This show has accomplished something no other superhero show has: it's made me root for the "bad guys".
The crux of the show is the aftermath of an ideologue's wife. He's grieving and uses his authority to capture his wife's murderer. Not the best way to do things but it works in tons of cop shows and Supergirl's done it a time or two so we can't balk at that. He captures her, legally, and simply wants to incarcerate her and all the other illegal aliens that harbored her. So, they're unregistered and in the country/on the planet illegally. And they commit a heinous crime of harboring a fugitive. Most of us have never done this because it has dire consequences - pretty much in any country around the globe. So he's justified in detaining them. And that's when they get attacked by a band of outlaws, the supposed superheroes. Legally, James and Nia - and later J'onn - have no leg to stand on. So morally we have to hope they lose. The rule of law must prevail or it becomes OK for anyone to do anything illegal simply because they choose to disregard a law. Martha Stewart should never have gone to prison. Murderers and drug dealers should be left alone to plunder our lives and infect our children with crippling chains that never let them be free. Oh, and child molesters. I'm sure they disagree with the laws that put them in prison. Picking and choosing the laws we obey is our choice, but we need to be prepared for the consequences. Therefore, the ones the writers have tried to paint as morally grey or evil are actually in the right here. I was actually hoping James, Nia, "Brainy" and J'onn would get their clocks cleaned for making the wrong, emotion-charged decision of siding with the illegals. Sort of like when they had the US President secretly be an alien. That was wrong on so many levels so who could possibly have sympathy for that? Well done "writers".
Meanwhile, Kara and Lena jet away in a plane that can't possibly hold enough fuel to get them to Russia. Oh, and it's autonomous. "Humans make mistakes," Lena quips. "My technology doesn't." And then lightning proceeds to knock out the power. Genius. No generator in this infallible tech she's so proud of. Lightning knocks out my power and I've got 3 hours of UPS backup for my computer. But you wouldn't put that on anything as unimportant as a jet. And any pilot who can read an instrument panel would understand there was something else controlling that plane. One eyeroll after another.
And then there's the Alex portion. If suicides were up when this aired, this explains it. This was so incredibly bad. A woman Alex has known for, what, a few months at best, tells her she's the most nurturing person she's ever met? That is not how I'd describe Alex - and I've known her for over three years now so I'm a bit more of an authority. Whiney would be one apt description. Nauseating. Pouty. High schoolish. None of which makes her a candidate for a good mother. She's not self-sacrificing, which any good mom will tell you is one of the first characteristics a mother needs. She's not nurturing. At all. She's headstrong. I like that, but not necessary to be a good mother. She loves her family. That's really her best qualification and, that's not really enough. So the whole drama of will she get a baby or won't she get a baby is played out here and no one's life was changed for the better. Certainly not ours.
To be fair, it wasn't all bad. Andrea Brooks did well. She's a talented actress who played lots of quirky parts well. And Bruce Boxleitner. What happened, man? You're so much better than this. Find something worthy of your talents.
This is easily the worst show on television. It makes me pine for the days of reality TV. Almost. The writers have no concept of real life and the characters make illogical decisions based on where the writers want the plot to go. For instance, someone at Lena's level would never befriend a reporter and maker her her best friend in such a short time. People at that level are guarded and trust very few. I've known several CEOs of large companies and they don't let people in easily. Especially reporters. Because at that level, everybody wants something from you. It's sad but it's the truth. Lena wouldn't audition or trust a new best friend by the time she ran her company. If she didn't have one by then, she simply wouldn't have one at all.
It's sad that for years I've wanted to see superheroes on the screen. And this is what we're given. Not good stories. Not intriguing new art and multidimensional thinking. We're assaulted with paper-thin political agendas that have to fit into a very contrived, unrealistic plot to get to a point that said contrivance simply proves is wrong.
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