So does Sam have superpowers or not (or are they Hulk like triggered)
Are we sure she is the big bad? If so, something must trigger her because right now she seems unveil. Is Reign a comic book character?
Brian
Has anything happened recently that might be responsible for Ruby “acting out”? How about nearly being killed at the waterfront? I like a story where things that happen to people are expected to have an effect on them, and do have an effect (even if it’s not the effect that expected).
I wondered about that as well -
I was watching with my ten-year-old daughter, who said “Wait, what?”
Mon-el was Kara’s boyfriend when they interacted with Lena. Go watch the last few episodes of last season, and you’ll see that Mon-el was always careful not to be too affectionate when Supergirl and Lena were together.
I like the new villain Psi. It’s always better if Supergirl can’t just punch them into submission. Played into Supergirls fears, plus they kept up the connection with Mon-el. They didn’t address the reason why a powerful psionic (more powerful than J’onn) would need to rob banks. What’s she doing with all that money? Is she building a secret villain base somewhere? I hope we see her again. Maybe when Saturn Girl finally arrives.
The End-of-Krypton sequence was great stuff. We’ve never seen the planet explode from inside the capsule before. Kudos to the effects team.
Question: Reign was born on Krypton and should have the same powers as Kara and Clark. Her kid is half-Kryptonian. Wouldn’t she have some powers as well?
That was my initial thought - why does a psionic need money? But her power is limited to making people afraid, so I figure there are things that she wants that she can’t get with fear (for example, you can’t scare a surgeon into performing surgery on your sick sister - but you can pay him). Agree that it would have been nice if the show had clarified her motivation.
I know that it’s not really the point, but… I wish they’d even pretend to be smart about how Kara uses her powers. “Remember, if she uses her psychic powers, you might not be able to resist, so fly in and knock her unconscious as fast as you can”, and then Kara tries to do that, but Psi reacts to quickly, or something, rather than little bits of pointless monologuing. I mean, come on…
Also, isn’t someone going to notice a big supergirl-shaped-hole in the ceiling of the elevator?
Instead of a surgeon, I’m thinking she’d need a stylist to be calm while she worked on Psi’s hair.
In the comics, Psi was on Suicide Squad for one issue, was killed, and as she was dying she remembered who she was and revealed someone was controlling her…of course she passed away before she could say who. If they ever said who, I didn’t see that issue. Wonder if they’ll explore that. Psi is a good villain. I agree that Supergirl should’ve used her speed to knock Psi out.
Psi made a point of saying “Trying to sneak up on a psychic?” with Supergirl responding “yeah”.
So, apparently Supergirl isn’t fast enough to sneak up on her.
Supergirl didn’t seem to be going at super speed.
Anyway, another point is, where did Psi get her metahuman powers?
I thought the Lena story was a little over the top. Surely she had a lot to do before she bought Katco, now all of a sudden it has her full time attention? And why ask a reporter to call a bank for you? There aren’t any administrative assistants that could handle the job?
I thought Ruby’s mom was going to bend that crowbar. I bet she develops super strength at some point.
Seems to me that Psi already had all the money she could ever need. I don’t get her motivation for committing more crimes.
Hey Kara- how about when you get a text at work, you try calling back to see what’s up? And why do you wear the Supergirl top under your clothes when to complete the change you still have to get into your tights and boots? Where do you keep them?
The same place where her cousin keeps his. 
I haven’t watched Supergirl since it moved to the CW, but happened to catch this one and it wasn’t all that good. It seemed crazy that a CEO would hire someone to run HER company, while she moved to take over a business she admittedly knew nothing about. Pretty ham-handed way to wedge the character into more scenes. And the conflict it sets up with Jimmy was needless.
I also couldn’t understand why Psi was robbing banks every few minutes. She didn’t have time to even count her previous take, much less spend it. No character development at all for the villain.
My thought was that Ruby herself is somehow the superhero, and somehow made the scaffold pinning her lighter so her mom could lift it.
Except for the crappy “relevant “part where dad is a bigot because um… Donald Trump (~15 years ago when he abandoned her?) this was one of the best Supergirls ever. I would love it if her dad did not repent and realize the error of his ways – which will inevitably happen.
Seriously I think the wall idea sucks, can’t stand Donald Trump, but that one bit of rationalization/dialogue just blew chunks as “relevancy” always does in comics. I would’ve loved it if Maggie had called her dad out as a prejudiced dick and said don’t blame anyone else, this is on you.
But outside of that one jarringly clunky moment, the episode was great and I want to see much more of John’s dad. Perhaps he can punch Maggie’s dad in the head
J’onn’s “car” was like something out of Men In Black. Totally cool. And I laughed out loud at Kara’s line, “I think I made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.” Good to see J’onn and all the other Martians. I hope they didn’t blow their entire makeup budget for the season.
I was surprised J’onn’s father came back to Earth with him. Presumably he’ll work at the DEO, unless he gets a job as a bartender at that bar where M’gann and Mon El worked.
And people will be looking for the Staff, I’m sure.
Ugh. The Alex/Maggie relationship drama really bogs down this show. The Martian stuff was okay, but kinda hokey. I know they’re building up to a ‘big bad’ villain for Supergirl this season. I hope next week’s show advances that.
Anyone else surprised when Supergirl straight up murders a bunch of martians?
Kal should have a talk with her about the sanctity of life. Kryptonians that casually kill is a bad, bad thing. Too much power without restraint.
Yeah, I was startled by that.
I miss the original triumphant Supergirl theme. When is Kara going to pull out of her funk so we can hear it again?