4/26/2023 0 Comments Supergirl series finaleOne of my favorite elements of the series is how much damn story they pack into an episode before that shield flies at the screen, and before it does in this finale, we’ve seen Kara fight Alex, J’onn show up (alive, but hurtin’) with Eliza Danvers (which is what actually snaps Alex out of the hold that Myriad has on her), Kara’s speech, the symbol of hope that wakes up National City (I’ll give you two guesses what it is, and the first one don’t count), and Indigo promising to kill all humans and make Kara Zor-el “queen of a dead Earth”. Now this all happens before the first commercial break. We just have to accept it, guys: Supergirl is a really good show. But there are other elements at play here-direction, music, supporting performances, and the underlying message of the series-that all combine to make this moment, while riddled with clichés, also genuinely powerful. She doesn’t go big with it, and the temptation to go big must be overwhelming for an actor. Look, I spent all of yesterday showing you five (six, really) reasons why Melissa Benoist is the one of the best actresses on television, and yes, that’s part of why this moment works. So why does this moment work so effectively? Kara will give her speech, the people will wake up, somehow Non will be defeated, etcetera. Here we move from the genre-silly to the genuinely corny. So, as alluded to last week, Max and Cat have a plan to flash a symbol of hope to National City, which they do while Supergirl gives an impassioned speech that is broadcast on every screen in the city. But, listen, I’m going to assume these aliens knew what they were doing when they built their giant mind-control ray. I would think a few of those people would have become scared and desperate. Though, to offer a quibble here-shutting off hope seems to affect all of the humans here the same way, turning them into empty shells willing to do Non’s bidding. Well, as it turns out, all you have to do is mention mommies and daddies, and everyone snaps right out of it-I see a flaw in your brilliant design, Non!Īccording to Maxwell Lord, Myriad works by shutting off the “hope” center of the brain, a thing that, to go along with the plot mechanics of this episode, I’m going to assume exists. So this is mostly filler action, and its function in the story is to show us how in the world Kara, Cat Grant, and Maxwell Lord can possibly defeat the Myriad signal, which has turned Alex against her sister. Now, it’s likely that Alex won’t die here, and we’re damn sure that Kara won’t. We begin where we ended last time, with step-sisters Kara and Alex (the first, the noble flying alien I mentioned before, and the second, a human woman strapped into a big mechanical suit filled with some of those glowing green space rocks) flying toward each other to battle. Oh, thank God that this finale was big goofy grin silly. So, the question for the finale-an episode on which the very future of the series depends-is this: will this episode be so silly that we roll our eyes, or so silly that we watch with a big goofy grin on our faces, wrapped up in the adventure of it all? And sometimes the show is silly in other ways, in elements like dialogue and special effects that keep us from fully believing in its noble flying aliens’ dangerous glowing green rocks. Those aliens cannot be defeated by the glowing green rocks. Some of the aliens flying around are green. There are aliens flying around all over the place-aliens who can be defeated by glowing green rocks.
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