Better Angels
- Episode aired Apr 18, 2016
- TV-14
- 41m
Supergirl is forced to do battle with an unexpected enemy as she risks everything - including her life - to stop Non and Indigo from destroying everyone on Earth.Supergirl is forced to do battle with an unexpected enemy as she risks everything - including her life - to stop Non and Indigo from destroying everyone on Earth.Supergirl is forced to do battle with an unexpected enemy as she risks everything - including her life - to stop Non and Indigo from destroying everyone on Earth.
- Lucy Lane
- (as Jenna Dewan-Tatum)
- Young Kara Zor-El
- (as Malina Weissman)
- Kara Danvers
- (Russian version)
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCat tells Kara that Kara is having an "end of Working Girl (1988) moment" Calista Flockhart is married to Harrison Ford, who starred in Working Girl (1988).
- GoofsSupergirl struggled greatly to lift Fort Rozz, which was said to weigh 1 million tons. This really shouldn't have been a problem, considering that she nearly effortlessly lifted "a million tons of condensed dwarf star matter" at the Fortress of Solitude in a previous episode.
- Quotes
Supergirl: People of National City, this is Supergirl, and... I hope you can hear me. We have been attacked. Mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors, children, everyone, suddenly stopped by a force of evil as great as this world has ever known. Your attacker has sought to take your free will. Your individuality. Your spirit, everything that makes you who you are. When facing an attack like this, it's easy to feel hopeless. We retreat, we lose our strength, we lose ourselves. I know. I lost everything when I was young. When I first landed on this planet, I was sad and alone. But I found out that there is so much love in this world, out there for the taking. And you, the people of National City, you helped me. You let me be who I'm meant to be. You gave me back to myself. You made me stronger than I ever thought possible, and I love you for that. Now, in each and every one of you, there is a light, a spirit that cannot be snuffed out. That won't give up. I need your help again. I need you to hope. Hope... that you will remember that you can all be heroes. Hope... that when faced with an enemy determined to destroy your spirit, you will fight back and thrive. Hope... that those who once may have shunned you will, in a moment of crisis, come to your aid. Hope... that you will see again the faces of those you love. And perhaps even those you've lost.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Supergirl: Man of Steel (2018)
For a basic plot summary, "Supergirl" tells the story of Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), a Kryptonian sent to Earth just after her super-powered cousin. Kara ends up in National City, where she doesn't choose to cultivate her super-abilities and instead works as basically a gopher for media mogul Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart). Finally fed up with being pushed-around, Kara decides to don the infamous read and blue skirt/cape and begin her superhero existence. She is helped in this task by James (not Jimmy) Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) and sister Alex (Chyler Leigh).
There are three specific reasons why "Supergirl" is doomed to fail:
1. The "girl power" theme will get CBS a lot of nice press, but it can't carry a show. Developed characters and interesting plots carry shows, and "Supergirl" has neither. Through two episodes, there seems to be no compelling core to the show, and the acting (besides Benoist) is terrible Flockhart and David Harewood (who had a great turn on Homeland a few years ago) must be embarrassed to be put into their strange roles.
2. Every celluloid iteration of Supergirl has failed because she is a "second fiddle" character to Superman. There is very little original about her story. She has the same character arc and powers as her super-cousin, and he is always first, so to speak. The Supergirl movie failed after the Christopher Reeve Superman films, and this show will fail because "Smallville" was just so much better. This has nothing new or interesting to offer.
3. Finally, CBS is a procedural machine right now (besides "Person of Interest", and even that show had to "trick" the network into believing in it). The "eye" network could care less about taking chances on long-term or interesting-concept shows. Instead, everything must fit into their slick, technology-heavily, flashy-looking formula. That's exactly what "Supergirl" is too: shallow plot, hollow characters, all with a veneer of slickness that will quickly wear off.
Simply put, I'm disappointed that CBS is taking such a generic, short-sighted approach to this property, but I wonder if this was doomed to failure from the beginning. There just isn't enough "oomph" in the Supergirl storyline to sustain any sort of storytelling convention...serialized, procedural, or what have you. This will be one of those shows that gets a lot of buzz...and then is quietly cancelled after its initial 13 episode order.
- zkonedog
- Jun 30, 2019
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- Runtime41 minutes
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- 16:9 HD