Watched "Dangerous Liaisons" yesterday and let me tell you that the Obsedian technology is damn creepy (who is crazy enough for wearing VR contact lenses outside in stand there for a bit
, smiling as zombie-consciousness, to the point of not even seeing the danger approaching and waiting before reacting?! Ah yes,
those who consult their mobile phone at any time and any place!
Anyway, what a strange episode there, which begins with a banal police investigation and ends with a planetary environmental threat and in the middle of all this, the appearance of Doctor Octopus! Between the Rojas family and the Leviathan, we start to get lost (who is working on behalf of who and why? There are still 3 or 4 epsidoes to get some answers before approaching the next crossover).
=> I wonder if the lack of index about the ineluctable events which will take place in Crisis and the resulting changes resulting won't make the situation more painful for our heros, precisely because they were not prepared to face them, contrary to Oliver, Barry, their friends and relatives who already know for a little while that something serious is going to happen, which will put their lives upside down and who are getting ready.
Lately and for the fist time, I read about the possibility of major death(s) in Crisis like the one of Lena or Alex, which let Kara/Supergirl (as seeing as it is almost certain that she will come out alive just like Barry) in an emotional state and will make her change her approach in relation to the people & aliens she will meet later.
In short, the death of her friend or sister would harden Kara, she who was affable and offering her love/ friendship to anyone so easily. I fear that the second part of the season be more dark than what we have already seen from s3.
Otherwise,
- Kara & William who turn into amateur investigators to bring to light the dishonest actions of the Rojas family and end up discovering that Russel, William's best friend whose he mourned the death, was finally alive but transformed in Rip Roar. And all while continuing their little seductive dance where they would be the only two protagonists. BLAH!
,
-> he is definitely being set up as the new love interest but when a relationship is based on thin threads that barely hold it together and is destined to end in a few months!
- J'onn, playing the role of confidant and adviser when a little lost Kara comes to see him.
It was nice to see this tender side of J'onn even if ironically, that is the same J'onn who is completly overwhelmed by emotions when he faces the brother he had rejected and almost forgotten.
- Andrea Rojas: would she be less suspicious than we thought in the events which took place in this episode. In fact, she really gives the impression of being overwhelmed by the magnitude of the events (the questions about the unexplained disappearance of her boyfriend; some kind of global change created by the Leviathan and his representant in the person of the old lady),
- Lena and Malefic, the most interesting part IMHO :
=> I waited impatiently for a sign proving that Lena had not completly flopped into dark side of the Force and what I saw in this episode gave me hope again. I think they nailed down her moral alignment quite nicely. (-> yes, she wants to be able to control people's minds, aliens and humans, but not at any price; meaning not at the cost of human/alien lives like her brother and mother, Lex & Lilian, would have certainly done but in the same time, she proves to be worthy of a Luthor), in particular her friends. Besides, right the beginning of the season, Lena had said that she didn't want to kill Supergirl (and by extension, none of her friends so, she practices what she said). Even if Lena's doing ambiguously immoral things, she is not evil. She believes that she is improving humanity, solving a problem, so I'm glad we saw that side of her again.
=> So now Lena can controll a martian...well the martian mind controll power is in the dumpster. What will she do with this power? (Lena finessed the fuck out of Malefic!
->Lena: " I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further".)
=> Maybe I'm wrong but through "Your friends are your rock." said by Malefic, this is the key which will push Lena to forgive Kara for her betrayal (that and Lena using Malefic's power against him which is going to come back to haunt her later in the season, which likely will lead definitively to reconciliation with Kara). As for Kara, it will be surely the guilt after to have seen the extent of her BF's break for having lied to her the entire time. Their friendship is unalterable, no matter the ups and downs crossed.
=> may I say that I still don't like Lena's arc this season and I think that this isn't going to end well at all for her but, in the same time, that was pretty badass!
- So Kara is keeping Nia in the dark about William being a good guy and not a jerk as they thought. That is probably best but well, more transparency will be appreciated because it was precisely the lack of it which put her relationship with Lena in limbo.
- Brainy: Hats off to Jesse Rath (and Phil LaMarr, by the way) for his performance for the scene in the interrogation room. Brainy as the spider creature was awesome.
And to end,
- Alex and Kelly: As much as I lke Alex and only begin to like Kelly SEPARETELY, they don’t need relationship spotlight 5 episodes in a row, especially when it's so badly/poorly managed..., unless they’re building for a breakup with them. Anyway, more I sew them together more I confirm that there is zero chemistry between both characters and actresses.
- A question: why did producers made Andrea Brooks a regular if they use so few (only 1 or 2 scenes and always with Katie McGrath at her side?) Even Azie Tesfai, who was promoted in the same time than Brooks has more scenes and has her character doing things in solo!
Points of crispation:
- Since when "dateaversary" became a word I remember than Glee loved to make mashups and it is common to associate names of characters when they form a couple but there?! Hey, I guess that for their next "dativersary", Alex and Kelly will get their names tattooed on each other!
). And the fact that they repeat it again again became quickly tiring like the sudden fixation from Alex's part on whether she'll have to tell her girlfriend her boss is a criminal was irritating!
- Nia's powers make no sense (alone, she can stop a huge tsunami without moving while Brainy just told us a few minutes before that several regions throught the world were in danger?!
- The dialogue between Kara and J'onn at the geyser was terrible.
