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What happens when someone uses your secret to manipulate you? What happens when brute force is not enough to solve a problem? What if someone takes one of the most important people in your life in exchange for a person that they cherish? Kara will experience all this and more as we re-examine the season two episode Alex. Can Maggie and Kara team up and use both their strengths to save the woman they both love? The way those two squabble, it is good Alex is a crafty woman who is able to save herself. She uses her clothing to buy herself the few extra seconds she needed to survive.
Join Silver Vox and Green Butterfly as we are reminded why insurance rates are through the roof in National City. Green Butterfly is reminded how she fell in love with the Sanvers ship. This is a beautiful story about how the ones you love will fall in love with others without diminishing the love they have for you. We learn that pizza is always better than paella. We should never put Mon El in charge of dinner. Most importantly, this episode also left K Vox really perplexed! Why should Alex and Maggie consider naming their dog Gertrude when Georgia is a much prettier name! Until next time this is your eye in the sky Green Butterfly. Have a super week!
Cougar’s Comic Corner
The Adventures of Supergirl (2016) #8 dated May 2, 2016 Written by Sterling Gates
Road trip! Kara convinces her big sister that a trip to the Fort Rozz crash site is just what they need to get some answers-but what they find leads to more questions!
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It’s back to our Favorite Episodes, this one will be #11, and this time we’re going backwards to Season 2 – Episode 21 and 22, “Resist” and “Nevertheless She Persisted.” Supergirl faces a huge test in swatting down Daxumites everywhere she looks – all the while taking down the Queen that has Supergirl’s destruction on her priority list! Get your feedback in to us by February 23 to be included in the podcast. Thanks!
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AWE to the Sanvers photo for the banner this week! I loved Maggie, but the shadow of Kate Kane loomed large so I could never fully invest in Sanvers; the best I could manage was like 80%. 90% on a good day an we were strictly talking TV universe but even then once the kid debate happened it was over for them so I’m glad I never went hard in from the start; I feel for you hardcore Sanvers fans!
“She uses her clothing to buy herself the few extra seconds she needed to survive.” – I love how Chyler said those were real life techniques she got to learn for the episode filming. 🙂 So just remember, if you’re ever taken to a dunk tank and Liam Neason can’t get you out just say “What would Alex Danvers do?”. 😉
On to the podcast…
Team pepperoni pizza! 😀
Team “Talk about Sam Arias you guys and gush about Odette’s performance”! 🙂
I’m just going to leave these Alex/Sam videos here for those who haven’t seen them; one features Maggie so it totally counts to post it here…
“Happier” – Sanvers + Sam – https://youtube.com/watch?v=15KOpWsx-Wo .
“At My Weakest” – Alex & Sam – https://youtube.com/watch?v=DQSd7_JPrwE .
As Daryl said, I REALLY hope Azie remembers that Kelly is meant to be a therapist when writing her episode so we can finally see Kelly Olsen again! I don’t know who that person was in season five. Even if it’s a light Kelly episode because she doesn’t want to seem egotistical just remember Kelly is a therapist first and foremost everyone in this series could use some of her professional time!
“She’s a superhero already, she doesn’t need this other stuff!” – EXACTLY!!! #NotAllHeroesWearCapes! Get that hideous leather suit off of Alex!!!
Crisis becomes more pointless the more you look at the details tied to it.
My other “favorite episodes” I still hope to see discussed before it’s all said and done – “Reign” and “Midvale”; again John a talk about the Midvale II pitch and that’s just such a good episode! Also we have to talk about Sam! We can’t leave her out in all of this goodness; there’s so much potential still left with her. 🙂
If we do crossovers, “Crisis On Earth X” is my pick!
The end is definitely bitter. 🙁
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 [Censored language] you CW! Seriously, you’re going to renew Legends but not us?! You’re going to give Superman a renewal before the pilot even drops?! And you wonder why I say you’re handling is suspicious and that you care more about him than her even though without her doing well you wouldn’t have gotten him! You renew the untested “Batwoman”, but you won’t give us an Alex Danvers spin off announcement. I’m not sure how we were ever friends at this point; if anything we were clearly work associates via one project because everything I care about you don’t it seems. They’re just ridiculous now. And this is to say nothing of how they’re ignoring “Green Arrow & The Canaries” even though it had a built in audience from “Arrow” and came complete with its own pilot episode already filmed! *shakes head in utter disappointment* 🙁
Lillian can stay; Lex can beat it!
Lillian could be in the Alex spin off given their dynamic John…if the CW would give us an Alex spinoff already! You could get Lena-Alex scenes we never really got on the series despite them both being scientists. And as always Lena knows Sam so she can also come back that way; it’s a win win for really anyone! 🙂
“Stargirl” S3 would be the only good news to come out of those announcements…apart from an Alex spinoff announcement of course.
Maybe they just didn’t want to worry Eliza?
Chyler Leigh IS AWESOME!!!
I totally agree John, Lillian blowing up Kara’s friendship with Lena would have been WAY better because it would be more personal. Lex doing it was too easy because it’s in his wheelhouse if you will come where as with Lillian you never know when that ball will drop and that’s what makes it dramatic. Also I agree with Daryl, that’s some grade A bull that Lena can guess who Rhea is with a small, way more debatable, slip but she can’t guess Kara is Supergirl; again it’s SO insulting to her intelligence! 🙁
Also to answer Daryl’s question: seeing Maggie as a cop was less frequent. That’s one thing I always hate about the way some couples are written, it’s like the minute they couple the writers forget they’re individuals as well – especially guest characters like Maggie. So many more times she should have or at least could have been involved but what we saw was mainly cute and cuddly time with Alex, it was nice at times don’t get me wrong but much like therapist Kelly I wanted to see more copy Maggie also!
I still laugh every time at Maggie’s line “There’s a nice Supergirl sized hole in it!”. 😀
I’ve said it before but I will say it again – Chyler has some of the best background work ever. There’s so much to watch with Alex; another example is of course when she switched the beer for whiskey during Thanksgiving one year. 🙂
Again why is there no actual poll on the blog post for this poll? I like pushing buttons! Ha. As for the question itself – who will and who should I feel are two different answers. It will probably be Kelly just because they’re completely lazy on writing now because the care for show seems to be gone because they all know it’s gone and they’re still trying to make up with fans for breaking up James and Kara way back when…they’ll probably even think it’s clever to do Danvers/Olsen but not the way fans wanted so yeah I can see it being Kelly (also for the fact Azie is already there to film); this also gives them a way to have Kara be single since “At least one of the sisters ends in a relationship”. But of course I personally want to see Agent Arias aka Sam/Alex! Sam is the perfect middle ground between Kelly’s compassion but she doesn’t have the PTSD from their fiancé dying in the field and Maggie’s ability to be in the field with Alex but unlike Maggie she has kids so Sam is already winning there! 😀
“We’ve never seen Alex and Sam together per say” – hold up a minute Justina; I mean I know what you mean but still it’s an excuse to post Sam content so here we go…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LjK8uDNACk – (starts at 1:40) let’s take a minute to point out some factors here – yes you could say it’s because Sam knows Alex is a scientist/doctor so that’s why she tells her first that she’s “sick”, BUT you could also take it as she just feels comfortable with Alex for some reason. Could it be the playful banter? Maybe! Could it be the care Alex showed with Ruby? Sure. Whatever it was it has Sam feeling so comfortable she just sits her purse down the minute she comes it…almost like she wanted to stay there for awhile. 🙂 She just told Ruby she would meet her in the elevator so she’s going to leave her unsupervised child just waiting…ok; this scene plays more like Sam is coming home from work and Ruby went to bed to let moms have catch up time because Sam was away on business or so she said. Ha.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1USMwrCddQQ – again with the comfortable purse move! Alex and Sam have really known each how long at this point? A few months? Yes Alex is 100% qualified to be a bodyguard for Ruby but still Sam agrees to that rather quickly which yes you can say is because of story OR you could say it’s because she’s using Ruby to test the tires as it were, ha. This plays more like Kara snitching on Alex to her future sister in law rather than her necessarily joking about her big sister; Im fully aware this may just be me but I’m telling you – Sam was into Alex. Also Alex is teaching Ruby self defense and Sam just laughs it off instead of asking why Ruby would need it or instead of expressing her feelings about violence to them…I’M JUST SAYING!!! I get it Sam, there’s a lot to love with Alex so you get her girl. 🙂
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EseGxTmgsMU – comfort example #3 your honor! Yes you could say they’re just friends especially with Alex being all professional here and distracted by science but I submit to you at the very end the lollipop eye s-x look! Are you telling me Sam doesn’t want some Alex Danvers? We’ve all met Alex, we know she does! I will remind the court that just because Sam has Ruby doesn’t mean she can’t also be into Alex – bisexuality exists, just ask Sara Lance. 🙂
I would also like to point out how it was Alex that Sam called for when Lena said they needed to run test. Lena is perfectly capable of solving science problems too and arguably more qualified than Alex in areas given the time Alex spends in the field versus the time she spends in the lab but who does Sam want to bring in – Alex. Alex was the first person Sam told about being “sick” and again how long had she actually known her…I know TV time is screwy but it feels like they moved fast for intimate details like that; true it could have been months and they spent more time together during the months than we saw but stuff still seems like Sam is more Lena’s friend than theirs so while Sam is clearly being respectful of the fact Maggie and Alex just broke up what besides a crush might explain why she’s so open with Alex? Okay maybe Alex is just her person as it were but still she could also be a person Sam wants to have a relationship with!
You know where we could explore all of this? An Alex spin off show, I’m just saying!!!
More Agent Arias content because now (sorry Sanvers fans)…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eWT8NzVLpzo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5thHVq60WI – yeah stare harder at Alex Sam because that’s not suspicious at all! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I do still laugh out loud at the end saying Sam is human because no she’s not, ha. Even if you strip away the Reign edited DNA, you’re base source was still Kryptonian which means at the end of the day Sam will be at minimum as strong as Kara and Clark. I prefer to read this as Lena lied to Sam’s face to let her have some good news because she needed the break and she’s totally not dropping in every other week to see if that balance is holding up, nope just there to visit her friend! Lol. #SamStillHasPowers!
I feel a bit bad going all Agent Arias in a Sanvers heavy episode but they’re just so good y’all and have so much potential still, especially the character of Sam alone; also Justina ended the episode talking about Alexis OTP as the poll and thus I was required to talk about it and cite my evidence via visual media. 🙂
I look forward to hearing the debate on this!
it’s almost an insult to our intelligence that they make sam 100% human as if we forgot the final scene of season two where we see baby reign shipped off of krypton before it blew up. and once again they don’t bother to explain a major plot point. they’re being lazy and they must think the audience is too lazy to care. i think the otp for alex will be with kelly also just because it’s the entire reason her character was created and it’s just easier at this point.
Bonus Sam and Alex content because why not, https://youtube.com/watch?v=DsLdwOKcWI8 . 🙂
Again this feels pretty weird to talk so much about Sam when the episode discussed featured Maggie heavily but I once more point out Justina asked about the OTP for Alex so hear we are! 🙂
Part of me can still see Maggie as an OTP IF they had her come back with an adopted kid because maybe she just couldn’t say no to some street kid and wanted to make their life better so it’s like their take on the Jaime character in the comics BUT I also feel it’s really important Maggie doesn’t come back as the OTP because her not wanting kids is just as valid! Not every woman wants kids and they aren’t lesser people for that! So yeah while I could see Maggie as a possibility I don’t see it as a reality short of her brining back an adopted kid and I don’t see why she would do that so TV Maggie is out.
I say no to Kelly and Alex because I personally can’t shake the feeling they are a make up for James/Kara and I don’t like that. It might not be the intentions of the writers, but that’s how it feels for me and so I can’t get into them beyond just friends. It doesn’t help that Kelly went from having a personality to being some pod person who fit whatever they wanted for the week; it was also annoying that all she did was kiss Alex basically, I get Alex is a great kisser but I need you to do more than just that if you want me to care about you as a character!
I feel like having it be some new person would be a waste of time at this point unless they do the spin off so that dynamic could be developed so again no there, thus that only leaves Sam! 🙂
Again I feel it will be Kelly just for the ease factor at this point, but as Justina correctly guessed my romantic OTP for Alex Danvers is always going to be Sam Arias. 🙂
I would argue it is insulting Daryl; I grant you it’s not as insulting as saying Lena can’t guess that Kara is Supergirl but she can guess the identity of every other alien ever, but still it’s quite insulting! True there is a chance that Reign’s base form isn’t Kryptonian because this did seem like some unapproved testing situation, but at the same time why would they picked human as the base point? Daxamites are close to Kryptonians arguably in DNA so your experiment would have a higher chance of success, also they’re closer geographically; kidnapping a human baby would take so much work it’s like why? Thus even then Sam would still have powers after being exposed to the Earth’s sun for almost 30 years; she would no longer be as strong as Clark and Kara true but she would still have powers. Even if she’s just a base alien from somewhere else she would have abilities most likely that we see as “powers”! Bottom line: Sam Arias has abilities of some kind and is NOT human.
“they’re being lazy and they must think the audience is too lazy to care.” – it’s the ‘they’ll follow us anywhere’ syndrome, they think more than two seasons in and they can start doing anything but that’s not the case. Season five is the epitome of your statement here; it was just awful! Alex felt so random, Kelly was just a shell of someone, Kara really did nothing at the end of the day, and the bad guy just didn’t work (at least in my opinion); I still believe making Leviathan so big and old was a mistake, had it been an organization like Cadmus if would have worked but being ancient it feels out of place to our series, true Kara can fight a god but they don’t fit her story zone…they’re more a thing for Wonder Woman or Shining Knight to take on.
I definitely feel like the care for “Supergirl” is gone now on the creatives part and I don’t know if that’s because they knew the end was coming and so it’s like ‘we’ve already lost so why should we put our best work forward’ or if being made to work in so much crossover stuff just threw them off and they didn’t really focus on season five and now the backlash over it has them feeling upset or if it’s something else but the care does seem to be gone sadly. 🙁 I get being disappointed in your attempt being met with basically universal fan hate but season five was garbage creatives, the only thing that even SLIGHTLY makes it watchable is the acting; and okay that’s 1 horrific season which should never be repeated but we loved others so much so you’re still at minim like 3 for 5 which is a good ratio (I didn’t say four because I know some fans hated season four too and others didn’t like others of 2 or 3 so that’s just an accountance for that)! On the network side of things you hear about all the renewals John and Justina listed, one for a series which hasn’t even aired yet (not surprising though given its name – yeah I’m bitter about Superman, again they don’t help themselves with how they’re handling the inclusion of him), but is there even rumors of what’s going to happen to our characters next? No. John and Justina just did a whole piece on Nia going to Legends (which is being renewed again despite us having better ratings on the regular) but you don’t even hear talk of Brainy doing it because maybe they need another computer on board. There’s no teases of Winn even even though he’s around in times they could be…no nod to the Legion even though they could have easily run into members of it on future missions. You currently have Chyler Leigh contractually obligated to show up at a studio and you want to let her walk by not doing an Alex spin off? A character which is very beloved in the fandom and even liked outside of just “Supergirl”. It’s decisions like that make me say you’re crazy and/or no longer care about this property. It’s decisions like this that again help fuel the feelings that you just used “Supergirl” because you couldn’t get Superman at the time; regardless if it’s true or not that’s how it feels now because again once he came in it’s been more and more like things are moving towards him rather than Kara and company. I know some people will say they can’t make a series without the lead character and put it on Melissa wanting to go because of the baby, but I’ll be honest and say I don’t buy it’s all on her…granted I don’t know Melissa but to give up a lead role on a popular show that’s not that old if you will, I just don’t think it was all on her like they want us to think; I feel like she’s the easy excuse to use to put focus off of some of these debates because again if they wanted to continue the “Supergirl” world you could give Alex a series because Chyler is available or again they could announce how all these characters will meld into other shows but they haven’t. TRUE they could be saving it closer to the end to get fans hyped for what’s next and we’ll see things being commented on near series end but I’m not holding my breath because they’ve given us no reason to; again you can use rumors as a rumor doesn’t mean it’s true – like say Katie may make appearances as Lena on the Superman series to fight against her brother…it doesn’t mean it will happen but at the same time it doesn’t mean it can’t happen – pitch an Alex spin off and see how much love it gets and then make it because you do care for the character and want to keep the “Supergirl” world going. The fact there’s nothing just leaves me feeling so sad as a fan and there’s nothing to get excited for really with season six given how they left off.
I HATE Alex in the super suit because it’s SO against what her character represents. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes! They destroyed the DEO prime center, which can be rebuilt, so are they going to just say everyone disbanded as a governmentally funded agency? That makes no sense! There’s still the desert base (which given how much they ignore season one they’ll probably ignore even exists) so who’s going to run the place now…J’onn because you have no idea what to do with him anymore? We’ve seen that plot for 4 years; I personally want the pay off to Alex being named future Director and no I don’t count season 4 because Haley was there to hand hold her and no season 5 doesn’t count because you ruined that with Lex. I want J’onn level directing for her where she has to make choices and then face the consequences of that and how it effects hundreds of other people; if she comes to terms with the fact she’s better as a field leader only because she can’t sleep at night with the outcome of those choices than okay but my gosh give her a solid season to try!
Kelly again is…who now? Seriously, she started off as an interesting character who could help our characters with her therapist abilities and now she’s whatever they want her to be that week, that’s no fun to watch. Again they seemingly have no idea what to do with J’onn if he’s not being space dad or at the head of the DEO. They’re going to waste precious remaining episodes on Lex and Leviathan which I’m SO not interested in, even if it’s just 3 episodes that’s to me 3 episodes we could use to give time to the aspects of the show I do care about. Kara was just there and is more Clark than Kara which I hate. There’s no teases for the future of the characters post series so again it’s like why should I be excited about season six? Also they’re ending the series so yeah as a fan what is there to be excited about?
I still love this series myself and I am diehard dedicated to season one and I still think this, even with its faults (season 5 and season 4 and Mon), is one of the best series for the comic pack (aka Arrowverse) but it is very sad being a fan right now because again it feels like I’m the only one who does care, by that I do mean the fandom still cares and maybe even some creatives do they’re just not saying it right now but yeah it’s like “Why should I be excited?”. I’m going to watch season six because I care about characters and I want to see them done right so expect many callouts early on at least, but after that I have no reason to really watch the CW network. There’s “Stargirl” yes, but there are other ways to watch it so it’s not a must to watch a network which doesn’t fit me as viewer anymore.
If they had done “Green Arrow & The Canaries” it would have given me a reason to stay also but they didn’t so I’m kind of asking why do I need to worry about the network right now. 🙁
Sadly Daryl I agree with you about Kelly being Alex’s endgame for the episodes we see. It’s the end of the series so they don’t have time to build up someone new and while they’re clearly into wasting episodes (see Lex and Leviathan instead of ignoring they exist like they have other things previously – the one time I’m okay with them ignoring a plot and they don’t do it) I don’t see them brining in someone to challenge that relationship even if it’s someone we’ve seen in the past like Maggie. They already have Azie on set so you can film stuff with Kelly. They’re already in a relationship (believable or not as it may be) so it’s just so easy to have it be her rather it should be her or not and as we know the writers have been pretty lazy this last season so it’s almost a “give me” choice to make. To her credit, Kelly may be someone who does work with Alex but we haven’t seen that because again they wasted an entire season with her where she was a shell character instead of an actual character and what we saw before that was them being believable friends but Kelly also talked about having sever PTSD about people she loves dying and Alex’s job isn’t exactly safe so can she accept what Alex does (because Alex doesn’t quit her job for some girl; she didn’t quit when her mom asked her to she’s not quitting when her lover asks it) or is this just another ‘I want kids’ situation all over again but for a different topic? Yes they had a lot of kissy moments in season five but physical moments does not a lasting relationship make; Sara and Alex can make out all day long every day too and fight crime on occasion, it doesn’t mean they’re a couple or a good couple at that. But again honestly even if I could accept Kelly/Alex as a believable outcome for her romance I still can’t get over how they feel like a replacement for James/Kara because they got called out over that so much and thus I’ll never be 100% committed to them.
I love Kelly as a friend for Alex but I don’t know the character enough to say I like her as part of Alex’s OTP. Maybe Azie will write a Kelly centric episode that changes that and I can say more accurately yes or no to Kelly/Alex. I guess that’s something to look forward to with season six.
they definitely remember the deo desert base still exists since they used it last in season four. but unfortunately they’ll probably do away with the deo and take alex’s job as director away from her even though she worked so hard for the organization. as i have said in the past it’s like they changed their minds on making her the director between seasons three and four but couldn’t take the title back from her so they brought in colonel haley. she’s truly only the director for the first half of season five. i think they are going to work exclusively out of j’onn’s office and have alex working either for him or with him just like in the past. kelly changed her mind about alex being in the field so fast. from freaking out to fully supporting her going out as a superhero. kelly didn’t have to be introduced as james’s sister. she could have been introduced as a new employee for the deo and she could have met alex that way
personally don’t count season five as director for Alex because Lex was partly involved in hogging screen time from her so we didn’t really see her lead anyone. 🙁
“Kelly didn’t have to be introduced as James’s sister. She could have been introduced as a new employee for the DEO and she could have met Alex that way.”
SO MUCH THIS Daryl!!!
The series greatest asset is the sisters’ dynamic and so family is a big thing yet you’re going to try and tell me for 3 years James could never find a place to mention he had a sister before season four? I call bull! Winn mentioned his family and they had two episodes about them, yes his dad is a villain but still; Eliza visits regularly and J’onn has mentioned his children and family yet James nothing until season four.
As you said before this is how you know Kelly was built as a love interest and plot for James because they don’t know what to do with him because we had literally heard nothing on her until she was needed a plot.
This crew needs therapy so yes, I agree she could have just been a mandated therapist for the DEO as a unit and people wanting to make sure Kara was fit to work with them or them with her because people worry as J’onn said what happens if she snaps and thus by extension you have Kelly talking to Alex about things without giving up confidentiality and then getting to know each other. This does present an issue however with if Alex is on the list to talk to, as she should be as director, then Kelly would be dating a client and that’s a no no in the profession. But hey realistic incoming – not every queer person has to date every other queer person; Kelly could have just helped Alex by being her friend and opening her to the idea of love again, like a rebound romance but no romance and they just become friends because Alex needs friends outside of just Kara (Kara has Lena so Kelly could have been Alex’s Lena)!
If you chuck the conflict of dating a client basically then you still have a more believable entrance for Kelly as a mandated shrink for the crew; making her James’s sister especially when he was going to leave anyways really brought nothing positive to the story. Again if anything the only thing it did was bring up how badly handled James/Kara was again and the creatives have to deal with hearing about that again. Her as his sister just feels so weird and random because again he never mentioned her in four years despite talking about his family before…she should have been just a new character unrelated to him.
In regards to a relationship with Alex then, I think they’d have to remove her PTSD plot because that’s a huge thing to get over and something I would figure never honestly goes away because how could it facing it each day? Leaving it in feels like asking for another split because Kelly has a right to not feel that way every day but Alex can’t quit her job as it’s literally who she is now (Alex loves her job too much to quit). As John said you’d still need moments with them which show firsts because kissy face moments again does not a relationship worth watching make; you need them meeting and a build up and then they meld into a pair (official or not) and then it’s a romance, you know realism (something the writers have forgotten it feels).
Without that PTSD plot though what is Kelly like because I feel that definitely had an effect on her.
I think Kelly also suffers from the same issue a lot of love interest do which make it hard to really care about a pair or both sides and that’s she’s treated as just a love interest basically, certainly in season five. A pairing is made of two individuals so you’d ideally want to know both individuals to see how they work together and really we know nothing on Kelly; yes we have information nuggets but they’ve done nothing really with them. Maggie got to talk about her coming out and how it effected her feelings about Valentines’s Day, she got to explain why she doesn’t want kids, she had scenes with people who weren’t just Alex as few as those scenes may be, and if we say Sam is a love interest (again see how much she checks out our oldest sister 🙂 ) then we got a lot of character stuff with her because she was there for the season and she wasn’t even in every episode but they do the same for Kelly and yet it doesn’t feel the same you know because again care. Kelly feels like a shell person fitting a plot of the week which makes her seem fake and hallow so why would someone want to ship her with a defined character? Everything about Kelly has mainly ran through the POV of another main character – usually James or Alex and that’s not fair to the character. You literally could have replaced Kelly in season five with some random extra of the week and nothing would change so it leaves me asking “Why should I care about her?”…because she makes Alex happy doesn’t feel like enough of a reason either because anyone could come in a do that arguably!
Therapist Kelly who’s conflicted about dating a client and actually says no as long as she’s doing the evaluations because she believes in her oath – now that’s someone I’m intrigued by and kind of want to see what happens with.
I also think making her James’s sister didn’t help her because I know for me James at that point had fallen so far from my care because of the Guardian bull it was like I couldn’t care about half of what Kelly said because it was about him you know? Had James been newsman James then I would care more, but given the whole Guardian plot was just so bad to me I wasn’t into Kelly showing up to help continue that plot even if she was stopping it. And now she’s got the shield and is out in the field with Alex and company at times disputed having again PTSD about losing someone you love…I just can’t; Azie seems like a lovely person and I know she’s trying but they just aren’t giving her much to work with.
Even if you chalk the reversal of opinion on the PTSD up to character growth and Kelly realizing death is a part of life so you should love someone while you can the writers again now have still given her the Guardian shield…that’s not going to make me enjoy her scenes I’ll tell you right now and so again I have to ask why should I ship them together?
This is not Sam/Alex where it’s believable Sam would be one he field at times because of her powers or even Alex/Maggie which is believable for couple’s field work given Maggie is a cop; Kelly is not a fighter like them, she is a therapist who actually does the best information gathering for the team back at base when they bring someone in – either to soothe them or question them.
Okay here’s a throwback for the Alex OTP debate, Agent Vasquez!
Think about it…she understands and accepts her line of work; yes scheduling may mess up some date nights but still. We know as much about Vasquez as we really do Kelly. And Vasquez is just a badass character too. Ha.
I’m not going to say I want Vasquez/Alex more than Sam/Alex, but I’m just saying Vasquez could be on the romance OTP list. 🙂
I’m going to drop in for a short one today.
Bat-gerbil 2.0 Episode 204
Batwoman Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Fair Skin, Blue Eyes …
I am DRUNK!
Here’s what I am seeing through my alcoholic haze…
A man can outrun the Bat-gerbil-mobile!
A fat woman driving a SUV, uses a comic book shop as her favorite spot to kidnap kids to sell them to drug gangs who turn them into “foot soldiers”.
Nobody looks for missing dark-skinned children DESPITE in episode evidence that the GCPD IS LOOKING FOR DARK SKINNED CHILDREN because we see missing child posters posted everywhere, which says GCPD?
Comic books are garbage? A character actually said THAT on THIS SHOW? On Batwoman which is a Batwoman show? Let me back the video up. It was said!
-100/-100/-100 out of 5/5/5.
Never mind the physics gaffes, the BAD acting, and the racism directly applied against Javicia Leslie’s character. She cannot do anything for herself without being rescued by Mary Hamilton (an Asian woman) or Angelique Martin (a white woman).
I am disgusted by this disrespect.
Caroline Gries should be ASHAMED that she put this bigotry on the air.
Let Javiscia as Bat-gerbil 2.0 be awesome! Park the racism and bigotry where it belongs.
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Aside from that, this episode is “unsatisfactory” which is my polite term for what it really is… garbage.
Monty
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2563151/the-dceu-has-found-its-supergirl-and-shell-make-her-debut-soon-flash-sasha-calle
Quoting from the link:
Since its inception the DC Extended Universe has kept the moviegoing audience on their toes. Twists continue both on the screen and behind the scenes, and there are a number of highly anticipated projects currently in the works. This includes the delayed Flash movie starring Ezra Miller. Filming is gearing up to begin, and it turns out that it’ll feature the debut of the shared universe’s Supergirl. And the role has already been cast.
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According to the report by Deadline, Sasha Calle was chosen from a wide casting call, with more than 400 actresses seen for the role. In the end it was the 22 year-old television actress who managed to impress Andy Muschietti and company. Calle is also making history as the first Latina woman playing the role of Supergirl. Talk about a dream job.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439572/
Cast so far.
Ben Affleck Batman / Bruce Wayne
Ezra Miller Ezra Miller … Barry Allen / The Flash
Michael Keaton … Batman / Bruce Wayne
Billy Crudup … Henry Allen (rumored)
Sasha Calle … Supergirl[/size]
Who is Sasha Calle?
https://www.msn.com/es-co/entretenimiento/other/amda-alumni-profile-sasha-calle/vi-BB1dR7kn
AMDA is America’s RADA: maybe even better. I am so happy the Flash runners got her for Kara zor-el. She has “Q” out the wazoo. If she breaks out in this role, we could have a Supergirl movie.
Monty