Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-807326-20170221084821/@comment-4494032-20170222145623

Aspiring wrote: I'm over the Mon-El/Kara romance already. I was over it before it even started. My biggest complaint is that Mon-El is basically the co-lead of this show when, IMO, it's undeserved. He can be a funny character at times, but he really isn't necessary to this show, so when he oversteps his bounds, he becomes more of a nuisance than anything.

He is basically a product of the show moving to The CW. I don't think I can remember seeing such a glaringly obvious CW-fication of a show than I have with Supergirl. Mon-El and Karamel is basically every CW cliche they can cook-up. This isn't a Barry and Iris situation, because there was development for that before they actually got together. Here, they basically asassinated Kara's character just so she can fall into Mon-El's arms and pretend it's the greatest love of all.

Because first, her dumping James made no sense. I personally thought James/Kara lacked a lot of romantic chemistry, but when they did get them together, they did the couple and James dirty with how they handled their break-up, if you can even call it that. It makes no sense for her to even be into Mon-El and it honestly comes off as shallow. There is nothing cute or groundbreaking about this couple and this recent episode highlighted how wrong they are for each other.

Mon-El basically acts like an ass the entire episode, acting like he needs to be this big macho man for Kara and undermine her decisions, and she even calls him out on this. Except all of that is basically thrown out the window once Mon-El bats his eyelashes and apologizes for his mistakes and Kara just falls back into his arms. It just does not make any sense and I fully blame this on CW execs wanting to force another cliche white, heterosexual romance that we've seen a billion times on this network. i don't think so. I mean, even before the move to the CW, when supergirl was CBS, the character of Mon-El was a complete mystery. I think with Supergirl being on the CW now, Mon-El is a throwaway character. That alien race still wants Mon-El and yet we still don't know why.

Its happening this way, i think, because they want to get rid of Mon-El. Remember what happened on Hunters Moon, the flashback sequence of the royal prince forcing Mon-El into the pod, and the alien race that wants him for unknown reasons.

Mon-El may ultimately be written off.