Supergirl: Red Dawn

May 16, 2019 12:22 PM - Season 4, Episode 21

Kara comes face to face with Red Daughter. Brainy, Dreamer, and J'onn searches for missing aliens. Lena confronts Ben Lockwood with the truth.

Supergirl meets her Soviet sister in a jam-packed penultimate episode

posted by numaner (8 comments total)

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but am a little short on time this second, so the big one:

Lex killing Red Daughter offscreen has gotta be a fakeout.
posted by mordax at 12:23 PM on May 16, 2019

Whoops, I shouldn't have called the president treasonous, but he's definitely a pawn in Lex's schemes. I think he's still just the worst.

I'm glad Haley is being portrayed as on the right side of things when it comes down to real dangers.

How did Red Daughter gets the purple lightning stuff? I missed that part. Which probably also explains the purple lightning Lena and Kara flew through on the way to Kaznia.

Lillian and Lena had a great scene together. I enjoyed the baby truthseeker.
posted by numaner at 12:26 PM on May 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

I have a whole new appreciation for the casting of Jesse Rath after watching him absolutely nail it as EvilBrainy. After that performance I'd be down for Brainiac as a season villain, if they wanted to go that route. Sam Witwer as Brainy-pretending-to-be-Lockwood was pretty fantastic too.

I agree that Red Daughter getting ganked offscreen has to be a fakeout; otherwise that is a serious anticlimax.

How did Red Daughter gets the purple lightning stuff? I missed that part.

Upgrade due to being created by Harun-El apparently.
posted by mstokes650 at 2:26 PM on May 16, 2019 [6 favorites]

Am I the only one who shakes my first in the air futilely at the name "Red Daughter"? Obviously it's a call to "Red Son", but "Red Son" made sense because he was raised by Soviets. So... communist and such. But, one, Red Daughter was made in Totally Not Russia, and Totally Not Russia isn't even communist.
posted by Justinian at 4:31 PM on May 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

It pains me to see Sheridan now be an evil president. Pains me, y'all.

Jesse Rath is a surprising priceless treasure. Go figure.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:25 AM on May 17, 2019 [2 favorites]

I think Brainy will probably be next season's big bad.
posted by numaner at 11:02 AM on May 17, 2019

Did anyone understand how day turned into night when Red Daughter punched/zapped Supergirl?
posted by plastic_animals at 10:50 AM on May 20, 2019

yeah that was confusing to me too. I think they tried to show that the fight went into the night but it was a badly edited scene. It made sense that Alex didn't get there until nightfall, since from what I can understand it's a long way from National City to Midvale. But the sudden jump to night during the night was very confusing.
posted by numaner at 10:54 AM on May 20, 2019