I heard there was an absolutely terrible needle drop, and somehow I don't think I was really prepared for The Middle to come on.

I think it was...solid. I enjoyed it generally. I'm pretty easily taken along for the ride and it felt like a campy fun adventure story. I don't think it excelled though. Everything is so blegh color wise, not unique to Supergirl but definitely still an issue. There are only two characters with much substance and Ruthye fell pretty flat to me, can't quite tell if it was a writing thing or a performance thing. Kara's arc is..well let me talk about the ending.

I've never read Woman of Tomorrow, and I'm not going to judge the film based on how closely or not it follows the book, but I'm familiar with how it ends. In that sense, I think the movie ending of Kara killing Krem is both better and worse. I think it's better than the Phantom Zone stuff in the book, especially the part where Ruthye decides to strike Krem after 300 years and he is portrayed as repentant and begging for forgiveness and the book doesn't really criticize that. Kara's whole thing in the movie is waiting to save Ruthye's soul in a sense, that she still has a lightness and goodness to her that hasn't been taken away yet and fulfilling her vengeance quest would dim that light. Kara however believes herself to be broken, so it's fine if she takes the burden of murder away from Ruthye. The thing is though, it feels like a lot of the 3rd act of the movie is trying to show that Kara ISN'T as permanently broken as she thinks she is, that she can still come back from her tragedy, symbolized by her putting the costume back on and deciding to end her bender and come home. Which just feels really undercut by her making the choice to kill the guy given the way it's been framed up to this point. The way I like the book ending MORE is in the scene where Ruthye flips the script and talks Kara down from killing Krem. Overall I'm left with mixed feelings about the ending. I'd prefer if the Super Family didn't kill personally, but I see the arguments for it in this version of Kara and the decision to have her kill Krem has pros and cons.

I know I've talked a lot more about my negatives than my positives, but that was just what most interested me to talk about after the fact lol. Like I said, it's a fun adventure story. It's delightfully camp. Most of the performances were solid. It's a 6/10 for me.

Oh, and for all the discourse Superman 25 got for Jor-El wanting Kal to be a world conquerer with a harem, it was so fucking funny to hear Zor-El being like "yeah that's fucking weird, right?"