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If you are reading this… you are likely not from Daxam. In the Season 2 finale of Supergirl we watched as all the Daxamites either fled or died as the lead unleashed by Lex Luthor’s modified thingamajig spread into the atmosphere. This season finale, titled with the increasingly popular feminism mantra, Nevertheless, She Persisted, originally aired on Monday May 22, 2017. If you’re looking for a good summary of that mantra, wait for the feedback section of the podcast!
Lets Lead Loose
Finales are a difficult beast. There is a lot of weight riding on their shoulders. Like every other episode of the season, they have to tell a story; they need a beginning, middle and end; they need good dialogue, action sequences, tension, drama. But there’s more pressure than that. The finale is responsible for the whole season. Maybe that doesn’t seem fair, but when a story arc spans the entirety of a season… I think it’s entirely fair for the weight to fall on the shoulders of the finale.
To a certain extent, Supergirl satisfied this quota. Mon-El has been an increasingly consistent force in the Supergirl story, and so, by extension, have the Daxamites. While the threat of Daxam is rather recent, Kara has a baked-in distrust of Daxamites that includes one, and only one, exception. Taking a step back from all of my complaints of inconsistencies and underdeveloped characters, we can abstractly look at the progression of both Kara and Mon-El to Rhea’s arrival and accept that the events which unfolded were…inevitable.
Inevitable, somewhat predictable, but overall visually dynamic, the season finale disposed of ruthless Rhea and dangled a couple carrots in front of us to keep us running to next season. Karen and I will give our highs and lows, but the feedback we received was certainly where the episode shines.
Thank you to everyone for contributing to another year of Maid of Steel! Be sure to check back periodically over the summer as we may have some fun extras as things come up.
Cougar’s Comic Corner
Supergirl: Red Daughter of Krypton (Amazon & comiXology link)
Red Daughter of Krypton is a twelve-issue Superman/Green Lantern crossover story arc published in 2014, with Tony Bedard, Charles Soule and Robert Venditti as the writers. After the events of Red Lanterns #27 and Supergirl #27 -which serve as a prologue-, the proper story begins in Supergirl #28, Supergirl #29 and Green Lantern #29 and continues through the Red Lanterns and Supergirl titles, concluding in Supergirl #33.
A short while after the events of H’el on Earth and Krypton Returns, Supergirl picks a fight with Lobo in the research facility known as “The Block”. Realizing he can’t go toe-to-toe with a Kryptonian, Lobo does everything he can to push her buttons and to make her so irrationally angry that she can’t fight effectively.
However, Kara has been having a very hard time since she arrived in the planet. She’s only fifteen and she’s already lost her home… twice. Her home-world is gone, her parents and all her friends are dead, her relationship with her only living relative is strained, she doesn’t manage to fit into Earth, and apparently everyone she meets wants to decide what is better for her, use her or betray her after earning her trust. She’s confused, heart-broken, and above all very, very angry. So, Lobo’s taunting uncorks a volcano of rage in her that acts like a magnet to one of the new red power rings created by Atrocitus.
From that point on, Kara gets tangled up in the Lantern corps wars, and she has to learn several harsh truths about herself in order to grow as a person.
I look forward to the hiatus podcasts!
I have to give “Arrow” the best season finale of this group with “Supergirl” in second. LEGENDS’s sounds good but like Emilee I don’t watch it so I can’t really rank it out of the ones I do.
I’m still with others who say if you have silver kryptonite why not use it on Kara to make her fight the DEO while your soldiers take over the city? It felt like an excuse to shove in Superman and again I’m not a fan of him being in this series much as Kara doesn’t have 1000s of other projects to see her in so let’s use all the time to showcase her life instead of having yet another Superman plot. I get he’s family but I’m fine with him going back to being an IM connection with like 1-2 episodes every third season, like we wouldn’t see him until the S4 finale at earliest; Clark is fun but again I can literally put on any DC product basically and see him but you can’t do that with Kara so more of her world and less of him. Maybe this is just me.
“Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.” S4 was awesome; the only way it could have been better was if they did Skimmons instead of Fitzsimmons as the romance! Lol to Emilee talking about Guardian!
Such a great scene of Cat revealing she knows about Kara! Cat has definitely been missed on the series!
Lol to Karen explaining about the lead. I will agree Mon was good in what I saw of this episode but I’m okay with him not coming back for awhile as the overall handling of Karamel just didn’t work for me so I personally need time away from him; I’m fine with him coming back as a more adult (the man Kara thinks he can be) version in a guest spot in say S5 but I don’t want to see him in S3. Chris’s acting has been great, but it’s just the way the character was handled for a lot of S2 that I didn’t get excited about.
I definitely get where Emilee is coming from in the proposal seemed rushed but I can see like Karen how the moment effected things and Alex hyped up on Kara’s wishes and wanting Maggie close did the one arguably permeant thing she could think of which is propose; I still feel it was fast but I can understand it…it’s like Kara giving Mon her mom’s necklace, it seems out of character at first but in the moment it does work when you think about it deeper. I feel given all the Gotham build up they’ve done it’d be highly surprising if Maggie didn’t get sent there for her exit…it’s just too good not to use for her!
Wouldn’t he get lead poising again though if he returned Karen? Yes he could be cured from this exposure but he’d just get sick again if he came back to this time. Maybe he’ll end up on LEGENDS – OH THE TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL REFERENCES HE COULD MESS UP ON THAT SHOW – talk about instant humor level increase! 😀
You two recapped well and I thank you for that! I use to watch “Jane The Virgin” but then they killed Michael so I stopped; the actress who plays Peetra is enjoyable but I can’t get excited about the series like I use to especially when other characters I like are more guests than mains so no more JTV for me.
I’m fine with some Superman villains on “Supergirl” but I want to see Kara deal with them without Clark and have different reactions to them because just because Clark doesn’t like someone doesn’t mean Kara has to hate them; see Huntress and how Batman looks down on her but Kara considers her a best friend.
I’m still waiting to see Lena and Alex interact more. Yes to the end of Guardian! Wait all the fighting and Alex wasn’t involved? Injustice! Agree with Dad-El about Kara, it didn’t help the reporter career wasn’t believable to me; NO TO JAMES WORKING AT THE DEO! That does not have to be the only employment place on the series!!!
Side note: If you haven’t seen “Wonder Woman” yet do so, it was great!