# Supergirl Season 3
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 9, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379 "2017-10-09T13:01:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/141 "2018-01-19T22:58:59Z")
> [@Quimby](#):
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> I wonder if a Legion Spin off is being considered…
I was guessing this was what they were doing.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/142 "2018-01-20T06:57:00Z")
Guess that means we should all brace for a _Booster Gold_ TV series, eh?
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/143 "2018-01-20T07:59:23Z")
> [@tracer](#):
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> Guess that means we should all brace for a _Booster Gold_ TV series, eh?
He’d better be introduced in _Legends of Tomorrow_, since his kid plays a prominent role there.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/144 "2018-01-20T15:20:49Z")
Lightening Lad would have been a nice addition to that fight as well because, hey, shoots lightening bolts from his hands. Seriously though, it’s Kara’s show and having the “second team” (even if the second team is the frickin’ Legion) bring down the bad guy (or gal, in this case) isn’t the way it’s done.
And as for any spin-offs, I’d far rather see the Legion (done right) on the big screen rather than the small one.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/145 "2018-01-20T15:34:49Z")
BTW Melissa Benoist absolutely killed it as J’onn as Kara.
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/146 "2018-01-20T15:48:43Z")
I was very happy, by the way, that we got to see “angry-face heatvision Kara”. She does that so well.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/147 "2018-01-20T20:16:04Z")
> [@Quimby](#):
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> BTW Melissa Benoist absolutely killed it as J’onn as Kara.
Yeah, I liked J’onn-as-Kara’s consternation about how he should be sitting on the couch. Where his arms should be, how to place his legs, etc. Funny stuff and well-played by Benoist.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/148 "2018-01-23T06:28:58Z")
On tonight’s thrill-packed exciting episode of _Supergirl_, we learned that Kryptonian superpowers don’t work at all in the presence of a blue sun. (EDIT: Don’t worry, this knowledge won’t spoil the episode for you. It isn’t something they reveal as a surprise, they say so right up front.)
I remember reading Elliot S! Maggin’s _Superman: Last Son of Krypton_ in the early 1980s. It was written back in the Bronze Age, when Superman could bench-press whole galaxies or something, but back then blue suns didn’t **completely** rob a Kryptonian of his powers. Only a red sun could do that. Blue suns only interfered with Superman’s super senses. His flight, strength, invulnerability, speed, etc. all remained intact.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/149 "2018-01-23T08:23:38Z")
In current comic-book continuity, I think a blue sun _enhances_ Kryptonian powers. Here it not only removes powers, but also kills anyone with a Y-chromosome. Brainiac 5 apparently qualifies, for all that he’s a robot.
Question: In birds, the sex-determining mechanism is inverted, so that males have the same sex chromosomes, while females have different sex chromosomes. To prevent confusion, avian sex chromosomes are designated W and Z. Hence roosters would be WW and and hens are WZ. Which brings me to my question. Would Hawkgirl have been killed by the blue sun? And would Hawkman have been perfectly fine?
Sarah Douglas, who played [Ursa](http://www.supermansupersite.com/sarah_douglas.jpg) in _Superman II_, appears as Jindah Kol Rozz after whom Fort Rozz is named. Seems a shame that Reign killed her almost offhand. What was the purpose of that? Just to demonstrate how much of a badass she is? I think that was already established when she beat up Supergirl.
Livewire also was killed. Again, a shame. Leslie was a link back to earlier, more light-hearted seasons, when you could defeat a supervillain by spraying them with water. At least she got a redemptive, heroic death.
That seems to be the emerging theme for this season - redemption. Livewire was redeemed. Psi seems to be on her way. My not-so-bold prediction is that Supergirl will redeem Reign by appealing to the Sam within her. And then the two will team up to defeat the other World Killers.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/150 "2018-01-23T13:49:42Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#):
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> In current comic-book continuity, I think a blue sun _enhances_ Kryptonian powers. Here it not only removes powers, but also kills anyone with a Y-chromosome. Brainiac 5 apparently qualifies, for all that he’s a robot.
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> Question: In birds, the sex-determining mechanism is inverted, so that males have the same sex chromosomes, while females have different sex chromosomes. To prevent confusion, avian sex chromosomes are designated W and Z. Hence roosters would be WW and and hens are WZ. Which brings me to my question. Would Hawkgirl have been killed by the blue sun? And would Hawkman have been perfectly fine?
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> Sarah Douglas, who played [Ursa](http://www.supermansupersite.com/sarah_douglas.jpg) in _Superman II_, appears as Jindah Kol Rozz after whom Fort Rozz is named. Seems a shame that Reign killed her almost offhand. What was the purpose of that? Just to demonstrate how much of a badass she is? I think that was already established when she beat up Supergirl.
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> Livewire also was killed. Again, a shame. Leslie was a link back to earlier, more light-hearted seasons, when you could defeat a supervillain by spraying them with water. At least she got a redemptive, heroic death.
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> That seems to be the emerging theme for this season - redemption. Livewire was redeemed. Psi seems to be on her way. My not-so-bold prediction is that Supergirl will redeem Reign by appealing to the Sam within her. And then the two will team up to defeat the other World Killers.
Apparently Martians also share the same chromosome mappings.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/151 "2018-01-23T14:06:48Z")
Can someone give me a quick rundown on how the hell Reign got her powers in the first place? What is she, exactly? And I take it these World Killers are of similar ilk?
Is Kara guilty at all for throwing a prison full of men into a sun that kills men?
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/152 "2018-01-23T14:35:48Z")
All throughout the episode, it kept bugging me that Kara was apparently able to throw Fort Rozz so hard it was able to, just a year or so later, end up in orbit around another _star_. I also kept wondering why Kara didn’t wear any armor, since she didn’t have her powers.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/153 "2018-01-23T14:39:24Z")
Another nit - shouldn’t Reign/Sam - who is now sporting Kryptonite in her blood stream - have _some_ impact on Kara when she’s dropping off the kid?
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/154 "2018-01-23T20:22:38Z")
^Do we know that the Kryptonite is still in her bloodstream? Maybe her blood somehow neutralized the Kryptonite. Or maybe she’s just excreted it by now.
Now that Sam realizes she has ‘missing time’, how long before she and/or the good guys figure out that she’s Reign?
Fun episode, but I’m not sure I buy Livewire’s sacrifice, nor Psi’s willingess to a) help in the first place, and b) willingly go back into containment.
Alex babysitting Sam’s daughter was fun. I hated the whole Alex/Maggie relationship drama in the past, but this was a good way to affirm that Alex made the right decision to end things over the issue of Maggie not wanting children.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/155 "2018-01-24T11:42:20Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> Can someone give me a quick rundown on how the hell Reign got her powers in the first place? What is she, exactly? And I take it these World Killers are of similar ilk?
Since she’s from Krypton, it was presumed that she has the same powers as Kara and Clark as well as their vulnerabilities. That’s now been shown not to be the case, as she’s neither affected by kryptonite nor by the blue sun. What she exactly is as well as where she got her powers has yet to be revealed. Keep watching.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/156 "2018-01-24T13:38:44Z")
> [@simster](#):
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> Apparently Martians also share the same chromosome mappings.
I wondered about that, too, whether J’onn’s DNA had an analog to the XX chromosome.
I forsee Sam/Reign coming to a sad end and Alex legally adopting Ruby.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/157 "2018-01-24T14:33:40Z")
I suspect Reign’s powers are magical. At least in the comics, Superman was vulnerable to magic–presumably, Supergirl would be too.
In the comics, Psi was being controlled by some never-identified person. (At least, I never read one in which they said who it was.) Maybe that’s why she cooperated this time–she’s playing the long game, to get the DEO’s (and Supergirl’s) trust.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/158 "2018-01-24T17:00:25Z")
This episode had the interesting development where they are setting up Reign as kind of a Hulk type character where one half of the dual character actively hates and want to be rid of the other half.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/159 "2018-01-25T02:54:07Z")
> [@Quimby](#):
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> This episode had the interesting development where they are setting up Reign as kind of a Hulk type character where one half of the dual character actively hates and want to be rid of the other half.
I think Eclipso might be a more apt, if also more obscure, comparison.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supergirl-season-3/798379/160 "2018-01-30T08:16:03Z")
In this episode, for once, Jimmy Olsen wasn’t completely useless, chasing down that bad guy that tried to poison Lena. The Guardian suit was actually relevant as well. Although I noticed that Lena didn’t hesitate to kick him out of his own office for an all-girl powwow.
Alex referred to her time as a doctor in Seattle. Can we say that _Grey’s Anatomy_ is actually a prequel to _Supergirl_?
Morgan Edge and Lilian Luthor both defeated in the same episode. I get the feeling that the writers are tying up loose ends in preparation for the big World Killer denouement. Maybe Alex can salvage that Luthor suit so she can actually participate in the climactic battle.
Finally, MISS TESSMACHER!
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