• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2

The Daxamites first showed up at the conclusion of Medusa (Episode 2x08), so this story arc didn't just come out of nowhere within the past few episodes.

The writers were also pretty heavily telegraphing Mon-El being the Daxamite Prince since Welcome to Earth (Episode 2x03).
 
DigificWriter said:
The Daxamites first showed up at the conclusion of Medusa (Episode 2x08), so this story arc didn't just come out of nowhere within the past few episodes.

The writers were also pretty heavily telegraphing Mon-El being the Daxamite Prince since Welcome to Earth (Episode 2x03).
Click to expand...

Fair enough, but what about the cadmus storyline. Is that not going to be wrapped up this season. That's what I meant by changing directions. There's 5 episodes left and they're going to wrap up two big storylines in that time frame?
 
^ We're not done with Cadmus quite yet, even though Rhea is supposed to fairly quickly supplant Lillian Luthor as the ultimate "Big Bad" of the season. In fact, I believe there are
spoilers out there indicating that Lillian, Cadmus, and Lex's mysterious box project have a part to play in the finale, so I think we'll end up seeing Rhea's story arc cross over with the Cadmus stuff pretty soon.
 
The producers have definitely said Jeremiah Danvers and Rhea meeting is something that they have discussed and Dean and Teri are happy to do. Whether they mean before the end of the season is hard to predict. But the Cadmus anti Alien arc and a Daxamite invasion dovetailing together seems a natural way to resolve those two arcs and reunite those former Lois & Clark costars.
 
I liked last night's episode, but again, my biggest complaint of the season is the shoehorning of the Alex/Maggie relationship and the lengths the writers are going to as a means of forcing it on the viewer.

Think of all that happened yesterday. We have a bounty on Supergirl. We have Mon-El's mom PUTTING that bounty on her. We have pretty cool action and Mon-El making a great sacrifice to save Supergirl.

And we actually waste a chunk of the episode finding out that Maggie cheated on an ex years ago? Talk about irrelevant. It would be interesting to see how the season would be affected if someone edited out the entire Maggie/Alex relationship. I bet it wouldn't be missed save for a couple of scenes early on.
 
Maggie and Alex are no more or less "forced on the viewer" than are Kara and Mon-El.

Don't like them? Watch something else.

In modern TV, for better or worse, there are "A" stories and "B" stories. Almost never are you going to see an hour of this or any other similar show devoted entirely to the main protagonist throwing down with the baddie.

A significant portion of the CW audience watches their shows primarily for the relationship stuff. How can people not know this, so late in the day?
 
tomalak301 said:
So has Supergirl basically changed direction for the last few episodes of Season 2 from what came before. I mean we started the season with Superman, continued the season wish Aliens and Immigration, and Dean Cain, and now we have this Daximite storyline which feels to me like the writers didn't know what to do to end the season so this feels tacked on.
Click to expand...

True--the showrunners are all over the place, always trying to create some "big event" which always feels half-assed and never gives the impression that anything has even the threat of troubling more than that one city (see: Myriad, Lord's cloning plot, etc.), or have far reaching consequences. Cadmus had the potential for that, but the anti-alien plot always ends up foiled with--again--no far reaching consequences, even as the writers tried (and failed) to build this story.

Also, Sorbo getting killed was so predictable that now that we wait a few weeks for new episodes, I can't say I'm excited to see what happens next.
Click to expand...

It was predictable in that the series always has a female villain/leader character, with any males around her reduced to indecisive, largely powerless footstool types. No other superhero production (the DC movies, MCU, Netflix/Marvel pulls that--they (more often tan not) develop characters and their relationships without agenda. Still, Sorbo was the best part of the past two episodes, and his sensitive character is a loss for the Mon-El backstory. I doubt his death will have any real meaning for character development of anyone involved.


I will say I hope they bring back Dean Cain and that story because those two episodes were the best episodes of the second half of the season, even though the first part I felt Alex was completely out of character. Overall though, I enjoyed it as an arc.
Click to expand...

Alex had purpose in those episodes--and a desire to see/find her real father, instead of the easy way most around her were so willing to place him in the "outsider" box. Without this mini-arc, Alex goes back to marching around as a watered down, would-be Bond who makes bad decisions.[/quote]
 
We have learnt that Maggie lies, and Maggie cheats.

Either this is a set up for down the line, where Maggie cheats and lies, or this b-story is a waste of space story about already evolved people growing.

It's Alex's first girlfriend.

Your first is very rarely your happily ever after.
 
Gryffindorian said:
I had a hard time believing Kara was no match against Rhea in combat, considering the latter didn't even have the power of the yellow sun.
Click to expand...

Yes, she did, just as Mon-El does. Remember, when they first arrived in the Solar System at the end of the episode before last, Rhea and Lar Gand talked about how powerful they suddenly felt.


I forgot to mention how much I liked the Alex-Maggie subplot this week. When it turned out Maggie had cheated on her ex, I feared we were heading for another contrived "relationship in crisis" plot beat of Alex mistrusting Maggie. But instead it went somewhere much more beautiful and positive, and it shows how much Alex has grown in their relationship.
 
Christopher said:
I forgot to mention how much I liked the Alex-Maggie subplot this week. When it turned out Maggie had cheated on her ex, I feared we were heading for another contrived "relationship in crisis" plot beat of Alex mistrusting Maggie. But instead it went somewhere much more beautiful and positive, and it shows how much Alex has grown in their relationship.
Click to expand...

That's why I liked it. I was ready for a cliche filled subplot but it ended up being much more real and positive. These shows have gotten a little dark this season so I appreciate positivity anywhere we can get it.
 
And Kara is wandering around the DEO in her civvies, and even confronted the bounty hunter dressed that way, with her glasses on.
 
Episode was ok, the Maggie stuff wasn't ness or really needed in the episode.

Winn is starting to irritate me with his mannerisms, starting to get a tad old now.

Wouldn't it have been awesome if the 2nd bounty hunter had been Lobo instead of that telepath. The main man brought to live action. Ofc course the question then exists of who's tough enough to stop him ?
 
It is kind of worrying for the state of the other Arrowverse relationships that a relationship being healthy and people in it acting like adults comes as a complete surprise to so many people. :D

Oh, and Winn was totally pulling a Cisco with the breaches this week ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

FPAlpha
Spoilers Squid Game Season 2 - Spoilers
Replies
9
Views
5K
AntonyF
AntonyF
Starscape
  • Sticky
  • Poll
Contest: VOTE June 2025 Art Challenge - Vote for Your Theme!
Replies
1
Views
159
Laura Cynthia Chambers
Laura Cynthia Chambers
Starscape
Contest: ENTER June 2025 Art Challenge - Suggest Your Themes!
Replies
3
Views
310
Starscape
Starscape
BountyTrek
Star Trek: Bounty - 204 - "Acquire, Evade, Retreat, Confront"
2
Replies
29
Views
983
BountyTrek
BountyTrek
Starscape
  • Poll
Contest: VOTE May 2025 Art Challenge - Vote for Your Theme!
Replies
4
Views
399
Starscape
Starscape
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top