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When a phantom escaped into the city I was sure our biggest problem would be doubt and despair. The reality is much worse. These aliens also inject venom into their victim’s body. After a short incubation period the victim is transformed into a phantom. They steal your soul and enslave you. Brainy says they had done this on many planets before the Kryptonians sent them to their newly created prison world. Supergirl is still trapped in the Phantom Zone which is now fractured into innumerable pieces. The super friends must protect the city and save her. Their biggest challenge is not losing hope in Kara’s absence.
Supergirl — “Phantom Menaces” — Image Number: SPG602fg_0004r.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers and Azie Tesfai as Kelly Olsen Photo: The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
The legal system failed to punish Lex Luthor but Lena and Brainy are working together to seek vengeance. Lena locks Lex out of all accounts including the Lex Foundation. This organization is only a front to funnel money to Kaznia for weapons. Brainy is able to reroute the balance of the account to the Luthor Children’s Wing of National City Hospital. Lex quickly strikes back telling the media that Lena is to blame for a fire at the facility that was actually set by Otis. Lena’s soul will never survive as a member of this backstabbing family. She will be her own hero and abdicate the throne of a company whose values she does not support. She does not need the Luthor fortune. With her brilliant mind, Lena will succeed all on her own. She will leave her family behind and surround herself with her super friends. They are a family she is building for herself.
Supergirl — “Phantom Menaces” — Image Number: SPG602fg_0003r.jpg — Pictured (L-R): David Harewood as Hank Henshaw/J’onn J’onzz and Jesse Rath as Brainiac-5 Photo: The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Meanwhile Kara and her father’s attempt to catch a ride with a phantom out of the dark place fails. Supergirl is forcefully propelled backwards injuring her leg. Some criminals take her father captive to feed him to a monster in a lake. Kara receives some unexpected help from a being from another dimension. In conversation Kara learns that they have a mutual friend in Mxyzptik. She is Nyxly, a princess of the fifth dimension, whose father banished her here. After a speech from our Paragon of Hope, Nyxly uses the last spark in her magical orb to break her magical shackles and restore her power. She in turn uses that power to heal Kara.
Supergirl — “Phantom Menaces” — Image Number: SPG602fg_0001r — Pictured: Sharon Leal as M’gann M’orzz Photo: The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
On Earth M’gann defies J’onn’s orders and goes on patrol alone. She is attacked by a phantom and has to be rushed back to the tower for treatment. Because of the Martian ritual that she and J’onn performed just days before, a piece of M’gann’s soul resides in J’onn. They hope this will be enough to save her since it is the stealing of the soul that leads to the transformation.
Back in the Phantom Zone Kara wonders if Nyxly’s newly restored magic can save them all from eternity in this dark place. Only time will tell if this plan will work. Until then I am your eye in the sky Green Butterfly wishing you a super week!
Passive Aggressive, much, eh K-Vox?! 🙂
Cougar’s Comic Corner
Superman Presents The Phantom Zone (1982) #3
Written by Steve Gerber dated March 3, 1982
“THE TERROR BEYOND TWILIGHT!” General Zod and his allies toss Supergirl into the disintegration pit and leave, but Supergirl barely saves herself by reviving in time and digging her fingers into the side of the pit’s wall, then drags herself out of the pit and collapses. Meanwhile, Superman and Charlie Kweskill penetrate various lower (or higher) levels of the Phantom Zone, encountering an alternating yellow-and-red sun (which Superman had once seen while racing with the Flash), battling monsters and encountering weird “Priestesses of the Crimson Sun.” Finally, they meet Thul-Kar, a Kryptonian wizard, who tells them he believed Jor-El’s prophecy of Krypton’s doom and entered the Phantom Zone by magic.
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Season 6 – Episode 4: “Lost Souls” SUPERGIRL FINDS A WAY HOME – Supergirl finds an opportunity to escape from the Phantom Zone but it comes with some dangerous strings attached. Meanwhile, Lena joins the Super Friends on a mission but finds she disagrees with their plan of action against the Phantoms and wonders if she is truly ready to be a part of the team. Alysse Leite-Rogers directed the episode written by Karen E. Maser & Nicki Holcomb (#604). Original airdate 4/20/2021.
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Some blog post comments…
“Brainy says they had done this on many planets before the Kryptonians sent them to their newly created prison world.” – of course the Kryptonians created the Phantom Zone because we can’t have it just be a planet or anomaly in space, someone we know has to have created it because plot and lazy connection to seem dramatic. ? *sigh*
I support K-Vox’s aggression, Kohn is a monster for not taking her on vacation with them. ? #TeamKVox #KVoxIsTheBestvVox! Ha.
“Will the show use Kara’s time in the phantom zone to jump the main story line forward in time?” – if they still had passion in their writing I would say yes, but they don’t so I’ll answer with “No”.
On to the podcast…
Woo K-Vox! ??
That’s right – the after show welcomes all! ?❤️
I love my Maid Of Steel family! ?
“Alex was saying the heartfelt words but Chyler did not convey the emotions and so it rang hallow.” – YES Leslie! She’s been very miss this season instead of hit which is very weird. I also agree about Brainy! Unnecessary…SERIOUSLY?! ? And I thought “Batwoman” had tone deaf showrunners when they went reboot over recast! ??to you “Supergirl” people; the one scene we cared about to see so far this season and you took it from us! ?
It is at this point I will insert this video link because they are officially the series of wasted potential for SO many reasons – https://youtube.com/watch?v=3by91bRS9zE .
1000% bring back the desert base but this time with Alex as director while J’onn is off being on the Justice League!
I’m still really hoping it’s not her dad!
The fans care WAY more about this series than the creatives. “Why can’t we get the same treatment?” – because they don’t respect us Justina. The CW hasn’t seemingly cared about Kara since season one; okay maybe you give them season two to some of three but once they got the green light for Clark they stopped having passion for us and it sucks, at least that’s my feelings on it given how they’ve treated us over the last two years for sure. 🙁
Nicole is hilarious. 🙂
It’s okay John, I’ll be cynic enough for us both…the whole fandom if need be, ha. I wish I could have fun but I’m not – they’re cutting out scenes I actually want to see, Alex doesn’t feel like Alex, Kelly is whoever they want her to be that week so there’s no connection to her, J’onn they still don’t know what to do with unless he’s space dad and Kara I haven’t seen since like season three arguably so yeah. Katie and Nicole have been awesome but the rest has been a bust especially for the last episodes where you want the feels as Leslie says and all I feel is disappointment after disappointment myself. 🙁
Also we’ve had a Dansen with James and Kara back in season one, although when you think of it that way it works because Kelly/Alex is just a rip off of James/Kara because they didn’t got there and they’re trying to make people forget how poorly they handled it. They’re trying but I’ll only ever see Kelly and Alex as needed friends for each other but they’ll never be each other’s OTP for me. The proposal is coming John just give it time; or maybe not given how they cut Alex content – we’ll just hear from someone they’re married now.
Oh Lex Lena is smart enough to start a new company, with Sam, and make all new billions – she doesn’t need L Corp. 🙂
Lol to the make-up discussion and how it also does the hair and dyes it also. 🙂
Agreed Daryl – Alex does not freeze in a fight! ? I totally agree that comment about Alura building the Phantom Zone was just crazy; it’s like they’re trying to connect things with names we know hoping we’ll care and they won’t have to put the extra effort into it but the continuity is SO bad we just laugh instead (I did for sure).
I’m fine with Alex doing poorly in the fight but freezing no.
I can support the Kalex ship name but that’s it. 🙂 No sadly John I have to pick between watching “This is Us” or “Supergirl” and I’ve tragically chosen the one the network no longer cases about because I use to love the actors’ performances; Katie is still brining it and so is Nicole (Jesse has his moments and this might be my favorite Brainy so far as Leslie said) but everyone else just feels so hallow from the main cast. I wanted callbacks to the first season and explorations of character relationships and what I’ve gotten is the Lex Luther show which occasionally features Supergirl and some of her friends. This is an action heavy series now when I feel in love with the character exploration heavy season one. I wanted a return to season one or as close as they could manage now because they still cared and thusly it would prove they didn’t just abandoned our girl because they got access to the man in tights like it feels but what I’m seeing is characters (Kelly and M’gann) being written to fit the plot of the week, I’m getting some Alex hodgepodge which looks like her but doesn’t feel like her and given she’s my favorite character that’s horrible to sit through, and I’m watching this once awesome series which even when it was bad (season two thanks to Mon) still was in the top ratings for the network just become a joke to the rest of the Arrowverse and feel continually like second place filled for what they really wanted…I’m just SO disappointed right now. I knew it was going to be bad the more promotions came out for it but I had hoped it wouldn’t be as bad as it has been but sadly it is; we have a handful of episodes left and instead of going out on the high and reminding people of what we were and can do I feel it’ll end with meh at best and that’s just so sad to me given how much I loved this series and what it could have been! We got dumped on hard and it sucks! 🙁
Alex was always interesting, she’s arguably the best character on the series, so yeah I agree Phoenix the lacklusterness of her now is tragic to watch. 🙁
Honestly Justina, I totally took it as “I miss her” being about Nia not Kara! 🙂 Lena thinks it was Kara and steers the audience that way but I agree again I think he really means Nia!
Man I hope Lex doesn’t stay until the final?, that would SUCK! We never needed him and I don’t need anymore of Clark’s stuff taking time from what was suppose to be OUR series! If we end with Lex in the final season it will be a season of “Superman” to me not “Supergirl” and that will fit what they’ve done so far but just be so tragic as I’ve said! It feels like maybe we should just say “Supergirl” ended with season one or season three…maybe an alternate season four which features Sam because what we’re getting is just so not our show that we came to love and enjoy. I’m aware I’m speaking for myself there and this is all super bitter but it’s how I feel.
What’s the Clark version of Nxy because that’s what they’ll do. She’s a fun character but I wouldn’t be surprised if they screw it up.
They have time John they’re just prioritizing the stuff we don’t care about each week – again it’s action heavy now instead of character driven and that didn’t use to be the way. What we want – Alex telling Kelly who Kara is, what they give us – CGI and characters chasing a plot instead of the plot supporting characters. It doesn’t equal out.
Kara hasn’t had development since season one Leslie; Klark hasn’t had it since season four so either way you slice it yeah it’s been a while. Agree SO much regarding Kelly and Guardian Leslie!
How do you not insert the K-Vox sound clip John after saying she thinks the show is about her? Ha.
Sorry I cannot give you camera shots of me with a kangaroo. Work restrictions. I can tell you there is one kangaroo that is a pest. I found out the hard way that they love salads and they will fight you for the greens and the carrots. They also like to try to drown you. At least this one did.
One piece of advice. Do not fight a kangaroo unless one has a good stout club. Aim for between the ears and do not miss.
Batwoman… the ugh copntinues.
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Batwoman (TV Series) “Arrive Alive” (2021) (211)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by Mairzee Almas
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Daphne Miles
Daniel T. Thomsen … (as Daniel Thomsen)
Cast (in credits order)
Javicia Leslie … Ryan Wilder / Batwoman
Rachel Skarsten … Alice
Meagan Tandy … Sophie Moore
Nicole Kang … Mary Hamilton
Camrus Johnson … Luke Fox
Dougray Scott … Colonel Jacob Kane
Peter Outerbridge … Roman Sionis / Black Mask
Laura Mennell … Enigma / Evelyn Rhyme
Nathan Owens … Ocean
Bevin Bru … Angelique Martin
Gracyn Shinyei … Young Kate
Andrew McNee … Jackson Charles
Rosie Pidcock … Crows Agent
Sean Owen Roberts … Porcelain Mask
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This show is actually trying to alibi Alice and absolve her of her crimes because her memory was erased? And then Angelique is not to be blamed because she is making Snakebite under duress? Alice knew it was wrong to murder and Angelique knew it was wrong to concoct Snakebite and the duress was not present to the level to make her innocent of culpable criminality.
Then we have the souped-up car so that Ryan Wilder can drive it like a bootlegger? If Wilder cannot drive, then an AI is not going to help. The handling of cars at high speed is an art-form. THAT is why stock car race-drivers started out as bootleggers. They were trying to outrun the revenuers WITHOUT COMPUTERS and they succeeded. It is sad that they wasted 10 minutes on this stupid plot point.
Arrrrggggghhhhhhh!
-∞,-∞,-∞ out of 5/5/5
This is worse than Ed Wood.
Monty
Had to borrow an alternate phone. Next time I will try to describe what it is like to watch The Flash on a phone.
Just a possible tech note: the link is saying there’s two comments up on the blog but only one is showing currently as of 4-19-21 at 7pm central time.
I am using mobile to view the page also as a note!
Kangaroo incident and Bat-gerbillette review (211). Neither turned out well.
Also had to use another guy’s phone through my IP portal since the kangaroo…
Monty
Well, I made a kangaroo reference which involved it stealing my lunch and a tussle where it tried to water polo me and I reviewed Bat-gerbillette 211. That is probably why the posts did not take.
Oh and I had to use another guy’s phone top post.
I did something stupid. I watched it again. Two times drunk did not help.
Batwoman (TV Series) “Arrive Alive” (2021) (211)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by Mairzee Almas
Writing Credits
Bob Kane … (based on characters created for DC by) &
Bill Finger … (based on characters created for DC by)
Caroline Dries … (developed by)
Daniel T. Thomsen … (written by) (as Daniel Thomsen) &
Daphne Miles … (written by)
Natalie Abrams … (story editor) &
Ebony Gilbert … (story editor)
Maya Houston … (staff writer) &
Daphne Miles … (staff writer)
Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
Javicia Leslie … Ryan Wilder / Batwoman
Rachel Skarsten … Alice
Meagan Tandy … Sophie Moore
Nicole Kang … Mary Hamilton (credit only)
Camrus Johnson … Luke Fox
Dougray Scott … Colonel Jacob Kane
Peter Outerbridge … Roman Sionis / Black Mask
Nathan Owens … Ocean
Bevin Bru … Angelique Martin
Gracyn Shinyei … Young Kate
Jesse Hutch … Agent Russel Tavaroff
Andrew McNee … Jackson Charles
Rosie Pidcock … Crows Agent
Sean Owen Roberts … Porcelain Mask
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1. Tokyo drifting. Fast and Furious Joke. Camera work is terrible. Never break 25 mph (40 k/h) but is supposed to fake 90 mph. (135 k/h)
2. Angelique is forced down on her knees into corrosive chemicals. When the goons let her up, I looked at her jeans. BONE DRY and no faked burned knees on her at all. I might be drunk watching this crap the second time through, but I still notice this kind of mistake. Bad acting included.
3. It gets funnier.
4. Sophie to Ryan phone call. WTC? (What the crud?) Episode padding for time. Boring. Angelique is alive despite all the dead CROWS left behind in the escape. Who cares? They are just CROWS, that is they are Star Trek redshirts. I think they’ve killed about 3 an episode on this show, so I suspect the body count is about ~60 by now, not including the 20 or so CROWs murdered in that stupid CROWS parking lot. Guess where the Angelique was when the False Face Society broke her loose (Off camera of course.). The CROWs parking lot is about as unfunny now as Carol Danvers and Buicks. (Refers to a MARVEL Ms. Marvel joke from the 1980s and 1990s. When Carol faced off against the Brood or Moonstone or some other supervillain, the enemy would hit her over the head with a Buick. Hence Buicks were Carol’s chief enemies.).
5. Luke and Ryan blah, blah, blah, scene… more padding. Put trackers on the bootlegger cars? BTW, why is rescuing Angelique a thing? This woman is cooking the snakebite toxin. Tyan wants to save her for love interest reasons? I would think putting Angelique into prison for her criminality is the high priority here, not releasing her to commit further mayhem upon the city of Gotham. I do not care how much Ryan loves that criminal. Greater good seems to not matter when the “love interest” is the selfish primary character motivation for Ryan. Did I mention that Caroline Dries’ moral compass is completely lacking in how she drives her show as this episode seems to indicate in the writing? Well, I mention it NOW. My opinion, your mileage should not vary too far.
6. Alice plays psychiatrist. Lacking imagination, Thomsen and Miles, figure they will drop a little Harley Q. on us? Are they kidding? Enigma, the real shrink shows up, and the confused patient, who Alice pretends to treat, gets a lartyngectomy. Supposed to be a joke. Not funny. Here’s a question, should that moron of a patient not recognize his psychiatrist, writers? I mean even if it is the first treatment, there is an interview before that session. Just how DUMB is this show? In another BTW, Alice wants Enigma to erase Kate Kane’s memories from her mind. Where is Wallis Day anyway? Is the actress having second thoughts about her latest career move?
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We are not even at the credits yet and I note the Alice flashbacks and Ryan drugs running bootleggery in a totally meaningless story that this episode consists.
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!
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7. Ever hear of Rork’s Drift? Refer to 11. Sophie is “undercover” and Bat-gerbilette busts her as one of the False Face Bootleggers. Way to go Ryan!
8. In the never ending battle to show that African American characters cannot do anything right without Caucasian or Asian assistance on this crummy show, one knows that Mary will eventually supply the car and the Artificial Intelligence driver assistant so that Ryan who just drove the Batmobile to stop Sophie, can drive Mary’s car because it is too much for her. WHY? WHY? WHY?
9. Alice and Enigma yakkity yak about the Kate Kane memory thing. WHO CARES? That is not how memory works or psyche integration. Do these writers not do their homework? Liberal10. arts majors, obviously.
10. Best scene as Jacob Kane tells Sophie specifically how she goofed up, WHY she goofed up and the reasons she is being benched. Logical clear and to the point. Is this going to matter? I mean Jacob tells Sophie that Angelique is tough tiddly winks because she refused to name names and cooperate from the beginning, but refer to 5. and read Immanuel Kant so one understands what I mean by Moral Imperative. Of course this scene with the sound reasoning behind it, is supposed to be rejected because Kane is addicted to drugs, yoah. Can I point out that Winfield Scott, a famous American general was quite logical, awinner and very successful and he was an addict? How about other famous addicts? Pick a Hemingway, Mariel or Ernest. Drugs and mental illness, but they were rationalists who used the Moral Imperative!.
11. 150 British soldiers held off 2,500 Zulus at Rork’s Drift. This was a combination of racist imperialist British policy of that era and the alleged Zulu incompetence. The reference to this EPISODE, as it is written, should be obvious.
12. Sophie and Ryan concoct that scheme to sub Ryan in. Once again this buffoonery is to rescue Angelique instead of trying to stop the Snakebite distribution scheme. That moral compass needle is pointing due south. I hate this show. On the plus side, the writers used the “rule of pronouns! “You and I got Angie into this mess.” Hurrah, they got one thing right! There is something these buffoons do better than the Supergirl show runners. They know grammar.
13. Alice flashback. The stiff playing 13 year old Kate is not even physiomorph right or qualified to act the role of toilet paper. Why is Ocean the chauffeur in this car scene? Why are we using the tired polaroid cliché?
14. Mary’s car right on cue.
15. Luke, Sophie and Ryan… Song in head in d flat. “Getting to know You”. It is the clue Sophie on to the Ryan is Bat-gerbillette scene. Bad writing matches the BAD scting. Two takeaways, Luke warns Ryan that Sophie is going to figure her out and NO Ryan is not good enough to drive the Bat-gerbillette-mobile because Luke installed an auto-pilot with the paint job. It seems the Caroline Dries mandate that the Bat-gerbilette 2.0 skill disrespect has to be a meme now.
16. More psycho-psycho-babble. The dichotomy paradox is something these writers have never heard?
“The dichotomy paradox has been attributed to ancient Greek philosopher Zeno, and it was supposedly created as a proof that the universe is singular and that change, including motion, is impossible (as posited by Zeno’s teacher, Parmenides).
People have intuitively rejected this paradox for years.
From a mathematical perspective, the solution — formalized in the 19th century — is to accept that one-half plus one-quarter plus one-eighth plus one-sixteenth and so on … adds up to one. This is similar to saying that 0.999… equals 1.”
The reality is that there is a moment of indivisibility where a discrete quanta exists. Whether it is psychology or physics there is still quantum mechanics, Bat-gerbilette writers.
Sheesh.
17. Fast and Furious scene and joke. Cut the scene and insert an insurance commercial. The commercial would make more sense, confound it. 305? Is that kilometers per hour, or lies per scene? Not miles per hour. Cause that junker car cannot do more than 270 k- watts under the hood (375 horsepower) and no more than 110 straightaway in miles per hour. I know my tech.
18. Here comes the bootleggers’ scene. 25 mph (40 k/h). There is supposed to be a drone in the sky so Ryan cannot maker the tracker switch at a stop as planned. Cue Luke to drive via remote as Ryan pops the back seat and does the in the trunk switcheroo. The car stunting is TERRIBLE. Can it gat any worse?:
19. best driver in Gotham? Bat-gerbillete-autopilot would flunk farm tractor drivers’ ed in Junction City, Kansas. Want to bet where Ryan is, in that class ranking? Hint; the autopilot would still get a Kansas driver’s license to plow furrows, but not Ryan.
20. Setup and payoff for when Luke foreshadowed the blown secret identity in scene 15. Not this time. Wait for it? Blegh.
21. Time for another Alice flashback! Get rid of Ocean. As an innocent bystander and commentator; “Yes! Fire that bad actor off this crummy show. In fact pull the plug on this crummy show!” Well… Ocean shows up in the dream and for realsy. By now I am yawning. Hurry up and shoot her, and let us see the writers try to get out of that painted corner. No? Cut to commercial? Yawn.
22. They are about to kill each other (If only.) when Enigma restores their memories and leaves for the hills. So, supposedly their love stops them from killing each other? Liberal arts majors. THAT is not how love or human beings work. In reality they would intensify their efforts to kill each other. READ A POLICE BLOTTER!
23. Sophie, as predicted, tries a one woman Angelique rescue mission. It goes as the needs of the story predicts. I sure hate this show. It is no accident that Sophie is now in the same predicament setup, chained to a table as we saw Angelique at the start of this sludge. Cue the Bat-gerbillette drop-in rescue of Sophie and the Black Mask / BG fight scene. What amazing stunt-work…. not. Yawn. “Bring a gun to a gunfight.” How is that fool walking after a four by three stab wound in his back? Liberal arts majors. READ GRAY’S Anatomy and find out why Black Mask is NOT walking… sheesh. The quadratus lumorum split in two like that, the fool will not only be bleeding out DEAD in two minutes, his whole right side goes immobile because he has not a flexion continuity between trapezius and gluteus. But, then, these writers are pulling stuff out of their butts. And the villain walks after he shows Angelique as the hostage bargaining chip via tele viewer. Can I invoke Immanuel Kant? Angelique? Nice knowing you, you criminal. Off to the hoosegow with Roman Sionis. Greater Good. Pow. Two less drug pushers to menace Gotham. That is a win-win, but not to these writers. Angelique must be saved. WHY? WHY? WHY? This is not real world logic. it is not even Bat-logic.
24. Yay! Another reason to off Angelique and Ocean from this show as character write outs. Same reason: both of them are drug pushers and both know how to make Snakebite. Anyway… After the bad acting and Angelique doing yet another betrayal on Ocean this time, we cut to…
25. Alice and Ocean yakkity yakking about how they tracked each other. Then we have revealed to us that Ocean is after Ryan’s mom, (The potted plant that “mom” is fertilizing is the last miracle cure all plant from Coryana now… keep up with me, gerbils.) Then we go straight from “Do you regret you stabbed me…” straight into a CW love scene. Yup. The show is this stupid.
26. The CROWs show up at BM’s lair to do forensics and the footage from the BM BG fight is shown. The new villain CROW (according to this show’s ideology, Agent Tavaroff takes a field sample. He can choose among the evidence to scrape, BM’s blood, BG’s muccous, or the Snakebite drug. What does he pick to swab?
Why not all of it? Nope. What an idiot. I mean liberal arts majors write to the needs of the story. He picks the drug. I swear this show robs me of more IQ than the whiskey I drink to force me to watch it. Meanwhile Sophie arrives at Mary’s car and she examines it. Bullet holes, check. Bat-gerbilette autopilot module check. Whoops. I also think I wrote those scenes in inverted order, but what the hey. At this moment, I am a couple of slugs away from nighty-night.
Time to rate it. Anything larger er smaller or more negative than negative infinity? Well there is one in mathematics.
Here it is… -∞^-∞, -∞^-∞, -∞^-∞ out of 5/5/5.
In English it is: negative infinity raised to infinite negativity.
I think we last saw it just before the The Big Bang. It was cosmic cow flop then, too.
Monty
Supergirl (TV Series)”Lost Souls” (2021) (204)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by Alysse Leite-Rogers … (directed by)
Writing Credits
Otto Binder … (based on characters created by) and
Al Plastino … (based on characters created by)
Greg Berlanti … (developed by) &
Ali Adler … (developed by) &
Andrew Kreisberg … (developed by)
Karen Maser … (written by) (as Karen E. Maser) &
Nicki Holcomb … (written by)
Jessica Kardos … (executive story editor) (as Jess Kardos)
Cast (in credits order)
Melissa Benoist … Kara Danvers / Supergirl
Chyler Leigh … Alex Danvers
Katie McGrath … Lena Luthor
Jesse Rath … Brainiac-5
Nicole Maines … Nia Nal / Dreamer
Azie Tesfai … Kelly Olsen (credit only)
Julie Gonzalo … Andrea Rojas (credit only)
Staz Nair … William Dey (credit only)
Peta Sergeant … Nxylgsptinz
David Harewood … J’onn J’onnz / Martian Manhunter
Sharon Leal … M’gann M’orzz
Claude Knowlton … Silas
Jason Behr … Zor-El
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Hello; Maid of Steel podcasters; Mood swing Monty here. In case one wonders, one should not watch a Batwoman episode drunk TWICE and then watch Supergirl before one sobers up. The judgement has got to be suspect in such a case. But here goes the effort anyway. Take this review for what it is worth.
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I really want to like this episode because while the Supergirl writers (Especially Derek Simon.) have no clue about grammar, the writers of this episode have read Emmanuel Kant. When Alex states she has to rely on her soldier training to muscle through to the correct moral decision, to sacrifice the chance to get her sister back, in order to stop the Phantom infestation, that has to ring in a chime in the time of my reason.
The ghost busters (the bad one, not the good one) inspiration for this morality tale on fighting the Covid epidemic is kind of the sour note in that episode. Braindead doing the doughnut doolies is not any help at all in the episode as I have no idea what the writers thought it added to the theme of “right choices”.
Another wrong turn was the ham-handed way the males, Big Daddy Martian and Braindead, are clumsily sidelined in the key action set-pieces so that “the women” can be the sole central heroes. I do not mind women womaning up to be Big Darn Heroes, I like that immensely; but I do object to obviously stupid chess piece moving to leave the women alone in the spotlight. There are options aplenty to feature everybody in the five man band. And if one knew HOW TO WRITE A FIGHT, the women could get the spotlight. Brains over brawn, strategic moves and situational exploitation of ability and viewpoint which women bring to a problem allows women to shine in this exact kind of conflict. Search and rescue is tailor made for the woman’s style of conflict rescue. The men can move heavy objects and tie up wraiths while the women sneak in to crack the vault. Come on this stuff is not that hard to write. I can write it. I just did!
Also, should Sharon Leal do some treadmill time? I could swear she has put on ballast since last year.
On the Kara front, how about that Snow White plot rip-off?
“Mirror Mirror On The Wall;
Who is most naïve one of all?
Is Nyxie not a Devil-kin?
More obvious than Stacy Nelkin?^1
^1 Scream queen untalented actress from “Halloween III, Season of the Witch”.
How could Kara be surprised that Nyxie would be a backstabber and a bad guy? She was put into the Phantom Zone for a reason.
I laughed at the plot-hole of Nyxie knowing where the backup magic-mirror was. How, writers, does one explain that one? Nyxie knew where the barracks complex was, knew where the backup mirror was, so how come did she hang around waiting for KARA to show up? I suppose that Nyxie did not know how to hotwire the control setup to the mirror. Also why not knock Zor-el out, drag his unconscious carcass and use his DNA pass key to palm-pad the mirror access? I have no idea why this glitch bugs me, but then I am still drunk, so maybe it is my diminished tolerance for stupid writing mistakes.
Speaking of DNA plot-holes, how does KARA’s DNA figure in her “Get Me OUT OF HERE!” last will and testament crystal? I do not understand that one. And could Alex not go to Kara’s loft and find a hair brush and give Lena some hair strands? I mean that is how Lex does it and Max Lord kind of cloned Kara the same way. This does not track with me.
Braindead is shown to consume 2 pounds of Dumbkin Doughnuts ™. Again I do not understand “Comfort Easting”. When I feel depressed, I tend to either watch Batwoman to cheer myself with outrageous unintended comedy or I currently mingle with kangaroos. Somehow, either whacky form of therapy, works for me this week. As an aside, I have a lot to be depressed about, but I cannot share. Not like Alice in “Arrive Alive” on Batwoman. It would interfere with my work.
Oh, you want more Supergirl? What is there to discuss else? Sharon Leal still muffs her lines. Katie does her ”I’m sorry” schtick. Chyler gives a hope speech and Lenex shippers now have a start point to build fantasy stories about.
I thought Chyler’s Rocket Raccoon getup was BAD the three previous episodes, but this week, even the eye-shadow has eye-shadow!
Oh.. Back to the Future Plot? Here come the Legends of Tomorrow as next week’s guest stars. I guess I will have to get drunk for that episode. If Beebo shows up, I am going to lose it. To be honest, the episode which is titled “Prom Night” should be titled; instead, “Star Trek XIV, the Search for Kara’s Nose Bleed”. That would fit this season’s Star Trek themed plots. Although “Phantom Menaces” a better episode than the awful Star Wars movie from which the title is ripped off is vaguely Lucas inspired itself.
Hey, I get it! The 12th level doughnut eating intellectual is supposed to be Mister Spock. And Kara is Captain Kirk and this episode rips off “The Tholian Web”. That is sick! And not in a good way.
Time to rate it. 3/3/3 out of 5/5/5. The timing is on. The set pieces and CGI is decent. Except for Sharon Leal everyone actually acted. Directing was competent. Writing was quite hilarious as in unintentionally loaded with joke moments, so I just rolled with it. I know it is “average” this episode, but compared to what we have suffered for three seasons, I’ll take the win, and be happily buzzed about it.
Monty