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1. 

   Aaron on March 10, 2021 at 10:32 pm

   Some blog post comments…

   AWE…the banner made me cry this week I won’t lie. They don’t treat us with enough respect you guys!

   “National City is expecting Reign.” – show clap for the pun. Ha! 🙂

   *sees Sam in the blog photos* Sam!!! ❤️

   “We’re getting together all of our thoughts on Season 5 and remember the good, bad, and ugly of everything in it.” – there was good in season five….where?!

   How is this even a contest this week? The most compelling of the choices is without question Maxwell Lord!

   On to the podcast…

   I love you Green Butterfly…I just don’t support your choices when it comes to Mon. 🙂

   You tried Justina, but yeah when CLARK has the daughter not his sons then I’ll care. 🙂 Superman is not so macho he can’t have a daughter! That’s like saying Kara can only have a daughter when she has kids, it’s ridiculous.

   The worst thing they could have done with Kelly is make her an Olsen on the show because they never have her talk about James so what was the point? James never mentioned her until he had to do what’s the point? All it does is bring up bad memories for the fandom of James/Kara and how poorly their breakup was handled so why would want that…it’s just a mess! They could have named her Kelly Smith and been just fine. Yes she still would have sucked in season five because they did nothing with her but at least she wouldn’t have the baggage of being an Olsen to keep her weighed down more!

   Yay for the polls coming back to the blog post! 😀

   “We’re moving to Tuesday!” – BOO!!! They don’t respect “Supergirl” anymore. 🙁

   Alex telling Kara off is just SO awesome!!! 😀 I agree Kara, I don’t like you pining over Mon either. Ha. Again give Chyler an Alex spin off network!!!

   Ruby is part alien so it explains why she wasn’t crushed. 🙂

   Come to the Agent Arias (aka Sam/Alex) side, it’s amazing! 😀

   Again give Alex Danvers a spin off show and put Sam Arias on it!

   I could never buy Lena/James because James hated her so much just because of her last name, he trash talked her so much and then he sees she’s hot and his opinion changes – that’s lame writers. He never believed in her when it really mattered also which I don’t like. That relationship was an attempt to give him something to do because they’re scared to let him just be a news man even though it’s what he’s best at.

   Ugh Daryl yes, wrapping so much of Kara’s life up in Mon was just SO insulting…like she can be upset the guy is gone if she wants but to say Kara is a mistake just spits on so much history as the character and really makes her look dumb. They really pushed it each week with Kara to the point I wanted to skip most of her stuff since it was about Mon and not her; the almost making her a home wrecker also just NO. I stand by my comment he’s the worst thing to happen to her and she literally lost her home planet and some friends at least along with family members.

   There was definitely a double standard when it came to Mon/Kara and Alex/Maggie, we know as the lead Kara’s relationship will always get the most screen time but they could have done more with Sanvers arguably. Their intimate scenes for sure could have been more in number! I always find it irritating when the male/female pairing gets these intense romance moments but the queer pairing be it female/female or male/male barely get jackets off before they cut away; if Mon can lay all over Kara on a couch why can’t some girl do the same to Alex?! I do feel Sanvers had more quality moments than Karamel because Karamel was always just physical anyways in my mind but still I wish they’d had more in terms of screen time too. Again I know 40 minutes will be dedicated to Kara as the title character but as the second lead why can’t Alex have at least 25 (preferably 30)?

   As much as I can’t OTP Sanvers because of Kate Kane and knowing TV loves drama so Maggie would mention Gotham at least, I did enjoy them together while they were together; I loved how Maggie would stand up to Kara about Supergirl also. That said I’m glad they kept Maggie sticking to her guns on the kids issue because far too often someone gives in to the topic and Maggie has every right to not want kids, you are not less of a woman just because you don’t want kids!

   Laura will always be the twins to me! 🙂

   I do have feelings about season five…spoiler alert: none of them are positive. Ha. Season five just broke me on a soul level and hearing what’s to come for season six…I just don’t know how to be positive honestly. I’d love to have even my season four level excitement back but between on screen and off screen stuff I just don’t have that hope anymore; they’ve taken me from the highest highs down to the lowest lows now and so all I can hope for at this point is just that they do the sisters justice. If they can manage that then great but I’ll believe it when I see it.

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2. 

   Montefescu on March 11, 2021 at 3:49 am

   Green Butterfly said: “I have faith in you, writers.”

   Montefescu wrote: “I have no faith in you, writers. I know you will goof it up.”

   Monty

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   daryl washington on March 11, 2021 at 6:08 pm

   I wanted to take this time to share some thoughts on season two because while I haven’t watched in detail yet I do have a good general overview of how things played out. I miss what I viewed to be the entire foundation of the show in season one which is the relationship between kara and alex. There is a scene in season two when kara and mon-el are about to watch game of thrones and I couldn’t help thinking to myself that it used to be alex and kara watching the show. Casual scenes like that between the two sisters became a rarity in season two. Alex never even learns kara lost her job at catco and in season one alex would have been among the first to know news that was so major. Including the break between the episodes when she lost the job and when she got it back she hadn’t been working there in over a month. I also would have preferred a scene where lena first learns her advice got kara fired but we didn’t get that though we do learn that lena knows in the episode ace reporter. The game nights while spoken of with such emphasis by kara in season one disappeared in season two. I feel those were important as a way for our core group to connect and decompress. In the kara/mon-el storyline I find myself blaming alex a little since despite all of kara’s protestations alex still insisted that kara must like mon-el or have feelings for him of some kind even going so far as to state that kara’s desire to do big things for her earth birthday were just a way to hide from those feelings. It upset me to hear that because given that it is such a big day in kara’s life she has a right to make big plans without it revolving around mon-el or any man honestly. I know alex is excited to be in a relationship with maggie but it is her sister’s birthday. It should not have been brushed aside like that even though in fairness kara was saying it was ok even though it so obviously wasn’t and then when kara learns that mon-el has been drinking club soda it’s like its supposed to open up her eyes to him in a new way was confusing to say the least. In the episode homecoming i would have liked a scene after mon-el so callously ruined the night of alex having a realization that this is the kind of man she pushed her sister towards. Also they had not set up mon-el in previous episodes as being so insightful and now he can see through the deceit of a character he has met maybe once before and who saved him and kara? It doesn’t ring true. And now with maggie getting ready to be written out and mon-el on the way back in I wonder how that will play out on the show. I feel that they only do storylines with catco involvement when they have to and the new season looks to be shaping up the same way. For all of kara’s desire to become a reporter she certainly abandons the goal when it fits their purposes. I’m convinced the only reason they made james the guardian was so that when they pushed catco to the background he wouldn’t become completely irrelevant and i feel the new romance they’re concocting for him is a way to do the same thing. It also truly upset me when lena got no thanks or credit for saving the aliens of national city in the episode medusa. Just some acknowledgement of any kind would have been great but none was given. Even in the episode luthors, james is arguing with kara telling her how wrong she is for trusting lena. A person he has never met and doesn’t know the first thing about apart from her unfortunate last name. As much as I hate to say this a part of me lost a lot of respect for kara in the flash musical crossover. To break up with mon-el for completely valid reasons in my opinion only to take him back the next day sends the wrong message to me. To be completely honest, seeing her break down in tears in the scene where she broke up with him didn’t move me in the slightest because i knew they’d get back together but even I couldn’t have imagined it would be the next day. I truly hope they keep lena good because for lena to place such emphasis on not turning out like lex or lillian but then still turning evil and fighting supergirl would be disappointing. I was also a big fan of the winn/lyra storyline until they reduced it to merely a vehicle to push the kara/mon-el storyline forward in an attempt to make kara think she was being too harsh on mon-el which she wasn’t. lyra was lying to protect her brother. mon-el was lying to protect himself and there lies the difference betwen nobility and selfishness. In the future I will most definitely make these emails shorter. These things have just been on my mind a while.

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   Montefescu on March 13, 2021 at 10:54 am

   Superman and Lois (TV Series) “The Perks of Not Being a Wallflower” (2021)

   Directed by Gregory Smith

   Writing Credits
   Joe Shuster … (created by: Superman) &
   Jerry Siegel … (created by: Superman)

   Greg Berlanti … (developed by) &
   Todd Helbing … (developed by)

   Brent Fletcher … (written by)

   Katie Aldrin … (staff writer) &
   Jai Jamison … (staff writer) &
   Andrew Wong … (staff writer) (as Andrew N. Wong)

   Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
   Tyler Hoechlin … Clark Kent / Superman
   Elizabeth Tulloch … Lois Lane
   Jordan Elsass … Jonathan Kent
   Alex Garfin … Jordan Kent
   Erik Valdez … Kyle Cushing
   Inde Navarrette … Sarah Cushing
   Wolé Parks … Captain Luthor (credit only)
   Adam Rayner … Morgan Edge (credit only)
   Dylan Walsh … General Sam Lane (credit only)
   Emmanuelle Chriqui … Lana Lang Cushing
   Sofia Hasmik … Chrissy Beppo
   Stacey Farber … Leslie
   Daniel Cudmore … Subjekt 11
   Jill Teed … Sharon Powell
   Danny Wattley … Coach Gaines
   Clayton James … Derek Powell
   Fritzy-Klevans Destine … Sean Smith
   … Timmy Ryan
   Wern Lee … Tag Harris
   Austin Anozie … Malcolm Teague
   C. Douglas Quan … Fisherman
   Chloe Pun … Girl on Bus
   Rohain Arora … Mitch
   Kelcey Mawema … Denise Olowe

   Wow, this episode stank from the first paint each other, Kents, to the the two laser beams into the chest of that knock Vartox (Object 11) who failed to kill Lois.

   I confess that I dislike the stringing together of clichés. It is kind of standard that the CW caters to the Teen Angst drama a great deal, and that for the purposes of this Smallville 2.0 the teen angst will be built around the Jordan and Sarah psychotic maladjusted kids pairings. It seems to have occupied about 80% of the screen time of the 40 minutes involved. If one wants that kind of soap opera and one is a brain dead, who does not know how to DEAL with this crap-fest as a a parent first hand as I have for the last decade, then one might think it is entertaining. it is not. The writers seem to have no clue as to how real human beings function. The kids lie? So what, it comes with the turf salad. Jonathan advises Super-wuss that Jordan needs football? If Super-wuss is so out of touch that he does not see the de-socialization of his emo-son, then someone needs to drop a tractor on him. In fact we get a scene where Super-wuss complains to not-functional-mom that he cannot figure his son out.

   Not-functional-mom’s advice? Figure it out. My advice? TALK TO THE KID. He will actually tell you what hurts. Then FIX IT.

   It really is that simple. Dumb writing. Compare this TRASH to Stargirl. Does anyone see Pat and Courtney have this problem? No. Because whoever is writing that show is a PARENT.

   Let’s get on to the Super-stuff that Super-wuss and not-functional-mom are supposed to handle as their day-job.

   Some people come up missing and Morgan Edge is the contact villain. Guess those dozen people have been souped-up in Morgan Edge’s Super-clones R’ Us body shop. Object 11 and Lois have their set, too in a trashy motel room. Lois goes for the pen stab in the thinnest part of the skull trick and the jab winds up in Object 11’s ear. That is the only explanation for why the pen does not shatter in the dope. Not-functional-mom flicks her bic super-signal device and calls out “Superman” (Kind of redundant) and Super-wuss shows up and is beat up by Object 11. I have to wonder how this is going to be explained. Anyway, Super-wuss uses the Freeze breath and punches Object 11 through the Motel.

   Later on when Object 11 phones in that he failed to kill Lois and the woman she was actually meeting at the seedy motel. Object 12, (LAR) is sent to kill him via the laser-eyes send off.

   Can you guess what the rating for this episode is? 0/0/0 out of 5/5/5. Reason; WHAT happened to the Captain Luthor plot, writers? Did you forget that was a thing?

   Monty

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5. 

   Montefescu on March 16, 2021 at 8:40 am

   Season 5. Seriously guys?

   Remember?>

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   Sum up season 5?

   Supergirl (TV Series) “Immortal Kombat” (2020)

   Full Cast & Crew

   Directed by David Harewood

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

   Greg Berlanti …(developed by) &
   Ali Adler …(disgraced by) &
   Andrew Kreisberg …(disgraced by)
   Emilio Ortega Aldrich …(teleplay by) &
   Nicki Holcomb …(incompetent teleplay by)
   Derek Simon …(stupidly written by) &

   Katie Rose Rogers …(incompetent executive story editor)
   Jessica Kardos …(incompetent story editor) (as Jess Kardos)
   Nicki Holcomb …(incompetent staff writer)

   Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification

   Melissa Benoist … Kara Danvers / Supergirl / pouty pregnant polemicist
   Chyler Leigh … Alex Danvers /Batgerbil with GUN
   Katie McGrath … Lena Luthor /apologetic mad scientist who needs to remember, it was Supergoyl who effed everything up. Not her.
   Jesse Rath … Querl Dox / Brainiac-5 /Braindead who gets outsmarted because of reasons.
   Nicole Maines : … Nia Nal / Dreamer / Who still thinks she is Ayla Ranzz but is actually Braindeadette
   Azie Tesfai … Kelly Olsen / Who hops around this episode like an annoying mosquito.
   Andrea Brooks … Eve Teschmacher / Liked her better as a cybernetic overwrite.
   Julie Gonzalo … Andrea Rojas / Acrata / Miss Plot Device used as a deabolus ex machina (devil in the machine.)
   Staz Nair … William Dey / Gunfire target #1. Why is Blockhead not written out? The moron is the love interest hire for the Kara character that Derek Simon has to justify or get fired for wasting time and money on that worthless piece of scene pollution.
   David Harewood … J’onn J’onzz / Martian Manhunter / Gunfire Target #2.
   Jon Cryer … Lex Luthor /Mister Plot device used to explain a FUBARED story and a wasted $30 MILLION dollars.
   Cara Buono … Gamemnae / Gemma Cooper / You know when you see cleavage and slutbottery, it is because the actress cannot act, right?
   Meaghan Rath … Querl Dox / Brainiac-5-2.0 A BETTER Braindead than Jesse Rath. HIRE HER!
   Brenda Strong … Lillian Luthor / Mama Meanest.
   Sharon Leal … M’gann M’orzz / Miss Martian who’s role is unclear?
   Lynda Boyd … Eve Teschmacher’s Mother / Hostage, but whose?
   Mitch Pileggi … Rama Khan’t Shamalangadingdong. EARTH ELEMENTAL
   Everett Andres … Young Boy / scenery filler
   Michelle Christa Smith … Sela / I have no idea of what she is supposed to be. Maybe a wind elemental?

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   Well… Derek Simon plagiaried this episode from a better writer. How do I know?

   Back in Season 3, I saw this particular peculiar episode as a season ender and noticed, now, that beat for beat, and outline for outline that it reminds me of “Immortal Kombat”. It was entitled “Battles Lost and Won”. It featured three chess-piece villains (Reign, Purity and Pestilence) ), a witch coven, (Selena, Vita, Ayala and Feira ) some Macbethian clumsiness, a wasted actress as lead villain chess piece (Odette Annabelle) and a STUPID unsatisfying ending to a rather good season in which “our heroes” were plagued by soap opera love interests that went nowhere, a fake out Kara love squeeze endangerment, and the usual kind of super-idiot ballery that required people to turn their brains off to accept the storyline.
   The episode centered on stopping Reign from detonating the Earth’s core and featured Martians as Earth preservers while Kara did her hope speech thing and Lena aided in the Reign away cure thingy. And Mon-El got stomped and almost makes a life-love sacrifice.
   It was written by Jessica Quellar and Rob Royvne and directed by Jesse Warn. Was a good episode despite its flaws in the hands of reasonable people.

   Then we get “Immortal Kombat”

   a. Evil witch; Gemma… check.
   b. Chess piece head villain: (Not a good one like Reign, but a cardboard cutout with no backstory or motivation.) Rham Khant-shamalangadingdong…. Check.
   c. Heroic love-life death sacrifice; not Kara this time and not Mon-el Railroad; this has been farmed out to Dreamer as the love object and Braindead (with female version Braindead partner no less.) as the substitute.
   d. Lena remains Lena, on the wrong path but straightens vector at the last minute as usual and complete with “I’m sorries” out the WAZOO when it STILL is all Kara’s fault for not keeping A WATCH ON A LUTHOR which should El rule #1 in any Super TO DO LIST.
   e. Martians battle elementals and keep the Earth from being deformed? Myrnn and J’onn last time. This time it is M’Gann for fan service reasons, but the formula fits.
   f. Put Alex in a suit. They did last time in that season 3. They have to do it this season, so this episode they blue Smurf her and make her a BAT GERBIL WITH GUN.
   g. Misdirect subplot with Eve Teschmacher (Lena last time, Lex this time, but still a Luthor Patsy Kleinmadschen.) Yup.
   h. A Luthor hiding things. Triple down with it using Egghead AND Braindead and Lena in all the same essential story gag and assert via plothole bachhoe from the whole previous season, that a Luthor or all of them is at fault and ignore that Luthor behind the Curtain doing things for stupid reasons, Kryptonian. Ah yup.

   There are some differences.
   1. Might want to look to King Lear for Lena’s and Alex’s parallel Cordelia storylines. What? You did not recognize that poofery in the so-called writing? Shame on YOU! Kara is King Lear.
   2. Missed gags that did NOT PAY OFF. There was the “Man of Stupid” Zack Snyder terraforming, make humans slaves and reform the earth in our image alien invader gag which was Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 villain motivation and objectives. This execution was muddy and unclear as in season 4 AWFUL.
   3. Waste a villain, which in season 3 was Purity and in this season 5, was ACRATA as a rote predict functional heel turn to goody two shoes example of how not to write it.
   4. Derek Simon wrote the beginning and the end stories of this bollixed season, so he had a real save his job incentive to TRY to make all his bull manure setups, including Staz Nair as Wi8lliam Day pay off, so we get the obligatory Eve Teschmacher shoots Blockhead scene. Of course Eve has to come back, but Blockhead will be back, too. Derek Simon invested in him. If he is written out, can Derek, his creator, be far behind?
   5. Another gag that did not pay off, because it is NEVER explained are those Kryptonite powered RINGS from the Fortress OF Stupitude (renamed in honor of how many times El Protective Services a division of Queen Security Industries) has failed to keep out everyone and his sidekick from setting loose Suneaters (Twice) or stealing 30th Century tech. Yes, somehow the idiot writers, and I mean Derek Simon specifically, forgot about the Legion of Super Heroes RINGS invoked.)
   6. Speaking of Stupidity Writing and super-idiot balls carried, Braindead HAS a Legion Ring, complete with a radiation proof FORCEFIELD. Missed that one? Nah… Needs of the heroic sacrifice love-life sacrifice story bit and to pay off Braindead works with Lex and Lex outsmarts him gags.
   If you want to blame anybody for Season 5 being the worst Supergirl season to date, and why it is suddenly and mercifully wrapped up early, then it is Derek Simon who goofed it all up and COVID that cut his manure fest 3 episodes short.
   Never leave an UTTER DISASTER without trying to find something positive to write:
   i. David Harewood made the direction of a still awful script semi-coherent. Camera shots were fair to good. Not bad for his second attempt.
   j. Emilio Ortega Aldrich and Nicki Holcomb took Derek Simon’s toilet paper garbage, proofread it, edited it clear into the pink pages (About 6 rewrites!) and produced a semi-shootable screenplay without too many pronoun misusages or sentence run-ons or polysyllabic unpronouncables that are Derek’s illiterate trademarks when he scribbles his brown and green stained butt wiper scripts.
   k. Stunting was repetitive and after the third wire pull into the wall, still well executed, though by then BORING and predictable.
   At some point you have to give up on J’onn imitates Kara shapeshifter jokes.
   Rate it for episode; -20,-20,-20 out of 5/5/5. A lot of wasted good acting by Meaghan Rath, Katie McGrath, Andrea Brooks and Melissa Benoist.
   No return actors!
   – Staz Nair. Let his character DIE off camera because Supergoyl lasered too close to his non-existent heart. Then the AMA can SUE Supergoyl for practicing medicine without a license!
   – Jesse Rath. No Brainiac should be written or be acted that stupidly, ever.
   – Cara Bono. All cleavage all the time does not hide her poor acting chops.
   – Mitch Pileggi … Rama Khan’t Shamalangadingdong… cannot even do the Larry Fine to Cara Bono’s Moe Howard.
   – Julie Gonzalo; though it is not her fault that she has no story and is WASTED as Miss Plot Assassination device.

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   That is how it ended. It was sad.

   Monty

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6. 

   Aaron on March 21, 2021 at 8:09 pm

   We’re like a week away from the premiere and has anyone seen a promo yet for the new season?

   Again they aren’t treating us right I feel and it’s a bummer! 🙁

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     Montefescu on March 23, 2021 at 7:35 am

     https://bleedingcool.com/tv/supergirl-season-6-trailer-drops-tuesday-new-e01-images-e02-overview/

     Best I can do, Aaron. I admit, I have very little use for “Bleeding Cool” as a news portal.”

     FWIW, I am hopeful this season that Derek Simon will be bussed over to “Batwoman”.

     Quote from that article:

     Finally, we also have a look at the overview for the second episode of the season, “A Few Good Women.” With the overview subtitle “The Breaking Point,” the description reads: “As the stakes with Lex (Jon Cryer) are raised higher than ever before, Lena (Katie McGrath) must decide how far she is willing to go to stop her brother. Meanwhile, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and the team are faced with a challenge unlike anything they’ve ever dealt with before and it brings Alex (Chyler Leigh) to her breaking point.” Jesse Warn is helming the episode, with a story by Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller and the teleplay by Jay Faerber and Jess Kardos.”

     Notice…, Not a Derek Simon mention at all.

     That would only be just to close out with the FIRST TEAM in season six and put the talentless Derek on the Bat-bus along with Caroline Gries to cancellation city?

     Monty

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   Montefescu on March 22, 2021 at 11:17 am

   There is some more news…

   https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/batwoman-reportedly-cancelled-season-3-javicia-leslie-return/

   This show will gat a season 3?

   Why?

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   Tiny Superman and Not Lois review:

   Superman and Lois (TV Series)Haywire (2021) (104)

   Full Cast & Crew

   Directed by James Bamford

   Writing Credits
   Jerry Siegel … (created by: Superman) and
   Joe Shuster … (created by: Superman)

   Greg Berlanti … (developed by) &
   Todd Helbing … (developed by)

   Michael Narducci … (written by)

   Katie Aldrin … (staff writer) &
   Jai Jamison … (staff writer) &
   Andrew Wong … (staff writer) (as Andrew N. Wong)

   Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification

   Tyler Hoechlin … Clark Kent / Superman
   Elizabeth Tulloch … Lois Lane
   Jordan Elsass … Jonathan Kent
   Alex Garfin … Jordan Kent
   Erik Valdez … Kyle Cushing
   Inde Navarrette … Sarah Cushing
   Wolé Parks Wolé Parks … Captain Luthor (credit only)
   Adam Rayner Adam Rayner … Morgan Edge
   Dylan Walsh Dylan Walsh … General Sam Lane
   Emmanuelle Chriqui … Lana Lang Cushing
   Sofia Hasmik … Chrissy Beppo
   Stacey Farber … Leslie Lar
   Brendan Fletcher … Thaddeus R. Killgrave
   Danny Wattley … Coach Gaines
   Fritzy-Klevans Destine … Sean Smith
   Wern Lee … Tag Harris
   Zane Clifford Zane Clifford … Timmy Ryan
   Eric Keenleyside … Mayor George Dean
   Pavel Romano … Corey Wellnitz
   Austin Anozie … Malcolm Teague
   Kelcey Mawema … Denise Olowe
   Hesham Hammoud … Lt. Rosetti
   Joselyn Picard … Sophie Cushing
   Robel Zere … Dabney Donovan
   Kris McRonney … IG Merc

   Review: Another forgettable nothing happens and nothing matters episode ensues. The villain of the week, Killgrave, (Have I heard that name of a better villain in a better show?) breaks out of a prison transfer with the aid of Tiny Superman’s version of the not-organized crime / terrorist organized gang group, “Intergang” and he tries to make Tiny Superman go deaf. Sam Lane shows up at the football game and watches two plays by “Shortstack” and concludes grandson Jordan is an “S”. Not Lois and now “I’m going to activate Project Hell because my pet weapon of mass villain coercion is not answering his speed dial and shows he manifests delusions of bare adequacy as a human being” has become a national security threat.

   I’m not feeling the love here for this pablum and rehashed hash writing, fellow show watchers. Consider that Kyle Kushing (Erik Valdez) gets the “its the couch for you, because you did not punch Morgan Edge (Adam Raynor) for hitting on your wife, Lana Lang Kushing, (Emmanuelle Chriqui)? If that is not straight out of “As the World Turns My Stomach” soap opera writing?

   How are things going on the Football Heroes Front? “Tag” Harris (Wern Lee in a problem bit of casting.), if we remember got blown up when Jerk Jor III set off a barrel of “stuff” at the Smallville kids “Fireworks and Meth Amphetamines R’ Us” bonfire party. Now if you did not understand “Smallville 2.0’s” reference to pretty dangerous colored rocks make human be’uns and country folk into “Super Stiffs” (A Flash, no less) then let us just say that Tag’s Story-line has him scoped out by the paternalistic “guv’ment” (Sam Lane) that is going to send his family and his super sass off to “Young Avengers Academy” (MARVEL should SUE!) so that he can be written out of the story and his place taken over on the football team by Jonathan (Jordan Ellsass). There is a triple pun in there in case you missed it.

   As part of that “Tag Harris” bad writing, Sam Lame (Dylan Walsh))(We have come to that moment where I deliberately misspell character names to insultingly sobriquet the bad writing and acting involved, gerbils.), tells the “J-men” twins (Potheads will get the J-Men Forever reference.), Jerk and Jon that they should not be teen boys who pester “Dad” when “Dad” has a non-paying day-job that occupies his time and Lame’s own occupational attention. Once again, WHY is a four star farthing of a grandad, visiting the Kent tribe, playing grandy-dad AND supervising a routine super-lame-villain transfer?

   Oh about that last one? I yawned through Not-Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) and grandy-dad (“Pops” to her.), fighting about “the boys” (Another reference to a much better show.) and her throwing him out of her house, because Tiny Superman is not man-enough to deal with grandy-dad in a more subtle and less confrontational fashion than she did. That is another reason to start up Project Hell by the way; because Tiny Superman bleated “I support my wifey and I think being a dad is kind of important, “pops”.

   You get where I vector by now?

   Masculine behavior by example does not mean strong male roles should be testosterone equals “football heroes” popularity and happiness in stage two human larvae phases (Teenagers in plain English.) Coach Gaines (Danny Wattley) in the E story when he is showing game film to the Smallville Crows and tries to teach “football” to his squad of untalented community theater actors, tries to spout that football is repetitive drills and muscle memory and that it is 80% mentaL.

   Trust me. Been there and done that when I was a lot younger. One has to learn a lot of pattern recognition, pursuit and lead trajectory stuff and one has to learn how to hit hard against bigger tougher faster guys as smart or smarter than you are just to execute a successful play. One has to do all of that effort as part of a TEAM, “because lone wolf football hero” does not last long when 125 kilogram missiles are colliding into you at 5 meters a second.

   Successful coaches do not talk much about the physics of football to their players, because why tell a teenager he is on a BATTLEFIELD where he is the target of a half dozen somewhat intelligent homing MISSILES who aggregate a half TONNE, who are all after that stupid ball he caught or is running on a gridded flat surface toward an imaginary goal line? Do that twenty times in a hour and get hit? How long is a human being supposed to last in that environment? I lasted about eight years.

   Football hero? Football IDIOT. The smart players throw or kick the ball, get rid of it, and dance out of the way of all of those oversized mounds of human beef cruise missiles.

   But what is Jerk Jordan? He is a defensive end, one of the cruise missiles. he is not even smart enough to be given the ball,. DEFENSE!

   Oh, boy. “Shortstack” is not his nickname for me. There is another “S” name that rhymes with “Cupid” because he has the hots for “Sarah” (Inde Navarrette), the Lana Lang 2.0 on this Smallville ripoff.

   As for the super-reveal for this week, “Tag” Harris was the first “clue” that Smallville sits on top of an X-Kryptonite deposit and the big reveal is physically exemplified by Morgan Edge’s pet “Superwoman”, Leslie Lar, (Stacey Farber), who punches a hole to reveal a vein of the stuff to the villain.

   Who is Leslie Lar in the DC Comics?

   Lesla Larr is a SUPERGIRL VILLAIN! She apparently is an escapee from the bottled city of Kandor in this reality (or possibly from Fort Rozz according to the other Super Show)

   More on her here.

   https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Lesla-Lar_(Earth-One)

   Some speculation is out there, that Lana Lang Cushman is about to be Super womaned in her own right?

   https://comicbook.com/dc/news/will-superman-lois-give-lana-lang-powers-/

   Blargh. Should have done it on Supergoyl with Lucy, writers!

   Rate this episode? 2/3/3 out of 5/5/5 for acting/ directing and writing.

   Still unhappy.

   Monty

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