jab@uokvax.UUCP (11/26/84)
I just saw "Supergirl". Do you remember how BAD you expected "Superman" to be, only to be pleasantly suprised? This is that bad. <<< SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER >>> In the comics, Argo City survived the explosions that killed Superman's parents because the chunk of the planet that it was on was hurled into space intact. Although the surface of the planetoid began to turn into kryptonite, they paved the streets with lead and went about their business. Several years later, a meteor storm clobbered the city and destroyed the lead barriers; the inhabitants of Argo City died from the subsequent exposure to Krypton, except for Lara, the niece of Jorel (Superman's father), whose father sent HER off to Earth. She was met by Superman, who gave her the name "Linda Lee" and took her off to an orphanage to live. (She was several years younger than Superman, and was adopted by yet-another-kindly-couple, if I remember correctly.) --- In this movie, Argo City survived, although we don't know how. The architecture of the city is quite different from Jorel's city, and we don't know why. This cute girl (Helen Slater) finds her way off the planetoid, looking for a power source that Argo City is reliant upon. She gets to Earth, announces herself as Supergirl, and promptly finds a poster of Superman --- the only real mention of him. (Guess that Christopher Reeve wasn't interested in a five minute cameo.) It gets worse. The plot complications from "Superman III" (remember the silly computer episode?) surface when Faye Dunaway finds the power source and uses it to practice black magic. It gets worse and worse and worse. I wish that the stupid husband/wife team responsible for this would go into another business, like selling vacuum cleaners. Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL