Totem World could be a fun bottle-ish episode if we meet all the old totem bearers Flannel!Zari’s been hanging out with.

-“I’m finding it very hard to erase the image of my wife being shot by a trigger-happy local.” Sara has mostly processed her new healing factor by jumping into its usefulness- with the big speech over how scary it was to watch Ava disappear, maybe she’ll slow down and try not to traumatize Ava with it too much.

+1 to seeing Thomas and wondering if it was a son or a partner. I’m also kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop and learn that the Legends promised to save somebody terrible in return for his help.

is that the one where Kara asks J’onn to impersonate Supergirl to fix her cover with Cat? That was the first time the writing on this show made me want to throw things.

I hope the movie version goes in a completely different direction with their Supergirl. The idea of recasting Kara Danvers is almost as unthinkable as finding a new Xena.

lizard people conspiracies...oh no, oh no. do any of these people not end up wildly anti-Semitic?

whether Supergirl is worth watching past S1 depends on what you’re looking to get out of it.

you would think SO MANY THINGS, but enjoying Supergirl frequently meant not thinking through what they were doing.

the temporary part is an improvement, but it’s explicitly done because people might ignore Kara if they’re left the choice! it’s real bad.

For such a “liberal” show, the whole “let’s invade people’s mind, shut down their defense mechanism so they can listen to our message” was quite unsettling ..to say the least.

Cat Grant revealed she knew to the audience in that ep years ago- it’s right after Kara is out of earshot that the audience hears Cat say, “go get ‘em, Supergirl.”

they spent the whole 100th episode explaining how the world would burn if she’d told just one person her secret identity sooner, then the whole penultimate episode of the series showing how dangerous it is when villains target Kara’s loved ones, THEN THEY DECIDED TO TELL ALL THE VILLAINS EVERYWHERE EXACTLY WHO HER…

there’s something empowering about watching Supergirl get to end on its own ambitiously unambitious terms.

that’s what makes the show’s writing/choices so frustrating. every once in a while they do something right and she knocks it out of the park, then they go back to sidelining her or making unspeakably stupid choices and you’re reminded how much potential the show wasted all over again.

the one unifying reaction to the Dear Evan Hansen movie was that Ben Platt absolutely cannot play a teenager!

yep. Sara is clever and quick-witted but there’s absolutely nothing in the Arrowverse suggesting she’s book-smart. it’s nice characterization in a TV landscape that tends towards genius creep whenever a show wants a character to know something for plot reasons.

ohhh that’s why I couldn’t find the song.

headcanon-ing the Themyscira thing. they’ve only used in once in-show with Helen, right?

-Fancy!Zari saying “pics or it didn’t happen” to a 20s bartender <3

there are so many times watching Supergirl where something, from a small detail about how jobs or buildings work to a large plot/thematic thing like Kara’s friggin’ mom being resurrected, makes me just want to shake the screen and tell the writers to think for 2 seconds about the things they write. this show…