I don’t think I’ve seen any nudity yet. I think the SCP was cut to keep it like a “real” movie.
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I know people hate the drama of this show (it is CW, after all), but I personally still enjoy the show for what it’s doing aside from just being a live-action cartoon. Lois definitely wants to wear the pants in the house and Natalie is being an insufferable brat, both are fair criticisms, but Imma judge the show after seeing where it goes. Of course I want a more lively, action-packed Superman, but at the same time, I don’t hate on innovation or moving the story along with where things have been going in the mythology post-marriage and such. That said, I do like the consistency and lack of villain-of-the-week formulas. Probably trying to go with the Stargirl pacing than the Flash pacing.
Right!!! you couldn’t have said it any better…
“Annoying” is bare minimum criticism. Even this comment is annoying. It’s the writing with her trying to make Clark and her family a “normal family” while “knowing” Superman has a job to do. She wants to pull her own weight and wear the pants in the house. Of course Superman isn’t gonna act all “toxic masculinity” on his wife. That would just make him another version of “evil Superman,” which while I like sometimes, is way overdone, even in other projects that are satires of him (The Boys, Invincible, Brightburn, etc.).
My issue is Natalie being an emotional brat. High school, sure, but damn. She couldn’t last more than a single first class and get it in her head this is technically a new “country” she’s living in where everybody just don’t know they have missing relatives on the other side of the world. Maybe I’m harsh on her, but damn.
I mean… while I don’t like that Annabelle just believed her without proof (reveal scenes are cool, and this one ignored it), it’s a little on the nose now why she’s a fan of Superman. Not so hidden, since it was obvious, but hoped she was just a character with powers.
So far, good pacing. About as good as Stargirl was in season one, not a villain-of-the-week formula, if not quite yet. Nice to see original black characters that don’t have to be identity swapped or taking mantles from other superheroes.
I wish sex therapists were like this for people close to normal. Be prettier than most nightwalkers at least.
25:18 Discipline. The answer is sanity and discipline. The Joker lacked any sanity or discipline to not destroy lives for his “fun.”
The Alice/Mary thing is very similar to a step-sibling (non-porno) version of Harley and Ivy. Also, the look at the end was too on-the-nose, lacking that individuality in place of just being a copy. I still think Alice wasn’t needed for this season, kept on only for popularity than story reasons.
This is why I hate bigotry logic. “Everybody of a demographic that messed with me, all 0.0000000001% of them, were bad, so they all must suffer and convince others who did have positive experiences with them they are wrong.” It’s extremely self centered.
That said, regardless of the controversy, I don’t know how accurate to the source it is, but it’s not as socially biased as people made it out to be. I’d hope for a second season.
Roxy was nitpicking reasons to hate men. Yes, men in patriarchal societies were often horrible people, but things have changed since feminism, even to the point that there are far stronger societal privileges for women than men. You can nitpick any negative thing about anybody, it doesn’t mean that’s all they are. People know that businesses were corrupt, no matter what sex/gender ran them. People are people, and we can all be horrible.
Not getting another subscription to watch this. I’ve seen all of them so far, the good and bad.
There is something about the way Brec wears crop tops that seem, um… “intentional.” Same with the new Green Lantern girl. Oh, and screw Jakeem’s sister Jenny.
This show may be called Supergirl, but as far as characters go, Lena Luthor has always shown to be the most dynamic of them all. She is in my opinion, the best character on this show.
She seems to have a bit of nuance with being comparable with the team and just being a person. The others, especially Supergirl, can be too optimistic about things, as well as single noted (which works with certain characters, but still). Lena is the only real human without being a superhero… yet(?).
This was a seriously high budget episode. Stargirl is now the best cw superhero show.
Stargirl and Superman & Lois got that bonus budget compared to the other DC Arrowverse shows.
Why does the one girl always try to dress like our grandmothers? She is like the youngest girl on the show…
You mean Beth? I think that’s the point, being too modest and proper that she struggles to make friends because she’s a different kind of weird. I think she said her parents were her friends, and you can tell they find it off-putting themselves.
It’s a fine first episode. Can’t say I expected a whole lot on the first episode of not-season-one of any show. Gotta lay the groundwork for what’s going on first. But that kick Green-Lantern’s-daughter did at 38:57 looks smooth and funky at the same time.
“Gentrification is not fixing the nation; it’s mixing the pavement with insensitive payments.” By keeping trying-to-be-former criminals from getting back on track, they are more likely to continue down the path of having to keep doing what they want to stop doing.
That said, at 25:37, I disagree that facts and figures aren’t important, since personal experiences can vary. Both very much are, but pandering to emotion too much can backfire, as it ignores what maybe be more or less important for the situation. Just because I’m a metalhead who don’t drink alcohol (first was taste, second was diabetes) doesn’t mean all metalheads don’t drink alcohol.
He should have just let the cops do it. He’s a good guy, but damn. I hope it’s not fatal, and somebody needs to put that bitch ass bird shit in his place.
They literally made Stephanie Brown have nothing to do with being Spoiler, and she’s a red head. Better than Cassandra Cain in Birds of Prey/Harley Quinn though. I mean, why change the characters this much?
Wait… this made NO sense. How was her plant just happen to be a desert rose? She always had it, planned on giving it to her mom before she died years ago, but it was the desert rose the whole time? Where the fuck she get it from? Yeah, the writing seems to put a ton of deus ex machinas all over the place.
So, a plant that’s between feminist and misandrist, arguably one and the same nowadays, though the organization has male soldiers. They are going hard on the lesbian (female & gay, specifically either/or) empowerment with this show. The 2nd Batwoman just happens to be another lesbian (not even a bisexual, asexual, or trans, but another lesbian), almost no interesting male characters that are seen positively (villain/traitor/creep, broken up with, or challenged stances that is likely overridden like Jacob and Lucas).
So, we got a Batwoman show with Hush wearing Bruce Wayne’s face (meaning this would be Bruce Wayne if casted), and we got Titans with an older (blonder) Bruce Wayne as well. Both are post-Batman. Cool…
WHERE THE HECK IS OUR MODERN LIVE-ACTION BATMAN TV SHOW?!!!
The Vice President was literally saying “How dare you murder my daughter who had a constantly exploding bomb strapped to her chest?” Yeah, screw the women who saved everybody, nevermind the cult who did it to her.
Oh, that explains the lack of logic behind his accusation. HE SET IT UP! Got his own daughter killed.
The Vice President was literally saying “How dare you murder my daughter who had a constantly exploding bomb strapped to her chest?” Yeah, screw the women who saved everybody, nevermind the cult who did it to her.
Can somebody explain what is actually wrong with the show? I actually really like it, and I’ve never been as much a fan of Superman. Smallville, though good, was still super cheesy compared to this. Villain-of-the-week stories get boring after while, but this maintained a steady and focused plot with good acting and effects (especially compared to Supergirl). Jordan, starting off insufferable, started growing as a character more. John had to grow on me with the whole both-worlds-have-the-same-Superman-in-spite-of-everything-else-being-different ignorance, but it made sense from his POV when dealing with a threat as powerful as Superman. Besides, this is a more original story never explored in live-action and isn’t just villain-of-the-week Gareus ex Stuchina Superman formula. What am I missing?
The real question is how does a simple pair of glasses make Kent unrecognizable as superman
Woah! Don’t go Zack Snyder on us and change established characters with any challenging ideas…
Seriously though, one story said that his glasses alters how his face looks to other people. Only one story I heard of, though.
JHI is going after the gun rather than the shooter. And how does he not see the differences between the worlds imply a possibility of differences between Superman in both? Seeing a ton of the same Superman would imply, to me at least, some kind of experimental clone sh*t. I doubt they were at all Superman that destroyed his world.
HUH?
It came off as though Lex Luthor was being tokenized as a black man rather than just keeping him as how he’s always been. Apparently, it’s Steel, an originally created black superhero. I think I missed which name is real and which isn’t, but they didn’t just do the “tokenism checkbox” this time.
wow “race swap” done right. Pretty awesome series
I agree. Tokenism/hand-me-down casting really annoy me as well rather than just making new characters. If the actor resembles what they may be, then I can accept it (example: Dean Cain, who is part Chinese, played Superman in Louis & Clark well without looking too different from him). Apparently, it wasn’t even Lex Luthor at all, but John Henry Irons, aka Steel.
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.
Starring:
Deadpool
Nick Fury
Ajak
and Crossbones
I really enjoyed all three shows. While I think it went from best to worst, the worst is still high quality content. Wandavision had us by the balls with what was going on, while Falcon & The Winter Soldier was a thrill ride with a bit of drama around the meaning of being Captain America. Loki was more an adventure about discovering the truth of who or what was behind the fate of all people’s histories.
Not so much a horror, but something else with a bit of horror elements near the end. Very interesting story. Seemed to show signs between faith and delusion, especially at the end.
Decent movie, one thing threw me off was his wife was no Witch Dr. and did not protect him as far as I could tell unless I sneezed and missed something..
But she was a #itch and that is for sure.
I think the new maid somehow tricked Granny into killing her husband General, dreaming that she was the new maid. The new maid, I assume, was actually the undead La Llorona and General let her kids drown and was shot in the head. Kinda like a revenge story through possession or mind trickery.
I seen this episode live on CW, but I wonder why it is named mother. Oh wait never mind, I remember.
I’d assume the actor who played Elongated Man wasn’t available, hence never seeing his face in a few episodes and suddenly leaving without legitimately seeing him a last time.
4:13 They were the surfer girls that Talos and his henchman in Captain Marvel tried to transform into, but “He picked her first.”
I like the show, knowing what it was going to be seeing that he has teen kids and all. The issue most people have in general are angsty teens, and I think it usually comes from just seeing them be angsty without seeing where it comes from before see all the emo shit. Production is definitely better than the other CW shows so far. And as for cowboy_fan2k’s point, I agree about tokenizing Lex Luthor, though I think Coby Bell would make more sense if they “had to.” I don’t really think it is Lex Luthor, since he’s just called Luthor so far. Supergirl’s Lex may still be canon. Too many adaptations do it. I mean, they race swapped Jade in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, but then did it backwards with Mileena in the new one. Neither are even white in the source material, which is cringey anyway. If I want a black Superman, I’d just wish for an Icon movie.
Another thing, live action TV shows are gonna have lower budgets, so they add the drama to lower how many places they gotta visit and the special effects are on screen all the time. Remember that one Supergirl scene? Looks better in this show for reasons I’m assuming to be true.
I like the show, knowing what it was going to be seeing that he has teen kids and all. The issue most people have in general are angsty teens, and I think it usually comes from just seeing them be angsty without seeing where it comes from before see all the emo shit. Production is definitely better than the other CW shows so far. And as for cowboy_fan2k’s point, I agree about tokenizing Lex Luthor, though I think Coby Bell would make more sense if they “had to.” I don’t really think it is Lex Luthor, since he’s just called Luthor so far. Supergirl’s Lex may still be canon. Too many adaptations do it. I mean, they race swapped Jade in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, but then did it backwards with Mileena in the new one. Neither are even white in the source material, which is cringey anyway. If I want a black Superman, I’d just wish for an Icon movie.
0:50 Did I miss the Captain Luthor thing last episode? Also, he looked black, but this is still in the Arrowverse. Is it no longer Jon Cryer? I always thought Coby Bell would be a better looking black Lex Luthor.
No, he’s an alien. Is it a code name?
“I need to keep Superman from destroying this planet like he did mine. First, Imma risk innocent people’s lives (on this planet I’m trying to save) so I can escape.” Yeah, yeah, “sacrifice few, save many,” but still.
Great second episode!! So far, it has been a smooth blend of Man of Steel and Smallville. I have to add that the effects are really good, better than Supergirl for sure. I think Jonathan Kent is a really likeable character and I look forward to him getting powers. So far my only complaint is the writing for Jordan Kent whose character goes up and down more than a yoyo. One minute you think he is developing and then its straight back to angsty teen. A minor complaint on a so far great show. 4.5/5
I don’t know if Jordan Kent is canon, but I know Jonathan is. Maybe why he’s the older brother. It’s the second episode, so development for Jordan may have to take some time. Hopefully not too long… I’ve an anime called Wanna Be the Strongest in the World about a female pop idol becoming a pro-wrestler. Now THAT is SLOW progression. Watched several episodes, canonically lost over 100 matches. Couldn’t watch it anymore, knowing how dumb that was.
0:50 Did I miss the Captain Luthor thing last episode? Also, he looked black, but this is still in the Arrowverse. Is it no longer Jon Cryer? I always thought Coby Bell would be a better looking black Lex Luthor.
No, he’s an alien. Is it a code name?
This seems like a dope show. It’s not just about Superman, but his family life, another area television and movies haven’t quite explored. Man of Steel did his origin well (I will defend that movie), but this is showing off his other side. Also, I can’t hate that Doomslayer armor.
P.S. guys, don’t make the first move. Just… just don’t. Ask her out, but she has to initiate. A little heads up.
Is this the movie Mista GG mentioned in advertising the Shudder ad for his “I Finally Watched The Scariest Movie Of All Time.. (The Exorcist Review)?”
I’m assuming it was the DB that Autumn knew that got killed. Didn’t show Diamond though after the altercation, either. I dunno.
So it’s just an alternative to IMDb then.