Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 12:24:32 GMT
And the reason for that is because the depiction of this relationship focuses exactly and specifically on that -- the relationship, rather than the physical aspect of it for visceral and lascivious reasons, which would be besides the point of the overall TV show anyway.
That's what I love about it. It's a well-written and well-acted depiction of two lesbians in a growing, loving, committed relationship, warts and all, without resorting to hot and heavy sex scenes, especially just for the titillating sake of it.
Instead of getting a badass female superhero they made Kara into a geeky character and surprise, surprise (just like a million other movies and shows) put her love life at the front and centre of the show with Mon El getting more screen time than Kara ‘cause God knows we can’t have a show about a female character that is about her and not her love life even though it was such a tiny nonexistent part of the comic books and her longest love interest was Nightwing. That is another one of the things I liked about ‘Atomic Blonde’ ‘cause as Charlzie pointed out the writers didn’t make the movie about her love life or have her gushing over a male character like a schoolgirl who becomes the centre focus of the movie. They wouldn’t dare make a ‘Batman’ show and make it all about his love life with Vicki Vayle and have Vicki Vayle have more screentime than Batman but ‘cause it is a ‘female’ superhero there is a different set of rules...
On top of that we have all the unnecessary side characters like Alex, Winn, James, Cat Grant, Maggie and Martian Manhunter – two that were created for the show, two Superman characters, a separate superhero who had his own series and a Batwoman love interest who could have been fantastic and historic if they used her to set up a ‘Batwoman’ TV show but they didn’t and all of them have taken a large amount of screen time from Kara with their storylines. Supergirl didn’t have side characters like Superman had Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Cat Grant, Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) etc and the closest thing she had to any reoccurring characters apart from Superman were Powergirl, the Legion (who she was a member of for a while), Comet and Twilight and they haven’t even been in the show but back to the point, in the majority of ‘Supergirl’ comic books Supergirl is alone and spends most of her time flying around in the sky and up in space.
In a lot of series she doesn’t even have a secret identity ‘cause she spends all her time as Supergirl in her Supergirl costume and when she did she wore a wig NOT glasses!! Lastly, it is only now they are finally going to use some Supergirl villains like Reign instead of Superman villains and while I don’t hate the show as it might seem from my post and I can see why some people might like it BUT as a long time Supergirl fan who got into comic books after reading the Linda Danvers/Supergirl series which is still one of my favourites I just tend to have a problem with a TV show that takes a strong and edgy female character and degrades her down to a geeky character who is secondary to her male love interest and find it quite misogynistic.
