Post by stargazer1682 on Nov 6, 2019 5:41:28 GMT
Is this Obsidian commercial taking place in Pleasantville....?
So did Kara clear bringing William into the DEO to connect him with the information they've learned related to his story?
Also, she wants to take him into a government agency that doesn't officially exist; something that raises all sorts of questions of legitimacy and oversight, especially when they usurp the authority of other agencies by posing as FBI agents or other recognized law enforcement. Wouldn't that be something that William might have some qualms about and perhaps want to disclose to the public? I mean, sure, I guess that's kind of the point of making him sign something saying he won't, but that hasn't necessarily stopped a good journalist determined to expose important truths in the name of transparency and accountability. Just as importantly, Kara says that he has to sign the NDA saying he won't say where here sister works; and at first I assumed that in spite of how Kara worded it, that such an agreement would probably be a little bit more explicitly worded to keep William or someone from publicly acknowledging the existence of the DEO. I looked up to see if there was actually a difference between a Non-Disclosure agreement, which is specifically what Kara called it, and a Confidentiality Agreement, which is more of what I assumed he would be asked to sign. While they are at their core essence the same thing, an NDA is generally applied to keeping personal information secret, where as a confidentiality agreement is typically much broader and can require a more proactive level of protect of whatever is to remain confidential; and from that perspective the former fits with Kara's description of not wanting to disclose where Alex works. Within that very specific and narrow definition, if taken at full face value, William couldn't "disclose" the nature of how the source of his information came from someone working at the DEO. But could he conceivably leagally reveal the existence of the DEO if it were unrelated to his story and without mentioning Alex Danvers or her involvement with the organization?
Again, NDA vs Confidentiality Agreemen are two sides of the same coin; and whatever Kara calls it, William would probably be expected to adhere to it a greater degree of secrecy, but I still think it would pique his interest as an investigative journalist to learn about a secret military organization that works for the US government to monitor and occasionally detain extraterrestrials and was involved with essentially deposing their former president.
So why exactly did Hope and Lena need to induce J'Onn's brother Steve into a human form before they conducted their test?
Oh, it was to save money on CGI and because the Martian CGI looked fake as shit? Got it.
Also Steve was wearing boots in his Martian form and is barefoot when induced to take on a human form; and I'm not sure I really have much of an observation about that other than it being kind of weird. Martians are generally depicted as using their shape shifting to produce their clothes, as well as their physical appearance; which means that however Hope and Lena induced this human form, they also somehow picked out his clothes and made a conscious choice not to give him shoes. So what kind of detail did they have to go into in selecting the rest of his physical appearance? I mean, J'Onn looks the way he does because he looks like Hank Henshaw. Papa Martian Manhunter ostensibly took some arbitrary form that mirrored his sons to some varying extent. Did they have to decide how long his hair should be? If you had a beard? If he was ticklish? How tall he was? Did they make his human form anatomically correct or is he just smooth like a Ken doll? Did they debate size?
It'd be great if it turned out that Lena just decided to make Steve look like character actor Phil LaMarr. Turns out, she's a big fan of Mad TV.
So Lena and Hope can access Steve's mind enough to force him to morph into a human form, because Lena has a thing for Hermes Conrad, but that's as deep of access as it goes before his telepathic defenses kick in? Seems like Steve needs to priorities the parts of his mind other people can tamper with, so someone can't make him morph into a bug they can squash. He's just lucky that so far Lena just wanted a chance to meet the voice of John Stewart.
Kara, why would you tell Alex what Kelly is getting her for their anniversary? (I'm not calling it a "date-averssary, it's just a regular anniversary) But back to the point, doesn't Kara know how presents work; the recipient isn't supposed to know what it is before they get it. Sure, it would make sense if Kara told her she helped Kelly work out what the present should be in order to let Alex know that Kelly was in fact getting her something in case Alex wasn't planning to get a present, but she shouldn't have ruined the surprise.
Why is William even in the interrogation room if they weren't going to let him ask questions? It looks like there's literally a two-way mirror behind him, meaning they could have been on the other side of it to observe; which would also presumably be safer for a bunch of reasons for civilians.
And wouldn't whatshername recognize Kara as the woman she blew out the window in the last episode? I mean, she could reasonably infer that Supergirl saved her, but it seems suspicious that the super secret DEO brought the same woman in with another dude and they both happen to be reporters.
Wait, so William's friend was killed by Doc Ock? Man, Sony will climb into bed with anyone to make a couple of bucks.
Why would anyone leave anything Lex Luther made intact or active? I suppose some of it might be too advance for easy or safe disassembly or disarmament, but it seems irresponsible to just leave his doomsday devices or advanced weaponry laying around, even if it is supposedly under arm guard.
"Martian biology prevents brother from fight brother."
The Martian version of talk shows must be even more violent than ours; it's not even a talk show, they just straight for the fight to see what happens.
"Q'Uarus and M'Morin fought for 20 minutes without side effect, T'Gor, you are not Q'Uarus' father. Also, your actual son is dead."
"Do what Lex Luther failed to do. Change the world...." (Old lady walks away without specifically outlining what Not-Ock is supposed to do. Not-Ock discovers that the laser could actually be modified into a universal, unlimited clean power source and begins freely distributing this discovery throughout the world; paid for by selling a line of mechanical arm back-packs, which hugely successful. The rest of the fortunate he amasses he spends on ending world hunger and homelessness, ushering in a new era for humanity, as he shares his simple philosophy embraces by all - "Do what Lex Luther failed do. Change the world."
45 years later, Not-Ock is on his deathbed, a day soon to be marked as a global tragedy, as they lose one of the most influential men in the world; when the door to his hospital room opens and a woman well over 100 enters, being pushed in a wheelchair. She rolls up next to his bed, takes his hand and says, "Do you remember what I told you all those years ago in the alley?" "Yes," he replies, "Did I do it? Did I change the world?" "Yes," she responds, "you did.")
Huh, Kelly didn't strike me as the type to "get freaky".....
Ah, well, obviously Russell is going to turn out to be Not-Ock.....
Wait, does J'Onn, a Martian, believe Noah's Ark actually happened?
"That's a huge wave!"
You know that guy called his parents after wrapping that part and said, "Mom, dad, I made it. I'm an actor. Are...are you proud of me?"
And they responded, "No."
They must really be pinching pennies for crisis to have J'Onn flying around in his human form in the arctic, sportin' the casual dad on the weekend look.
I can definitely imagine a few scenarios how Lena might use this new ability to control minds on Kara to get back at her, but none of them are appropriate to post in a public forum. I might write it down in a book that will eventually be adapted in a movie starring Dakota Johnson..... I think I'll call it something clever like, 20 Shades of Kryptonite or Lena Luther and the Secret Room in the Fortress of Solitude.
You know what I think happened? I think Alex already bought the fancy riding helmet for herself and when Kara told her that Kelly was going to buy her the same thing, she came up with this "riding partner" idea as a way not making Kelly feel bad for buying her something she already has; while also not actually needing to buy her a present - which is actually kind of genius.
So did Kara clear bringing William into the DEO to connect him with the information they've learned related to his story?
Also, she wants to take him into a government agency that doesn't officially exist; something that raises all sorts of questions of legitimacy and oversight, especially when they usurp the authority of other agencies by posing as FBI agents or other recognized law enforcement. Wouldn't that be something that William might have some qualms about and perhaps want to disclose to the public? I mean, sure, I guess that's kind of the point of making him sign something saying he won't, but that hasn't necessarily stopped a good journalist determined to expose important truths in the name of transparency and accountability. Just as importantly, Kara says that he has to sign the NDA saying he won't say where here sister works; and at first I assumed that in spite of how Kara worded it, that such an agreement would probably be a little bit more explicitly worded to keep William or someone from publicly acknowledging the existence of the DEO. I looked up to see if there was actually a difference between a Non-Disclosure agreement, which is specifically what Kara called it, and a Confidentiality Agreement, which is more of what I assumed he would be asked to sign. While they are at their core essence the same thing, an NDA is generally applied to keeping personal information secret, where as a confidentiality agreement is typically much broader and can require a more proactive level of protect of whatever is to remain confidential; and from that perspective the former fits with Kara's description of not wanting to disclose where Alex works. Within that very specific and narrow definition, if taken at full face value, William couldn't "disclose" the nature of how the source of his information came from someone working at the DEO. But could he conceivably leagally reveal the existence of the DEO if it were unrelated to his story and without mentioning Alex Danvers or her involvement with the organization?
Again, NDA vs Confidentiality Agreemen are two sides of the same coin; and whatever Kara calls it, William would probably be expected to adhere to it a greater degree of secrecy, but I still think it would pique his interest as an investigative journalist to learn about a secret military organization that works for the US government to monitor and occasionally detain extraterrestrials and was involved with essentially deposing their former president.
So why exactly did Hope and Lena need to induce J'Onn's brother Steve into a human form before they conducted their test?
Oh, it was to save money on CGI and because the Martian CGI looked fake as shit? Got it.
Also Steve was wearing boots in his Martian form and is barefoot when induced to take on a human form; and I'm not sure I really have much of an observation about that other than it being kind of weird. Martians are generally depicted as using their shape shifting to produce their clothes, as well as their physical appearance; which means that however Hope and Lena induced this human form, they also somehow picked out his clothes and made a conscious choice not to give him shoes. So what kind of detail did they have to go into in selecting the rest of his physical appearance? I mean, J'Onn looks the way he does because he looks like Hank Henshaw. Papa Martian Manhunter ostensibly took some arbitrary form that mirrored his sons to some varying extent. Did they have to decide how long his hair should be? If you had a beard? If he was ticklish? How tall he was? Did they make his human form anatomically correct or is he just smooth like a Ken doll? Did they debate size?
It'd be great if it turned out that Lena just decided to make Steve look like character actor Phil LaMarr. Turns out, she's a big fan of Mad TV.
So Lena and Hope can access Steve's mind enough to force him to morph into a human form, because Lena has a thing for Hermes Conrad, but that's as deep of access as it goes before his telepathic defenses kick in? Seems like Steve needs to priorities the parts of his mind other people can tamper with, so someone can't make him morph into a bug they can squash. He's just lucky that so far Lena just wanted a chance to meet the voice of John Stewart.
Kara, why would you tell Alex what Kelly is getting her for their anniversary? (I'm not calling it a "date-averssary, it's just a regular anniversary) But back to the point, doesn't Kara know how presents work; the recipient isn't supposed to know what it is before they get it. Sure, it would make sense if Kara told her she helped Kelly work out what the present should be in order to let Alex know that Kelly was in fact getting her something in case Alex wasn't planning to get a present, but she shouldn't have ruined the surprise.
Why is William even in the interrogation room if they weren't going to let him ask questions? It looks like there's literally a two-way mirror behind him, meaning they could have been on the other side of it to observe; which would also presumably be safer for a bunch of reasons for civilians.
And wouldn't whatshername recognize Kara as the woman she blew out the window in the last episode? I mean, she could reasonably infer that Supergirl saved her, but it seems suspicious that the super secret DEO brought the same woman in with another dude and they both happen to be reporters.
Wait, so William's friend was killed by Doc Ock? Man, Sony will climb into bed with anyone to make a couple of bucks.
Why would anyone leave anything Lex Luther made intact or active? I suppose some of it might be too advance for easy or safe disassembly or disarmament, but it seems irresponsible to just leave his doomsday devices or advanced weaponry laying around, even if it is supposedly under arm guard.
"Martian biology prevents brother from fight brother."
The Martian version of talk shows must be even more violent than ours; it's not even a talk show, they just straight for the fight to see what happens.
"Q'Uarus and M'Morin fought for 20 minutes without side effect, T'Gor, you are not Q'Uarus' father. Also, your actual son is dead."
"Do what Lex Luther failed to do. Change the world...." (Old lady walks away without specifically outlining what Not-Ock is supposed to do. Not-Ock discovers that the laser could actually be modified into a universal, unlimited clean power source and begins freely distributing this discovery throughout the world; paid for by selling a line of mechanical arm back-packs, which hugely successful. The rest of the fortunate he amasses he spends on ending world hunger and homelessness, ushering in a new era for humanity, as he shares his simple philosophy embraces by all - "Do what Lex Luther failed do. Change the world."
45 years later, Not-Ock is on his deathbed, a day soon to be marked as a global tragedy, as they lose one of the most influential men in the world; when the door to his hospital room opens and a woman well over 100 enters, being pushed in a wheelchair. She rolls up next to his bed, takes his hand and says, "Do you remember what I told you all those years ago in the alley?" "Yes," he replies, "Did I do it? Did I change the world?" "Yes," she responds, "you did.")
Huh, Kelly didn't strike me as the type to "get freaky".....
Ah, well, obviously Russell is going to turn out to be Not-Ock.....
Wait, does J'Onn, a Martian, believe Noah's Ark actually happened?
"That's a huge wave!"
You know that guy called his parents after wrapping that part and said, "Mom, dad, I made it. I'm an actor. Are...are you proud of me?"
And they responded, "No."
They must really be pinching pennies for crisis to have J'Onn flying around in his human form in the arctic, sportin' the casual dad on the weekend look.
I can definitely imagine a few scenarios how Lena might use this new ability to control minds on Kara to get back at her, but none of them are appropriate to post in a public forum. I might write it down in a book that will eventually be adapted in a movie starring Dakota Johnson..... I think I'll call it something clever like, 20 Shades of Kryptonite or Lena Luther and the Secret Room in the Fortress of Solitude.
You know what I think happened? I think Alex already bought the fancy riding helmet for herself and when Kara told her that Kelly was going to buy her the same thing, she came up with this "riding partner" idea as a way not making Kelly feel bad for buying her something she already has; while also not actually needing to buy her a present - which is actually kind of genius.