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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 3

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Not a bad episode overall this week. The stuff with J'onn and his father was pretty effective, if a bit reminiscent of ST:TNG: "Sarek." And I liked it that Sam's first thought upon realizing she was Reign was despair at the lives she'd taken. Good priorities.

But there were some budget issues showing. It's the second episode in a row set mostly at the DEO, with this one even more of a bottle show than last week -- although the prison compound is new, I think. And in the climactic CGI fight between J'onn and the White Martian, there was a moment where the animation got really jerky, like there was a rendering error that made the White Martian slide back several feet in a split-second. And J'onn seemed to be lightly tapping it with his fists rather than punching it.

Since when was Supergirl's cape a Kryptonian metamaterial? I thought Winn made it out of some advanced Earthly material in the pilot.

I like it that Supergirl pointed out that Reign's fists would do her more damage than a concrete block. I had the same thought myself during that fight scene. But if Kara thinks that, why the heck was she using a similar tactic against the flying monkeys last week, smashing them with a signpost, rather than just using her much stronger fists?
 
As soon as I read the episode synopsis, I thought, "M'yrrn has the Martian equivalent of Sarek's Bendii Syndrome on TNG." The dilemma faced by J'onn and his father parallels what people with dementia or Alzheimer's and their loved ones go through. :(

Mon El's new suit looks sleek, though the leather one would have worked just as well with the cape.
 
TG_1... Lena's only endgame with Samantha is to hold James's mirror up so she can see that she is Reign.

Lena isn't stupid, she saw Sam's eyes glow red when she became incensed over the thought that Lena told her daughter that mommy was sick. In order to bring "that" monster to the fore, Lena threatened Sam with the only thing she truly cares about.

Speaking of kryptonite...

One, where did Lena get it?

And Two, will she share that neat infuser tech with Alex when she gets a chance?

Speaking of Alex, wonder when she will ask where her private patient disappeared to, much less her teenaged buddy?

I enjoyed this week quite a bit, from fancy cape tricks to James thoughtful advice to Wynn disarming that trash talking DEO agent to Alex using techy nunchucks in the DEO melee to Lena crawling into Sam's cage to comfort her.

I also have to admit, Kara's careful removal of her blouse in the beginning because "hey, I like this shirt!" did make me laugh, almost as much as Jonn's father's predicament made me cry.
 
Superman could be useful at this time.
Had a Jor-El reference. That's the first time I think he's been mentioned here.
 
Dick Whitman said:
Early this year David Harewood was part of public discussion in Washington DC with numerous Black cast members from the DC tv shows. He made a comment about J'onn as a shapeshifter choose to be a Black man. Which really stood out to me at the time because it was his insight into the character that had never appeared on the show. What he said was very similar to what J'onn said tonight. Glad to see David is having influence on the writing.

I was happy to learn that in the future Mon-El already has wore is red and blue costume with the cape. It's just currently damaged. Which is a huge improvement compared to what happened with Jay Garrick on The Flash. Those writers stuck with the idea that the helmet was Hunter Zolomon/Zoom's father's. Which the real Jay just is copying now... so the real Jay ran around with no helmet for years...
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Well, isn't that kind of because Shipp ran around for years as Barry Allen, with no helmet? I see Jay's history as being basically the 90's show, except he was named Jay instead of his brother being named Jay, so of course he took the helmet later. It would change parts of the pilot movie, and not much else.
 
thribs said:
Superman could be useful at this time.
Had a Jor-El reference. That's the first time I think he's been mentioned here.
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Does apologizing to his giant ice sculpture when she trashed it in the season 2 Mxylplitzic (spelling?) episode count?
 
JanewayRulz! said:
TG_1... Lena's only endgame with Samantha is to hold James's mirror up so she can see that she is Reign.
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Hardly her endgame. More like an opening gambit. The first step was getting Sam to accept what was happening to her. Now that that's done, the real work can begin.


Speaking of kryptonite...

One, where did Lena get it?
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Same place Oliver Queen got his...?

Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd found some cache that Lex or Lillian had left behind somewhere as a contingency.


to Wynn disarming that trash talking DEO agent
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His name is Demos (played by Curtis Lum, who also has a semi-regular role on Freeform's Siren). That seems to be a Greek name (meaning "the people"), but it's pretty uncommon to see by itself instead of in a longer name like Nicodemos. Anyway, Demos seems to have taken Vasquez's place as the main junior DEO agent (now that Brianna Venskus is increasingly busy on Agents of SHIELD, I presume). He and Vasquez appeared together in his debut episode, "The Martian Chronicles" in season 2, but he's appeared five times since then while Vasquez has appeared only once more, in "Reign."


I also have to admit, Kara's careful removal of her blouse in the beginning because "hey, I like this shirt!" did make me laugh, almost as much as Jonn's father's predicament made me cry.
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Cute, but it doesn't make much sense given that she can undress at superspeed. And also get dressed at superspeed, as we've seen on occasion (for instance, in the first season, when she flew to pick up Cat Grant's son and changed from Supergirl to Kara behind the bushes in a couple of seconds). So clearly she can change clothes at superspeed without damaging her street clothes in the process.

But then, the writers seem to be forgetting lately that she has superspeed, given that she keeps walking to scenes of danger. Last week, she was just walking into the villain's lair at normal speed alongside Mon-El, James, and Winn, even though Mrs. Schott's life was in imminent danger and she could've just swooped in and saved her in a second. And here, she heard the start of the fight in the control room and headed out to investigate, but it was several moments before she actually arrived on the scene.
 
I'm pretty sure Lex had Kryptonite stored in the warehouse that Lillian coerced Lena into helping her access in Season 2 (the same one that housed the Lexosuit and the device that Lena ended up repurposing in order to seed the atmosphere with lead).
 
You can't rip a symbol off of something if it was never there. In the show, Mon-El has little reason to put an S-Shield on his suit because he's not surrogately part of the El family the way he is in the comics.

If anything, he should've put a Legion sigil on there.
 
I'm not saying he should have one but that it shouldn't like someone ripped one off it either. I guess maybe the outline could be an homage/tribute/whatever to the Super heroes.
 
The triangle is there clearly as an homage to Kryptonian culture since all Kryptonian sigils have a triangle as their base, but if he were going to fill that triangle, he ought to have filled it with the Legion's stylized "L".
 
^^ Or maybe to save a few bucks on production if they are able to reuse some costumes/patterns. :) There's no right or wrong here, just a pet peeve of mine that it looks like something should be there when it isn't.
 
Mon-El built his suit based on Kara's, so, in-universe, the triangle is there as a Kryptonian cultural homage based on his experiences with her and the evolution of his views on the planet as a whole; he just didn't fill it with anything.
 
DigificWriter said:
Mon-El built his suit based on Kara's, so, in-universe, the triangle is there as a Kryptonian cultural homage based on his experiences with her and the evolution of his views on the planet as a whole; he just didn't fill it with anything.
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It's a pentagon.
 
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