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Thanks for joining us in this feedback episode of Maid of Steel! We are so happy to present this collection of listener feedback for your listening pleasure. I asked for 2 new feedbackers, last week, and…geez, I think we got 4 or 5! You guys are absolutely amazing. The feedback for this episode primarily covers the Season 1 Episode 20 “Better Angels” episode of Supergirl.
Unanimous
Hands down, the consensus over favorite scene was the one in which J’onn lifts Indigo above his head and tears her apart! It’s for a good reason that it was loved so much, it was a fantastic scene. Indigo’s half-mechanical, half-human cry was chilling. And we were all just waiting for J’onn to whip and nae-nae his martian muscles.
Summer Reading
The comic based on the television series is now available! [[[Adventures of Supergirl]]] is available via Amazon or Comixology and as of this blog post… there are 7 available. Karen and I intend to review the comic at some point during the summer. So read! And stay tuned! And send in feedback about the comic!!
Feedback
The season may have ended, but we know you’re still thinking about the show! Please continue to send in any thoughts, theories or reactions to the finale, or the season as a whole, and we would love to read or listen to them. Perhaps if we receive enough feedback… we’ll throw in yet another bonus episode!
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I agree, this was a great season! I totally agree I was hoping the fight between Alex and Kara and even Kara-Jonn-Non-Indigo would have been longer. I don’t think Non is dead, blind yes but not dead. What about “Fear The Walking Dead” Karen?
The Danvers sisters relationship is definitely something I’m looking forward to seeing more of in each season; it along with Kara’s mentorship with Cat are my favorite relationships currently on the series! I agree about Kara being able to save Kelly as well. While the pods are the same, I’m not ready to say it’s a El person or even a Kryptonian inside the pod because that could be their basic space pod for many planets just to save on budgeting so it’s very much an open debate.
Hello Maid of Steel podcasters:
Montefescu here:
This is a followup to the feedback to clarify a few muddy details I left unclear.
First of all; a “practical” is a 100% special effect that is all mechanical with no inclusion of optical frame inserts or some cgi to mask or distort the effect. It relies entirely on the physical modeling.
The writer I cited is Fred Saberhagen, who wrote a series of stories about leftover machines who were crreated in a war eons ago that were still out there trying to kill off all life. I could have cited Star Trek’s Nomad or perhaps the Doomsday machine, but Fred got there first and some of his machines were “human”.
Non was literally stupified in the final duel by Kara’s power. That is to say; Supergirl laser lobotomized him.
The Martian ripped Indigo in half. Well, who remembers when the The Sentry ripped Ares in half in Marvel’s “The Siege”? That one is something I’m still trying to wrap my head around. It is the crazy that is Robert Reynolds (Sentry) fully implied with J’onn J’onzz being so maddened that he’s gone into cloudcuckoo land to perform the feat.
I’m enough of a gentleman comic book reader to know how much of a Brian Bendis moral event line J’onn actually crossed there.
And lastly (not naming names) but nitpicking the presented reality applies when the mistakes in writing and production intrude into the STORY and destroys your suspension of disbelief, such as Supergirl standing around not doing enough as claimed, or not moving fast enough to save the three jumpers as was evidence cited. You cannot argue that point from both sides of the declared thesis of that it is a comic book show and contradict yourself thereby! If you assume that befuddlement is biologically impossible for a Kryptonian, then you are arguing that biological and sociological science exists as a plot point to be hotly debated.
Incidentally, I have no problem with Kara seen as befuddled. Ms. Benoist played it that way in that scene and I believed it.
With that said, I’m reading “The Adventures of Supergirl” and while it is a totally different art medium I hope that I may contribute some small insight into sequenctial graphic storytelling Kara’s story in the near future.
Signing off for now. (Imagine the carrier wave hum.)
Montefescu