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[sc:mstop]Welcome back to Maid of Steel! We are so excited to share this installment of the podcast with you, in which we cover Season 1 Episode 16 “Falling”. This episode originally aired on March 14, 2016 and featured guest stars Italia Ricci, as Siobhan Smythe, Tawny Press as Senator Miranda Crane, and the entire cast of CBS’s The Talk…as themselves. The first epic crossover event! Were you underwhelmed?
You’re So Veiny
You probably think this song is about you, don’t you? The song playing when Kara 2.0 makes her first entrance in CatCo is called Ready for the Good Life by Paloma Faith…and it couldn’t have worked more perfectly. Check out these lyrics:
I’m ready for the good life
Cause I’ve been slavin’
Gave it all I got
It seemed the best to me, was not enough
I’m ready for the good life
As I said on the podcast, what I love about storylines like this one, where inhibitions are stripped away and an individual acts without remorse, is that it shows how every human being is capable of terrible evil. Just because a person shows the darkest side of themselves doesn’t make that their true self, nor does it make their lightest side any less part of them. Naturally, we react positively to the light and negatively to the dark, and so the implications of falling as far as Kara/Supergirl did in this episode have tremendous repercussions.
For people who are genuinely good, and want to do good, these experiences can be genuinely traumatic. Maybe the real-life scenario is getting drunk at a party and doing something stupid, or reacting poorly to a situation because of high stress; but whatever that real-life scenario is, when a person is remorseful, apologizes, and seeks out ways to rectify the situation, we can rest assured that the mental torment they suffer is extreme.
Bye, Bye Birdies
Catco said goodbye to two of its female employees this week. Lucy decided that she really only accepted the job because of James and up and quite, exiting prior to the start of the episode. Siobhan’s exit, on the other hand, was much more eventful. I think in the situation of both women, their unemployment storyline will be much more interesting than their time spent with Catco.
To Keep You Safe
J’onn outed himself! There’s no going back from this one. Karen and I bounce a few reasons back and forth as to why J’onn chose to out himself and I think Karen ended up coming up with the reason that I want to reiterate here. His decision to take the blame for killing Astra was along the same vein as his decision to reveal his Martianness to National City; he saw himself as responsible for Astra’s death, maybe not by delivering the sword through the chest, but simply by his involvement and forcing Alex to make a hard decision. He took the blame because, as Karen keenly points out, he didn’t want either sister to suffer.
The coming-out decision was similar. He might not be directly responsible for the present situation, but he can’t bear to see the sisters hurting. Kara looked like she was about to kill Alex, something she would most certainly regret whenever they cured her of the red kryptonite’s effects, and his transformation into J’onn fulfilled the purpose of keeping Kara from killing her sister and saving Alex’s life.
A step beyond that, then, is why didn’t he run when he had the chance? To keep them both safe. By staying in DEO custody, he isn’t forcing either sister to act outside the law, he isn’t wasting DEO resources by forcing them to instigate a martian manhunt, and, c’mon, let’s face it… J’onn could slip out of that cell whenever he wants. His compliance is a facade. But an effective one!
Next Week
Season 1 Episode 17 “Manhunter”
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Cougar’s Comic Corner
This week, the Scarlet Cougar recommends: [[[Supergirl V4 Annual #1]]].
This book features several short stories based around the Supergirl “myth” as seen from different times/viewpoints.I love this book because it’s timeless, and it’s not tethered to the main story arc of any one series. Since we’ll be getting some backstory next week, I thought it might be nice to have a bit of a palate cleanser, and a bit of a fairytale anthology. Although they’re not all fairytales…
Get the book on Amazon or Comixology.
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Yay for season 2! I look forward also to the season 1 DVDs! Traci Ellis-Ross from “Blackish” is Diana Ross’s daughter.
I definitely don’t trust Maxwell. Do you mean Aspergers Emilee? Parker from “Leverage” has a case of it. Speaking of coming out, I’d love to see Alex Danvers come out…bisexual at least. My favorite part of the “Talk” scene was Aisha Tyler getting to ask the “What’s Supergirl like?” question because she is a fellow nerd like us so it was just perfect that she was the one to ask that question in my opinion; the little barb to Sharon was cute though too. Cat had a lot of great one liners in this episode.
To the DEO’s credit they did use kryptonite guns in the final scene to try and take Kara down but they just didn’t work well. The peanut bit was neat. Accountability does seem to be a big thing to Jonn in the versions I’ve seen so I can understand Karen’s logic on him staying. It is ironic some of the effects of kryptonite versus their color such as you might think because the red sun weakens Kryptonians that red kryptonite would do the same and green would actually make them into their darker self given the whole “green eyed monster” thing. Kryptonite is an interesting topic because what determines the color and the effect it will have on Krytonians; what happens if you mix versions such as red and green, would you get a weakened mean Kara or would it blend into another color which does something different? I have to nitpick a bit, Alex gets the crap beat out of her by a white Martian yet walks it off but Kara breaks her arm and that’s what puts her in a sling? I love tough Alex, but come on. I vote Alex gets a girlfriend! The only way Max is going to be a good guy is if an experiment turns him into Carlisle Cullen and then he’s married so again no; I will admit Chlyer and Peter have great chemistry, but I just can’t do a romance with their characters. I hope you post Monte’s link on this site as well because not everyone can do Facebook.
I have mixed feelings about telling more people who Kara is, I know the description said she was considering it but if she does it that’s going to be a lot of people who know and kind of begs the question “why not just tell everyone then”; I know that would have everyone beating down Kara’s door for things but I’m just saying and we’ve seen what telling Cat leads to so it’s understandable that they wouldn’t want to tell her still with as many people who know you increase the chances she’ll hear and we’ll possibly end up with a repeat of her firing Kara for the greater good. If it’s James Harper she tells then that would be one thing since he’s recurring/a guest thus he might replace Non on the list once he’s gone, but even then that’s still a pretty large group who knows about Kara. Half the main cast already knows who Kara is so at what point does it become maybe too many people who know? I understand Kara might think it’s easier than having to lie all the time, but Alex needs to explain to her the downside of everyone knowing your name. I just worry if too many people know her identity it’ll feel like overkill. Another good podcast!
Some blog post comments…
“Lucy decided that she really only accepted the job because of James and up and quite, exiting prior to the start of the episode.” – I would have loved to have seen a scene where Cat makes Lucy question staying at CatCo because while she only took the job for James it doesn’t mean she wasn’t good at the job or didn’t make new friends so while she wants to leave due to James why wouldn’t she want to stay for the positives possibly? I just felt sad about Lucy’s exit, at least say she got a new job, because she just disappeared so it leaves her story currently unfulfilling feeling. Hopefully she’ll return to the show.
“Kara looked like she was about to kill Alex” – but I don’t think she would have in that moment; possibly shoot her leg or side okay but not intentionally kill.