I didn’t expect to be reviewing each episode as it came out (and I make no promises that I will) but I guess it’s interesting, for me at least, to see how this show grows.
Stronger Together wasn’t bad on the whole – the cast all did what they needed to as well as they could – and the storyline of Kara beginning to get to grips with her powers and responsibilities after a couple of big missteps worked. I hope the whole “start small and build up” continues for a while rather than the show saying “Well, we showed her stopping a store robbery so we can tick that off the list” and jumping straight ahead into her preventing global meltdown or something. Relationships are building with Hank Henshaw appearing to slowly accept Supergirl, although the potential love triangle/jealousy thing between Kara, Jimmy (sorry, James) and the other guy she works with seems a little forced. I say “the other guy” because until I looked him up on imdb, I wasn’t even sure of his name as he’s had that little to do so far; discovering his name – Winn Schott – and recognising that as an alias for the Toyman in the comics makes me wonder if something more is going to be done with him.
Calista Flockhart’s Cat Grant delivers a speech about how she, as a woman, had to work a damn sight harder to get where she is today and I’ve no doubt some areas of the internet will grumble about that, proclaiming the show as pushing some liberal/feminist agenda. Get over yourselves – everything Cat said is true and if something like this goes even a tiny way to improving or encouraging equality for women, I’m all for it.
A couple of things did irk me – the flashback to young Kara on Krypton basically saying “Oh, mother, I want to grow up to be just like you” just came across as too sickly sweet: do any but the most annoying and precocious of children speak like that?
The fight between Kara and Alura featured them both flying/hovering within a warehouse – the show’s had a good use of special effects so far, but two actors/stunt doubles fighting on wires is always going to look just like that and, for a moment, made the show look a little cheaper.
Still, by and large this is enjoyable so far and is still finding its feet so I’m definitely sticking around for a while.
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Okay, maybe not the origin, but in the introduction to the Collected Edition, Marv Wolfman talks about a letter he received when he was writing Green Lantern in the early 80s. That letter prompted him to think about DC continuity and set him off on the path towards what would become Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Crisis on Earth-Prime 