User blog:Xandermcc/Supergirl S2 E20: Stranger Supergirl Things

So it has been a while since my last review. Reason why being for one, i had suffered a personal loss at the beginning of the year which is when i was planning to start these reviews up again. Two, Legends had replaced Supergirl, getting people out of the Super-Mindset. So now that Supergirl is returning, lets start the review.

The episode is very much a carbon copy of the Netflix Show Stranger Things. With a kid who has telekinetic powers connected to a magic portal created by scientists. The portal unleashing an army of aliens. One of the female characters having a terrible boyfriend. So it is exactly like Stranger Things.

Episode starts with James as Guardian attacking some rapists/assaulters. However the woman he saves hates James because of his similarities to Storm Shadow. James contemplates it and thinks it is because he has similarities to Batman (BTW Cool Batman reference +1) however really from what i learned from Black Lightning, it might just be because of racism.

Lena has lunch with Kara, and manages to keep the secret of Kara's mystery enemy that we already know. However the real wrong thing about this scene is that as established in the episode Midvale later on, Kara's knowledge in science is ahead of Earth because of her time on Krypton, however here she knows nothing about quantum entanglement. -1

So an alien attack starts off the action for this episode. Get a clip of the Phorian attack in this episode and send it to anyone that thinks telekinesis is a useless power. Either that or binge watch Legion or Stranger Things with them. +2

James is then brought into the secret D.E.O facility and is wanting to help deal with this alien problem. Yet he is rejected because he isn't an agent of the D.E.O. Making me think the writers know what they got to do to fix James's character, but they just don't want to. -1

1/10

So we get a pointless Mon-El scene and then James is shown being on the case. Getting leads from an alien from the Cadmus episode. (+1 for continuity) So James then breaks into the Phorian woman's apartment and learns of her kid. He then opens up his mask in the strangest way. Like the mask looks metal and lead, yet it bends like plastic. Someone in the comments help me answer that. So we get a touching moment where this kid connects with James and it is shot really good. +1

James is bonding with the kid and everyone is demeaning him for it. (Geez, not only does the fans shut out James, but so does the characters themselves -1) Still, that security camera shot was pretty cool. +1

Rhea then shows the difference between Lex and Lena in a pretty interesting way. Something i have noted on this series before which is that unlike Lex who has his arrogance as his achilles heel, Lena's cold calculating skills would make her a criminal mastermind greater than Lex. +2

James connects with Marcus some more, but not without introducing him to the rest of the cast. Along with Eve who is somehow not aware of his alien markings at all and is perfectly fine with Jame's nephew being an alien. (-1) James also connects over the loss of both their fathers allowing Marcus to finally talk. (+2) However i don't get how James has his dad's camera ever since its destruction. -1

5/10

Speaking of Marcus, he gets out of control after Lena activates her portal for Rhea. Marcus also looks legit terrifying so they got a good child actor for playing Marcus. (+1) He then is saved by Supergirl. However the flying effects were not the best this time around. Guess they are stretching themselves thin this season. -1

So Marcus is put into containment and James is wondering why Marcus won't trust J'onn because he is black too. (However James has short term memory since everybody knows that J'onn is green, not black -1) Still the conversation between them feels real. +1

Inside the containment cell, James talks with Marcus over the time he met Superman. I feel this is a much better retelling of the story of Superman meeting James then the one we got in Season 1 because Season 1 just had it be fan service while this feels like a real persons story of hardship and trust. +1

Winn, James, and Marcus then go to Marcus's mother who also had a bunch of other Phorians with her. Don't know why they were just in some warehouse with one of the Phorians that is on the news as a terrorist though. (-1) However James then really gives it his all to get Marcus back. As Winn said "You are a hero without the suit". +2

7/10

So Rhea then takes out another plot device to take out J'onn. It is starting to get old. Especially since Season one already took out J'onn close to the finale too. -1

So the score is a 6/10. However i am working on teaching Lena to stop getting knocked out and instead for her to make bonus rounds for me.

Rhea felt more like an antagonist on a Mon-El TV series. (Which they couldn't do even if they wanted to because another CW show is already called Valor) Aside from her great connection with Lena. There is nothing connecting Rhea to Supergirl herself. -1

Final score is a 5/10. Not the best episode. Just okay. Anyway, next we got our two parter finale starring Superman!