I was guessing this was what they were doing.
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.
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.
BTW Melissa Benoist absolutely killed it as J’onn as Kara.
I was very happy, by the way, that we got to see “angry-face heatvision Kara”. She does that so well.
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.
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.
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 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.
Apparently Martians also share the same chromosome mappings.
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?
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.
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?
^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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!