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twistedmentat posted:I'm confused about the folded American flag in Alex and Kelly's apartment. Aren't those given to family members who have had someone die in military service? Who died? It seems weird set dressing to have randomly in an apartment. It would be like having an Oscar just there. Something that specific needs an explanation. They did, it's either for Kelly's dad, who they established was a soldier who died in Desert Storm back in like season 2, or Kelly's former fiancée who was also a soldier and died on a patrol.
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howe_sam posted:They did, it's either for Kelly's dad, who they established was a soldier who died in Desert Storm back in like season 2, or Kelly's former fiancée who was also a soldier and died on a patrol. Oh I completely forgot about that stuff. That makes complete sense.
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Sep 2, 2021 04:54
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But yeah they killed off Dean Cain's character offscreen early last season. Heart attack while overseas doing humanitarian work.
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jassa posted:But yeah they killed off Dean Cain's character offscreen early last season. Heart attack while overseas doing humanitarian work. For a show that's pretty progressive, they have had 2 well known washed up chud actors on it.
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Sep 2, 2021 19:05
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twistedmentat posted:For a show that's pretty progressive, they have had 2 well known washed up chud actors on it. And killed them off once they got really bad
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bobkatt013 posted:And killed them off once they got really bad Kevin Sorbo was a well known shithead chud before he was on Supergirl. I think Dean Cane on relatively recently started being lovely? Like most of his stuff has been direct to video/streaming talking animal family movies. Waiting for them to have James Woods on.
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It sucks how cheap they've gotten with Martian Manhunter. I loled when Rojas had all the Super Friends on the white board. Sentinel's secret identity shouldn't be hard to figure out.
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twistedmentat posted:Kevin Sorbo was a well known shithead chud before he was on Supergirl. I think Dean Cane on relatively recently started being lovely? Like most of his stuff has been direct to video/streaming talking animal family movies. Dean Cain was pretty openly bad when the show started but I understand he couldn't really rein it in on the job like they hoped when casting him for being a former Superman. Sorbo was pretty clearly a role intended to die over the course of the season either way.
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Killer robot posted:Dean Cain was pretty openly bad when the show started but I understand he couldn't really rein it in on the job like they hoped when casting him for being a former Superman. That's pretty lovely for Cane. Imagine being worse than Kevin Sorbo?
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Spacebump posted:I loled when Rojas had all the Super Friends on the white board. Sentinel's secret identity shouldn't be hard to figure out. Andrea and William were talking to Kara right in front of a picture of Supergirl. The whole idea that people can't identify these super heroes is absurd and dumb and the show should really not be drawing attention to it.
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Tiggum posted:Andrea and William were talking to Kara right in front of a picture of Supergirl. The whole idea that people can't identify these super heroes is absurd and dumb and the show should really not be drawing attention to it. I don't think superheroes are up your alley, try something more realistic like Jerry Bruckheimer-produced crime procedurals.
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McSpanky posted:I don't think superheroes are up your alley, try something more realistic like Jerry Bruckheimer-produced crime procedurals. It's fine so long as it's a background element that we just accept and ignore. But when you've got a character going "we've got to figure out everything we can about these super heroes!" and they can't recognise that one of them is standing right there because she's not in costume, if you're not playing that as a joke then you're doing it wrong.
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Tiggum posted:Andrea and William were talking to Kara right in front of a picture of Supergirl. The whole idea that people can't identify these super heroes is absurd and dumb and the show should really not be drawing attention to it. I think Kara blends in better than Clark. Supergirl is this glamorous blond, who wears a red cape and a form hugging body suit. Kara Danvers looks like a woman who's facebook relationship status has her married to her cat and has a masters in library science. They are real good at making her look pretty plain and unremarkable, which is pretty hard when you're dealing with one of the most attractive people on TV. But yea, one of the big concets of superheroes is that people can't tell when a superhero is right in front of them if they're wearing glasses or a hat. Also, you'd think Nia would have a doctors note that she has narcolepsy to explain her falling asleep every so often due to her powers.
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twistedmentat posted:Kara Danvers looks like a woman who's facebook relationship status has her married to her cat and has a masters in library science. They are real good at making her look pretty plain and unremarkable No she doesn't, and no they aren't. They haven't even tried to do that since season one.
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I mean part of what I've always felt is people aren't trying to figure out Superman's secret identity because they don't even know that he has one. Like, as far as they're concerned he lives in the Fortress of Solitude and pops out every so often to save people. Ditto Supergirl, she's just some magic person from space, why would she be skulking around as a normal human?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean part of what I've always felt is people aren't trying to figure out Superman's secret identity because they don't even know that he has one. Like, as far as they're concerned he lives in the Fortress of Solitude and pops out every so often to save people. Ditto Supergirl, she's just some magic person from space, why would she be skulking around as a normal human? That’s pretty much the plot of one of the post-Crisis issues back in the 80s. Lex tries to figure out who Superman really is, gets all of this data and feeds it into some sort of ultracomputer, and then when it tells him the answer is Clark Kent he flips out and absolutely refuses to accept that, instead deciding that he was a fool to ever think that Superman would pretend to be human. It rules.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean part of what I've always felt is people aren't trying to figure out Superman's secret identity because they don't even know that he has one. Like, as far as they're concerned he lives in the Fortress of Solitude and pops out every so often to save people. Ditto Supergirl, she's just some magic person from space, why would she be skulking around as a normal human? Also in the typical comic book continuity you can find pictures of Clark Kent shaking hands with Superman after being rescued by him or whatever. Even if the reader knows that was Martian Manhunter or whatever.
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Killer robot posted:Also in the typical comic book continuity you can find pictures of Clark Kent shaking hands with Superman after being rescued by him or whatever. Even if the reader knows that was Martian Manhunter or whatever. It was Supergirl that one time!
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I did like the one comic where Lex turns into the Flash and takes off his mask and is like "I have no idea who this is".
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GreenNight posted:I did like the one comic where Lex turns into the Flash and takes off his mask and is like "I have no idea who this is". Not sure if it was adapted from a comic or if you're getting mixed up, but they did that in the animated series Justice League Unlimited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPefOfu2TIU
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jassa posted:Not sure if it was adapted from a comic or if you're getting mixed up, but they did that in the animated series Justice League Unlimited. And it was even better because the voice actor for the Flash on that show was Michael Rosenbaum, who of course played Lex on Smallville!
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Sure your hair looked a little weird
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Now of course in the real world the council would happily still vote for the sweetheart corporate deal, but hey.
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I missed last week and am just now catching up and oh boy I'm excited to see the Supergirl writers turn their ham hands on more systemic issues. We took a season on racism but since we blew half of this in the Phantom Zone I guess they're just gonna lightning round the rest of social reform, huh? 1 episode for pollution/climate change, and now 2 for prison reform/helping former prisoners get back into society/gentrification in general. How many episodes are left this season? Gotta know how many are left for Supergirl to solve other systemic issues. Maybe in the series finale she can knock out Big Pharma real quick before KOing Lex Luthor or something.
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What the actual gently caress is this show doing? And I dunno if Superman and lois just fundamentally altered my perspective but Supergirl just looks so incredibly cheap all of a sudden. I don't get nearly the same level of cheap vibe from flash or Batwoman.
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The network, (and maybe the studio too, though not the people working on the show I'm sure they're doing their best), pretty clearly checked out on the show the moment they announced this was the last season -- they can't even be assed to make next episode promos!
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I just hope the last episode or two of the season can be good episodes/close out the series well.
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TwoPair posted:I missed last week and am just now catching up and oh boy I'm excited to see the Supergirl writers turn their ham hands on more systemic issues. The writers are very bad at it. At least Thomas Lennon will be around next episode and he's always a delight.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:At least Thomas Lennon will be around next episode and he's always a delight. Nyxzy's gonna get a sibling pounding SO bad next week!
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The Lord Bude posted:What the actual gently caress is this show doing? The show's looked and felt cheap since it left CBS if we're being perfectly honest here. It turned it into a charm on the power of everyone involved still giving enough of a poo poo about it to make it work. Nowt that Melissa Benoist has said she's done it seems like things are just falling apart, AND Superman and Lois coming along and blowing the doors off all its sibling shows in terms of what an Arrowverse show can be if everyone involved put some loving effort into it really skews the perception as well.
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TwoPair posted:How many episodes are left this season? 10
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howe_sam posted:Now of course in the real world the council would happily still vote for the sweetheart corporate deal, but hey. Yeah, that was what I was thinking in that scene.
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Sep 10, 2021 01:04
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Supergirl turning into Nancy Drew is not something I saw coming.
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howe_sam posted:Do people in Newfoundland really sound vaguely Irish? Looking it up, sorta? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_English quote:Other Newfoundland dialects are influenced by the dialects of Ireland's southeastern counties, particularly Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork. Still others blend elements of both and there is also a discernible influence of Scottish English.[4] This reflects the fact that while the Scottish came in smaller numbers than the English and Irish, they had a large influence on Newfoundland society.
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I thought to myself "it would be funny if Supergirl used her heat vision as a laser pointer" and then she did. A+
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This episode was actually pretty decent! Though I'd be more invested in Lena's adventures with witchcraft if we had more than 9 episodes of the show remaining. I laughed when witch lady was telling her it took a lifetime to learn how to use magic properly because you just know Lena will somehow be an exception to that rule despite being such a skeptic.
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Has Lena really never seen magic before? I feel like she must have, surely? Also, the way that witch described magic made it sound very scientific for something that's supposedly completely incompatible with it.
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