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Enjoyed the pilot and loved this episode. Dialog is tighter, pacing is good, and that shot of Kara getting chucked through a few walls was legit good. Can't wait for Henshaw to go all robo. Get me the Eradicator and lovely punk Superboy and I'll be thrilled.
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I am never going to get used to blue heat vision, am I? I just don't understand why. Is it supposed to be stronger? Weaker? Is Kara going to level up at some point and suddenly her eye lasers turn red and overwhelm Astra's? Or do all female Kryptonians have blue heat vision instead of red? I need to know this for my peace of mind okay!  Otherwise, yeah, virtually everything in the episode was good. The only thing that didn't quite jibe with me was the notion that Kara wouldn't know what a Kryptonian holographic AI was, but Alex does. Bad Moon posted:I'm going to admit, I stopped watching when they started shooting at the alien with pistols while driving on the freeway. Great plan, Feds.
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Nov 3, 2015 06:35
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I think the blue heat vision is to portray it as hotter like on a stove.
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Nov 3, 2015 06:41
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Episode 2 and there is a 1:30 "previously on!!!".
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Nov 3, 2015 07:00
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Sodium hypochlorite is bleach you idiot!
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Nov 3, 2015 07:12
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so wait, it's been a while since I saw the pilot and I can't remember, Kara doesn't have an El suit like Supes because........
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BrianWilly posted:Why...wouldn't they? This alien's not Kryptonian. Bullets could kill him if he got hit with them. Their plan was to drive around town in the dark and then gangsta lean out the window on the freeway and take pot shots at it with pistols. Not even Scifi pistols, but bog standard 9mm any rent a cop gets. I get it's a comic book show and supposed to be silly but Jesus.
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Nov 3, 2015 07:24
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Gave it the first two before commenting, I'm all in. It looks great, the effects don't suck. What's her name is a total babe and she sells her character, Superman. Loving the suit.
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Yep. I'm all in.
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Did anyone else see Perd from Parks & Rec? I really want to see Leslie Knope take on Callista Flockheart.
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This was a pretty good episode. My only real gripe is that the fighting choreography, especially while hovering, is really awkward and goofy looking. But maybe it really would look awkward and goofy, I dunno. I could have done without the flashback memory of her sister teaching her how to fight. We could have gotten the point without it, I think. VVV yeah. I knew it was coming, but I still went "oh god, yes, we get it." Digital Prophet fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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I'm pretty sure that wasn't a flashback. Edit: Never mind, you're talking about during the fight with her aunt. Agreed, that wasn't really needed. Onean fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Bad Moon posted:Their plan was to drive around town in the dark and then gangsta lean out the window on the freeway and take pot shots at it with pistols. Not even Scifi pistols, but bog standard 9mm any rent a cop gets. They didn't necessarily expect it to leap onto the truck, I guess? Gawain The Blind posted:This was a pretty good episode. My only real gripe is that the fighting choreography, especially while hovering, is really awkward and goofy looking. But maybe it really would look awkward and goofy, I dunno. Kara is definitely meant to be awkward and goofy.
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I'm just impressed they went through the bother of having them fly while fighting.
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howe_sam posted:I'm just impressed they went through the bother of having them float while fighting.
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There was some swooping, it counts as flying. Overnight ratings have the show dropping about four million viewers from last week, but 8.8 million with 2.2 in the demo is still respectable, and beat Gotham. The DVR numbers will probably add on a couple more million viewers too.
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Chokes McGee posted:Also yay Hank's already the Incredible Melting Techno Man! Can't wait until it turns out his entire body has been made out of recycled toasters this entire time and no one at the DEO noticed. I'm SO glad this is the case. With General Lady-Zod flying around I thought there was no way we'd get Cyborg Superlativeman this season, but they're continuing the Flash/Arrow tradition of moving at a breakneck pace. Love it!!
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I really liked the difference in voice that Melissa was doing between Supergirl and Kara.
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I liked that Kara didn't think her aunt was her mom at all, despite them being twins. Even for identicals there are all sorts of things people can use to tell us apart, you just need to know us to learn where to look.
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pentyne posted:It got cancelled almost immediately after the pilot was leaked. Just google "Wonder Woman pilot" for all you need to know. Hahaha you weren't kidding about it being awful. I wasn't sure I believed the "I didn't say to merchandise my TITS!" line until I actually saw it.  Wonder Woman just throwing lengths of pipe through random dudes necks, hahahaha
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I'm a little disappointed that Astra wasn't smarter about trying to manipulate Supergirl before going straight into obvious bad guy territory. She's now sacrificed two of her flunkies and gotten less out of it than if she'd taken Kara to coffee for some slick talk about how they both want "what's best for the people of earth" and House of El nostalgia. I would say, hey, maybe the tone of this show doesn't allow for a double-cross storyline like that, but if the not-SHIELD boss is going to turn out to be an angry space-mutant anyway it seems like it would fit OK.
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WarLocke posted:Hahaha you weren't kidding about it being awful. I wasn't sure I believed the "I didn't say to merchandise my TITS!" line until I actually saw it. Hoo lee gently caress. Just watched it. That was everything I was afraid this show was going to be. I forget, did the first episode also have the mysterious offscreen voice talking to Astra, or was this the first "appearance" of what we're almost surely being led to believe is Zod?
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PantsOptional posted:Hoo lee gently caress. Just watched it. That was everything I was afraid this show was going to be. I haven't seen the second Supergirl episode yet, but from the reaction in this thread I suspect they were watching how people reacted to the 'leaked' pilot very closely. It sounds like they really tightened things up.
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WarLocke posted:I haven't seen the second Supergirl episode yet, but from the reaction in this thread I suspect they were watching how people reacted to the 'leaked' pilot very closely. It sounds like they really tightened things up. It's tighter plotted, and just better on a technical level. But if the 'romcom'-ness of the pilot bothered you, this hasn't changed. Show still owns.
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Gawain The Blind posted:This was a pretty good episode. My only real gripe is that the fighting choreography, especially while hovering, is really awkward and goofy looking. But maybe it really would look awkward and goofy, I dunno. In a grounded fight the power comes from the combination of body leverage and pushing off the ground but in midair only one of those exist so yeah, without a ton more CGI or a complete reinvention of the flight rigging it's gonna look like two people awkwardly swinging while hanging from ropes. Although it is two characters who (mostly) don't have formal fight training relying on brute strength and haymakers, so it probably would look like that anyway.
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I was a little annoyed when she remembered the earlier lesson to "use the opponents strength against them" and then tossed her Aunt away and then started acting like the fight was over and won. Supergirl had been tossed like that by her opponent like 3 times earlier in the fight and was back in the fight in like 2 seconds each time.
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Just watched the 2 back to back and was reasonably entertained. Going to see how this pans out, but Arrow, Shield and Flash will be on my watch list first. The only thing that worries me is that introducing antother Kryptonian does just magnify the elephant in the room that is "him" and why "he" doesn't show up to help, considering the shitstorm he went to to take down another Kryptonian, a Kryptonian who was in fact in the same prison as the new bad guy and who it seems had exactly the same motives and goals. Timett posted:I was a little annoyed when she remembered the earlier lesson to "use the opponents strength against them" and then tossed her Aunt away and then started acting like the fight was over and won. Supergirl had been tossed like that by her opponent like 3 times earlier in the fight and was back in the fight in like 2 seconds each time. The way I read that scene is that she paused to see how her sister was not that she thought it was all over. Mr Beens fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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I think the one major problem I have left with this show's "conceits" is that Superman is just still completely removed from Kara's life. Okay, I will buy that they're not really that close and that they live separate lives. I will...reluctantly...accept that she doesn't even know he has a Fortress of Solitude with remnants of their own home planet stored away. But there's a real life Kryptonian supervillain on the loose planning to take over the planet. She's got command of the worst convicts across the galaxy. She's part of Kal-El's own family. These are all prreeeeeeetty good reasons for Superman himself to start getting involved. He already comes across like the biggest deadbeat douche for cutting himself off from Kara all this time; now he's just gonna leave her to deal with these sorts of things all on her own? (Although, hey, that does kind of seem like the sort of thing Zach Snyder's Superman might do)
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That's a problem with most any Superman thing. On JLU Superman was constantly away dealing with other problems when the episode focused on the B-Team. Otherwise he makes most any other hero obsolete instantly. It's annoying, but it's par for the course on any DC medium.
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At least they've replaced half of her "your cousins" with Clark and Superman. We really don't need the constant reminders though. The supporting cast still bothers me because it all feels wrong. Her sister just happens to work for the alien police? She just decides to tell the guy with the crush her secret? Her sister should be there for Kara Zor-El the little alien girl who grew up on Earth who sometimes gets in over her head. Jimmy should be there for for Kara Danvers the assistant who loves cat videos and asks What Would Superman Do? Little guy should be there for Supergirl as her mission handler at the space police who crushes on her hard. I mean why does Supergirl need help finding crimes? She's Supergirl.
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quote:Her sister just happens to work for the alien police? They say in the pilot they specifically hired her because they knew about Kara.
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Josh Lyman posted:Sodium hypochlorite is bleach you idiot! The part that got me was the chlorine-based life.
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BrianWilly posted:I think the one major problem I have left with this show's "conceits" is that Superman is just still completely removed from Kara's life. Okay, I will buy that they're not really that close and that they live separate lives. I will...reluctantly...accept that she doesn't even know he has a Fortress of Solitude with remnants of their own home planet stored away. It's because the show is called Supergirl and it's about Supergirl, it's pretty simple really
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BrianWilly posted:(Although, hey, that does kind of seem like the sort of thing Zach Snyder's Superman might do) In addition to this being a ridiculous take on the movie, how about we just loving not make this thread about Man of Steel.
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You guys realize this isn't in continuity with Man of Steel right? It is its own thing. Also Kara literally just found out her aunt was involved, this government organization doesn't have Superman on the payroll and aren't going to tell him anything, they probably can't even contact him. They probably don't know who he is either and Kara isn't going to tell anyone.
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greatn posted:You guys realize this isn't in continuity with Man of Steel right? It is its own thing. What about my comment would suggest to you that I'd be unaware of that?
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