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Giant Tourtiere
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I thought the change between Kara and James was a little awkwardly done, as was Wynn suddenly working for the DEO, but those are really minor complaints because I loved the tone overall and the portrayal of Superman.

Very optimistic about the new season.

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Giant Tourtiere
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When they were doing the 'tracing bits of elements left by Metallo' thing for a moment I was expecting Superman to call Bruce because that was very much a Batman thing in an unfolding Justice League-y situation.

Batwoman would also work nicely.

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Yeah they could have done a whole thing where he or Cadmus argues that Earth doesn't need alien protectors because it has its own Superman.

All in all the episode worked fine but the 'Cyborg Superman' line was a clunker.

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Aw c'mon robot butlers don't grow on trees you know

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They telegraphed Jeremiah being up to no good so hard that it was almost a surprise that that's actually the direction they went in.

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YER A CADMUS MAN

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Medullah posted:

I'm guessing it was "part of the deal", but Alex not just getting the living poo poo kicked out of her by Evil Hank when Kara left her to get the train was kind of dumb. Sure she had a gun but her chasing the three of them was just kind of eye rolling.

My main problem there was that for someone with super hearing, telescopic vision etc etc and the ability to move incredibly fast, Kara took foreeeeever to get back and help Alex. Especially since she absolutely knew Alex was under threat.

Really it's part of the problem with writing Supergirl - if she uses her powers to their full extent it's really hard to create situations that she doesn't just trivially solve.

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That was rough on the Daxamite lackey who perishes in space because his King and Queen picked a fight he had no stake in.

Giant Tourtiere
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lol at Clark's scary friend.

Keep teasing guys.

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howe_sam posted:

If they keep teasing sooner or later DC will relent and let them do Batman.

I would genuinely enjoy seeing this creative team's version of Batman.

(also who would they cast ohboy)

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Xelkelvos posted:

How would they differentiate him from Ollie

Presumably less vodka.

Giant Tourtiere
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Superman: Bad (or sick) guy!

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I like that Arrow generally has a grittier tone to it but it is also awesome when it crosses over and we get goofier stuff like 'just some ninjas'.

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Welp RIP Disintegrated Priest, we hardly knew ya.

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Ooof that fight choreography.

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In the 30th century, all restaurants are Big Belly Burger

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"Luthor Science will fix it!"

Narrator: It would not fix it.

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When Brainiac started messing up his projections I thought they were doing a thing about how the worsening situation in the present was messing up the future he was from but no, he was just having a sad.

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TwoPair posted:

I'm just confused as to how Alex's memories even work without the knowledge that Kara's an alien. Like, they had a whole flashback episode last season about the Danvers sisters being little super-Nancy Drews solving crimes. Did Alex just forget that? Does she think that back in season 2 that her sister Kara was hooking Mon-El up with a job at CatCo independently of Supergirl interacting with him? I'm trying to come up with some sort of comparison using my own brothers but I can't imagine an even remotely equivalent situation, it's nuts. I feel like her mind should just collapse at the mere mention of Supergirl's identity.

At least in my version of things, that's why Alex is so screwed up by the erasure. For most of the DEO staff it would have just been 'you forget this one fact' but huge chunks of Alex's memory would have needed rewriting and probably couldn't be formed into anything plausible.

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Adding to my dissatisfaction with the Lena plotline is that for someone who was written as being almost hyper aware of Lex and all his manipulative games, Lena then fell for like the most transparent manipulation, in the end.

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Bruceski posted:

Yeah, I'd have preferred if he underestimated Brainy's willingness to sacrifice himself but since he'd considered that as an option (before discarding) he know how to use it. "Oh well, plan B then" instead of his plan all along. Like you said, it's getting a bit too Diaz.

I've been assuming at least some of the 'yes of course this is what I calculated all along' is a bullshit pose anyway. We saw him absolutely lose his poo poo at first, and then reassemble the act, presumably as he figured out how to make it work from there.

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