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Supergirl Season 5 Has Already Aged Badly

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (20149)
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https://screenrant.com/supergirl-season-5-story-technology-bad-coronavirus/

The anti-technology message of Supergirl season 5 seems short-sighted in the age of Coronavirus, where social media is helping save lives.

The anti-technology message at the heart of Supergirl season 5 seems horribly tone-deaf and out of date in the wake of the Coronavirus. The recent real-world crisis has highlighted the fatal flaw of the season's thesis - that emerging technologies are responsible for most of society's ills.

The spread of the Coronavirus has been a major setback for Supergirl and most of the other Arrowverse series. Production on the shows halted with the final few episodes of The Flash and Batwoman that still haven't been filmed, along with the Supergirl season 5 finale. Yet the most adverse effect the Coronavirus may have had on Supergirl was showcasing the flawed the premise of the current season.

The central theme of Supergirl season 5 has been that reliance on technology is causing people to lose touch with their basic humanity and all of the series' new villains have been used to push this idea - but those ideas are simply wrong. Consider Gamemnae - the current leader of the alien group Leviathan, who used advanced technology to secretly rule the world for thousands of years. Her pawn, Andrea Rojas, runs the Obsidian North tech firm that created the world's most advanced virtual reality community, Obsidian Platinum, allowing people to literally live in their own little world. Lena Luthor, though not quite a full-fledged villain yet, has been portrayed as losing perspective as she developed technology that would alter people's minds, making them unable to hurt one another physically or emotionally.

Even the season's most minor villains have pushed this anti-tech ideology. "Back From The Future" introduced a new Toyman, who menaced people with advanced drones before transforming himself into a killer artificial intelligence. "The Bodyguard" saw Andrea Rojas threatened by a woman whose husband committed suicide after becoming addicted to Obsidian Platinum during its beta testing. The chief villain of "Reality Bytes" was an transphobic bigot, who used a dating app to stalk and assault trans women. "Alex In Wonderland" showed every person using Obsidian Platinum (including the iron-willed Alex Danvers) losing touch with reality after only a few hours.

While video game addiction and trans-bashing are serious issues, Supergirl's handling of said issues within the context of the season's larger message has been misguided, at best. This has become particularly apparent in the wake of the measures taken to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, where technology has been more of a help than a hindrance. Ignoring how streaming sites and online games help to stave off cabin fever, the Internet has proven invaluable in helping people work from home and students continue their studies. And in defiance of Supergirl season 5's message, it is technology that is enabling people to make connections to friends and family and reach out to the real world in this difficult time.

The truth is that evil dwells in the heart of humanity; not in an external machine. And it is poor communication rather than technology that allows evil to flourish. Most of the villains of Supergirl season 5 were created because of a failure to communicate or empathize with others; not because of the technology they used to lash out at the world and there is a cruel irony that Supergirl, usually the most emphatic of heroes, seems to be missing that point in her current crusade.

[–] cyguration (3951) 4 years ago

Actually, the show is right (for once): Without social media and fake-stream media America wouldn't have been shut down over something with a 99.67% survival rate and where more people were put at a disadvantage over the shutdowns than had they not happened.

The job-loss toll, suicide toll, stress toll, and countless amounts of financial hardships put upon people who couldn't afford it all could have been avoided without sites like Screenrant and equally tone-deaf Left-wing propaganda outlets convincing people to wear masks (even when the science has long since decided that masks don't work):
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

And that fear-mongering was a great way to get people to stay in so they could right proper screw up the elections using faulty, highly manipulative machines:
https://youtu.be/Xah-eI3mpBU
https://rumble.com/vbqnqj-dominion-vote-fraud-coffee-county-georgia.html

I hate Supergirl and all its Left-wing foisting propaganda, but that's probably the one thing they got right.

[–] TearofLys (2643) 4 years ago

99.9% of people who contract coronavirus survive it (including me). That is an irrefutable fact that mainstream media will never tell you. The mortality rate for those under 60 is effectively zero, and this is with them using every trick imaginable to attribute deaths to coronavirus (e.g. instance of people being hit by a car or shot to death being recorded as dying due to coronavirus because they had coronavirus antibodies in their autopsy).

What is terrifying to me is not Coronavirus, but that the mainstream media that I used to depend on to tell me the truth about the world has morphed into a propaganda machine that bears more than a passing resemblance to "The Ministry of Truth" from the story "1984" by George Orwell.

[–] bozo_500 (13119) 4 years ago

but why has this happened with the media though? (not just the virus but everything) im pretty sure it wasnt like this 20years ago (maybe whatever they are now was starting around then?).. whats really going on with the media ?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

You just need to be a savvy consumer of media, and do research on anything that you have questions about (and not get caught up in crackpot conspiracy theories like the kinds that keep getting repeated on this very site).
For example, in the early months there were just a few states that were lumping together deaths in which Covid was present even if the direct cause of death was something else, but after the public *and the news media* critiqued them for it, they changed their metrics. So the counts got more accurate, especially as retroactive numbers were corrected.