In Kara's dreams, is that a different actress playing Allura? I didn't look it up, but she looks a bit different.

Alex and Maggie - OKAY, OKAY, WE GET IT ALREADY. They're an unusual couple, they have unusual issues, things aren't all Rodgers and Hammerstein for them. Must every screen encounter be a two hour soap opera crammed into three minutes? Couldn't we see them together and happy and in love?

Supergirl is going all "Kryptonian" on us... I guess because she lost Mon-El. But Mon-El loved Kara Zor-El - and while that is also Kara Danvers, it seems as if this dichotomy was a little forced. Supergirl's support system has, for the greatest part, seemed irrelevant to what she's wearing... except, perhaps, for Cat (and even then, it went to both character aspects.) Maybe I just wasn't so happy with the quick resolution of a deep seated issue... she'd been like this for six months, remember.

Also, if I were J'onn or James (sigh...), after a month of this, I would have asked Clark to have a talk with her. And I suppose that possibly he did, but it should have been noted.

It's a shame the actress playing Lena couldn't decide on an accent.

Morgan Edge immediately implies Darkseid to me. And whatever happened to Max Lord? Getting so you can't keep your greed capitalist supermoguls straight any more...

And deus-ex-machiina woman with her adorable daughter just happens to show up at the Girl of Steel Day. I would far have preferred to see a few people trying to help her save her daughter... I can't believe that EVERYONE was so panicked and running away. The same outcome could have occurred, and an observer to this might have been a good hook for later in the season. 

In any case... an unkonwn sister? Kidnapped and sent to Earth by the "dark Kryptonians"? How many damned rockets left Krypton ANYHOW? :)

Could this be Power Girl? Or could her adorable daughter have super powers as well? In the comics, I only remember one story where a Kryptonian offspring under normal circumstances didn't have super powers (Kal-El II, if you're interested.)

And a happy ending, of course. As my wife said, "How fortunate that they had an extra shot at the table." 

This seemed a shaky start to a new season. I was hoping for a more solid episode, but I guess it gives room to expand on stories... few of which I actually want to see more of, but that's how it goes. But heavens, how I hope that this doesn't turn into "Supergirl's Sister, Alex Danvers."

At the end of last season, we saw another ship launched from Krypton, and they showed it under the water this episode. Could the mystery woman be the occupant of that ship? (But I thought that scene last season had evil conotations.)

 For now, though, only Brainiac 5 travels back from the 31st Century to help the Girl of Steel deal with Reign.

-C!

And I hope James has a new helmet if/when he becomes Guardian again, rather than just adding to the existing one. The helmet design is the weakest part of his costume, and just covering his eyes won't fix it.

I swear (but can't prove) they decided to axe the Alex/Maggie relationship before last season finished. I was actually surprised Maggie returned this season but looks like they are still heading for a breakup. 

I liked Alex way more before she came out. After she came out her scenes were about her relationship.....yawn. Before, she was a bad-ass and taking names....much more interesting in a comic book show.

By all accounts, Floriana Lima had only wanted to do a year on the show for a smaller role, and the writers were making her character more prominent in the hopes that she would stick around.

I don't mind how they handled the Alex/Maggie relationship, but I could do with fewer scenes of Chyler Leigh crying.

I know it's the CW, but for mercy's sake, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. And undoubtedly, the next three or four episodes will have Alex mourning her lost relationship to overexcess. 

Believe it or not, there was actually a story around the Alex storyline, and I thought it was pretty good. I didn't think that enough lead to chase off the Daxamites would cause human harm - as they established in the episode and again in last night's episode - but it was an interesting and possible premise. And I REALLY like Kara as Batgirl... using detective skills instead of super powers to figure out the problem and find out what was going on.

I did have a little problem with Supergirl not being able to hold up two halves of the plane when she had just been lifting the whole thing from inside, but okay. I guess they have to establish limits for her.

I don't know if I'm getting tired of the suddenly-best-friends status of Samantha, but I guess the show needs us to invest in her before she becomes a super villain. Sigh...

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I thought it was being able to carry something you can get a steady grip on vs trying to carry two things that you can only get a hold on by the tips of your fingers. Having tried and failed to do the latter on several occasions, I immediately understood Supergirl’s predicament. 

I've seen some chatter online that this episode was done because Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh were getting really stretched out in time commitments for the "Crisis on Earth-X" crossover, so a sort of fill-in episode satisfied the gap. And the two substitute actresses playing the younger versions of Kara and Alex were excellent! They not only resembled the main characters physically, but got their mannerisms perfectly down pat.