Post by stargazer1682 on Jun 19, 2018 5:28:07 GMT
…. 
So after being on Argos long enough for Kara to be completely de-powered, she and Mama-El are back on earth for all of a minute and zap, zap, up, up and away? Yeah, alright; these powers are basically magic anyway, so what the hell.
And I know it's not intentional, even if it is Erica Durance, but this still seems like another "fuck you" to Smallville's Clark Kent, that yet another Kryptonian (and really, all Kryptonians) have instant mastery over all of these fantastic abilities the instant they had them; while he was pushing 30 before he could fly, even after knowing that was one of his abilities...
Moving on.
Superman saved Madagascar…. I hear...….
This whole fight sequence at the start of the episode is a waste, because you know there's going to be more to it, otherwise the episode would be over in record time. Papa-Manhunter giving J'Onn the memory of the first Martian was good and all, but if they were going to go in depth like that, it should have been better paced with the other stories; because by the time they finished the Earth should have cracked apart and lead to an awkward encounter between Alex and Shield Agent Melinda May, as they duke it out to see who's more of a basic black wearing badass.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn did it best:
"Remember."
That's it, that's all he needed for the whole of his intellect to be transferred to another living being. It was the Vulcan equivalent of touching someone's nose and going, "Boop."
But, props to Papa-Manhunter for saving the world. And look, Reign's getting squished by the Earth's crust.
Well, I guess she's gone now, righ… What? Oh, she's not? They're going to drag that on more now?
[sigh]
But on the up side, Saturn Girl's back; and Deb's probably doing her happy dance.
So are we not going to get any straight answers from Saturn Girl? I take it they didn't actually return because of any failsafe in the beacon, but because they needed Mon-El and Winn to go back with them; yet Saturn Girl tells Mon to stay and that their relationship wasn't that big of deal, because she figured...what? Brainy wouldn't follow-up with him about the conversation she didn't have with him about returning?
Is it weird for anyone else at the DEO to watch their boss hug his subordinates? Or does he hug everyone? Is there a schedule? Does he walk around the headquarters, and just randomly be like, "Come on Carl, bring it in."
No, Sam, I'm with you on your first instinct; don't trust that this apparition is your mother, because why would you? Why and how would she be there? And how would she know which pool is the right one to drink from? For that matter, how were you supposed to know? And what the hell is even happening that this is part of the story?
It's like the writers sat around and wondered if they could somehow pay homage to that scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where Dumbledore has to drink enchanted water, but felt it needed to be more boring.
I have so many problems with the proposal to send Winn to the future. First of all, the personal force field is a nice idea and all in the real world, but in application something like this pretty much invalidates most threats to just about anyone. Without some conceit for why the shield can't be immediately mass produced or other limitations of the tech for the foreseeable future, anyone and everyone has the ability to gain invincibility on par with Supergirl and Superman.
Although, how effective is the shield? Sure, that guy who died.... Timmy...? ... He took three Kryptonian blasts, but that other guy helping the witches took the full force of a blast with no protection and apparently lived.
More than that, even if it were the basis for revolutionizing technology, there's still a difference between that and all of the developments that have been built on top of it over the subsequent 1000 years. That's about in the same vein as the far inferior Wrath of Kahn remake, Into Darkness, where Kahn - a man 300 years behind the curve, is expected to be to able to develop weapons that rival conventional technology that he should be way out of his depth with. What's Winn's Legion name going to be? Caveman? Grandpa? Unless I missed it, I'm surprised they didn't make some reference of him taking with him all of the existing Star Wars and other pop culture movies that had been lost in the great disaster, with him to introduce to a new audience. When they catch up with them next season we better see that he's failed to be technologically innovative, but has managed to build a media empire by reshooting his favorite movies and claiming them as his own.
"So I've brought you to this conference table discuss stopping Reign.... again"
"Didn't do that last week? And this morning?"
"I don't want to kill her"
"We should probably kill her"
"No!"
"Kara...."
"Fine...."
Now Sam's floating, which means she's full bore Kryptonian. And off she goes, because fuck you Tom Welling.
So what was the preacher dude doing? It looked like he was trying to crawl to a ship, but I wasn't fulling paying attention; I didn't hear anyone say they saw him or try to stop him. It didn't appear he actually took the ship. Was he the one who turned on the forcefield?
Everybody was Kryptonian-fighting; and it called for expert timing.
Oh... Saturn Girl was doing the force field?
Yeah, I forget she has that ability... Apparently.
Took me a minute to realize Reign had previously gained black-canary-esque powers; and that the writers didn't forget for a second that she isn't Katie Cassidy, like I did...
That magical sword really wasn't as important as they made it out to be. I mean, besides Sam stabbing Reign with it (I think), which they could have made it be just about anything; like a Kryptonite sword or knife or something. They made mention of it being some special type sword, but it basically just did what swords do; and it didn't even slow her down that much.
But wait, Sam powered up enough to actually have Kryponian powers; so a)why did the blast hurt her as badly as it did everyone else (come to think of it, should Mon-El been fatally wounded; especially wearing his Legion ring at the time? Or Imra for that matter?) and b) the whole reason she went back into the dark and scary forest to drink the water to make her strong was that it was supposed to make Reign weak. So if Sam was now stronger than she was, that should mean Reign is comparatively weaker, at least in contrast to Sam....
See Kara, this why if you're going to kill a Kryptonian, you gotta snap their neck first; so they don't accidentally kill your friends with their heat vision during their death throws.
Alright Kara, let's Superman II this shit. Because your pal Barry travels back in time all the time, and nothing bad's every happened right?
Rather than calling a mulligan, it would have been much better if Kara felt so lost by killing someone that she decides to travel to future with Mon-El and Winn; and then at the start of the next season she's been able to find peace with herself and returns to the present - albeit arriving a few months after she's left and has to play catch-up with the changes in everyone's lives.
Now aside from risking screwing everything up like Barry or the "legends" do when they change time; why does she only go back a few minutes? Why not going back several days, or weeks, or months and prevent more of Reign's deaths, besides those of her friends? And why does she find herself where she was at that moment in the past, instead of coming out some... exit aperture?
So they're also going to kind of rip off the ending to the Philosopher/Soccer's Stone? Okay then. And that somehow makes Sam human. Even though she was apparently never human....
So then why not make all of the worldkiller's humans who were infected by some type of spore or something that made them these worldkillers?
Whatever.
Seriously, if Lena and Kara aren't going to happen - and dammit, it should - Alex and Lena would be the next best pairing. Better than Lena and James. Sorry James.
So Alex wants to quit, but instead J'Onn basically tells her, "No, I want to quit, and I have dibs. I'm going to put you in charge instead." Because there's apparently no oversight of the DEO and the person in charge can pass on their job to whomever gives him the better hug.
Little does Alex know however that J'Onn actually offered the job to Carl first, because hugging Carl is like hugging happiness itself. The dude just always smells like vanilla and puppies, and knows how to apply just the right amount of pressure and lets you decide when to let go. The only reason he turned the job down is because he's battling cancer; and while things look good, he just doesn't have the energy for that type of responsibility. And you may be thinking, damn, that joke about J'Onn hugging a guy named Carl took a serious turn, why would he say that? When the real question you should be asking yourself is, if I can make you like an imaginary character like Carl and then make you feel bad he has cancer, why can't these fuck-wit writers deliver anything more substantial?
I can't believe Sam actually managed to live and Ruby wouldn't end up being raised by Alex. You got me writers, I did not see that mundane and uneventful ending coming.
And the fun continues, because it wouldn't be a Supergirl episode if they didn't have a moment between the Danvers sisters on the couch recapping the week's events, while doing something casual and totally relatable, like eating too much pizza....
Oh no, Lena and Ms. Tesmacher are conducting more tests on the knock-off black kryptonite; which must be evil - even though it literally powers an entire outer space colony of Kryptonians, demonstrating it's benevolent application. But the music playing under the scene was ominous, so it must mean they're up to no good. Plus it has something to do with Kara grabbing the rock earlier, which leads to somewhere in Siberia another Kara appearing, who seems to be wearing absolutely nothing but a blanket.........
That's odd, I could have sworn it was only a few seconds since I typed that last sentence, but my clock says a half-hour has gone by. Weird.
Where was I? Oh, right, a naked Kara in a blanket..... damm it, when did it get dark out?
So after being on Argos long enough for Kara to be completely de-powered, she and Mama-El are back on earth for all of a minute and zap, zap, up, up and away? Yeah, alright; these powers are basically magic anyway, so what the hell.
And I know it's not intentional, even if it is Erica Durance, but this still seems like another "fuck you" to Smallville's Clark Kent, that yet another Kryptonian (and really, all Kryptonians) have instant mastery over all of these fantastic abilities the instant they had them; while he was pushing 30 before he could fly, even after knowing that was one of his abilities...
Moving on.
Superman saved Madagascar…. I hear...….
This whole fight sequence at the start of the episode is a waste, because you know there's going to be more to it, otherwise the episode would be over in record time. Papa-Manhunter giving J'Onn the memory of the first Martian was good and all, but if they were going to go in depth like that, it should have been better paced with the other stories; because by the time they finished the Earth should have cracked apart and lead to an awkward encounter between Alex and Shield Agent Melinda May, as they duke it out to see who's more of a basic black wearing badass.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn did it best:
"Remember."
That's it, that's all he needed for the whole of his intellect to be transferred to another living being. It was the Vulcan equivalent of touching someone's nose and going, "Boop."
But, props to Papa-Manhunter for saving the world. And look, Reign's getting squished by the Earth's crust.
Well, I guess she's gone now, righ… What? Oh, she's not? They're going to drag that on more now?
[sigh]
But on the up side, Saturn Girl's back; and Deb's probably doing her happy dance.
So are we not going to get any straight answers from Saturn Girl? I take it they didn't actually return because of any failsafe in the beacon, but because they needed Mon-El and Winn to go back with them; yet Saturn Girl tells Mon to stay and that their relationship wasn't that big of deal, because she figured...what? Brainy wouldn't follow-up with him about the conversation she didn't have with him about returning?
Is it weird for anyone else at the DEO to watch their boss hug his subordinates? Or does he hug everyone? Is there a schedule? Does he walk around the headquarters, and just randomly be like, "Come on Carl, bring it in."
No, Sam, I'm with you on your first instinct; don't trust that this apparition is your mother, because why would you? Why and how would she be there? And how would she know which pool is the right one to drink from? For that matter, how were you supposed to know? And what the hell is even happening that this is part of the story?
It's like the writers sat around and wondered if they could somehow pay homage to that scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where Dumbledore has to drink enchanted water, but felt it needed to be more boring.
I have so many problems with the proposal to send Winn to the future. First of all, the personal force field is a nice idea and all in the real world, but in application something like this pretty much invalidates most threats to just about anyone. Without some conceit for why the shield can't be immediately mass produced or other limitations of the tech for the foreseeable future, anyone and everyone has the ability to gain invincibility on par with Supergirl and Superman.
Although, how effective is the shield? Sure, that guy who died.... Timmy...? ... He took three Kryptonian blasts, but that other guy helping the witches took the full force of a blast with no protection and apparently lived.
More than that, even if it were the basis for revolutionizing technology, there's still a difference between that and all of the developments that have been built on top of it over the subsequent 1000 years. That's about in the same vein as the far inferior Wrath of Kahn remake, Into Darkness, where Kahn - a man 300 years behind the curve, is expected to be to able to develop weapons that rival conventional technology that he should be way out of his depth with. What's Winn's Legion name going to be? Caveman? Grandpa? Unless I missed it, I'm surprised they didn't make some reference of him taking with him all of the existing Star Wars and other pop culture movies that had been lost in the great disaster, with him to introduce to a new audience. When they catch up with them next season we better see that he's failed to be technologically innovative, but has managed to build a media empire by reshooting his favorite movies and claiming them as his own.
"So I've brought you to this conference table discuss stopping Reign.... again"
"Didn't do that last week? And this morning?"
"I don't want to kill her"
"We should probably kill her"
"No!"
"Kara...."
"Fine...."
Now Sam's floating, which means she's full bore Kryptonian. And off she goes, because fuck you Tom Welling.
So what was the preacher dude doing? It looked like he was trying to crawl to a ship, but I wasn't fulling paying attention; I didn't hear anyone say they saw him or try to stop him. It didn't appear he actually took the ship. Was he the one who turned on the forcefield?
Everybody was Kryptonian-fighting; and it called for expert timing.
Oh... Saturn Girl was doing the force field?
Yeah, I forget she has that ability... Apparently.
Took me a minute to realize Reign had previously gained black-canary-esque powers; and that the writers didn't forget for a second that she isn't Katie Cassidy, like I did...
That magical sword really wasn't as important as they made it out to be. I mean, besides Sam stabbing Reign with it (I think), which they could have made it be just about anything; like a Kryptonite sword or knife or something. They made mention of it being some special type sword, but it basically just did what swords do; and it didn't even slow her down that much.
But wait, Sam powered up enough to actually have Kryponian powers; so a)why did the blast hurt her as badly as it did everyone else (come to think of it, should Mon-El been fatally wounded; especially wearing his Legion ring at the time? Or Imra for that matter?) and b) the whole reason she went back into the dark and scary forest to drink the water to make her strong was that it was supposed to make Reign weak. So if Sam was now stronger than she was, that should mean Reign is comparatively weaker, at least in contrast to Sam....
See Kara, this why if you're going to kill a Kryptonian, you gotta snap their neck first; so they don't accidentally kill your friends with their heat vision during their death throws.
Alright Kara, let's Superman II this shit. Because your pal Barry travels back in time all the time, and nothing bad's every happened right?
Rather than calling a mulligan, it would have been much better if Kara felt so lost by killing someone that she decides to travel to future with Mon-El and Winn; and then at the start of the next season she's been able to find peace with herself and returns to the present - albeit arriving a few months after she's left and has to play catch-up with the changes in everyone's lives.
Now aside from risking screwing everything up like Barry or the "legends" do when they change time; why does she only go back a few minutes? Why not going back several days, or weeks, or months and prevent more of Reign's deaths, besides those of her friends? And why does she find herself where she was at that moment in the past, instead of coming out some... exit aperture?
So they're also going to kind of rip off the ending to the Philosopher/Soccer's Stone? Okay then. And that somehow makes Sam human. Even though she was apparently never human....
So then why not make all of the worldkiller's humans who were infected by some type of spore or something that made them these worldkillers?
Whatever.
Seriously, if Lena and Kara aren't going to happen - and dammit, it should - Alex and Lena would be the next best pairing. Better than Lena and James. Sorry James.
So Alex wants to quit, but instead J'Onn basically tells her, "No, I want to quit, and I have dibs. I'm going to put you in charge instead." Because there's apparently no oversight of the DEO and the person in charge can pass on their job to whomever gives him the better hug.
Little does Alex know however that J'Onn actually offered the job to Carl first, because hugging Carl is like hugging happiness itself. The dude just always smells like vanilla and puppies, and knows how to apply just the right amount of pressure and lets you decide when to let go. The only reason he turned the job down is because he's battling cancer; and while things look good, he just doesn't have the energy for that type of responsibility. And you may be thinking, damn, that joke about J'Onn hugging a guy named Carl took a serious turn, why would he say that? When the real question you should be asking yourself is, if I can make you like an imaginary character like Carl and then make you feel bad he has cancer, why can't these fuck-wit writers deliver anything more substantial?
I can't believe Sam actually managed to live and Ruby wouldn't end up being raised by Alex. You got me writers, I did not see that mundane and uneventful ending coming.
And the fun continues, because it wouldn't be a Supergirl episode if they didn't have a moment between the Danvers sisters on the couch recapping the week's events, while doing something casual and totally relatable, like eating too much pizza....
Oh no, Lena and Ms. Tesmacher are conducting more tests on the knock-off black kryptonite; which must be evil - even though it literally powers an entire outer space colony of Kryptonians, demonstrating it's benevolent application. But the music playing under the scene was ominous, so it must mean they're up to no good. Plus it has something to do with Kara grabbing the rock earlier, which leads to somewhere in Siberia another Kara appearing, who seems to be wearing absolutely nothing but a blanket.........
That's odd, I could have sworn it was only a few seconds since I typed that last sentence, but my clock says a half-hour has gone by. Weird.
Where was I? Oh, right, a naked Kara in a blanket..... damm it, when did it get dark out?
There are going to be some people that will complain and claim Sam is 'turned' gay if they go through with it but there has been nothing to suggest Sam is hetero, Bi or homosexual and as far as I can see her sexuality has been up in the air with her showing no interest in either gender so far. It appears I know what they are doing with the other version of Kara though and you might want to look at this. 
