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    She's Superman's Cousin!: And Other Supergirl Spoilers

    in Supergirl

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    I dunno, it all being in one room between two people, one of whom we have just met, let's see how interesting that will really be. I guess it depends on the chemistry. 

    I actually do wonder whether they'll manage to temporarily drive off Reign or whether she'll just wipe the floor with them. Will they ever bother to open the remaining 3 pods?

    There are crutches in the background of pic with Alex, so is Reign the one who injures Alex? 

    Lightning Rods: Gender, Race, Homosexuality and Other Sensitive Topics

    in The Flash

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    These are the graphs I was talking about (all the numbers higher than 3 are also 0 for CW): 

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    I also assume that the show with 6 POC writers is Jane. 

    I also assume that with minority they do mean POC in this case (and not let's say LGBT) because of this graph: 

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    They do really well with gender of writers and showrunners, actually having more female than male showrunners? 

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    (also, huh? According to the other graphs the CW has 15 shows, but it it looks like only 9 showrunners? That doesn't make any sense I know a lot of showrunners do double duty, but on the flipside many shows have multiple showrunners.)

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    Mind Your Surroundings: Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow and Other Superhero Universes

    in Arrow

    ‘Black Lightning’ Review: The CW’s Latest Superhero Series Sets a New Bar

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    Since I’ve only seen two episodes of Black Lightning, it’s impossible to say whether or not the show will continue with the quality it’s shown in its first hours. But it is immensely promising, and perhaps finally delivering on the hope that Luke Cage first provided. Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s scripts are sharp and clear, and the production has style. This is a show that knows what it wants to say, and how it wants to say it. From the music to the direction, to the smart use of everyday tech and the thoughtful set dressing and costuming (I could go on for days about the cozy shop owned by a tailor, Gambi — played by James Remar— Jefferson’s oldest friend and surrogate father), all of it is indicative of a show confident in what it wants to be.

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    Relationships: Speed Dating

    in The Flash

    · Edited by tofutan

    5 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

    I certainly didn’t expect to get that vibe from Lois and Clark, but the obnoxious way she treated him, after pushing herself and inviting her arrogant ass into moving into the Kent home and taking over Clark’s bedroom, plus the enjoyment Clark got whenever Lois stepped into a pile of dog shit, literally, and the gleeful looks in his face, did not, to me, say, yeah, this is a good way to show/set up the iconic couple I know and love. And I do love Clark/Supes and Lois. 

    Lois’s behavior and antics had all the earmarks of an annoying sister. Maybe if the hadn’t written her that way, I wouldn’t have gotten that vibe.  And I certainly didn’t and don’t get a sibling vibe from Barry and Iris, either.

    To me, a Lois is not a Lois unless she is abrasive in some way. In that way, I prefer Smallville's take on Lois over ANY of the recent movie Lois takes. To me, structurally, Lois is supposed to be a foil to Clark. She is supposed to make his life harder. It serves as a contrast to the whole "he's the most powerful, invulnerable, perfectly good creature in the world" thing. Any Lois who is just a pretty nice, strong, sweet lady to me misses the point about what to me Clark and Lois is supposed to be about. 

    Also: Superman/Superboy Lois had plenty of similar traits in the old comics back in the day, including Superman/Superboy being kinda gleeful at times in making her suffer. And I never got any kid sister vibe simply because she looked like a grown up woman from the start, especially compared to Lana and Chloe. Not that I agreed with "Clois suck because she looks older than him!!" but it' something I could understand more. 

    Lois was a character who was always hated by some in the comics. For me it's okay and normal if she is controversial in fandom. IMO a good Lois should be that. I would rather than that than the bland and unmemorable Loises from the recent movies. Again, to me it works that a hero who many people (imo unfairly) think of as bland and perfect makes a controversial romantic choice. So having Lois just be a normal nice and strong and pretty girl without some sort of edge to it, somebody who everybody would date, really misses the point. The power of Lois and Clark to me comes from the fact that Clark dates her even though many other guys might think that she's too abrasive or mean or demanding to date. 

    I'm no expert on Westallen in the comics, but I get the impression that they have a reasonably similar type of relationship to what they have on the show, with a bigger focus on loving and supporting and even if she challenges him it's less "big" than it would be in a Clark/Lois way. 

    I think we as fans have a tendency to delude ourselves in regards to our fairness in judging other couples when we have already locked into one couple. If a couple already has our loyalty we are predisposed to focus on the flaws in other couples and see the negatives we can use to your advantages. This is not a concious acts, it just happens automatically. Of course we don't see the good side of other couples, otherwise we would be shipping those couples. It's probably a bigger issues in a case like Lois who entered canon at a time where Lana and Chloe had had years to garner their own fanbases, but people can "lock" into a character or pairing or dynamic very quickly. Which I assume happened with some Snowbarry fans. I get that and I believe at least some of them that they would have locked into Snowbarry even if Iris was white (since similar style ships have been fannishly popular even on shows about only white characters). It's more the "Barry and anybody but Iris" crowd that is interesting. 

    I guess you can "anti-lock" into pairings and characters too. And maybe some people are predisposed to dislike the show's official OTP just to be contrarian, regardless of whether the couple deserves it or not. 

    As for Star Labs versus reporter stuff: I think the shows devotion to Star Labs goes beyond just Caitlin, since this is also Cisco's core place. I feel like having reporter stuff as an additional leg to stand on was always a long shot and pretty unlikely, since obviously the it would at best be third priority after Star Labs and the CSI stuff. Reporting in Smallville and Lois & Clark worked because the main character was a reporter too. And I get why Iris fan dream of a world where she is allowed to show up Iris with her reporting skills and her own own supporting cast on a more permanent basis, but with the way the priorities of the show are structured and heavily in favor of Barry, again, I never had any illusions about that happening and hence I accept it as an upgrade that the pulled Iris into Star Labs. I think the chance of them getting rid of Star Labs is about as tiny as getting rid of the DEO on Supergirl. Since it's not only practical and all purpose, it also serves as a core location to more than one central supporting character (Cisco, Caitlin, the Welses versus Alex and J'onn). 

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    Relationships: Speed Dating

    in The Flash

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    I saw chemistry with Clark and almost everyone EXCEPT Durance--they gave off a sibling relationship. 

    And yet I've seen plenty of people who thought they were awesome and way more natural than Clana. And not just out of Lois and Clark loyalty. It's because of things like these that I've just given up trying to argue about chemistry because it's just so different for people. It's obviously not something you can quantify, not even with things like "do a lot of physical touching type acting with each other" or "look at each other a lot even during background scenes". People sometimes cite things like these, yet there are plenty of couples that do that that people don't see a ton of chemistry for. 

    And this whole "they seem like siblings to me" has become such a browbeat argument. Again, I believe plenty of people when they say that, but a lot of the time it comes across as trying to smush down a couple the person in question does not like but they don't have a concrete thing to point to like "the actors look scared/grossed out/bored". Again, I do think in most cases people don't mean anything deeper with it, but the underlying implication for people is still "If you ship this, it's like liking incest" or at least "I could never ship this, because that thing you like, to me it's as gross as incest". 

    It's a much bigger damnation of a ship than if people just said "their type of chemistry or relationship or story does not appeal to me" because if you do, with that you would leave it open "okay, it's not for me, but it might be for somebody else". 

    It's masked as politness because it sounds friendlier than "they have no chemistry/they suck/they can't do their job", because you are giving them the "compliment" of successfully having created a sibling chemistry. But under the hood it's actually way more demeaning than if people just said "they are boring" or "they annoy me" or "they just don't leap off the screen to me" or "I already have a different preference".  Again, I know people don't mean it like that, and I think many probably use it to explain to themselves how they can maybe not hate a couple, but still not love them. But that doesn't mean that it really is the most fitting analogy. 

    For me personally, I think Westallen are sweet together, but they don't leap off the screen to me. They are pleasant and they do their job well enough and I like them in a "I like both characters, wish them happiness and believe if then they say they would be happy together" kind of way. I thought Spallen had moments of chemistry (particularly that one kiss where she grabs him kind of forcefully), but the storyline quality was not there and the chemistry was not that good that I was interested in them despite lacking quality. And I can definitely see the argument of how Spallen would have become annoying fast if they had actually been a main couple. Snowbarry, again, nothing special to me, and particularly the last few seasons they barely seem like friends to me. 

    I saw moments of chemistry spark between Eddie and Iris, which was strange to me, becauses I found Eddie quite unattractive from a pure physical POV. 

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