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notallthosewho-wanderarelost · 6 years

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Some Thoughts on Supergirl 3x10 (Spoilers)

I guess I’m just gonna do this for every episode now? Why not :)

I love Brainy!! I still think he looks really weird and he deserves better, but writing and acting is on point, and he’s amazing. As he should be.

I love that they referenced Streaky the Supercat. That whole scene with Kara and Streaky was great. This show always excels at emotional moments like that.

Also liked the reference to Winath and Ayla Ranzz/Lightning Lass! I’d love for them to work in more easter eggs of other Legionnaires like that. (And I hope this means we get to see Lightning Lad later, since that’s his home planet and his sister!)

The Legion’s explanations for why they’re here continue to become more and more fishy. Your DNA is not a good place to hide and retrieve information from, and even if they had done that, I don’t think it would stopped them from fighting. They could just leave a sample of their DNA on the ship. They’re here on purpose, for a reason, but they also know that they can’t interfere too much.

The Legion being Bon Jovi fans was great, and Brainy flying the ship into the fight with Reign blasting Living on a Prayer was hilarious. I love that Mon-El’s efforts to brush up on pop culture last season are now plot relevant, since that was one of my favorite parts of his character.

The Legion outfits are growing on me, especially Imra’s. The design is really nice, and it looks great. I’m not fussed at all about Mon-El’s suit, since I think it’s temporary and I’d imagine he’ll be getting the suit Winn was working on. So that’ll probably be based on the red suit + blue cape look he has in comics. Brainy’s purple suit I feel would’ve looked weird with the blue skin so I get why they didn’t do that, and anyway his weird skin/hair is the bigger thing here, not his suit. I still wish Imra had the red/pink and white color scheme, but they did kind of try to do that with the dark pink/purple side panels on her suit. And I guess it makes sense for the Legion’s outfits to be black, since this version of the Legion comes from a more post-apocalyptic future.

A theory: It looks like by helping fight Reign the Legion is changing the timeline, so what if by the end of the season they fix things so that their future ISN’T post-apocalyptic, and is happy the way it’s supposed to be? And that’s when they get their colorful suits? (And can I just say that I would LOVE a Legion of Superheroes spinoff show? It’d be so much fun! They could do transdimensional time travel crossovers with Legends of Tomorrow.)

This got long so the rest is under the cut.

I really liked the scene where Imra convinced Mon-El that the Legion should help. That’s the Saturn Girl I know and love. :)

It’s interesting that they gave Imra telekinesis! There’s precedent for that in the Legion of Superheroes cartoon, so it’s not out of nowhere. I really hope she’s still firstly a telepath though. I kind of think this may come up next episode, with Psi being part of the mission to Fort Rozz. If she tries to double cross them Imra would be the natural person to go up against her, since they’re both telepaths. (And speaking of cartoon precedent, apparently Brainy is blue in JLU, so that’s a thing… Still doesn’t explain the hair though.)

I wish this show could find a balance between too much Mon-El and too little. He did get too much focus last season, but he’s had 0 character development since he’s been back, and he hasn’t actually done anything noteworthy either. Everything about him has been focused on Kara’s angst about him being married. And yeah, of course it’s her show and she should very rightly be at the center of it, but if they’re gonna push Karamel as a relationship-(and I still do think that it’s endgame based on how they’ve been writing it even this season- then Mon-El needs screentime and things to do and development as well. (Even if Karamel is over Mon-El still needs more things to do while he’s here, after the emphasis he had last season. This is same problem I have with the lack of James post-s1.) I guess it’s very likely that they’re holding off on it because they need to get the reveal of the Legion’s true mission and stuff out of the way in order to do it, in which case this is a moot point for now and we’ll just have to wait. I miss dorky happy Mon-El though. And I want to see him actually leading the Legion instead of just talking about it.

I feel like they might have Kara try to date Brainy for a bit now, and I’m totally okay with that. :) The more Brainy the better! Though I feel bad for Brainy in that case, because it sounds like he really likes her, and I don’t think Kara will feel as strongly about him as he does about her.

All of the Danvers sisters moments continue to give me life. Kara and Alex’s relationship is so so good and should always be portrayed as the most important on the show, because it’s the most important to Kara. I’m so glad they fixed this problem from last season.

Kara accepting that she is Kara Danvers and not just Supergirl and then making peace with the Mon-El situation was really good. I loved how they used her glasses for that. I hope they keep going with the humanity theme though, it’s been amazing so far this season and ties into Reign’s story really well too.

I’m liking Lena/James so far and I’m interested to see how this goes. I do hope they bring up how suspicious he was of her last season though, this last episode kind of glossed over that and I think it’d be an interesting thing to discuss.

Reign continues to be an amazing and cool villain. And they did an A+ job on her costume design.

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