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Post by noctournem on Mar 20, 2019 18:18:13 GMT
I just wanted to say that if I was planning to blow up star city, I woould also use Felicity as a patsy. Who wouldn't believe she killed a city with a bomb? lol
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Post by achilles on Mar 22, 2019 17:02:17 GMT
I just wanted to say that if I was planning to blow up star city, I woould also use Felicity as a patsy. Who wouldn't believe she killed a city with a bomb? lol I'd use Iris, have her try to make coffee, anyone would buy that she could accidently blow up a city doing anything that difficult... And can someone please tell the showrunners what the hell Supergirl is supposed to be about? |
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Post by SporkBot on Mar 25, 2019 14:00:35 GMT
We finally get more of Soviet Super-Clone-Girl (who I admittedly forgot was a subplot), and...it was actually...a really good episode. Not perfect, as the CG of that Daily Planet orb was kind of hilarious when in motion, and non-linear storytelling can be tricky, but given the past couple seasons? Yeah, this is a whole lot better. Cryer's Luthor has the potential to be like Clancy Brown's, but tends to edge closer to John Shea's (Lois & Clark), where he isn't super-serious, not entirely goofy, but there were some lines that I might've preferred delivered with more gravitas (like when he's strolling down the halls of the prison, beating 3 or 4 inmates at chess...cool scene, but there was something about his delivery...).
Kaznia-Girl got some really good development, showing she has this inherent need to help and protect, so she isn't just another Nazi-Girl who's evil because Nazi. Even Otis, however he survived, is shown to not be a complete monster. One thing I'm still sketchy about is why that one Kaznian soldier had to be killed off...I guess she offended Kaznia-Girl, or something? I was watching live and didn't really hear what Tessmacher was saying.
Yeah, pretty decent episode. Doesn't forgive the problems in this season, but still an improvement.
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Post by achilles on Mar 25, 2019 15:42:00 GMT
Yeah, I'd title this episode "The One That Didn't Totally Suck From Beginning To End". It had some good elements, some bad, and some...ugly.
The Good:
As mentioned above, Benoist shows something this time out, doing her groundhog day sort of yearly thing where she briefly shows up and give a decent enough performance. I mean man, even her accent wasn't as bad as some I've heard.
Cryer provided her something to bounce off, and is all in all the best villain they've had so far. Though his superpower of being the only character who read ahead in the script can get annoying really, really fast.
And...wonder of wonders, the script wasn't as bad as they usually are.
This episode did something SG usually doesn't, and focused on SG/Red Daughter and Lex and his team, without all the excess baggage of other, useless cast members who don't advance the story. Here, we get the cast needed to tell the story at hand, and nothing more. No Captain Useless, (J'ohn), no Idiotboy, (Briany), not too much Alex, none of the others who would have gummed up the works here.
The Bad:
Oh, where to start? Well, how about the destroyer scenes? So...Miss Tessmacher shows up how exactly on a WARship underway in the ocean? I mean, she just there in what I presume they meant to be the CIC of the ship, which for some reason only has ONE guy on duty. How does she do that? I mean presumably (hopefully) one would think that it's just not that easy to penetrate to the beating heart of a WARship on duty. And then the guy just gives a stupid grin on seeing her, and up and LETS her pop him in the face, which for some reason, knocks him out. Yep, glass jaw much dude? You let a woman with her build KO you with one punch that crappy? Probably better that either Red Daughter or Lex killed you later. Also, how does she just...fire a missile? Again, presumably it's just a bit harder than that.
The Ugly:
Otis. And Miss Tessmacher. And the kid. And Kaznians actually TRUSTING...LEX LUTHOR! Untrusting communist types trusting the most untrustworthy guy since Loki. Okay class, did anyone see the "MAJOR PLOT POINT COMING UP!"
I won't say what it was, Otis saving kid Red Daughter likes, but I bet it involves a at least semi face turn on the part of Otis, and kid maybe helping to swing conflicted Red Daughter to the side of the angels. And Red Daughter possibly being...toast as she sacrifices herself to save the world or something in the end, but that's the sort of thing the SG writers would NEVER do, I'm sure.
So...Agent Liberty. His whole story has been reduced to being a patsy for Lex. Wow, they wasted most of the season on that and Poor Man's Idris Elba, (who seems to me like he was a much better actor than the material he was given, thus wasting another talent, a hallmark of this show), instead of just getting to the Lex story. Let's face it, "What's So Funny About..." was a weird choice for Superman stories to steal for Supergirl anyway, since it works best when using Superman himself, and ONLY Superman, since he's the posterboy for polar opposite viewpoints than Black's in the original story, which was infinitely better than whatever this version of the story was about, (I honestly don't remember, it was that lightweight). Nothing about the original story suggest that it would have worked with Supergirl as the protagonist; she's just not in any incarnation the absolute personification of the "less is more" philosophy with respect to violent solutions. In other words, she's just not suited to oppose Manchester Black's views. Not a knock on the character; like I said, in the DCU, it HAD to be Superman. No other character could have as believably provided that great antithesis to Black.
Meanwhile, Liberty...who promised at the beginning at least to be a nice check to the show pushing the AOC crazy wing of the Democratic Party politics, is reduced to a mere tick in Lex's plan.
Lex loves himself some crazy complicated, long-term plans. I guess he never listened to our greatest philosopher, Mike Tyson, who famously said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Seems like Mike is more well read than Lex. Though those scenes where Lex supplied Red D those "Great Works That SG Writers Probably Never Read Because They Were Mostly Written By Dead White Males" were pretty nauseating in their desperate attempt to have you believe that they did. I'm guessing that they were dissing Nietzsche there by showing "Thus Spoke.." as stuff Lex would like, without ever really understanding anything the man wrote.
Miss Tessmacher. Damn, giving her more work wasn't maybe the best decision...
All that said, this was probably the best episode of the season so far.
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 25, 2019 20:35:41 GMT
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 25, 2019 20:50:29 GMT
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Post by noctournem on Mar 26, 2019 17:56:42 GMT
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Post by achilles on Mar 26, 2019 20:35:44 GMT
I think Legends has it's mid-season premiere next Monday in place of Arrow, please correct me if I'm wrong there. And while not technically DC stuff, Cobra Cai has it's second season next month, as does Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the first on Yahoo, the second on Netflix.
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Post by noctournem on Mar 26, 2019 21:23:14 GMT
Do you ever wonder if continuing to watch Supergirl has a negative effect on your health?
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Post by achilles on Mar 26, 2019 21:29:52 GMT
Do you ever wonder if continuing to watch Supergirl has a negative effect on your health? Not really. I just imagine the Zack Snyder cut...you know, the one where SG just kills Lex, then pretty much anyone who offends her, until someone says "Martha", which for some reason stops her. Until Darkseid shows up and kills Lois Lane, which evidently was how he planned to end League... I almost feel I should post random articles about him, in honor of Z. |
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Post by noctournem on Mar 26, 2019 21:38:17 GMT
Do you ever wonder if continuing to watch Supergirl has a negative effect on your health? Not really. I just imagine the Zack Snyder cut...you know, the one where SG just kills Lex, then pretty much anyone who offends her, until someone says "Martha", which for some reason stops her. Until Darkseid shows up and kills Lois Lane, which evidently was how he planned to end League... I almost feel I should post random articles about him, in honor of Z. Damnit. That was a terrible lois too. |
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Post by flamebird on Mar 28, 2019 6:24:30 GMT
"We should have done the cross-over."  |
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 30, 2019 0:00:08 GMT
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Post by achilles on Mar 30, 2019 20:09:52 GMT
So, it seems that Emily Bett Rickards is leaving Arrow, so no more Felicity. Don't know when exactly, or how she's leaving, but it appears she won't make the final season.
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 30, 2019 23:30:24 GMT
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