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Honestly it\u2019s starting to feel as if the writers of Supergirl<\/em> are alternately giving us interesting and boring episodes every week. I was in no way invested in this week\u2019s episode after watching only five minutes of it. After so much buildup surrounding Maxwell Lord\u2019s nefarious plans, Bizarro-Girl simply joined the rest of Supergirl\u2019<\/em>s captivating characters as a monster-of-the-week. Lame.<\/p>\n It really is a shame, too, because Bizarro-Girl brought along plenty of good internal and external conflict for Supergirl. It was really for Kara to learn that Maxwell Lord had gone through seven girls before finally getting his brainwashing technique perfect. Unlike her sister she couldn\u2019t see Bizarro-Girl as merely a science experiment. Kara\u2019s humanity and compassion is what makes her so unique, so it felt very true to character for her to refuse to treat Bizarro-Girl as anything less than human.<\/p>\n And while the emotion behind Bizarro-Girl was a strong point to an otherwise flat episode, the best part was the jokes that she brought about. The \u201cshe talks like cookie monster\u201d line was gold. Another really great moment that I\u2019m sure I only picked up was the very subtle Friends<\/em> reference, which was so subtle it probably wasn\u2019t even a reference. When Kara and Alex found out that Maxwell Lord knew about their sister-ness all I could think about was Phoebe saying \u201cthey don\u2019t know that we know that they know.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the writers of Supergirl<\/em> killed the storyline, much like they\u2019ve done with just about any other interesting bad guy to hit up National City. Maxwell Lord is now locked up, and though it doesn\u2019t look like it will last very long at all, that, combined with Bizarro-Girl\u2019s cheese fest of an apology, effectively kills any of the suspense surrounding Frankenstein and his monster.<\/p>\n So, let\u2019s move on to the other part of the episode; the \u201cyou may be Supergirl, but you\u2019re Kara Danvers as well, and she deserves a life\u201d part. My first issue is, does she, though? Because I\u2019m beginning to think more and more that it\u2019s basically impossible for Kara to juggle life as Supergirl as well as a normal human being who dates. Because we all saw how disastrously that went.<\/p>\n First of all, how do you even explain why an evil twin version of the superhero running around town kidnapped you? Because the writers gave us a piss poor job of an example (I\u2019m just asking hypothetically, of course). Thankfully, that didn\u2019t seem to be the biggest takeaway for Adam; no, the broken heart thing probably monopolized his concern \u2013 which, by the way, is a little bit dramatic.<\/p>\n The writers gave us one week to get invested in some random new guy (when we already have an amazing one and a meh one to root for), only to have Kara break up with\u00a0a random guy. How are we supposed to care about Adam when Winn is finally talking to Kara again? Or, for those of you who are dumb: how are we supposed to care when James FINALLY admits his blatantly obvious feelings for Kara \u2013 of course, the how are we supposed to care about James\u2019 feelings\u00a0for Kara aspect when he\u2019s still dating Lucy thing is a whole different issue.<\/p>\n There were so many things wrong with this episode that I really hope that Supergirl<\/em> redeems itself next week. Make Cat and Kara a cape wearing, villain punching, best friend duo. Make Kara just make a decision whether she\u2019s on Team James or Team Winn so that I can be disappointed and finally move on. Introduce a character for Winn to flirt with only to disappear two weeks from now. I don\u2019t know and I don\u2019t care, but it better be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Honestly it\u2019s starting to feel as if the writers of Supergirl are alternately giving us interesting and boring episodes every week. I was in no way invested in this week\u2019s episode after watching only five minutes of it. After so much buildup surrounding Maxwell Lord\u2019s nefarious plans, Bizarro-Girl simply joined the rest of Supergirl\u2019s captivating<\/p>\n