Just watched the series premiere of Supergirl.
Thoughts?
Probably
SPOILERS in here, but it's only the pilot so it's not much.
1. It is weird how they go out of their way to avoid saying
his name. It's like
he's Voldemort or something. Is it for dramatic effect, or just a strange and complicated copyright thing?
2. The episode feels overstuffed, like they tried to fit a season-length (or at least movie-length) arc in this one episode. Kara goes from wanting to be normal to wanting to be a hero in like 5 minutes. Alex Danvers goes from "you should never have revealed yourself" to "you are the hero we need" in like 5 minutes.
3. The way Danvers and the DEO initially treat Kara is nonsensical. Danvers has known Kara all her life and surely knows that she's a good person. Presumably the team would trust Danvers' assessment there. Even if they didn't, they've been keeping tabs on her since she landed on earth, right? So they should know that she means well. Yeah, they might consider her a well-meaning danger, but they could have at least brought her in and talked to her peacefully instead of
shooting her with kryptonite darts.
4. So many random people already know her secret identity, what? Could have used a couple more episodes of character development there, I think. The way her tech friend Winslow acted around her didn't make me think they were close friends, but then he's the first person she tells. And then James Olsen knew her identity all along because
he told him? I was hoping that he would be like, "man, I just looked at that photo from the bank and it's kind of obvious. I don't understand how I'm the only one that sees it. The same thing happens with
him." At least poke some fun at it.
5. All these villains are rising up against Supergirl, but are they just ignoring the bigger blue elephant in the room? For any threat to be real, they're gonna have to bring in the big guy eventually, right?
6. Random extra thought. If she's bulletproof, shouldn't she also be dart-proof? Also, when those bullets were bouncing off of her, why weren't they tearing apart her uniform? That is, the same uniform that was easily pierced by darts later on.