Supergirl - The Final Season
Season 6 - episode 18 - "Truth or Consequences"
Supergirl: Endgame continues...
SG: SG implying Lex would be unpredictable now that he's in love also smelled like a reference to herself (SEE NOTES).
J'onn was full of crap again, by brushing off SG's experience / advice about Esme in favor of Alex's absolutely empty ideas on child-rearing. SG will always know what its like to be an alien child among humans and the developmental issues that walk hand-in-hand with that, which makes her better equipped to counsel Esme than Alex who knows nothing about the subject, other than being a bystander (SEE the Alex entry).
Future Lex / Nyxlygsptlnz: The Infinity Totems...whatever.
Nyxlygsptinz observed, "The camera never lies." Suurreee it does not. Cameras only capture what is intended and controlled for the user's purpose. Nice try, but no sale for the showrunners.
Alex/Kelly: "I'm not gonna make her suppress who she is..." SG never suggested anything of the sort. SG was correct: glasses would help Esme focus on being able to live among others, which also acts as learning self control in new situations--which is what children often have to learn when first encountering others. Somehow, Alex lives in some My Little Pony-esque happy land where everyone loves everyone else. You'd think she would know that's not in great abundance on earth, but...
...and all of her "I'm her mother" crap was dulled by every dagger of cluelessness she tossed at SG.
One could assume her bitchy attempt to dress down SG will make the latter consider her place in the world, and where she would be happy (hint).
Not that this series would ever "get real," but SG owed Alex a dose of truth, as opposed to Alex (acting as showrunner mouthpiece) still free to spout bullshit. On the one hand she said she did not know what it was like to be an alien (followed by "but"), and only a second later, she equates being an alien needing to "hide" themselves with her not "living her truth." (more than a comment about Esme). Make no mistake, that was the showrunners' real world, thoroughly offensive belief that certain experiences are felt / holds the same weight and burdens as racial minorities (particularly black people), who have no option--no choice to blend in or not be an "other" if they desire, because their natural state of being--their face (and false assumptions baked into that)--is their history of damnation and cannot be hidden. Its not the first time Berlanti and his cronies pushed a very old, rage-inducing, politicized tool / lie, .
Brainy: So, his reluctance to "speed things up" is due to knowing he had to return to the future, but he should have known that all along (not just related to that mission) and shared it with his now-longtime companions, otherwise, in the grand scheme of things, he's there because...?
NOTES:
Rojas: There's not an ounce of direction or consistency on this show; in one season, she's quivering her lips with regret for using the medallion (and all that came with it), but in this season, she's used it a couple of times--for self-serving reasons. In normal world, writers would have her temptation to fall back into using an evil talisman rewarded with paying a serious, permanent price, and that's not Dey being killed. That said, this is a Berlanti series, so she's likely to be treated with kid gloves about her leaking Lex's journal and allowed to "come back" as the most wonderful being in the universe.
As far as Dey is concerned...the showrunners were dialed in with the fairy tale of hyper-ethical journalists, as seen in his argument with Rojas. Instead of the showrunners spending this season building up to a conclusion that does more to shape a notable, constructive journey for Supergirl's departure, too much attention has been paid to useless secondary characters (if that).
..and it should not take Dey's death to prod Rojas into finding a moral core which was never there to be found (just take a look at the character's history on this show).
SG not finding love has been a recurring theme in the past couple of seasons, so you know this series will not end without her finally getting her man, which coincidentally should wrap up Brainy's story.
Next week: "The Last Gauntlet" / "Kara" AKA the series finale, where James has his cameo, and you-know-who, tired of being kicked around, will help defeat a couple of people...or so some are saying.
GRADE: D-
My husband said he could hear my eyes rolling (others have heard them roll over the phone - they must be loud 
). And Lex was in, not just the future, but the Legion's time? PUH-LEASE. 
