- Obsidian is a Black Mercy MMO. Why reuse the same plot devices 😩 Supergirl's holier-than-thou lecture on why people shouldn't use VR is so ignorant of legitimate beneficial uses, like helping handicapped people. I don't want to rant about it because the ignorant ivory tower Supergirl attitude is a show staple at this point.
- Kara yelling at Lena after she comes back to help stop VR felt like such a non sequitor. Her secret identity has nothing to do with her friends being in danger. Lena was already put in dangerous situations helping Kara even before knowing who Supergirl was. Writers trying to shoehorn the secret identity endangerment once again with absolutely no logic to it.
- The irony of Jeremiah being randomly killed off with almost no character development to show for it, only for Zor-El to appear for no reason at all. Alex loses her father while Kara gains one that she only sees for 1 episode, why????? For a girl whose backstory is defined by loss, that she gets both her parents back is hilarious. Zor-El's being alive added nothing to the story beyond a rampant trash monster. I honestly detest Alex's personality in S5 and S6, but Alex got absolutely done dirty.
- Phantom Zone field trip is such an egregious "ran out of budget" episode. Haruhi Endless Eight flashbacks kek
- "Overwhelm Nyxly with humanity" is up there for one of the strangest arguments that ended up changing nothing. Lena gets into the first big argument with Kara since the reconciliation, and she puts her foot down on Kara's plan as being wrong because even more people will get hurt. The argument concludes after Kara agrees that there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed. Both women regroup only to... proceed with Kara's original plan like nothing happened?? Kara's solution to the potential consequences is to try harder to protect everyone. I rewatched the argument 3 times because I thought I was missing something. Lena "agrees" with the plan only if William writes a story on the situation and tells the truth. What is the logic in this? Lena objected because people will get hurt, but how does publishing a story on the situation make any difference? People still have no agency on Kara's plan, and they will still get hurt.
- Esme's family betrayal feels so contrived. Were the parents affected by the humanity totem? That was my first thought. The episode never bothers to address this, instead making them sound like anti-aliens who didn't know what they were getting into. Shouldn't social services have given info on Esme before they agreed to adopt, especially the fact that she was an alien? Perhaps the parents thought aliens didn't need to be treated any differently from human children. Are social services incompetent and stupid, or the parents? The answer is neither, the writers are the real incompetent and stupid culprits here.
- I didn't even want to write about the Kelly Guardian origin story but since I said I would in S5 thoughts I'll do it. Not as long as the rant in my head though. The story already establishes that everyone is adversely affected by the collateral damage from alien attacks. This episode instead frames the conflict as people of color oppression. This is as nonsensical as an earlier episode framing the military-industrial complex as a gun control issue. Supergirl and co. are literally saving the world from destruction and Kelly gets mad that they're not helping with community cleanup? This reminded me of a HobbyDrama post about Invincible and Amber's freak out. Relevant part pasted below. I honestly don't care if Supergirl writers want to add social commentary on current political issues, but their setups are disingenuous at best and straight up ignorant at worst.
- Lexly is fucking horrid.
- Did writers seriously put Kara in the wrong for giving advice on how to help Esme control her powers? Not to mention Alex went full condescending and unempathetic aS A mOtHeR meme on Kara. Did she seriously think she knows better than an alien how to deal with alien powers? Every time the writers want to set up a conflict, Alex seems to be the sacrificial lamb. She will become as out of character as the plot demands to move forward, any established characterization be damned. The anxiety about becoming a mother cannot explain away everything wrong with Alex's post-adoption change.
- William's death is another nail in the "muh secret identity" coffin. He apparently didn't have any way to contact the rest of the team in case something came up. If he knew Kara was Supergirl, he could've called her and prevented the Lexly ambush. Not giving him a Superwatch is fine, understandable, but stranding him with Esme when they know Lexly are up to no good? He didn't even have J'onn's number, and J'onn was supposed to be on watch that night. Collective Idiot Ball moment by everyone. Protecting people by witholding secret identities has never looked less credible than now. Of course, if William did have the Superfriends' numbers and then chose to 1v1 Lexly, that's a different problem. Regardless of why William decided to do it alone, the writing is damned for letting his death play out like this. Add to the half-hearted attempts to set him up with Kara, only to have him get together with someone else after one date. What was the point??
- Alex is officially gone off the deep end OOC after adopting Esme. I thought lording over Kara was bad enough, but she has turned into a high strung emotionally compromised wreck as soon as Esme is involved in any situation. Alex would give up Kara to save National City, but has no problems handing the entire world on a silver platter to Lexly to save Esme. Not to mention, Kara just let her take the totem?? I am legitimately furious that Kara would just roll over and let Alex jeopardize the world. Not to mention Kelly also lost her mind. Both of them would rather hedge their bets on Lex's honesty than Kara's ability to save the day????? Kelly is whatever, I don't care about her character, but after all Alex has gone through, her post-adoption character is literally unrecognizable. Jeremiah's villain arc was bad, and his foreshadowing that one day Alex "will understand" does not make Alex's arc with the exact same premise any better. These callbacks only work with a good setup, and Alex's was not good in any way. Adding onto the aftermath, nobody questioned why Kara didn't stop Alex when she returns with all the totems missing. As if Kara's decision to let Alex go was an understandable dilemma deserving of sympathy? Another collective Idiot Ball moment. I will die on the hill that Alex should've never become a mother if this is the kind of person she becomes.
- The sun hyperbeam is up there with Lex's red sun plan. S6E19 is by far the worst episode in the show, Weathering With You level of shit writing. I had to take half hour breaks every few minutes before I could slog through it. The look of utter disgust from everyone when Supergirl apologizes for the bad idea was worth a kek.
- Why go for the feeble Lillian redemption death? Dying for Lex feels completely meaningless. On the other hand, if she sacrificed herself for Lena, now that would've been an emotional character redemption. The case for saving Lena had credible setup too! Though Lillian had very little screen time post-crisis, she spends the majority of her time responding to Lex's world domination plans by telling him to save his sister. That was something I enjoyed. A shame this was squandered but I don't have any hope for the writers anymore.
- Brainy woke up and chose to fuck the space-time continuum I guess.
- Cat's really odd intonation of "bi-furcated" really amps up the queerbaiting arguments. I won't get into whether CW writers actually had the power to make Supercorp canon, but they absolutely did tease us, all the way to the very last episode, of what could have been.
- Exactly how do the writers want to reconcile Kara's identity reveal with the Mxy episode S5E13 revelations? One of them is disingenuous. Not even commenting on whether I think the identity reveal even makes sense. I'm suffering bad writing fatigue.
- I never felt like Kara had much true character development. From S1 to S6 she stayed quite static. She's still "stuck" and needs other people to tell her what to do, not to mention despite obsessing about finding someone who "gets" her she is ultimately single
like Lena, writers are cowards. I also never got the impression Supergirl was an all-powerful Kryptonian. Every single conflict boils down to Supergirl getting beaten up by things of dubious power levels, only for J'onn to swoop in for a rescue and the rest of the Superfriends to neutralize the threat. Really, El Mayarah might as well mean "useless alone" instead of "stronger together" because Kara cannot do anything by herself. She's like å¼ æ— å¿Œ, forever stuck and reacting to the world around her, but worse because he at least isn't a choker in most battles.
Overall, other things I roll my eyes at but didn't bother talking about were the awful CGI effects and really embarrassing fight scenes. This show looked like it had the production value of 2000s era Japanese tokusatsu shows. Supergirl really deserved better. CW just looked like they put Supergirl on life support after S5 and stopped even pretending like the show was worth working on. There are a million more things I could say about Supergirl but this show isn't worth any more of my attention and effort.
Ultimately, I'm not unhappy that I watched the entire thing for Supercorp. Probably not worth it since great Supercorp compilation videos on Youtube have almost all the good moments, but now I can read all the fanfics and know exactly what was from the show and what wasn't.