I don't know about anyone else, but I'm interested to see where James' venture into vigilantism goes,
Its interesting, but I hope this is just not an exercise to "put James in his place" by having him hurt--or hurt others (which is a plot that might be around the corner), only to have him fall back into his sidelined position at Catco.
It will also be interesting to see what ends up happening between her and her mother, Doctor Luthor, since they clearly have a very strained/antagonistic relationship and Lena is likely unaware of her mother's involvement with Cadmus.
I would guess both have an end game where aliens are concerned, only Lena seems like the type who would use them for some sort of power grab for herself, while--obviously--her mother seeks to destroy them. If the plotting is logical, mother or daughter will fall because of that, but if we're being honest, I'd rather see Mother Cadmus stick around. She's a compelling character.
I don't know why, but Alex's existential journey in this episode didn't quite have the impact on me that I think the writers and Chyler wanted it to.
Probably because it was out of left field. This was never explored at all in season one, and suddenly, its falls on the plot like a piano pushed from the top of a high rise. There's never an impact when the character relations are forced--which was the opposite of James and Kara, where an entire season built their natural connection & attraction.
Dr. Luthor iis all very well and good when it comes to chewing the scenery, and her relationship to Lex goes some way towards explaining her hatred for aliens, but every new episode that includes her makes her look more stupid.
Why waste what must be extremely rare weapons on something like this? How are human gangs using alien weapons supposed to have anything to do with alien amnesty in the first place? The status of the immigrants has absolutely no effect on whether those weapons are on Earth or not and real oversight is actually exactly what you need to solve that sort of problem.
Humans did not bring those weapons to earth--aliens are responsible for that, so terrorist acts using the weapons reinforces the idea that
all things alien are a threat to global human security. Remember, the human response is just as the Catco co-worker expressed--fear--powerless, and a need to have weapons that match creatures generally more powerful than the average human. That co-worker was one of the few times the series accurately presented a snapshot of real world sentiment (whether you exchange fantasy aliens for real immigrants, technologically superior nations, etc.).
On a different topic, is the DEO still secret or not? I've lost track, but I wondered for moment why Kara didn't just say yes when Carr asked if she at least had an anonymous source. She knows multiple deo agents, in addition to of course being Supergirl, so if he was willing to accept anonymous, why not just say 'an anonymous source in the deo'? And there's the science cop, too, now that I think of it, and that definitely isn't secret.
Not so secret, when civilians just waltz right in like Lennie & Squiggy on any episode of
Laverne & Shirley.
