Post by stargazer1682 on Dec 4, 2019 21:35:05 GMT
Just by going by the title, I find myself torn over my expectations for this episode. On the hand, it's blasphemy for a show of such low caliber to try and use the name of one of the greatest Star Trek movies ever, Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. But on the other hand, just by sheer virtue of the episode containing the delightful presence of Melissa Benoist, the episode invariably surpasses the absolute travesty that was Star Trek Into Darkness.
What I guess I'm saying is, we better see more brainwashing earworms and less magic blood. But I'll settle for a scene that involves Lena, Kara and some mistletoe.....
What Kara really meant to say is....
I did promise brainwashing earworms, after all....
(Sigh)... Look, I get wanting to establish a character's badassery by making them super old - because somehow we equate unconventional degrees of oldness to power or something. I mean, look at Ra's or Vandal Savage (the comic book characters, not the lame ass imitations the Arrowverse shows adapted). But come on, TWO MILLION YEARS OLD? Jesus fucking Christ, why would anyone even want to live that long? I'd think after the first million years I'd bored of living, never mind if I was stuck on the same fucking planet the whole time.
Mind you, humans at least would have been around by that time, for a quite a while in fact, and would have even been using crude tools by then, but good lord, what's the point? Never mind that in the previous episode they established that they came from a sister planet to Krypton; which makes a total of three intelligent life forms to develop in the same system, one of which was traveling the stars two fucking million years ago. Not strictly impossible, but sounds implausible. Not to mention that they're so advanced as to be able to live that long.
They could have said he was ten thousand years old which still would have made him seem sufficiently old to have a significant influence on humanity and history. And even that old seems like it'd be too old for anyone to still find enough novelty in life. That just seems like it'd get tedious, especially if you're in power and it literally goes unchecked that whole time - like really, no one in the last two million years challenged you, much less even came close to shaking your grip on power?
"The planets are aligning for the first time nearly two thousand years, but only for tonight." Fuck you, bullshit.
I get that characters like J'Onn and his brother appear in human form, ostensibly to save money, but I'll never understand the internal logic of having them appear human at all time; it makes little sense and even less sense that they would choose walk around in sweats. I mean, their clothes are apart of them, they can look like they're wearing whatever they want.
I suppose we should be happy they don't choose to appear human, while still rocking the standard Martian look of jockstrap with suspenders and cape....
'Help me, Lena-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope....'
Why do the inhibitors "absorb" Malefic's power? Shouldn't they just block access?
There's, what, maybe a hundred agents at the DEO? It doesn't seem possible there's much more than that. Meanwhile the Lena's Myriad pulse is powered up to affect the entire Earth, while a single Martian send out a single Q-Wave strong enough to resist said pulse, but oh, the inhibitors of a handful of agents prevents it from being just enough.
And you gotta love how all of the DEO drones just stop doing anything as the tensions between Alex and Brainiac build, as they watch Alex wrestle with her decision before giving the order to turn off their inhibitors.
Why is Supergirl struggling to get out from under a few measly pieces of blacktop? Is Rama Kahn using his ground control powers to keep them in place?
Should the eruption have ended so easily once it started? I mean, some serious pent up energy had to have been poured into that volcano or whatever; just because the transmission of Rama Kahn's powers stopped, the energy that was already dumped into it would still be there.
Wait.... so she knocks Rama Kahn into a tar pit, uses her freeze breath to freeze it over and then smashes it, accomplishing....what, exactly? Presumably that blast of freezing breath didn't freeze full depths of the tar pit, however far down it goes; based on the debris that goes flying when she smashes it, I'd say it was a couple of feet at best. Are we to believe that she froze him withing a solid block of the tar and then smashed both him and the tar into tiny bits? Because A) That's some pretty extreme action for the likes of Supergirl; and B) it seems more like she just broke up the top layer she froze, which arguably wouldn't have even contained Rama Kahn.
Ah, and there he is, as expected. So freezing the tar pit and smashing the frozen surface truly achieved nothing....
"Sometimes the good guys lose" - Fuck you writers.
What I guess I'm saying is, we better see more brainwashing earworms and less magic blood. But I'll settle for a scene that involves Lena, Kara and some mistletoe.....
What Kara really meant to say is....
I did promise brainwashing earworms, after all....
(Sigh)... Look, I get wanting to establish a character's badassery by making them super old - because somehow we equate unconventional degrees of oldness to power or something. I mean, look at Ra's or Vandal Savage (the comic book characters, not the lame ass imitations the Arrowverse shows adapted). But come on, TWO MILLION YEARS OLD? Jesus fucking Christ, why would anyone even want to live that long? I'd think after the first million years I'd bored of living, never mind if I was stuck on the same fucking planet the whole time.
Mind you, humans at least would have been around by that time, for a quite a while in fact, and would have even been using crude tools by then, but good lord, what's the point? Never mind that in the previous episode they established that they came from a sister planet to Krypton; which makes a total of three intelligent life forms to develop in the same system, one of which was traveling the stars two fucking million years ago. Not strictly impossible, but sounds implausible. Not to mention that they're so advanced as to be able to live that long.
They could have said he was ten thousand years old which still would have made him seem sufficiently old to have a significant influence on humanity and history. And even that old seems like it'd be too old for anyone to still find enough novelty in life. That just seems like it'd get tedious, especially if you're in power and it literally goes unchecked that whole time - like really, no one in the last two million years challenged you, much less even came close to shaking your grip on power?
"The planets are aligning for the first time nearly two thousand years, but only for tonight." Fuck you, bullshit.
I get that characters like J'Onn and his brother appear in human form, ostensibly to save money, but I'll never understand the internal logic of having them appear human at all time; it makes little sense and even less sense that they would choose walk around in sweats. I mean, their clothes are apart of them, they can look like they're wearing whatever they want.
I suppose we should be happy they don't choose to appear human, while still rocking the standard Martian look of jockstrap with suspenders and cape....
'Help me, Lena-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope....'
Why do the inhibitors "absorb" Malefic's power? Shouldn't they just block access?
There's, what, maybe a hundred agents at the DEO? It doesn't seem possible there's much more than that. Meanwhile the Lena's Myriad pulse is powered up to affect the entire Earth, while a single Martian send out a single Q-Wave strong enough to resist said pulse, but oh, the inhibitors of a handful of agents prevents it from being just enough.
And you gotta love how all of the DEO drones just stop doing anything as the tensions between Alex and Brainiac build, as they watch Alex wrestle with her decision before giving the order to turn off their inhibitors.
Why is Supergirl struggling to get out from under a few measly pieces of blacktop? Is Rama Kahn using his ground control powers to keep them in place?
Should the eruption have ended so easily once it started? I mean, some serious pent up energy had to have been poured into that volcano or whatever; just because the transmission of Rama Kahn's powers stopped, the energy that was already dumped into it would still be there.
Wait.... so she knocks Rama Kahn into a tar pit, uses her freeze breath to freeze it over and then smashes it, accomplishing....what, exactly? Presumably that blast of freezing breath didn't freeze full depths of the tar pit, however far down it goes; based on the debris that goes flying when she smashes it, I'd say it was a couple of feet at best. Are we to believe that she froze him withing a solid block of the tar and then smashed both him and the tar into tiny bits? Because A) That's some pretty extreme action for the likes of Supergirl; and B) it seems more like she just broke up the top layer she froze, which arguably wouldn't have even contained Rama Kahn.
Ah, and there he is, as expected. So freezing the tar pit and smashing the frozen surface truly achieved nothing....
"Sometimes the good guys lose" - Fuck you writers.