Outside of the film, lets be real::: For Kara to go her own way is to retcon the cousin connection or just retcon her entirely from a universe that has a Superman already, or turn her into a Superman villain, or turn her into either Supermans daughter (Superman: secret identity) & he steps down, depowers with age, goes missing or dies honorably-- which technically is nepo still, but thats a way more organic torch pass, than a miracle survivor cousin which trivializes Kal surviving at all (And I STAND by that because it's 100% facts).
And a daughter being trained by Superman, Batman & WW displays she earns the mantle.
Vs the cousin just being handed the suit being of family ties, aka nepotism.
Or the DCAU route which was unintentionally better because STAS couldn't use Kara Zor-EL legally at the time so they just made her "In Ze" as a work around and that ended up being better anyway.
Kara can NOT go her own way getting by on nepotism. She can NOT go her own way wearing the same costume aesthetic, doing the same thing just with an edgy attitude or that cutesy cali-girl vibe, or the rough girly big sister schtick or the powergirl gimmick. Or whatever Woman of Tomorrow caught itself trying to do.
Just gimmicks, gimmicks, & another stock Kara Zor- El finds herself for the thousandth time filler arc. No substance. No purpose.
She's likeable, but her concept is likeable garbage.
I say this on every video on Kara Bore-El Disparu does that I happen to be on because it's true: The movie was doomed to be cheap, not bad, not the worst but weak knees because that reflects the character.
*To improve Supergirl is to rewrite the character entirely, DC & WB refuse to do that, they instead double-down and so--- this will keep happening.*
Not if the film had the guts, but if DC had the guts. But perhaps there's truth in that, because if the film did go that route, the comics would likely follow. Either way, the pivot has to start somehow.
She will never represent anything feminist when her namesake & stake is because of who she knows. Not what she's done. And the most significant thing she's ever done, twice was sacrifice herself, and it got undone; trivialized. Both times.
When if that was kept intact, she'd be immortalized, because both sacrifices were actually pretty moving, and that's coming from me.
When a manchild spoof of Superman (Prime) has a better character arc than Supergirl, while having a similar tragedy & origin parallel to hers, and far less material given to actually be a character vs a mascot; he's leagues more insufferable yet somehow has a more staple cult presence & nuance (and i use that lightly) than she ever did but she's the one that keeps getting chances, because of relation, not depth or global significance; Kara needs a rework, badly.
It has less to do with feminism & the actress, and everything to do with what you're adapting. Avatar The Last Airbender was plenty feminist, and that didn't stop it from owning.
2:09 There's a difference between scorning an audience that could have supported, or a movie of a character that has a fanbase, but no audience or meaningful significance in the first place. There's a difference.
Can't blame it all on politics or optics, not all of it; the material is just dry af.
If they made an adaptation of Kara's DC Nuclear Winter story, people would love it. Why? Because it's a moving story. I'd sooner recommend people read that than Woman of Tomorrow.
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