Supergirl Season 2

[Ulysses Dare]

Sigh. I was really hoping they were going to use the whole "people are afraid of Guardian" plot to revamp James' costume. Give him something with the original's blue and gold and less like Night Thrasher 2.0. But no.

[eabrace]

Sigh. I was really hoping they were going to use the whole "people are afraid of Guardian" plot to revamp James' costume.

They still could.  They sort of left that thread hanging.

[Golden Girl]

Going by stuff said earlier in the season about marriage on Daxam, Rhea teleporting Lena with her when she left at the end of this episode and the promo for next week, I'm guessing that part of Rhea's plan for taking over Earth involves an arranged marriage between Lena and Mon-El as part of a "peaceful" union between the Daxamite people and the people of Earth.

[Golden Girl]

Episode 21 was epically glorious - and the finale next week looks even better - Zod even gets a variation of his favorite line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKh0lDJkgho

[MyriVerse]

It was great until the good guys' plan fell apart at the end. Really, Kara? You need to talk Rhea down one more time? Um, no.

Of course, that might have killed Clark, but she didn't know that. And ya know what... I could live with a dead Clark in the Supergirl-verse. At least it would stop people from asking, "Where's Superman?" every other episode.

Cool that Madam President is a Durlan. Glad she wasn't a White Martian after all.

[Tenzhi]

It was great seeing Cat Grant back.  And the bit between her, the President, and Rhea was amusing.  There were some funny dialogue and references (Mars Attacks and Star Wars being my favourites) scattered throughout the episode.  But the real world political message in Cat's resistance speech was a bit on the nose (resist those who are conning us and telling us they'll make our world great again).  And the ending just felt like an excuse to drag things out.

[Golden Girl]

On the subject of Martians, I'm hoping that because of the psychic bond that they've established, M'gann will drop by next week to break J'onn out of his mental trap.

[Vee]

I like that Alex starts carrying a non-regular gun now that she's fighting people with a lead weakness.

[Golden Girl]

This episode also highlighted one of the great things about the show - while the plot was a pretty standard alien invasion/infiltrate the mothership thing, the entire story was driven by the plans and actions of 4 middle-aged women - President Marsdin, Queen Rhea, Cat Grant and Lillian Luthor - which as far as I know makes it pretty much unique in sci-fi/comic book media.

[Golden Girl]

Well, that finale episode was the best bit of live action DC since the Dark Knight.

[Vee]

And the best bit of hamfisted moral summation since, idk, Punky Brewster?

Spoiler for Hidden:

So we can add Daxamite skin to lead as the only things that'll block kryptonite radiation? I'd say the kryptonite blood was the dumbest thing ever in one of these shows but I have a lousy memory so I'll just hope it's the dumbest thing this week.

[Kaos Arcanna]

Spoiler for Hidden:

Ironically enough Kryptonite was part of the serum that Mon-El uses to protect himself from lead poisoning.

[Excidia]

Nine Months Later

"...and in unrelated news, birth defects have increased 1000% in the past few months, as have cases of dementia and kidney failure.  Luthor Corp has begun selling lead detoxification kits.  It'll be a great year for luthor Corp stock holders."

[Night-Hawk07]

But the real world political message in Cat's resistance speech was a bit on the nose (resist those who are conning us and telling us they'll make our world great again).

Agreed. I like my entertainment without politics. If I want to be bashed over the head with all that nonsense going on right now, I'll log on to Facebook or Twitter.

But if you must address it in your TV show, do it like Star Trek.

[Tenzhi]

That finale had a fun beginning and interesting portents at the end...  the rest was a'ight.

[Vee]

That finale had a fun beginning and interesting portents at the end...  the rest was a'ight.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Too bad we didn't get to see what I assume was an adorable lil doomsday.

[eabrace]

Spoiler for Hidden:

Too bad we didn't get to see what I assume was an adorable lil doomsday.

That's who I'm assuming that was, too.

Edit:

Spoiler for Hidden:

I see there's also some speculation out there that - based on the dialogue - it's Reign.

... and GG beat me to it.

[Golden Girl]

Going by evil Kryptonians' dialogue, that's actually Reign, not Doomsday - she should make for a good season 3 villain, as she has more intelligence than Doomsday, whose more mindless style of rampaging would be hard to sustain over a 20+ episode season.
It'll tie in neatly with the Cadmus storyline and give Lilian some ammunition to promote her "don't trust Kryptonians" agenda.

[Vee]

ah, wasn't aware of her as I'm still half a year's worth of reading away from new 52. of course if she doesn't show up in a bats or jla title i'd not know anyway. still though, lil reign was probably adorable.

also it's unclear to me a villain's being unsuitable for a 20+ episode season would prevent them from using it as such anyway. certainly hasn't stopped them on arrow or flash.

[Golden Girl]

The problem with Doomsday though is that he's so inarticulate - he's more of a force of nature than a fully formed character, and to be a season long villain -  or even for half a season - you do really need to have someone who can articulate their motivations and plans to their followers and to the heroes when they confront them, and be intelligent enough to actually come up with plans in the first place.