u/SuckingOnChileanDogs

I saw it yesterday after being absolutely beaten down by opinions and reviews, and came out pleasantly surprised. It’s pretty okay. Good, even, at times. Milly’s performance, the flashback scenes, all solid.
But I’m a huge fan of Woman of Tomorrow and I need to talk about what I think is the biggest mistake they made.

Ruthye is not a sidekick. She is the POV character of the comic, and arguably even the protagonist. The story is her story, filtered through her eyes and narration. The movie doesn’t even attempt that, and I genuinely don’t understand why.

That one shift has a domino effect on everything else people are criticizing. Krem is an uninteresting villain with shoehorned superpowers so he can fight Supergirl? Not if Ruthye is the one who confronts him at the end, like she does in the comic, in a moment that also recontextualizes her entire narration. The Krypto twist and the unnecessary ticking clock feel like symptoms of the same root problem. Once you make Kara the POV character, you trap yourself into a different set of decisions.

It really does feel like the script was built off a plot summary rather than an actual reading of the source material. The movie is being unfairly maligned overall, but as someone who loves the comic, I can’t pretend that didn’t sting.

Despite there being 8 new cards, most of which are centered around "Empowering" cards, only ONE of them has the key word On Reveal, Ongoing, Activate, or End of Turn.

(I took this video while feeding a baby so ignore the insane sounds lol)

This is a long story that unfortunately has a "yeah that happened" vibe but, it happened lol.

So, about 2 years ago almost to the day, I was working a job as a mid level manager at a food warehouse. I had just gotten another job, and had put in my two week notice. Everyone was sad to see me go, but it was better money and it was time to move on. About a week prior to getting that job offer though, I was approached by HR who were having an investigation into my then boss, who was the senior manager of second shift. I helped with the investigation, told them what they wanted to know, and kinda forgot about it. The investigation wasn't for anything super salacious, the guy was just kind of a piece of shit and regularly said very inappropriate things about people to myself and the other managers and team leaders that we didn't find to be very professional, and also he wasn't very good at his job, which didn't help.

Anyway, about a week into my final 2 weeks, I come into work one day and immediately I get pulled aside by the VP of Operations, and asked to go to his office. He tells me that effective immediately, my boss had been fired due to the investigation, and then he asks me if I would reconsider leaving because they're gonna be in a tough spot now losing me and him. I thanked him for the opportunity but said, no thanks. The rest of the shift was somewhat uneventful, until about halfway through the night, he calls one of the other managers. That manager left the room with the call, but we could hear his voice for a quick second and he was obviously quite, quite drunk.

Like an hour later the manager comes back just kind of laughing, says old boss was indeed very drunk and just kind of spinning out and was mostly asking about who was involved in the investigation. A few minutes later, my phone starts ringing.

Now you all saw the screenshots attached so I don't think I have to really explain what happened next, but I ignored the calls, and he finally started texting me. He ended up calling me about 30 more times that night, all of which I ignored.

I ended up skipping the next day of work and using one of my last vacation days, but during that night one of the managers on duty texted me to say that the security cams kept picking up somebody who was hanging out outside of the area where people would leave the facility and periodically driving around (the facility was gated and you needed a badge to get in). I said, okay fuck it, I'm already in my last two weeks, I'm not going back.

The following day, I went back into work well before second shift would normally start to talk with the VP and tell him that I was just not gonna come back because I was genuinely afraid that my old boss was going to try and do something (he was a divorced 40 something man who was really into guns and going through a bitter custody fight, so, you do the math there). The VP understood, tried to talk me into staying for a possible small raise one more time, I declined, and that was that.

He then decided though, since I was already leaving, to tell me a little more about the situation. Turns out that old boss was a bad, bad alcoholic, and would often call the VP drunk after getting home from work to complain or vent about his divorce. The VP himself initiated the investigation because he couldn't stand the guy anymore but needed to go through the proper channels. It gets worse though. After old boss was fired, he had to give over his badge and equipment, but they forgot to take his company credit card. So he went directly from work to a bar, got massively liquored up, and then went and tried to buy a couple $1k+ massive HDTVs on the company card and put it in the VPs name, but send them back to his own apartment. VP found out because he got an alert email about a suspicious payment attempt at the Best Buy from the town that the old boss lived in, called the store, and an employee told that there was a drunk guy there trying to make the payment. (Again I'm aware of how literally incredible this all sounds, I think the dude was just crashing out extremely hard and also he's kind of a dumbass)

Finally, he told me that the reason old boss had actually gotten a divorce (he always said his wife cheated on him and tried to take the kids away) was because he got drunk and assaulted her and was arrested. I looked it up later, and literally just googling his name brought up his mugshot.

Old boss tried calling me a few more times over the next week, but never texted me again and eventually that was that.

My 3 keys to acing the exam. They might not work for you, but they did for me.

1. Remember that this is a test of your knowledge of the PMI process, not in being an effective project manager in reality. Convert "what should the project manager do" to "what does the PMI say the project manager should do" in your head. It helps.

2. Learn how to read questions and answers. The questions always give way more info than necessary, and if you squint you can translate most answers into what they really mean.

-Increase budget

-Delay the project

-Something that sounds good but has nothing to do with the problem

-or Solve the problem in the PMI approved way without adding time or money

Pick that last one.

3. Trust your gut. I only did 1 full length practice exam (got a 78 on that) and about 10 mini practice exams. The thing I noticed was that most of my wrong answers, I spent more time on, and usually I changed the answer a couple times before moving on. My first instinct was usually right. When I just took the exam for real, every time I felt stumped, I went with my gut and didn't overthink it.

Good luck everybody, I'm looking forward to never looking at any of this shit again if I don't have to!