffective. My so-called "entry" is the opposite of "shallow minded" with any kind of "soupcon" of alleged straight bashing, you sad moron. If any is shallow minded, it's the crap written by yourself and a few others, as you are clearly opposed to Alex & Maggie's relationship because you're homophobic. Not all of the pseudo drama in the CW shows is awful. Some of it is actually great and some relationships are not crappy at all. These people can write "romance thing". As witty comebacks and sarcasm are clearly not your forte, it's best if you avoid trying, in vain, to use either one ever again. I'm opposed to crappy writing, im not however against the Maggie/Alex pairing, well no more so beyond that I feel it's been done poorly from the start, but even then it being poorly done doesn't make me want it gone from the show, Deb months ago on another forum posted a story about how the storyline had a profound impact on some young girl coming to terms with her own sexuality, and I said there and then fuck it, I may think it is shitty tv but me having to put up with 5 minutes of bad drama each week is something I will go along with because it's had that strong a effect on someone else in a time when they needed it, just because I dislike the quality doesn't mean I dislike the other stuff behind it.
Just because I dislike this gay pairing storyline does not make me a homophobe, guess what I had no issue with Curtis being gay, with Sara being bisexual, I wanted there to be more focus given to Nyssa/Sara pairing which never happened, never had an issue with other shows having gay/lesbian characters or romances either, but the fact you just assume anyone who dislikes a lesbian storyline must be a homophobe says more about you than it does them.
Also dunno why I wrote romance thing, I meant to write romance well or properly so how it got to thing is beyond me.
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Post by dazz on Nov 8, 2017 15:20:29 GMT
Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing. Oh, I put that person on my blocked list. There's no point in trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone who immediately defaults to hurling insults at people. Hey I sometimes resemble that remark...
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Post by fantoma on Nov 9, 2017 0:43:16 GMT
LMAO!! Is that the best you've managed to come up with, dum dum? Talk about lame & ineffective. My so-called "entry" is the opposite of "shallow minded" with any kind of "soupcon" of alleged straight bashing, you sad moron. If any is shallow minded, it's the crap written by yourself and a few others, as you are clearly opposed to Alex & Maggie's relationship because you're homophobic. Not all of the pseudo drama in the CW shows is awful. Some of it is actually great and some relationships are not crappy at all. These people can write "romance thing". As witty comebacks and sarcasm are clearly not your forte, it's best if you avoid trying, in vain, to use either one ever again. I'm opposed to crappy writing, im not however against the Maggie/Alex pairing, well no more so beyond that I feel it's been done poorly from the start, but even then it being poorly done doesn't make me want it gone from the show, Deb months ago on another forum posted a story about how the storyline had a profound impact on some young girl coming to terms with her own sexuality, and I said there and then fuck it, I may think it is shitty tv but me having to put up with 5 minutes of bad drama each week is something I will go along with because it's had that strong a effect on someone else in a time when they needed it, just because I dislike the quality doesn't mean I dislike the other stuff behind it.
Just because I dislike this gay pairing storyline does not make me a homophobe, guess what I had no issue with Curtis being gay, with Sara being bisexual, I wanted there to be more focus given to Nyssa/Sara pairing which never happened, never had an issue with other shows having gay/lesbian characters or romances either, but the fact you just assume anyone who dislikes a lesbian storyline must be a homophobe says more about you than it does them.
Also dunno why I wrote romance thing, I meant to write romance well or properly so how it got to thing is beyond me.
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Post by fantoma on Nov 9, 2017 0:45:18 GMT
Oh good we have a shallow minded entry to this topic, oh with a soupcon of straight bashing to give it that extra *muah* flavour, because you know no one can have a differing opinion to yourself without also being a bigot right?
It's a CW show all they have is awful drama filled romance, what relationship on this show has been called anything but crappy? it aint a gay/straight thing but a these people cannot write romance thing. Oh, I put that person on my blocked list. There's no point in trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone who immediately defaults to hurling insults at people. LMAO! That's a load of bullshit and everyone knows it. If you had truly block me, dumbass, you wouldn't be able to read my posts and respond to them, and you wouldn't be able to send me expletive PMs either.
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