A series that stays true to Superman's origins. After all, for those of us old enough to remember, we first saw George Reeves' Superman playing gun-control man Wyatt Earp, disarming mobs of bigots along with his feminist girlfriend Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) and a clearly gay Jimmy Olsen (the late Jack Larson).
That's because Superman was essentially a fatherly-like moderate Rockefeller Republican. Now, in a post-Strom Thurmond/Dixiecrat perverted extremist GOP, they're called RINOS by Trump and his ilk (AKA phony conservatives).
Unfortunately, there's plenty of these either/or Trumpettes who approach various entertainment genres with the same kind of "protective" zeal that dyed-in-the-will fundamentalists "guard" the bible they worship , er, I mean, God (but then, their God is merely a book, but that's another topic).
Among the most recent favorite targets of Trumpette geeks are Star Wars, Black Panther, and... Supergirl.
All three shows commit the same "sin" in that they depict non-WASP heterosexual males and/or depict heroes who actually earn their status (i.e. Rey) as opposed to being "fathered" in (kinda like Trump) and when these shows do "dare" to depict people of color, women, gays in their narratives then the Trumpettes will sophomorically label the show "political." In other words, the Trumpette geeks protect their visions of deities who wear underwear outside of their pants, childishly confuse ethics with patristic morality, and will zoom in for the kill like white-robed fellas armed with burning crosses.
At the center of Supergirl is a ... gasp... girl who has the same peers as SuperMAN. Worse, she has a gay sister, and ...(drum roll roll please) an African-American Jimmy Olsen (that's a heart attack waiting to happen).
Shoo these cavemen Trumpette geeks back into their caves and enjoy Supergirl for what it is -a breath of fresh air.
The cast is uniformly superb, most especially Ms. Benoist who is as quintessential a Supergirl as Christopher Reeve was Superman. Her rapport with Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart AKA Ally McBeal) in Season 1 is gold. After all the somber gray Zack Snyder Batman we've been inundated with as of late, Supergirl is fun escapism-right up there with "The Adventures of Superman" and "Lois and Clark." Like those, Supergirl is destined to become a classic.
Tyler Hoechlin makes for an unconventional Superman in Season 2 (in much the same way that both George Reeves and Dean Cain (Kara's adoptive father here) are now considered somewhat unorthodox and that's all for the better)..
Former Super-heroines Lynda Carter and Helen Slater also make appearances. The cliff-hangers, white-hot pacing, and character development are enticing. Despite not having a consistently great villain until Season 3 (Morgan Edge as played by Adrian Pasdar), Supergirl, like Spiderman, is made the more interesting by struggling with her job, identity crisis, and relationship problems.
She's the perfect superhero for millennials who (generally and thankfully) aren't saddled with my generation's too many to count hangups.
That's because Superman was essentially a fatherly-like moderate Rockefeller Republican. Now, in a post-Strom Thurmond/Dixiecrat perverted extremist GOP, they're called RINOS by Trump and his ilk (AKA phony conservatives).
Unfortunately, there's plenty of these either/or Trumpettes who approach various entertainment genres with the same kind of "protective" zeal that dyed-in-the-will fundamentalists "guard" the bible they worship , er, I mean, God (but then, their God is merely a book, but that's another topic).
Among the most recent favorite targets of Trumpette geeks are Star Wars, Black Panther, and... Supergirl.
All three shows commit the same "sin" in that they depict non-WASP heterosexual males and/or depict heroes who actually earn their status (i.e. Rey) as opposed to being "fathered" in (kinda like Trump) and when these shows do "dare" to depict people of color, women, gays in their narratives then the Trumpettes will sophomorically label the show "political." In other words, the Trumpette geeks protect their visions of deities who wear underwear outside of their pants, childishly confuse ethics with patristic morality, and will zoom in for the kill like white-robed fellas armed with burning crosses.
At the center of Supergirl is a ... gasp... girl who has the same peers as SuperMAN. Worse, she has a gay sister, and ...(drum roll roll please) an African-American Jimmy Olsen (that's a heart attack waiting to happen).
Shoo these cavemen Trumpette geeks back into their caves and enjoy Supergirl for what it is -a breath of fresh air.
The cast is uniformly superb, most especially Ms. Benoist who is as quintessential a Supergirl as Christopher Reeve was Superman. Her rapport with Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart AKA Ally McBeal) in Season 1 is gold. After all the somber gray Zack Snyder Batman we've been inundated with as of late, Supergirl is fun escapism-right up there with "The Adventures of Superman" and "Lois and Clark." Like those, Supergirl is destined to become a classic.
Tyler Hoechlin makes for an unconventional Superman in Season 2 (in much the same way that both George Reeves and Dean Cain (Kara's adoptive father here) are now considered somewhat unorthodox and that's all for the better)..
Former Super-heroines Lynda Carter and Helen Slater also make appearances. The cliff-hangers, white-hot pacing, and character development are enticing. Despite not having a consistently great villain until Season 3 (Morgan Edge as played by Adrian Pasdar), Supergirl, like Spiderman, is made the more interesting by struggling with her job, identity crisis, and relationship problems.
She's the perfect superhero for millennials who (generally and thankfully) aren't saddled with my generation's too many to count hangups.