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#what if kara was something other than superman lite
budgebuttons · 3 years
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someone give me the phone # for Mr CW I just have a couple of notes for our girls’ looks
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peggystormborn · 3 years
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Maybe they should have. Or maybe they should have written a different dynamic for Lena/Kara like straight up enemies instead of a superficial friendship with no real trust where one would later mistreat the other due to her butthurt. Or maybe they should have hired someone more average looking and less “hot” than Katie.
I think if they wanted to do Smallville lite they should have either committed to the eventual villainy (they could even have done an eventual Darth Vader back to the light at the very end) or had a much shorter arc where Lena flips back after like 5 episodes or whatever.
But the instant bff story always sucked. I don't get why Kara would befriend her knowing the risks to both of them (it worked on Smallville bc Clark wasn't Superman, he was just some kid hanging out with the rich dude in town). They don't even have anything in common, never really did, the only angle they used to try and sell the friendship was "they both want a name for themselves outside their family" which doesn't work bc Lena doesn't know Kara is related to Superman, and also lex and superman are nothing alike and their respective relationships with these two men bear no similarities. Clark is a famous good guy and Kara wants to be like him but still distinct from him. Whereas Lex is a bad guy and Lena's issue is being cranky people assume bad things about her because of her last name, while ignoring the fact that people are REALLY judging her because of things she's ACTUALLY DONE.
And yes as you say they never had any real trust. And this wasn't because of lena's being a Luthor, it was because Lena proved herself untrustworthy REPEATEDLY. Nor did Lena trust Kara to understand who SHE really was: someone capable of doing the terrible things she's done, many of which Kara still doesn't know about or fully understand.
This whole thing also doesn't work bc Lena's path wasn't predetermined. On Smallville, we know lex will eventually turn on Clark, so every friend moment is loaded with tragic irony. But that's not the case on SG. So it's just...stuff that happens.
The worst part is they wasted everything. Lena didn't learn, isn't a better person than she started out as, still doesn't understand violating people and murder are inherently wrong, doesn't value other people's autonomy or the lives of innocents over her own immediate wants.
It didn't even end in a cool fight!
I have a small sliver of hope that lena's ending will be copping to having always been a shitty person and friend, and committing with Andrea to team up to challenge each other to be better somehow, instead of enabling Lena's worst impulses which is basically what Kara did (while ignoring EVERY RED FLAG ALONG THE WAY). Bonus if William, the last morally pure character on the show except arguably Kelly, is her motivator. I mean the dude's getting fridged, we know that, at least I hope they mine SOMETHING good out of it.
Still a shitty thing to do to poor William though.
And we know what poor Kara got for her years or dedicated and supportive friendship...
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