Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-807326-20170228024326/@comment-5340308-20170228161913

Fedguy wrote: What exactly is wrong with Mon-El? His sole crime seems to be dating Kara It's not just that. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in the last episode thread, but his entire presence comes at the sacrifice of Kara's characterization, James' lack of storyline, the Kara/James romance, the dynamics of its supporting characters, and the screen time of the highly publicized Alex/Maggie storyline. On top of that, he's just horribly unnecessary.

He is nothing new. He's every CW cliche thrown together and forced into this show when no one wanted it. He acts like an entitled douchebag, completely defies Kara's orders, shows zero respect for her, argues with her every single time, and even when he continues to have problems with Kara, at the end of every episode, he just bats his eyelashes and Kara just melts into his arms.

For a show that started with strong feminist tones, their "feminist icon" of a superhero has now become an embarrassing cliche of her former self. The dynamic between her and Mon-El is basically her telling him not to do something and he goes and does it anyway.

And what was frustrating about this episode was that they pretty much dumbed down everyone just to prop up Mon-El. Why did Mon-El have to be the one that was suspicious of Jeremiah? Why couldn't it have been J'onn or even Winn? Why did the writers feel it was necessary for Mon-El to incite conflict amongst the characters just to prove him right?