By: JCF

* Also start of Buffy S6 (“Now w/ More Gay!”)

* “she was in the fortress of one of her enemies and everyone she ever loved was dead”: this is near the end of S3, right? Reign’s Fortress of Dirt? And then (IIRC) Kara had to go back in time to appear at the right time (to save everyone), but then that somehow created Kaznian Kara? IIRC?

* “Listen you might not be real but I’m hanging on by a thread here so I’m just going to roll with it, okay?” Photo-captioner, you&me, same. I was sure Papa was a Rollin’ Delusion. But he kept grabbing her, so I guess he really is of the real.

[Argh, I wish I remembered to hit “All on One Page” FIRST!]

* “Kelly tells her girlfriend to let her handle it and goes to lend an empathetic ear, widowed to widowed.” This scene was teased in the promo, and really psyched (so to speak) me out. Having conflicted, if not angry, feelings. More on that below…

* “Across town, Nia shows up late to training because it’s “impossible to get away from William” which is exactly how I feel, too.” Brainy had a great rejoinder that now escapes me! Something like “That’s enough William” or something? It was a So Say We All moment, fer shur…

* Oh, you didn’t mention Nia’s Geek-Out “Just like the holodeck on Next Gen”! LOL Combined w/ the line about “Xena Warrior Princess” at the end of “The Flash” (thank you, early starting DVR) AND your line about S3 Buffy above: am in a very happy 90s place, thanks much!

* FWIW, I think Nia is even cuter sans mask. The Power of Her Adorbz could neutralize any phantom, IMO.

* Give the devil his due: Lena WAS going to try to brainwash people. It didn’t work, and she abandoned it, but facts is facts [Post-Crisis Lena was not quite so maniacal. And pre-Crisis things like Lena essentially murdering Eve by overwriting her w/ the “Hope” AI went right down the memory hole]

* The thing that’s pretty obvious here: Lex is Doing Trump {just vomited typing it}, and the National City jury pool is stupider than the 2020 U.S. electorate (which is really, REALLY sad).

* “Kelly says that she doesn’t have to give up on Kara yet, it’s barely been a day.”

THIS! This is the thing which is the thing about this ep. That we were teased something different, which didn’t happen. When Kelly says “we’ll get Supergirl back” in the promo, you THINK she’s saying this to Alex. And you THINK Alex has just told her that Kara=Supergirl (and versy-vicey).

But instead, Kelly’s in the start of the ep, at the Tower, where they’re talking about getting *Supergirl* back. And then at the end of the ep, in Alex’s (and Kelly’s?) apartment, they’re w/ all the Chinese food boxes that say “Welcome Home *KARA*” . . . so Alex MUST have told Kelly ***OFF-SCREEN*** that K=SG. WTF show??? Don’t you think we, the viewers, would have wanted to see THIS, and not another, say Lex&Lillian scene? Much less Lex&Otis?! Damn!

* “perhaps because he’s a figman of her imagination” Ah, so you’re still here. Are you spoiled in some way? [Don’t answer that!] I thought the repeated scenes w/ him proved he was real, but you’re starting to raise my doubts. [I’m terrible at these things: I didn’t realize the daughter was dead in S1 of AHS, until reading an (AfterElton?) recap which was like “of course the daughter is dead”, and I was Wha???]

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Sigh, while there was some good stuff in this ep (and my expectations were low, because I knew going into it there would be no Supercorp), overall, it really felt like it wasted our (precious, precious final season) time. Next week looks better, however, if for no other reason than it shows Lena in the Tower. Listen, show, you have no reason to NOT show Lena as an integral part of the Super Team each and every week! Get to it!

…and please get Kara back from the Maternity Leave Zone ASAP/PDQ/RightTFNow???

***JCF fantasy: at the bottom of the Scotch bottle, Andrea: “LOL, remember prep school, and our ‘experiments’, and we thought we were gay?” Lena: “Were?”