Previously: Supergirl moved to the CW and met saw her cousin.
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The Last Children of Krypton
Catherine: After a previously where we’re reminded that Superman is in town and Kara is a reporter now, the episode starts with a fire in a skyscraper. One of the firefighters says that he hopes to god “she” shows up and two streaks zoom across the sky as another firefighter says, “even better.”
Supergirl and Superman put out the fire and afterward fly off to take care of an armed robbery. Superman stops the car and the robbers look at him in confusion.
The robbers try to shoot Superman and of course the bullets bounce off like nothing. Then they try to punch him and he points out that if bullets didn’t hurt him fists probably won’t? Superman and Supergirl dispatch the robbers and gloat a little before Hank comms them to piss in their cereal about how fun is bad. He says whenever they’re done being children, there’s a renegade Kigori in Riverside Park. Kara tells him they’re on it and they fly off.
Back at the new DEO, Hank grumps a bit about how he hates fun. Winn, who I guess works at the DEO full time now, lols at him. Alex reminds Hank that he promised that he would be nice to Superman. Hank says that he only said he’d try and Alex reminds him that Superman will be leaving soon so until then—they’re interrupted by Kara whooping in joy over the intercom. Hank says that he’s going to the armory to shoot at something.
Samantha: These grumps feel extreme, Hank.
Marines: Especially since they are doing their jobs and catching bad guys and just enjoying it?
Catherine: Booooo! Fun is bad.
Over at CADMUS, the Creepy Doctor Lady wakes up Metallo and he starts breaking shit with his super strength. One of the orderly/lackey guys says that he’s calling security but Creepy Doctor Lady says that won’t be necessary. Metallo, aka John Corben asks why he’s so strong all of the sudden. Naps do the body good, Corben.
Creepy Doctor Lady tells him that the Kryptonians tried to kill him and CADMUS salvaged him, modified him and resurrected him. She tells him he’s going to save the world from an alien menace and puts a hand on his chest. His heart glows a bright green at her touch. She tells him that she’s given him a cause.
So I said that I’d do a quick Fun Fact™ about Metallo in this episode since I didn’t do it last episode and here it is.
Metallo aka John Corben is a villain from the comics who goes alllll the way back to the Silver Age for his first appearance. At that point he was a scientist that had taken a serum to increase his strength to Superman’s level. Pretty much the only thing that Metallo and current canon Metallo had in common was the same name.
He’s gone through a few other versions but since the late 80’s he’s been John Corben, a man that was injured (the injuries differ) and then taken by some lab (usually CADMUS but lets be honest, creepy evil labs are in no short supply here) and made into a cyborg with a heart made of kryptonite. Usually to stop Superman. A lot of times he starts out as a nice guy who gets operated on without his consent and turns evil because of the kryptonite’s effect on his brain. This time he appears to have already been evil, which probably makes more sense.
The kryptonite is his energy source and in a lot of cases destroying it destroys him.
Metallo has been in a lot of different adaptations including Lois & Clark and Smallville (where he was played by Brian Austin Green. Ya know, Megan Fox’s husband?) (S: Ohhhhhhhh.)
Here’s a pic:
Anyway, back to the episode. DEO. Supergirl and Superman return just as Alex is leaving with a team to capture the Kigori. Alex says they were going out there because they hadn’t heard back from Kara. She apologizes and says that they were having #toomuchfun but they already brought the Kigori in.
As they’re talking there’s a power surge and Winn tells them that they’ve been happening a lot. Everyone goes down to the room with the Kryptonian coma guy. Superman gets pissy that they’ve been exposing coma guy to kryptonite since he’s not a prisoner and he’s already in a coma. Hanks says that it’s a precaution since they don’t know anything about him. (S: Idk, this feels kind of sketchy, DEO.) (M: How do you expect him to un-coma with Kryptonite around?)
The power comes back on and Alex (who went to alien medical school, remember) (S: The thing is, I forget so much about this show, this could be true.) says that coma guy is converting the electrical energy in the air into chemical energy. What does that mean? No fucking idea. Hank snaps at Superman again and Superman peaces out.
After he leaves, Kara reminds Hank that he promised he’d be nice. Hank again says that he’ll try. Apparently not that hard, though. Alex reminds Kara that they are having ‘sister night’ which means episodes of Veep and Chinese food. Kara asks if she knows that Veep is also Clark’s favorite show. I ADORE Veep and I find this incredibly hard to believe because, ya know… cursing.
But whatever. Alex asks if Clark was coming to sister night and Kara’s like, well…yeah? (S: Rude move, Kara. Ugh.) (M: IDK, I’d feel okay about inviting a cousin to sister night, but I also talk to my cousins more than once a season premiere, you know?) Alex says the more the merrier and seems to be genuine about it. I mean, we know she’s not but she seems to be and the actress does okay with bringing that across.
CatCo. Clark and Kara, now dressed as normal nerds walk in for Kara’s first day as a reporter. Kara is all frantic excited energy and Clark stops her and calmly tells her that she’s gonna do great. Cat appears in her office door and asks to speak to Kara by actually calling her Kara. I can’t remember if she managed to do that last episode too but I hope so because it’s a vast improvement over the fake Kiera stuff from last season. (M: She definitely started it when Kara said she wanted to be a reporter.) Clark leaves and Cat watches his butt as he walks off.
Cat tells Kara that she’s introducing her to her new boss. And Jesus fucking Christ it’s Snapper Carr. (S: How can this be a name? Even for comics?) (C: Comics are magical.)
I have never in all my years seen a live action Snapper Carr. I simultaneously love and hate that this show is taking the opportunity to bring in less well known DC canon characters and showcasing them. It’s a great way to bring in characters that they can write however they want, but it also makes me realize how much of a fucking nerd I am that I actually know who these people are.
Anyway, Snapper Carr (his real name is Lucas) (S: Oh.) was the Justice League’s teenage sidekick. He was created in the 60’s in order to appeal to those hip, bee-bopping youths that were taking America by storm. He was basically the JLA’s mascot until he spontaneously developed superpowers and then did some superheroing around for a bit. He also kidnapped Batman I think at some point? Unless I’m just remembering a fever dream. That sounds fake. Definitely a dream. (S: Oh god but I want it to be real. Errybody kidnap Batman, please.)
Anyway, this was him:
Yeah, he got his nickname because he snapped his fingers a lot. Which… sounds like something you would do just so people would give you that nickname. But he was almost universally hated by fans. He was the Westley Crusher of the Justice League. (S: I had to Google Westley Crusher, too. Failure, me.) (C: My sweet summer child.)
But it seems that Supergirl is taking a very different track here. This Snapper is middle aged and grumpy. UNLESS he’s a former sidekick or something? It would be a weird timeline but I would accept it for the Incredibles-style storyline alone.
Mari: If this guy at any point wears a cape, I think I’d be okay with it.
Catherine: So, Snapper is Kara’s new boss. He’s running the investigative team at CatCo journalism and he’s a Pulitzer winner. Kara tries to compliment him, and he looks at her like she’s knockoff Halloween candy and leaves the room. (S: Nice timely joke!) (C: IKR?) After he leaves, Kara asks Cat if that went well, and Cat actually tries to reassure her that it did. Not well, but she tries.
Super Pad. Alex asks Kara what kind of wine Clark drinks and Kara says that he doesn’t drink because he’s a “big big nerd.” It’s really cute the way she says it. Clark comes in and asks Alex if he can talk to Kara privately. He gets all “we need to talk” but before he can say anything she realizes that he’s going back to Metropolis. He says he has to get back to Lois. OMG can we go with him? No?
Kara is sad to see him go but she understands. I like how they’re talking like they can’t zip around the country to see each other in 30 seconds if they want to. They could have brunch on the Great Wall of China 5 minutes ago. You guys.
Samantha: Lets be real, Kara’s abandonment issues are legit. Don’t forget Thanksgiving.
Mari: Oh, they are totally real, but the fact that he could visit literally every day in 5 seconds makes Clark’s abandonment all the more hurtful.
Catherine: Both good points.
Before he can leave, the ever present, super convenient news that’s on in the background tells them that there’s a jumper on a bridge in the city. Kara asks Clark if he wants to do one last team up.
They fly out to the bridge and start to talk the guy down before he turns around and reveals himself to be Metallo. Metallo blasts Superman with his kryptonite heart and then stands there and has some villain talk with Kara.
This is weird to me. Normally Metallo’s powers work because with the chunk of kryptonite in his chest, Superman can’t get anywhere near him. But in this version he can fire beams of kryptonite from his chest and it doesn’t seem to effect Kara to stand within a few feet of him. Remember in the first season when she was on the same roof as kryptonite or something and she was sick for, like 3 days? What happened to that?
Samantha: Uh. See. The thing is… Kara is… aging… slowly?
Mari: Sam, I can’t even call that a nice try.
Catherine: At least you tried harder than the show, though.
After a commercial break, (which is real because the CW app has a ton of commercials. Pro tip.) Supergirl tries to fight Metallo. He tries to blast her with his he art (weird sentence), and she heat visions his hand until all the skin melts away and it’s just a metal cyborg hand. Then she ducks behind a car and pushes it toward him while he blasts it. He blasts her finally, and she falls down. He nearly kills her before Superman gets back up and punches him off the bridge and into the water. Kara is too weak to walk, so Superman picks her up and it’s a BIG DEAL let me tell you why.
This is the shot they used for him picking her up on the show:
And this is the cover of issue 7 of Crisis on Infinite Earths that came out in 1985:
Comic fans will know this well as it has become a pretty iconic image depicting the death of Supergirl at the hands of the alien Anti-Monitor (S: Terrible name?)(C: Fair). I mean, yes she came back and yes they fridged her in order to make Clark have sad feels for a few issues but it was a huge deal to me as a kid guys. A HUGE DEAL. I genuinely gasped when they did this shot on the show and it was well done.
Samantha: I do not want to rain on this parade, because it’s really cool, truly. I did see an interesting point on Twitter, however. This point was that what would have been even more cool is if they had role reversed it and had Supergirl holding Superman, since this is Supergirl’s show. Just a thought.
Catherine: That actually would have been very cool! I would’ve liked to see that.
Mari: The variability of how Kryptonite affects Kara makes this moment a little bit groan-worthy because one blast really knocked her out this way? Remember that for later.
Also, I feel like we ruined Katy’s moment. SORRY KATY.
Catherine: IT’S OKAY *quietly seethes in hatred*.
Luckily, this Kara is not dead. Clark brings her back to the DEO and by the time they get back she’s already on her feet again, although she’s leaning heavily on him. Superman confronts Hank about Metallo having kryptonite when he said only the DEO had access to it. It hit our atmosphere and scattered all over the earth, Clark. Cut them some slack.
But it turns out a shipment of kryptonite was stolen four months earlier. Apparently Kara didn’t know either. I would be PISSED but she just looks shocked. (M: Especially because Alex seems to know too.) (C: RIGHT? WTF? ) Hank and Superman start arguing and Hank moves to leave the room but Superman stops him by putting a hand on his chest. They get in each other’s faces and start yelling, Supes accusing Hank of not caring about Kara and Hank telling him to watch his mouth.
I can’t believe I actually agree with Winn. I can’t believe Winn has been sort of okay for like, 2 episodes now and actually funny. This is completely messing with my sense of order in the universe.
Samantha: I guess it really was the writing and not the actor.
Mari: I mean, his first plot line was a friend zone. It was definitely the writing.
Catherine: Whatever it was The CW seems to have fixed it. So yay! But boo because I need hatred to survive.
Before Hank and Supes can actually come to blows, a creepy voice and robot face comes on the screens all around the room. A broadcast goes out over the city saying that Superman and Supergirl are pretending to be heroes but they may decide they want to rule instead. The voice says they are called CADMUS and that they are the antidote to the alien invaders.
The knights of the big round table at the DEO talk about how CADMUS is bad, and Alex says that they have her father. Clark looks surprised at this. Kara puts her arm around Alex and says they will find Dean Cain and stop CADMUS.
Everyone is like, “But how?” and Superman gets all hot and problem solvey (M: lol), saying that Metallo has a metal endo-skeleton and that traces of it came off on his hand when he punched him. He wants to analyze it at the Fortress.Hank tells his team to get the anti-kryptonite broaches that Non and Astra wore last season out of storage so they can be analyzed and possibly turned into protection for Kara and Clark. Probably could have done that a while ago. You guys put those fucking things in storage? (S: Lol.) Hank follows Clark out, saying that they need to work together. Clark tells him he hopes he likes the cold.
CatCo. Kara goes into Snapper’s little dark, Daily Planet office and people are buzzing around. She apologizes for missing a staff meeting and he doesn’t give a shit because he doesn’t actually consider her an employee. He didn’t hire her and he doesn’t care what Cat says. He rightfully points out that in order to be a reporter, one has to go to journalism school. You don’t get to just say, “I’m a reporter” like “I’m a wizard” and it magically becomes so. (S: *closes eyes tightly* I’m a wizard, I’m a wizard, I’m a wizard.)
He tells Kara to get out. She gets frustrated, tries to insult him and comes up with nothing. He’s all, whoa great comeback, nerd and walks away. Sorry, Kara. Maybe try that wizard thing?
Kara goes straight to her girlfriend, Cat, and asks her if she can spare a minute. Cat’s all, um, no, I’m very important but she gives her 30 seconds. Kara tells her about Snapper and asks Cat to talk to him. Cat’s refuses and goes on a rant about how Kara is “a grown woman” and also, “smart and strong and astonishing” and that she needs to realize that and stand up for herself. She does it in such an angry voice. My ship is great. (S: It cannot be denied.)
But maybe not, because Cat tells her she’s not gonna be around for much longer.
Listen up show. If you get rid of Cat I will KILL YOU. She’s legit the best thing on this show. DON’T YOU DARE.
Samantha: I just read an article that said things are really murky on if Calista comes back ever or not. I was sincerely bummed, she’s so good and enjoyable, always.
Mari: This is with the insta-descrution of the Jimmy ship on the list of changes The CW made (or had to make) that I absolutely do not support. I don’t even like Cat that much but this show doesn’t really have a ton going for it.
Catherine: If she doesn’t come back I will be so upset.
Kara starts hugging a pillow and saying that everything is changing too fast. First the new/old DEO, then the wizard thing, now this. She tells Cat she can’t imagine being without her and Cat almost cries as she tells her that she will rise to the occasion (S: Of our new nation, Sir!) (C: Every time). They hug (!!!) and Cat tells her to go tell Snapper what she’s made of. It’s so sweet. I’m dying. DON’T LEAVE.
Over at CADMUS, the lackey guy who protested earlier tells Creepy Doctor Lady that they failed and they should pack it up. Creepy Doctor Lady does not think they failed and promises Metallo that he’ll get another chance to make mince meat outta Superman. Except, whoops, they need another cyborg so they can even the odds. But they don’t have a willing candidate. Whatever, Creepy Doctor Lady tells lackey guy that he’ll do fine and her other lackeys drag him to the back while he kicks and screams.
RIP lackey guy. 2016-2016.
Fortress of Solitude. Hank and Superman land and stand outside, looking up at two gigantic ice statues of Superman’s parents, Jor-El and Lara. They’re so well done and beautiful and I cry. I cry real tears. I’m fine.
Samantha:
Catherine: I’M FINE.
Hank speaks Kryptonian and tells him that his parents have not left him even in death. I don’t think I’ve ever heard spoken Kryptonian before. This is fantastic. They really invented a little language for it and everything. This shows gets the Kryptonian stuff A+ right, I gotta say. (S: I’m still meh over the Fortress, sorry sorry.) (C: Can’t believe our friendship is ending like this tbh.) Superman is surprised that Hank can speak Kryptonian, and Hank tells him that they are both men without a home and if they don’t preserve each other’s ways who will.
Superman tells him that he can’t offer friendship with one hand and kryptonite with the other. Hank says he has to because angry gods burned Mars and he was helpless to stop them. He says that he never wants to get caught unprepared again and that Supes can hate him if he wants. Supes says he doesn’t hate him but he doesn’t trust him. He says they should have been allies and asks if kryptonite is really worth they being alone in this fight.
He calls up cute little robot guy, Kal-Ex and asks to analyze the metal. It’s promethium, the strongest metal known to man. Hank says this is interesting.
I’m sorry I’m not better at snarking this. I genuinely enjoyed this scene.
Super Pad. Alex asks Kara if there’s any word from Hank or Clark. Kara vents about how everything is changing and Alex says she’s gonna get her some ice cream and that things will be better tomorrow. Surprised she didn’t get her a single bite of pizza like last time. That’s what they like, right?
Kara tells Alex that she’s been thinking of moving to Metropolis to be with Clark. She says that National City would be safer without her around creating a target. Alex gets pissed, saying that Kara has been ignoring her while Clark is in town and now she wants to just move away with him?
Kara says that she thought Alex would be happy that she didn’t have to protect her anymore. Alex is not happy. She says that her whole childhood was about protecting Kara’s secret and she gave up a medical career to join the DEO for her. She says that protecting Kara cost her her father. Kara argues that she’s not choosing one family over the other, but when she’s with Clark she feels like she’s with someone who understands what it’s like to be her.
Alex asks the question the Snark Ladies have been waiting to hear.
Samantha: YES YES YES SHOW, DO THE STUPID GLASSES DISGUISE NEXT.
Mari: If this were a better show, they could just go to TOWN with those whole idea. I mean, it does make Clark look bad, but imagine the depth and emotional baggage: Clark is a young man when Kara lands. What’s he supposed to do with a 13 year old girl, or whatever? He’s learning his own powers and how to be a hero. And then time passes and Kara has her own family and life. The longer they are apart the easier it is to be apart. Plus, she’s got everything he can’t have, including memories of her parents and home.
But this show is not a better show so this one reference was cool, I guess.
Catherine: Yeah, they definitely could have gone more in depth with it. She just says that and then drops it.
The rest of this scene was trash. I already disliked Alex for being boring but her rant about how she gave up everything to protect Kara was bullshit. She didn’t have to do any of that, she chose to. And even if a gun had been pointed at her head, it’s not exactly Kara’s fault that she was dropped off like a hot potato on the Danver’s doorstep at 13, is it?
Shitty, Alex. That was shitty.
Kara gets a call from Hank that interrupts the argument. Winn is scanning the city for prometheus (Somehow. Whatever.) and he finds some in the industrial district in town. Hank says CADMUS can’t be there. Superman says that Metallo must be on his own but since the anti-kryptonite suits Winn is making aren’t ready yet, they have to go naked. Or not naked but like… in their regular underwear costumes. (M: “Naked except for their costumes” is a very E.L. James description. #FiftyShadesofRuined)
Metallo is lifting barrels around when Superman and Supergirl show up and start punching him around. They tell him they’re gonna incinerate him, and he’s all that’s great for me and all but what about the other guy.
Metropolis (!!!). The lackey guy has been turned into a second Metallo and walks out into a park with a Superman symbol statue and starts blasting people with his kryptonite chest. Superman realizes that it’s a setup and they have to get to Metropolis. They both go and when they get to the Superman park it’s in ruins. Superman feels bad, man.
DEO. Winn is doing something sciency with the anti-kryptonite suits, and Alex is handing him screwdrivers. Alex whines about how they have to keep Kara from dying, and she hasn’t even gotten to go on a date in 2 years. Which is patently untrue, since she went on a date with evil vampire scientist Carlise Maxwell Cullen Lord Esq just last season. Obviously her memory is as short as her short little body. (M: IDK, if a date ended with a sparkly penis, I’d try to forget it too.) She says that even Winn dates more often than she does and he’s like, uh, rude? (S: WTF, Alex. Don’t blame other people for your choices, what the Jeff?)
He asks her if she’s ever spent time in a foster home and says that he did after his father went to prison. Winn says that in the foster home, he was constantly told how grateful he should be that someone was taking care of him but that family shouldn’t be about score keeping and debts. He tells her she needs to chill with thinking that Kara owes her anything.
Mother of god. I… agree… with Winn?? I-I liked this Winn scene and cheered when he told her off. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME CW. WHAT IS THIS? I’M BETRAYED BY MY OWN HATRED. And whats more, I actually believe that Winn is building this suit. Fucking hell. What a kick in the vag. (S: Lol.)
Anyway, Winn tells Alex that kryptonite leaves trace residue in the air like any other radioactive substance. Kryptonite being radioactive is loyal to the comics as well. What is this halfway decent writing right now? This is not the show I know. Alex gets an idea that they can find out which DEO agent stole the shipment of kryptonite by tracing the residue.
DEO locker room. Apparently the DEO has a locker room. Has Superman ever been naked in there?!? NO! No time. Calm down, Catherine. Calm. (S: But has he??????) (C: The public has a right to know!)
Winn and Alex trace the residue with a Geiger counter to a locker for an agent named McGill. Alex tells McGill that the president has asked that some of the kryponite be moved and tells him it’s his job. He looks thoughtful and agrees.
Later, Supergirl flies in and asks Winn if he’s seen Alex. He tries to stall but obviously tells her because the next scene is in a random warehouse where Alex catches McGill stealing the kryptonite. She holds a gun on him and tells him that she’s bringing him in and he’s gonna tell her about CADMUS. But before she can, McGill is shot by Creepy Doctor Lady, who knocks Alex out and tells her she will tell Dean Cain that Alex said hello.
After a commercial break (uuuggghhh. I thought we lived in the ad-free future) Alex is still on the floor and asks about Dean Cain. Creepy Doctor Lady tells her that it’s probably better if she doesn’t know. Alex says that Dean Cain would never collaborate with her and blah, blah. Boring stuff. Creepy Doctor Lady tells her that she should think about what her life would be like if Kryptonian’s had never come to earth. Alex tells her about killing Astra so that Creepy Doctor Lady will know what she’s capable of when she comes for her.
There’s a shoot out and a fight scene and just before Alex can get shot Supergirl bursts in and catches the bullet. Then she knocks the guy out.
Kara apologizes to Alex and tells her that she’s the only reason that she’s ever felt at home on earth. Alex doesn’t apologize to her, which is bullshit because she fucking should, and Kara says that they have to team up to fight Metallo.
DEO. Winn has finished the anti-kryptonite suits. But they’re not suits they are more of a harness thing that gets worn over the chest. He asks what they think of them and Hank starts to answer before Winn is all NOT YOU. Superman tells him that he loves them.
Back at CADMUS, Creepy Doctor Lady prepares her Metallos for a one-on-one fight with Supergirl and Superman in Metropolis and National City. Lol, how far away is Metropolis that she shipped that one Metallo all the way back there just to tell him this?
Supergirl lands on top of a building and smack talks John Corben a bit before he blasts her with his kryptonite heart. She absorbs the blast with her shield thing and we see Superman doing the same with the other Metallo. He’s all smug about it.
Kara throws a car at Corben and fights him until he punches her shield and breaks it. The same thing happens with the other Metallo and Superman in Metropolis. The shield can’t be punched? Kind of an oversight there, Winn.
The other Metallo punches Superman a few times and it looks like the fight is turning against our hero! But nearby, a little girl with a Superman costume suddenly runs out and turns into the Martian Manhunter, who isn’t about your only shapeshifting into people of his gender, bullshit.
Back in National City, Alex shows up in the suit that Non gave her in the last season finale that was powered by kryptonite and gave her super strength. I guess. I don’t remember that being a thing but she did hold her own in a fight against Kara in it so I guess it was. (S: The “fight.” That’s what I remember. Those quotation marks.) (M: They probably just found that in storage when they went for the shields.)
The action cuts between the two fights—Superman and Martian Manhunter in Metropolis and Supergirl and Alex in National City—until Martian Manhunter rips out their Metallo’s kryptonite power source and Alex manages to spear Corben through the heart with the lead pipe in the alleyway.
Mari: AND HE BLASTS KARA FOR LIKE 10 SECONDS and she still manages to get up and grab him, unlike when he blasted her for one second and she passed out. Boooooooo.
Catherine: The damage she takes from these blasts is really inconsistent.
As he is shutting down, Kara gets in Metallo’s face, knowing that Creepy Doctor Lady is watching through his eyes. Kara tells her that she’s coming for her and Creepy Doctor Lady is like bring it.
CatCo. Cat is watching the city from the balcony of brooding when Supergirl flies up. Supergirl asks her if she’s going to miss National City and Cat playfully asks her who told her that she was leaving. Kara says “little bird” and Cat counters with “little plane.” Kara says that she admires her and that it’s scary to leave the life she’s known. Cat says that she’s thrilled and excited not to know what she’s going to do tomorrow. Kara walks over to her and they joke around a bit more. Cat tries to get her real name out of her again by saying that her own real name is Catherine. Cute.
Cat finally tells her to be safe and Kara looks at her and I swear on all of the femslash saints, looks at her lips for a lingering moment. I’m not making this up. It happened, and I genuinely thought they were going to kiss. Look, here’s a gif. This is not slowed down. (S: OMFG.)
It was the gayest thing ever. You are not gonna get unbiased reporting out of me on this. Sorry if that’s what you were expecting. But they don’t kiss (yet?). Supergirl tells her to come back and Cat promises to. (S: YOU’D BETTER.)
They do a really cool trasition of Supergirl landing on a balcony outside and quick-changing into Kara as she walks into her little dark Daily Planet. (S: Do you mean Catco? Or am I missing something?) (C: I do. I just want to specify that it’s another floor of a different set on a sound stage in Vancouver.) I swear to god the lighting in these scenes is terrible. It’s like they’re in a morgue.
Jimmy appears out of the back room they kept him in for the rest of this episode with a box of his stuff. I assume the CW had fired him and he just got the memo but he tells Kara that Cat gave him her job while she’s away. I guess Cat is leaving like, tomorrow? Seems real short notice since her assistant didn’t know about it till the day before. Jimmy tells Kara that he can talk to Snapper for her and she thanks him but says that she’s gonna have to do that herself.
Kara Lois Lane’s (it’s a verb. Fight me) her way into Snapper’s office and throws down 500 words on the Metallo attacks. LOL 500 words? I’ve written 8 times that already just in this post. Is that how easy journalism is??? Why am I doing this?? (M: We pay you absolutely no bucks for it, that’s why!) (C: Oh right! Just gonna go make a resume real quick. No reason.)
Anyway, Snapper reminds her that she doesn’t work there and Kara insists that she does. She tells him to read the article. He skims through it and still rejects it. She says that’s fine and that she’ll go sell it somewhere else. Of course he stops her. He tells her that he’s never gonna like her and calls her ‘ponytail’. She calls him ‘jerk…guy’ and he snarks about her having a way with words. But he tells her to come back tomorrow. She still doesn’t have a chair but she has a job. Kara looks triumphant as she leaves the office. (S: Why does Kara have to be in constant conflict with whomever her boss is?) (M: #plot)
DEO. Hank brings out a laughably tiny container with all of the kryptonite in the world. He mentions that it’s a lead-lined container for all you nerds out there who were wondering why Superman wasn’t falling on the ground and barfing right now. Hank gives the kryptonite to Superman who thanks him and shakes his hand. Superman then turns to Winn to say goodbye with another handshake but Winn tears up again and hugs him.
Superman then hugs Alex and tells her that he will do everything he can to find Dean Cain. Please, please do. I wanna see that DILF.
Superman turns to Supergirl, and she looks sad as she says something to him in Kryptonian. This time there are no subtitles so Winn helpfully asks what she said. Superman says that there’s no English equivalent but the closest thing would be “to be continued.” Supergirl nods and hugs him. He tells her he loves her and she says that she loves him too and calls him Kal.
I’m fine. This means a lot to me. (M: NGL, the Kal bit was super subtle and sweet.)
Superman picks up the kryptonite box and flies off with it. Back in Metropolis, the same quick-change is used to show him turning back into Clark. No box, though. I guess he already stored it somewhere. He brings out his phone and texts Kara that he misses her already. She texts that she misses him, too. I guess this is the writers way of reminding us how they are going to be communicating again.
Clark’s phone starts ringing and it the caller ID says, ‘Mr. White’. He turns into a bumbling dork again and tells Perry that he’s back and he’ll have his article for him in a ‘jiffy’.
DEO. Kara sits next to the Kryptonian coma guy and tells him that she knows what it’s like to be a stranger on Earth so when he wakes up she’ll be there for him. Obviously not cool with her being so clingy, he does wake up right then and starts strangling her. (S: I’d be pissed if people were dousing me with poison for not doing anything but coma-ing, too.)
End of episode.
This episode was interesting. It seems like so far the CW episodes are going along with the microwave Hot Pocket method of writing where it’s great in parts but really terrible in others.
Samantha: I’m hungry now, thanks.
Catherine: Me too! Friendship resumed!
Next time on Supergirl: Everyone is an alien, practically, in S02 E03 – Welcome to Earth.
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