Supergirl - CBS

[Lea101]

Yeah honestly even before that storyline started (and they do spend a lot of time on it as the season goes on) the show was losing its charm for me. Not sure if the writers changed when it switched networks or what but it felt different. Maybe it was the lack of Cat Grant. She really grounded the show and I loved her relationship with Kara. Without that dynamic it feels empty.

Plus I found the 180 degree turn the show took with Jimmy and Kara a little jarring. Kara says she needs time to herself (after literally spending an entire season pining after him) and then almost immediately falls for the (white) Kryptonian dude. (Or whatever he was) So yeah…part of me wonders if they put the gay storyline in there to prove their progressive cred. “We know we completely shut down, for absolutely no reason, the interracial romance that was teased for an entire season…but look we have a gay couple! See. We’re not bigots.”

Anyways yeah the show has really lost my interest since it moved to CW. Which is kind of a bummer. I really enjoyed the first season.

Agreed. Although i never really liked Jimmy because he was boring. They are trying to develop him though, so I guess that’s nice.

And they def put the gay characters for the sake of diversity. Their viewers complained about it during season 1 so they catered to them. They also made the President female (nothing wrong with that, but something about the whole show just made it look like they are doing it for the sake of making feminists happy) It made sense that Alex was the one that is gay though. She was giving off some vibes in season 1 and at least they tried to show her coming out story in a more realistic way.

 

[tomarin]

Yeah that was cartoonish at best, plus there were a lot of gratuitous torture scenes. Boris and Natasha were much more nuanced in their villainy than those Russians.

It shouldn’t be too hard for television producers to find native speakers of Russian (or other languages) yet they never seem to look hard enough. To give one example, the grandma on ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ - whose character only speaks Mandarin Chinese - has a noticeable American accent.

 

[edwest2]

I may be done with Supergirl. I just last night caught up with the last few episodes from the end of November. They brought in Maggie Sawyer, an established gay character from the comics, and put Alex (Supergirl’s adoptive sister) in a relationship with her. It just doesn’t feel right to me to continue to watch the show if that storyline continues.

Yep. Just turn Supergirl’s ‘sister’ gay. She tells her mom. Mom’s OK with it. And then the two gay women kiss.

Ed

 

[jediliz]

Yep. Just turn Supergirl’s ‘sister’ gay. She tells her mom. Mom’s OK with it. And then the two gay women kiss.

Ed

This is why I stopped watching the show. And I really liked the season 2 premiere.