Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-31722073-20190429192201/@comment-3221148-20190506114928

Nia remains one of my most favourite characters of this serial. This season has truly been great for the show. The interview scene where Nia basically repeated facts about her life twice felt a little bit awkward, but it worked in a sense, that the character also felt awkward herself, having to come out to the worl and talk about these issues, when it's so much easier to just ignore them and try to pretend nothing wrong is going on. This is also shown with the example of Lockwood's son. The sad thing is, he may still turn out anti-alien at the end of things. Just like Ben started out balanced and fair, but a combination of FBI pressure and a series of unfortunate events turned him bitter and justified bigotry and murder of "the Other' in his head. Especially with his mom dying...

Schroeswald wrote: Now before I do my complaining down below, a disclaimer: I loved this episode, this season might be the best season of the whole show, and this is one of the best episodes of this season, but now I threaten to murder some people. Definitely agree. I am so surprised finding myself actually LOOKING FORWARD to the Supergirl episodes these days. The new characters that have been introduced this season were absolutely awesome, the plots much smarter, the themes more true to life. The villains were simply superb. Maybe the secondary cast got a little bit too bloated, but the writers tried their best to give everybody their own little plot. I actually, genuinely grew to love the Supergirl series this season. It's unbelievable.

That woman who killed Ben's wife is an idiot, an understandable idiot who was written well, but an idiot. It's an interesting plot point to look at from any point. Like, I found myself having no sympathy for Ben and his wife in this case. Which is really strange. I mean, she's done nothing wrong (other than being a dumb anti-alien vatnik when talking to her son in this episode). But the culmination of how much people Ben got killed (and the fact that he started to act not just messianic, but ugly SMUG about it) kind of made me feel cathartic about it. The alien woman herself is, weirdly, a non-character here (you get to understand her motivations, but I doubt we'll see more of her), so much as a cause of conflict for Ben against his son, who's finally seeing that his own friends and colleagues can be aliens too. His talk with the alien boy echoes what some clueless people can say to those hiding their identity in one way or another.

Actual criticism here, KARA TELL LENA YOU'RE SUPERGIRL! For a second naive little me thought she might actually be doing it, but no, even though she has every reason to at this point, she won't. Now if it's because Katie wants Lena to not know, please stop that, you're just hurting Kara's character. Agreed. This season had Kara actually learn from her mistakes at certain points, and even get bashed by citizens right in her smug face. Show us what she has learned! At this point this secret does not protect ANYBODY (Lex goddamn Luthor knows!).