JoelF847 RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16 |
phantom1592 |
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Well, he's been to War World also. And faced Zod.
He's also worked with Batman at least once.
Yep! This is one of my favorite parts of the show... it is not a Superman origin, he's had a TON of adventures we haven't heard about.
Thomas Seitz wrote:As for Kara being Superman, eh...it's not inconceivable. Just unlikely.In the comics, Supergirl was supposed to be stronger than Superman because she was older, originally.
Then he was stronger because he'd had 20-something years worth of yellow sunlight absorbtion, and she'd only had a few years.
Even in this episode, Mon-El 'might be able to stay longer because he's absorbed more yellow sunlight,' but then Rhea is arbitrarily as strong as Supergirl despite having only been on Earth for a week or so. So, whatever!
Same with the Man of Steel movie. Clark has thirty-something years to acclimate to Earth and his super-powers, and Zod takes less than 24 hours to get all caught up.
It seems like whenever some writer attempts to create some sort of narrative rules for this sort of thing, it gets contradicted, sometimes in the same storyline.
Honestly that is the EXACT reason that I hate the 'solar battery' concept. It too limiting for storytelling.
Under a Yellow sun = push planets around.
Under a Red Sun = normal man.
Trying to scientifically explain things just makes it dumber. Superman had 30+ years of yellow sun building up... Zod has nothing... How is this a fight? Supergirl will always be about 20 years behind him in power level. Then of course there are the new Flares and fighting Doomsday that drains him down.. where does that set the bar??
Sometimes Fantasy just needs to be Fantasy. Kryptonian on Earth = Superpowers.
Thomas Seitz |
In any case, I agree with Mark that it might be a VERSION of the Eradicator that's come to Krypton...but then again that would make it the THIRD Alien invader storyline we've had. So...I dunno.
But regardless of the writing, I do agree the storytelling for this episode was kind up/down in places.
But compared to Flash? Yeah I'll take it.
Set |
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Noone's gonna touch Comet though.
Touch Comet! You know you want to! (Or, he wants you to, anyway.)
GreenDragon1133 |
GreenDragon1133 wrote:Noone's gonna touch Comet though.Touch Comet! You know you want to! (Or, he wants you to, anyway.)
You are an evil person. I just want you to know that. ;)
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Thomas Seitz |
Mark,
Well it's not great but not being a regular doesn't mean she won't be around. I do agree though, she and Alex were the reason I could stomach the other romances.
Vid,
Yeah I get that. Mostly I guess I didn't mind it in the sense Cat Grant get her pumped. I still think Superman versus Supergirl isn't what should have sold people. But eh.
Vidmaster7 |
Mark,
Well it's not great but not being a regular doesn't mean she won't be around. I do agree though, she and Alex were the reason I could stomach the other romances.
Vid,
Yeah I get that. Mostly I guess I didn't mind it in the sense Cat Grant get her pumped. I still think Superman versus Supergirl isn't what should have sold people. But eh.
Plus I feel any fight that would make superman lose would require the destruction of a city, or close to it anyways. Even with both of them working not to bring down the town Impacts required to hurt them would be pretty destructive.
jemstone |
Not gonna lie...
That's not a storyline that needs to happen more than once. Barbara's the literal definition of "been there, done that, never going to succumb to it" when it comes to such traumas.
I stopped watching Smallville because of the Kryptonite-Induced-Villain-Of-The-Week symptom, and I'd hate to have to lose my love for Supergirl because of a similar wash of plot rehashing. :(
GreenDragon1133 |
Greenie and Hama,
I meant JLU. *swears to himself*
ANYWAYS! News that matters, it's been confirmed that our newest villain is...REIGN played by Odette Annabelle! So...yeah.
I guess alien invader it is!
Supes and Darkseid had a big brawl in the last ep of S:TAS as well, I thought that was what you were referring to.
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
MMCJawa |
Greenie and Hama,
I meant JLU. *swears to himself*
ANYWAYS! News that matters, it's been confirmed that our newest villain is...REIGN played by Odette Annabelle! So...yeah.
I guess alien invader it is!
I kind of assume though that this version of Reign will have grown up on Earth, so the dynamics will be a bit different. Probably no invading alien army to back her, for instance.
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
phantom1592 |
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Lobo would be great. His over the top D-bag chauvinism would make her absolutely nuts. You'd literally be cheering for her to kick his ass.
I felt we got some of that in the crossover with Heat Wave. "Hey Skirt... Call me." It was awesome :)
It's probably not popular opinion, but I miss Max Lord. He may have been a 'luthor clone'... but at least he wasn't an actual LUTHOR. Or Luthor's MOM... He felt a bit more like HERS than just a copy/paste from superman's rogue gallery.
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
phantom1592 |
Except they left out the fact that he has the single most insidious power of any Superman villian.
I have a feeling it was building up for a 'next season reveal'. He always seemed to have more going on then what he was showing.
Also, despite that one story where he was killed... I never really think of Max as a 'Superman Villain'. I think of him as more JLA or more accurately 'DCU' enemy. He didn't have ONE particular enemy. But either way, I hadn't read enough of him to really mind the tweaks they did to the character.
GreenDragon1133 |
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And I like to think of him as this guy who funded the "I can't believe its not the Justice League" Justice League, offered them advice, and genuinely cared about them.
Still, I miss him on the show. Given how he, DEO co-director Lane, and the Guardian's clone James Harper all disappeared and were never mentioned again, I blame Flashpoint. [censored] it Barry!
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
I'd think they'd give the window a nod by having her take a grenade to the chest or something. It'll be there for one scene, sort of a "there you go fanboys, happy now?"
Then she'll be in something else for the rest of the time.
As long as they never ever use the stupid "I never felt worthy of the S so I left it empty" nonsense explanation/copout.