Supergirl Season Five Episode Discussion and Review Volume 1

Review of the season premiere from Hypable. Warning while specific details aren’t shared I wouldn’t call it spoiler free. The author says it’s emotionally intense and that it’s one of their top 10 favorite episodes of the series. Only one day to go!

Good episode. Supergirl does the saving, not the other way around.

just stopping by to say hi, and drop off some goodies

sneak peek

As a minor aside: Suppose the villain is the Evil Stapler Lord, armed with a giant staple gun. The giant 6" staples are used to attack Kara to a wall,.namely they are large that they enter the wall on each side of her wrists, not breaking her skin, but nailing her in place.

Supergirl can perhaps lift a million tons. She can certainly pick up an automobile and toss it. The staples do not hold her in place. If she pulls even very gently, it is the wall sections where the staples went in that pull out of the wall If the wall section is battleship armor, it bends until it tears.

I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the animation quality on J'onn and his brother, whenever they are in Martian form. Not here, but online, in general. I hate to say it, but it's a reasonable complaint. 5 seasons in, I feel like it would be cheaper and less visually jarring to come up with some sort of prosthetic for the actors, or their stunt actors. I can't speak to the reasoning behind the decisions, but the animation quality does tend to pull me out of the moment. And a show like this should be able to pull off that type of prosthesis at a relatively minimum cost, I should think.

I'd think a modern show in 2019 should be able to pull off for one character what shows like Star Trek: TNG were able to do 30 years ago, at a reasonable cost that may be cheaper and higher quality than CGI.

- Another fine performance from Jesse Rath as Brainy and kudos for a line from the movie Speed. "Pop Quiz Hot Shot" , although I thought that was a Dennis Hopper line rather than a Keanu Reeves one.

Regardless, Kara knows about Lena's actions, now, and they aren't stretching that trope over the whole season, which is nice. As a result, the pacing, this year, has been so much better than last year. Not every episode is a winner, but things have been moving along nicely, these past few episodes.

To me the episode before #100 will set for me what I want in ep. 100. I dont want a throwaway episode for the sake of them suddenly going silly on us. I certainly would love to see Cat, Monel and Winn in the Ep....but I want it to continue the story. I dont want a one off, simply for the sake of celebrating #100. Show me BTS of them acting bonkers, I want a solid episode that furthers the story at that moment.

I'm pretty much the complete opposite, that was one part of The Flash's 100th episode I didn't enjoy was a continuation of the season long story-line.

The way I look at it there's 20 other episodes in which you can have the season long story running through them there should be at least 1 episode a season which can be standalone. To me Supergirl # 100 is the perfect episode to be a celebration of the character of Supergirl, a This is your life Kara Zor-El kinda thing.