We are about a month away from the premiere of Supergirl Season Four and the CW is starting to ratchet up the publicity. The latest has been a brief trailer called Supergirl American Alien on YouTube. Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyswYomalVo
There is a nice voice over by Kara. Here it is:
Fear
No matter how much we believe in ourselves it never really
goes away.
Well I think ‘I’m not afraid of anything’
Then something chases me back down the rabbit hole
But once we catch ourselves, we have to jump right back out
there.
As the trailer plays out, it becomes clear that this is Kara talking to Nia Nal in CatCo. Is this a plot about Nia being transgender and afraid by opening up?
But this plays into Kara's character as well. We have seen her be overconfident on the show in the past. So she comes to this moment of mentoring honestly.
On to some screen shots!
As we open with the line about fear, we have a shot of Supergirl, clearly poisoned by Kryptonite, plummeting to Earth from high in the sky.
Last season, there was a big plot about Supergirl being deathly afraid of Kryptonite to the point of being angry at Lena. So opening with 'fear' and this green veined Supergirl is nice pairing. But where did the Kryptonite come from and who was able to expose her to it that high up?
And then we get a shot of the something that might make her afraid anew.
Look who it is!!!
It is our old friend The Hellgrammite!
We haven't seen him since episode two of season one!! Here is that review from way back:
http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com/2015/11/review-supergirl-episode-2-stronger.html
I wondered if this meant that Alex didn't kill him in Season One, something I assumed happened when she stabbed him in the heart with a big talon.
So I reached out on Twitter to Supergirl writer Eric Carrasco.
Turns out it is *another* Hellgrammite.
Okay. That's sorted out.
Then we get a shot of Hellgrammite fighting the 'hooded Supergirl' at a fair of some sort. It looks like he is chucking hammers from those 'test of strength' things.
There seems to be a shot that mirrors Hela catching Thor's hammer from Ragnorok.
Maybe this suit is because Supergirl is still effected by the Green K from the opening shot and needs this for protection/healing/subterfuge?
We also get a shot of Mercy and Otis.
As the trailer plays out, it becomes clear that this is Kara talking to Nia Nal in CatCo. Is this a plot about Nia being transgender and afraid by opening up?
But this plays into Kara's character as well. We have seen her be overconfident on the show in the past. So she comes to this moment of mentoring honestly.
On to some screen shots!
As we open with the line about fear, we have a shot of Supergirl, clearly poisoned by Kryptonite, plummeting to Earth from high in the sky.
Last season, there was a big plot about Supergirl being deathly afraid of Kryptonite to the point of being angry at Lena. So opening with 'fear' and this green veined Supergirl is nice pairing. But where did the Kryptonite come from and who was able to expose her to it that high up?
And then we get a shot of the something that might make her afraid anew.
Look who it is!!!
It is our old friend The Hellgrammite!
We haven't seen him since episode two of season one!! Here is that review from way back:
http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com/2015/11/review-supergirl-episode-2-stronger.html
I wondered if this meant that Alex didn't kill him in Season One, something I assumed happened when she stabbed him in the heart with a big talon.
So I reached out on Twitter to Supergirl writer Eric Carrasco.
Turns out it is *another* Hellgrammite.
Okay. That's sorted out.
Then we get a shot of Hellgrammite fighting the 'hooded Supergirl' at a fair of some sort. It looks like he is chucking hammers from those 'test of strength' things.
There seems to be a shot that mirrors Hela catching Thor's hammer from Ragnorok.
Maybe this suit is because Supergirl is still effected by the Green K from the opening shot and needs this for protection/healing/subterfuge?
We also get a shot of Mercy and Otis.
Is this Agent Liberty? Steel? Some other villain?
Who the heck is this?
I love a mystery!!
Can't wait!
Here’s a link about the latest run on Supergirl:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.newsarama.com/41786-supergirl-goes-on-space-jorney-to-investigate-krypton-s-destruction.html
First of all anj, thank you for putting this out right now. I was getting tired of people being up in arms about an actor leaving. Superman is way bigger than any one person, he has persevered for 80 years and he will continue to do so regardless.
ReplyDeleteAs for the trailer, I loved it. This is the first proper trailer and it touches on some key point from the previous seasons- the kryptonite seems like it was stolen and she was probably going for some air rescue and got exposed to it. We will see
That definitely seems to be agent liberty because that same thing was there in the comic con trailer. That face mask looks like Krypton's Rao's three faced mask.
As for nia, I am hopeful that this time the team will nail the mentorship. The actor looks like a woman, so I don't have any issues with that.
I just don't want any more romance for Kara right now atleast. If karadox has to happen, then I would much rather they take their time and build it up slowly.
P.S does anyone get bvs smell from this storyline? The anti alien propaganda, everyone opposing SG's presence and all? Has Snyder been in contact with the writer's room?
I wonder if that robot isn't a benign reconfiguration of The Red Tornado? I think any season of Supergirl that signals the engine room "slow ahead on romance" will be a good one IMHO. As for the "Kryptoniter" I'm guessing Agent Liberty steals some of Lena's "souped up kryptonite-plus" and attempts an assassination, something likely to drive the wedge in deeper between Ms Luthor and Kara....
ReplyDeleteAs for Henry Cavill...*shrug* He always looked the part to an absurd degree but acting wise he never eclipsed Brandon Routh IMHO. But then Cavill never really got the right scripts so....I'm mostly seeing this as "Tyler Hoechlin's Hour has Struck :)"
Anyhow lets not get all wrapped up in the drama around Supergirl's derivative lesser cousin, his fans should be glad he gets any screen time at all at this point.
:)
JF
"First of all anj, thank you for putting this out right now. I was getting tired of people being up in arms about an actor leaving. Superman is way bigger than any one person, he has persevered for 80 years and he will continue to do so regardless."
ReplyDeleteI agree completely. I'm sorry for him. Cavill deserved a chance to play a proper Superman instead of being held back by Snyder's scripts. Still he isn't the first act to play Superman and he'll not be the last one.
I have admit a tiny, mean part of me feels in some way vindicated after spending years hearing Snyder fans spouting his take was absolutely perfect, flawless and a much needed modernization, and whoever disagreeing was a Silver Age/Donner fanboy stuck in the past.
"As for the "Kryptoniter" I'm guessing Agent Liberty steals some of Lena's "souped up kryptonite-plus" and attempts an assassination, something likely to drive the wedge in deeper between Ms Luthor and Kara...."
Let's hope so. I'm sick of the "Dumb, immature Kara has god complex/Lena can do no wrong" online drivel.
"I just don't want any more romance for Kara right now atleast. If karadox has to happen, then I would much rather they take their time and build it up slowly."
I wish. I'm sick of bad romance and self-entitled shippers demanding their will is done, regardless canon or actor availability/willingness.
I'd thought the kryptonite poisoning scene was just recycled from last season, but if it is genuinely new footage
ReplyDeletefrom what to expect, we'll see how it plays out. As for the Hellgrammite, SWEET! Got to LOVE little callbacks to
previous seasons like this; it's a nice sense of continuity within the show.
> Can't wait!
+9000 to this! See everyone there!
Regards
Hellgrammite...always good to bring up a villain for the best season of the show...number 1, the CBS season. As for everything else...well it's going to be more of in bigger doses, the same hate-filled leftist/SJW/New World Order junk!
ReplyDelete"hate-filled"
ReplyDeleteRiiiiiight.
It will never cease to amaze me how the kind of people who use "SJW" an an epithet -- who are, in other words, openly contemptuous of efforts to advance justice in society -- can be fans of heroic fantasy like "Supergirl." Do they not get that they are the villains -- the embodiment of everything their heroes fight to oppose?
The lack of self-awareness is staggering.
I thought they had a beef with "Single Jewish Women" so thanks for the head's up.
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JF
"Is this Agent Liberty?"
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking it is, but we'll have to wait and see for certain. BTW, the series just brought in The Walking Dead alumnus Xander Berkeley to portray Agent Liberty's father Peter Lockwood.
"I just don't want any more romance for Kara right now at least."
I don't see the show setting up any romantic interests for Kara this season, as she's likely going to be busy mentoring Nia and chasing down stories. Brainy will probably be preoccupied with staying on Alex's good side at the DEO, since she's now in charge.
KET
"It will never cease to amaze me how the kind of people who use "SJW" an an epithet -- who are, in other words, openly contemptuous of efforts to advance justice in society -- can be fans of heroic fantasy like "Supergirl." Do they not get that they are the villains -- the embodiment of everything their heroes fight to oppose?"
ReplyDeleteNo, because neither SJWs truly strive for equality, nor people who call them out on their hate-filled bullying and harassment are villains or contemptuous of efforts to "advance justice on society".
On the other hand, SJWs like pretending the world is a white-and-black comic-booky fantasy where they are the heroes and everybody who don't agree with them or their tactics -even if they don't disagree with the intended message- are villains... even though they behave right like the bigots they claim fight against.