Supergirl- An animated series kicking of the newest batch of DC animated show, the focus shifts from the Man of Steel to his cousin. While the show contains plenty of nods to Superman and his mythos, the show's main focus is on Supergirl's coming of age in the shadow of her cousin while fighting crime and becoming the protector of her own city. Many praised the characterization on how Kara Linda Denvers was with her cousin, being a more-open city girl having to adjust to a smaller town compared to her cousin's country moust in the big city characterization. Additonal praise was granted to Supergirl's Rogues Gallery as it was distinct from SUperman's whith many fans applauding the modernization and revitalization of many older and more obscure villains such as Satan Girl, Blackflame and Lesla-Lar. Lastly, Krypton was given additional world-building through Kara as retains memories of it unlike her cousin.
The show lasted a 100 episodes, taking place in a five-year span as Kara goes from teenagerhood to adulthood. Notable milestones include her teammup with Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), arriving in a universe where she was the world's most recognized heroine instead of her cousin (inspired by the Elseworlds' Finest comic), her avenging the death of her parents without killing and her saving Superman singlehandily against Reactron. The show also included a representation fo LGTBQ characters and not afraid of tragedy, best remembered with the death of Dick Malverne, Supergirl's first boyfriend, from cancer.
M*A*S*H- One of the most critically-acclaimed television shows made, it came out in the 50s and changed television forever. M*A*S*H was created by veterans of the Pacific War and details the life and times
of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital located at Shanghai during the Pacific War, namely when the United States declared war on Japan after the bombing and thus allied with the Republic of China and Russian Federation.
Beyond showing the effects of war on soldiers and civilians alike, it also humanized the Japanese opposition and tackled race issues through the eyes of some of the African-American and Asian-American characters in service. It lasted from 1955-1961, detaling the six years of war between 1939 to 1945.
A prequel mini-series was made detailing the Chinese soldiers' lives before the Americans joined the war, with the latter half involving Russia entering the war. A sequel film was made in 1965, 10 years after the show's premiere and set 20 years after the end of the war. While a reflection of the war, it also served as social critique as one of the key points of the plot had the veterans grieve for an African-American comrade who was killed a few days prior to the reunion, during a Civil Rights March, where the phrase "police brutality" entered the public lexicon.
The decision was made when the crew and actors learned that the actor for said character died in a Civil Rights march and wanted to honor him. Despite the film's controversy, it was highly critically-acclaimed for its portrayal of the characters' developments, social commentaries on the treatment of non-white veterans postwar when compared to white veterans and the changing of the times.
The show has also garnered acclaim in the Republic of China, the Russian Federation and even Mexico, the other parties within the Pacific War, inspiring them to make counterparts of the show; the Chinese focusing on Chinese freedom fighters, the Russians on Great War veterans in this new war and the socialists having to deal with war and Mexico on the medics helping people in the Tagalog Republic (formerly the Philippines).
