Reviews

This show could be soooo much cooler. I think the developers were trying to go for an "American" Dr. Who. They even hired Arthur Darvil to play "Rip Hunter" (manly name for a wimpy guy) to play the Capt. of the time ship. The time ship is bigger on the inside than the outside though it does not look like a police box. The Doct... I mean the Captain's companions are a group of reject heroes and anti heroes that decide to go with the Capt. to save the world from Vandal Savage, an immortal.

Where does the show fail. Acting is okay with a few of the actors but gets overshadowed by some of the poorer actors that they play next too. With time as each gets used to playing their character that may improve.

The plots. Oh those terrible, contrived, poorly thought out plots. The way the characters are forced to "solve" the problems that face them is almost cringe worthy. I find myself saying, "wait, this is stupid why don't they just...." Forced plots are no fun to sit through and are the results of lazy writers not being able to match the abilities of the characters with the problems that they face. Thus plot holes and characters ignoring the obvious abound in the series. With Scooby Doo I can understand why they are always splitting up to go find the ghost, but when this happens all the time in this series causing all sorts of problems that could have easily been avoided, it grates.

Finally the writing and character relationships. Why the crew has not thrown the Captain out an airlock is beyond me. Some of the relationships seem almost as forced as the plots. The dialog needs more cleverness and wit. Perhaps if they could track down some of the writers for Doctor Who we could see a positive change.

I really want to like this show. It has some great moments and a likable lead. That's the good side, now for the darkside:

1) Please, please, please try to keep the plot holes from multiplying like rabbits on a diet of Viagra. Example: the first episode where Supergirl meets her evil aunt, she thinks she is her mother, but learns in a bit of "evil guy dialog" that she is her aunt that she was never told about. A few episodes later we find out that Kara and her aunt were once the best of buds... what the Hell.

2)Preach it baby. This show is very much in tune with women rule and boys drool, especially white boys. ALL the major villains are white guys full of "white privilege". General Lang, Mr. Lords, Nom(the real Kryptonian villain as his wife - Kara's aunt - is really a good person inside), the Trickster, all evil white guys. The heroes are selected from a college course on women and minority studies. I have no problem with heroes being of whatever color or gender. I do have a problem when the show gets preachy about how white guys are evil and stacks the deck in such a way that it is painfully obvious. The only sympathetic white guy is a nerd and even with that his dad is evil.

3) Too much suspension of belief. Not the lasers coming out of Supergirl's eyes. The fact that she would love her job working for Han Solo's wife (Flockart)who plays an utterly detestable character who has the heart of the Grinch, Donald Trump's narcissism and Hillary Clinton's bitchy I can do no wrong attitude. Sometimes it is funny how over the top she plays the role, reminds me of Shatner's acting skills.

4) Why are they ruining the role of Jimmy Olsen? In NO universe is Jimmy a highly confident tall muscely black man. Where is the awkward red head with freckles. I'm sure they did this because this show is more concerned with appeasing the PC gods (see #2). Sad that they could not be a bit truer to the source material.

Will I keep watching the show, maybe. I do get tired of the disjointed plots and every show learning about how evil white guys are, but it does at times redeem itself. They better move their low bar a little higher and soon.