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kassies-take · 4 years

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A Page From Maggie’s Book

Can you do a Maggie Sawyer x best friend reader badass team up where reader is new to superhero work and decides to go on a ride along with Maggie to see how police handle threats or something?

@healthtobination

A/n: Sorry it’s taken awhile for me to do this

Warning: Rape, violence

Maggie Sawyer x BestFriend!Reader

Word Count: 1747

“Do I get a gun?” you asked after putting on bullet proof gear.

Maggie scoffed, “you think I am going to give you a gun? That’s funny.”

“It was worth a try,” you shrugged.

“You don’t need a gun when you’ve got force fields.”

“Are we going to stop a robbery? Car chase? Ooh a...”

Maggie chuckled. “You’re cute, I’m a detective officer not a patrol officer.”

“So what do you do?”

“First off, you don’t need this.” Maggie gestured to the bullet proof vest. “till necessary. Second detectives don’t have your typical police cars, we’re stealthy, we find information. Our ride is unmarked cars.”

“What information do you find?” You asked leaning against Maggie’s desk

“We find anything and everything about suspects, their high school, the clubs they join, the name of their family pet, their sister’s name, parents name, job, friends. Everything.”

“So what do we do now.”

“Research.”

You tapped a pen on your knee continuously. The constants ticks made Maggie look at you with a raised eyebrow. She rolled closer to the right side of her desk, took out a key and opened the bottom cabinet. The detective pulled out a thick beige folder and handed it to you.

“What is this?”

“Victims.”

“Victims? Of?”

“Look through them.”

The file revealed multiple women with rape at the bottom.

“All of these women were rapped?” You flipped though several pages.

“You’ve worked with Alex and Kara before, they both go way to fast into action. Punching their way into things. We go the whole way, we want the man responsible to rot in hell. We find evidence and we don’t hold back and we do it for them.”

“Kara and Alex catch the guy. Kara’s a reporter so she has to get evidence.”

“Most of the time, Alex or Kara catch the guys but they get away from lack of evidence. Little Danvers may have evidence but she does not get to control the jury, or how the other side uses the evidence.”

“Sawyer, come have a look at this.”

You followed Maggie down the hall. The other officer played a footage. A view over the city.

“Real-estate, so what.”

“Wait,” The camera flew closer towards a window. Past the window was a girl changing.

“This is disgusting,” you glared at the screen.

“We’ve got a peeping Tom,” Maggie crossed her arms.

“It gets worse,” the screen cut to a bed room corner showcasing the whole master bed room.

A blond millennial woman in a pink shirt and grey sweatpants, walked from what was assumed the bathroom towards the bed. Seconds later a man in a mask pushed her onto the bed. There was obvious signs of struggling from the girl. You turned away as the man ripped open her sweatpants and began thrusting into the woman.

“He’s not a peeping Tom, he’s a serial rapist.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You sat in Maggie’s passenger seat blankly staring at the the dashboard.

“Feet off the dash!” Maggie was as equally as pissed as your were.

“He clearly is the one in the video! Why can’t we use that?”

“We know it’s him, but for all we know it could be a man in a mask.”

“Ugh!!!!” You kicked at dash board. “You know what makes this more frustrating!”

“You kicking my car?”

“No, it’s that parents are more afraid of their kids being gay than they are of their kids being rapist or sex offenders.”

“At least your parents didn’t kick you out of the house.”

“You’ve got a point.”

~~~~~~~~~~

It has been a few days since you and Maggie saw those tapes. You were currently twirling your pen going over notes Maggie took home. You had refused to play any games, even when the rest of Superfriends told you it would be a good way to destress.

“Everything is a dead end right now.” Maggie sighed, explaing to Superfriends about the case.

“Did you guys talk to any of the victims?”

“Yeah we did, one of the ladies said he took her necklace.”

“Did he take anything else from them. You know beside this whole thing?”

“We’re looking through it now. We did find that he went to this coffee shop frequently.” Maggie responded.

“Any of the victims connect there?”

“No nothing. I’m gonna check it out tomorrow see if any of the employees notice him or look through cameras if they have any.”

“Bring me along?”

“Wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“I know this case is important but can we get on with the game?” Alex frowned.

You opened your mouth to say something but Alex stopped you before you could.

“I’m not being insensitive (n/n). I’m very annoyed and as pissed as you are. But the point of tonight was to get your mind off this and have a mental break.” She picked up the dice.

“Lena’s on her IPad going through projects, and Kara is writing an article.” You pointed your thumbs to the side.

Nia peeked over Kara’s shoulder. “Actually they’re sexting each other.” She sipped her wine.

“What now?” You peeked at Lena’s IPad.

“Little Danvers,” Maggie smirked.

“What! Let me have a moment with my girlfriend.”

“That moment better be CONSENSUAL!” You threw popcorn at Kara.

“Why are you only throwing popcorn at me! Not that I mind.” Kara popped a few piece into her mouth.

“Cause I expected it from Lena and not you.”

~~~~~~~~~~

“The workers say he comes often but doesn’t usually stay.” Maggie sighed.

“The other regulars say he just gets coffee and leaves.” You rested your chin on one hand.

“It’s not a dead end yet we can still check the cameras.”

The black and white video showed the suspect parking his car, walking into the coffee shop and leaving in the opposite direction. After several videos of the same action you and Maggie got up from your seats.

“Where ever he goes it must be in walking distance if he doesn’t take his car.”

“Mags... you know how in shows people rent out a storage unit to hide evidence or dead bodies.”

“Yeah what about it?”

“There’s one across the street.”

“Get ready with your shields.” Maggie pulled out her gun from her holster.

“We’re not calling for backup?”

“By the time backup gets here he could be gone.”

You followed after Maggie. Your heart beated against your chest. Clear honeycomb like patterns surrounded your two hands.

Besides a couple of people and a few boxes the units were sickenly quiet. The two of you reached a corridor with flickering lights. The circuit was either cut or it was done on purpose.

Your hands were shaking at the thought. Fear flashed across your face and the shields began to glitch. Maggie on the other hand pulled out a flashlight and sneaked with it over her gun.

Maggie slowed her steps as one of the units were opened. It was deserted yet filled with a twin bed, a few boxes, a blue bike, what seems to be a beaten teddy bear, water bottles, paper towels all lightened by a desk lamp.

“Dispatch this is 129F40, I’m gonna need back up at Studio Self Storage on Conova and Mar-”

A loud yell and a slam against metal met the officer and dispatchers.

“(Y/n!)”

Maggie joined kicking the man away after he threw a punch at your face. He was not giving you any time to recover and use your shields.

He moved his attention onto Maggie after you struggled to stand from the two head traumas you recieved. Maggie was good but he wrestled the gun out of her hands. He overpowered her and slammed her against another metal door.

Maggie pushed maneuvered her legs up against the wall and pushed him back against the other side. She threw punches.

You got up, crossed your arm on your shoulders and pushed forth a shield to move the man away from Maggie.

~~~~~~~~~~

“All officers and firefighters calling all back up, officer is in distress. Officer 129F40 is in distress.”

Dispatcher said over the radio. Alex immediately looked over at J’onn. “That’s Maggie’s number!”

They heard several grunts, as they immediately recognized Maggie and your voices. They also heard a whooshing sounds knowing that that was you and your shields.

Alex reaches towards her ear to activate the com.

“Kar-“

A gunshot echoed around the room before it went silent.

Kara rushed towards you and Maggie as she reached the self storage. She led the police and found Maggie sitting next to you. Kara rushed over scanning your body for the gunshot wound.

“She’s fine. She has a concussion and a few bad scratches.” Maggie said.

“A few? Her eye is swollen shut and her shoulder is dislocated, don’t forget to mention the other cuts on her face.”

You grinned at Kara. “We got him.”

Kara took a look further down the corridor and found a glaring bloody man with his hands cuffed through the bed frame.

~~~~~~~~~~

You sat on the bed at Luthor Family Children’s Hospital. You got most of the injuries from the first surprise attack. Your arm was in a sling and several bandages on your face. Maggie only had a busted lip.

“I can’t believe you two went in with no back up.” Alex scolded.

“To be fair, they did catch the rapist.” Lena said from one of the chairs. “And without the help of Supergirl.”

“What took you so long anyways Kara?” Alex looked over at her sister.

Kara turned red.

“You weren’t!” You looked between Kara and Lena.

“Well we still proved that National City does need police officers and detectives after all.”

“No we proved that Superfriends is a good team. Half of this duo doesn’t even get paid.” You were still upset. “But Kara could take a page from Maggie’s book, instead of ogling at Lena.”

“Hey!”

#maggie sawyer x reader #maggie sawyer x platonic!reader #maggie sawyer #alex danvers #sanvers #lena luthor #kara danvers #supergirl #supergirl imagine #supergirl imagines #supergirl x reader #supercorp

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bibliophileiz · 5 years

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I figured out my issue with the new Charmed

First I want to say I like most of these characters in the new one. I’m rooting for them and I hope they do great. I’m going to keep watching through this season because I want to know how Macy died and how she got brought back to life and I want to know who killed Marisol.

That said. There is too much crap going on this season and we are only halfway through.

At the risk of comparing this show too much to the original ... actually, fuck it. Everything about this show from its marketing to the premise asks to be compared to the original, so here goes. I know I look at the original through a nostalgic lens, but I have tried to remove that lens when looking at this new one and I am pretty convinced that in this one aspect, at least, the original Charmed was better.

A lot of things that were memorable about the original Charmed -- the romantic subplots, the conflict between the Charmed Ones and the Elders, the mom’s love triangle and reason for giving up one of her children -- all those things developed slowly over multiple seasons. Never were there two major romantic subplots going on at once, at least not in the first four seasons (which are the ones I actually remember). The Whitelighters weren’t a thing until more than halfway through the first season and the Elders were even later than that. The mom’s love triangle was introduced in one episode in Season 2 to parallel with Piper’s romantic subplot and then only picked up again when they had to retrofit it to introduce Paige after Shannen Doherty left the show. Meanwhile, the main myth arc plot of each season involved all three sisters ... if there even WAS a main myth arc plot. It was the late ‘90s, and Charmed episodes were less like Supernatural, which has season-long plots, and more like Touched By an Angel, which involved the main characters helping out one or two people per episode and then moving on to another mini plot. With some exceptions, of the episodes stood alone.

That’s not in vogue now. Television today is all about season-long plot arcs and cliffhangers and making your entire show one story -- even though TV shows are a risky medium for that type of story because you never know how many episodes you’ll get a season, if you’ll be renewed and which actors will sign back on.

Which isn’t to say it can’t be done. Veronica Mars was super good about telling complete stories in the span of a season, at least until the network micromanaged Rob Thomas into fucking it up in Season 3. Justified is the same way, as is The Hour, my favorite TV show.

The new Charmed, knowing one, that the thing to do in TV shows today is tell a story over a season and two, that all those things I mentioned previously -- the Whitelighters, the Elders, the babies given up for adoption, the romantic subplots -- are all big Charmed things, is trying jampack them all into the first season to make sure you know it’s Charmed and it is ... cluttered.

We are what -- 10, 11? -- episodes into the season and every single character -- including the Whitelighter who at this point in the original had been in like three episodes and only had magical powers in one -- have their own plots and romances. For two of those characters, the romances don’t even have anything to do with their magic plot, thus giving them a separate plot. And if these plots are all related, they’re very tenuously so. Here’s what I mean.

Macy: Romantic interest in Galvin, and it’s so far going pretty smoothly. There were bumps in the road what with him being a mortal and with her thinking he was being preyed on by a succubus or a siren or whatever his earlier girlfriend was supposed to be before she turned out to be a perfectly normal lady who just conveniently broke up with him. And there’s some issue with her being a virgin and a little unsure around guys in general. Right now they’re together and figuring out how to be a couple with everything she’s got going on. Also, Galvin’s not really supposed to know about witchy stuff and Harry keeps wanting to wipe his memory.

Macy has another plot, though, the secret back-story plot where her mother gave her to her dad to raise her as a mortal, and Macy doesn’t know why. In this last episode, Macy learned her parents kept in touch and were still in love, even to the point where they conceived Maggie, making her Macy’s full sister and Mel’s half-sister (opposite of what they’d always believed). Then at the end of last episode, it turned out that Macy’s parents did something BAD -- something they worried Macy wouldn’t forgive them for -- to bring her back from the dead. (It was at this point that I decided that, no, I would not be waiting for the show to come on Netflix to finish out the season like I’d been considering, I would be watching the next episode the night it aired.)

But also, Macy has a plot where the lab she’s working for has been pseudo-taken over by demons who have stolen all the Charmed Ones’ DNA for presumably nefarious purposes. This plot actually is tied to one of Maggie’s plots and is the closest any of these plots have to being about all three Charmed Ones.

Mel: Gets TWO romantic interests and what might turn into a love triangle, despite the fact that it was looking like her two romantic plots might not overlap. First there’s her long-time girlfriend Niko, a cop whose memory Mel ends up having to erase for Niko’s safety -- a nice tragic romance trope which usually stops the memory-less character’s plot cold. Now Mel is falling for Jada, a cool-ass witch who works for a secret, possibly-nefarious, possibly just politically and philosophically different from the Elders witch organization which has a cool name that I forget. But wait -- there’s more! It turns out, after having her memory wiped, Niko became a private investigator hired by Jada’s family to save her from the “cult” she’s joined. Remember what I said about memory erasure usually stopping the character’s plot cold?

At least Mel’s romantic subplots tie into her actual plots, and at least Mel gets character points for seeming to be the only character who is actually interested in finding out who killed their mom. She first starts to infiltrate Jada’s witchy organization on the Elders’ orders when they all think Jada’s organization might have had a hand in Mom’s death. Now Jada says her mom was actually a part of the organization, which is also trying to figure out who killed her. Mel is secretly working with Jada, without telling the Elders, Harry or even Mel’s sisters (unless that came up in another episode and I totally forgot about it while trying to keep track of all these other plots).

Harry: Harry’s romantic interest is Charity, an Elder. It’s a little unclear what exactly Elders are in this version of the Charmed verse. Are they powerful Whitelighters, powerful Witches or a mixture of both? Charity says the Charmed Ones’ mom was an Elder, suggesting at least some of them are witches. In the original Charmed, the Elders were extra-powerful Whitelighters, but the suggestion was that once witches were dead, they not only were not beholden to Whitelighters anymore, but they were even more powerful than them. (At one point Grams tells Phoebe, “I’m beyond them now.”) What IS clear is that Elders and Whitelighters aren’t allowed to be together -- little shout-out to the Piper-Leo plot from the original there. So not as dramatic as Mels’s love triangle, but more dramatic than Macy and Galvin.

But Harry, it turns out, has another, totally unrelated-to-Charmed-things plot involving wiped memories and a son he THOUGHT died, who he then forgot about, but he now remembers and now actually IS alive after all. What this has to do with ... anything else on the show ... remains to be seen.

Maggie: Maggie had a forgettable love interest for two episodes on the show before moving onto the most dramatic romantic subplot a teenage girl can have -- she falls for her best friend’s boyfriend! After several episodes of angst and an illicit kiss, the boyfriend, a totally boring dude named Parker, breaks it off with his girlfriend so he and Maggie can be together. Maggie’s BFF, whose name I forget, gets an episode dedicated to her rage and Maggie being sorry before she’s shuffled aside so Maggie and Parker can be together, which is important because ....

Psych! Parker’s actually half a demon who needs to become whole demon through Charmed magic or he dies. His mother runs Macy’s lab and his father is an evil demon who controls people, which led to him stealing the Harbinger from Charity and --

Wait, I just realized none of these plots are the actual plot of the season -- because the first episode established that Trump becoming president and the rise of the Harbinger -- which is some kind of evil demon -- are both signs of the apocalypse which the Charmed ones have to stop. (I wasn’t even done explaining Maggie’s plot yet!)

Anyway, this show has too much going on.

How all these plots affect the show:

One thing -- and this sounds sarcastic but it’s totally not -- the characters all deliver their lines extremely fast. They have to -- they have plot things to say. They don’t get much time for the usual CW pop culture references*, let alone verbal pauses and room for their lines to spread out and let them react to what’s going on through their facial expressions and body language.

*at least that I recall -- although Macy got a very good one a couple of episodes ago where she called a demon “Daenerys” because he introduced himself by listing a million titles he supposedly has.

It also makes it really hard to keep up with each individual plot arc while taking away valuable time we need to get to know the characters. Occasionally the show fits in a good sisterly-bonding moment -- Macy and Maggie in particular get scenes to themselves where they’re goofing off together while Mel’s off brooding somewhere. Plus, at least for a while, there were some good scenes between Mel and Harry at least until they each got their own romantic subplot. But with the last couple of episodes -- which managed to fit every gd one of the above-mentioned plots into their 42-minute runtimes -- I’m kind of left wondering how the sisters’ plots are related and what Harry’s even doing in the show.

And I love Harry -- I love that the sisters were bringing him tea in the episode after he got out of Tartarus. Except that they actually gave it to Charity to give him, because we can’t have family bonding time when there are romantic subplots to get to, and other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to worrying about Harry in the exposition, they seem to have pretty much forgotten about his trauma by next episode. I thought he was becoming part of the family.

And what I said above -- I wasn’t being funny for effect, I actually did forget that there was a whole plot with the Harbinger -- who was introduced in the very first episode -- until I typed “Wait I just realized none of these plots are the actual plot of the season.” All these plots literally made me forget about the season’s actual plot.

I’m not a die-hard fan or anything -- I’m sure there are people who know the names of Maggie’s ex-boyfriend and best friend and know what Jada’s witchy organization is called or can remember whether Elders are witches or Whitelighters. But I’m watching each episode one time once a week, which is what most viewers are going to be doing, and I’m missing major stuff.

Charmed needs to -- step back, de-clutter, do some spring cleaning. But at this point, I don’t know that they can. They’ve invested too much into all these plots and I think it would be pretty weird to just ... never tell us if Parker died. Personally I wouldn’t mind if Parker died because I found him extremely boring and thought he took up time from more interesting characters and story arcs, but there was so much time invested in telling us his story that it would be a mistake to leave it where it is and come back to it next season. And the same thing goes for all the other plots.

This isn’t mean to be wank. I legitimately like this show and want it to succeed, but I’m wondering what everyone else thinks. I don’t know that new Charmed will get enough of a following if it keeps throwing new plot lines at us every episode in hopes of bringing us back every week. There needs to be more time developing characters to make us actually care about these plots. And if you’re hoping to have more seasons, then surely some of these can be saved for farther down the road like in the original Charmed.

In the meantime, ... team Niko. (Sorry Jada.)

#this isn't anti-jada i actually like her a lot #i think she's going to be the new cole #i just really liked nico ok?#new charmed #not wank but some people might read it that way #also maybe people who are watching this more than i am can answer some of my questions #but ... there are just so many plots #charmed #*niko

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hufflepuff-ravenclaw-reviews · 7 years

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Supergirl Season 2 Episodes 10-22

So in a rather valiant effort to finally finish the rest of this season, to do the ep reviews, and to finally move this off of my “to do” list, I've decided to scrunch the rest of the season down into one, longer review, and to more “big picture” things rather than to be so hung up over little details.

Obviously there are spoilers ahead, so be warned.

First, the bad guys du jour:

Livewire:

She's been in the jail that Barry/The Flash helped teach them how to make ever since... whenever that happened. However, she was broken out. At first, everybody assumed that they were her buddies, but as it turned out, that the guy who broke her out was just using her to make... basically, power clones of her. Livewire and Supergirl teamed up to stop the power clones, under the promise Supergirl made that she'd let Livewire go. This was a one-off episode, and at the end of the season, she hadn't shown up again.

White Martians:

Following Meg's reveal of herself as being a white martian, she was first held and then released by Hank. However, all eyes go to her when another white martian shows up. As it turns out, it's actually Meg's estranged husband, who's here to drag her back home. She's not exactly happy to see him, as you might imagine, considering that he sounds like such a lovely guy, what with the beating and implied forceful intercourse.

The martians infiltrate the DEO and take Alex and Winn hostage while they impersonate them in order to get close to Meg and destroy Hank. However, they figure it out in the end, despite the fact that martian!Alex says a lot of stuff about and to Kara about whatever that episode's personal side is.

Following that, Meg decides to return to Mars in the hopes that she can convince other white martians to change their ways and not be racist dickweeds.

Lilian Luther and CADMUS:

So following Lena's testimony at her trail, Lilian did something to make it look like Lena did something, which landed her in jail. The entire episode, Kara was the ONLY person who stood by Lena's side and believed her to be completely innocent of all wrong-doings.

While she was in jail, Lilian broke Lena out with help of cyborg!Henshaw (who you will remember is the actual Hank Henshaw). They take her to a facility that used to belong to Lex, who has a stockpile of weapons. However, Lilian herself can't get in, because it needs the blood of a Luther. And, as it turns out, that Lena isn't adopted, as she'd always thought, but rather, the bastard child of Lex's father and some random lady, who died when Lena was four. Which is why she went to live with the Luthers. So while Lena was thinking for a moment that maybe Lilian did actually love her... nope. Lena was just a necessary thing in getting what she wanted.

Supergirl of course swooped in to save Lena right before a krypton component in cyborg!Henshaw went critical and exploded, but everybody else got away, including Henshaw, who lived to be a shitty cyborg and fight another day.

Mxyzptlk:

No, my kitty did not walk across the keyboard, but that is the name of the baddie. Although, as far as bad guys go, this one was pretty tame in comparison. He's some fifth dimensional being who has all sorts of nifty powers, although, for the sake of convenience, you can think of him like a genie. He fancies himself in love with Kara, and keeps trying to impress and woo her. This pisses Mon-El off to no extent, but I'll get to Mon-El and Kara's relationship below, in the relationship section.

Mon-El tells Kara that in order to banish one of those guys, you have to get them to say their name backwards. Kara tells him to come to the fortress of solitude, where she promises to marry him. She then tells him that a bomb will go off and kill both of them, and then tells him which keys to press in order to turn the bomb off. However, there was no bomb, and the letters that she had him press were actually the letters to spell his name backwards. He gets sucked back into his own dimension, and bye-bye Mxyzptlk.

Jeremiah Danvers, Lilian, and CADMUS:

Following Lilian escaping, the team had been keeping a close eye on any movement that that group would be making, and they eventually catch wind of a transport truck. Kara and Hank go to stop them, where they find Jeremiah. Enter the tearful reunion with everybody, and Hank offers Jeremiah his old job back... but only after Jeremiah asks for it back.

However, Winn is highly suspicious of the entire thing, and he is proven correct when he sees Jeremiah doing something on the DEO mainframe. However, everybody is quick to brush it off, but, as I think that we all know, always trust your gut about things like this, cause they're usually right. Hank, Alex, and Kara were too close to the situation and easily bought anything that he told them, even when things just didn't add up.

However, Jeremiah leads them into an empty building, and that's when Hank starts to have his doubts about everything, too. He catches Jeremiah trying to do stuff on the main computer, and a fight ensues, in which Hank loses. Jeremiah now has a cyborg arm.

Alex and Kara chase after him after he steals the alien resident database, and while Kara's dealing with a blown-up train bridge and an oncoming passenger train, Alex is left with the difficult decision: bring her father in or leave him? She chooses to leave him, failing to find it within herself to shoot him.

Then, CADMUS starts to round up the aliens on the database, where they have a ship that's going to blast them off from the planet. Literally send them anywhere else. Alex is benched, because Hank feels like she's too emotional and too close, too willing to put everything on the line to help her father. However, she's the one who finds the CADMUS base and gets onto the ship. Together with Supergirl's help, they stop the ship from blasting off into space, and send all of the kidnapped aliens home.

But in the end, everybody gets away. Again. To be a thorn in their sides later.

Lyra:

So, I'll discuss the relationship between Lyra and Winn below, but basically, that's a thing that happened this season. However, she betrays Winn and uses him to break into a museum and steal a painting. (Starry Night, in case anybody cares.) Winn remains on her side, despite everybody reminding him that he'd been coned, and everything starts to point back to Lyra just being a horrible person. However, as Winn looks more and more into the issue, he discovers that she has a brother who fell in... with basically an alien mob, and he owes them a lot of money. Stealing the painting was a way of bringing in that money, as it's worth a lot on the alien black markets. In the end, they're able to save Lyra's brother AND recover the painting. So Winn was right to trust Lyra all along, despite everything.

Lena and the Nanobots:

Lena drags Kara to a press conference held by her ex-boyfriend, who has developed a nanobot technology. I guess none of these people have seen anything with nanobots, because, the plot progresses pretty much as every other nanobot plot goes: Oh no, the boyfriend is secretly nanobots, being controlled by this one lady who just wants power. People are killed, but together, Supergirl and Lena stop it.

Seriously people: STOP MAKING NANOBOTS. IT NEVER ENDS WELL.

Alex's kidnapping:

Some guy that Alex and Kara went to high school with kidnapped Alex in an attempt to force Kara to break his father out from jail. The guy killed two people, and did a bunch of other stuff, just in case you thought that he was innocent or something.

But anyway, the old classmate knew that Kara was Supergirl, because... duh. Maggie and Kara fight a lot about the other's approach to the issue. Maggie is more about talking people down, whereas Kara is always “punch first, let other people ask questions when I'm not around”.

However, things take a bad turn when Kara rushes off to what turns out to be a false location, and the tank Alex is being held in starts to fill with water. Maggie starts to panic, and goes to break the dude's dad out from jail, but Kara shows up and then she talks both Maggie out of doing that and the dad into giving up the location where Alex is being held. They are then able to rescue Alex.

Hank erases the guy's memories, but not before Alex gives him a well-deserved punch.

Out of control telepathic aliens:

This is less of a collective bad guy and more of... a symptom. Let's call it that. First, there's one telepathic alien who goes sort of nuts in the middle of a farmer's market. While on the case, James as Guardian stumbles across an alien who tells him the address of the alien who went nuts. At her house, he finds the woman's young son. Nobody is able to get anywhere with him, however, and he only starts to open up to James a little, before he starts to go nuts as well.

Finally, the kid tells James that he knows where his mother is through their psychic connection. Winn tags along with a portable power-dampening device, but they find a dozen or so of the same species, who are all hiding out. They're normally a very peaceful race, and for them to suddenly go all psycho is out of character for them.

But, as it turns out, their attacks are linked to the experiments that Lena and Rhea are doing (see below). And once those stopped, obviously the aliens would have been fine.

Mon-El's Parents and the Daxamites

This is the big plot arch that finishes up the season. An alien ship comes up over the city one day, and they demand Mon-El of Daxam. He goes, only to find out! Surprise! It's your parents! Somehow we survived, and we flew all this way in search of you.

He's also not a palace guard, like he initially told everybody, but rather, the crowned prince and heir to the throne. This, more than anything, is exceptionally upsetting to Kara, as she feels like he's hid an important part of who he is. Not only that, but it was the royal family that was the reason why everything was so completely fucked up on Daxam. According to Mon-El himself, the leaders would keep everybody drunk/drugged up so that nobody would know how awful that everything was.

His parents obviously want Mon-El to come back with them and to help re-establish Daxam, however, Mon-El doesn't want for things to just go back the way that they were. He refuses, and his parents blame Kara, claiming that she's put some sort of... Kryptonian spell over him. When he finally puts his foot down on the matter and says no, Rhea pretends like she's accepted this, only to turn around and double cross everybody. She ends up killing her husband and reads up on earth culture to take part in a new plan.

Her plan involves Lena Luther. She approaches her under the guise of a business venture and mentor, and offers her the plans for one of those worm-hole thingies. Lena agrees, but, as you might have guessed, Rhea double-crosses her and uses the worm hole to bring in thousands upon thousands of ships, which then start to terrorize the city. What started off as just waiting to see what will happen, and don't engage quickly turned into a nightmare as the Daxamites try to take over earth to turn it into New Daxam.

The citizens of the city are horrified, as that's where the central attacking goes, until Cat Grant shows up to take charge and reminds them that they have to fight back.

While that's going on, Rhea is trying to force a royal wedding between Lena and Mon-El, who are horrified and disgusted about the entire thing. However, Lilian shows up with cyborg!Henshaw to help stop that, but only because, deep down, she really does love Lena. So they plus Supergirl go to stop it and rescue them, while Alex and Maggie break into the DEO, which was overrun with Daxam soldiers, and get to a big... lazer that'll vaporize everything.

But, as you might imagine, Lilian escapes with Lena and cyborg!Henshaw, which leaves Kara and Mon-El stranded up there. She sends Mon-El back to earth, while she goes to try to reason one last time with Rhea. However, Rhea has another trick up her sleeve: Superman, infected with silver kryponite. It causes hallucinations, so he thinks that he's fighting... his worst enemy. I am not familiar enough with Superman's villains to know who he is.

But after defeating him, they come up with a plan: an old Daxam custom of battle. However, in the background, Lena is working on a device that'll pump lead into the air, which is toxic to Daxamites, but would be a low enough level to not harm humans. Kara is reluctant to use it, because of Mon-El.

However, during the fight, Rhea continues to prove that she's a worthless pile of shit when she first sends her armies down to target schools, hospitals, and shelters, and then it turns out that she's been highly poisoned with kryptonite in her bloodstream, which happened following Krypton's explosion.

With little choice, Kara presses the button Lena had given her earlier, and the lead is released. The armies retreat, but Rhea dies. And that's pretty much the end of the season.

And now, the relationship side of the show.

Alex and Kara:

They continue to have a good relationship, despite a few hic-ups. They do get into a fight when it's Kara's earth-birthday, aka the day that she came to earth. Kara always celebrates like she would a regular birthday, but this year, Maggie gave Alex tickets to see Bare-Naked Ladies. Alex never ends up making it because of the white martian problem, and they do patch things up at the end, as usual.

And of course, Kara and Alex go out of their way to save the other whenever they're in trouble.

So, as far as character relationship building, this relationship is pretty solid, as it has been. But then again, I wasn't exactly expecting anything less.

Alex and Maggie:

They continue to have their ups and downs, as any new relationship does. They get into a fight over Valentine's day, because it's a holiday that Maggie is secretly afraid of. When she was in junior high/high school, she wrote a love letter to a girl that she liked for V-day, and that's how her parents found out that she was gay. So she's always had negative associations with it because of it. However, Alex has always wanted somebody for a Valentine, so she's hurt when Maggie insults Alex's attempts to be romantic for the holiday. After Kara explains all of this to Maggie, the two of them make up, and Maggie has a pretend school dance for the two of them.

There's also an interesting sub-plot where Maggie and Alex run into one of Maggie's ex-girlfriends. Alex convinces Maggie that the three of them should get together for dinner one night, but when she fails to show up, Maggie starts to bitch about how she just walked away from a ~5 year relationship. Alex later tracks the lady down, and she confesses to Alex that Maggie cheated on her, and that's why she left. Alex is hurt, because Maggie never said anything about that, and they fight a little over that before they make up.

During the time that Alex was kidnapped, Maggie confesses that she wants to have a bunch of firsts with Alex, like they can get a dog together, and such.

But the two of them are strong, and they go together to take back the DEO when it's overrun with Daxam warriors. At the end of the season, Alex proposes to Maggie, and of course she says yes.

Kara and Maggie:

They have... an interesting dynamic between the two of them. Kara of course wants nothing more than to see Alex happy, but she and Maggie don't always see eye-to-eye on certain matters. It reaches a boiling point when Alex was kidnapped. Maggie is upset that Kara just... bursts into places, and tells her that there's a “Supergirl” legal defense that actually works. They say that Supergirl used unnecessary force on them, and they get away because people feel sorry for them. Also, Supergirl has destroyed a lot of buildings, and that's not okay.

However, following Alex's rescue, they're more able to see things from the other's point of view, and it helps them to get a little bit closer.

Kara and Lena:

They continue to be friends and to lean on one another when the going gets tough. Following Lena's kidnapping at the hands of Rhea, I think that she figures out who Supergirl actually is, if she didn't already know. But mainly because Mon-El was there, and maybe because Lilian just flat-out told her. However, she doesn't really say anything to Kara's face about it... So we can only really speculate about what she knows, much like how we were certain Cat Grant knew that Kara was Supergirl.

Kara and Mon-El:

This is the big OTP of the season. Following Mon-El pining over Kara for most of the season, he finally confesses that he loves her. However, Kara turns him down, stating that they're just not good together. But, she begins to doubt that for a while until she sees him and a random chick from Cat Co heading out on a date together.

Following the Mxyzptlk episode, in which Mon-El's jealousy reached an absolute boiling point, she confesses that maybe she does have feelings for him, too. However, she asks that he keep things between them for now, because everything is still so new. So what does Mon-El do first? Announce to the DEO that they're together. Because of course.

They have a lot of little fights and bumps along the way, and they do break up for a while following the initial episode with Mon-El's parents and she finds out that he's actually the prince. However, they get back together, but it was in an episode on The Flash, which is just bad writing. Anyway, following Kara's battle with Rhea, she has to send Mon-El off the planet for his own safety. They say a tearful goodbye, and Kara is just as heartbroken over his leaving as if he actually had died.

I hope that he comes back in the next season, or else I'll be hella angry.

Kara and Snapper:

Their relationship is an odd mentor/mentee relationship, and sort of remains unchanged throughout the rest of the season. They get into a huge argument following Jerimiah stealing the alien database; Kara wants to release an article, but Snapper says that they need credible sources and such. Even after “interviewing” Supergirl, Snapper still won't go forward with it. Kara is desperate, as more and more aliens are being taken, so she writes her own blog post. Snapper fires her for that, even though she was right. He says that she can't just write whatever she pleases, which is fair enough.

Kara runs that blog for a while, before she helps Snapper uncover the truth with the nanobots. He gives her a shared byline, and then gives her her job back. Following that, we don't really see much of Snapper.

Hank and Meg:

They continue to have an odd relationship, that's somewhere between “I want to murder you” and “I want to throw you down onto the table and fuck you senseless”. Their relationship reaches a head in the episode where Meg's husband shows up, where Hank's fear for her overrides his distrust of her. After she goes back to Mars, he writes her a love note for Valentine's day. She shows back up during the Daxam invasion with a handful of white martians who also think like Meg and just want to make amends for the wrong-doing that they did. They also kiss at the very end, and it's sweet and exactly what I wanted. Too bad it waited until the last possible second for them to hook up. Oh well; next season!!

Kara and Cat:

Cat shows up when things begin to get bad with the Daxam armies, and she gives Supergirl a pep-talk about doing what needs to be done as far as saving Lena and Mon-El.

Later, after everything is over and Mon-El has left, Kara goes to Cat for something, and Cat gives her another pep-talk about how strong that women are. And I'm not crying, you're crying. She also 100% knows that Kara is Supergirl, because, after her pep-talk, Kara hears on the TVs of some crime going on, and she makes some excuse and leaves, and Cat says “Go get 'em, Supergirl.”

Also, this quote: “I lived in a yurt for a year and I missed so much.” I missed Cat, and I hope that there's more of her in the next season.

Winn and Lyra:

This is the surprise pairing for the season. Yes, Winn ends up with a girlfriend!! It is also worth noting that, not only is Lyra a blonde alien, but she's also physically and emotionally strong. Remind you of anybody? They make out a lot and honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about it.

They seemed to be at an absolute breaking point following Lyra stealing the painting, but they made up and went back to making out. Lyra even joined Winn and James in their Guardian adventures.

However, she's notably absent from the grand finale, and I have to wonder why that is.

James and Lyra:

There's not really much to say about their relationship. They know that the other exists, and what the other means to Winn, but that's about it. However, they do form an odd... agreement following Lyra wanting to join the Guardian team. She beats up a couple of bad guys, and James has to pull her off of them, least she actually hurt them, long-term. However, she agrees to take better instructions and directions from him in the future. And no making out with Winn in the van!!

Lena and Rhea:

This was an odd-ball pairing that ended in disaster, as we sort of knew it would from the beginning. However, Rhea I think knows that Lena never had the best relationship with Lilian, and strives to be a mother-figure/mentor towards Lena. And Lena completely eats that up, since she probably craves praise from an older female figure. She's understandably hurt with Rhea's betrayal, but seems to move on from it quickly enough and works to make the device to pump the lead into the air that ends up killing Rhea. But mainly because... duh. Invaders.

And finally, a teaser for the third season (which is happening, as far as I'm to understand it):

Back when Krypton was dying, and Kara and Kal-El were being sent away, a mysterious group of people in a foreboding structure put a baby into a pod and launched it from the dying planet as well.

I feel like if I knew more about Superman, I'd instantly know what this was. However, I do not, so I shall remain clueless until the next season and this teaser becomes relevant.

So that's the rest of the season, as far as I can remember it. If there's any baddies or relationships that I forgot, they were clearly unimportant to the point where I would have forgotten about them over the course of ~13 days.

Overall, the show wasn't bad. It kept me on my toes, even though I knew that they wouldn't kill off Supergirl, cause then the show would die. And I didn't think that they would kill anybody else, besides a bad guy or two, but the show might have thrown us a curve-ball and done so anyway.

I'm excited for the third season, and hopefully, Supergirl will remain on the CW, with it's brother shows, Arrow and Flash.

Overall, the season was different from the first season. Not any better, nor any worse. It was just that: different. And I'm glad, because this show is pretty great.

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