In 2016 I was super salty about supergirl introducing Superman because everyone was like "this is how he should be done, unlike the DCEU" but now I'm just so starved for any Superman content, let alone Lois Lane.
Same. I didn’t like the way they used Superman in that show, but not so much because of the whole “this is the proper way to do Superman” point, even though that does annoy me a lot (there is more than one way to portray a character, and portraying him differently for tonally different universes is what you’re supposed to do. Smh).
I was mostly salty that Supergirl introduced Superman, because they didn’t have him in the show in a meaningful capacity at all, they would just shoehorn him in as a bad plot device, which I didn’t want to see happen to a character that important. Clark and Kara are family, and Superman should be a recurring and supporting character in the show, but because it’s too difficult with character rights, then they can only use him during select episodes, which annoys me, but I understand it.
However, first introducing him in the season two premiere was fair game, it was fun and had been in the works for a long time, yada yada yada - BUT after Clark not being present or even thematically relevant at ALL during the rest of the season, they brought him back for the season two finale - which is a signifier of horribly messy writing. A season finale should be the climax of season-long character arcs and tension, finally paying off with something meaningful. However, because the writing on that season had been so poorly planned that they didn’t know what they were trying to build towards or say, the writers took a generic “Supergirl has to stop __ and save the world!1!” story for the season finale and slapped Superman on there to pander to viewership. It was complete trash and it didn’t mean anything.
Those kinds of problems are the reason why I frankly don’t care for CW shows. Sure, there might be a few interesting twists or arcs along the way, but its ultimately thematically predicable and meaningless. I think the last time a CW superhero season was properly planned out and successfully used all the characters that they’d been developing throughout the season was the Harrison Wells storyline in Flash season 1.
Anyways, the reason why I’m excited for Lois and Clark in the crossover is because at least they’re not being artificially inserted into a story like that. If this is written well, it should work as a contained story.
I’m the only one in the office today, and my Project this week is to organize our storage area while no one is here to be inconvenienced by the colossal mess that I’m making of the conference room
I just discovered we have a pile of FOUR major national awards from our field’s professional organization, framed, just shoved on top of a bookshelf gathering dust.
aaaand I just figured out WHY they haven’t been hung: this office doesn’t have a hammer
when signing out forms to apply for disability / filling out a form for diagnosis
you’re supposed to fill it out as you on your worst days
like, I filled out forms that said I could do most things usually
like, my doctor added in the conditions like “yeah, they can feed themselves when not stressed” “they can do this when not stressed”
but how I should have filled it out was more like
“some days I can’t feed myself” “some days I can’t leave the house”
My doctor didn’t even know this, but I talked to someone who had worked with people with both developmental and intellectual disabilities for a number of years, and she told me to write down how it is for your bad days
this should be a thing they tell you, but it isn’t
part of the reason I didn’t get my autism diagnosis as soon as I should have is because I filled out forms wrong!
This also goes for filling out forms for disabled parking rights. I’ve been rejected multiple times for a pass cause I didn’t find this out till recently.
Wow
Also you’re generally supposed to fill it out as you are without help.
That throws me too. Because the more help I get, the more capable I get. It’s easy to forget what happens when the help falls away even partially let alone completely.
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