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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What are the initial reactions to 'Supergirl'?
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Mal and Joe House of R? Yeah, follow them. Follow the House of R pod on Instagram. They've got the- Are you going to give their handle? House of R pod. I just did. I'm just saying. At House of R pod.
At House of R pod.
I just did.
I'm not talking to you. I just did. There's a lot of lane switching. Okay? This was the A-B. Remember that joint? It's an A-B conversation. See your way out of it. All right. I got to tell you real quick. I'm out. Real quick. I'm fucking with you, Steve. We all in the same conversation. Y'all. I saw a nigga get his ass whooped so bad off that joint.
What? I got to tell you a story. What?
I'm sorry. So we had gone. It's funny. We had gone to the Stennis Space Center. Which I talked about this on another podcast. It just recently came back up. We were going to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. There's a space center in Mississippi where they like build rockets and shit. Okay, cool.
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Chapter 3: What themes are introduced regarding the character of Supergirl?
It's like a little bit of a drive. I can't remember where it is. It might be like a three or four hour drive. So like the bus ride at that point in your life is as big a deal as the actual bus ride. That's the funnest part.
Yeah. That's the funnest part. Who you going to sit next to?
All of that shit. We would, especially, so, like, when we would have baseball trips or football trips, sometimes the Chili's would be there or whatever, but, like, when we would, like, go to, like, Astroworld, then there are girls on the bus. Yeah. That just changed the completely dynamic, right? What grade are you in around? I'm probably in the 10th grade at this point. Okay, okay.
9th or 10th grade. And so we go into the Stennis Space Center, and everybody's trying to figure out, you know, who they're going to spend the day with, looking at fucking things. You could always make some kind of fucking... inroads with a girl, you get a lot of time with her, blah, blah, blah.
Sure, sure.
So there was, I'm not going to name these people because I still talk to them. There was a guy who was talking to a girl the whole time, and this other guy kept trying to get in on the conversation, right? He kept trying to like, because he was monopolizing her time. Right. And he kept trying to get in on the conversation.
And he looked at him and he was like, yo, man, this is an A-B conversation, right? see your way out of that bitch and we was like and then everything was cool for about two minutes and he went You know what? Nigga, you can see me when we get off the bus. I was like, yo, I know y'all niggas not about to fight on the field trip.
You can't do it on the field trip. Why are they doing a kamikaze maneuver on a field trip? That's like, oh, so now y'all got to sit on the fucking bus.
Ruin everybody's time. Also, dawg, it's early. Because this is a long drive. So, man, bruh, it might be like 9 o'clock in the morning, 10 o'clock in the morning. It's not that early. I mean, you're in school at that time. But like, so anyway, I'm looking. I'm like, y'all can't fight on the field trip, bruh. Y'all going to fuck the whole field trip.
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift towards the film's execution and impact?
So the guy that got dissed. Won the fight. Who? No. The guy that got the C-line. Nah, hell nah.
No, no, no. He got his ass whooped. Okay. Because he was on some pretty shit. Right.
But that, to me, that's flagrant. Why are you hating on my man? He's locking in. It was shoddy. Nobody looking at you. Come on, bro. You can't take the social else like that.
I'm going to be real. We was watching. It was one of those joints where we was like, hey, man, we got to do something, bro. We got to step in. That's too much. We got to intervene. Chill, bro. Chill. Chill. Teacher comes back. She's like, what? God damn it.
Wait, what happened on the rest of the trip? Were y'all just in trouble? Nigga, the vibes was dead.
Are you nuts? Killed the whole thing, bro. The vibes was dead, bro. The vibes was fucking dead, bro. Brutal. That was it, man.
Dog, the drive back on a bus must have been crazy.
It had dissipated by then. We went back to the Center Space Center and we had a lot of fun, but that one, they fucked it up. One of those guys never saw him again. Tough. How are the people? The girls and the guy that was talking, they dated for a long time. Oh, that's nice. They did. The nigga had his ass whooped up. That was funny.
Hey, but here's the thing. If you a pretty young nigga, sometimes I'm just like, hey, you don't got to have hands. Hey, hey, hey. It happens.
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Chapter 5: What are the key character dynamics between Supergirl and Superman?
Go, white boy, go, white boy, go.
I need a Kryptonian. No, no, Steve likes that.
He likes that. We're going to party so hard in San Diego, I can't wait. I'll be Malibu's most wanted.
You say this every year and then we just go back home.
You in bed at 8.30. You the first one. You the first one out.
We eat too much dinner at like 7 p.m.
and then we go to bed. I have a dream. Y'all make me.
I have a dream.
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Chapter 6: How does the film portray Supergirl's trauma compared to Superman's privilege?
Every year you're like, this year we're going to go on some boats. I'm waiting.
We're going on a boat this year for sure. It's whale watching season. Steve, just go ahead and go. I'll try to be nice, but you guys don't like that. My fault, Dr. King. Steve, you got something?
No, it's genuinely the best parts of this movie. And it sucks because the most illustrated that Kara is as a character, fully fleshed out, is when she is sitting across from Clark and Superman. Because of the fact that, again, Clark had everything from birth. Yes, he is technically an orphan. Yes, he is technically like the lost child of a society long dead.
But he never knew any of that and never truly experienced any of it. And he had pretty much the most charmed life
Chapter 7: What are the main criticisms regarding Supergirl's character development?
that anybody could have ever hoped for, along with being the fact that he's all-powerful, all-seeing, and the most kind-hearted person in the world. Kara doesn't have that, and therefore cannot relate to any of him.
And that makes their interplay really interesting.
It's amazing to see.
Because she carries the trauma of Krypton with her. He only carries the genius. Like, he's not burdened by... He doesn't know anything about it. He's not burdened by it. He only carries the genius. He carries a tremendous privilege when it comes to being Kryptonian. She carries all the burden and the trauma with it. So she's actually making more of a choice to serve than he is. Yes.
Because all he's doing is protecting his backyard.
And again, we haven't praised Millie Alcock enough.
Damn, we're podding in this motherfucker today.
We haven't praised Millie Alcock enough about it because when she's across from David Cornsweat and... Corn Sweat's amazing in these scenes. So is she.
Superman is like kind of afraid of her because he's like trying his best to like relate and not offend her and be like this kind of like stewardship for humanity and goodness and not lose her to these benders and these self-destructive tendencies that he clearly sees her on. And it's like trying to lull her back into like being... safe and assured and a good person. And she outright rejects him.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the film's box office performance for the future of the DC Universe?
Read the headline. Read the headline. Published July 29th, 2020. Sexism is rife in Nigerian, Kenyan, and South African press. And it's unchecked.
It's the world coming in. And it's unchecked. Unchecked is crazy.
What did you Google to get that? Why were you trying to find that? This is a publication called The Conversation. Academic rigor, journalistic flair.
Journalistic flair. Limby, Blummel, and... Hey, man. Oh, right. We not doing this.
Oh, look. This lady, but she from there. So she know what she talking about. So look. So Jomie's saying that the best parts of the Supergirl movie is Superman. We not... We got to get away.
Before we get off like Millie Alcock and Superman, I mean Supergirl, what I realize is the Peter Quillification of her character doesn't make sense. Because the whole, what I thought was interesting about it is I'm like, well, she was a teenager when she grew up on Krypton.
So this is essentially like a back to the future situation where it's like, yo, her present was way more futuristic than anything Superman has on fucking Earth. So why is our understanding of her character so wrapped up in her loving earth music and all of these other things where I'm like, she should almost think that shit is beneath her.
Not only earth music, but specifically old tech. Yeah. Like the scrolling iPod, the Polaroid, the 80s headphones. That doesn't make any sense.
They had beats back then. What are you doing? But to me, I'm just like, she comes from another culture where I'm like, To me, it's almost more interesting if Clark is the one with the fucking bad music taste, with the iPod trying to share it with her. Yeah, hokey. And she's just like, dog, I'm older than you, stronger than you, and this shit is not of me.
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