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locker_monster- Well, Supergirl is done for the season. I was actually able to watch the last three episodes while on vacation. Since I was in Europe, I had access to European Netflix and all of the CW shows are available to watch on there.
I felt like season three was really uneven, especially towards the end. It was like the writers changed their minds about the Worldkillers. They had all three, but then they killed off two. Then they seemed to cure Sam, but suddenly Reign was a separate entity. And I totally did not understand how the Valley of Juru worked in terms of killing off Reign. The science sort of veered into the fantastical and that didn't really work. Yes, this is a superhero show and accurate science is not a thing that happens often, but you can keep things somewhat plausible instead of introducing some weird Kryptonian alternative reality and a fix-it-all black rock. I think they should have kept all three Worldkillers. Kara fighting all three of them would have been a suitable challenge instead of the whole terraforming Earth into New Krypton thing that happened.
There was also that big time travel cheat they had at the end. Ugh. I get that the abrupt death of three characters was needed so Kara could embrace her humanity again, but then, why even have it if the consequences only lasted for like 30 seconds. It was just too fast and sloppy as a resolution. Plus, time travel should never be the answer (unless you're Legends of Tomorrow, then that's just your wheelhouse). Sure, ending the season on three character deaths would have been super depressing, but you have to admit it would have cleared up lingering plot threads. No more Kara/Mon-El relationship angst, no temptation for Kara to head back to Argo City, and if Sam had died, Alex could have adopted Ruby. Now, Sam and Ruby will probably never show up again because they're not needed for the plot.
And they wrote out Winn! :-( He'll be a recurring character next year, rather than a series regular. I don't get it. Did the writers not know what to do with Winn? Well, maybe you should have given him more to do than just sitting at a computer. Swapping him around with Brainiac 5 won't change much. Brainy will still be the technical support and he'll still be stuck in front of a computer monitor. You can do some fish out of water stuff, since Brainy will have to spend more of his time in the 21st century, but they covered some of that territory when Mon-El first showed up. My only hope is that Kara and Co. will get to visit the 31st century next season because Mon-El and Winn need help. Just think; they could have more members of the Legion of Superheroes!
More hopes for next season: Actually seeing Kara doing Kara Danvers things, like, you know, working at CatCo. I swear, Kara stopped showing up for work. When Lena bought CatCo., I thought the show would actually spend time in the office and have more clashes between Lena and Kara because of the whole secret identity thing, but it never became a huge issue. All we really got were a few scenes of Kara mulling over the idea of telling Lena that she's Supergirl. I do hope this comes up again. Lena is the last character on the show who doesn't know about Kara's alter ego. It'd be interesting to see how she would react if she learned the truth. Would Lena be angry because Kara was lying all this time? It might push Lena into full on villain. It'd be better if Lena figured out that Kara is Supergirl on her own, though. The character comes out looking smarter that way.
I'm not sure where they're going with season four. It looks like the writers are going to adapt "Red Son", which re-imagined Superman's origins with him landing in the old Soviet Union rather than Kansas. Are we going to end up with an evil Supergirl for Kara to fight? We've seen a Nazi Supergirl from Earth-X, so is this one going to be a Communist Supergirl? Whatever they decide on, Kara will end up fighting someone who is powered like her, which seems par for the course. At least the show didn't reveal that yet another pod was launched before Krypton was destroyed.
Random: It was kind of funny seeing Erica Durance in a House of El outfit and flying around with superpowers, if only because she was on Smallville and that show filmed in Vancouver as well. Finally, she had the chance to be Superman, in a way. The reveal that Argo City survived the destruction of Krypton wasn't that out there. Argo originally survived in the comics, too, and they too had to deal with living on a hunk of Kryptonite (though their solution involved rolling out lead sheeting over the ground). Will Kara visit Argo from time to time? I hope she told Clark that some of their people survived the destruction of Krypton. The karaoke scene at the start of "Schott Through the Heart" was the best. We didn't get a lot of scenes of the team just hanging out as friends. I don't know where they're going with James, now that he's revealed himself as Guardian. I suppose this means even less time at CatCo. if James has to deal with the fallout. But this would be a good way to have Cat come back. She can show up and have words with James. So, J'onn's just going to wander the globe, helping people? It's like The Littlest Hobo! Actually, they did a similar storyline on Justice League Unlimited; J'onn disappeared for a time to live among humans. I'm sure he'll come back to the DEO, though. But what was the point in introducing J'onn's father only to kill him off later in the season? Can't J'onn be happy? I hope they resist the urge to give Kara and Alex new love interests, but it seems inevitable that they'll introduce new characters for them.
And now that all of the Arrowverse shows have finished, whose finale came out on top? Yeah, it's still Legends of Tomorrow. I suppose after that, it's Arrow and then a tie for last place between The Flash and Supergirl.
- Oh, and The Expanse finished its last season on SyFy. I hope Amazon gives the show a bit more money for the budget; they'll definitely need it when adapting the next book.
I was pleasantly surprised they crammed in all of Abaddon's Gate into the rest of the season three. The writers dropped some plot points and got rid of some characters in the process, but at least now the rest of the seasons will be a book per season. With the way it was before, the end of a book came in the middle of a season and you had weird tonal shifts. And truthfully, there wasn't much to Abaddon's Gate. It's all ship bound so there's not a lot of back and forth in regards to setting. I think it's the one book you could cut down. The rest here on out are pretty dense and need all of their plots intact.
I also have to admire how they managed to find a way to work Bobbie into the plot. Her character doesn't figure heavily in the books again until later in the series, but she's a fan favourite, so it would have been a real shame if the show had dropped her completely. Making her part of the Martian team that apprehends Holden on the station was smart thinking. The end of the episode seems to imply that Bobbie has joined the Roci crew, but maybe she's just hitching a ride with them on the way back to the Sol system. Not that I would be against Bobbie joining the crew now, but Cibola Burn is set on an isolated planet with a certain amount of characters. To throw Bobbie in would mess up some of the story points. It's also a good thing they didn't kill off Drummer, as she's a POV character in book seven. I assume the authors let the writers know who they can and can't kill ahead of time.
I wonder how season four will play out. The actor for one of the POV characters in the book is busy with another TV show, so I don't know how the writers will handle that. I guess it would be simple enough to replace that character with a different character. Cibola Burn is also set on a planet, with only some of the action taking place on spaceships. So far, The Expanse has been set on spaceships and stations; it'll be weird to see the characters in outdoor locations. There's some crazy stuff later on in the book, too; I guess that's where most of the budget will go.
Oh, and I have to praise the science on this show. While it's hard to do accurate zero G scenes on a TV budget, they did do one thing spot on: you can't cry normally when there's no gravity. They had a character crying in one scene when the thrust gravity was off and instead of the tears running down her face, the water remained pooled around her eyes. The attention to detail on this show is amazing sometimes.
- That seems to be it in regards to my TV shows. Luke Cage is back, but that's on Netflix, and thus, outside of the usual TV season. I guess now I have time to do more knitting...
I felt like season three was really uneven, especially towards the end. It was like the writers changed their minds about the Worldkillers. They had all three, but then they killed off two. Then they seemed to cure Sam, but suddenly Reign was a separate entity. And I totally did not understand how the Valley of Juru worked in terms of killing off Reign. The science sort of veered into the fantastical and that didn't really work. Yes, this is a superhero show and accurate science is not a thing that happens often, but you can keep things somewhat plausible instead of introducing some weird Kryptonian alternative reality and a fix-it-all black rock. I think they should have kept all three Worldkillers. Kara fighting all three of them would have been a suitable challenge instead of the whole terraforming Earth into New Krypton thing that happened.
There was also that big time travel cheat they had at the end. Ugh. I get that the abrupt death of three characters was needed so Kara could embrace her humanity again, but then, why even have it if the consequences only lasted for like 30 seconds. It was just too fast and sloppy as a resolution. Plus, time travel should never be the answer (unless you're Legends of Tomorrow, then that's just your wheelhouse). Sure, ending the season on three character deaths would have been super depressing, but you have to admit it would have cleared up lingering plot threads. No more Kara/Mon-El relationship angst, no temptation for Kara to head back to Argo City, and if Sam had died, Alex could have adopted Ruby. Now, Sam and Ruby will probably never show up again because they're not needed for the plot.
And they wrote out Winn! :-( He'll be a recurring character next year, rather than a series regular. I don't get it. Did the writers not know what to do with Winn? Well, maybe you should have given him more to do than just sitting at a computer. Swapping him around with Brainiac 5 won't change much. Brainy will still be the technical support and he'll still be stuck in front of a computer monitor. You can do some fish out of water stuff, since Brainy will have to spend more of his time in the 21st century, but they covered some of that territory when Mon-El first showed up. My only hope is that Kara and Co. will get to visit the 31st century next season because Mon-El and Winn need help. Just think; they could have more members of the Legion of Superheroes!
More hopes for next season: Actually seeing Kara doing Kara Danvers things, like, you know, working at CatCo. I swear, Kara stopped showing up for work. When Lena bought CatCo., I thought the show would actually spend time in the office and have more clashes between Lena and Kara because of the whole secret identity thing, but it never became a huge issue. All we really got were a few scenes of Kara mulling over the idea of telling Lena that she's Supergirl. I do hope this comes up again. Lena is the last character on the show who doesn't know about Kara's alter ego. It'd be interesting to see how she would react if she learned the truth. Would Lena be angry because Kara was lying all this time? It might push Lena into full on villain. It'd be better if Lena figured out that Kara is Supergirl on her own, though. The character comes out looking smarter that way.
I'm not sure where they're going with season four. It looks like the writers are going to adapt "Red Son", which re-imagined Superman's origins with him landing in the old Soviet Union rather than Kansas. Are we going to end up with an evil Supergirl for Kara to fight? We've seen a Nazi Supergirl from Earth-X, so is this one going to be a Communist Supergirl? Whatever they decide on, Kara will end up fighting someone who is powered like her, which seems par for the course. At least the show didn't reveal that yet another pod was launched before Krypton was destroyed.
Random: It was kind of funny seeing Erica Durance in a House of El outfit and flying around with superpowers, if only because she was on Smallville and that show filmed in Vancouver as well. Finally, she had the chance to be Superman, in a way. The reveal that Argo City survived the destruction of Krypton wasn't that out there. Argo originally survived in the comics, too, and they too had to deal with living on a hunk of Kryptonite (though their solution involved rolling out lead sheeting over the ground). Will Kara visit Argo from time to time? I hope she told Clark that some of their people survived the destruction of Krypton. The karaoke scene at the start of "Schott Through the Heart" was the best. We didn't get a lot of scenes of the team just hanging out as friends. I don't know where they're going with James, now that he's revealed himself as Guardian. I suppose this means even less time at CatCo. if James has to deal with the fallout. But this would be a good way to have Cat come back. She can show up and have words with James. So, J'onn's just going to wander the globe, helping people? It's like The Littlest Hobo! Actually, they did a similar storyline on Justice League Unlimited; J'onn disappeared for a time to live among humans. I'm sure he'll come back to the DEO, though. But what was the point in introducing J'onn's father only to kill him off later in the season? Can't J'onn be happy? I hope they resist the urge to give Kara and Alex new love interests, but it seems inevitable that they'll introduce new characters for them.
And now that all of the Arrowverse shows have finished, whose finale came out on top? Yeah, it's still Legends of Tomorrow. I suppose after that, it's Arrow and then a tie for last place between The Flash and Supergirl.
- Oh, and The Expanse finished its last season on SyFy. I hope Amazon gives the show a bit more money for the budget; they'll definitely need it when adapting the next book.
I was pleasantly surprised they crammed in all of Abaddon's Gate into the rest of the season three. The writers dropped some plot points and got rid of some characters in the process, but at least now the rest of the seasons will be a book per season. With the way it was before, the end of a book came in the middle of a season and you had weird tonal shifts. And truthfully, there wasn't much to Abaddon's Gate. It's all ship bound so there's not a lot of back and forth in regards to setting. I think it's the one book you could cut down. The rest here on out are pretty dense and need all of their plots intact.
I also have to admire how they managed to find a way to work Bobbie into the plot. Her character doesn't figure heavily in the books again until later in the series, but she's a fan favourite, so it would have been a real shame if the show had dropped her completely. Making her part of the Martian team that apprehends Holden on the station was smart thinking. The end of the episode seems to imply that Bobbie has joined the Roci crew, but maybe she's just hitching a ride with them on the way back to the Sol system. Not that I would be against Bobbie joining the crew now, but Cibola Burn is set on an isolated planet with a certain amount of characters. To throw Bobbie in would mess up some of the story points. It's also a good thing they didn't kill off Drummer, as she's a POV character in book seven. I assume the authors let the writers know who they can and can't kill ahead of time.
I wonder how season four will play out. The actor for one of the POV characters in the book is busy with another TV show, so I don't know how the writers will handle that. I guess it would be simple enough to replace that character with a different character. Cibola Burn is also set on a planet, with only some of the action taking place on spaceships. So far, The Expanse has been set on spaceships and stations; it'll be weird to see the characters in outdoor locations. There's some crazy stuff later on in the book, too; I guess that's where most of the budget will go.
Oh, and I have to praise the science on this show. While it's hard to do accurate zero G scenes on a TV budget, they did do one thing spot on: you can't cry normally when there's no gravity. They had a character crying in one scene when the thrust gravity was off and instead of the tears running down her face, the water remained pooled around her eyes. The attention to detail on this show is amazing sometimes.
- That seems to be it in regards to my TV shows. Luke Cage is back, but that's on Netflix, and thus, outside of the usual TV season. I guess now I have time to do more knitting...
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