Just Call Me Faren

Personally, I loved it. Overall summary:

I think it really did the job showcasing Kara Zor-El's character as Going Through the Wars when it came to seeing all that she lost, and a very understandable reason why she doesn't jive with Clark or Earth immediately. I also loved that she soaked up Earth media like nobody's business and even her attempts at Earth quips confused Ruthye. I also LOVE the showcasing of either Kara or Clark trying to control their power levels. Clark had a whole lifetime. Kara had... a couple of years? Being "Good but not nice" as a character trait is I think something not explored enough, nor well done enough because media often likes to outline morality like lines of cocaine. Kara was messy without being annoyingly 'quirky' and kinda just... got shit done without fanfare. Her silent scream in space was more than relatable. I have always, always always always been about how dialogues and scripts overall can make or break a film, and as the saying goes: Less Is More. We don't need lectures about yer man Krem with the multiple silver road bumps on his face being a scumbag piece of shit who traffics female-based beings to rape and use as broodmares. We don't need another Lex Luthor or Brainiac specifically for Kara, or a brand new Random Someone Bad with some Villain Backstory to bring her hero arc. Krem was just a shitty lad who caused serious harm enough for other Bad Guys to hate him enough to fear his group, needed to die, and that's more accurate to actual scumbags in real life who exist. Kara rightfully munted Krem's ass in the end, and still protected Ruthye's innocence a bit longer, along with circumnavigating a child's passive-suicidal-tendencides based on survivor's guilt and family honour. Kara didn't take that choice away from Ruthye, but she understood why without insulting the kid either. After all that Kara had been through on a fairly similar, if planet-sized scale, her own taste of death was familiar, and I'm fully on board with her wanting Ruthye to keep living. The fact Kara wanted to stay and die with her parents speaks volumes to the love she had for her family, exactly like Ruthye. I also thought Ruthye was a fairly accurate child-character who could still do just enough and be smart about it, even if she’s also still just a kid. Clearly, she was raised with potential conflict in her environment to at least know how to hide and evade, but still defend herself within reason. I also appreciate that Kara's sole resolve was to save her dog Krypto, which is not only the only thing left of the remains of Argo/Krypton itself - but the reason why she knew she had to keep going. That’s quite real unto itself for a passively-suicidal character, and it didn’t need to be more complicated than that. Finally, a few notes of interest: the fact it was Argo with the force field and not Kandor has me curious if there was some kind of civil war, and secondly that it was known Jor-El sent Clark/Kal to Earth with intentions of “conquering” Earth… Third point is the huge age-gap with Kara and Clark, given that normally she’s the “older” one but finds her “baby” cousin as a grown man has always been a point of amazingly sad but poignant writing. Being born after Clark makes me wonder if whatever is left of Argo could potentially be explored in future films or shows. I’m very used to DC making AUs of their AUs, so I’m curious to where this will go. I'm going to read the actual graphic novel as well to compare notes, but I've heard it's a decent adaptation. Finally, Lobo was there just enough to Be Lobo as he was in the 1996 Superman Animated Series. Jason's grand.