User blog:Xandermcc/Supergirl S3 E7: Mon-El's vacay from the future.

Ah, the Mon-El show is back! Oh goodie. Lets see what his hijinks will cause once more. Hopefully not another alien invasion. (wink!)

This new adventure starts with Sam discovering she can put her hand in boiling water. She is lucky! You think Sam is willing to get out the forks i always drop in my boiling pot of water? Probably not. Anyway this discovery has Sam go on a trip. Leaving Ruby at a friend's place. Pretty good that she is retracing her steps now on this. +1

Anyway, apparently the spaceship from earlier episodes have been blasting people who have only decided to fix the wreckage from the first episode of the season NOW instead of before. (Lazy National City workers -1) So Kara, Winn, and J'onn all go down and check it out. Then Kara is about to do the spin drill move Superman did in the original Superman movie, but J'onn decides against it and they instead phase in. (+1 for the funniest reference in the episode)

Sam goes to see her adopted mother. We then realize Samantha's backstory is darker than she made it seem so far. As we find out about Sam being kicked out of the house at 17 years of age when pregnant with Ruby. Which was the reason she never stayed long enough to find out about her alien heritage. Basically replicating Clark Kent's backstory, but with a dark twist put in. +2

Mon-El is revealed to be in that spaceship and everyone showers his previous actions as a boyfriend from last season with praise. Honestly not going to repeat myself, but the show loves making me. What is especially insulting about this scene is that they have James of all people do this. The guy who was against his reckless behaviour last season. -1

The humor brought in with J'onn's dad is certainly appreciated. Elements i like the most is how they are completely self aware about how many apostrophes are in Martian naming. Along with the very nice heart to heart had by J'onn and My'rnn. +1

3/10

Now turns out Mon-El wasn't really asleep all this time. Just biding his time to break into the D.E.O weapons room. I'd be surprised, but that would only be if literally anyone else broke into the D.E.O and not the one guy in the main cast with a past criminal history. We who saw this whole season know why he did it, but he should have explained it immediately. -1

Winn later decides to let Mon-El out. However this is due to his group in stasis dying. Supergirl ends up saving Imra, the only passenger whose pod couldn't be kept in stasis. Love how despite not knowing who these people are, Supergirl still comes to their aid. +1

Alex then tells Kara that the time travel stuff is weird after Mon-El is revealed to have lived in the future all this time. Frankly it is good foreshadowing to the soon returning superhero Barry Allen AKA the Flash. Later J'onn changes so he and his father can be happy. It is great character building to show J'onn evolve like this. Really an amazing element to add to the episode. +1

Then Mon-El reveals that Imra is his wife. Start the unnessessary love triangle... now! -1

Sam goes to her own version of the Fortress of Solitude called the Fortress of Sanctuary, and expects that after learning of her alien origin, she'll be able to become a superhero just like Supergirl. However the big twist here is that she doesn't. Instead her version of Jor-El decides to turn her into our season antagonist, Reign. An amazing way of changing the classic Superman tropes for our villain. +3

Score is at a 6/10 now. Still, got to go to my "Legion" of bonus rounds.

Hated Jessica Queller promoted herself on her own show by naming one of Sam's friends after her. -1

Loved the use of the Fortress of Sanctuary from the New 52 Supergirl comics. +1

Does Mon-El just need to say "Kara will die" and relate it to whatever he is doing and Winn will just go along with it? -1

5/10. Decent episode, however the next one is far above just decent. This is the legendary four part crossover event! (That is actually four parts this time BTW)