Supergirl #8

[superfangirl1]

Many silver age years ago...







In Present Day. Somebody ramshackle Kara's foster parents home at night and on the next day. Supergirl investigate why and try to find the culprit.








You can't save everybody.

Comments

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oof.

This makes me feel even worse about these toys I haven't been able to get back from my relatives' place in a long time. I just hope they're okay.

[mister_terrific]

If it's any consolation, my daughter's very favorite toy was her battered Raggedy Ann, who she called "friend". I rescued Friend from toy stores, restaurants, etc. over the course of five years. At one point Friend was falling apart, so my MIL kindly offered to repair her. And then she never returned her to my kid. The woman had serious issues, to say the least.

So...a few years back, I casually mentioned that I was working on a quilt for my kid, and it would be really cool to use the pieces of Friend in it. She heartily agreed (probably because I'd be tearing it apart), and gave it back to me. I promptly sent Friend to my daughter, and she's in her bedroom to this day.

Yes, I lied. I have no regrets and would do it all over again.

[beyondthefringe]

This makes me sad because I really thought this would wind up happily for the Linda Leebot. So far Kara's been able to help everyone else.

I like how Campbell is gleefully mining all of Kara's most bizarre Silver Age content and making it still feel relevant to her modern day status quo.

And if anything ever happens to Lesla-Lar, I say we riot.

[thanekos]

I can't believe the Linda robot is her Mon-El.

[cainofdreaming]

Yeah, it's a sad story but my broken brain can't help but to wonder why they can't just repair her. She's a robot after all, like Supergirl says.

[metadronos]

I think the idea here is that while Lindabot was indeed a robot, her personality, including her memories, was one that Kara had become accustomed to. Repairing her hardware might result in a hard reset of her mind, meaning all that made her a person, if a non-biological one, would be gone. From that point on she'd have different experiences, different memories of those experiences, and thus be a different person, rather than the Lindabot Kara knew resurrected.

[cainofdreaming]

How would they know if they don't check the hardware holding her software? I don't instantly assume that my computer has lost all of its data if it crashes. Or even if it bursts into fire like once happened.

[shakalooloo]

The number of times Red "it's okay to dismember a robot" Tornado has been repaired, the Justice League should be able to sort this no problem.

[blues32]

Yeah, that's not a good example for that lesson. Kara screwed up. She forgot Lindabot and that's why she's in rough condition. It's her fault. This isn't a "you can't save everyone" moment. This is a "great responsibility" moment.