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   Montefescu on March 4, 2021 at 5:15 pm

   I make no bones about my Lone Ranger position on this show. I do not like it.

   Monty

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   Aaron on March 4, 2021 at 7:57 pm

   Okay so I want it to be known that I am only listening to this podcast episode because I want to know what YOU think on it for fun. I myself again will not be watching this series except via maybe YouTube clips which heavily feature Lois as the one sneak peek clip they forced into my timeline was mainly of her and she was MUCH better in it than she was in anything we’ve seen so far; I still feel there’s so many ways this could be handled better and I still feel it Influenced “Supergirl” negatively so as I said – a boycott on live watches and full episode watches from me unless a “Supergirl” cast member pops up. I will admit I did say “What the *ell?” seeing this in the GSM timeline because as you said you said you weren’t going to talk about it but this is kind of a very quick episode release to just express your feelings and so I’ll let you have THIS one posting on the subject. Ha! 🙂

   Some blog post comments…

   “Green Butterfly wonders if any of the stories told on this show could influence or impact Supergirl season six.” – please no! Again I feel Superman has already effected “Supergirl” and it’s been for nothing but the worst; also sadly I feel season six is going to be a disappointment enough on it’s own so let’s not help it fail. Seriously we DON’T need Alex in a suit writers!!! 😡

   Is it wrong to be angry at the fact the Cougar Comic Corner selection has a female superhero descended from Clark on it but the show itself can’t do that same plot? If so, I love being wrong! Really, is it so impossible the man of steel can’t have a daughter? If one of the kids was a girl I might have watched this series somewhat slightly! Short of that rewrite I’ll just continue to watch the only Lois and Clark I recognize – that being Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher’s series. 🙂

   On to the podcast…

   Crisis makes less and less sense the more you look at it, it’s just best to let it go; it was always just the “super” event to give Ollie a big screen death if you will…no one really acted like Crisis even mattered before or after it except “Flash” and that’s only because Barry thought he was going to die. If he didn’t feel that way would they have even cared? Crisis isn’t Elseworlds bad but it’s pretty freaking close and again I feel it’s just best if neither is spoken of again…just say Ollie died protecting his city and call it a day.

   There’s so many issues with them not knowing he’s Superman, the biggest being THEY’RE PART ALIEN – Clark had powers as a toddler, Kara had them the moment she landed on the planet it seemed so how are these kids just now having a reaction? Okay Lois’s human DNA tamps down his powers but still they should be Mon level one would think which can’t just be explained by adrenaline rushes and such. The one kid in the clip I saw broke a tire swing with a plastic football, did they just tell him he’s as strong as Superman and he grinned it off? Okay maybe that one instance passes but the fact he’s faster than totally human kids, stronger than humans, can hear better and see better does that not register with him? In a land of aliens did he not think to question if he is one? Even if you say x-ray vision isn’t a thing for them because of the human DNA the ability to see miles away isn’t normal. I will say the idea that the one son can’t handle his powers so it’s driving him insane kind of is unique but again to say that they’re just now getting them or questioning them feels like drama for the sake of drama and not necessarily accurate to what would happen in reality of the situation. I feel they’ll try to use the human half of them to explain a lot but much like them trying to say Sam is one hundred percent human now no one is actually going to buy it. Ha!

   Fair argument Geoff about hormones and how they may be effecting things and the half mix having a delay but still how do the kids not ponder it and try to push things?

   Do not waste more of Kara’s time on Clark stuff! They have written her like a female him for years now sadly and tragically we have been saddled with his main villain for a full season so I really don’t want him influencing her in her final season but again the final season seems to be setting up sadly in my opinion to be a disappointment so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did have them take time to talk about Clark because Heaven forbid we focus on Kara in her final season the whole time. *eye roll* Yeah I’m better and I don’t apologize for it; I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – having Clark Kent actually on the series was one of the worst things to happen to “Supergirl”.

   Random comments…

   I will admit that it may just be me, but I have to say I liked Tyler in the first “my mom made it for me” suit (the clip that got into my timeline was the opening scenes of the series) over the Superman suit we see in most promo material because as Monty has said the new suit makes his head look disproportionate so I’d rather he stay in the home-made suit the whole series. Ha.

   Another thing, why did they kill both parents? Part of the unique factor, and clearly it still is, to Lois and Clark was that both his parents were still alive and not dead or one missing like most comic parents of the time…having both parents of Clark’s still alive would have been a nice nod back to the original series and again felt fresh versus every hero having a dead parent. Again just another reason not to care about this series.

   I can appreciate Tyler and his respect for Kara but there’s just no reason for me to watch Superman outside of a “Supergirl” character being on one week. Again had Clark had a daughter instead of two sons I may have cared, if both parents were alive to nod back to the 90s version of this plot then I might have cared, if the CW had handled its inclusion into the universe better instead of making “Supergirl” feel like a holding place until they could get the toy they really wanted for years then I might have cared but as is again i won’t be watching. I can give it there were some good moments in the opening sneak peek I saw (mainly him proposing in front of the fortress with the suit on and Lois’s first scene) but nothing made me feel like I had to watch and thusly I won’t be as I said unless someone from our series is on.

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     Montefescu on March 6, 2021 at 4:59 pm

     @ Aaron…

     Hear! Hear!

     And just say “NO!” to bad writing, directing and producing. There is just too much of it. Derek Simon, Caroline Dries and now J.J. Abrams… (His Superman project is starting to make the Nicolas Cage version look like genius by comparison.)

     Wonder who is going to play “the giant spider”?

     Monty

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   Geoff Gentry on March 5, 2021 at 1:03 pm

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   Montefescu on March 5, 2021 at 4:13 pm

   https://www.cbr.com/supergirl-premiere-superman-lois-hiatus/

   Quote:

   “Supergirl Season 6 will kick-off March 30 after The Flash at 9 p.m. ET/PT on The CW, taking Superman & Lois’ regular spot in the network’s Tuesday evening lineup. The latter DC TV series will go on a brief hiatus “due to a COVID-related production interruption earlier this season” until May 18. It will then air the remainder of its season, with Supergirl wrapping up its final run of episodes later this summer.”

   About time for the announcement.

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     Aaron on March 5, 2021 at 6:55 pm

     BOO!!!

     I mean yay okay we have an announcement but that’s opposite “This Is Us”! It’s sadly a good thing this is our final season because that move would seriously hurt us.

     Speaking of the move, I’m not the only one who sees this right…the vibe the two series are interchangeable because they felt Kara was their stand in Clark until they got the rights to actually do the series?

     I KNOW you don’t feel something shady is up John and Justina but I’m just like how can I not when they do things like this?! We’ve ALWAYS been on Sundays, at least as far as the CW is concerned, so why change now? It’s like they refuse to let us go out with any bit of dignity left; not only is Superman taking Kara’s spot she’s now forced to be his fill in. *SIGH*

     They better be glad Chyler Leigh is still on this series as Alex because even though I expect them at this point to mess up the character (they already are pushing that dumb suit plot hard) I’m still going to watch for her. I will watch in support of David and Melissa also and because I still have amazing memories of this series but I’ll be honest and say my hopes for a good ending for this series have officially gone out the window because it’s clear to me CW doesn’t care anymore. I questioned their care with that horrific season five but this just confirms they’ve moved on from “Supergirl” and it just breaks my heart all over again. 😭 I can’t even pretend to hope for an Alex spin off right now because I feel they’re too blind to see the gold they have there…I’m just so sad. 🙁

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   Montefescu on March 7, 2021 at 3:36 am

   This is a repeat of my original review of “Girl of Steel”

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   Supergirl (TV Series) Girl of Steel (2017)

   Directed by Jesse Warn

   Writing Credits
   Otto Binder …(based on characters created by) and
   Al Plastino …(based on characters created by)

   Greg Berlanti …(developed by) &
   Ali Adler …(bungled by) &
   Andrew Kreisberg …(developed by)

   Robert L. Rovner …(teleplay by) (as Robert Rovner) &
   Caitlin Parrish …(teleplay by)
   Andrew Kreisberg …(story by)
   Derek Simon …(executive story editor; who cannot edit)
   Anna Musky-Goldwyn …(brought in to help as story editor) &
   Eric Carrasco …(also brought in to help as story editor)

   Cast (in credits order)
   Melissa Benoist … Kara Danvers / Supergirl
   Mehcad Brooks … James Olsen
   Chyler Leigh … Alex Danvers
   Jeremy Jordan … Winn Schott
   Katie McGrath … Lena Luthor
   Odette Annable … Reign
   Chris Wood … Mon-El
   David Harewood … Hank Henshaw
   Calista Flockhart … Cat Grant
   Floriana Lima (who still cannot act)… Maggie Sawyer
   Erica Durance … Alura Zor-El
   Emma Tremblay … Ruby
   David St. Louis … Robert DuBois / Bloodsport
   Adrian Pasdar (who cannot act either)… Morgan Edge
   Jeremy Burtenshaw … Gunner
   Jesse Chongo … Young Fan
   Carlen Escarraga … Soldier
   Josh Hallem … Brian Fred Henderson
   Gelsea Mae … Staffer #2
   Marc Senior … Staffer #1
   Sonia Sunger … Newscaster

   Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

   Shane Kim … Soldier (uncredited)

   Review: Not to be confused with the LIEFELD (!) characters created around 1990 who feature “blood” or “death” in their name, this miserable creation is the idea of John Byrne (1987?). Never liked him as a concept. To sum him up this episode, he steals a Daxamite cloaking device from General Lane’s base outside National City and uses it to hide a sub from which to fire torpedoes at the National City waterfront to blow it up so that the new capitalist villain, Morgan Edge, can implement a real estate swindle.

   Morgan Edge, miserably acted by Adrian Pastar, is the replacement Superman villain white male privilege this season, who will allow the writers to get their digs in. Though created by the king, Jack Kirby (1970), I never liked this caricature of a Luthor either. As for our resident Luthor, Lena buys Catco. Never mind why, that is Katie McGrath’s step-in as the new Cat. I approve. It will allow for a truckload of comedy and provides a reason for the Kara/Lena tag-team to trundle and rumble with the Morgan/Reign freight train I see coming on track 9.

   Odds and ends: Florianna Lima, Maggie Sawyer, continues: which is to say; can’t act, can’t dance, can’t sing and still does not know how to hold a gun. Chyler Leigh, Alex, is bemused this episode as if she does not believe the goofiness she is asked to portray. David Harewood RADA’s his father figure role. We’ll see if he walks Alex down the aisle. Mehcad Brooks, Jimmy Olsen, is shoved into the Snapper Carr slot. No-sale-American, there. Calista Flockhart is offscreened as Cat Grant the press secretary for that evil Durlan president; a climate change plot grenade that waits to be exploded. Consider that a demotion. One expects the Cat to be secretary of state.

   As for our title heroine, she mopes over Mon-el, torques off her friends, and tangles with a submarine. I swear that last gag is lifted from a Warner Bros. cartoon entitled “Stupor Duck”. That is how daffy it is in this episode.

   Plot grenades: a few. For one, we get a replacement Alura. Erica Durance. The Lois Lane from Smallville has a no-speak part in Kara’s dreams that I find ominous. Will she make an “evil” appearance like Jor-el has, as Mr. Oz, recently in current Superman comics? The mother and daughter who bumped into Alex at the Supergirl statue unveiling is another pineapple minus the pin. I’m sure that the Cougar will recommend the New 52 Supergirl arc where Reign is featured to explain that one. I just say in brief that Zor-el created that Worldkiller. Ruby, her daughter, is brand new. I think I see where the Kara/Reign conflict may come to involve Ruby. The Reign in the New 52 Supergirl as created by Mike Johnson, Mike Green and Mahmud Asrar is fantastic. If this version of Reign is anything like that one, Season 3 should be terrific.

   Just not this episode.

   Time to rate: acting, direction and writing; 4/3/0 out of 5/5/5.

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   It is amazing how well that review held up. A lot of my predictions actually came true.

   Monty

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     Aaron on March 7, 2021 at 10:04 am

     Season 3 was a good season, I’ll say mainly because of Odette’s portrayal of Sam Arias/Reign; it’s not as good as season one of course but it would be my second place ranking for sure!

     It’s such a shame they didn’t hold onto Sam for season 4 and let Kara finally have her trainee and showcase the different debates you can have about heroes such as are they required to use their powers to help just because they have them (ex: Sam being scared to death Reign will return so she holds back a lot; also she’s a single parent, because she hadn’t married Alex yet, so super powered or not if anything does happen to her Ruby is alone).

     If you’re not as “save them all” as Kara are you still a hero? (Ex: see Sam killing drug dealers as Reign or threatening Morgan Edge) Not all heroes are shiney, see the beloved Alex Danvers! 🙂

     What does Kara do with free time when there’s Sam and J’onn to help protect the city? We might have actually believed reporter Kara if we saw her take time to work on the skill not just be handed it! No guarantees though, ha.

     There’s so much still left to do with Sam and it’s a shame they can’t see it. 🙁 It’s also a shame they can’t see the gold in Alex Danvers it seems because WHERE IS HER SPIN OFF ANNOUNCEMENT ALREADY?! Again you could put them together in said spin off and maximize your returns! 🙂

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       Montefescu on March 7, 2021 at 5:20 pm

       Aaron on March 7, 2021 at 10:04 am

       Season 3 was a good season, I’ll say mainly because of Odette’s portrayal of Sam Arias/Reign; it’s not as good as season one of course but it would be my second place ranking for sure!

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       The thing I liked about Odette Annabel, as Samantha Arias as set up, was that she was a working single parent mother with a teenage daughter, that she had the makings of a back story, that she, all by herself could carry a season as Nora did on the Flash. Now think about it. we had a fully realizable character who could be shown as human with her real human life and then she could be illustrated as Reign, a fully realized multiple personality disorder, who happens to be her Kryptonian core being. This personality could be explained as Zor-el’s experimentation on her before he shot her off into space as a failed experiment.

       What we got was three cackling Kryptonian witches, some confused blip appearances by other “world killers” and the usual alien invaders come to take over the Earth and or National City via “magic” situation. What was lost in that season 3 mess, was the essential simplicity of Lena trying to cure Sam, Kara trying to understand and defeat Sam as Reign and the opportunity to pay Alex off with a new life partner who would come family complete with the precocious half-Kryptonian kid. BUT, that would require the writers to invest effort and build a coherent story, to follow an outline and to submerge their own demented, look at me try to write MacBeth, egos into “professional commercial treatment” of an overall character and voice and story outline. This is called “writing to specification” and is what a professional television script writer used to do. Captain Janeway for all that she was actually Katherine Lameway had a character voice and a set of tightly defined characteristics. You could predict within limits how she should behave depending on the plot of the week.

       Even a villain like Q or the Borg Queen would meet the defined voice and characteristics. In the cardboard character writer generator that the SG writers used to create Samantha, they GOOFED. They created a 3-d character, gave her a “thin” backstory that would write itself full blown if they could flesh bit out and foolishly hired a GOOD actress who could play the part. And they threw Ruby in as a bonus.

       But they had to have their three witches, the Juru backstory which was so obscure as to source that even I did not know it (I had to research those magical fascists to figure out where from and why the witches showed up,) So I liked the Reign and Sam parts of Season 3 and more or less gritted my teeth with the rest of the season and came to loath Derek Simon as an incompetent story editor instead of merely dislike his incoherent illiterate writing.

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       It’s such a shame they didn’t hold onto Sam for season 4 and let Kara finally have her trainee and showcase the different debates you can have about heroes such as are they required to use their powers to help just because they have them (ex: Sam being scared to death Reign will return so she holds back a lot; also she’s a single parent, because she hadn’t married Alex yet, so super powered or not if anything does happen to her Ruby is alone).

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       You know something? That is so Geoff Johns in his approach to character and story. He would, given the Sam Arias story treatment and situation, actually compare Kara and Sam and introduce through Sam, how a super-hero parent and lady with a day job, at which she has to grind to put the roof over Ruby’s head and food on the table, is not as carefree and irresponsible or unconstrained or as groundlessly idealistic as Kara.

       Kara can make snap judgements about drivers who almost run into a bus full of kids and waste time mouthing off at them and then break one of the fool’s hands in a show you up time waster. Sam would slam the brakes on such yahoos, yank them from their cars, knock their heads together, three stooges fashion and call an ambulance to cart off the uncoinscious. She does not have time to grandstand and play the hero in a photo-op. She has to get home and fix Ruby’s after school snack.

       Notice that in the way “I” write Sam, she takes care of business and is not concerned as much with “image”.It would instantly create “character conflict” and could even give rise to comedy as Kara could, for example, become “superglued” to a bank vault door by “Gluemaster’s” latest Tacky Stuff and Samatha, in the middle of an after school Ruby event, gets a call from Alex to ask her to interrupt mother-daughter-time to get Kara out of a sticky situation. The stop-off at Lena’s (work) to “borrow” (steal) the Luthor ionic decoupler to pry Supergirl loose, happens and Sam does a Flash number and apprehends Gluemaster while Kara has to take a bath cause Tacky Stuff not only musses her hairdo, it also stinks.

       See? That is good writing that shows character, conflict and comedy.

       You can put Alex in the middle and have fun with it.

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       If you’re not as “save them all” as Kara are you still a hero? (Ex: see Sam killing drug dealers as Reign or threatening Morgan Edge) Not all heroes are shiney, see the beloved Alex Danvers! 🙂

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       Working off my three stooges skit, Kara can complain, later over at Alex’s while they all eat pizzas together, that Sam gave Gluemaster a broken jaw when she, Sam, flicked him under the chin. “That was excessive force!” Sam can retort; He pulled a gun on me.” Kara answers “You are bullet-proof.” Sam can follow with: The bullets that bounce off me, can ricochet and hit other people. Ever think about that, Kara?”

       Ruby can ask, Alex; “Why do Aunt Kara and Mom always fight?” Alex can sigh, and answer; “Aunt Kara thinks your mom plays too rough.” Ruby asks, “Does she?” Alex will think a moment and then suggest, “Your Aunt Kara does not have YOU to worry about.” as if this will explain Sam’s take no prisoners mama bear attitude. “Now have some pizza.”

       That is called “good writing”.

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       What does Kara do with free time when there’s Sam and J’onn to help protect the city? We might have actually believed reporter Kara if we saw her take time to work on the skill not just be handed it! No guarantees though, ha.

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       You mean like actually do her job in story? Maybe Derek Simon could try to write himself into a cameo scene, where he attempts to explain to “our” reporter: the pronoun order rule of plural followed by singular; or the difference between they’re, their and there; or why active voice and short complete subject, verb sentences are best in action prose, and the subordinate clauses can be no more than two per sentence in NYT news story descriptive prose format. HAH!

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       There’s so much still left to do with Sam and it’s a shame they can’t see it. 🙁 It’s also a shame they can’t see the gold in Alex Danvers it seems because WHERE IS HER SPIN OFF ANNOUNCEMENT ALREADY?! Again you could put them together in said spin off and maximize your returns! 🙂

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       Good pitch. Maybe Berlanti Productions should hire you to write it? I mean look at the garbage that is “BATWOMAN”. Your pitch is already 400% better than that sludge.

       Monty

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   Aaron on March 7, 2021 at 9:00 pm

   “She does not have time to grandstand and play the hero in a photo-op.” – this so very much makes me think of a situation where for a few episodes in the alternate season 4 people actually start liking Sam aka Superwoman (given to her by the citizens not something she picked herself because again she doesn’t feel heroic at the point) more and question Kara and Kara has to learn that just because people talk about the new shiney toy for awhile doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten about the original; you could even have Cat pop up via Skype to tell her this or via an email like they showed with Clark, this way Callista doesn’t have to be on set but you still get Cat. All that said, Kara better get an interview with her stat because she’s what’s driving attention currently, ha; it gives reporter Kara something to do while expanding on Sam’s ideas and thoughts on her new situation. The newness would fade of course after Sam does something the city is divided over and Supergirl again is once the city’s number one hero which Sam is fine with because she didn’t want the staring role in the first place.

   Sam can go back to running L Corp for Lena while James would be over CatCo, possibly supervised by Sam as they are a piece in the portfolio while Lena spends time as the DEO scientist and working on things in L Corp lab since Alex as director doesn’t have as much time to spend in the lab as much and Winn is gone. It allows Lena to interact with every character! I realize this might sideline Lena a bit seemingly but you could just lace in her working with alien technology in ways which seem questionable and at season end she’s been restricted from certain accesses and they can do the battle for Lena’s soul plot except it’s not over Kara (because she knows who she is, you can bring in Lex and him try to separate them in an alternate season five but she kills him and he stays dead this time because Lena isn’t dumb and her grief over that sets up the lenses and commentary for the show to talk about how virtual reality has both negatives and benefits for human emotions).

   Alternate season five you have Andrea come in and how does that effect Lena’s dynamic with the group when Andrea is pulling her one way with Obsidian (no Leviathan – if Leviathan they’re just an evil Cadmus like organization because ancient gods don’t work for the series) and the access to use whatever tech she wants because Andrea wants to cash in on it and maybe use it to remove the curse she has for the necklace which Lena now understands picking because she killed Lex for the greater good so she gets doing things you regret but for causes you feel are right after they argue a bit for drama. You still have Sam brining in the L Corp side of it and saying how some of Lena’s passion projects are effecting costs and CatCo talking about the pros and cons of each possible item (some which are good and others which are arguably bad) but season five is the battle for Lena’s soul because she’s just so consumed with wanting to help and it’s like why have this tech if you aren’t going to use it and so it’s still a season commentating on the pros and cons of tech but just won’t the ancient gods and Lex screen stealing time. Ha. You can even bring in Kelly as a shrink for Lena trying to help her and on occasion other characters because of comments they make; in this she’s still a queer person but she doesn’t get with Alex because Agent Arias but they are friends because Alex needs friends outside of Kara and Sam too. 🙂

   This season has Acrada not being redeemed because Andrea can’t let go of some choices which lead her to being there while Lena of course by the end learns to let go some. Leviathan is like the Cadmus of the season before being defeated but the last episode we see Lillian putting down an actual newspaper talking about their downfall and being all “It’s so hard to get good help these days; you aren’t going to disappoint me are you dear?” and the camera pulls back to reveal “Kara” sitting across from the table eating a meal saying “No mother” and this is like the set up for Red Daughter but edited. 🙂

   Season six is Lillian trying to destroy everyone with “evil” Kara who we see in a flashback is found by Lillian and told that Alex was her brother who Lena killed – this is of course Lex because one way or another Lillian will kill Lena with Kara because she does love Lex more. She also tells alternate Kara that Kara is a clone from her because the DEO stole her DNA before Lillian could rescue here which sets up a take down of Alex in Lillian’s plan because she also has a real hate on for the sisters. She targets Sam by showing Red Daughter edited footage of Reign attacking citizens when she was in control because while Lillian really doesn’t have anything personally against Sam beyond she’s a Kryptonian she also knows her power and needs her out of the way to help leave the rest unprotected; it’s just a good ole heroes versus villains season really but with a lot of character weight, they could even have Lillian reveal at a point she killed Jeremiah because he turned on them and she used Red Daughter to do it because honestly she does hate Alex more than Kara I would say and taking him would really mess her up!

   I’m not sure where season seven would go after this beyond just a comic book adventure of the week for a breather with some kind of season overall theme but this is just where my mind went when you said that line Monty. 🙂

   “Sam can follow with: The bullets that bounce off me, can ricochet and hit other people. Ever think about that, Kara?”” – somewhere in Gotham Maggie Sawyer is like “This is what I’ve been saying!” ha.

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   Aaron on March 7, 2021 at 9:36 pm

   Please note that Lena is not a villain because of her actions and desires in the alternate season; she may be called one by characters at times and people question if she’s becoming like her family but she is not a bad guy.

   She is only a bad guy in the season in terms of she works with the season villains at times to reach her own goals of helping the masses – she is so blinded by grief (yes Lex was a bad guy and she knows it be he was still someone who helped her with Lillian and a brother she thought she could trust) that sometimes she does get taken advantage of while other times it’s an active choice on her part. It’s important to show Alex, Sam, and even Kara understand where Lena is coming from in wanting to help the masses at times but it’s her execution they mainly don’t agree with because Lena totally would be breaking some ethics laws at points. You could even have characters at times agree with her just to have gray which is not a bad thing writers…not everything has to be black and white, most of the interesting stuff happens in the gray!

   Lena can point out how breaking rules or playing loosely with them is something she’s seen Alex do so who is she to judge. She can say Kara says she wants to help everyone so how can she deny these advancements; for Sam it’s just a power move of she is the owner of L Corp and what she says goes. You can have a Bizzaro reference with Lena posing what if alien tech could help the girl get her life back, it wouldn’t because you need to keep Bizzaro in play to fight Kara potential (unless you do cure her and so there’s resolution there and Lena does what Alex couldnt/wouldn’t but you leave it open for another Bizzaro to be created maybe so there could be more fights when you just need an episode of the week)…the DEO is just sitting on this tech and L Corp has the ability to get it in the public’s hands and the world to Lena would be better because no one has to feel pain or regret (remember this girl lost her mom also and again even though Lex is a villain and she knows it she still has some good memories of him and he was a protector of her against Lillian so he was arguably heroic there even if it was just to use Lena’s intelligence for himself later) and they could heal wounds faster and see in the dark better maybe because you splice in alien DNA into someone – her heart as we saw originally is in the right place but it’s a “battle” because her mind can so easily be used for bad things if she’s manipulated because she wants to trust people even if she was raised not to because Lena doesn’t want to be Lillian or Lex.

   If Lena is just a villain along with Andrea then it’s cliché even if she is redeemed so it’s important she walks the line of possibly becoming a villain but never crosses into it; it’s very clear to the audience that Lena means well even if the characters can’t see it so to them she’s borderline becoming a Luthor as they’re known but the audience can understand where she’s coming from.

   I grant it may be less dramatic that way if the audience knows the outcome but you’re doing this with some amazing actors so even knowing the outcome you’re still going to feel it if Katie starts crying as Lena because she doesn’t feel like she’s understood and she explains why she just wants the world to be better. You’re going get Alex being angry when Chyler shows rage because yeah okay maybe she’s right and Lena did go a little too far one episode. Also this is television so even hearing a showrunner say she’s not evil as a viewer you’re like “But what if they do pull a switch and this is just to lure us in?” so there’s still some drama arguably. Ha. Again not as much okay but the acting would be awesome to watch so you could enjoy it for that if nothing else and the debate of who is right each week as it were so there’s fun there.

   Save the drama of who’s in trouble for the Lillian revenge season. 🙂

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