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The biggest problem with the Phantom Zone stuff is that it feels very cheap. All the sets feel extremely claustrophobic.
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muscles like this! posted:The biggest problem with the Phantom Zone stuff is that it feels very cheap. All the sets feel extremely claustrophobic. I seem to recall the Phantom Zone on Smallville having a similar problem. It was like, what, a really poorly white balanced overly foggy junkyard. Or am I misremembering a show I barely actually watched?
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muscles like this! posted:The biggest problem with the Phantom Zone stuff is that it feels very cheap. All the sets feel extremely claustrophobic. There's two phantom zone sets: cave and greenscreen'd wasteland. and neither are all that great for getting a sense of space and volume with what budget the show has. The tokusatsu shows airing right now are running into the same issue with their greenscreen'd things.
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Oh God Lena is now the team tech geek I love it
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Apr 21, 2021 02:05
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Curse your sudden, but inevitable betrayal Nyxi 
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Stoked for next week's episode.
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Apr 21, 2021 03:01
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The Phantom Zone seems to be extremely poorly thought out - both by the writers and by its in-story designers.
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I have no idea if this phantom zone is a canonically correct depiction; but as someone with no comic book knowledge if this is how Kryptonians punished their prisoners then they were a pretty hosed up society. Also this plotline has gone on way too long. This is the final season of the show and we've already wasted a quarter of it.
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Apr 21, 2021 12:09
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One fairly consistent theme in all Superman, Supergirl and Power Girl stories is they all have heavily-embellished memories or understanding of Krypton, and actually it and their society was super hosed. Kara being pissed in earlier series about how trashy Daxam is was very pot-kettle once you realise the Phantom Zone is essentially the hell dimension from Event Horizon and Kryptonians would send anyone there for the slightest misdemeanour. The look of it in this is rather more 60s Star Trek, but the implications and intent are definitely in-keeping with comics. Kryptonians were a bunch of complete pricks.
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howe_sam posted:Stoked for next week's episode. That looks like it will be a lot of fun.
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The Lord Bude posted:I have no idea if this phantom zone is a canonically correct depiction; but as someone with no comic book knowledge if this is how Kryptonians punished their prisoners then they were a pretty hosed up society. iirc, the Phantom Zone traditionally kinda turns people into ghosts so there wouldn't be all this leg breaking and people dying. It would still be turbo-hosed though. And yeah, like Pressedbunny said, there's usually a strong undercurrent in stories about Krypton of Krypton being kind of a lovely place. I mean, no matter the medium, the one common denominator of all Superman stories is that Krypton died because they ignored all the warning signs their planet was gonna loving explode. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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I lived the part where Brainy was freaking out about Lena's invention being like Ghostbusters.
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Seeing the recording made it funny how Supergirl being in the Phantom Zone means she has a different hairstyle for some reason.
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The Lord Bude posted:I have no idea if this phantom zone is a canonically correct depiction; but as someone with no comic book knowledge if this is how Kryptonians punished their prisoners then they were a pretty hosed up society. It's more hosed up in the comics! It's an invisible dimension parallel to ours where anyone sent is rendered ageless and insubstantial, condemned to forever observe the real world while never being able to interact with it. It's basically Science Tartarus.
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Anyone seen Mortal Kombat yet? Mechad Brooks in it and he's uh... ...he's HUGE.
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Rhyno posted:Anyone seen Mortal Kombat yet? Mechad Brooks in it and he's uh... I knew he sounded familiar!
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His arms so just fuckin enormous. I'm pretty thrilled to see Brooks getting solid work after Supergirl, I always thought he was underused.
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Rhyno posted:His arms so just fuckin enormous. Too bad the movie suuuuuuuuuuucks.
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twistedmentat posted:Too bad the movie suuuuuuuuuuucks. It's an enormous trash fire.
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Rhyno posted:It's an enormous trash fire. Its better than Annihilation.
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twistedmentat posted:Its better than Annihilation. Barely.
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Rhyno posted:Barely. I watch Supergirl every week, I can't call that movie a trash fire. The action scenes were fun.
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Spacebump posted:I watch Supergirl every week, I can't call that movie a trash fire. The action scenes were fun. Oh it's so much better than the average CW show.
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twistedmentat posted:Its better than Annihilation. It's nowhere near as entertaining as Annihilation.
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Do we know when production shut down on the show? A lot of this season (post-Phantom Zone) feels like it was written with the assumption that that's where the season would end. Like, Alex and Lena are acting like Kara's been gone for months not weeks.
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TwoPair posted:Do we know when production shut down on the show? A lot of this season (post-Phantom Zone) feels like it was written with the assumption that that's where the season would end. Like, Alex and Lena are acting like Kara's been gone for months not weeks. I assume that the season premiere was originally going to be the finale, only spread out over a few episodes. Basically the season ends with Kara trapped in the phantom zone and Leviathan is defeated. I think they shut down production while still shooting ep 19 or so out of 22, but still had enough footage to cobble together a finale. I just assume it's sloppy writing, not that they had any phantom zone scripts written already and are using those for season 6.
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To the best of my knowledge everything this season was filmed post shutdown. However, the premiere was supposed to be last season's finale. I also think they started filming when Benoist was still on maternity leave.
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Brainy, Back to the Future is a bunch of bullshit.
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This is too cute
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This lady is doing a great Cat Grant impression, but let's be honest, in 2009 Calista Flockhart looked like Calista Flockhart.
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Apr 28, 2021 02:42
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Ah this makes sense. They were so drat lucky to find these kids.
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howe_sam posted:This lady is doing a great Cat Grant impression, but let's be honest, in 2009 Calista Flockhart looked like Calista Flockhart. That was before the CRISIS 
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I was so relieved when Brainy said only he and Nia could go back. The past few episodes have felt so crowded and busy, but this episode allowed for some much needed downtime and character development for the two of them. It feels like this episode is setting up Nia to try reaching out to her sister again (back in the present). I don't know how to feel about that.
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McSpanky posted:That was before the CRISIS Speaking of, Crisis also recast Kenny.
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jassa posted:I was so relieved when Brainy said only he and Nia could go back. The past few episodes have felt so crowded and busy, but this episode allowed for some much needed downtime and character development for the two of them.
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Well this was a lot of fun. Pleasantly surprised it's going to be a 2 parter too. Even though it would probably won't happen, I would laugh if Kenny died again. Poor guy just can't catch a break in any timeline.
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Something happened to Kenny because he isn't a part of Kara's life anymore, or maybe he will be?
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I guess it is a question of whether or not in the normal course of events Kenny and Kara would have just broken up. howe_sam posted:This lady is doing a great Cat Grant impression, but let's be honest, in 2009 Calista Flockhart looked like Calista Flockhart. Yeah, that is a little goofy.
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