Francesca

In my Shape of Stories diagram, I chose to follow key plot points of the pilot episode of the CW show Supergirl. I plotted a clear beginning and an end, with good fortune and ill fortune in Vonnegut's style. At the very beginning of the episode, we see Kara Zor-El's home planet, Krypton, about to be destroyed - obviously placing the first plot point at the very bottom. However, she is able to escape in a pod and leave, bringing her status towards good fortune - before plummeting back down to ill fortune when her pod gets knocked off course. Her journey soars back up to good as Kara eventually ends up on Earth with the Danvers family, who take her in as their own. We dip back down for a beat into ill fortune, when we are introduced to present-day Kara and her job: personal assistant to the very demanding and obnoxious Cat Grant at her media firm, CatCo - Kara had applied to write, not be someone's servant. Her ill fortunes plummets even further, when it is revealed that her sister Alex's plane is about to go down. Kara's fortune skyrockets towards good, as she develops her powers as Supergirl further and is able to save the plane and explore her true identity at the culmination of this episode.