Supergirl - The Final Season
Season 6 - episode 15 - "Hope for Tomorrow"
SG / Alex: One would think SG and Alex would know better than trying to get Esme to understand her powers by overwhelming her with one alien after another with abilities she cannot possibly understand.
Alex going overboard trying to play mother should not be wrapped up in a single episode. Although her making a boatload of promises to the child seems like a set-up of some kind.
Getting rid of nuclear weapons is not changing or interfering with human history, as she's living in unfolding history, which would have no fixed outcome she would be aware of. She's simply a part of the unfolding history.
Nyxlygsptlnz: The Infinity sag--er...Totems saga continues, and now she even has a device on her wrist to serve as a conduit for the totem's power....
The one good thing about the kidnapping of Dey turned out to be the writers' longstanding agenda unintentionally blowing up in their faces with the following exchange:
Dey: "You don't believe in a free press?"
Nyxlygsptlnz: "mmm-mm."
Dey: "Journalism shines a light on people in power. It insures no authoritarian impulse goes unchecked*. Much like yourself."
Nyxlygsptlnz: "If you think your little newspaper has any impact on those with real power. you're more delusional than I thought. No, the powerful; will always believe their way is righteous."
*..unless the journalist happens to agree with a subject's authoritarian impulse. Yeah...whoops.
The showrunners' journalism fantasies are exactly the kind of high school journalism level of crap that experience in reality has to shake out of those who become serious writers. As noted, the villain made the grounded argument, which flies in the face of the noise pushed by this series from the start.
Kelly: I guess the showrunners wanted to nosedive hard with one Very Special Episode after another--now focusing on Esme, while Kelly felt what about herself? Ah, yes--showrunner racial "look at the statement we're making" has gone up in a puff of smoke, and why not, since Berlanti Productions never had even a mild interest in the life / generational struggles of black people.
J'onn: This guy's talking about an "overreach of power?" As the secretary pointed out, since the end of the DEO, J'onn and his pals have had no trouble intervening in the affairs of others. In fact, that's the one role they have all agreed to play (interventionist "hero"), so he was talking out of his ass.
Lena: The writers are really straining to keep Lena involved, but one can guess this is to have her make a breakout show of magic when her brother shows up. At this point, few would bet against Lena being the one to defeat him while making some speech...and then he escapes, or something along those lines.
NOTES: CG SG, J'onn and the missiles.... There's a number of fan films--with their limited resources--that put this amateur hour crap to shame.
Next week....yeah.
GRADE: D+.
