Spoilers Supergirl - Season 5

[Samurai8472]

The CW Delays Nearly All Original Shows to 2021, Reveals January Schedule

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-cw-schedule-fall-2020-shows-premieres-delay-covid-19/

 

[StCoop]

And Supergirl will return even later, at whatever counts as mid-season. So almost a year until new episodes.

 

[Kirk Prime]

Intentional infliction of emotional abuse?

You know how if you murder someone in Argentina, that the American DOJ can't prosecute that alleged crime?

16 billion years ago, in another universe, is sorta the same thing.

Of course, the Superfriends can take the law into their own hands, and decide to convict and execute Lena, because it feels like the right thing to do, since they are the last survivors of Earth 1.

Which makes them all super-villains.

At least on BSG Vice President Zarek signed off on the secret tribunals, and secret executions, so that it was all kinda legal.

I'm not 100 percent sure that applies. I'm also not an expert on international law. It's an interesting situation. If you commit a crime on one Earth, can you be held accountable on another?

 

[Samurai8472]

And Supergirl will return even later, at whatever counts as mid-season. So almost a year until new episodes.

Likely due to Melissa's pregnancy.

 

[JD]

Chyler Leigh's interviews to TV Guide
https://www.tvguide.com/amp/news/supergirl-chyler-leigh-season-5-finale-alex-new-persona/)

The way she's talking about coming up with a new identity, and a new suit and mask, makes me think she won't just be taking over James's Guardian persona.

 

[Christopher]

The way she's talking about coming up with a new identity, and a new suit and mask, makes me think she won't just be taking over James's Guardian persona.

I don't know, it's a bit ambiguous. She could just mean it's new for Alex.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

The way she's talking about coming up with a new identity, and a new suit and mask, makes me think she won't just be taking over James's Guardian persona.

Hopefully writers will make a better work with Alex than what they have done with James as Gardian.
In the same time, Alex wasn't really spoiled in terms of plots, even romantically in s4 (as the Chief of the DEO at J'onn's place) and in s5, especially after Crisis, even with her new gadgets. So,... .

 

[theenglish]

I'm wondering if Pete is actually working for Leviathan. Granted, I never have worked in a library or an archival place. But I kinda found it a bit odd that Pete needed to ask for access to a room he claimed to have gone into many times.

And if I was Alex, I would have asked Pete who he was talking to. That person(s) might be a lead...

I wondered about that too. In fact I would not be surprised if Pete is actually the head of Leviathan or the mastermind behind this somehow.

 

[Finn]

I can't remember which movie/tv show, but I seem to remember Sean Astin playing a character who turned out to be a baddie, a few years back, just before he showed up on Stranger Things.

 

[The Realist]

Suiting up Alex as a superhero is the perfect capper to Supergirl's Season of Bad Decisions.

 

[DigificWriter]

Suiting up Alex as a superhero is the perfect capper to Supergirl's Season of Bad Decisions.

I disagree.

Alex already is a superhero, but having her adopt a mask and costume to with that occupation is the exact opposite of a bad decision.

 

[The Realist]

Disagree away. It's obviously a matter of personal preference, but I dislike the Arrowverse's insistence on turning every character and their mother into a costumed member of "Team ____."

I'd prefer these shows had exactly one superhero, and a supporting cast of merely human friends, family, and coworkers. The classic Superman formula, IOW. That's my sweet spot for this genre.

But, I'm old school that way.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ All of Clark's closest human friends have been given superpowers in the comics at one point or another, so your objection doesn't make sense.

 

[The Realist]

All of Clark's closest human friends have been given superpowers in the comics at one point or another, so your objection doesn't make sense.

You're reaching. As I'm sure you know, those situations never became the ongoing status quo, and were rarely more than one-offs. Lois, Jimmy, and Perry remain Superman's core supporting cast, and they've done it powerless, costumeless, and codename-less for decades.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Perry is a nothing character.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Hopefully writers will make a better work with Alex than what they have done with James as Gardian.

Alex going to the gas station for a bag of chips would be better handling than anything ever attempted with the marginalized, tokenized James.

Disagree away. It's obviously a matter of personal preference, but I dislike the Arrowverse's insistence on turning every character and their mother into a costumed member of "Team ____."

Agreed. Take Black Lightning: the "team" makes sense in that Jefferson's daughters inherited their power, while anyone else in their city were either experiments in the past, or exposed in the present--all story-relevant reasons, but Gambi and Lynn are not suiting up as convenient superbeings as an act of weak fan servicing.
DigificWriter's "Alex already is a superhero" comment is patently false--she is only a human with human skills, and not even on the level of a Batman--the very reason she made the following statement almost justifying the eugenics beliefs of Lena and the Children of Liberty's during season four's "Blood Memory":

"This world is filled with a lot of people that are bigger and stronger than her, and that kind of vulnerability...it makes you angry! When you feel powerless enough, you will do anything it takes...to feel strong."

She was frustrated when saying that to Supergirl,which is not what someone who is "already" a "superhero" is likely to say.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ Alex is already a superhero in deed, word, and philosophy.

 

[The Realist]

Alex is already a superhero in deed, word, and philosophy.

In which case, there seems little need to make her into yet another spandexed codenamed goober.

There's value in these stories to showing there are other ways to be a hero.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ The series isn't making her into a superhero by giving her a costume and codename; they're just evolving who and what she's been since the very beginning.

 

[dahj]

My suspicion is that she'll just take over the Guardian identity left vacant by James's departure.

I got the feeling the episode was slowly setting up J'onn to leave, or at least put his private life in front of superheroing for a bit, so I figure it'd be nice if she'd become the new Manhunter. She already has the Martian weapon, her relationship with J'onn was way closer than the one she had with James so taking up that mantle would make more personal sense, and it's technically a law enforcement role which also make sense for her.

Would be a super-ironic name though.