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Fort Rozz is the destination for our Ladies Legion. Kara and Saturn Girl must pull in Livewire and Psi to help them, because the ship orbits a star deadly to men. Reign has learned of their plan and goes to intercept them. Meanwhile Alex is on babysitter detail taking care of Ruby.

Fort Rozz:

Supergirl, evidently, is very strong. When she pushed Fort Rozz into space, it hurtled light years away and found orbit around a blue star. The star means Kara is powerless and beings with Y chromosomes are killed. The issues is there is a priestess on Fort Rozz who can help Supergirl turn Reign to the good side. Jindah Kol Rozz (Sarah Douglas) was powerful and the prison ship was named for her. Faced with the challenges of getting to the ship and facing a ship filled with people who hate her, Kara needs back up. Saturn Girl is there to fly the Legion’s ship and provide some backup. Kara has to reach out to Livewire (Brit Morgan). Kara finds her working in a diner and hiding from Reign. Livewire agrees to help to take out Reign and protect her friends. Kara has Psi (Yael Brobglas) released from DEO holding, but she has a power dampener to protect the team.

The Ladies Legion makes it to the ship and after a rough docking make it inside. They encounter a wild prisoner who takes down Supergirl and Saturn Girl. Only with a poweedr Psi and Livewire is she captured. She tells the ladies that the last person who went to find Jindah never returned. The ship’s docking to the fort caused it to slip out of orbit and it is falling into the star. Saturn Girl and Psi stay behind to try and fix things. Kara and Livewire head out to find Jindah. They encounter wraith like guards who take out Supergirl. Livewire has to teleport the guards and herself into space to escape them. Supergirl awakes and finds Jindah. But Jindah does not want to aid Supergirl, she wants to finish her. She wants Reign and the other World Killers, Purity and Pestilence to destroy Kara.

Reign Takes out Rozz on Fort Rozz:

Reign is struggling with her human side. She goes to her fortress to seek answers from the Dark Kryptonian. She says she must suppress her human side. But there is a more pressing matter. The Dark Kryptonian tells Reign why the women are going to Fort Rozz. If they get there, they will find out ways to defeat Reign. Reign is sent in her shuttle to intercept the Ladies.

Reign shows up and Jindah is thrilled. She thinks she can join forces the take down of the House of EL. Jindah starts to gloat and a fully powered Reign takes her out with heat vision. But before Reign can take out Supergirl, Livewire and Psi come to save the day. Livewire and Reign go toe to toe and Livewire goes down. But she still throws herself in front of Kara to save her life. Psi takes over Reign and forces a break through. Reign falters and sees Ruby reaching out for help. Reign regains some control and flies back to her shuttle and to Earth.

The Ladies make it back to Earth. Psi is given a better cell and has some respect from Kara. Kara and Mon-EL have a good talk and he gives her some good advice. Things are moving forward in good ways.

Special Agent Danvers – Babysitter:

Alex is laid up in her apartment and talking with Kara, when Sam and Ruby come over. Sam is on her way to a conference but her babysitter cancelled. So Alex volunteers to take care of Ruby. Alex gets a text from Maggie that throws her for a loop. She is still not over Maggie and hurting. Ruby says she is hurting too. A girl at school is bullying her for not giving answers on a test. Alex goes into full FBI mode and goes to the girl’s house. She threatens her with exposure and telling her parents.

Alex and Ruby bond and have a great time. They find Maggie’s passport and get it ready to send of to her. They promise to be there for each other. Sam shows up and has a talk just with Alex. She says she is loosing time, skipping trips, and she is scared. She may not know she is Reign yet, but a breakthrough is coming.

Closing Thoughts:

Fort Rozz was interesting in several ways. First we have the redemption of Livewire and a step forward for Psi. Kara made her peace with Mon-EL and still has hope for bringing Reign back from the edge. But we had the birth of another World Killer, I’m betting Purity. For all the Plot Device things, I did enjoy the character progression of Reign. Over all a better episode than we had last week.

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News:

MORGAN EDGE THREATENS LENA – Someone tries to kill Morgan Edge (guest star Adrian Pasdar) and he barely survives. He accuses Lena (Katie McGrath) of being behind the attempt and vows to destroy her. When Lena fears her hatred for Morgan will take her to the Luthor dark side, Kara (Melissa Benoist) steps in to help her friend. Meanwhile, after Sam (Odette Annable) realizes she’s losing time, she confides in Alex (Chyler Leigh) who decides to run some medical tests to see if she can find out what’s going on with her new friend. Tawnia McKiernan directed the episode with story by Robert Rovner and teleplay by Cindy Lichtman & Alix Sternberg (#312). Original airdate 1/29/18.

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Aaron on January 27, 2018 at 10:26 pm

Livewire and Psi were definitely the best part of the episode. Leslie isn’t dead she’s just recharging and stay off Reign’s radar!

I think it would be great to see Sam do the “struggle with power” plot as we haven’t seen that touched on on the series – what do you do when you have the power to help but you don’t because you’re scared of those powers, do you risk Reign returning in the name of helping others if they lock her inside Sam using Psi somehow or do you do the best you can without them knowing it’s not really enough to get the job done? I’d definitely love to see more Sam but I think a lot of her plot would have to be Reign related even if she isn’t using powers each week because that’s a huge thing and what talents does she have to be on the team if she’s just Sam…they’d have to balance it realistically as the last thing we need is another shoehorned in superhero (see Guardian). She would free up Lena at L Corp but if Lena goes into science mode what’s the use of showing L Corp beyond a scene or two and again Sam might feel forced in kind of like what’s happening with CatCo there to say it’s there but really it’s not used like it use to be. Bring on more Sam but make sure she has something to do that fits as it’d be a bummer to see her just hanging around to say she’s there (see Katie in S4 of “Arrow”).

I’m with you Karen the Brainiac 5 ensemble is bad. Jesse was in “Defiance”.

I hope Alex is Ruby’s J’onn because the show isn’t ready for kids full time I think unless they want to have Alex and Sam get married then she can be her mom and they mention Ruby in weeks but she’s not seen all the time. Speaking of Ruby, I wonder when her plot will come where they test to see what powers she has? This could be a good tease to what Kara’s kid might be like when she has one.

I do feel they missed an opportunity with Maggie this episode to have her address be Gotham to nod to that part of the character.

They could always name drop members in the tubes for Easter eggs but not show them on screen.

I loved the “Leslie is alive” message reading section Karen!

We’re going to talk about Batman Karen, there’s a difference in Bruce and Batman as well; for me Michael Keaton will always be Batman and Val Kilmer is the best Bruce I’ve seen so far. I totally agree that’s bull they changed the Amazonian costumes; then again that’s just one issue with the film.

I still don’t get the need to start “Black Lightening” now, why couldn’t it just be a hiatus show and let the four wrap at the same time since they started together? Or you know just admit people like the hero shows and do a week of them basically; I’d say go hiatus though as then you have one on all the time basically. Hopefully they’ll promote the shift again because it’s been awhile since they released the news thus this way everyone has a reminder to set their phones for “Supergirl”‘s return.

1 Comment

Aaron on January 27, 2018 at 10:26 pm
Livewire and Psi were definitely the best part of the episode. Leslie isn’t dead she’s just recharging and stay off Reign’s radar!
I think it would be great to see Sam do the “struggle with power” plot as we haven’t seen that touched on on the series – what do you do when you have the power to help but you don’t because you’re scared of those powers, do you risk Reign returning in the name of helping others if they lock her inside Sam using Psi somehow or do you do the best you can without them knowing it’s not really enough to get the job done? I’d definitely love to see more Sam but I think a lot of her plot would have to be Reign related even if she isn’t using powers each week because that’s a huge thing and what talents does she have to be on the team if she’s just Sam…they’d have to balance it realistically as the last thing we need is another shoehorned in superhero (see Guardian). She would free up Lena at L Corp but if Lena goes into science mode what’s the use of showing L Corp beyond a scene or two and again Sam might feel forced in kind of like what’s happening with CatCo there to say it’s there but really it’s not used like it use to be. Bring on more Sam but make sure she has something to do that fits as it’d be a bummer to see her just hanging around to say she’s there (see Katie in S4 of “Arrow”).
I’m with you Karen the Brainiac 5 ensemble is bad. Jesse was in “Defiance”.
I hope Alex is Ruby’s J’onn because the show isn’t ready for kids full time I think unless they want to have Alex and Sam get married then she can be her mom and they mention Ruby in weeks but she’s not seen all the time. Speaking of Ruby, I wonder when her plot will come where they test to see what powers she has? This could be a good tease to what Kara’s kid might be like when she has one.
I do feel they missed an opportunity with Maggie this episode to have her address be Gotham to nod to that part of the character.
They could always name drop members in the tubes for Easter eggs but not show them on screen.
I loved the “Leslie is alive” message reading section Karen!
We’re going to talk about Batman Karen, there’s a difference in Bruce and Batman as well; for me Michael Keaton will always be Batman and Val Kilmer is the best Bruce I’ve seen so far. I totally agree that’s bull they changed the Amazonian costumes; then again that’s just one issue with the film.
I still don’t get the need to start “Black Lightening” now, why couldn’t it just be a hiatus show and let the four wrap at the same time since they started together? Or you know just admit people like the hero shows and do a week of them basically; I’d say go hiatus though as then you have one on all the time basically. Hopefully they’ll promote the shift again because it’s been awhile since they released the news thus this way everyone has a reminder to set their phones for “Supergirl”‘s return.

MOS 52 – S3E11 – Fort Rozz