#wow just @ courtney next time smh......

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Stargirl 1.06 “The Justice Society” is officially out on DCU and I’m here to talk about it.

Can we talk about how Sportsmaster & Tigress kick the football coach’s arse literally just because he benches their daughter? They’re supervillains but maybe not absolutely evil people. At least they give a shit about their kid. (Also they’re both easily the hottest adults in this show. I’d let Sportsmaster raw me any day, I mean, look at his hair while wearing his suit!)

I’ve talked about the visuals for the Staff before but have I talked about the sound design? Because holy shit, it sounds awesome. 

“I thought we were in this together” Pat didn’t you bench her, like, 2 episodes ago? Pat seems so offended that Courtney is beginning to assemble a team but, yet again, didn’t he just say that he doesn’t wanna do a new team at all like 2 episodes again? (Also rude of you to bring up my baby boi Pat. Yeah Joey died but so far he’s been the catalyst for this whole damn team, show him the respect he deserves). And this whole “I thought you respected me more than this” works both ways pal. I get he’s just trying to protect these kids, and yeah they have no idea what they’ve really gotten themselves into, but Pat isn’t really doing much to help here. 

We keep seeing all these specific shots of The Pen and I’m really excited to see where they’re going with this. I know what The Pen is, obviously, and I really wanna know what the plan. Are we gonna see Jakeem get it this season? Or someone else?? Who knows!

Yolanda & Courtney watching Wildcat fight seemingly without knowing they’re watching Wildcat is top tier shit. Beth becoming friends with the AI in the goggles is so cute (& sad but not her fault). I hope we get some real development for her. She’s one of the stars of the show and she best get the love she deserves. Oh, so you’ll go to Rick for help Pat, but not your own step-daughter smh. 

I feel so bad for Yo & Beth when Courtney has to tell them that she needs the gear back. Especially when Court put so much effort into letting Yo choose to still be Wildcat. And the Pat & Rick confrontation is so satisfying. I’ve gotta agree with Rick on some level. I don’t think he’s been useless or anything, but Courtney has certainly been the one getting shit done for once. 

I think the family bits are some of the best. I feel the Arrowverse shows are a little lacking in the family department and this show fucking nails it over and over. I’m a huge fan of the dark, angsty superhero dynamics, but I love that this show doesn’t really have much of that. It has dark moments sure but it’s not an overall dark show. Like, Barbara comes to see Mike at his science fair and then the two go home and literally eat his candy volcano, I love it.

With the first mission starting up, I’m here for this really messy team dynamic. The first part of the mission is set to “Timber” by Kesha & Pitbull, you have no idea how long I’ve wanted an action scene set to this song (also wow how much did that cost?) I love it when first missions immediately go wrong. Gambler is somewhere entirely different and they get ambushed by Sportsmaster & Tigress. I really love the dynamic between the team and the villains. We do get to see the whole “villains who know better than the heroes” thing in other shows, but never to this degree. The heroes are so clearly outmatched. We get some of our first real fight scenes in this episode and the fight choreo is so good. I really appreciate how Courtney & Yo seem to be the best fighters in the team, and both have been set up well for it. Yo is obviously a champion boxer, as we’ve seen many times since he first episode, and they established Courtney as well versed in some martial art, I think karate, back in episode 1 with all the trophies and photos in her room. But even this two are so clearly outmatched by the skill and experience of Sportsmaster & Tigress. The irony of Courtney venting to Pat about her team doing exactly what Pat has been telling her for the last two episodes is really funny though, and I think I can kinda forgive the things I complained about earlier in this very recap/review.

Ooooooh the Crisis shot! The first big team shot!! OMFG!!! And we get a villain team shot too? Sure, not the full villain team, but it’s still pretty cool. 

I hope eventually we get updated, modernized suits for Beth & Rick.

Next week is 1.07 “Shiv Part One” which seems like it’ll be yet another origin story, probably for Cindy this time. I’m really hoping for a training montage with the JSA and I would like to see a little more of Cameron. Let’s get in some time with the kids being kids at school. At this point we’re more or less halfway through Season 1, so I wanna start seeing something about what Project New America actually is, especially if we’re getting a villain episode next.