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Movie Review #7: Stargirl

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𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐.
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There are even more lessons to be learned from this movie series entitled, "Stargirl" as she is not only a superhero but also the one and only Courtney Elizabeth Whitmore (played by the actress Brec Bassinger).

She is the legacy of the famous Sylvester Pamberton (played by Joel McHale) Also known as Starman, The Star-Spangled Kid, or Skyman; who had the cosmic staff as their friend and ally on the said show brought to us by The CW and DC Universe Series (and/or DC Comics) and she has friends that form part of the Justice Society o America (JSA) in the name of Elizabeth "Beth" Chapel or Doctor Mid-Nite II (played by Anjelika Washington), Yolanda Montez or Wildcat II (played by Yvette Monreal), Rick Tyler (Richard Harris) or Hourman II (played by Cameron Gellman), and so many more characters to mention. If we mention all of them here, you'll be bored of reading.

At first I thought this is just her lone adventure but indeed I was wrong. They were a team with a leader and a bunch of followers or sidekicks. They were a family. They were part of a full-blown society. This alone made me feel amazed and excited for their adventures together.

The first two episodes made me hooked already and so I continued on from season one with thirteen episodes. It extended to the second season with the same number of episodes and then the last season, so far, with still thirteen episodes.

Now, Courtney Whitmore, has taught me a lot of things, to be completely honest. She has taught me things I never thought I'd see a different perspective of. She was a full blown role model and a super hero whom we can trust.

Let's start with the lighter lesson learned. The first thing I have learned from her is how we should keep laughing and smiling with other people despite our down times. It should not be hard to smile or laugh right? Because it is always the best medicine to cure sadness, loneliness and depression. It is the best remedy for this world during stressful times too.

The next one would be from a quote we always notice and see, "The family that prays together, stays together." Though the only prayed once or twice in the whole series, this goes to show that prayer would not be the only thing keeping a family closer. It's the bond between these people every single day.

Whether it's the JSA family or the Whitmore family, she really did her best to keep being balanced within the entire series. She bonds with her family including Pat Dugan or S.T.R.I.P.E. (played by Luke Wilson) , Barbara Whitmore (played by Amy Smart), and Mike Dugan (played by Trae Romano) yet she also managed to bond with her JSA family mentioned above. That shows how versatile she is and how woke she can be.

Which leads me to the next lesson I have learned from her crazy adventures. You've gotta learn to see the good in people. Yes it's so easy to spot bad traits in each and everyone of us. It's easy to judge each other based on how bad everything is about us. But Courtney, even all the enemies and frienemies she has been with in the past, present and future. She always made sure she sees the good behind the bad masks that people portray everyday.

She not only sees the good in people, she trains people to be better for the society too, just like how she trained Cameron Mahkent (Hunter Sansone and Roger Dale Floyd as the little Cameron), son of Jordan Mahkent or Icicle (played by Neil Jackson) and Christine Mahkent (supporting role so I did not catch her real name so far as I was researching the others). She trained him to just conjure icicles and snow rather than be like his dad who was evil and killed many people in Blue Valley, Nebraska.

She also trained for a little while, Henry King Jr. (portrayed by Jake Austin Walker) to control his powers like his Dad, Henry King Sr. or Brainwave (portrayed by Christopher James Baker) who can get inside your head in an instant, read minds, feel others' emotions and more. Unlike his dad who used it for evil and killing other people too, he fought with him because he was a good guy. Yet he was killed a little too soon because of his own dad (they've fought each other on one of the scenes while the JSA were in the other side of the iron bars ready to get Henry Jr. out of the tunnel whete his dad and the ISA or Injustice Society were operating.

One of the characters, Cindy Burman (portrayed by Meg DeLacy), who is the daughter of Dragon King and the girlfriend of Henry King Jr, taught us that there is a difference between bad and evil. She is in between though as she was a villain before. But then again, Courtney saw the good in her so she recruited her as part of the JSA under the name Dragon Queen. Yet of course, in some adventures she was left out of the team while some she had her own plans.

Going back to her point. She said to Courtney, in summary, that in order for you to fight evil, you must see the bad in you first. And so Courtney did it sooner or later, and when Eclipso (the pure evil who was portrayed by Nick Tarabay and Milo Stein as Little Bruce or the host he chose to carry on with his evil plans) finally hear Courtney say, "I HATE YOU!", he feeds into her and makes her his host. Courtney fought back while they were both inside her body and so Eclipso was defeated (yet still survived until later in the film series).

Eclipso was the pure evil in this series and Cindy was in between.

The last lesson I have learned so far, amongst all of the other lessons I have learned which I would not wish to talk about or else everything would become boring to read, (this is the most important one) is to trust the people around you despite knowing they can be bad at times and sometimes other people can betray you too.

Trust is like a mirror, once shattered, it cannot be fixed again or be whole again. Yet for her, she just trusts that previous villains can chose to change and reform their future. They can continue to be bad and/or evil or they could change and become the better version of themselves for their families and the society in general.

Her trust was immeasurable. It even came to the point where she had to turn her back from her JSA friends for a little bit just to be with her crush, Cameron Mahkent and train him how to be a better man than his father. That is such a self-less attitude. She is truly a role model for me because of her seeing the good on other people and trusting them thus making sacrifices and chosing to help bad people how to become good.

And that is it for this movie reaction and lessons I have learned that were the most important ones. You can leave comments if you've learned something from the whole series too.

P.S. I need more seasons and more episodes for this series. Come on CW. Come on DC Universe. HAHAHAHA.