rjcurrie Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 For practical purposes it amounts to time travel IMHO. I might agree if he didn't experience the thousand years, but my impression is that he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 He did. He didn't age or die, and he didn't go mad (at least not majorly or permanently). He's since returned to the past repeatedly via Legion time-travel tech. But YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 In my view, a story isn't really a stereotypical time travel story unless the main character(s) travel to the past and change it (either deliberately or by accident), or travel to the future and obtain crucial information they use to solve a problem when they get back to the "present". I'm not sure if that pertains to Mon-El from the comics, but unless he (the tv version) somehow causes Supergirl to travel through time, and said travel helps solve some mainline narrative dilemma, his "offscreen" temporal (mis)adventures are essentially irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 Erica Durance as the new Alura on Supergirl! And last nights story could have been shorter if Supergirl had borrowed a couple of smoke bombs from the DEO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 Never underestimate an adversary with really strong Mental Illusions! Can someone explain to me how Supergirl was able to just completely ignore the effects of Psi's powers at the end? That ray-gun thingie didn't appear to have any noticeable effect, unless it was a really Delayed Effect, which if so, was not made very clear at all with the way the scene was presented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 I interpreted it as something like "You already showed me my greatest fear, and I beat it (with help from my sister and Kryptonian meditation); you can't show me anything worse than that." Or y'know, her player finally made a Breakout Roll. And was it just me, or was Alex's little butt-scooch forward to give Kara a hug one of the cutest things in the history of television? Nolgroth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 Okay, I'll buy that. No it wasn't just you. It was unbelievably cute. I kinda squee'd inside when I saw that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 That's what I noticed about the Supergirl show, and CW dramas in general. They frequently screw up the big plotline issues, but so often they get the character interaction moments so right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 I think in the case of Supergirl, they want to ride that line between serialized and episodic storytelling. It is hard to nail the big plotline when you don't fully commit to the serialized format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Regarding last night's episode. First, Chloe Sullivan is part of this universe and was a friend of Clark's 10 years ago. Second, Erica Durance showed up as FBI Agent Noell Neill (actually J'Onn in disguise.) Holy Adventures of Superman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Yeah, I was surprised by that too (the Chloe thing, not the Durance thing). Seemed a little cheesy to me, but I guess it's CW canon now. All in all I feel that Supergirl is doing a great job with its storytelling this season. The last two episodes in particular were very good. But from the snippets shown in the teaser for next week, I fear that the return of Mon-El could really muck things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted November 15, 2017 Report Share Posted November 15, 2017 I normally don't care much for flashback episodes. And if I could live the rest of my life without being forced to sit through more High School Melodrama, I'd die a happy man. And yet somehow, I really enjoyed this episode. I felt like it really did a good job of fleshing out Kara & Alex's relationship, and also put the whole "I'm driven to help people yet I chose to hide my powers for years" thing into better context. Having never watched Smallville, I had to look up the Chloe reference. And I was puzzled by the whole "Mom" thing, since I didn't think the actress looked anything like Kar's mom - I didn't realize they'd recast the part. But the Noell Neill bit was a nice shout out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 15, 2017 Report Share Posted November 15, 2017 At first I wasn't entirely convinced the show was name-dropping Smallville's Chloe, but then Kara mentioned Chloe's "Wall of Weird" and that made it conclusive. BTW, the actresses who played young Alex and Kara did a smash up job. Kudos to the casting director(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 15, 2017 Report Share Posted November 15, 2017 I always thought that Supergirl is kind of a sequel to Lois And Clark. They had a Cat Grant (played by Tracy Scoggins) who is in the first season and then leaves presumably to start Catco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 13 hours ago, zslane said: BTW, the actresses who played young Alex and Kara did a smash up job. Kudos to the casting director(s). They did an amazing job with those two. Both actresses had their counterparts' voices, mannerisms and facial expressions down pat, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 just watching the latest episode (where Mon-El returns and Samantha/Reign finds out she is alien). So, why doesn't she call her friend Lena or Kara and say - Hey, you guys know Supergirl, can you contact her and let her know I could use some advice? Halfway through episode, but doesn't that seem obvious to anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 24, 2017 Report Share Posted November 24, 2017 Because even though that makes perfect rational sense, that would have derailed/delayed the course set for her by the writers for this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted November 24, 2017 Report Share Posted November 24, 2017 Sadly, that was my guess, but I was hoping for a rational in show explanation. And now that apparently she is a DNA modified Brainwashed villain, I probably won't get one, unless she was programmed to do exactly that, follow the stone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 24, 2017 Report Share Posted November 24, 2017 Reign is like what happened to Talia on Babylon 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 My head canon is that she had a compulsion laid on her by the device from her pod to go into the desert and plant her Fortress of Rockitude. Are there any other former City of Heroes players here who thought that place looked a LOT like a Circle of Thorns lair? bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 My head canon is that Sam merely sensed/intuited that the device could lead her to answers about what was going on with her and who she really was, and she was following it like an otherworldly GPS nav. Is anyone else tired of every single Super<whatever> movie and tv show riffing on the Donner crystals (and Fortresses of Solitude)? C'mon Hollywood, try something fresh and new, like Donner did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 I am interested to see which other Legionaires are in the pods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 On 5/28/2017 at 3:07 PM, Cassandra said: Legion of Super Heroes. Told you so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 The first half of the two-night, four-show crossover event was kind of fun. I'll pretty much watch anything with Melissa Benoist in it. I'll even put up with having to watch Dominic Purcell... Questions that came to mind while watching the first half of the two parter: Do we care what happens on Earth-X? In the opening scene, why were there search lights randomly crossing back and forth? Was there an active manhunt going on in that area? If so, why weren’t the “rebels” trying to hide? Did Ramon give Kara a device for opening a portal at any time, and I just forgot about it? How do the CW-verse characters know who Spider-Man is? Why were Heatwave and Sarah invited to the wedding? If the real objective is to take Kara’s heart for Evil Kara, why not attack her when she's alone somewhere on her own Earth, rather than when she’s surrounded by a bunch of other superheroes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 4 hours ago, zslane said: The first half of the two-night, four-show crossover event was kind of fun. I'll pretty much watch anything with Melissa Benoist in it. I'll even put up with having to watch Dominic Purcell... Questions that came to mind while watching the first half of the two parter: I inserted some answers in this cool orange color. Very seasonal for end of Fall, IMO. No way I wanted to try to selectively quote inside a spoiler tag. Quote Hide contents Do we care what happens on Earth-X? No, but the action is taking place on Earth 1, apparently. We only care that Earth-X is a dystopia with evil versions of Kara and Oliver, which they showed us briefly. In the opening scene, why were there search lights randomly crossing back and forth? Was there an active manhunt going on in that area? If so, why weren’t the “rebels” trying to hide? Nazis love searchlights. Did Ramon give Kara a device for opening a portal at any time, and I just forgot about it? Yeah, after the very first crossover. How do the CW-verse characters know who Spider-Man is? They read comics, duh. Why were Heatwave and Sarah invited to the wedding? I'm guessing it was a team invite. If the real objective is to take Kara’s heart for Evil Kara, why not attack her when she's alone somewhere on her own Earth, rather than when she’s surrounded by a bunch of other superheroes? I totally missed that. Did they state that during the talk between the three baddies at the end of the episode? (Note: I didn't say they were good answers. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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