Tag: Supergirl
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You aren’t the audience for your favourite thing
Here’s something that occurred to me while watching Willow, which improved marginally since the last time I wrote about it (but still had some pretty incredible errors in judgment, stylewise): it was never meant for me. It’s pretty revolutionary for any cis white man to realize that he’s not the point in any given conversation,…
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Destroy All Monsters: In Light of WONDER WOMAN, It’s Time To Reconsider 1984’s SUPERGIRL
Like the others in the very slim “before Wonder Woman” canon, Supergirl is largely considered to be an outright creative misfire, except, I dunno – it sorta rules? It’s cheesy and silly the way adventure movies for families were back then, but I grew up with this stuff and can assure you, it’s far from…
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Destroy All Monsters: Why The World (Of SUPERGIRL) Doesn’t Need Superman
Can’t resist any SUPERMAN RETURNS reference, can I
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better gambit for consumer choice than my beloved MCU.