By: Brabkeb

Besides my annoyance at Kara’s No!Kryptonite stance that seems to be drama developed merely to serve the plot, I have a variety of “yes” and “no” reactions to these two episodes:

YES Lena is living in a hotel, because this is hilariously basically all we can conclude, and so fanficky that I laugh

YES Lena and James aren’t annoying me. They’ve actually had some meaningful conversations and bonded. And they’re both pretty. I don’t “ship” it, but I don’t mind it.

YES cop racism. Not that I’m happy about the cop racism, just that the scene where they let the cult go rang true for me. Sadly.

NO racism is the oldest form of bullying. Perhaps *one of*, but I’m pretty sure sexism is older. It might be a toss up? But certainly not *the* oldest form. It just landed wrong with me.

NO cops in the DC universe generally decry vigilantism, so I don’t know that racism can be the only reason they hate Guardian. There was a storyline with Maggie learning who he was and putting the breaks on, but I don’t know how much continuity I can believe on this show. It undercuts the racism argument a touch (like J’onn when he was talking about the face he wears…when it’s a Face He Wears, but whatever)

YES on the discomfort caused by so blatantly co-opting “coming out” language; good point; I’m over superheros and magic powers or whatever being used as an allegory for being queer

YES we need more of Danvers sisters and their empathy and their hearts on our screen. Yay!

NO there hasn’t been enough Danvers sisters actually on screen together. And when they are a lot of the time it’s just DEO/Supergirl time, not heartfelt sister time. :(

YES James the morality mentor. I liked his interactions with Kara here. I think he has good life experience to offer in the discussion, and I never expected that the Guardian storyline would come around to actually being useful to the story, but lo and behold: here we are!

YES Lena righteous anger. She’s totally earned it. I love that she continues to be salty (whether it’s at Supergirl or Kara not telling her she’s Supergirl)

NO Guardian exposing his identity. Unless he means to resign as CEO of Catco, just no. Can’t Winn just re-design his helmet so that people can tell he’s black? Because: yay, representation!

YES Chyler’s face

YES Imra getting Space Divorced (who can blame here? my head canon is that shenanigans mean Supergirl is now still alive in her time and she thinks she has a chance!)

NO Mon-El being so stalker-obsessed with Kara that he lies about the reasons he’s there, dude-bonds with J’onn about not telling Kara the truth, and is generally on our screens stealing focus and saving the day when it’s Supergirl’s show

NO Mon-El being so stalker-obsessed with Kara after a relationship of months (?) that he Space Divorces Imra (the wife who he has “honorably” loved for years for the few-months girlfriend he realizes he never treated very well?)

HARD TO COMPUTE cute blonde girl cult leader in the Superverse…I know it wasn’t in reference to Alex Mack, but I couldn’t help but think of her anyway. Yikes.