Finally caught up on Supergirl
Feb. 9th, 2017 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyThough I've got a few questions that have not been satisfactorily answered:
1. Why would Medusa use a name from Earth's mythology, and how on earth did Cadmus find out about it in the first place?
2. Why is nobody willing to call Mon-El on his bullshit? I mean, obviously that self-sacrificing story about how he escaped Daxam is nonsense, and no matter what Kara thinks of his people and his planet, surely somebody has seen the discrepancy between his behavior and his backstory. Why doesn't anybody say "But, honestly, Mon-El, were you really such a coward as a guard?" or "Seriously, Mon-El, why were you so self-sacrificing back home, but now you want to be a bartender, and only because we chewed you out over the hired goon thing?" If his dramatic reveal has people going "But, Mon-El! How could you!? We had no idea you were lying!" without sarcasm, I'm going to throw things.
3. On a similar note, why is nobody willing to call Kara out on her bullshit? Her story for why the two peoples historically haven't gotten along is completely absurd. They were all "Oh, but J'onn, you have to forgive M'gann, she tried to do the right thing in the end!", and her species actually perpetuated a complete and total genocide against his! Did Daxam do the same to Krypton? No, actually, funny story, it was kinda the other way around. But there's Kara spreading her cute little racism against "frat boys". Presumably there was more going on. We know there was more going on - there was the slavery, after all. But Kara hasn't told everybody this, so it comes off as though she's just being pointlessly bigoted. And nobody cares! Nobody says "Wow, Kara, that was a pretty mean thing to say right after he woke up. Would you have liked it if we insulted your family mere minutes after you found out everybody you had ever known was dead?" or "Geez, Kara, lighten up already. Haven't you heard of judging people on their own merits?"
4. And finally, does Earth give Kryptonians and Daxamites invulnerability to PTSD as well? No matter how Mon-El ultimately escaped the planet, it's got to have been pretty traumatic, but here he is, picking up girls. (Then again, maybe we're supposed to think this is how he copes with trauma. I suppose there are worse ways.)
5. The White Martians are right, everybody in the DEO is an idiot. No security, apparently, and yes, you have to check everybody even if you think you found one already. Duh.
6. I don't care if it is comics canon, villains who are motivated solely by pure-minded hatred are super boring.
1. Why would Medusa use a name from Earth's mythology, and how on earth did Cadmus find out about it in the first place?
2. Why is nobody willing to call Mon-El on his bullshit? I mean, obviously that self-sacrificing story about how he escaped Daxam is nonsense, and no matter what Kara thinks of his people and his planet, surely somebody has seen the discrepancy between his behavior and his backstory. Why doesn't anybody say "But, honestly, Mon-El, were you really such a coward as a guard?" or "Seriously, Mon-El, why were you so self-sacrificing back home, but now you want to be a bartender, and only because we chewed you out over the hired goon thing?" If his dramatic reveal has people going "But, Mon-El! How could you!? We had no idea you were lying!" without sarcasm, I'm going to throw things.
3. On a similar note, why is nobody willing to call Kara out on her bullshit? Her story for why the two peoples historically haven't gotten along is completely absurd. They were all "Oh, but J'onn, you have to forgive M'gann, she tried to do the right thing in the end!", and her species actually perpetuated a complete and total genocide against his! Did Daxam do the same to Krypton? No, actually, funny story, it was kinda the other way around. But there's Kara spreading her cute little racism against "frat boys". Presumably there was more going on. We know there was more going on - there was the slavery, after all. But Kara hasn't told everybody this, so it comes off as though she's just being pointlessly bigoted. And nobody cares! Nobody says "Wow, Kara, that was a pretty mean thing to say right after he woke up. Would you have liked it if we insulted your family mere minutes after you found out everybody you had ever known was dead?" or "Geez, Kara, lighten up already. Haven't you heard of judging people on their own merits?"
4. And finally, does Earth give Kryptonians and Daxamites invulnerability to PTSD as well? No matter how Mon-El ultimately escaped the planet, it's got to have been pretty traumatic, but here he is, picking up girls. (Then again, maybe we're supposed to think this is how he copes with trauma. I suppose there are worse ways.)
5. The White Martians are right, everybody in the DEO is an idiot. No security, apparently, and yes, you have to check everybody even if you think you found one already. Duh.
6. I don't care if it is comics canon, villains who are motivated solely by pure-minded hatred are super boring.
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Date: 2017-02-10 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-10 09:17 pm (UTC)I think conuly's question is good -- Kara's deep trauma tends to be half-forgotten, except and until we need some emotions from her; it's not well-integrated into the storyline either.
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Date: 2017-02-10 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-10 09:48 pm (UTC)