Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2

[Christopher]

Calling Snapper's behavior "bullying" is going a bit too far; yes, he's not been very nice to her, but, as with Cat Grant's behavior in Season 1, it's partially an act, which is something the writers have very clearly tried to communicate, both in this episode and earlier on in the season.

I don't think it comes across as well with Snapper, though. Gomez makes him a little too harsh and hostile. It might be better if they'd cast someone who had more underlying warmth and charm to offset the gruffness, like the template for this version of Snapper, Ed Asner's Lou Grant. Like, imagine if they could've gotten Enrico Colantoni to play the part.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They call him Snapper because he Snaps.

Snapping is Snapper's signature.

 

[tomalak301]

I don't know how I feel about this episode. On one hand, yes we got some great character development for Lana and the stuff between her and Kara is always great but I'm also disappointed. The last episode showed the president as an alien, Teri Hatcher threatening earth, and we have two major storylines that need to be wrapped up in 4 episodes. Did they have time to do a story about nanites? I wonder if this episode was earlier in the season if I would have liked it better because this should be crunch time now and this didn't feel like a crunch time episode.

On a positive note, things did pick up in the second half hour. I did love the stuff between Kara and Snapper and I guess this episode was to bring Kara back to Catco, so maybe it did advance the plots of the season. Still, I feel like I was expecting more after a 3 week layoff.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

"Go bake some pastries Kara, there's nothing going on."
Cut to James and Winn fighting crime.

This show has gotten really mediocre/meh and used to get by on it's breezy charm but even that's been lacking. Next week looks like my least fave type of plots, sigh...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Typo aside, I wouldn't mind seeing Lana Lang on the set.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I guess this episode was to bring Kara back to Catco, so maybe it did advance the plots of the season

If you consider firing her, not dealing with it for a few episodes, then rehiring her the first time the situation came up again to be "advancing the plot".

 

[Mudd]

If you consider firing her, not dealing with it for a few episodes, then rehiring her the first time the situation came up again to be "advancing the plot".

Exactly.

Carr's treatment of Kara during the press conference exemplifies why he's unworthy of respect. His behavior comes across as insecurity and envy - "millenials" remark included.

 

[Skipper]

Only in my company is it impossible to enter the CEO's office without appointment and without being announced? I work there for ten years and I have not even access to the CEO's floor!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kara violated a non compete in her employment contract.

Firing the girl was the first step.

Suing her so bad, that her grandchildren could feel it was the next.

Rehiring Danvers for any reason is unacceptable.

However...

Kara is Cat's pet.

He couldn't have started this, without a nod from Cat Grant.

Legfrogging over Jimmy.

Is James really in charge?

 

[Kirk Prime]

How do you know there was a non-compete in her contract? Was that revealed on the show? Reporters tend to jump ship all the time. Plus, courts tend to frown on non-competes, so there are some very strict rules on them.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Yes, from the script.

You're firing me?

(OBJECT THUDDING)

Of course I am, danvers.com. You deliberately published an article using CatCo resources on a competing social media platform, which is not only a conflict of interest but also a direct and flagrant breach of contract.

But you refused to run the story. I thought what I was doing was right.

You weren't right, you were lucky. And next time you might not be.

http://www.springfieldspringfield.c...pts.php?tv-show=supergirl-2015&episode=s02e15

 

[Kirk Prime]

That doesn't say anything about a non-compete clause. That merely says there was an employment contract, likely for exclusive employment, and that while employed by CatCo, she couldn't publish something else.

If I worked for the NY Times, I couldn't publish something for the NY Post. That doesn't mean that if the NY Times fired me, I couldn't get a job for the NY Post.

Once my employment is terminated, my employment is terminated, unless there is a specific non-compete clause. Non-compete clauses are very rare, and I doubt you would see one in the press.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Non-compete clauses are very rare

If only.

 

[doylem1]

The shows starting to get a little to cramped, to many characters and subplots derailing the main plotline.
I mean the episode where Winn gets setup by his girlfriend and Maggie's old flame turning up took screen time away from the fact a Alien starship just turned up on our doorsteps threatening action if one of their own is not returned. Hell do I really need to know Maggie cheated on her ex whilst Aliens could be getting ready to blow up a major city ?

 

[Romulan_spy]

For the first in a long time, I really liked Supergirl. Focusing on Kara doing reporter stuff, with some Supergirl heroics, and less on the DEO really worked for me. I feel it is a much better format for the show. I also really enjoyed Lena having a bigger role in the episode. Katie McGrath is wonderful! More of her please!!

 

[Kirk Prime]

I think I would agree that this episode benefited from some plotlines being ignored. This was less about the relationship between Alex and Maggie, which got too much focus this season, and less on the relationship between Kara and Mon-El, which also got too much focus this season, and more on some of the basics. Yes, we still have Winn and his girlfriend, but at least she's an alien and it was more about her fitting in than relationship issues.

 

[Mudd]

If only.

Enforceable non-competes are somewhat rare, unless maybe you're a key person who's also got a contract that pays you a lot on termination. If I had a dollar for everyone I know who was threatened by an employer for violation of one of these and who then got themselves an hour's time from a lawyer who made it go away...

I'd have, um, four bucks. Not enough for a Clover coffee.

 

[Christopher]

The last episode showed the president as an alien, Teri Hatcher threatening earth, and we have two major storylines that need to be wrapped up in 4 episodes. Did they have time to do a story about nanites?

This wasn't a story about nanites; it was a story about Kara getting her job back and Lena being taken to a darker place (probably to soften her up for whatever Rhea has planned).

That doesn't say anything about a non-compete clause. That merely says there was an employment contract, likely for exclusive employment, and that while employed by CatCo, she couldn't publish something else.

The problem is, when Kara first decided to be a reporter, Cat introduced her to Snapper as his new stringer. But a stringer isn't a full-time employee -- it means a freelancer who may work mainly for one paper but is free to work for others. More like Peter Parker's status at the Daily Bugle, a non-staffer who sells his work to the paper on an individual basis, than Clark Kent's at the Planet. But every subsequent episode ignored the "stringer" reference and treated her as a full-time employee. I wish they'd done their research better.

 

[dahj]

and It was not all in the service of SG trying to stop the nanobots, since she's using this to support her blogging

I don't think that was the case, she seemed to keep the Super and Reporter sides separate, only reporting on stuff that Kara Danvers uncovered(the whistleblower and the fake trials), and she didn't even end up blogging any of it since she turned everything over to Snapper.
So really it was the opposite, she was willing to sacrifice the reporting scoop completely for the benefit of stopping the nanobots...

One nice Super-detail is Kara removing the hot pan from the oven with her bare hands.

Her first mistake was putting a GoPro camera in the dough.

There's not been a weak episode, IMO, this entire season

I'm sort of in this weird place where I did enjoy every episode, but the season overall is a hot mess.
Things like...

If you consider firing her, not dealing with it for a few episodes, then rehiring her the first time the situation came up again to be "advancing the plot".

... just make the season seem more disheveled and directionless, and it's not the first time, they did the same thing with M'gann earlier in the season(dumped her in the prison, forgot about it for a few episodes, then came back to it and just decided "yeah you're all right now" while she was in a coma...)

Being out of the DEO for (almost) the entire episode was a welcome change of pace, but it also highlighted just how disconnected these two setting have become.

"What's your Kryptonite?" Is Lena telegraphing she already knows?
If she didn't, did that "I'll always protect you" speech turn on some lights?

Also, that's some freakishly fast FDA approval, even for faked human trials...

 

[Christopher]

Hold on, how does "my kryptonite" even exist as a metaphor on Earth-38? Even Kara herself had never heard of it as of the pilot, and it was a secret pretty much known only to the DEO and some of the villains. Well, I guess Lena learned about it through her association with Lex and Lillian, but it's odd for her to expect a civilian like Kara to be aware of it, unless I'm forgetting something from an earlier episode.