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TheGardener

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I tried watching the show for the second time last night. Or is it the third time? I lasted no more than 5 minutes. What the heck is the point of a secret identity, if you are going to blab about to everyone? This girl obviously doesn't know how the workplace operates. Tell a secret to one person and 90% of the staff is going to know within a day. And the fight with super villains was horrible to watch. Is it only because of crappy CGI? Not sure.

Viewership has dropped like a rock since the premiere. But it is CBS, so for them it is a big hit. But it is definitely not for me.
 

Childs

Lifer
Jul 9, 2000
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Its not great but it isnt Heroes or Gotham bad. The main actress, Ally McBeal, and Martian Manhunter carry the show. And while the effects are cheesy, in a way they are going for broke so I give it a pass. Hopefully they'll do better as they refine things.
 

Elixer

Lifer
May 7, 2002
10,376
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The writers for this series are a joke.
Supergirl causes the sprinklers to go off, then she freezes the water to make a 'shell' around the people.... Then bombs go off, and you have shards of the ice going all over the place, and knock supergirl flat on her back, yet, nobody else had any damage?
 

Childs

Lifer
Jul 9, 2000
11,450
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The writers for this series are a joke.
Supergirl causes the sprinklers to go off, then she freezes the water to make a 'shell' around the people.... Then bombs go off, and you have shards of the ice going all over the place, and knock supergirl flat on her back, yet, nobody else had any damage?

Yeah that was strange. I'm was expecting her to use X-ray vision to find the bombs and use her heat vision to take them all out or Toymaster's control bad. Or use her super speed. Or freeze breath to freeze the bombs. They choose the most convoluted and unlikely solution to a simple problem. I would have even preferred the bombs going off and killing everyone, then she flies around the world to go back in time and get a do over.
 

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
36,413
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i agree, the writers are a joke, same powers as super man and she gets trapped in a giant block filled with quicksand??? really? that was just pathetic.
 

Elixer

Lifer
May 7, 2002
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Um, so, she kills the jailer?
Come on writers, what a lame tactic to free supergirl, that made 0 sense at all.
Seriously, the ship was in a cavern, about what, 40-50ft (if not more) down, and they used C4 to blow a entrance into the top of the ship (I'll let this one slid a bit, we can pretend they used shape charges), yet, as soon as that was blown, they immediately grapple down, and he has problems trying to get Alex, and then, to top it all off, she fires a gun into the "ceiling" thus causing the bullet to go, what, through the cavern 40-50 ft up, through the cabin floor, up into the cabin, and just happen to ricochet at just the right angle to get the sun light onto supergirl?

They didn't even say how he captured supergirl in the first place, all we see is he fired something at her, and that weapon didn't have any affect on supergirl the next time around, in her weakened condition...

IMO, The Jailer would have been a good ally, but they had to take the lame way out.


 

Linux23

Lifer
Apr 9, 2000
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Um, so, she kills the jailer?
Come on writers, what a lame tactic to free supergirl, that made 0 sense at all.
Seriously, the ship was in a cavern, about what, 40-50ft (if not more) down, and they used C4 to blow a entrance into the top of the ship (I'll let this one slid a bit, we can pretend they used shape charges), yet, as soon as that was blown, they immediately grapple down, and he has problems trying to get Alex, and then, to top it all off, she fires a gun into the "ceiling" thus causing the bullet to go, what, through the cavern 40-50 ft up, through the cabin floor, up into the cabin, and just happen to ricochet at just the right angle to get the sun light onto supergirl?

They didn't even say how he captured supergirl in the first place, all we see is he fired something at her, and that weapon didn't have any affect on supergirl the next time around, in her weakened condition...

IMO, The Jailer would have been a good ally, but they had to take the lame way out.



yeah, that whole episode had me scratching my head. especially with the bullet sunlight thing.
 

Elixer

Lifer
May 7, 2002
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And continuing on with the theme of being stupid...
Supergirl: "I got this far on my own..." Not only is this a lie, it couldn't be more wrong.
Indigo / Braniac 8, nice character, but again, plagued by being dumb.

Olsen: "You are faster than Superman!" ... sigh, and she couldn't catch the missile very well?
Olson: "1 million tons of condense dwarf star" ... Oh, and she picks it up like it was nothing, but in previous episodes, she could barely handle the jet?
Martian Manhunter: "What the hell is that?"
Danvers: "That's my sister!" ... yeah, a triangle.

Supergirl "pushes" the missile off course, instead of guiding it into space/water?
"I'll use my Heatvision!" "Don't that will make it explode!"
What, no freezing it?
And why the heck isn't Martian Manhunter out there getting the ICBM, and taking it out to space?

To top it all off, Winn writes "malware" to take out Braniac? You know how far fetched this would be? Braniac is what 1000x if not 100Kx more smarter, and the OS would be in a totally different language, yet, that is what takes Braniac down?
Remember, she transferred her arm through the screen to his throat, just your run of the mill C code working there...

This show is just so annoyingly dumb.
 

LPCTech

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Gotham is the best DC show. Flash is ok. The rest are ridiculous. I dont understand why they take comic shows and ruin them. Its like guys, the story is right there, just make it on film.

BUT NOO!! Derp derp lets ruin it, dumb it wayyyy down and wonder why its not doing well.

And I love that WHENEVER there is an AI that is the bad guy the solution is always...

We'll write a virus and boom its defeated. Like in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum writes a virus that is somehow compatible with an alien spaceship who's computers he has never seen.

And the alien ship or AI creature is like ooh whats this new primitive human code, Ill just run it as root for kicks cuz Im an advanced AI and that seems like a good idea.
 
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Linux23

Lifer
Apr 9, 2000
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And continuing on with the theme of being stupid...

Supergirl: "I got this far on my own..." Not only is this a lie, it couldn't be more wrong.

Indigo / Braniac 8, nice character, but again, plagued by being dumb.



Olsen: "You are faster than Superman!" ... sigh, and she couldn't catch the missile very well?

Olson: "1 million tons of condense dwarf star" ... Oh, and she picks it up like it was nothing, but in previous episodes, she could barely handle the jet?

Martian Manhunter: "What the hell is that?"

Danvers: "That's my sister!" ... yeah, a triangle.



Supergirl "pushes" the missile off course, instead of guiding it into space/water?

"I'll use my Heatvision!" "Don't that will make it explode!"

What, no freezing it?

And why the heck isn't Martian Manhunter out there getting the ICBM, and taking it out to space?



To top it all off, Winn writes "malware" to take out Braniac? You know how far fetched this would be? Braniac is what 1000x if not 100Kx more smarter, and the OS would be in a totally different language, yet, that is what takes Braniac down?

Remember, she transferred her arm through the screen to his throat, just your run of the mill C code working there...



This show is just so annoyingly dumb.


Yeah dude you nailed it. I never could understand the use of a virus that uses binary to take out an Alien computer system which apparently uses binary too.
 

Childs

Lifer
Jul 9, 2000
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Heh, this actress was Supergirl on Smallville.

Olson: "1 million tons of condense dwarf star" ... Oh, and she picks it up like it was nothing, but in previous episodes, she could barely handle the jet?


So he says its twice as heavy, but the concept is not crazy when compared to whats in the comics. And a jet might be hard to control because its moving and odd shaped. Granted the show is kinda dumb at times, but almost too dumb to nit pick if you are still going to watch it every week.
 
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And continuing on with the theme of being stupid...
Supergirl: "I got this far on my own..." Not only is this a lie, it couldn't be more wrong.
Indigo / Braniac 8, nice character, but again, plagued by being dumb.

Olsen: "You are faster than Superman!" ... sigh, and she couldn't catch the missile very well?
Olson: "1 million tons of condense dwarf star" ... Oh, and she picks it up like it was nothing, but in previous episodes, she could barely handle the jet?
Martian Manhunter: "What the hell is that?"
Danvers: "That's my sister!" ... yeah, a triangle.

Supergirl "pushes" the missile off course, instead of guiding it into space/water?
"I'll use my Heatvision!" "Don't that will make it explode!"
What, no freezing it?
And why the heck isn't Martian Manhunter out there getting the ICBM, and taking it out to space?

To top it all off, Winn writes "malware" to take out Braniac? You know how far fetched this would be? Braniac is what 1000x if not 100Kx more smarter, and the OS would be in a totally different language, yet, that is what takes Braniac down?
Remember, she transferred her arm through the screen to his throat, just your run of the mill C code working there...

This show is just so annoyingly dumb.
Erm, you do realize that this is a show about a girl, from another planet, with super-human strength, who travelled here for years in a tiny spaceship, and looks just like an every day earthling...and you want all the rest of the story to make perfect sense?

lololo
 

Elixer

Lifer
May 7, 2002
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Erm, you do realize that this is a show about a girl, from another planet, with super-human strength, who travelled here for years in a tiny spaceship, and looks just like an every day earthling...and you want all the rest of the story to make perfect sense?

lololo
You are missing the point, this is all fantasy, yes, however, it still should be in the realm of possibilities from where this universe is drawn from, not dumb it down so much that they basically make things up since they are too lazy to do some actual research on if it is even possible.
Heck, I bet the writers have never even picked up a Supergirl comic before.
 
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You are missing the point, this is all fantasy, yes, however, it still should be in the realm of possibilities from where this universe is drawn from, not dumb it down so much that they basically make things up since they are too lazy to do some actual research on if it is even possible.
Heck, I bet the writers have never even picked up a Supergirl comic before.
I'm not missing the point, you are.

This is not in the realm of possibility in the first place. Expecting logic where there is none in the first place is not realistic. Set realism aside and enjoy it for what it is; complete fantasy.
 

Newbian

Lifer
Aug 24, 2008
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So supergirl had a rant about not killing people yet she did that just last episode.

And why was it snowing inside of the fortress as if it's exposed to the sky that kinda defeats the purpose of the door / key.
 

A Casual Fitz

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May 16, 2005
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I'm not missing the point, you are.

This is not in the realm of possibility in the first place. Expecting logic where there is none in the first place is not realistic. Set realism aside and enjoy it for what it is; complete fantasy.

Ehh... even fantasy and sci-fi needs to follow its own rules. His point wasn't that it had to adhere to this real world, but have some sort of working universe without throwing random nonsensical new things episode to episode.
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
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I liked Smallvile to some extent, but this just looks beyond bad. The costumes are even more ridiculous.
 
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