Supergirl: Star-Crossed
March 21, 2017 4:50 AM - Season 2, Episode 16 - Subscribe
Supergirl goes on high alert when a new villain comes to National City. In other events, Winn's new girlfriend gets him in trouble with the law and the Music Meister attacks*.
*more 'appears' than attacks, to be continued on The Flash musical crossover*
Recap roundup:
*AV Club - Teri Hatcher and Kevin Sorbo lend a ’90s flair to Supergirl
*Den of Geek review - Supergirl overcomes some soapy plotting with superior chemistry.
*CBR recap - Big Little Lies
*IGN review -Mon-El reveals some uncomfortable truths.
*more 'appears' than attacks, to be continued on The Flash musical crossover*
Recap roundup:
*AV Club - Teri Hatcher and Kevin Sorbo lend a ’90s flair to Supergirl
*Den of Geek review - Supergirl overcomes some soapy plotting with superior chemistry.
*CBR recap - Big Little Lies
*IGN review -Mon-El reveals some uncomfortable truths.
Straggler recap (with the best screengrab captions): Autostraddle - I Don’t Need a Prince to Save Me
It didn't make much sense that everyone was suddenly now cool with James being a vigilante, but I'm just going to look the other way
It seems to be part & parcel with the CW-fication of Supergirl that it requires so much more 'try not to think about xyz' effort. Like, whatever happened to the non-DEO government agencies? There's a giant spaceship hovering over National City, shouldn't the military be wanting to intervene? Or, the thing that probably bugged me the most about the Winn/Lyra plot - what about the couple of schmoes she framed in previous heists? Everybody's just ducky with them staying wrongfully imprisoned so that Lyra and Winn don't have to break up? It's like the writers just plain forgot by the end of the episode that they'd brought them up in the first place, or were hoping the audience had forgotten. And it was unnecessary sloppiness; Maggie could have said that they'd worked out a deal where she could have immunity for the previous crimes with a full & schmoe-exonerating confession in exchange for her help in taking down the smuggling ring or for becoming a CI for the DEO or something. Anything. Ugh. I've enjoyed Winn/Lyra, but that's going to annoy me for ages. (Also, I was neutral to meh on the Lyra make-up before, but, I hope they never put her in a close-up under the lighting of a DEO cell again, because, yikes, did that look ghastly.)
I wish I could be glad for the Mon-El/Kara break-up, but, I feel more like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. How long will the writers have him moping around tragi-heroically on Earth before they do something further with his arc? Are they so enamored with him that we're stuck with him permanently, or will they kill him/Phantom Zone him off like they would if Kara were Oliver Queen?
posted by oh yeah! at 3:11 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
It didn't make much sense that everyone was suddenly now cool with James being a vigilante, but I'm just going to look the other way
It seems to be part & parcel with the CW-fication of Supergirl that it requires so much more 'try not to think about xyz' effort. Like, whatever happened to the non-DEO government agencies? There's a giant spaceship hovering over National City, shouldn't the military be wanting to intervene? Or, the thing that probably bugged me the most about the Winn/Lyra plot - what about the couple of schmoes she framed in previous heists? Everybody's just ducky with them staying wrongfully imprisoned so that Lyra and Winn don't have to break up? It's like the writers just plain forgot by the end of the episode that they'd brought them up in the first place, or were hoping the audience had forgotten. And it was unnecessary sloppiness; Maggie could have said that they'd worked out a deal where she could have immunity for the previous crimes with a full & schmoe-exonerating confession in exchange for her help in taking down the smuggling ring or for becoming a CI for the DEO or something. Anything. Ugh. I've enjoyed Winn/Lyra, but that's going to annoy me for ages. (Also, I was neutral to meh on the Lyra make-up before, but, I hope they never put her in a close-up under the lighting of a DEO cell again, because, yikes, did that look ghastly.)
I wish I could be glad for the Mon-El/Kara break-up, but, I feel more like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. How long will the writers have him moping around tragi-heroically on Earth before they do something further with his arc? Are they so enamored with him that we're stuck with him permanently, or will they kill him/Phantom Zone him off like they would if Kara were Oliver Queen?
posted by oh yeah! at 3:11 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
It seems to be part & parcel with the CW-fication of Supergirl that it requires so much more 'try not to think about xyz' effort.
Yeah.
*sigh*
I really liked Supergirl S1. I really liked The Flash S1. I even - to my complete surprise - really like LoT S2. It's sad to think about them running all these shows to the ground for cheap melodrama and lazy storytelling. (I might be willing to overlook one or the other on a fast paced show, but the combination is nothing I care to watch.)
posted by mordax at 5:40 PM on March 21, 2017
Yeah.
*sigh*
I really liked Supergirl S1. I really liked The Flash S1. I even - to my complete surprise - really like LoT S2. It's sad to think about them running all these shows to the ground for cheap melodrama and lazy storytelling. (I might be willing to overlook one or the other on a fast paced show, but the combination is nothing I care to watch.)
posted by mordax at 5:40 PM on March 21, 2017
but, I feel more like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Sigh. Flash musical thread post is up now.
posted by oh yeah! at 6:41 PM on March 21, 2017
Sigh. Flash musical thread post is up now.
posted by oh yeah! at 6:41 PM on March 21, 2017
It looks like James claimed Roy's (from Arrow) "needless parkour crown." Which really makes a lot of sense because heavy, bullet-resistant body armour is the perfect outfit for urban gymnastics.
posted by sardonyx at 6:57 PM on March 21, 2017
posted by sardonyx at 6:57 PM on March 21, 2017
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* On the good side, Kara dumps Mon-El.
This was a long time coming. Feels even longer than it was. I appreciate that neither side is unbelievable here. Mon-El would totally lie about who he is. He has also grown enough as a person that he would realize and be ashamed of his earlier behavior, and want to make up for it. He has also not grown *enough* to appreciate that Kara wouldn't be able to get past that easily, if at all.
It also tracks that Kara would be hurt. Her inflexibility is also a good character insight: one of Superman's defining traits is that he is uncompromisingly good. Making stubbornness a Kryptonian hat is actually a pretty logical Planet of the Hats moment, here. (It also tracks with 'Krypton was too stubborn to save itself,' for instance.)
I also laughed at the flashback: That was pretty funny and horrible.
* The Lyra stuff was annoying.
I don't need dumb drama in every relationship. I'm perfectly content for it to occur in some, be rare in others and a constant in a few. That tracks with real life, in my experience: some people are content and stable, some people have brief problems, other people are total horror shows together. Here? All problems, all the time. It's frustrating in its predictability.
* Guardian is back, I guess?
It didn't make much sense that everyone was suddenly now cool with James being a vigilante, but I'm just going to look the other way - I appreciated the drama-free interaction.
Overall, I feel intense neutrality about this episode. It happened, I'll watch another, but I don't really have a strong opinion about this one other than it was certainly a show that I saw.
posted by mordax at 1:44 PM on March 21, 2017