For the show to switch from such a strong, visceral storyline last year to such a weightless sci-fi plot this year, continues to disappoint. I like the characters and the world enough to keep watching, but right now it feels like Lex and Lena are what are keeping me onboard more than anyone else right now, and that’s not great. Too many of the ongoing plots are struggling to keep my interest. I’m continuing to struggle with this season. The Hand could, given some creativity from the writers and VFX team, be the source of some really cool fight sequences. The actors have great chemistry and I like the characters. I want to see these two paired up and active in the plot like this more often. After a couple close calls, J’onn gives Alex a Martian weapon called the Hand of the Soldier, which can transform into any weapon she can imagine. Alex, newly unemployed, is struggling with the idea of walking around without a government-sanctioned firearm. While Kara is protecting Andrea, J’onn and Alex investigate the terrorist.
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Are they going to hand out cybereyes to everyone on Earth? Developing software like that dragon-battle simulator ain’t cheap. I don’t expect the show to deal with this, but this plot is weirdly classist and naive. The whole plot hinges on everyone having access to these cybereyes made by Obsidian, which feels a bit like creating a device that only hypnotizes people with Apple Watches. The mechanics of Lena’s idea are a little tough for me to swallow, I should mention. Lena ends up experimenting on human prisoners, pushing her further down the path of being the good guy in her own story and no one else’s. She doesn’t seem to understand how easily Lex is manipulating her, which seems like a lesson she should’ve learned by now. After her encounter with Kara in the previous episode, Lena is starting to question herself. Lena continues to work on her Non Nocere project with Lex. She’s easily talked down and doesn’t bring much of her own to the story she’s more metaphor than person. Overall, though, the villain is disappointing. There are cool moments, like when Dreamer’s neon blue powers clash with the villain’s neon purple gauntlets.
She wants to stop Obsidian from isolating people. This week’s villain is a woman whose husband committed suicide after getting addicted to an early version of Obsidian’s VR tech. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, now back to your regularly-scheduled review. Not to mention that she’s one of the strongest people in the world, which introduces weird power dynamics into any relationship they write for her. Their flaws all exist in relation to Kara, not on their own terms, and they all revolve around Kara fixing or handwaving major things. Now we have William, that guy that seems like a jerk but if only you’d give him a chance you’d see he’s really not so bad.
Then Mon-El showed up as the dopey frat bro that just needed to be fixed. Clark asked James Olsen to watch over Kara, while Winn started from a nice-guy-what-about-me place. Worse, the show keeps giving Kara weird love interests. Part of the problem, I think, is that they introduce a character that is so obviously meant to be boyfriend material that he might as well show up in a supersuit that says BoyFriend Man across the chest (premiering on the CW in 2021). William shows up to cover the event, which gives Kara a chance to see him without Kara around. She cancels a public event to keep Andrea safe. Kara agrees and even ends up pulling rank on Andrea. Lex holds Kara’s identity hostage, which makes me wonder just how far the show can push Kara before she pulls a Clark Kent and reveals her identity to the world. Lex sees this as a way to get on Leviathan’s good (and vulnerable) side. The main storyline has Lex Luthor blackmailing Kara into protecting Obsidian CEO Andrea Rojas after an assassination attempt by this week’s disappointing villain. People are testing out the contacts at public kiosks, playing ultra-realistic Skyrim-like games, which I’ll talk about later in this piece. I want Supergirl‘s version of the future. Meanwhile, we’re out here in the real world strapping diver goggles to our heads and flailing around in our living rooms to pretend we have lightsabers for five or ten minutes at a time. Again, that’s not how science works, you guys. Obsidian is about to launch its magical VR technology, which allows you to put contacts into your eyes that can transport you to a virtual world with touch, smell, taste and, if previous episodes are to be believed, nutrition. The Luthors and Leviathan have different aims, though, and now the competing needs are starting to take shape. Obsidian just wants our hearts and minds it’s a sort of metaphor for the combination of social media and virtual reality. Lex, Leviathan, and Obsidian all have world domination of different kinds in their sights. This year on Supergirl, everybody wants to rule the world.
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