{"id":9393,"date":"2016-01-07T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2016-03-01T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:56:54","slug":"review-supergirl-s1-e9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/07\/review-supergirl-s1-e9\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Supergirl’ S1 E9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"107450_wb_0295b_2\"<\/a>After having spent the past four days at Disney World, I was excited to return to the real world and my regularly scheduled programming. Around the same time that I was watching fireworks set to John William\u2019s Star Wars<\/em> score at Hollywood Studios, Supergirl<\/em> returned for its midseason premiere; and let me tell you, the fireworks were way better.<\/p>\n

While the midseason finale was the show\u2019s best episode yet, this week\u2019s episode fell flat in comparison. Though it certainly wasn\u2019t the worst episode for Supergirl<\/em>, it felt as if much of the suspense that had been set up during the finale was undone by this Monday\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

It seemed to me that after having spent much of the finale building up Astra\u2019s capture and interrogation, the writers should have waited a little longer before they ultimately freed her to create more conflict again. I understand that she\u2019s one of the show\u2019s biggest antagonists, and that means she couldn\u2019t stay locked up forever, but it seemed careless to release her so quickly.<\/p>\n

Another thing that the writers seemed too eager to reverse was Cat\u2019s suspicion that Kara was Supergirl. It made sense to have Cat, who is written to be incredibly intelligent, be one of the first to figure it out for themselves; not to mention it could have forged the way for plenty more adorable motherly scenes between Cat and Kara, which we all know are the best scenes. One thing that wasn\u2019t expected from this revelation, however, was Cat\u2019s bizarre ultimatum that Kara either reveal herself as Supergirl or quit.<\/p>\n

Cat\u2019s reasoning was that clearly Kara didn\u2019t care enough about her job if she also had the time to be Supergirl, which was honestly a fair point. A superhero really shouldn\u2019t have to balance their time between saving lives and working to maintain their secret identity, especially given that Kara left three times during that particular workday for Supergirl related activities.<\/p>\n

Of course, we ended up not even having to worry about the ultimatum, because Kara quickly found her way out of that situation by enlisting J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz to play her doppleganger. So, not only did the writers completely backtrack on the storyline that brought us to the ultimatum, but they took that back as well. Which\u00a0truly is a shame, because for Cat to realistically be as intelligent as the writers portray her to be, she needed to discover Supergirl\u2019s identity out eventually.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that neither of these storylines didn\u2019t also have some redeeming qualities to them. Melissa Benoist is often the highlight of the show and this episode we got a double dose. Seeing Kara pretend to interact with Supergirl was definitely my favorite part of the episode because Benoist was quite literally twice as adorable than usual.<\/p>\n

And despite the short time that was spent on fleshing out Astra\u2019s capture, it was interesting while it lasted to see how similar Astra and Kara truly are. Though they have their different beliefs and morals, Kara and Astra are both strong willed and care deeply. And while they typically express it in different ways, it’s possible that even Kara is beginning to see that she isn\u2019t too far off from becoming much more like her aunt. Now\u00a0that Kara realizes this it will become even harder for either one of them to truly see one another as solely enemies.<\/p>\n

I do have one more bone to pick, however, with Astra. Although I initially loved Supergirl<\/em>\u2019s use of monster-of-the-week episodes, lately it has seemed that the writers\u00a0are juggling too many villains and antagonists. First we had Astra, and now we can officially add Maxwell Lord to the list. And of course we still have the weekly monsters on top of all that. I feel that if they want to keep the week-by-week storylines in order to bring in as many possible comic book references, they need to drop their big bad back down from two to one. And quite honestly, right now I\u2019m more interested in Max\u2019s storyline than Astra\u2019s.<\/p>\n

At the very end of this week\u2019s episode it gets\u00a0revealed that Max\u2019s big secret is that he\u2019s built (or found?) Bizarro-Girl, Supergirl\u2019s antithesis. I hope that through all of the other conflicts going on in this show Bizarro-Girl gets some decent screen time, because as of right now J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz hasn\u2019t seemed to get his fill of his. Hopefully now that he\u2019s revealed his identity to Kara that\u2019s about to change.<\/p>\n

I really wish that Supergirl<\/em> had kicked off its midseason return much stronger, but as we\u2019ve seen before the writers can do some really great stuff, so I\u2019m sure that next week we\u2019ll see that quality return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After having spent the past four days at Disney World, I was excited to return to the real world and my regularly scheduled programming. Around the same time that I was watching fireworks set to John William\u2019s Star Wars score at Hollywood Studios, Supergirl returned for its midseason premiere; and let me tell you, the<\/p>\n

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