I'm usually ashamed when I admit that I wasn't paying attention to a movie. But in this case, it was so stupid (I know, on purpose) that I just couldn't keep track. So I want to know if the title character does find that thing she went to Earth to find. Actually, is she planning on going back to where she came from? Where DID she come from? Didn't Planet Krypton explode?
shareThe Supergirl film adaptation strayed a great deal from the original comic book source.
Edited to fix some factual errors due to a poor memory... The first incarnation of Kara Zor-El was from the 1950s, and she was conceived as the daughter of Alura and Zor-El, (Zor-El being Jor-El's brother -- Kal-El's father). Kara was born in Argo City, one of Krypton's cities. It miraculously escaped the cataclysm that destroyed Krypton, and was flung out into space, surviving with an air bubble around it. Also, Jor-El had convinced the city leaders to build a dome over Argo when predictions of the planet's demise were floated.
In the movie, the folks behind it thought it would be so much more "artistic" and "creative" to have Argo City somehow "existing" in "Inner Space". Thank God they did even this, and not the other "brilliant" idea they had, which was to have it existing in a dew drop on a leaf (?!?!!?!??!!).
Anyway, back to the movie. Apparently, Argo City is powered by something called an Omegahedron. I've no idea if Omegahedrons existed in comic book continuity, nor do I particularly care. All that matters is that we understand that without the Omegahedron in Argo, the place and its inhabitants will slowly perish.
Impulsive Kara goes after it in Zaltar's Traveller, and somehow arrives on Earth, out of a lake, no less. I suppose we're meant to understand that "Inner Space" exists in some dimension (or "register", as Zaltar calls it, in the Director's Cut) within Earth, but whatever. That's apparently the extent of how "brilliant" and "creative" the makers of the movie were, figuring they could be so much more interesting than the boring old canon comic book origin. (Sigh.)
By the end of the film, yes, Kara has recovered the Omegahedron from the clutches of the evil witch, Selena, and yes, she is seen flying back to Argo City, where the lights surrounding it brighten again as she nears the structure.
The End.
Certa Bonum Certamen
Thanks.
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