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The Omegahedron is gone. Without it Argo City will die. Kara Zor-El leaps into action. She takes a space pod to a whole new world following the glowing balls flight through space. A world where she discovers all new abilities given to her by the light of a yellow sun. A world where her cousin has become a hero. She will need all her strength and skill to get the Omegahedron back from the evil Sorceress Selena who wants all the power for herself. Kara will not give up. Even imprisonment in the Phantom Zone does not weaken Kara’s resolve. She will save what is left of her home planet. Join Silver Vox and Green Butterfly as we dive into this high flying adventure.
Cougar’s Comic Corner
Supergirl: Volume 3, Girl Of No Tomorrow
Released April 10, 2018, Written by Steve Orlando
Fans of the hit Supergirl series on The CW will love this fresh take on the Girl of Steel from writer Steve Orlando in Supergirl Vol. 3: Girl of No Tomorrow.
The Emerald Empress has had a vision. Sometime in the future, her greatest tragedy will come as a result of a battle with Supergirl…and she won’t allow that to happen. Now she’s manipulated Magog, Solomon Grundy, the sorceress Selena and the android Indigo into joining her as the Fatal Five, and they’re going to make sure that Supergirl’s future stops dead in its tracks.
It starts with a devious attack on Supergirl that leaves her powers out of control and slowly destroying her. But the Fatal Five aren’t just going after Supergirl—every aspect of Kara Zor-El’s life on Earth is under attack. Her boss Cat Grant and the new CatCo Reporting app. Her family and friends at the Department of Extranormal Operations. Even her relationship to the National City citizens she loves and protects.
One thing is certain—the Fatal Five will mean either the end of Supergirl’s life…or the end of her life as she knows it.
Collects Supergirl #12-14 and Annual #1.
$9.49 on Comixology
Next Time On Maid of Steel!
“Supergirl: Selena The Sorceress Continues
Join John and Justina as we continue our character study into Selena the Sorceress from Supergirl Season 3, Episode 20 through Episode 23!
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Some blog post comments…
“The Omegahedron is gone.” – just like in season one! Did Maxwell Lord take it in this also? 🙂 *Reads one* Nope, one of the season three Reign scientists took it. Ooh, was there a sequel planned to this; was Reign going to be in it maybe?!
That’s a cool cover for the movie but I’ll be honest all I see is Eliza Danvers: Badass Mom. 🙂
Excuse me hosts, where is my K Vox photo of the hiatus week? I know you have to banner this with movie shots for promotion but all hiatus content is suppose to include a K Vox shot because she is the hiatus mascot so where is the photo at the end? Love you K Vox, and all other doggies; cats…you’re not all evil but you all can be pretty arrogant so team dog.
Also I miss the poll of the week feature at the end of the blog post. 🙁
On to the podcast…
“How old were you in 1984?” – I was born years old.
I am a proud Katie McGrath School Of Speech alum where our motto is “Why use one word when seven will do”! 🙂
Thanks for working me in John, you two didn’t have to do that; maybe I’ll revisit this blog post with a comment on the movie when I get a chance to see it. It will make a nice compare and contrast look. 🙂 Until then here’s a first take!
I love John how you said in the round table the universe needs to respect “Supergirl” a bit more than they do at times because it’s true, sometimes it feels like other DCTV fans just write off our show for shallow reasons, some have legit reasons to be angry, and while it may seem bias saying here I think head to head topic wise or show could be the top show in a lot of areas so yeah I wish when people about the DCTV universe they would include Kara and company more than just to say “so yeah and Supergirl”. I’m a prime example of someone who doesn’t watch all of the shows available but still I know they exist. You two represented well on the round table! 🙂
*listens to clip* Eddie and his cohort are creeps and I already want Kara to break his arm.
Kermit arms. 🙂 *Kermit arms you back Justina*
Jane Seymore = Doctor Quinn always!!!
Controversial comment time: a change in hair color is a better disguise than glasses!
“I didn’t like it better the second time” – lol; you tried Justina.
“When I watch it again I will understand! Nope!” – lol.
LOL at John’s, “we got to enjoy this….work”.
“How did he even get a squirt bottle in the Phantom Zone?!” – the same way they got Starbucks in Westerosse?
I only know Zultar as the game from “Big”.
They would never do a 25 year license now!
Best superhero film John? *holds up sign saying “Iron-Man”; puts that down and picks sign saying “Batman: The Movie”* “Hellboy” is also really good! I did love the history segment moment though. 🙂
“they wouldn’t realize they’re cousins and fall in love” – ew!
Is that Faye Dunaway or Batman John? Ha!
“I’m not decent Mr. Danvers!” “And you never will be Ms. Lane.” – yeah the writing in this film sounds really problematic to me.
Lol to John’s “What?! How?! What?!” moments.
I have to say the comic recommendation this week sounds WAY better than this movie. Can we get this comic plot on the show, minus the app aspect, because it sounds really good! Nice choice Justina.
Season one is the best season of the series!
Plant jockey – ha Monty. “Carpet critters” in regards to the Muppets though felt harsh. *hears the “Linda is in trouble” scene* Again the writing in this sounds so problematic!
I’m going to be that person for a moment – the show currently isn’t treating Kara that great in my opinion. I HATE how they write a lot of her stuff to mimic Clark, it’s not an homage when you do it every week and it plays more like a copy of him than a nod and why are you even nodding to him so much anyways? Kara is her own person. Are you writer the same as your cousin? This is one of the many reasons season one is the best season of the series, because they wrote Kara like the individual she is. Yes Clark is mentioned but he is by no means the factor he is post season two when he came on screen. I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Superman actually being on “Supergirl” is one of the worst things to happen to the series. Also there’s the whole drama with Lena that went on way too long and was so manufactured no fan bought any of it; is Kara on the show done better than if she had been written back in 1984 on some show, yes but can they also do better with the writing now, yes. Creative team, please rewatch season one during this hiatus!
Really, after all of that, you’re not going to have this “Bye Linda” clip you’ve been talking about all episode? I guess we’ll have to chalk it up to the “EXPLAIN NOTHING” theme of this film you two talked about. 🙂 They could always have an ex-boyfriend Eliza talks about names Ethan now you never know.
Well, what are we going to add about Supergirl (1984)?
I’m not convinced that the comic book science we see in the film is all that weird Justina and Jon. I would refer you to several things we now know to be true about spacetime and the sizing of things in it.
First space shortens in the direction of travel over the scalar of velocity. At the speed of light you are 90 degrees to the PLANE of space. This is called an edge effect. You get the same thing when all movement stops. The result is IDENTICAL for objects with mass. This is the crushing by the way when passing through space because that speed =s increased resistance to movement which translates into MASS.
Einstein and GR.
Second.. is still (string) theory (more correctly M theory) but we think space is fractalized and curled up in scales large to small of about 10 dimensions. The smallest mathematical expression of it (still a mathematical expression and not a proved physical property or object), that has popped out of the differential calculus is actually a geometry gimmick for the solving of strong force particle interactions, a short cut to the Feynmann diagram process used by PARTICLE physicists to calculate PREDICTED particle interactions for those particular gluon interactions, called the ‘amplituhedron’. That is an innate angle solution set that falls out of the space equations. It looks like a curved tetrahedron should be there at the minus Planck scale which implies INNER SPACE. The Omegahedron, therefore, IS NO ACCIDENT in the 1984 movie. The science-illiterate hack script writer just did not understand or know what the hello he was referencing.
I am flabberghasted by it, too, because while the math trick has been kicking around for 50 years, only recently have physicists even begun to treat it as if it were a REAL contender for the way space is.
I am not convinced it is real. I think it is what it appears to be, a cheap and neat mathematical shorthand trick that falls out of the equations that seems to hide something totally different going on at 1 x 10 to the minus 50 meters. Nevertheless, we can infer a something down there that we can call “inner space” or as Lisa Randall calls it, “curved micro dimensions”. Google ants crawling on the outside of an electrical line in a corkscrew fashion for an approximation of how we would or could see it if we had the means to look at those small scales.
One thing is funny. Gravity should be STRONG at those scales and it would account for why mass increases the faster you go.
Anyway, enough SCIENCE! I still believe the Standard Model, so don’t think I went off the deep end just because I speculated at how the most seemingly ridiculous comic book science in the movie is not as weird as the real science that might have inspired it!
Monty
Well; I am re-watching Supergirl Season 1. I really am surprised at the potential that flushed down the Derek Simon toilet when it moved to the CW.
My pick for best episode from that season is “Red Faced”. I still think it is the gold standard of Supergirl episodes for camera, edit, writing, acting and story concepts laid down as markers. Maxwell Lord (Peter Facinelli) was WASTED. He had so much potential. (Neck snap season 5?)
Just some random thoughts.
Monty
This week’s Stargirl update…
Stargirl (TV Series) “Shiv: Part One” (2020)
Okay… it is definite. This is the best of the super-hero team shows on the CW: great cast, superlative writers, directors who actually know their craft and who are not afraid to take phenomenal risks; all of them.
I want to sing the praises of Lea Thompson;
Lea Thompson – IMDb
Lea Thompson, Actress: Back to the Future Part II. Lea Katherine Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the youngest of five children. Her parents are Barbara Anne (Barry) and Clifford Elwin “Cliff” Thompson. Since all her siblings were much older than she, Lea says it seemed like she had more than two parents. The family lived in the Starlight Motel, all the kids …
From the garbage she directed on ABC’s The Goldbergs, I expected a disaster, but here she cuts loose with everything like a pro, who has been at it for decades. She uses shifting horizon line, three plane depth shots, the moving camera point of view as an actual actor in scene, point counters, reaction shots, and THAT FIGHT. Even with the dark light to mask the mechanical stunt assist gear, and with the computer add ins to light off the combat with masking glare; (It was martial arts, folks. Do not kid yourself, there was real staff fighting going on.), I could still tell that Brec Bessinger and Meg de Lacy did some of that stunt work for REAL.
Writing by Evan Ball was a lesson in how dialog should be scripted.
Evan Ball – IMDb
Evan Ball, Writer: Stargirl
He is a freaking location manager?
The language was not only literate, but it was deceptively simple worded speech. It read on the prompter a lot like the comic book dialog which Johns used in the original “Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.” comic serial in the word balloons. The character voices are so imitative of Johns, I almost suspect that he, Johns, did a personal draft proof and script correction in the blue pages. Nevertheless, Evan Ball wrote a good script and he deserves credit for it.
Shiv.
Shiv (Character) – Comic Vine
Shiv is the daughter of the supervillain Dragon King. She has a grudge against Stargirl.
The healing factor was a shocker. That was not seen in the original character. It is almost like a cross between the MARVEL ™ Electra and X-23 to see how this character operates this episode. Anyway, as played by Meg de Lacy, the character is more than a mere brat teenager with super-powers and a flame thrower dragon staff. The character is clearly psychotic beyond any reasonable bounded definition of neurosis. I mean she is shown as completely lacking in empathy or even the ability to simulate empathy. This is a remarkable character portrayal of a sadistic amoral and at times sympathetic lunatic, even if a bit over the top, by Meg de Lacy. To say that the actress brings charisma and a high Q factor to the role is not doing her justice. She invested into it with a commitment beyond a mere character read.
Plainly Cindy Burman as Shiv, the character, is the product of test tube baby syndrome and a broken home. Daddy Dearest is a war criminal and stepmom #3 is a submissive house slave. There is no sanity around the character at all to corral her childish selfishness or instill adult empathy.
Stargirl
Courtney continues her Sylvester Pemberton “know it all” arrogance into disaster. Daddy never learned, and he died as we saw in the pilot and as Shiv reams Stargirl a new one, it seems like father, so like daughter. I am convinced Sylvester was her dad now. This series has committed to the rewrite of Courtney Whitmore as seen in the pilot.
Mike Dugan is there as a function mirror and a character in his own right to show Courtney is clueless as to how selfish, self-centered and arrogant SHE is. Pay attention over the seven episodes and see how Pat is being taken away from his natural son by stepdaughter, Courtney, who has adopted Pat as her defacto daddy substitute. Mike Dugan, the character, lays it on thick when he imitates Pat Dugan by teaching Courtney as an adult Dugan would that she needs to grow up and deal with the lack of a true father, just like Mike Dugan had to deal with the loss of his mother. Implications? Might be a story there if we ever get to season 2 or 3.
That cluelessness carries over into ”training day” when Courtney demolishes the “planks”, Pat created for the ISA briefing for this proto-JSA in training at the Pitstop.
Hotheaded Courtney of course later does the exact same thing when she follows Virtuosa into the ISA Lair under Blue Valley High School. Listens to no-one, underestimates others, over-estimates herself and tangles with someone who knows what she is doing. So we get the fight.
If Meg de Lacy commits to Shiv to the point of doing pugil stick combat for real, then I guess we have to give Brec bessinger the same all in credit for that one.
Anyway, the mirror set-offs between the two actresses are interesting as they circle each other in the superhero/villain frenemy cliché soup. Like unto like.
Justin
I do not understand the dancing around the janitor any more. He’s JSA and he is the Shining Knight.
Who Is Stargirl’s Shining Knight? One Of DC’s Oldest Superheroes Explained
Stargirl’s Shining Knight is hiding in plain sight.
Notice how quickly he put down Shiv? That shows just how dangerous HE is intended to be. Notice also how he has a mostly observer, hands off attitude, until he has to act to keep the balance? Kind of like the MARVEL ™ Watcher and Prince Valiant ® that way. That is new for Johns and for this character.
Cosmic Staff.
I think jack Knight’s cosmic staff is an artificially intelligent weapon with a mind and an amplifying power of its own, that just might be boosting Courtney’s worst character flaws of impulsiveness, arrogance and recklessness. It sure does display doglike devotion and behavior though.
Rate it. 20/20/20 out of 5/5/5.
Prediction
Courtney is seriously as in badly injured. “Shiv: Part 2” should be the traditional comeback plot.
Noticed:
Icicle Jr. has the hots for Courtney. Surprised me, I thought it would be Braindead Jr. and that would be the schism between Cindy and Courtney.
Icicle Sr. clearly is after Stargirl’s mom, which means that Pat Dugan is on the Icicle list of things to kill.
Monty
Stargirl (TV Series) “Shiv: Part One” (2020)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by Lea Thompson
Writing Credits
Geoff Johns … (“Courtney Whitmore” created for DC by) and
Lee Moder … (“Courtney Whitmore” created for DC by)
Geoff Johns … (created for television by)
Evan Ball … (written by)
Taylor Streitz … (executive story editor)
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Brec Bassinger … Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl / Brat
Yvette Monreal … Yolanda Montez / Wildcat / Cylon killer
Anjelika Washington … Beth Chapel / Midnight / Owl person
Cameron Gellman … Rick Tyler / Hour Dude / The Fonz expy
Trae Romano … Mike Dugan / Human garbage disposal and jealousy object
Jake Austin Walker … Henry King Jr. / Braindead Jr.
Hunter Sansone … Cameron Mahkent / Icicle Jr. and see review*
Meg DeLacy … Cindy Burman / Shiv / See review*
Neil Jackson … Jordan Mahkent / Icicle Sr. / has the hots for a certain CVM.
Christopher James Baker … Henry King Sr. / Braindead Sr. / Now braindead for real.
Amy Smart … Barbara Whitmore / Clueless Villain Mom / Icicle Sr. is interested in her.
Luke Wilson … Pat Dugan / S.T.R.I.P.E
Henry Thomas … Chuck (voice) / Artilect who used to be Midnight
Nelson Lee … Dr. Ito / Dragon King / Guy who turned Cindy Burman into a MARVEL ™ wolverine complete with her own dragon staff. (Wonder if mom used it first?)
Mark Ashworth … Janitor Justin / Sir Justin the Shining Knight
Neil Hopkins … Lawrence Crock / Sportsmaster
Joy Osmanski … Paula Brooks / Tigress
Hina X. Khan … Anaya Bowin (as Hina Khan) / Virtuosa
Eric Goins … Steven Sharpe / The Gambler
Ashley Winfrey … Jenny Williams / sister to Jakeem Thunder?
Christian Adam … Josh Hamman
Lesa Wilson … Bobbie Burman / Drone step-mother for Cindy Burman
Kron Moore … Dr. Bridget Chapel / Midnight’s mom
Gilbert Glenn Brown … James Chapel / Midnight’s dad
Max Frantz … Isaac Bowin / Fiddler Jr.
Matt Burke … Mr. Sullivan
Michael H. Cole … Mr. Paris (as Michael Hyland Cole)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shernina Nichols … Team Fan (uncredited)
Diane Tavegia … Football Fan (uncredited)
Okay… it is definite. This is the best of the super-hero team shows on the CW: great cast, superlative writers, directors who actually know their craft and who are not afraid to take phenomenal risks; all of them.
I want to sing the praises of Lea Thompson;
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000670/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1
From the garbage she directed on ABC’s The Goldbergs, I expected a disaster, but here she cuts loose with everything like a pro, who has been at it for decades. She uses shifting horizon line, three plane depth shots, the moving camera point of view as an actual actor in scene, point counters, reaction shots, and THAT FIGHT. Even with the dark light to mask the mechanical stunt assist gear, and with the computer add ins to light off the combat with masking glare; (It was martial arts, folks. Do not kid yourself, there was real staff fighting going on.), I could still tell that Brec Bessinger and Meg de Lacy did some of that stunt work for REAL.
Writing by Evan Ball was a lesson in how dialog should be scripted.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3214348/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr4
He is a freaking location manager? 😯
The language was not only literate, but it was deceptively simple worded speech. It read on the prompter a lot like the comic book dialog which Johns used in the original “Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.” comic serial in the word balloons. The character voices are so imitative of Johns, I almost suspect that he, Johns, did a personal draft proof and script correction in the blue pages. Nevertheless, Evan Ball wrote a good script and he deserves credit for it.
Shiv.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/shiv/4005-19010/
The healing factor was a shocker. That was not seen in the original character. It is almost like a cross between the MARVEL ™ Electra and X-23 to see how this character operates this episode. Anyway, as played by Meg de Lacy, the character is more than a mere brat teenager with super-powers and a flame thrower dragon staff. The character is clearly psychotic beyond any reasonable bounded definition of neurosis. I mean she is shown as completely lacking in empathy or even the ability to simulate empathy. This is a remarkable character portrayal of a sadistic amoral and at times sympathetic lunatic, even if a bit over the top, by Meg de Lacy. To say that the actress brings charisma and a high Q factor to the role is not doing her justice. She invested into it with a commitment beyond a mere character read.
Plainly Cindy Burman as Shiv, the character, is the product of test tube baby syndrome and a broken home. Daddy Dearest is a war criminal and stepmom #3 is a submissive house slave. There is no sanity around the character at all to corral her childish selfishness or instill adult empathy.
Stargirl
Courtney continues her Sylvester Pemberton “know it all” arrogance into disaster. Daddy never learned, and he died as we saw in the pilot and as Shiv reams Stargirl a new one, it seems like father, so like daughter. I am convinced Sylvester was her dad now. This series has committed to the rewrite of Courtney Whitmore as seen in the pilot.
Mike Dugan is there as a function mirror and a character in his own right to show Courtney is clueless as to how selfish, self-centered and arrogant SHE is. Pay attention over the seven episodes and see how Pat is being taken away from his natural son by stepdaughter, Courtney, who has adopted Pat as her defacto daddy substitute. Mike Dugan, the character, lays it on thick when he imitates Pat Dugan by teaching Courtney as an adult Dugan would that she needs to grow up and deal with the lack of a true father, just like Mike Dugan had to deal with the loss of his mother. Implications? Might be a story there if we ever get to season 2 or 3.
That cluelessness carries over into ”training day” when Courtney demolishes the “planks”, Pat created for the ISA briefing for this proto-JSA in training at the Pitstop.
Hotheaded Courtney of course later does the exact same thing when she follows Virtuosa into the ISA Lair under Blue Valley High School. Listens to no-one, underestimates others, over-estimates herself and tangles with someone who knows what she is doing. So we get the fight.
If Meg de Lacy commits to Shiv to the point of doing pugil stick combat for real, then I guess we have to give Brec bessinger the same all in credit for that one.
Anyway, the mirror set-offs between the two actresses are interesting as they circle each other in the superhero/villain frenemy cliché soup. Like unto like.
Justin
I do not understand the dancing around the janitor any more. He’s JSA and he is the Shining Knight.
https://screenrant.com/stargirl-shining-knight-origin-explained-dc-comics/
Notice how quickly he put down Shiv? That shows just how dangerous HE is intended to be. Notice also how he has a mostly observer, hands off attitude, until he has to act to keep the balance? Kind of like the MARVEL ™ Watcher and Prince Valiant ® that way. That is new for Johns and for this character.
Cosmic Staff.
I think jack Knight’s cosmic staff is an artificially intelligent weapon with a mind and an amplifying power of its own, that just might be boosting Courtney’s worst character flaws of impulsiveness, arrogance and recklessness. It sure does display doglike devotion and behavior though.
Rate it. 20/20/20 out of 5/5/5.
Prediction
Courtney is seriously as in badly injured. “Shiv: Part 2” should be the traditional comeback plot.
Noticed:
Icicle Jr. has the hots for Courtney. Surprised me, I thought it would be Braindead Jr. and that would be the schism between Cindy and Courtney.
Icicle Sr. clearly is after Stargirl’s mom, which means that Pat Dugan is on the Icicle list of things to kill.
Monty