Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2

[Guy Gardener]

She signed a non-compete.

It's possible that Kara did not read her contract, which would mean that she is a dummy.

Red Kryptonite Kara got Siobahn fired for a similar act of disloyalty.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

She knew the consequences.
That's why she was conflicted about it.
She did it anyway, because the good outweighed the bad.
It was a selfless act. A different kind of heroics.
Life can suck for heros.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

She knew the consequences.
That's why she was conflicted about it.
She did it anyway, because the good outweighed the bad.
It was a selfless act. A different kind of heroics.
Life can suck for heros.

It does not sell; one of her best friends runs the company--he has authority over Carr and--if plotted in any realistic manner--he would have stepped in to defend her or give her a second chance. Notice how the story does not even have a single scene with James about this? That makes no sense at all--even if the end result remained the same. He's now reduced to a minor supporting character--probably less. If this was the showrunners' way of moving Kara into some soapbox blogger type, the entre reporter arc (started in season one) still needed a realistic resolution--and that would only happen with a conversation about her actions with her close friend/boss James.

 

[Christopher]

She knew the consequences.
That's why she was conflicted about it.
She did it anyway, because the good outweighed the bad.
It was a selfless act. A different kind of heroics.
Life can suck for heros.

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It does not sell; one of her best friends runs the company--he has authority over Carr and--if plotted in any realistic manner--he would have stepped in to defend her or give her a second chance. Notice how the story does not even have a single scene with James about this? That makes no sense at all--even if the end result remained the same. He's now reduced to a minor supporting character--probably less. If this was the showrunners' way of moving Kara into some soapbox blogger type, the entre reporter arc (started in season one) still needed a realistic resolution--and that would only happen with a conversation about her actions with her close friend/boss James.

I hate saying this, but Kara getting fired was the "realistic resolution" to the situation. The only unrealistic thing about Kara's firing is that she was allowed into the building and into Carr's bullpen where he delivered the news and already boxed up her stuff. Realistically, she should have been escorted to HR, given an explanation of her termination, handed the box of her things, and then escorted by security out of the building.

I realize I'm sounding really harsh and dispassionate about the end of Kara's employment with Catco, The fact that Kara's motives were in the right doesn't excuse violating her non-compete. This is an HR issue, and there are no shades of gray in corporate HR.

 

[DigificWriter]

James is the Acting CEO of CatCo, but Snapper is, for all practical purposes, the person in charge of acting running the company in terms of its varied media outlets since his job title is Editor-in-Chief. Plus, he's actually Kara's direct superior as appointed by Cat.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Can't Supergirl call a press conference? Or just barge in on someone elses spotlight, like Superman did in movie 4, when he told the UN that he was getting rid of nuclear weapons.

Doesn't the DEO have the same list as Cadmus?

Text the Aliens.

Oh.

Supergirl makes a Vine Video about how murders are coming to murder thousands of aliens across... Surely the Fortress can take over all world wide media for 5 minutes?

Doesn't Lena own some media outlets?

"Your Mommy is going to kill a lot of people, help me stop them."

Here's a serious question...

Why the #### isn't Kara Danvers on that list?

Another serious question.

Why didn't they turn the alien bar into a trap on the off chance?

The most serious questions.

"Why are you afraid Jerry, that men in masks are threatening to shoot your bullet proof daughter?"

 

[Christopher]

The only unrealistic thing about Kara's firing is that she was allowed into the building and into Carr's bullpen where he delivered the news and already boxed up her stuff. Realistically, she should have been escorted to HR, given an explanation of her termination, handed the box of her things, and then escorted by security out of the building.

But then they would've had to build a new set and cast an additional actor...

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Can't Supergirl call a press conference? Or just barge in on someone elses spotlight, like Superman did in movie 4, when he told the UN that he was getting rid of nuclear weapons.

Doesn't the DEO have the same list as Cadmus?

Text the Aliens.

Oh.

Supergirl makes a Vine Video about how murders are coming to murder thousands of aliens across... Surely the Fortress can take over all world wide media for 5 minutes?

Doesn't Lena own some media outlets?

"Your Mommy is going to kill a lot of people, help me stop them."

Here's a serious question...

Why the #### isn't Kara Danvers on that list?

Another serious question.

Why didn't they turn the alien bar into a trap on the off chance?

The most serious questions.

"Why are you afraid Jerry, that men in masks are threatening to shoot your bullet proof daughter?"

Kara isn't on the list because she never signed up for alien amnesty, and she's not bullet proof if the gun has kryptonite bullets. Alex & Eliza are also quite vulnerable to the conventional ammo so the threat still carries some weight.

Speaking of unasked questions, was Lillian flirting with Daddy Danvers?

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Lillian Luthor was the Desperate House Wife who whacked herself in the pilot, and then narrated thereafter, so it should be fun to see Luthor with Mum-El.

 

[dahj]

the entre reporter arc (started in season one) still needed a realistic resolution--and that would only happen with a conversation about her actions with her close friend/boss James.

Why?
She has a scene with Snapper, where it's explained why she has to be fired, and then she has a scene with her boyfriend where she explains how she feels about what happened.
A scene with James between those two would be completely redundant.

I'm sure James and the rest of her friends will weigh in on her new situation in the following episodes, but additional conversations wouldn't serve the story of this episode in any way...

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Why?
She has a scene with Snapper, where it's explained why she has to be fired, and then she has a scene with her boyfriend where she explains how she feels about what happened.
A scene with James between those two would be completely redundant.

The Mon-El scene should have been dropped; this was the end of her major arc, and as James is so close to her and the boss, that should have been the "my purpose" scene to cap off CatCo...which seems to be happening.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Speaking of unasked questions, was Lillian flirting with Daddy Danvers?

I think so. And I still think Lena is flirting with Kara.

 

[dahj]

The Mon-El scene should have been dropped; this was the end of her major arc, and as James is so close to her and the boss

I think Mon-El works much better for such a scene, because with him she can express how she feels and he's just there to listen and that's it.

With James you'd have to throw in an expository explanation why he won't unfire her, and then also how he feels about it, and then the whole scene isn't really about her anymore...

 

[matthunter]

Also, disabling the engines with heat vision first would have made that whole effort a lot easier, if a lot less dramatic.

Or it could've detonated the ship's fuel supply. Or thrown the ship off-course as the engines failed out of sequence (since she wouldn't be able to zap 'em all at the same moment), making controlling it even more unpredictable.

 

[doylem1]

How would that ships weight and thrust compare in mass to Kara lifting Fort Rozz and flying it into space ?.

 

[Forbin]

Or it could've detonated the ship's fuel supply. Or thrown the ship off-course as the engines failed out of sequence (since she wouldn't be able to zap 'em all at the same moment), making controlling it even more unpredictable.

It's a fantasy TV show, ya know - they could have written it so her heat vision DIDN'T do those things.

 

[Christopher]

How would that ships weight and thrust compare in mass to Kara lifting Fort Rozz and flying it into space ?.

Fort Rozz was a dead weight, not under power. Supergirl only had to fight gravity there. This ship's engines were powerful enough to lift its mass into orbit and accelerate it to high velocities in space, and they were actively pushing back against her.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I think so. And I still think Lena is flirting with Kara.

I think that just comes naturally to Katie McGrath. Merlin, she's essentially seduced into villainy by her own half-sister. Dracula, she's a closeted lesbian in Victorian London.

 

[Christopher]

I think that just comes naturally to Katie McGrath. Merlin, she's essentially seduced into villainy by her own half-sister. Dracula, she's a closeted lesbian in Victorian London.

I'm not sure it's physiologically possible for Katie McGrath not to be smoldering and seductive.