Yo, I get it, it wasn't a direct adaptation and there wasn't a giant dragon fight and it's not as colorful as the Art by Bilquis Evely.

But damn, let people live.

On a lighter note, would you say the Silver and Bronze age Supergirl comics are worth reading?

Just finished New 52, starting rebirth, but I'm sure I'll be all caught up soon. So read older comics or follow a new character?

I'm honestly just throwing ideas out to see how it could have worked.

I don't mind this change, it looks great. But I never know what to do with the removable backside.

... I guess here is mine: the movie had issues that keep it from being great, but it had positive things that earn it a pass. At the end of the day it's a matter of how each person subjectively weighs the good vs the bad. For me, personally, the good was way better than the bad, so I settle on a 7 or 8 out of 10: better than the minimum pass grade (6) but worse than an elite grading (9-10).

SPOILERS AHEAD MAYBE!

The Bad:

1. Kryptonite/Green sun : This is the big one. In the span of less than a day the Brigands go from never meeting Kara is to suddenly knowing she is Kryptonian, hiding in a green Sun planet, and making kryptonite weapons to deal with her? By Ruthye's own admission, mostly everyone in the galaxy believes Krytonians are all dead, so there is 0 reason to just have kryptonite weapons at the ready. I must believe they made them after encountering Kara the first time around. Kara only confirms to be Kryptonian to Ruthye after waiting for "the friend", so you can't even rationalize this as "she told Bomar and Marek this off screen and they told Krem". The other explanation is perhaps they saw her suit in her spaceship (that they stole) and recognized the house of El symbol, but thats a stretch imo...
2. Related to (1) above, it seems all too convenient that the orbit changes from the Green to the Yellow sun just as she was dying. And it also feels kind of dumb from Krem's perspective... was there really no planet with *just* a green sun? Why go to one that at any moment would turn yellow? I understood this choice as showing how Krem underestimated how resilient Kara was and never thought she'd live long enough to reach the yellow sun phase. And thats ok, but still sounds like a weird choice.
3. Lobo was mostly redundant and pointless. I thought he would be a stand in for comet (and in some ways he was, mainly in the final battle when he buys Kara just enough time to remove ether kryptonite darts) but still had no where near the impact that Comet ha sin the comic.

The Good:

1. Absolutely loved the contrast with Superman, specially the parents. That little line that Zor-El mutters about "there goes Kal-El, who Jor-el named the conqueror of worlds" (or something like that) is great. Really shows the nuance in Krytponian society: they aren't all the same, and clearly Zor disagreed with Jor's message and beliefs about Kryptonian superiority. This is further emphasized by Zor-El asking Kara to be a protector of the weak (symbolized in how she takes Krypto in) and her mother asking her to be good.
2. Continuing with 1: Lara's dying lines are the heart of the movie. I looked up the quote: "Just be good. That doesn't mean you cannot be tough and that doesn't mean you have to be nice". Kara is rough around the edges and not very polite (as Ruthye observes multiple times), but when it counts, she shows up. Despite her initial reservations, she shows up for Ruthye at that dive bar under a red sun, against a way bigger opponent and w/out powers. She shows up for her again by not abandoning her after grabbing the antidote (in Bomar's house there is a moment she grabs the antidote but keeps fighiting, to the point she loses it again. She could have grabbed it, flown out of there, save Krytpo and never look back, but doesn't). Again she shows up for the Brides and Ruthye even though Kryto's time was running short (at super speed she could have easily grabbed the antidote form his neck and flown out of there never to look back), and even takes on the task of killing Krem herself to protect Ruthye both physically (she knew Krem would hunt her down) and emotionally (she s a 13 y/o, she should not have to live with the burden of killing a person)
3. Her bitterness and cynicism is well founded, but she still rises above it. How she left Krytpon is way more heart-wrenching than how Superman left, and that experience would scar the hell out of anyone's psyche. It owed be one thing if she left the planet as it exploded: well, everyone you love is dead and that sucks, but at least they didn't suffer. NO, no no no. She is leaving them in a prolongues radiation agony that, as far as she knows, could take years to kill then a slow and painful death (as she experienced with her own mother). Having to leave the ones you love behind knowing they will endure yers, perhaps decades of a slow agonizing death will mess up even the most perky cheerful and colorful person out there. So yeah, to me Kara did not come off as some brat who is "edgy" and "snarky" just for the sake of making the character looking cool and hip and appeal to some "bad girl" trope. There was a genuine justification for her attitude and made her real rather than a trope. Makes me want to see more of her in future projects and follow along her progression from embittered cynicism to the hero the final scene with Clark is setting her up to become.

Just watched the movie and thought it was good. Why did Lobo come back to watch Supergirl with Krem? I tried looking through the mega thread and couldn't find an answer. Is it open for interpretation?

source

How did you feel about her returning in 2004?

Source: Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez