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The fight for the totems has taken a desperate turn. Supergirl and her team have five totems however Lex and Nyxly have stolen the most precious of them all. The love totem has fused itself with Alex and Kelly’s young daughter Esme. In true Lex fashion, he gives the Superfriends an ultimatum. They must give him the five totems they possess and the destiny totem then he will return Esme. 
The love totem is different from the others. Not only did it fuse with a living being, but each time it is activated some of the petals from the flower tattoo on the little girl’s neck fall. Nyxly predicts that if all petals are allowed to fall then the totem will find a new host and will be lost to them. Lex and Nyxly disagree on how to separate the totem from Esme. Lex does not care if the little girl is hurt in the process. Lex thinks he is so clever, but we are shown a different side of Nyxly. She wants to possess the totem, but she doesn’t want Esme to come to any harm. Nyxly also wants to obtain the totem honestly by passing the love gauntlet. In making this choice the gauntlet is achieved and the love totem judges Nyxly worthy of possessing it. 
Meanwhile Alex and Kara are disagreeing on how to rescue Esme and keep the world safe. Alex wants to meet the ransom demands and take out Lex with her bare hands. Kara is worried about surrendering that much power to the enemy. If Nyxly and Lex can unite the totems to create the All Stone, Supergirl is concerned they will be unstoppable. She heads to Prague in pursuit of the destiny totem. This magical item shows Kara a possible destiny that she cannot allow to happen. If Nyxly and Lex wield the power of all the totems combined into the All Stone then they will destroy this planet and enslave its people. They must make a plan, so this future does not become a reality. Brainy has an idea to use a satellite to concentrate sunlight to super charge Supergirl. Alex just wants to take the totems and exchange them for her daughter. The sisters go their separate ways to try to achieve victory. In the final moments of absorbing the extra sunlight Kara has second thoughts. The people she wants to help are scared and running away. This can’t be the right decision. Through the power of Brainy’s legion crown and a little magic from Lena, Supergirl is able to deliver one last hope speech to everyone all at once. This mobilizes the citizens of National City to be the heroes in their own life. As a result of that speech there are many people to back up our Superfriends. The heroes won the day and evil has been defeated. Now it is time for the happily ever after. However, our paragon of hope is still conflicted. In the quiet moments following Alex and Kelly’s wedding Kara gets an unexpected phone call. Cat Grant has bought Catco back and wants Kara to be her Editor in Chief. Can she find the balance in her life? Can she be both? After some encouragement from Alex and prodding that only Ms. Grant could provide Kara has made a decision. She does have the courage to do both and she will tell the world. She is Kara Danvers, Pulitzer winning reporter and Supergirl. Kara reveals to the world she is our beloved Maid of Steel. 
Did the Supergirl Finale bring you any joy?
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Did the Supergirl Finale bring you any joy?
- Yes (86%, 6 Votes)
- No (14%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 7
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DC One Million #4 (of 4)
Written by Grant Morrison released September 30, 1998 Even the combined power of the JLA’s core members is dwarfed by the awesome energies of Solaris, the Tyrant Sun. And with Vandal Savage in possession of what may be the last piece of Kryptonite in the galaxy, the villains’ plan finally becomes clear: to kill the original Man of Steel at all costs! $1.99 on Comixology!
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SUPERGIRL “The Last Gauntlet” & “Kara”
GOOD:
Esme.
Esme guilt-tripping Lex and Nyxly–effortlessly–like a boss! You go, Esme!
TPTB finally remember Melissa Benoist is an excellent singer. (GLEE fans going duh.)
Love does NOT conquer all–if you keep choosing to be evil … Lex.
Big brother Guardian and lil sister Guardian team up!
William Day memorial … school? fund? foundation? Something.
Last season Lex blasted Supergirl into the Phantom Zone, this season tables turned.
Nyxly’s arc returns her full circle back in the Phantom Zone, reaping what she sowed.
People inspired by Supergirl’s season-ending speech–to save a cat without superheroes.
Response time from government agency to detect, track down and send forces to deal with Sun-draining menace: 2 minutes! Awesome.
Wedding outfits.
Wedding song, Folk-sy cover of Pat Benatar’s “We Belong”.
BAD:
So Alex was going to give the totem to Nyxly & Lex to be all-powerful to save her daughter, to live (however long) in a world where Nyxly & Lex are all-powerful?!
With five seconds left to fully drain the Sun into supercharging Supergirl they argue they shouldn’t do so–for TEN SECONDS??!!?
They had to drain the Sun in the middle of the city? Not in upper atmosphere or outside of town so as to not scare people?!
Um, where was Kelly in all this talk about Alex and “her” daughter? Honestly, most of the focus has been on Alex and Esme, even James told Kelly that it would be great for “Alex and Esme” to have her. Um, it was KELLY who was the social worker who met and befriended Esme first and her idea to adopt her and Alex, who hadn’t said word one about motherhood for years, who agreed.
Esme feeling like nothing good happens to her for long. For that reason alone Nyxly and Lex deserve every torment in the Phantom Zone. Needlessly picking on and scaring kids.? The worst.
WHA?
How did they report William’s death to the police? Did the police cordon off and investigate the Tower? Did they move his body elsewhere?
So Brainy doesn’t figure out until AFTER going back to the future he can stay in the past because “the future is unwritten”?!?
Wait, wasn’t the bridge site of the omegahedron explosion supposed to negate all powers and tech–just before powers and tech fight free-for-all broke out?!
Um, did Kara tell her family and friends she was going public with her secret identity? She has a ton of enemies. The Agent Liberty forces alone would love to stalk Kara’s friends to make her pay.
So what is Alex took the Destiny stone, Kara has superspeed and strength, she could have easily taken it back. Why was Kara acting like she was helpless?
GREAT:
Lillian Luthor, OG, Season 1 Supergirl villain and still outwits Lex. And dresses like a boss! Inside of 5 minutes, with mere words, she does what the Superfriends couldn’t all season, undermine the Nyxly / Lex alliance. Also scolds Lex for touching a chess piece (she was right, it is a rule in Chess if you touch a piece, you have to move it).
Speaking of OG, Season 1 awesomeness, Cat Grant returns! Not only does she return, not only does return like a boss, much to “Kira”‘s consternation, but CAT KNEW! Cat always knew! Cat was NEVER FOOLED! Why Because Glasses was a stupid disguise! Also, she provided the proper maternal scolding Kara needed to stop being wishy washy and make an actual decision about something about her own life. She can make a decision to save the world even risky decisions but for herself she hems and haws.
WHAT THE FRELL?!!!
Speaking of risky decisions, what the frell was the decision to drain the SUN?!!! Lena was right, the Sun is … ya know … kinda important. But Supergirl not only downplaying being without sunlight for months but if it comes to it she put the Sun “back in orbit”!!?!!?!!!?!!?!! There are no words for how cosmicly bad that idea is! Remember a few weeks back saying how the Sun is 99% of the SOLAR SYSTEM’s mass. imagine someone just … MOVING … Sun. Imagine someone just dragging the Earth out of its orbit–that’s NOTHING compared to the gravitational destruction of moving the Sun out of its orbit of the CENTER THE GALAXY!!!!!!!!!!
COSMICLY GREAT:
Justina, John, Emilee & Karen, as well as all the commenters, feedbackers, emailers and voicemailers to the podcast, Supergirl Radio, Tomorrow’s Legends and other Golden Spiral Media podcaster guest team-ups for podcast over the past lifetime of this podcast. SUPERGIRL was right. She inspired us all to be the heroes to help each other. While I hope you might go on to cover STARGIRL. I think the Green Butterfly and the Silver Vox would be right at home in Blue Valley. However I think we’d all understand if you wanted to take a break and let someone deal with all the backstage stuff of running a podcast. Either way, thank you one and all for MAID OF STEEL. ??????????
“Nyxly’s arc returns her full circle back in the Phantom Zone, reaping what she sowed.” – Nxy didn’t deserve to be there in the first place so to have her sent back felt really crappy to me. Did she fight with the team? Yes. Did the team bring it on themselves by not letting her go to the Fifth Dimension like she wanted originally? Yes! She didn’t care about Earth and only caused havoc because Kara tried to stop her from her quest and why – why does Kara care about her killing her father? He’s a bad dude; yeah I just really didn’t like Nxy being sent back!
“With five seconds left to fully drain the Sun into supercharging Supergirl they argue they shouldn’t do so–for TEN SECONDS??!!?” – lol, that got me so much; Brainy is like “8…7…6” and they’re like ‘No, this isn’t right; we have to stop?’ ‘Are you sure?’ that alone took their time before Brainy ever hit the button therefore the sun is drained! 🙂
“They had to drain the Sun in the middle of the city? Not in upper atmosphere or outside of town so as to not scare people?!” – this.
“How did they report William’s death to the police? Did the police cordon off and investigate the Tower? Did they move his body elsewhere?” – good questions!
“Wait, wasn’t the bridge site of the omegahedron explosion supposed to negate all powers and tech–just before powers and tech fight free-for-all broke out?!” – shh Ken, we’re required to have one to two big fight scenes for the series final of any series. But yes that is what they said…what they did was the exact opposite, much like with all of this season. Maybe they were operating under the idea of “no bridge, no rules” and thusly blew it up to get the CGI explosion of punches?
UGH there are so many problems with Kara coming out it’s like where do you even begin! You of course have the enemies and if they look at Kara can see Alex and Alex has her own roster who wants her dead so yeah personal safety for all is out the window. You have the fact she’s going to be sued at least 10 times a year if not more for property damage and the ‘Incredibles’ potential of saving someone who didn’t want to be saved and now she has to pay for injuries and as Maggie said there are people who use the “Supergirl defense” to get out so now they have added bias to say she was just harassing them to write a story for her paper. You’ve got the never ending “Hey can you help me do XYZ” because they know where Kara lives and who she is; like I get the idea behind her coming out, but the reality is she can’t be both Kara and Supergirl to the world because while some will let her be others will want the Supergirl side for their own profit or desires and she’s basically just made it impossible for herself to have a normal life now. If she was like comic book or animated series versions of herself where her job is basically being Supergirl and she lives on the Watchtower because no one can bother her there so she gets to be Kara too some that would be one thing but I just can’t buy her staying in the city and being out because every five minutes someone is either going to be calling CatCo for help moving a refrigerator or for a cat stuck on a tree and if they see her own the street they’ll ask for autographs and pictures. She’s just made a bigger mess in reality than she knows I think.
“Why was Kara acting like she was helpless?” – exactly! She also should have not lost the race to Lex and Nxy because she had super speed so she should have had all the stone pieces and that fight in the streets never happened.
“Lillian Luthor, OG, Season 1 Supergirl villain and still outwits Lex.” – Lillian is from season two not one; Maxwell Lord was our season one Luthor stand in and he was so good too – more prof why we never needed Lex actually on the series.
John and Justina doing a “Stargirl” podcast would be fun for sure Ken, but I can’t see them going there in reality because they wouldn’t want to step on Martin and Jess’s toes given they’ve been doing that series since its start on Tomorrow’s Legends.
“thank you one and all for MAID OF STEEL.” – seconded! ?
You’re right, Aaron, Nyxly didn’t deserve to be sent in the Phantom Zone in the first place. However she actively betrayed Kara who was trying to help her out of the Zone. And after escaping the Zone, Nyxly did fight with Supergirl and the Superfriends–and terrorize and kill innocent people, destroyed the homes of the down and out and triggered a nuclear war between nations.
She also made Esme feel bad.
So in the time after escaping the Phantom Zone, Nyxly had sowed multiple times to the wind and reaped the full whirlwind of her own actions. As THE FLASH has trouble learning, not every villain chooses redemption from a really good talking to.
Sorry, I forgot about the season finale requiring a big cgi fight. My bad.
Iron-Man can come out as Tony Stark because he didn’t have family and his only friends were people in company or other wealthy celebs with security staffs of their own. Kara failed to use her powers to make herself rich and establish a secure secret haven. And the Fortress is technically Clark’s even on SUPERMAN AND LOIS it seems to be have been stripped of much of its advanced alien technology and be mostly an arctic cave. Maybe with the DEO revival, maybe they can tasked to secure Alex, John and the Superfriends.
Oh, I guess since Cat was in Season 2 I mixed Lillian up with Season 1 because I associate Cat with Season 1 and only just now remembered she was recurring in Season 2.
Well, Justina and John have different styles than Martin, Jess and Geoff, just like they are different than Rebecca and Morgan, who host the Supergirl Radio podcast. There’s room for multiple podcasts. That said, I’d respect them leaving the space to TOMORROW’S LEGENDS.
“However she actively betrayed Kara who was trying to help her out of the Zone.” – yeah that I felt was for drama because there’s no way they should have fought then in the first place.
Nxy did bad yes but they could have just helped her find the stones in exchange for setting things right with the building and let her go home to wreck that up because yeah that sucks she doesn’t get vengeance on her evil father. 🙁
Yes tragically Cat was only in an episode of season two.
I’m going to make Justina mad with this but real talk – they’re over doubt Esme’s cuteness and it’s annoying me so her making her sad didn’t both me that much. Ha.
I would be down for a “Stargirl” Justina-John podcast here as that series deserves love because they’re doing it right still; keeping their writers was a BIG win for that series as it allows for continuity and structure which we lost with our shake up. I still don’t get how the same writers who did “Falling” could allow the show to go to such and unrecognizable place! But yeah I don’t know how J & J feel given the closeness to Tomorrow’s Legends.
i think what nxyly was truly fighting against was sexism and she was going to bring that fight to the fifth dimension and take down her father but the super friends stopped her from fighting her true enemy
I’m so, so, SO sorry, K-Vox, Nightwatch and all the Super Pets for forgetting to thank you for your valuable contribution to the podcast, being awesome inspirations to your humans in the best and worst of times.
And speaking of super pets, was there a FLYING HORSE in the SUPERGIRL season finale?!?
Some blog post comments…
“Nyxly predicts that if all petals are allowed to fall then the totem will find a new host and will be lost to them.” – which is dumb because they have the Pokémon ball of location so they could just find it when it appears on the next time; the Super team would be so happy to have Esme back they wouldn’t be racing to go get it first if they even saw where it went.
“In the final moments of absorbing the extra sunlight Kara has second thoughts.” – she totally absorbed that sun, they spent too much time debating over stopping to have stopped in time for nothing to happen.
“She is Kara Danvers, Pulitzer winning reporter and Supergirl.” – LOL…well one of those things is true. 😉
“Did the Supergirl Finale bring you any joy?” – ? I see what you’re doing…by putting the word “any” in there you are forcing our hands to say “yes” in this poll because of course seeing Cat again is going to bring people joy even for a second and you know Daryl has to admit Lena was hot so that’s joy too and Kelly was gorgeous in the dress; this is by design a trap question and I’m not falling for it! Yes, there were brief moments I enjoyed in this series final but not enough to vote “yes”. I’m selecting “no”.
On to the podcast…
“the once airing” ?.
“He fetches his dinner every night really well!” – lol.
Hey, given how Barry took baby Sarah from us and made her baby John I’m cool with him balancing the scales with a Superman kid! Again there’s like this idea that Superman can’t have a girl because that wouldn’t be manly or something; I mean that’s all I can assume because he could have easily had one to nod to “Supergirl” where her hero is aunt Kara (or Alex) since we created their series but again they don’t like to acknowledge us it feels so yeah. I do distrust Barry with time but we’ll consider this a balance for the whole baby Sarah thing on “Arrow”. No screwing with Alex Danvers though unless you’re going to take her back to season 3 her where we had DEO Danvers (and potential Agent Arias), nothing else though Barry…I’m watching you!
Mon is toxic to Kara.
John’s ‘William’…it was a nice humorous addition to this season. 🙂
Given the way she talks I think it was the show’s dumb decision to move on from Reign/Sam because Odette is ready to go as much as Nicole is ready to suit up again the moment they ask because she loves the character. Granted she can’t right now because she’s on “Walker” but if she had free time and the show was on she’d do it I feel like. They could bring her back for the Alex spin off if they were smart enough to have an Alex spin off which they aren’t because if they did there’s already be rumors of one. ?
Well as you know Justina the writers want fans to think Sam doesn’t have powers because Lena took them when they locked up Reign so she can’t help in fights the same way, but we fans know the truth and want it back. 🙂 #SamStillHasPowers
??? Well crap John…if they put Sam on Superman’s show as a regular I might have to cave and watch then for her because Sam is my favorite character after Alex so that would definitely push my resolve on the “no watch” front. Ha!
“Epic” it was not.
I’m going to be like the writers of the series and get lazy thusly I’ll just ask what made the version extended for “Kara” because I really don’t care to see the garbage again to find a few extra moments that MIGHT be good for me.
Of course Superman gets extra things Daryl, they don’t care about Kara and haven’t since again like season 3 although you could make an argument they stopped post season one. The minute he came on the show she went out it tragically. ?
Happy birthday Geoff! ?
They let random stranger William be a friend so why not Andrea? Ha
I could buy Alex going with Kara and getting the totem because she wants to be sure they can get Esme back with it if need be and I can even buy Alex disagreeing with Kara to set up a confrontation between them like this but what I couldn’t get is Kara just rolling over and letting her take off. If it was something less at stake than the world maybe it makes sense for that to happen given Alex is her hero and she doesn’t like her mad at her, but here she should have said “I don’t have have time for this. I will get Esme back!” and if need be knocked Alex out. Or even ask “Do you trust me or not?!” to show as John said Kara has this; it’s not an improbable moment but it was an annoying one especially in the series final where yes we want sister moments but happy ones not them fighting over something that just came into being last week.
Mon is never needed back. Also not needed back – Guardian…any Guardian.
The drywall was better than the tower I would argue.
I agree Justina, Nxy should have been let go to the Fifth Dimension a long time ago!
I agree John, Lillian got jipped in characterization.
“It’s gotten in the way of every job I’ve ever had” – lol, you’ve only had one girl and you barely do it! It’s lines like this that makes the show in part a joke now instead of having a better legacy. Kara hid who she was and what she could do and was fine with it until Alex was in trouble and so the only job we see her have to hide at is CatCo and yeah it didn’t effect that at all given she’s still there so I can’t take it seriously; if we saw Kara with a new job when she was fired by Snapper it might be one thing but as is it just doesn’t feel like an earned comment nor her saying she struggled with not coming out before because again she was fine until they wrote in these bullcrap lines for her to say so they could do this plot because they needed something for Kara to do on her own show as the last series shot.
“…instead of saving her as myself!” – you were literally in jeans and a t-shirt when you saved the plane, shut up. *hears Georgia’s collar jingle in the background* lol…she knows it’s bad too so I assume that’s her shaking her head. 🙂
If they hadn’t made her Morganna Luthor basically then she would have had a good ending like Nia got but that magic man…it didn’t work for me so yeah I still feel Nia only has the truest and best ending from where the character started to where they ended.
Lol to Alex saying 3 years because that’s the exact last time the show was good (aka season 3); she was totally ready to adopt Ruby if anything happened to Sam so yeah I don’t buy a lot of her lines. Kelly’s vows were overall really good and I loved the part especially when she said she wished she could say she always knew but she couldn’t because that felt real; also Kelly in her wedding dress – amazing! ?Had Kelly been anyone but Kelly Olsen I think maybe I could have enjoyed them more…I’m not sure I would ship them because until the end they were just kissy face instead of showing why they’re good together but I could have been a little more at peace over them ending up together but because she’s Olsen and tied to Jimmy they just constantly made me think of Jimmy and Kara while I didn’t ship them either (I always felt James loved Supergirl more than Kara) I couldn’t get pass how that was just dropped and so it’s like an always open wound and yeah it just really stopped me from enjoying these two. I don’t mind married Alex at the end and I liked Kelly overall when she wasn’t her brother’s shadow by being Guardian but I just couldn’t really get excited by them being married at the end.
CBS would not have given us six years it’s true, but the question becomes is one amazing season better than the 3 years of trash we had to sit through with two extra seasons of varying quality? Would “Supergirl” have been better off ending after season 3 if we knew it was all going to fall apart after that? Yes it’s nice to see the actors faces and see the characters but I like them actually in character so yeah as much as I wished for 10 seasons before I’m glad they’re not damaging them more with extra years. “Supergirl” as I said in my opinion I feel ended after season 3 and 4-6 for sure is Clark Danvers so I have to wonder were the extra two years worth it and given season three I can say yes so I do appreciate as you said CW taking over I just wish they’d held on to the care for the series they had early on instead of changing it and letting it be massacred at the end because when this series was good and had care it was good but when they stopped man did it fall apart hard – like Kara being dropped by Reign, just crater in the ground by series end instead of flying high sadly like we saw at the end of season one.
I’m going to miss Maid Of Steel and the super fandom we’ve created. 🙁
Brainy actually makes down to 5 seconds, 4, 3 and Kara changes her mind–and takes 10 seconds to convince him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2eUaFiM7QU
I was thinking, why not have the change of heart at the 30 second mark so she’d have time to talk. Instead, it reminded me of a parody of Team Arrow running out of time while talking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBM2-yXElk
honestly i didn’t buy kara’s reasoning as to why she failed the courage gauntlet. the fact the writers thought that would be good enough just shows their lack of writing skill with the totem storyline
So many facts Daryl!
If the team had left her alone to look for the totems or even helped her so she could go kill her father she would have put everything right and left them be so really…who’s the real bad guy this season? Besides Lex of course! Ha.
I also agree I don’t buy that as to why she didn’t past either as there are legit reasons to not put yourself as a hero like she is – again see Oliver Queen in jail and his company failing…and he’s human, imagine if he was alien like Kara!
I think they threw it in there in attempt not to have it be a loose end but they had so many other loose ends like Kenny and Jeremiah it’s like why die on that hill when you have two others people wanted resolved more. Again spoiler for my feedback but I found way more issues with the final than I did any enjoyment in it. There are brief moments spread out the two hours but overall it was a dud as a series final; it works for the season because the season was so crazy but series final no.
Nyxly may have had a good motive in ending sexism in her home dimension (or a bad motive in wanting revenge against her sexist father favoring his son) but her METHODS were wrong. The ends do not justify horrible murderous means that Nyxly was using.
In fact, because of Nyxly’s choice of bad means, she ended up back in the Phantom Zone and sexism still remains in the 5th dimension. Imagine if Nyxly had asked for Supergirl & the Superfriends’ help? Sure, they wouldn’t help in murder and maybe Supergirl would decline because that would be “interfering” in 5th dimensional people’s government because of this sudden Prime Directive she’s invoking for the first time this season despite having interfering in politics before, earlier this season, but whatever.
At least that would give Nyxly more reason to hate them and make it personal.
Yeah, it was never revealed Miss Tessmacher killed Jeremiah Danvers. And Kenny being alive was not a Chekov’s love interest and Kara never went back to Argo.
Ultimately, this season seemed messed up because of Covid and TPTB at CW deciding to drop the axe. I keep getting a feeling that decision not to renew for a seventh season (the first for an Arrowverse show) was well into development of this season so they couldn’t back out what was already started this season in response to developing under covid provisions.
i think maybe the real reason they kept kenny alive was the same reason they kept mikhail alive. they just didn’t want to have a plot where they killed a child.
I wish it was only the totem line that had poor writing. It was only one of latest examples of poor writing on the series. Worst of all there have been examples of really good writing–which makes the overall lack thereof even more painful.
“Imagine if Nyxly had asked for Supergirl & the Superfriends’ help?” – this is fair Ken. Again I still don’t get them having Nxy attack her originally because you were looking for a way out, what did it matter who else came with you! I’m fine as John and Justina said having Nxy stopped but her going to the Phantom Zone when we know the why of her being there originally didn’t sit well with me. Let her go be the first captive of the new DEO or something, but sending her back…no thank you to that.
You can only blame COVID so much; like COVID probably did account for the lame limited character moments we saw but COVID didn’t effect the writing which was still trash. Melissa having a baby I think gave her a reason not to stay so that didn’t help; if she didn’t have the kid MAYBE we get some more seasons because she doesn’t have that extra pull on her attention but I think she’s just over it so that played a part in it and not that I can blame her given how they wrote Kara for years. Maybe the network teased not renewing it because of ratings, which were still higher than LEGENDS so if you tease cancellations you should start there, and Melissa was like ‘Okay, bye!’ because we know she is tired of some of the effects taking a toil on her body and again Kara isn’t he Kara she herself hyped and loved early on so it goes back to maybe it was a mutual decision to end the series – Melissa is the star and you can’t do it without her and they made it too easy for her to walk.
They had almost a year long shut down to come up with plots before they started filming on top of the hiatus they were already in Ken, they could have done better. A prime example, if you’re going to write a fundamental change to a character’s history you better pay that off – Kenny should have been at that wedding! Alex easily could have come up to Kara, who had caught the flowers and was feeling sad she was so worked consumed and wondering what’s beyond Supergirl given the new job offer, and said ‘Look who I found!’ and leaves her with Kenny to fall back in love or maybe Kenny himself just walks up and says ‘Hi’ as a visual representation of future possibilities! Not having Kenny at the end or at least a reference to him means they changed “Midvale” and for what? That’s bad writing to entertain the fans as now you’ve just made them mad.
“Worst of all there have been examples of really good writing–which makes the overall lack thereof even more painful.” – so many times Ken I have yelled at the screen saying ‘Why can’t you do more of this?!’ when they slip up with a decent moment; as you say instead of being excited by it you’re just mad because you know they’ll garbage it up by the end. Again how the same team who was over season one’s FALLING let the show fall to this degree I don’t understand. And why did no one step in when they saw it going down?! Someone please explain to me why Caitlin Parrish wasn’t given a shot as showrunner when they saw ratings going down after season three…or why someone else wasn’t (I use her because I wanted to see her as she did some of my favorite stuff in season one)…they already changed teams once why not again? It’s not like the Arrowverse is known for its consistency behind the scenes unless you’re “Stargirl” who somehow scored the biggest boon of all by keeping their original creative team (and it shows in their quality. Oh “Supergirl” if you could have done the same we probably wouldn’t be in this mess now, we’d be talking about season 7 or at least a better final).