User blog:Xandermcc/Supergirl S3 E4: Faithful to Havin Kids

I know i am posting this one in too short a time after the last one, but i am possibly going to be busy the next few days so might as well do it now. Anyway, cults aplenty!

We start off with the soon-to-be-villain known as Thomas Coville who is all depressed cause his wife left him and he vents about it on a plane next to this guy who is nearly having a baby with his wife. Coincidentily, they are on the same plane Supergirl saved in the pilot episode. Funny how we never heard their conversation in all those shots from inside the plane in Season one. So Supergirl saves the plane and everyone on the plane was praying to God. (Jesus though, since as we established in the Season 2 reviews, Christianity is the only religion in National City) Coville takes this as a sign when Alex flashes her F.B.I badge. Coville now worships... the F.B.I! Naw, just kidding, he worships Supergirl. (+1 For a decent reuse of footage)

So Ruby is at a soccer game with Samantha, and now some random follower of Coville's religion (which we go into more detail later on) she just goes in front of Sam and tells her to join. Kinda creepy, and do you ever see Cults operating in the open like this? Heck no, they give these things out a little more discreetly. Not saying from personal experience. Just heard from some friends. -1

Coville's cult speech is rather creepy and the sync with Allura from the Krypton flashback really adds to that. Kinda reminds me of SyFy's Krypton mini-series with the Voice of Rao character. +2

So now Lena, Sam, Alex, and Maggie rub it in on Kara's singleness once more. (-1) However afterwards, Kara is sick of being the one picked on single person and decides to save someone in danger while there is a cult that is worshipping her happening. This couldn't possibly go wrong. It does and the person who Kara saves is clearly just doing so to secure his place on the cult. Loved how they used the religous imagery in a more creepy way to show it is negative that Supergirl is being treated like a god. +2

3/10

Later, Maggie brings up the freedom of religion argument. Causing Kara to have to investigate this herself. She goes to Coville as a reporter, and he figures out her secret. I love how it is done because the glasses are only good at protecting her secret when her friends and loved ones don't think that Supergirl would want to be human as a disguise. However he sees through it considering his obssession with her. +1

Lena encourages Sam that despite overworking herself, she is a cool mom. Lena still won't stop giving her more work, but advice i guess? -1

Kara goes to James on advice about why Coville worships her. James does this by telling the story of how Superman saved him for the first time. Mehcad Brooks really makes this sound like a real story in how he tells it. Like he really went over how Jimmy would feel about this moment years later. He says this to tell Kara that people worship her and her cousin because they are miracles. However Kara realizes they just need to see her humanity. It is a great scene to show both sides of the situation at hand. +2

5/10

Supergirl goes for the simple solution to disband the cult and that is to prove she can bleed. (Out of context, that sentence might sound weird) As she shows off her mortality, Alex saves the day instead so the cult will no longer believe Supergirl is a god. Very simplistic in terms of how endings go, but a very good one. +1

Sam, Lena, Kara, and Alex go to see Ruby's song. Now Alex is sure she wants to have some kids. Kara is in support of this. She wants to adopt even though Maggie doesn't, then good for her. +1

They then have a nice little alien prayer scene with both Kara and her hologram version of her mother, and J'onn with My'rnn. (+1) Kinda surprised me considering how Christian the show normally is.

Sam is being haunted by strange visions, but that then leads us to 23 HOURS ago in the past. (Seriously Supergirl, get your time scale right -1) This shows that the explosion caused by Coville's plan awakens the alien spaceship hidden underground that we saw in the first episode of the season. Secrets are getting even more mysterious with both cliffhangers. +1

So that ends this off with a solid 8/10 episode. However my Superman fandom love has convinced me to make a cult for the character with some bonus rounds included.

Seriously don't like Erica Durance as Allura. Not only is her acting terrible, but she also doesn't really look as old to be Kara's mother. -1

The whole "my hands are tied" thing with Maggie Sawyer. Seriously? This is the same character who nearly married a vigilante in the comics. However in this very show, she broke the law before a dozen times. -1

I loved James and Winn hanging with Kara once again. They made a good trio back in Season one so it is good that it is happening again. +1

Final score is a 7/10. Next time we got Lena stepping up for kids, and Maggie leaving cause of kids. (Lets face it, this whole season's theme is kids)