During these past few years, there had been DC comic related superheroes drama series- beginning from the pioneer of the series, (Green) Arrow Season 6, then the Flash S4 followed by Supergirl S3 and Legends of Tomorrow S3. Every season had around 20 episodes and there is a major crossover per season and 2 minor crossovers. My favourite Supergirl series, season 2, was recently showing on the Channel 5 television network.
Let's kick things off with the origin of Supergirl.
Let me take you back to the moment when the planet Krypton was disintegrating.
The great Mr. Zor-El tearfully forced his 14-year old daughter Kara Zor-El into a safe escape pod, imparting her with the responsibility to take care of her 2 year-old cousin Kal-El, who was in separate pod. So, the pods escaped planet Krypton. However, Kara Zol-El's pod was knocked off-course and got sucked into the PHAMTOM ZONE. Kal-El's pod landed safety on Planet Earth and adopted by the Kents, hence he became known as reporter Clark Kent aka "Superman". 24 years later, Kara Zor-El pod made its way to Earth and was rescued by Superman. However, this version of Kara was a 14-year old and Superman was 24 years old at the same time, which is why I emphasized the PHANTOM ZONE, the significance that it freezes time for whoever is trapped in it. In hindsight, Supergirl should have been the more senior, if not for the unforseen circumstance.
So Kara was adopted by the Danvers family with the recommendation of Superman. Papa Danver was involved in unlocking Superman's powers. Not much of Kara Danvers, aka Supergirl teenage life has been shown, except way later during Season 3 when they showed a flashback. Anyway, fast forward 10 years and Kara Danvers works in CatCo, a renowned news broadcasting industry. Her sister, Alex Danvers, was boarding a plane when the plane was in an accident. Kara Danvers saved the plane but in the process, was forced to reveal her powers to the world, and was born as.. Supergirl! As a result, Supergirl had to work in the secret agency known as the D.E.O, with a mission to counter evil alien threat (though Kara is an alien herself, she is good). Just to clarify, Supergirl resided in NATIONAL CITY (California area) while Superman was from METROPOLIS (New York area). Her sister also happened to work in the DEO as a secret agent.
The leader of the DEO was known as J'onn J'Jonzz, who was in fact the Green Martian, supposingly the "last Martian on Earth". In order to hide his identity, he shapeshifted into a human being named Hank Hankshaw, who he accidentally killed (lol). There was also a history with the White Martians but i will explain in a later part.
Anyway, as you can tell this is all I have to say for Season 1 as I did not follow this season closely and to me, it was the least exciting. In my opinion, season 1 was merely introducing Supergirl to the audience, nothing more. I cannot wait to elaborate further for Seasons 2 and 3 - i love S2 and S3, so stay tuned!
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