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Thanks for the new thread!

runawaaay

Thanks for the new thread

a fine mess

Looking forward to a new episode.

Scully_fan

I'm stupidly excited. If this episode looks as x-files-y as the trailer suggests then I'm going to be a happy camper.

la villanelle

So excited for this one

a fine mess

I was just thinking X-Files as well. Ha!

Scully_fan

What we've seen so far really reminds of an episode from S1 of the X-files called Ice. I can't help but wonder if it's meant to be a small homage.

a fine mess

2 more days!

runawaaay

SuperMonday

danvers

really excited for this one. give me all the danvers sisters and sanvers scenes!

Elektra

- I’m really liking the alien bar. It’s fun to see all the different aliens, and seeing Kara, Alex, and J’onn hanging out outside the DEO.
Interesting that M’gann knows Kara isn’t human though. The secret identity thing seems kind of pointless…

- Drunk Kara is adorable. That was some powerful alien drink.

- Parasite is kinda gross.

- Kara and Mon-El’s training broke a support beam in the DEO. They might want to fix that.

- Alex’s coming out scene to Kara was really touching.
Actually, a lot of Kara and Alex’s scenes were really touching this episode. Their relationship is the heart of the show.

- I loved Winn telling James to STFU about his suit and not cop an attitude with him. That was a great scene. I’m enjoying the relationship between these two this season.

- Alex is so worried about J’onn.
It will be interesting when he finds out he has white martian blood in him.

- The Supergirl/ Guardian scene kind of reminded me of Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask… (although Guardian is more useful than Tuxedo Mask).

danvers

oh, alex

a fine mess

Glad to hear there are good Kara/Alex scenes!

DigificWriter

My review:
Tonight once again continued Supergirl's track record as presenting stellar episode after stellar episode (27 in all so far), which makes me a very happy panda.

I'm going to post this review in bullet points:
* Melissa playing drunk!Kara was hilarious, and once again affirms that she was the perfect choice for this role. I also love that Kara ended up falling asleep at the DEO just as trouble decided to rear its head

* It was a nice touch for them to name the research facility where Rudy Jones and his fellow scientists were working after Lena Luthor's comics alias Thorul, because it shows that there's a Thorul family as well as a Luthor family in this universe and that they're separate

* I had thought that they were going to drag out Alex's misunderstanding about Kara's reaction to her confession about being gay longer than they did, but was pleasantly surprised that they didn't, especially since you really needed the two characters on the same page in order for the episode's ending to work

* In hindsight, maybe I should've been a bit more lenient on the writers for the way they handled the conversation between Alex and Maggie last episode since they paid it off in this episode in a way that I wasn't expecting and that was admittedly heartbreaking, but also very true-to-life and will, ultimately, make Alex's journey of self-discovery more poignant and resonant in the long run

* I liked that Kara's ingrained prejudices manifested themselves again in the form of her reaction to finding out that Mon-El's "job" was using his powers as a 'heavy' because it showed yet again that she's not a perfect character and does have her flaws, one of which is being very judgmental of people and expecting them to live up to the same standards that she does

* Alex basically "guilt-tripping" Mon-El into 'stepping up' and following Kara's example was a really well-written and well-acted scene, and I like that it dovetailed into the situation with Alex needing to find M'gann in order to save J'onn/Hank, which was also a really well-written subplot that almost makes up for the misgivings I had about the writers sticking to the comics with regards to M'gann being a White Martian

* I'm not one of those people who immediately prejudged the storyline involving James becoming Guardian as being either nonsensical, stupid, or 'reaching', and therefore thought it was pretty neat to see him in his full costume actually fighting. I also really like the partnership between him and Winn, especially since they weren't entirely on the same page throughout the course of the episode yet came together when it counted

* Yes, Kara trying to scan James' costume with her X-Ray vision was a bit forward and invasive, but it again plays into the character not being perfect

* Cadmus abducting Mon-El is not something I was expecting, and it'll be interesting to see where this particular subplot is leading

* It was really gutwrenching to see Alex get rejected by Maggie, but, as I noted above, it does make her reaction to Alex's underplayed coming out in last week's episode make more sense retroactively, and led to yet another example of why Kara and Alex's relationship is and will forever remain the emotional heart of the series, giving us a really nice payoff to the two characters' sisterly arc in the episode and making the fact that they didn't drag out the tension between them stemming from Alex's misunderstanding about Kara's reaction to her coming out confession pay off in a very satisfactory manner

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