5. The Special Effects - Down
You had Kara flying around, saving planes, keeping pace with traffic, fighting bad guys with lasers from her eyes. It all created the world and her powers really well, but the only drawback here was the special effects work. Granted, it's on CBS, so it isn't going to have the biggest of budgets, and it's only the pilot so there's plenty of room to improve, but a lot of the time in this episode they really didn't look too impressive. In particular the opening stuff on Krypton wasn't great. It's not the biggest problem with the show, and they should be cut some leeway for managing to pull off flight on a network TV show, but with the good effects work done on shows like, uh, The Flash without a big budget, there's certainly room for improvement here.
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