TMC
10-19-2016, 01:38 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/m/3a286c04-3452-3536-b702-587e5fa6bed8/ss_supergirl-season-2-is-a-soft.html
It can work: Babylon 5 got a new Captain for Season 2 and soldiered on to four more seasons, the Power Rangers have managed a major status-quo shift about once every season or so, and many Law & Order fans feel the show didn’t fully come into its own until Sam Watterson replaced Michael Moriarity as D.A. More often, however, it’s a shift that can’t be recovered from. Despite its limited success rate, this sort of “soft reboot” is exactly what Supergirl is looking to manage in its second season. Whereas the first half of this two-part season premiere (https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/a6305532-ec8b-3e17-b3dd-4670b805b758/supergirl%3A-%22the-last-children.html) was largely concerned with establishing a new(er) tone, episode 2 (“The Last Children of Krypton” (https://www.yahoo.com/tv/supergirl-recap-2-kryptonians-equal-toomuchfun-045943432.html)) is significantly more concerned with narrative housekeeping. At least one big change happened largely offscreen (in terms of the decision-making) in the previous episode, with DEO Headquarters relocating from its expensive-looking underground cave set from season 1, to something more like a converted office building. It’s a mostly cosmetic adjustment, though it does serve to deprive Supergirl of a recurring element that helped visually distinguish it from other series in the genre.
It can work: Babylon 5 got a new Captain for Season 2 and soldiered on to four more seasons, the Power Rangers have managed a major status-quo shift about once every season or so, and many Law & Order fans feel the show didn’t fully come into its own until Sam Watterson replaced Michael Moriarity as D.A. More often, however, it’s a shift that can’t be recovered from. Despite its limited success rate, this sort of “soft reboot” is exactly what Supergirl is looking to manage in its second season. Whereas the first half of this two-part season premiere (https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/a6305532-ec8b-3e17-b3dd-4670b805b758/supergirl%3A-%22the-last-children.html) was largely concerned with establishing a new(er) tone, episode 2 (“The Last Children of Krypton” (https://www.yahoo.com/tv/supergirl-recap-2-kryptonians-equal-toomuchfun-045943432.html)) is significantly more concerned with narrative housekeeping. At least one big change happened largely offscreen (in terms of the decision-making) in the previous episode, with DEO Headquarters relocating from its expensive-looking underground cave set from season 1, to something more like a converted office building. It’s a mostly cosmetic adjustment, though it does serve to deprive Supergirl of a recurring element that helped visually distinguish it from other series in the genre.