I figure it’s more that, if Cat started using Kara’s correct name, it would be tantamount to Cat admitting that she’d been wrong about something.
I had pretty much exactly the same thought. Um, this dude is taking care of your escaped mega-villians problem, why not let him keep it up? Weren’t the first five guys he offered mass murderers? Given how the DEO seemed to have no problem with indefinite detention for human civilians, I’m not sure why they’d be unhappy about executing alien felons.
I also thought the happy professor was going to turn out to be much worse than he was, but I wonder if his 18 year sentence was to show that Kara’s mom, for all Kara loves her, was really a hanging judge back on Krypton, handing out the max sentence for even minor crimes. Could be been an interesting “Fort Rozz may be maximum security, but for the police state that was Krypton it’s just another place to dump political dissidents” storyline.
Yeah I think the Kira/Kara thing is like how the mother in law in Bewitched purposely got the the husband’s name wrong all the time: it’s a power thing.
If the head of Catco Worldwide Media needs that sort of petty bullshit to feel a sense of power over the girl who gets her coffee she’s more insecure than Ally McBeal.
Sadly, I think this is fairly common in real life with power-tripping bosses, CEO level or not.
+1
Kara: I miss Astra.
Alex: I didn’t!
(My husband came up with this.)
It occurred to me that, given that Supergirl has super-hearing, people should really cool it with those “We need to tell Supergirl that I, Alex Danvers, her adopted sister, really killed her Aunt Astra!” “No, Supergirl must never know that it was actually you, Alex Danvers, her adopted sister, who killed her Aunt Astra! We must let her go on thinking it was me, her boss ‘Hank Henshaw’ the shapeshifting Martian dude, who killed her Aunt Astra, even though I did not actually do that” conversations.
I think Supergirl is generally polite enough not to eavesdrop, most of the time, but still, you’d think people who work with a Kryptonian would start talking like mobsters making telephone calls, just by sheer reflex. “We need to tell You-Know-How about the thing. You know, that the person everyone thinks took care of that isn’t really the person who actually took care of it.” “No, that would be a bad idea. That thing needed to be done, but uh, a certain person doesn’t need to know who did it.”
Well, it looks like keeping a secret from Kara lasted for all of two episodes! This has to be a new record in superhero TV shows.
Also, Lucy and Jimmy finally give in to their lack of on-screen chemistry. Unfortunately it gets replaced with the lack of on-screen chemistry between Winn and Bitchface.
At least Mystique Jr. was sorta interesting, especially her interactions with Non.
Minor confusion from someone who has not regularly read comics for many a decade. How can this blue gal be “Braniac 8” when Brainiac was a contemporary of Supes and Brainiac 5 is in the 30th century? And why is she blue instead of green like a good Brainiac should be?
I missed the show last night. However, let me cite a previous post:
Supes in the 30th century is a time-traveller, so I have no problem with a later version showing up earlier in the timeline. They even showed a League ring in the Fortress of Solitude, so there is time-travel in the show.
That said, maybe I heard wrong, I thought she was just another of Brainiac’s species that had gone rogue, not a next iteration of Brainiac.
You really missed it if you were looking for it last night (Given that the show comes on Monday :D)
But your point stands.
I had to look up everything about her, since I stopped reading the continuity regularly after the last Crisis.
Apparently the Legion flight ring that Supergirl saw in the Fortress of Solitude is the exact same one (i.e., they used the same footage) that the Flash saw when he was traveling between Earths.
Is Indigo supposed to be Supergirl’s own personal Brainiac? Or is that something they changed for the show, as they did with Bizarro.
“Toyman Junior, you’re our computer expert. Fix this.” And he does.
Cat Grant knows how to delegate.
Some nice Supergirl on Supergirl action (I never watched Smallville, just a Laura Vandervoort fan) but each episode is losing me a little bit more. It’s the epitome of the “comic books are for little kids” sterotype, with every single aspect rendered into the most simplistic possible black and white, childish worldview.
This week’s was a really great episode. She really nailed the performance of both “evil” Supergirl and especially her despair when waking up from it. It also seems like it will have real consequences. I also loved the Superman 3 reference with the peanuts 
Evil Kara was channeling too much of Cat’s snarkiness, but without the charm. We didn’t really see much of the angry Kara that made the incredible heat-vision rage-face. I blame the writer more than the actress, though. Also, the DEO is getting to have the same problem afflicting S.T.A.R. Labs and the Arrowcave - too many people wandering into the supposedly secret lair.
Yeah, although I thought having Cat record a message in her office to be played on a loop didn’t quite work. If Catco includes a news network, have one of the anchors report what’s going on as news. It just didn’t seem to fit any sort of proper editorial voice.
Kara was awfully broken up about saying mean things to people, but didn’t seem to have much sympathy for the person she actually got fired. And after he was caught in the closet with Siobahn what was Winn apologizing for? If anything, doesn’t Kara owe him an apology for spying on him?