Season 1 x 06 Spoilers and Discussions Red Faced

Random321 wrote: Haha. I’ve been enjoying the pictures five_red. I hope you can take the printing of your images as a compliment (certainly the re-tweet) and not a slight that you’re not getting royalties.

Thoughts on this week’s episode:

They did five_red’s favorite – intro the episode with an action item again.  <cough>

I 100% agree about the freak of the week and personal drama item of the week writing we’ve been seeing. My hope is that the back seven will give us a bit more cross episode writing and as Lfan keeps saying this was all needed to get the show going and to provide satisfying resolutions each week. Certainly the bad buy arch with longer term development is there (Winn daddy issues, hank, Lucy, Alex and her Dad, Lord). The Cat and Kara relationship building has also crossed episodes – I’ll be interested to see if they turn the two against each other and come to a resolve as well.

The flying scenes finally look good! I kept my past criticism to myself: a little too much shaky cam and forced perspective in the early episodes.

I agree with some comments about the military General Trope. A little tired – but this is a comic show and everyone (except those of us who know) like a good US Military bad guy. I’ve done it too in PSW.

It’s the little things: “Classified” on the RT box. “Battle with a Roomba.” Cat drunk and using sunglasses the next day with her mom when hungover and needing Advil. Car punching bag? It makes me smile.

I liked the Alex Kara Simultaneous Fight. Fun editing. RT tuned out better than I expected. Maybe there is more to him in the comics than one dimensional – I’m not sure – it did leave me wanting to know more about him/it. The super breath fans should have liked the arm freeze effect.

FX Beef: When she reversed the tornado – I didn’t get the feel she was flying all that fast. No biggie.

The dramatic music on the heat vision blast was a nice effort as well. I hope the sound people didn’t feel rejected again. Glad it was a big drain and intense heat vision and not “solar burst” style. Smart SG would run for a solar recharge and to her friends the moment she got cut – but – we’ll see. We’ll see if they make this an “all in your head” play – which will also no doubt drive five_red nuts. 

What put me off: Supergirl just killed a sentient being? Alex shot and killed the doctor? Now in both cases there was no body – so maybe no kill. We’ll see. The cursing in the road rage stuff also caught me off guard. I know Shadar has hoped for this to be on HBO or whatever for a more adult theme. I’m not looking for that in this case personally.

The feminist/political angle that has been putting some people off isn’t bothering me at the moment. We’ll see where it all goes. No, blacks and women can’t be angry in the office. It’s true and it’s worth talking about. What’s missing is neither can white men in an office environment (I should know). The idea among some that it’s an exclusive or double standard thing I don’t buy. As long as it’s about Kara, Cat, James – and their personal feelings – fine. If they ever try to say Winn is a white privilege male – that’s when I throw my flag.
Interesting setup for Lucy Lane to get pissed and want to hate SG and run back to her dad.

It’s disappointing to me that Winn is terrible at game night and there isn’t better Winn/Kara chemistry. Oh well. #Team Winn FTW.

I went in with low expectations expecting a bust episode with a lame RT. I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe not the best episode to date but I enjoyed it.

Jeremiah Danvers LIVES!

YAGS wrote: We'll never know, because it lasted all of 3 seconds before Kara decimated him, eliminating room for a sequel to the episode. I was half expecting Morrow's consciousness to end up in the robot body, given that he was mentally linked to RT when he died.

Given that Red Tornado is usually a good guy in the comics, and used to be in the Justice League, I was really hoping they'd treat him as more than just a villain of the week. It would have been cool for the robot to get its own personality and realize it didn't want to fight Supergirl any more. They could have kept it around and have it make guest appearances later.

Another dumb point that nobody's mentioned yet: How did Maxwell Lord know from looking at RT's arm that it was a drone controlled from the outside, not containing its own internal processor? That makes no sense.

shadar wrote: I found the "absolute zero freeze breath" thing to be idiotic, even for a superhuman show.. Cooling something I get, but absolute zero? Just by exhaling ordinary air? Do the writers understand what absolute zero means?

Strength, flight, invulnerability, x-ray vision, super-hearing, heat vision... all OK in the context of the show given there are alien tweaks and DNA behind all that. But blowing air is just physics of the ordinary kind. And where does all that air come from? Her liver?

Even comic book shows have to have some limits. Or we should just call it magic (e.g. anything you can imagine) and be done with it. Insulting.