Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-27700324-20180522032618/@comment-3221148-20180522184747

With that (hopefully) settled, onto the discussion.

TheDoctor230 wrote: Ashoka stop being a troll pls, James is one of the highlights of this show and like every character he deserves his screentime, I for one am glad that James is finally getting Guardian storylines and this episode touched on a controversial issue, despite the fact that I get annoyed with SJW crap on this show, I'm glad about the way they are handling this story. Holy cow, I'm actually agreeing with TheDoctor230!

James and Lena were definitely the highlights of the episode. With how everything else is around those two, it makes me wish this was a "Jimmy Olsen: Superman's Pal" the series, or "Lena Luthor: Dame of Steel" the show. Anything's better than seeing writers make Kara unlikeable again, and again, and again.

"James, how dare you improve your relationship AT MY EXPENSE! You used me! Used me by telling my supposed friend the truth about how I sent you on a mission to spy on her, despite knowing that she's her girlfriend and something like this requires a massive breach of trust."

It's like she just came from Krypton and does not understand basic human emotions and feelings, and just assumes that she's always right in every situation. It's nice for characters to have flaws (in Kara's case, PRIDE), but only if they are called out on them. Here the only character with the guts to do that was Lena Luthor. Meanwhile, the "obvious good guy characters" James and Mon-El went out of the way to make it seem like Kara was NOT at fault, all along. James apologized for... telling Lena that Kara wants to spy on her. Mon-El tried to maneuver himself in every conversation to make sure his advice doesn't contradict Kara's own convictions on the topic. So, what is the moral here? Either "only women can call out other women for being immoral", or, alternatively, Kara was right and Lena is secretly a scheming snake... but then, Kara apologizes at the end, to Lena and James. You know what, I'm just gonna assume she WAS supposed to be in the wrong, and her friends are just too scared of her powers to oppose her. Sure.

What else?

Since Kara was such a brat (again), her "friendship speech" to Olivia lacked any kind of strength, hope or honesty. Like her previous speech in the "M'rynn goes crazy on DEO" episode. But, man, that gotta hurt, Olivia, that gotta hurt.

Alex acting like a spazz around Ruby after she's already had time to learn how she feels about "being distracted with fun stuff" made no sense in character. Obviously, Ruby wanted to have some time alone from the person that lied to her.

James's story was sad, and despite the choppily written monologue, Mehcad Brooks and Katie McGrath delivered the scene well. Although the conclusion that "Racism is the worst bullying" should have come from US, the audience, not from the characters themselves explaining the meaning of the monologue. But still, it's sad. And, no "four cops being bad is not realistic" is a strange complaint. If anything, gang mentality in any armed group only escalates as its size increases, the victims get weaker, there is a greater opportunity to showcase power, and, finally, the "frankpledge" factor, where all members of a gang become connected to the crime and thus can't snitch on their "colleagues". Cops and soldiers are no saints, and are prone to turning into de-facto state-sanctioned gangs, though, of course, that does not mean we have to "destroy the police", or whatever - but judicial forces "degrading into criminality" is a very possible risk which necessitates countries to go throw police reforms and "clean up the ranks" from time to time.

M'rynn's scenes were nice, thanks to his actor. True MM to me, always.

Mon-El's growing wise, alright - he learned not to argue with women in Supergirlverse. Oh, but his disguise was pure trash.

Overall, I'm having similar problems with this episode as I had with the previous ones. I liked the Guardian storyline and Lena, of course, but Kara, and how everybody but Lena and the villains treats her like a paragon, is just... bad. Are we being led to some payoff regarding Kara? Or were her little apologies the end of "Kara learning her lesson"? Because I did not feel like she learned anything besides the fact that having your friends mad at you is uncomfortable. Like Lena said, it's nice to apologize after you've been caught red-handed.

Coville could have made this episode better, but, sure, let's pan it out for a little bit longer. Kara coming out with her secret to Lena could have been cathartic too (the one person at risk of associating with Kara Danvers is... her stepmother; everybody else already associates with both Kara and Supergirl).