Just want to you all know that I've seen all your messages and tweets and comments
and all that that stuff since I did, you know, The Flash and Arrow a little while ago.
So, rounding out my little CW-DC-Arrowverse miniseries thing,
I thought I would take a look at the third big superhero drama on the CW
(also one of the most recent, whatever that's worth)
Which is, of course, Supergirl.
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Okay, back to the show!
The show starts out like really any superhero show:
with our main character's backstory.
She is Superman's cousin who is also supposed to be sent to Earth
to watch over HIM,
but her spaceship gets thrown into the PhantomZone
and she gets stuck in time for 24 years,
but eventually, makes it to Earth.
My cousin wanted me to have the same safe, human-type childhood he did.
So, he placed me with my adoptive family:
The Danvers.
"I know I'm not your mom, sweetheart, (Wow, really?)
but you're safe here."
They have a daughter, Alex,
and despite being born on different planets,
we both shared one thing.
We both had a really unhealthy amount of One Direction merchandise,
but of course, none of it means anything anymore
because they all broke up so thanks for nothing, guys!
Now, one thing I thought was kinda interesting here,
compared to like, pretty much any other superhero show
or movie or like whatever,
is that she doesn't lose her memory or suddenly get struck by lightning or whatever.
Right from the get-go, she knows exactly who she is,
what her powers are... All that stuff!
It's kinda refreshing yknow, at least to me.
ANYWAY. Since the world already has Superman
and, yknow, he doesn't really need anyone to look after him,
she decided that she would rather live a normal life.
"I need two tickets in the Orchestra section for Wicked?
No, not for Ms. Grant.
Her mother wants to see it.
Yes, again!
Sure, I'll hold."
"Charlie? I'm, uh, I'm calling about the correspondence dinner
I NEED to make sure Ms. Grant doesn't end up next to Bill O'Reily again."
I work at CatCo World Wide Media:
an online and print empire built by my boss, Cat Grant.
Woah, woah, woah, wait a second.
Online AND print?!
Okay, forget the whole alien planet phantomzone thing
THIS is the most fantastical, unbelievable part of the entire show.
Who works in PRINT anymore?!
What are you printing, menus for Cracker Barrel? (well, someone's gotta...)
So, on that particular day at work there's a new photographer in the office
who just so happens to be friends with Clark Kent.
"Oooh my god, you're Jimmy Olsen!
The photographer from the Daily Planet!"
"James Olsen.
Jimmy's reserved for my mom and the big guy.
He's kinda stuck in his ways."
"Um, I-I know what I've read but...
What's he like in real life?"
UGH--Don't even get me started!
First of all, his hands are ALWAYS WET!
Dude sweats like a Sumo wrestler playing Dance Dance Revolution.
And he always has gummy worms in his pocket,
but he only eats the red ones!
Dude's a TOTAL WEIRDO!
That night, Kara--that's the main character's name by the way--
has a date with total douche
and, in the middle, realizes that her sister's plane is about to crash.
So, you know, sounds like a win-win to me.
Now being Supergirl and all that,
she finally takes off the BURDEN of being a normal person
and lets her true colors FLY (literally!)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WOOSH)
(vague unemotional screaming)
That night, she goes home to her totally affordable apartment
and watches herself on the news.
And while she's a little bit excited,
her sister feels a different way.
"I'm not sure what comes next,
or--maybe I am sure and I'm just afraid of what it means,
and if it means what I think it means-"
"What were you thinking?" (It's not like she totally saved your life or anything)
"You exposed yourself."
Hey, woah, okay this is hardly the time for shaming, alright, okay?
Besides, we have way more important issues to deal with,
like, I just flew through the air at supersonic speed
and my hair isn't even dry yet.
Like, how does that even WORK?!
WHAT'S THE GOVERNMENT PUTTING IN OUR WATER?!
The next day, she'll still all over the news
and, gosh darn it, just can't keep it to herself anymore.
So, she takes little Friendzone Freddy over here up to the roof
and tells him the secret she's been keeping deep inside for far too long
"Can I trust you?" "Yeah, yeah of course."
"Good. Um... I--ah--just
really want someone to be excited for me.
I... uhm...
(Spit it out woman, we're on company time!)
Uh, there's something about me...
...that for most of my life...
I've run from it...
But last night...
I embraced who I am,
and I don't want to stop."
I...I-I think Beyonce's music is maybe a little overrated...?
What did you say?
BEEHIVE...
Attack.
(screams of anguish)
Now we flash sideways to this scruffy lookin' dude,
who we find out is responsible for trying to crash Kara's sister's plane.
"What happened with the plane, Bottoks?" (Botox? Bottocks? I don't know this dude's name)
"You were ordered to bring it down."
"Our trap worked.
The DEO agents were on board and the bomb detonated."
"Then why aren't they dead?"
"The female..."
Yknow the way he says "the female,"
I dunno, it just cracks me up.
The Female! With her hairpins and her bras and her COOTIES!
Anyway, now that her friend knows that she's 'Supergirl,'
Kara and whateverhisnameis decide to work together
to help her do more superhero stuff!
Like fighting crime or like whatever.
(FUNKY FRESH TUNES)
"So!
Uh, to be a superhero you need a crime.
I hacked into the NCPD. (definitely not a crime)
There's a car chase on the 112 freeway."
While trying to stop one of these aforementioned crimes,
Kara gets captured by a government agency
that specializes in keeping track of aliens.
Which you'd think wouldn't give them a whole lot to do,
but they seem to have the most incredible budget.
"You're the reason for all of this."
"Me? But...
But my cousin was here two dozen years before me..."
"And it was his arrival that triggered the need for this organization.
We realized we weren't alone in the universe
and we might soon be getting more...
'Immigrants.'
Sure enough, you came along."
Oh, and also, by the way, Kara's sister Alex
works for this department, just a little plot point there.
No big deal.
We find out that when Kara came to Earth,
she brought a WHOLE prison full of supervillains along with her.
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
"We're not sure how your pod got loose.
What we do know is this:
You pulled Fort Ross with you
And you brought them here.
These beings... Some of them have powers from your darkest nightmares."
They can make my teeth fall out, spiders crawl out of my mouth,
AND give me the final exam for a class I suddenly realized I never actually went to?
That's an awfully specific superpower.
After some back-n-forth with the dude in charge being all like
"No you're too young to fight the bad guys"
Then Kara's like
"Uh I have super strength and I can fly"
And then the head guy is like
"Oh yeah, my bad"
She goes off to meet the guy who said "THE FEMALE earlier in the show"
This guy has a battle axe that can just magically, conveniently, hurt Kara
Because, yknow, TENSION
"Now you know what it's like to bleed."
Yknow, there's a joke just sittin' right there that I'm not gonna touch
But you all can feel free to talk amongst yourselves on that one
Anyway, Kara's sister somehow understands everything
about this unique, never-before-seen, one-of-a-kind alien battle axe
and Kara wins!
That night, Kara brings Alex a lost message
From her mother that was sent with her from her spaceship dealymabob
Mooom.
Kara.
My brave daughter
By now, you have become the woman I knew you would grow up to be
You knew I was going to be delivering coffee and sandwichs for a living?
Well GEE! Thanks for the confidence, mom!
Glad you had some big dreams for me!
It's revealed that the leader of the group of Bad Doods(tm)
Is none other than Supergirl's aunt
Find her and kill her
Are you certain, General?
After all...
Kara Zor-L is your blood
No one can be allowed to stand against us
(Why didn't you just recruit her to join your side then?)
Not even my niece
Yknow, I harp on a lot of shows
Yknow I poke fun here and there, tell some jokes and we all have a giggle
But of the three superhero shows I've done so far
You got The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl
I actually enjoyed this one the most
I mean, Arrow is just all over the place
The Flash is... fine I guess
And while this show can be a little heavy handed
with its.. MESSAGE
I thought it was by far the most enjoyable of the three
Now, don't get me wrong, it's goofy and cheesy and all that
But I mean... Eh. I had fun
I guess.
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So rounding out the third of these kinda DC, CW shows or whatever
Of the three that I've done
I did enjoy Supergirl the most
Just because like The Flash and Supergirl are both really like lighthearted
Arrows was just... I mean, I don't even want to get into it
But, man, that show is just something else
But Flash and Supergirl kinda have a similar type of thing
But I did enjoy Supergirl a little bit more
Because she was kinda just the most believable character, I guess
Of them all
Yknow, like, with the Flash it's like
He's like this super genius guy
Then he also gets struck by lightning
(I'm tired of captioning)