Guilty pleasures

I just love how Supergirl isn't really about the revenge or the dog or anything that goes on at all. Its about two grieving girls trying to keep going in diffrent ways and teaching each other how to survive with the weight of it all while also inspiring each other to be better people. Its about not letting your past overtake your future. Its about prioritizing yourself instead of being fuled by your trauma. Its about being good no matter what.

I like that Supergirl says it’s okay to kill someone’s abuser so long as you don’t let the thirteen year old do it and I like that Supergirl says vengeance will not solve things but neither will allowing a cycle of violence to continue

AND ANOTHER THING about Supergirl is that I was really worried the movie would be all “take the high ground” about killing human traffickers and shit, but then at the end Kara just fucking stabs that guy TWICE and I realized the movies actually about cycles of abuse and protecting the innocent

Kara who saw her parents wither away. Kara who carries the grief of an entire planet. Kara who doesn't share that grief with her cousin, because she thinks he could never understand. Kara who holds Krypto like her heart, because he is the only piece of her Krypton that is still alive. Kara who will tarnish her soul so Ruthye doesn't have to. Kara who has every reason to scream, cry and break things, but chooses to stay and make Earth her home because she also has many reasons to find again the happiness she lost. That is a Kara that I love.

really hope kara sat clark down after the events of 'superman' and explained that, by and at large, kryptonians were actually fine. it's his parents, specifically, who were fucking freaks

it's funny how so much more feminist Supergirl (2026) is compared to what Wonder Woman (2017) was, and how that is 100% a factor in how much the ~serious male critic~ raved over the latter but can't stand the former, and how little even one male character mattered at all to the outcome of Supergirl's story lol

I literally tell men when they ask me that they wouldn't like it because it's not a show for men 😐. Will be editing that to 'it's not for men who have fragile egos because it calls out how the patriarchy propogates the rape of innocent young children'.

Just watched supergirl and oh my god i am so obssed with the fact that we have a female main character and shes sloppy and snippy and rude and an alcoholic and messy and flawed. And yet shes still able to be kind and good and be an inspiration to people. All while not having a romance and while not trying to appeal to anyone. This is what everything should be.

Thinking about Supergirl again and the importance it places on parental relationships like yes! You are the summary of a family who loves you! Yes, you can never go back! Yes, your mother and your father will live on in you a thousand light years from the house they died in! Yes, you will spend the rest of your life trying to return to the person you were when you were still their daughter! Yes, you will wear your father’s watch to save the dog you found at your mother’s funeral. Yes, you will see a girl who has just lost her own parents. You will look her in the eyes and tell her that vengeance will not solve anything. You will hope that your ache will fade, any day now. You know it will not, you know hers will not. You will meet people you believe to be good and understand when they sell you out for their own daughter. You will watch those people die. You will watch that daughter die. She only had to live moments without her parents. You are not so fortunate. You will kill a man with her death on your tongue. Her parents were not there to do it but you were and your mother asked you to be good. Not nice but kind. You are Kara Zor-El and you are an orphan but not in the way your cousin is an orphan just like he is a refugee but not in the way you are a refugee. You have lost your parents and you are alone except for your dog (inextricably tied to them) and another parentless little girl you found.

Finally, a "jaded alcoholic man whose loved ones are all dead avenges his dog" movie where the man's a woman and the dog doesn't die.

Of course they don’t like Milly Alcock’s Supergirl. She’s a grown ass woman with zero love interests who spends the movie saving her dog, casually dismantling a sex trafficking ring while she’s at it, and preaching the importance of being good, not nice or smiley or cheerful but good. I for one adored the movie and I really hope I’ll get to see more of Alcock’s Supergirl she’s now my favorite iteration of her and I love her so dearly.

I LOVED that there was no romantic subplot 😭. Getting sick of all these amazing women being diminished to the accessory of a loser man.

i think part of what made supergirl so special is that the whole time watching i never felt like kara was sexualized or objectified at all, normally in women superhero movies theyre in skintight suits or have perfect makeup on or there's a fight scene that just so happens to lift up their skirt (and that did happen but she was wearing a skort because of course you would if you can FLY) but that just didnt happen. her hair is messed up basically the entire movie and even at the heroic full body shot at the end she's just floating over everyone, not saying some stupid "you just got beat up by a lady!" one liner or doing some unrealistic pose just to make a good screenshot. she was always just a person. and parts of the story definitely connect to her more because she is a woman but being a woman didnt get in the way of being a person (...kryptonian).