"I Drink and I know Things"

Yeah it really hammers in that when push comes to shove and Kara herself is in grave danger, she knows Lena is THE one of anybody, powerful family and friends included, who she can rely on the most to be able to pull through with what’s needed to save her life and truly protect her (and sometimes the world) from mortal danger, which is ironic since Lena does so just using her genius. And bravery -- like standing in front of a kryptonite blade for her, etc.

Just like she made the comment about how she trusted Lena more than anybody IN THE GALAXY with Myriad. In. The. Galaxy. 

Kara knows Alex, J’onn and the others will always have her back and do whatever it takes to save lives and do the right thing, no matter what. They’ve all proven that. But in terms of who has flat out saved Kara herself from death time and again? It’s been Lena, since as far back as Season 2 when she sacrificed Jack to save her. And Season 3 when she put herself between Kara and Mercy. And Season 3 when she built the kryptonite suit. And so on and so forth, every season since. Sometimes multiple times a season. 

I don’t think anyone on the show has directly saved someone’s life as much as Kara has Lena and Lena has Kara. In this way and so many others, they really are a perfect partnership. 

Benoist herself even made this element clear in that recent interview, saying the balance of “the strength and brawn and hope of Supergirl, and the brilliance and ingenuity of Lena Luthor” is what makes them so great as a team. 

James was apparently too "boring" for the CW standards (they like drama and bickering, I do not) and then Mon-El received so much backlash (rightfully so) for his behaviour and instead of trying to fix it they send him into the future to return all reformed and shit and expect audience members to welcome him with open arms and be happy with a growth we never got to witness. Have you ever seen anything lazier and more contrived?

And they somehow think that reusing this formula with William is the right strategy to employ. In 5a he is a dick to Kara for no reason. They try to justify this by saying he was undercover and couldn't let people be close to him. Like...there's other ways of being a loner and it's not like Kara was bombarding him with offers of friendship. Then, in 5b William is suddenly not a dick? And once again, I'm supposed just accept this sudden change that's giving me whiplash and think "yes, he's a good match for kara" when the show hasn't even bothered giving him any character development. In favour of what, exactly?

They don't care about William as a character and it shows. He's just a prop. What do we know about him? Besides the obvious, he's a reporter and British and can bake. If they were trying to make him Kara's Lois Lane they've failed spectacularly because they clearly don't comprehend what makes Lois such an ionic character and ideal match for Superman. It's not a formula you can apply in just a handful of episodes either. You have to cultivate it and in 13 episodes, it's impossible now.

I'm still trying to figure out what was the point introducing him in the first place if this was what they were going to do with him. He had no impact on S5 at all, his half-baked connection to leviathan thru his bff ultimately led nowhere and I just don't understand why they chose this path. They created him for the show, they could have embedded him into the main plot but just chose not to. Everything he did could have and should have been done by Kara and Nia. Every scene he is in feels so out of place and forced.

Hello everyone!

Blood of The Dragon, the third chapter!

Finally after so much time, I know. It has been over nine months.. sorry for that. I planned to post this chapter after posting Disney's second chapter. But after being called out for my laziness from Silversong203 and some negotiations in with @jupiterix , we reached a deal, the last chapter of "Make A Wish, Take A Chance, Make A change", (anyone who didn't read that fic, what are you waiting for?! Go read it!) for a chapter of Blood. And although she add a fourth chapter for Make a Wish -which means she didn't post the last chapter- that gave me some time until she complete the fic, but here I'm posting this chapter anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And? Even if he is, so what? It seems more and more likely to be the case that in 6B he starts off investigating the SuperFriends for Andrea per that article saying she starts targeting them, and they save his ass, then he starts working with them as an ally. The gay alien worked with them in the tower also. Ya know where it *seems* he wasn’t filming recently? In whatever scene they were doing at Kara’s loft (either a birthday or engagement party or game night or something of the sort based on clues).

People are just going to have to deal with the fact that they had to create something for his character to do. Some way to shoehorn in a character that really otherwise has no purpose. Working to help the SuperFriends in some capacity as an investigative reporter seems to be what he’s doing for the last part of the series. The actor has a contract. He has to be in a certain number of episodes. Is what it is.

By Ep 8, everyone should probably know where the show stands on the “Wara” front. But since he was wasn’t on the poster, is in the “CatCo” portion of the intro rather than even the friends part, was barely in Eps 1-2, disappeared for like five episodes, seems to have a small role from 8-10, disappears for a couple eps again, then comes back for a limited (2-3 scene) role in Eps 13-14, it seems highly unlikely that “Wara” is a concern anymore.

If that’s wrong, if they really do want to destroy the show and tank hard in their final season by trying again to force this chemistry-less ship out of nowhere with a completely random original character who (yet again) started off treating Kara poorly? Whom she avoided and dodged and cringed around most the time? You’ll know pretty quickly once the show returns, and you can finally walk away if you want. But I really think for now ya gotta stop worrying about seeing William in his “CatCo reporter”-style clothes hanging around the SuperFriends in an “on the job” capacity.

What about Supercorp?  Well when all else fails.......just keep queerbaiting that is their tried and tested strategy.  Every single time they want to build expectation they trot out a pro Supercorp interview like clockwork.  Yet they keep avoiding the relationship that has grown to be integral to the show in addition to Kara and Alex.  They can’t even claim innocense about the importance of that relationship, not after the 100th episode.  Especially continuing to film scenes into season 6 like just before Kara ended up in the PZ, when the camero pans to Alex and Lena, as Kara says she is willing to sacrifice herself.  

The individual masterclasses in acting by Melissa in her reveal scene at the Pulitzer party, and then Katies’s devastating confession at the fortress, shows clearly the actresses are fully aware how much their characters mean to each other.  Those scenes were blatant love confessions, even Kevin Smith famously was moved to state how close he thought we were to Supercorp.  They have both made it crystal clear how devasting their falling out was....far beyond platonic reactions.  Let’s not forget the famous photo scenes paralleling Andrea and Russell.  If that wasn’t ridiculously obvious enough......they show Lena at the end of season 5 looking on forlornly as Kara hugged Alex.  For what purpose if not to show Lena’s longing to be close to Kara???   A blind person can see she’s in love with her!  The end of season 5 episode also features Kara’s emotional hurt that Lena had turned on her.....showing how much that affected her.  Then Lena and Alex simultaneously voicing their belief in Kara at the same time saying the exact words.  WHY?  Why else if not to show that outside of Alex no one knows and believes in Kara more than Lena!   

Her relationships with James, Mon-El, and William, all in their own way have some sort of compulsive measure to them. With James it’s implied that there was a there was some notion of “it should have made sense” but when it didn’t it fizzled out and wasn’t really revisited.

With Mon-El it’s implied that the initial attraction was because of interest in a new alien or was born out of a feeling of not belonging and that dynamic is played on. After he comes back after she sent him away, she chooses not to go back to that relationship. Even when she went back in the past in 5x13, she didn’t dwell on their relationship. In fact, she talked to him in order to get advice on Lena.

With William she literally she tries to avoid their date multiple times and is told by her friends and family that she should give it a try but it was not born out of an actual desire to do so herself.

But when it comes to Lena she has made the active choice over and over again to continue to solidify and build that relationship. In fact, her friends and family at times actively promoted against the building of that relationship. Alex, James, and generally everyone in her life didn’t trust Lena because she was a Luthor and Kara constantly fought against them, proving over and over again that that was the relationship that she wanted to keep for herself, that she chose for herself.

This episode definitely solidified that for me. They go out of their way to highlight the importance of Kara making choices for her future and not being locked into them, and I can hardly think of any more solid of a choice that she has made for what she absolutely wants in her future than Lena.

Pretty in line with how I see things, especially regarding the “choices” element. Because when Kara comes back from PZ, she’s going to have some choices to make because she’s likely to have a new outlook on life and be figuring out once and for all what she truly wants most. And who. And yes, she DOES want a who. Any other hero I’m cool with “women don’t need a love interest” but Kara has SAID (twice with passion in S1) she wants one. And even Eliza called her out in S3 when she basically pretended she was happy with her choice and sacrificing the ability to have love in her life, given her heroics, when Eliza said “You don’t seem happy.”

Anyway, with Kenny, some may say she “chose him” in the end by saying “Come with me?”... but, he was an after thought. He was just the cherry on top she thought she might be able to have, not the sundae she really wanted. She wanted to go to NCU, whether he came or not. And it also happened after endless back and forth, driven always by outside circumstances and a call to destiny, more than any true need to be with him. She was absolutely ready to drop him and go to NCU, then after thinking she could hang out in Midvale Super-ing in fun adventures with him (more about fulfilling her desire/destiny to help people than be with him), she was back to thinking she’d stay and go ahead and have a life with him. Then she got a glimpse at that life and basically (with some pain, because of course she cared about him) said “See ya.”

Like Mon-El before him, Kara loved Kenny in that simplistic, “I want a companion, but can ultimately live without this person and won’t fight to keep them in my life” sort of way, not in an all-encompassing, undeniably IN love way. Just another person she helped become a better person because that’s what she does for everybody (though Mon-El really didn’t become THAT much better in some ways). She brought some light and inspiration to them, sure, and that’s great. But what did they bring to her, really? As a teen she was lonely and not feeling like she belonged and he was a great companion, just like as an adult when everyone else paired up and found love and she was feeling lonely, Mon-El was... there. But that’s not true love. That’s not a true partner. That’s not a true soulmate. Comparatively, you have Lena, whom they have quite literally shown us as of 6x01 is Kara’s sun. Kara’s light. Kara was Kenny’s light, he said it himself. But Lena is Kara’s light. They literally showed us this in 5x17 with the light stream framing on Lena in the fortress, and with the “Lena Luthor Protocol” saving Kara with sunlight. 

Meanwhile like you said, again and again and again Kara has chosen Lena. She’s fought to keep Lena in her life and has made it clear she cannot and will not live without her (literally at times, since Lena saves her life almost as much as she saves Lena’s). No matter the sacrifice. No matter the stakes. She will alter reality/turn back time for her, die for her, kill for her. Lena is her true love. Lena is her true partner. Lena is her true soulmate. 

CONS

- obviously mostly filler

- some clear time travel contradictions and issues, the most glaring being why not just go back to before Kara was sent to the PZ 😂

- as before, those alien hunters were so silly… just… really yikes  - further questions on what Kara really wants in terms of her life regarding powers vs no powers, Super-ing vs a normal life, etc making us all wonder which way this will all go in the end and whether she’ll choose a life with no/tempered powers (a la Smallville Clark in Crisis with Lois) or not, so yet here we are with more guessing games even though this is a totally different Kara than our Kara, which raises more issues and conflicts that are… tiresome 

- wasn’t a big fan of how these flashbacks were less about Kara/Alex or even young Alex’s development and more about Kara/Kenny (to be expected though, given their tendency to always lean into focusing on men as much as possible) 

- do I trust them not to bring Kenny back at the end, after he’s figured himself out and she’s figured herself out (even though this wasn’t even our Kara) and a guy from 3 total eps she obviously got over (otherwise he would’ve stayed in her life and she would’ve woken up post-Crisis with a husband) suddenly becomes endgame? no, of course not, hello go-to heteronormativity 

That being said… let’s move onto the positives. 

PROS

- a really solid directorial debut for Chyler Leigh, given there was a LOT going on including action, special effects, romance, etc – she did a great job

- that actress NAILED Cat Grant… the mannerisms, the voice… wow; and of course the young Danvers sisters are always so great

- Nia’s powers developing further and great growth for her character in terms of confidence, especially regarding understanding her visions

- a beautiful Brainia dance scene, ‘twas such a lovely moment for them

- as much as there was a tad too much Kenny and not enough Danvers sisters or Alex as mentioned above, I do like that they finally did some justice to a MOC character, rather than just killing him again or having him follow Kara like a puppy or have his heart broken, he actually stood on his own and was his own individual, fleshed out character and that was nice of them to do for him

- WOW the endless Supercorp parallels continue: her love interest in her ear helping while Super-ing (which Lena will obviously be doing soon from The Tower), her love interest being willing to self-sacrifice for her, Kara being willing to risk her identity for a love interest, Kenny’s “and then I met you” speech about how Kara brought light to his life

- now on the flipside of the “Will Kara/Kenny be endgame?” discussion above, the fact that Kara clearly didn’t continue those weekend visits, and – as she always does with these guys – obviously lost interest in him and moved on eventually and didn’t bother to “fight for” their love (which she once said she’d do if she had TRUE love) because if she had, then again as stated above, she would’ve awoken post-Crisis with him in her life as her husband or boyfriend, so ultimately it felt like the main purpose of Kara/Kenny was to really hammer home what Kara wants in a partner – all boxes checked now by Lena 

In the end, it was pretty crazy how, much like Lana broke up with Clark in Smallville, Kenny broke up with Kara here (heck, they even had a VERY similar barn set as their romantic place, so they clearly knew what they were doing). Which means what we said before: Kenny = Lana, and Lena = Lois. 

Chyler Leigh’s directorial debut rocked. The remaining the original cast have all directed the show now. Admittedly, Benoist and Leigh were given filler episodes (5x17 we already knew because we’d seen Lex in realtime post COIE) but loving the focus pulls, framing of action and emotional dialogue. Being given ultimate cheesy villains and it not being switch off cringe is no mean feat. Loving the actresses playing younger versions of loved characters. I wish the script matched their performance and understanding of mannerisms. Eliza Helm as young Cat Grant is amazing, and you do feel the young Danvers sisters really will grow into their older counterparts. Nia’s Dream powers now include making dreams a reality.

That’s pretty much it on the good front, as there’s only so much you can praise filler that’s a distented two-parter. It undoes anything good in season 1, such as Cat Grant building her media empire much earlier (rather than six years) and having two children. There’s also Kara experiencing green kryptonite for the first time, and the encounter being shrugged off as mildly annoying rather than nails in your blood. I don’t think Alex’s minimal screentime passes the Bechedel test as they all mention Kenny in relation to Kara romantically.

Kenny doesn’t die (a small blessing in a show that disregards MOC unless they are dragging Kara down), so Earth Prime Kara needed a different motivation for keeping her identity secret. She does so through time travel, akin to E-38 Kara having the 100th episode as an exploration of changing reality as trial runs, and keeping the memory of being arrested and journalist interviewed. Ultimately irrelevant, as adult Kara doesn’t have these memories so all her instincts come from remembering Kenny dying. The fact she didn’t wake up married to him during COIE says she never flew back on the weekends to keep in touch.

As the episode performed repeated time travel, it’s apparent that they could have gone back to the point before Kara entered the PZ and put in different co-ordinates for the projector so she ended up on Argo instead. So rather than this adventure being about saving Kara, it’s about closing a time loop. Nia inspires Cat Grant to become Cat Grant (and Cat remembering the pink cougar from the abandoned timeline), ditching men to pursue her career much like Kara is. This means Nia gets to work at CatCo in the future, where she meets Kara and is mentored by her to become Dreamer. More and more, this season is about building Nia up to either work on another show like Legends of Tomorrow, or have her own spin off.

Brainy has finally found a stress management solution that works, and it came from their romantic partner. He’s reached a point where he can cry openly and happily. If the show is still running parallels between Brainy and Nia with Kara and Lena, then his motivational confession about being in a dark place so long that he forgot what good felt like is Kara’s experience of the Phantom Zone. He found happiness with Nia, so Kara should find happiness with Lena. I confess, I’ve been watching the romantic coding of Supercorp so long that I didn’t know if Brainy and Nia were a romantic couple again. But yes they are, with dress up dances and kisses.

I lost count how many Supercorp parallels are in this episode. - Whatever Brainia parallels are going to pan out - Lena leaves Jack to go to National City, the way Kara leaves Kenny to go to National City. Both are decent guys and romantic partners, but ultimately the women make choices that lead away from them. - Kara has a choice to be Super in space, but she chooses to stay on Earth for her romantic partner. Seemingly every iteration of Kara has their reason to choose Earth, and this Kara looks at her romantic partner specifically rather than her sister. - Kenny calls Kara his light, and Lena has been framed in shards of light, described as always falling into the light, and literally provided sunlight to revive Kara in 6x01. - Kenny being given The Half Of It backstory of a dead parent, a depressed parent, and having to take on the family business and choosing his family over a new life with Kara. Lena also having to take on her family business, until this season where she’s freed herself from them. - Kara prepared to out herself (how many times was she going to out herself this episode?) to save her romantic partner, as adult Kara did for Lena in the 100th. - Kenny ready to sacrifice himself for Kara, the way Lena did by standing up to Andrea’s kryptonite dagger at her neck. - Kenny feeling inadequate as a human among all these superheroes, the way Lena did amidst aliens and military soldiers in 6x04. - “And then I met you” direct dialogue comparison with Lena in the Fortress in 5x07. - Kenny coming alive as a scientist and tech geek, the way Lena is, and the specific paralle of Lena being aboard the Daxamite ship and opening the shut doors. - Kenny being the enthusiastic in this romance, while Kara treats it as an obligation to fit in. She didn’t choose this life, the way she’s felt obligated to all her male romances. Kara’s been on a date with a man every season except season 4, and here she shows no physical intimacy with Kenny. The date with Cat’s son, James ‘should have worked out’, Mon-El having the kinship of surviving their planets, Being pressured by her friends and family to date William. In contrast, Kara has always chosen Lena, often despite opposition from her found family.

After watching this final Midvale episode two things were very clear, there was next to no Alex and Kara scenes, which is what we all wanted to see and were excited about.  So what was the purpose?  The entire DNA thing was bogus any number of ways they could have got that without going back to the future.  No don’t be fooled, this whole thing was about Kenny.  It is pretty obvious to me they are going to spring and adult Kenny on us last minute as endgame. It totally fits their MO.  He’s Asian so it’s an added bonus they love to appear progressive and always look to try and score diversity points. They are going for the shock surprise twist that no one asked for.......well except the homophobes, and the male and female misogynists, who would be happy with anyone as long as it’s not Lena.  Apart from that they will happily make a mockery of their own show, and the so called support of the LGBTQ community by having queerbaited us for years, built this incredible Romeo Juliet style love story.......only to throw it away for another homage to heteronormativity, as an ending.   

I hate to be a downer I really do, I struggled all day with whether to voice this because I didn’t want to depress anyone, but I just felt compelled to say it. Maybe if we make our displeasure known at the signs we are being played again.....we can at least end with Kara single rather than the slap in the face they are giving all indications of planning.

Yup. Toxicity exists in any and every single fandom to ever exist, including SC. And I’ve always said I condemn those toxic bits, and support the rest. 

It’s always funny though when people fight or don’t believe my “toxic 5%” number. The worst post (in terms of ACTUAL toxicity with the most widespread engagement) I’ve seen evidence of, from 3-ish years ago, had around 500 likes.

Based on a variety of research and statistical data and misc evidence, the global Supercorp fandom seems to be made up of approximately 300k fans (if not more). At the time of the above post, it was probably closer to 400-500k +

Even if you go with the smaller current number, 500 likes out of 300,000 people = .17% ...That’s not even 1%.

So my 5% is actually generous and overblown. And leaves a ton of room for any posts I may have not seen that had more than 500 likes. You could even have a toxic post with 1k likes (which I've yet to see...?) and it still would only translate to .33% (still less than 1% of the fandom).

And hell, even if you don’t believe there’s that many people in the SC fandom, even if you think there’s only 30k Supercorp fans in existence globally (entirely inaccurate, but let’s play along)? 500 likes out of 30k people = 1.67%. Not even 2%. And again, a hypothetical toxic post with 1k likes (which I’ve yet to see any evidence of) in that case is still just 3.33% of the fandom.

All his scene in 6.01 did was reinforce for me the man is a stalkerish creep. His 'concern' for Kara wasn't a far more acceptable: 'Is she okay? Is there anyway we can help if she isn't.'

It was the entitled belief she owed him any kind of explanation as to where she was and what she was doing. How dare she not tell him outrage is not good.

As a survivor of IPV, as I've said so often with the character, his behaviour is now not just bordering on abusive. It is now showing a pattern of abuse. Why? One of the things many of us see in the IPV situation is the abuser wanting to know where you are. What you are doing. To begin with they couch it in terms of being worried for you. But that isn't worry. That's wanting to control. Different Earth aside, is he going to place a call in to his buddies and have Kara tracked, as he did in 5a? Because that's the feeling that he would take those actions that I got.

Supergirl needs to either have Kara, or someone like Nia, tell William flat out his behaviour isn't acceptable, or at least turn off or tone down this kind of messaging being okay. Because it isn't.

When you look at Brainy and J'onn and their concerns on how their past interactions could impact those they love - That's positive, affirmative behaviour from the men on-screen. 

More of that please Supergirl.

I should also add. Where in the actual fuck was his acknowledgement of Kelly's help in taking down Lex in his article! She might not be a journalist, but to ignore that aspect is just so wrong.

Edited from original Twitter post I did above:

I shut down my SM apps daily. Come back to this from Azie.

It reiterates all many of us have been saying about William as a character.

As I've now written several times from my perspective of a IPV survivor, his behaviour is classic abuse pattern. It was borderline but now isn't.