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“Make It Reign” sets up the final elements that will close out Season 3. Selena and her crew are ready to make New Krypton with their reborn Reign, J’onn and M’yrnn prepare to say goodbye, and ramifications from past episodes are explored in the DEO and by Sam.
Witchy Women
Selena and her two witchy sisters are feeling out their newfound powers and come across Coville who is willing to help them set up their dark ceremony to recreate Reign. He is the only one who can hold the black stone as Reign is made new in the fires. It seems that she is only 1/3 baked as she’s missing the blood of Purity and Pestilence but luckily Coville knows where they can find it. The sisters go and start smashing up the DEO in search of the blood. After learning of Selena’s true plan on Argo and learning of an amazingly similar trans-portal thingy we’ve seen before Kara, Mon-El, and Alura come to Earth to try to stop the sisters. Kara thinks she’s destroyed the blood but Selena has caught all she needs in her hand. Back at the Fortress she mixes the blood with the goo in the fire and out comes Reign! Reign’s new mission is to use the Sword of Juru and terraform the Earth so that New Krypton can be born. Supergirl flies out of the DEO for the battle of Earth!
The Reach
J’onn and M’yrnn come to Alex so M’yrnn can say his goodbye to her. He reminds her that home is where you are loved and honored and that she has given him the gift of her love for J’onn. M’yrnn and J’onn leave to perform The Reach where M’yrnn will transfer all of his knowledge and memories to J’onn for him to have forever. J’onn is terribly sad and wishes he had more time with his father. As they perform their ritual it is a journey through recent memories, the terrible Martian war, J’onn’s birth (which caused M’yrnn to start living and lift his head from the Scriptures) and M’yrnn hopes that through this difficult process that he has taught J’onn balance in all things. As Reign starts wrecking Earth, M’yrnn has a plan to bond with the Earth itself and bring about its healing.
The Strength of Sam
Ruby wakes Sam up and tells her that she notices Sam is sick and to please not try to tell her that everything is fine. Sam agrees that she is not feeling well, that they need to go to Lena and Alex for help, and that she will not keep anything from Ruby anymore. Alex and Ruby are not figuring out why Sam is still not better because her Kryptonian cells are still in play with her human ones. They try to “supercharge” her with yellow sun lamps but that doesn’t work either. Lena postulates that maybe the black stone can be synthesized to create a solution and in the process she and Eve figure out that Reign is back again and that she and Sam are still connected. As Reign gets stronger Sam will get weaker and eventually die. Alura tells of a fountain that can give Sam the strength she needs but it’s only accessible in the dark world where she would go when Reign took her over. She agrees to go back there if it will save the world and her daughter. She is electric shocked back to the dark world and we hear her attacked from unseen forces as she stumbles her way through the forest.
Winn’s Fall from Grace
Winn goes to Agent Demos to show off his latest nonlethal tech in the form of a personal force field driven by a special belt buckle. He is mighty proud of his creation and leaves one with Demos. When the sisters come to get the blood of Purity and Pestilence from the DEO Demos is the one to get it. As he comes back to the main DEO work area the sisters are waiting for him. He uses his new force field but is hit with three simultaneous Kryptonian heat vision blasts and dies as a result. Winn is inconsolable even as James tries to comfort him that it wasn’t Winn’s fault that his tech couldn’t stand up to such an attack. He even blames James saying “you told me I could save the world.”
Closing Thoughts
This episode was a much -much- better outing than last week’s “Not Kansas.” I have a storytelling problem with Supergirl’s and Man of Steel’s making New Krypton premise. Especially on Supergirl where we’ve seen aliens and humans living together in our society. It feels like an over-the-top power play by the Kryptonians and I was confused by Selena separating herself and her sisters from Alura and the rest of the Kryptonians on Argo. Was she saying that they were discriminated against in Argo? I was unclear on this point. The story between J’onn and M’yrnn has clearly become my favorite of Season 3. I can’t say enough about the pairing of Harewood and Lumbly and I love that they have brought Alex so closely into their family dynamic. M’yrnn’s philosophical points where fantastic and what a lovely way to introduce his exit. I am totally looking forward to his heroic moment next week! The separation of Sam and Reign -at least bodily- is promising for Sam’s salvation but we’ll have to see when the battle comes to an end next week who survives and who doesn’t. Buh bye, Thomas Coville. What a tool. As much grief as I gave the decision for the DEO to go nonlethal last week I’ll give them equal amounts of props this week for addressing the implications of that decision immediately and it going south for poor Agent Demos, RIP. Well played, writers, well played. This setup for the finale episode of Season 3 did pretty ok!
Cougar’s Comic Corner
Final Crisis: Requiem Vol 1 #1 comixology/Amazon ($2)
Members of the superhero community gather to commemorate the life of their fallen comrade J’onn J’onzz – the Martian Manhunter. The Martian Manhunter recently lost his life at the hands of Libra and his Secret Society. What some of the heroes are only now beginning to discover however, is that in his last moments, J’onn broadcast a telepathic message imprinting the whole of Martian history and culture into the brains of his closest allies. Each of them reflect upon the life of the man they knew. After the Earth-bound services are held, the heroes of Earth, along with the Green Lantern Corps bring J’onn’s remains to his homeworld Mars to be laid to rest.
News:
“Battles Lost and Won” Season 3 Episode 23, Monday June 18 at 8e/7c on the CW
Supergirl and the team take on Selena in an epic battle for Earth. The episode was written by Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller and directed by Jesse Warn.
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Eve’s partying with Lena, she’s over you John. π
“Winn-shields” – Geoff wins!
J’onn and M’yrnn were definitely the heart of the episode!
I don’t think they necessarily proved John that non lethal was a mistake, Winn may have just taken it that way; you can certainly argue the case they weren’t as prepared but as James said it took three heat visions to take out the shield so that’s nothing to scoff at. To me it’s still borderline on if it was good or bad; I do feel Alex proved you need some lethal elements as bad guys aren’t going to play fair but at the same time the shield wasn’t shabby so I get incorporating more non lethal first wave weapons if you will. The death of a team mate because of a choice you made in part could be a good discussion scene for Alex and Winn who don’t have a lot of scenes one on one together; she’s helped him with his fear of being in the field so why not have them talk this out as well?
The blood vile plot was plot for the sake of plot because it makes NO sense for them to do what they did with them! “Do you want a heavier gravity so you can’t fly?” – lol; great points guys regarding terraforming! So many great comments on why this plot doesn’t really work and feels like filler when they could have just taken over using Reign.
Hopefully J’onn has GPS on his ship because otherwise how is Kara going to find it? That’s a conversation I’d like to see because it would so be kid getting in trouble for messing up the car as J’onn is the sisters space dad. π Id rather Erica be the hologram because I fear if Alura stays around that would take time away from Eliza appearances one, although it would be cool to see them meet once before Alura goes, and Danvers sisters time two and we’ve already been too far from them as it is. Also you’re again making the kryptonians feel not as special the more that pop up so I’d personally rather Alura return home during hiatus or S4.
Never forget Lena is in the room so Alura talking to Alex should again tip her off that Kara is Supergirl! Ha. Again here’s hoping they drop that dumb plot in season four because it’s ridiculous Lena doesn’t know they’re the same!
I slightly disagree with Blackhawk fan, I do want season one Kara back but I want that Kara-Supergirl balance in season four because when she’s just one she’s not happy and yes I feel there’s a difference in the Kara and Supergirl sides of her.
I think one of the issues that’s becoming more noticeable is it’s not that Kara’s story is necessarily told they’re just putting a similar story on her which has been told instead of doing hers, by that I mean it feels like they’re doing Clark’s story with a female actor and Kara isn’t Clark; even the reporting push – that’s a clear rip off of Clark because Im sorry but Kara as a reporter is a joke and there are other jobs at CatCo that let her out of the office when she needs without making her feel like female Clark, promotions for instance – Kara lives the magazine so why not sell it to others? Then you have the addition of a Luthor who they had a unique dynamic in season two of being friend but this season they aren’t because plot. Clark has Lois so it’s like the in part push Mon to feel that aspect; Kara has become naive to Kryptonite because of Clark and while I don’t believe she’s happy about it always season one Kara at least wasn’t so narrow minded about its potential. Also Kara totally kills so her saying those lines just adds to things…they need to go back to writing Kara and stop trying to make her a copy of her cousin. It might all be unintentional but at times it does feel more like she’s Clark in a girl’s body than the Kara we thought was a refreshing take on the Superman story in season one.
I am so scared John regarding the Mon-Kara plot because if it continues, personally I need a season alway from him minimally, I fear they won’t do a full clear divorce between Irma and Mon and to me that’s just cheating and it will destroy my care for the Kara character. I know they can write good plots as we’ve seen them throughout the series but we also know they do plots for plot and my fear is they’ll have Irma return to the future and Mon stay and that’ll be all it is to it which is not enough for me – again I need a clear no questions about it they are divorced moment for me not to see any Kara/Mon moment that follows as cheating. They’ve tight roped this plot all season but it just makes me nervous, with the way they’ve pushed Mon into places it doesn’t fill me with confidence he’ll leave so I’m just very stressed about this plot and how it could be something that ends the show arguably and I don’t want it to end. I know Mon/Kara has been an issue for awhile for a lot fans so if they end this with an air of cheating even more than the arguably emotional cheating that has already happened with Mon then it’s just not going to be good as they say. I’m really hoping this plot won’t end tears for those of us want season one Kara back.
I can’t see Alex leaving the DEO but I do think there should be hesitation and resistance with her regarding lethal and non because as this episode showed non lethal is nice and works to a point but when that fails you need a back up. This could lead to some interesting J’onn-Alex debates. Alex is pretty adaptive as the episode showed so I think she’ll be a voter for middle ground on this topic.
No killing Sam! Just to cover all the bases also no killing Alex or Lena or J’onn; I don’t want James to die but they can totally kill the Guardian identity, I’m fine with that one. Winn is also nice to have around so let’s have him live. Physically they can’t kill Kara if they want the show to continue but again please don’t kill her personally either with again some crap Mon related plot. That’s all our S1 and good additions right; side note: M’yrnn was good but he’s dying anyways so I feel he’ll be in the loss list.
I hope just for the lengths you and Karen will do two podcasts John – one discussing episode 23 and one discussing season three as a whole with your thoughts on season 4 at the end. Maybe the season four wishlist podcast can be a summer thing if you want summer cast given they’re going to start filming soon.
Thanks for feeling in again Subbie aka Geoff! Don’t forget to submit your thoughts on each also after you go on substitution break. π
Aaron thanks for your great thoughts! Yes I left FB for the podcast (the last two weeks), but since I was ON the podcast we didn’t play them. But I will be leaving finale/season feedback after the finale airs. We appreciate your thoughts and encouragements Aaron, keep up the good work!