Which character was she? I saw her in the credits and then I couldn’t figure out who she was at all.
Figured it out: the FBI agent.
This was a pretty meh episode. The toy maker was WAY too powerful too quickly, and all the plot developments were fairly boring.
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Brian
The Toyman was wrong about Supergirl needing to breathe right? I thought the quicksand thing was the dumbest trap ever. She can fly, she doesn’t need to struggle, just lift herself up. Or rip a hole in the box
No, I don’t think so. In recent years, Superman has been depicted as being unable to breathe in deep space. I imagine the same must go for his cousin, too. They may be able to hold their breath for extended periods of time, but eventually carbon dioxide is going to build up in their systems and they’re going to need to take a breath.
Are the Lanes supposed to be rich?
Because Balanciaga doesn’t fit into a JAG officer’s salary.
Yeah, kinda nice to see that getting addressed, although this show seems like it’s burning up its reserves pretty quickly; plot points that seemed like they’d play out over the run of the series have already been resolved. And Kara seemed pretty devastated by things with Winn, and then was laughing away after one bite of pizza sitting on the couch with Alex.
I thought it was interesting earlier in the episode that Kara didn’t feel right to eavesdrop on Cat and Lucy chatting in Cat’s office, but had no problem listening to Winn with the feds. If I were him I’d have been a bit miffed by that.
Interesting, since Supergirl saved the day by sucking in the gas released in the arcade. Seems like her lungs can do whatever the plot demands.
She still had to exhale. When carbon dioxide builds up in your body, it triggers an involuntary impulse to exhale. Which is no problem if there’s enough oxygen for your next breath. When there isn’t, that’s when you wake up dead.
She inhaled the gas, flew up in the air, and blew it out again. She didn’t seem to metabolize it at all, as if her lungs stored gas but didn’t process it in any way. I suppose you could say that she’s immune to its effects, but the gas would have also displaced some of the oxygen she needed. Plus, even if she does need to breathe, she can clearly inhale enough air to last her for some time.
Kryptonian physiology differs from Earthling, so I can accept her inhalation of a lot of carbon dioxide. And since her body is super-strong, she can inhale quite a bit of it and it would merely be pressurized in her lungs. That wasn’t a big plot hole for me. I think the obvious resolution to Lord’s knowledge of Supergirl’s identity is to have the Martian wipe his memory clean. I hate to see the show fall into the villain of the week trap where one baddie per week is eliminated, I find it more interesting to have an ongoing crisis as the aunt presents.
When J’onn wiped the other bad guy’s memories, he wiped all of them, not just his encounter with the intruder. The same thing might happen if he wipes out Lord’s memory. J’onn felt guilty enough about the first guy.
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Brian
Yeah - none of the JAGs I know wear $400 pants. Not even $300 pants.
Maybe she bought the pants at a consignment store. Or maybe she was lying. Cat did say, “Yoga pants.”
I think this falls in the same area as characters living in apartments they could not afford. Plenty folks wear way too expensive clothes for thier income. Maybe it was a birthday splurge. I don’t see 10% of you monthly income totally out of the question if it was done once per year or something.
Brian
I really liked the episode, which is odd since it seemed like everyone was carrying the idiot ball.
Winn gets a message from his father but doesn’t tell the FBI until Kara talks him into it.
The FBI decides the right thing to do with a suspect that’s just standing there is fill him with bulletholes - how violent is that?
Kara gets stuck in quicksand… uh, she can fly, she could rip that box apart, even if she did blow the sand up it’s not like it would hurt her. The box in danger of being shredded was pretty obviously fake. Kara should have just swooped in, grabbed the Toyman, and swooped out again.
I was surprised the show didn’t have Kara fall for Winn. Not a plot hole, but surprising.
The Martian Manhunter, well know for his ability to read minds (except Kryptonians) doesn’t read the mind of the muscle in the lab to find out the password he was looking for. Also has a damn stupid plan - “Uh, yea, the super secret project in our hidden base? How about we take her to a hospital instead?”
Lord had to know something was up when Alex asked him on a date. But I’ll give a pass since he used the opportunity to bug her purse. Alex does NOT get pass for letting herself get bugged.
And yet… I really liked the episode overall. Great character development for Winn.
But they can totally fuck with Lord at this point -
Once Alex/Kara spot the bug - they play it up that since Kara/Supergirl looked so much alike, they decided for him to see that.
You have J’onn show up as Supergirl while Kara is in the same room - you switch it around a few times - before you know it - Lord is in the Asylum.
I didn’t recognize her either, until the point in her conversation when she insisting on Winn’s assistance, at which point she started sounding like Anya.
She was listening so that she could help him if necessary (and Winn knew she could be listening); listening to Cat and Lucy wouldn’t do them any good, and neither of them knew she could be listening.
That’s a good plan. Like the one they worked on Cat. It’s enough to throw him off balance, at least.
I thought this week’s episode was really quite poor. Way too much being-hit-by-the-idiot-stick on the DEO side, and the Martian holocaust was just giggle-inducingly awful.
I liked the stuff with Cat and her son (played by the real-life husband of Melissa Benoist) but there was way too much eye rolling overall.
This week was a bit ham-handed.
The whole “I am the last of my people and just want to die” was way overplayed. Like, you apparently got over it for a decade or two.
I can understand why, but I’m a little disappointed they didn’t let J’onn execute the White Martian. I don’t think anyone would have blamed him.
REAL stupid to let the mind-reading, shape-shifting psychopath into their base. But it makes me wonder where the rest of the White Martians are.