Presumably she also had Krypto-Pox right around that time, as well, which left her with the scar on her eyebrow.
Their space ships don’t have the same vulnerability to lead that their bodies do.
Yes to the Krypto-Pox; she definitely didn’t have chicken pox, because Kara said in a flashback that there were no birds on Krypton.
Well, it wasn’t really mind control – more like a telekinetic alien equivalent of an epileptic seizure.
But really, the reason Jimmy Olson had to fix things this way was because it allows the writers to do what they do best: maximize the Diabetes Factor of the show.
Supergirl usually solves the problems by getting people to find the good in themselves, or face their darkest fears, or learn to love again or some such baloney. In nearly every episode. You’ll need an insulin injection before the final commercial break. That’s why it was crucial for Jimmy Olson to break the telekinetic epileptic fit by getting through to the boy and make him overcome his great weakness an be special, dog gone it!
Oh, Cat Grant. How we’ve missed you. Supergirl’s missed you, too. She just needed a short talk with Cat and immediately knew what to do. Cat remains as sharp as ever, recognizing James as Guardian even with the full face helmet. You need to cover your eyes, Jimmy. That way, Cat at least has an excuse to not recognize you.
I am confused by the Daxomite laws of succession. Rhea seems to be in complete control yet merely claims to be Regent of the Daxom Empire. That implies that she’s holding power on behalf of someone else. That someone else would presumably be Mon-el, as the only offspring of the King, yet when he tried to order the guards he was given the cold shoulder. Maybe he hasn’t come of age yet?
On Rhea’s ship, the guards are personally loyal to her. I suspect her story to the rest of the Daxomites is that she’s ruling on Mon-El’s behalf while he recovers from the trauma of being stranded on Earth away from his people. When he dies unexpectedly after his wedding, well, poor Rhea will just have to shoulder the burden of ruling New Daxom on behalf of the child, for as long as necessary.
That actually makes a whole lot of sense, more sense than much of the rest of the episode. Like how the Daxomite mooks seem to have very little super-strength. Or why Rhea would send said mooks to get Cat, when she could just fire her giant space laser at the CatCo building.
As Monty Burns said “I like the personal touch you can only get from Hired Goons.”
Or, presumably, from releasing the hounds.
I told my husband (who is Andy L) that Rhea was setting up Lena as Mon El’s bride.
Poor Lena. Rhea betrays her and so does Lillian. Wonder how she’s going to react when she finds out Kara is Supergirl…unless she already knows, and is cool with it. (Personally, I thought she should have already figured out before Lillian told her that Lionel was her biological father.)
I was surprised the President’s alien identity was revealed so quickly. And while Supergirl et al may be cool with it, I strongly suspect that it will be revealed to the general public, or at least a blackmailer will threaten to do that. She wasn’t born on Earth, let alone the U.S., after all, so she’s Constitutionally ineligible.
That was a good episode. It isn’t easy to show a full scale invasion on a TV budget and they did a good job with the resources they had. Also, yeah, nice to see Cat Grant back. I thought they would finally have her admit she knew about Kara and Supergirl but no they kept the illusion.
I was really kind of hoping someone would at least *mention *that…
I too missed Cat Grant and it’s nice to see her back. It was also nice to see the women of Wisteria Lane go at it trying to out-evil each other.
Rhea’s plan didn’t make sense. If you’re not going to take out the whole world (just a part of it) find an island set up there. It’s more defensible. (North Island New Zealand is a perfect spot for an mini-alien invasion, for example) Taking over just one city in the middle of a country that’s surrounded on all sides by land is silly - even if that’s where your son is. Pick him up, fly him to your island. You have a space ship.
And I know they want to make the stories personal - but there was way too much dithering about while the city was in danger.
Even with all that, I liked it.
Maybe the Earth-38 US Constitution doesn’t have the ‘natural born citizen’ clause? Compared to Earth Prime, perhaps Alexander Hamilton started rapping earlier in his career (i haven’t actually seen the musical yet), and didn’t attend the Constitutional convention?
I’m guessing Rhea will create a Monel-Lena progeny and send it far away and Monel will have to go on a mission to find his son.
I love seeing Cat again. I had assumed it was just a visit, but her comments about fixing her former office and wanting to reconnect with people makes me wonder if she intends on coming back. I had thought the actress didn’t want to move to Vancouver though.
It was obvious they were trying to save Jimmy’s character. But I don’t know. They made much better use of him last season. I don’t know if it’s just that him no longer being the love interest has ruined him somehow, or that they are spending more time at the DEO than Catco. The only thing going for him right now is his bromance with Winn.
I love the President, but I’m not sure making her an alien was a great idea. Also, flying airforce one at a space fleet was dumb.
The “I’ll meet you out front” moment was sweet, both for the complete trust involved and also the Trinity in Matrix 2 maneuver.
They need a better explanation for why all the aliens in the galaxy have either human impersonating powers or minor differences that can be hidden by a hat.
Does she know? She had figured it out last season, but then John showed up in disguise and Cat went back to believing they were two different people.
Maybe the president emigrated to Earth in 1788 and is therfore eligiable?
(That bothered me too)
Brian
Or maybe Mon El will figure out that somebody needs to lead his people responsibly (ending slavery leaps to mind) and if not him, whom?
IIRC, Cat has seen J’onn shape shift, and is bright enough to figure out she was tricked.
If she could recognize James just from his eyes, something tells me she could do the same with Kara, even through the glasses. Maybe she’s even noticed the Krypton-pox scar. 
Mon-El has already expressed that sentiment, but of course, Rhea wants no part of such a thing. She wants Mon-El to be her puppet, and in the absence of such a thing, she’ll settle for Mon-El providing her with a grandson that she can put on the throne and mold into her image.
Of course, once she’s been defeated, and Mon-El learns that she killed his father, he’ll feel compelled to return to his people and rule them humanely.
They did a bit in the JUSTICE LEAGUE comic once where Lex Luthor – who, despite being ludicrously smart in general pretty much has an irrational hang-up centered on Superman in particular – apparently deduces Batman’s secret identity in no time flat, because, hey, if it’s dispassionate analysis, braininess can just solve for X.
And so the season ends as it began, with Mon-el in an escape capsule. I presume that wormhole or portal he went through will take him 1000 years into the future, where he’ll join the Legion of Superheroes.
I’m glad Kara got to have a talk with Cat, mirroring Supergirl’s conversation with Cat in the last episode. Finally, confirmation that Cat knows that Kara is Supergirl! As the smartest character on the show, Cat must realize that Kara has a need to keep up the pretense that she (Cat) doesn’t know about Supergirl and so she goes along with it.