Supergirl SEASON 6, EPISODE 8: "Welcome Back, Kara!” (SPOILERS)

That's much more like the Supergirl I know! A somewhat strong start to 6B but a little boring at times too. I feel like some of the editing was off here as well.

Oh well, a fun little episode. Nice to have Melissa really back too

 

Had to work tonight and miss the airing, so thanks to @Brierrose for starting the thread. Yeah this was the real season premiere to me. Not amazing, but a solid start. Just nice to have Kara actually back in the fold again. That last scene with Alex in particular was great.

Random, but the flying shots in this ep looked worse than ever before, imo. I can't believe this episode was directed by the former head VFX guy because those choices of angles for those VFX shots? Yikes.

I was both amused by and appreciated how quickly they friend-zoned Kara/William. Glad we don't have to worry about them wasting anymore screentime in these final episodes on that "romance." I also appreciate that while they've made this Zor-El far too nice and normal for my liking, he proved here that deep down he's still some version of the mad scientist of Krypton he often is in the comics, lol. I was also worried that too much of this final season would be focused on him, so I'm glad to see that doesn't look to be case.

 

Actually... In the crashing satellite sequence, I thought the wide-angle shots of Kara and Zor flying were impressive. Almost certainly, these were CG animations. But the figures looked smooth and naturalistic (e.g., limb movement, cape flapping). And the overall lighting was likewise good. In prior efforts, as I recall, such scenes tended to look stiff, robotic or otherwise “fake” — or else "super speed" and/or “blurring” SFX were used to disguise the flaws. But here, the CG was conspicuously better.

However!... the closer shots of the actual actors (against green screen, presumably) were awkwardly framed and photographically “grainy” and washed out. Those, I grant you, were poor.

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Seems like Supergirl is embracing its own internal continuity — with no effort to match anything going on in Superman & Lois. Thus, the reference to Argo City and the particular configuration of the FOS. But at least Kara mentioned her cousin.

 

Kara returns from the phantom zone, and Clark can't even be bothered to check in.

 

Meh. We all know why, especially with Covid restrictions. Same thing with the Avengers - why didn't Iron Man call the Avengers in Iron Man 3? Etc, etc.

 

They really had to reference Central City Strong, didn't they? Sure, connectiveness is fun, but did you really have to reference the worse episode this whole damn arrowverse put out?

Anyway, nice to see Kara back with everyone, getting back to the full strength of the series. Getting friendzoned by William was great though.

 

He could've sent a text.

Stark was probably too proud and/or arrogant, plus IM3 happened in a shorter period of time.

 

This show is starting to look like something from the Sci Fi channel. I don't like the watch tower set. It has this dark and dingy feel to it.

Didn't think it was a very interesting story either about pollution. Also how would Kellex turn into a trash monster that's able to walk?

Did Jason Behr's voice sound like that in Roswell? It sounds more British now.