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Supergirl - Season Four

What is your reason for not warming to the Alex/baby sub-plot at all?

For me, it's because it's a superhero show, and this takes up air time with something completely irrelevant to the plot. We are down to the last few episodes of the season. The fate of the world is at stake, and while Lex Luthor is on the loose, we have Alex dealing with her feelings about adopting a kid? Really?

The only way to salvage this timing is to have Lex somehow involved to mess with Alex's head and take a threat off the board for awhile.

But this is why I think Alex should have a spin off--she can do her thing, and the superhero show can be a superhero show.
 
How the heck did George get into DEO???

I was a bit surprised Haley didn't turn up by the end of the episode....unless Baker got to her just before Kara showed up....?
 
I just found out that the season finale is going to be called...
"The Quest for Peace." And Jon Cryer will be in it as Lex. I can't believe they actually went there!!
 
I just found out that the season finale is going to be called...
"The Quest for Peace." And Jon Cryer will be in it as Lex. I can't believe they actually went there!!
Am I missing something??

I'm starting to wonder if the producers decided to make it that Lena had known all along...like they did with Cat?
 
Am I missing something??

Jon Cryer played Lex's comic-relief nephew Lenny Luthor in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the last and by far the worst of the Christopher Reeve Superman films. Playing Lex so superbly on Supergirl has been sort of a way of "redeeming" himself for his involvement in that disaster, so I'm surprised they'd go so far as to name their finale after it.
 
Am I missing something??

I'm starting to wonder if the producers decided to make it that Lena had known all along...like they did with Cat?

Just in case - Jon Cryer was in Superman 4: The Quest for Peace as Lenny Luthor

Ninja'd :)
 
Not sure what you mean. J'onn has been established since the first season, James became a non-powered costumed vigilante in the second, and this season we have Dreamer. Not to mention Mon-El, Saturn Girl, and Brainiac 5.

I'm saying that James and Guardian is a serious part of the show and the fact he's been dumped off the role of superheroes is ridiculous and insulting.
 
What? I don't want to derail this thread by getting too much into real-world politics, but it's naive to think that Trump's support is not intimately interwoven with white nationalism and the "Alt-Right."

Unless you actually follow the facts and know what a conservative is. The above is just a liberal delusion, but unfortunately, Hollywood is controlled by delusional liberals, who demonize anything that disagrees with their ultra left socialist doctrines, and this show is a perfect example of that.

A better suggestion is that NEITHER of you veer off into the real-world politics at all
 
It's Alex's seduction method that is weird.

"I'm going to talk about kids and keep talking about kids, until her panties fall off."
 
Finally got caught up in time to watch last night's so I'm covering the last few episodes here.
After all the build up, it was nice to finally see the Red Daughter stuff tie into the rest of the season's story with her attack on the White House.
Giving James super powers was a big surprise, but it's already been fun seeing him get in on the action more. The mind palace stuff at their father's funeral was a nice big of character development/backstory for James and Kelly.
It's pretty obvious at this point that Kelly and Alex are going to end up together.
I was really surprised they suddenly brought back Alex trying to adopt.
Lockwood also getting superpowers is a nice new complication for that story.
Very curious to see exactly where they are going with his son, I'm assuming his growing sympathy for aliens will end up playing some kind of role in his father's downfall.
Lots of good stuff for Kara and Lena this week. I actually thought Kara was going to finally tell Lena she was Supergirl, so I was a bit surprised she didn't.
 
Looking at the episode title, I'm disappointed that they've given in to decades of mispronunciations/misspellings and officially rendered Eve's surname as "Tessmacher," rather than "Teschmacher" as it was in the original film. I guess they've been saying it that way all along, but it's the first time I've seen it officially written out.

Why did Kara bother to burn the evidence of her dual identity in Red Daughter's room if the whole place was minutes away from exploding and Lena had already left? And why didn't she take her stolen journal back? Maybe because it would've raised awkward questions if Lena saw her with it when she hadn't had it before. Still, she could've speed-flown it out, hidden it somewhere in the woods, and then come back for it later.

Also, is it only Lex, Eve, and Red Daughter who know her secret identity, or does the whole Kaznian military unit working with RD know it too? And does Otis know?

Prediction: Lex or Eve will expose Kara's identity to Lena before Kara can, and in the context where it will hurt Lena the most and create a rift between her and Kara.


Giving James super powers was a big surprise, but it's already been fun seeing him get in on the action more.

Jimmy getting superpowers was something that happened a lot in the Silver Age comics. It's weird that the Harun-el gave him Kryptonian powers specifically, though. I was kind of wondering if it might turn him into Elastic Lad.


It's pretty obvious at this point that Kelly and Alex are going to end up together.

Clearly what the writers are going for, yeah, but I don't see much chemistry between the actresses.
 
Yes, but that's due to the showrunners tripping over themselves trying to make him the Ultimate Boogeyman of the Universe for their message about immigration, which has more than one valid perspective, but you will not see that on Supergirl, because any opposition (well, there's only one kind of opposition on this show) is instantly painted as the return of the Third Reich, which is irresponsible on the showrunners' part. That's why the earlier nuance you referred to is just a memory from the past.
It's the same writers, though, so if their POV is as simplistic and one-sided as you insist, why did they bother creating that more nuanced earlier characterization of Lockwood in the first place?
What is your reason for not warming to the Alex/baby sub-plot at all?
I wrote about my reasons a bit here. As I said there, it's never struck me as organic to Alex's character, and the constant blubbering about it last season verged on the neurotic. It does absolutely no favors to an otherwise terrific character, IMO.
 
Why did Kara bother to burn the evidence of her dual identity in Red Daughter's room if the whole place was minutes away from exploding and Lena had already left? And why didn't she take her stolen journal back? Maybe because it would've raised awkward questions if Lena saw her with it when she hadn't had it before. Still, she could've speed-flown it out, hidden it somewhere in the woods, and then come back for it later..
Actually, I was wondering if Kara was leaving a message for Red Daughter and Lex, by creating an image for them to find. I thought it was seemed as if she was drawing something rather than blazing the room at random.
 
It doesn't seem like there's a wide beam setting with her eyes.

Kara was redacting Kara from the wall.

It's like filling in a colouring book with a ball point pen.

It's not like she's going to get her pregnant accidentally.
That's what the adoption list is.

Years from now, Kelly is picking china for her wedding to the woman she loves, and surprise, a call comes in (again) from the adoption service, to come and pick up their baby.

The Fortress of Solitude has the technology to clone "anyone" so Kara could have made a little Alex/Maggie baby for Alex, and clueless Maggie would have only wondered how she misplaced her toothbrush.
 
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