The Sunnydale Herald, Thursday, November 2
Willow: It didn't break! How come it didn't break?
Xander: Which is another secret to conscientious egg care: pot of scalding water and about eight minutes.
Willow: You boiled your young?
~~Bad Eggs~~
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so i’m going to have to rewatch because my stream did mess up for part of the episode but here are my take aways from 6x03. i give it a 9/10.
it wasn’t hard but they did MUCH better in this episode than in 6x02. i want to talk about the omissions first:
1. no William and Andrea which i didn’t even realize until the episode was over. 2. no Nia which I did notice and was really missing this episode after it felt like 2 episodes where Nia was a highlight. Even in 6x02, Nia and Brainy’s moment talking about Kara was the only good thing about that episode for me.
now this episode had (almost) everything else I wanted. I like nyxly and think she’s adorable and I’m glad Kara got to help her get her magic back. Only the paragon of hope could do that, and I’m missing Kara like crazy while she’s in the Phantom Zone, but I’m glad they at least found some way to work with Melissa’s maternity leave so she wasn’t completely absent for several episodes during the last season. It’s not a terrible plot, but I feel like we needed a lot more to really see Melissa shine. Regardless, she still elevates whatever material they do give her, and I will miss that most when this show ends.
The Dansen content we SHOULD have had last week. They actually acknowledged Kelly doesn’t have a job and seeing her be Alex’s rock was so refreshing. They should have made that time for Dansen in 6x02 as well, but it was a highlight of the episode for me tonight. I also love that we still saw Alex working through her grief on her own a little bit, and that what ultimately pulled her out of her funk was knowing she has Kelly to lean on and that Kara wouldn’t want her to lose hope.
The emotional scene between Brainy and Lena is one I can honestly say is a favorite of the entire SERIES. Not just of the episode, this season, but the entire series. I love their friendship, and I am so glad the writers have consistently done well at least for that friendship since s4. I always love their scenes together, but 6x03 outsold. It’s also interesting to note that scenes between Brainy and Lena (a man and woman) are always more like a friendship than scenes between supercorp which is between two women lol. Like they know how to write a friendship for Lena with a man but can’t do that with her and Kara without making it homoerotic “unintentionally” ???anyway..
J’onn and M’gann are so great together. I have been genuinely bored with J’onn for awhile now probably since the storyline with his dad, but alongside M’gann, I love seeing him. His moments with Alex the last two episodes have also been really nice. I’m liking s6 J’onn.
Now for the weekly Lex debacles.. For once, they didn’t make Lena’s story just a background to Lex. And I think it’s sort of poetic in that we’ve loved Lena as Kara has, not because she’s a Luthor but because she’s LENA. And the Luthor name doesn’t deserve Lena, so she packed her bags and told Lex she was done letting him have a foothold in her life. I think tw: as an abuse survivor myself, having that strength to cut ties with your abuser is more meaningful than what you give up letting them still have control over you. Lena did work so hard for her family, to make amends for all of Lex’s sins and atrocities, and that’s a wonderful quality that I love in Lena, but she shouldn’t have to carry that burden. And I have no doubt that Lena can found her own damn company. I don’t trust this show that much, so maybe they won’t do it. But I have a feeling that in the end, Lena is going to come out (no pun intended) being her own hero. Hopefully alongside Kara with the supercorp endgame we deserve.
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Supergirl 6x3: Phantom Menaces.
Hey guys, I’m a little later than usual, but here I am. This week’s episode of Supergirl was MUCH better than last week’s. My thoughts below. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Okay, Kara broke her leg falling from the sky but also has super strength in the Phantom Zone? Something doesn’t add up, haha.
I’m going to like Nyxly, I think. I already liked her in this episode and Peta Sergeant and Melissa had easy chemistry with one another. I look forward to seeing Supergirl, Superdad, and Superimp team up.
Aw, poor Silas. You traded in your silly fangs for some crappy make-up effects. You deserved so much better.
Oh, Brainy snarking at Lex’s interview and filling it in with his own words was too funny. One of the best funny moments of the episode.
Agh, omg. The Alex and Kelly moment at the beginning of the episode was so good. Kelly giving a classic Superfriends Hope Speech(tm) was amazing. Was it corny? Oh hell yes. Was it exactly the kind of drama (good kind) I needed from them? Also yes. Chyler knocked it out of the park this episode. More on that later.
Lena vs. Lex was better this week. I think it worked better because of a few reasons. One reason is because it was a lot of snarky back and forth between them, which Katie and Jon are great at. The other reason is because Lex wasn’t heavily featured this episode. He has always worked better in smaller doses, and this goes to show me that it’s true.
Full disclosure, the Phantoms look terrible. They also remind me of another alien from something else, but I just can’t place it.
The Lena and Brainy conversation...wow. I loved this scene so bloody much. These two characters have always had a lot in common, and Katie and Jesse work really well with each other. The delivery, the callbacks, the everything. Lena telling Brainy that they were wrong about the “little boxes” was soooo good. Brainy finally breaking down and screaming and crying about how he felt was also soooooo good. Brainy crying “I miss her...” with Lena’s pregnant pause before her quietly responding “me too.” was just fantastic. This was tied for the best emotional scene of the episode. Just brillant.
J’onn, M’gann is your partner, not someone you can boss around. I wish we could have seen some of M’gann fighting against the Phantoms, but the emotional beats were really well done.
Speaking of, I hope M’gann is sticking around. I always loved her character when she appeared, and she does add some depth to the cast by being a Black woman. Maybe her and J’onn will be leaving together at some point, but I have a feeling she’s here for the whole season.
Alex and Brainy teaming up with Lena to fight the Phantoms? Chef’s kiss. Let them work together more often. They all have big brains but don’t handle emotions well.
It’s missing Nia hours. :(
I’m glad that CatCo wasn’t featured this episode. I love Nia and Andrea, but there would have no zero point of having them on screen this episode. The episode flowed really nicely because the focus was on 2 points of conflict, so it wasn’t spread too thin trying to fit everyone in. So yeah, I missed Nia this episode, but in the grander scheme of things it was the right move for her to not be there.
Kara’s story this week was kinda whatever. She had a few good moments, like when she was explaining her story to Nyxly. When her voice caught as she explained she thought “I-...we were the only survivors” was really wonderful. Melissa always knocks it out of the park when it comes to moments like this.
“I do hate you. I just love me more.” YASSS LENA, YOU BEAUTIFUL PERSON. This is the kind of women empowerment we expect from the show.
J’onn and M’gann’s conversation near the end of the episode was really sweet. I really how far these two have come from their original meeting, and they’re one of my favourite couples now.
M’gann and J’onn’s conversation also paralleled a conversation Lena and Kara had, in a way. J’onn apologies for, and I’m paraphrasing here, keeping M’gann at arm’s length emotionally, then says “we’re a team.” M’gann says back, “we already are.” I’m almost certain Lena and Supergirl/Kara had a similar conversation, but correct me if I am wrong.
Okay, the other Dansen moment. HOLY SMOKES. Everything about it was perfect. Kelly saying she wasn’t any help, Alex tearfully saying that Kelly SAVED HER. The fact that there has been no kisses this season and Dansen got the first one? Brilliant. Alex asking Kelly to move in with her because she wanted to share everything with Kelly had my heart melting. It was a really sweet Dansen moment that we really needed to see. Well done, Supergirl, well done. And well done to Chyler and Azie, because they really nailed that scene perfectly.
Anyway, that’s it for this week. I’ll catch all you later. Until then, see ya!!
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