Kremlin Annihilation Week: Day 2
Okay, so most people are posting the moments when Mayo-Blegh insults Kara and yells at her and gaslights her for today, which is great! Those are all awesome moments to highlight, but since those have been done a lot, Iāll go with the two more obvious isolation moments. Because I think thereās evidence that Man-Hell is slowly isolating Kara more and more in very subtle ways.
First up? 2x15, the episode where Kara loses her job.Ā
Kara spends most of the episode lobbying Snapper to let her write an article about the alien kidnappings by Cadmus just to get a warning out so the alien citizens in National City (and elsewhere, presumably, Iām not sure how far Cadmus had planned to reach) could keep themselves as safe as possible. She even went so far as to get Snapper an audience with Supergirl as herĀ āsourceā for the information. When that didnāt work, it was Lena who gave her the idea to post something on a blog about it.
Kermils will take that last piece of info and shout to the high heavens that Lena is now also just as guilty as Mountain Dew for Kara making her choice. But thatās not true at all because what Lena did was GIVE Kara a choice. Kara was stuck between a rock and a hard place with Snapper: she either tried to write the article and somehow figure out how to run it without Snapperās approval (maybe going straight to James with it? Just a thought, I mean he is the boss of CatCo and all, not that the writers remember that) which would certainly have gotten her in trouble, or she just gave up her crusade and the warning never gets out. Lena gives her an alternative without necessarily giving an opinion on the matter herself and just says that sheāll try to find Kara some extra information from L-Corp so that she could be Karaās source and therefore Kara could then run the article legitimately. Ultimately, Lena finds the pertinent information a little too late and Kara loses the job. But Lena does not deserve any of the blame for simply coming up with the idea of a blog article.
In comparison, when Kara is at home deliberating over whether she should or should not post the article sheās written, Man-Ew decides to take matters into his own hands. He listens just enough to hear that she is trying to figure out whether she should do something that will cost her her job or not. He likely knows itās a warning for the aliens because sheās spoken about it at the DEO already. He asks her to tell him which one is theĀ āright choiceā and Kara obviously says the choice that gets the warning out but loses her her job. She tries to tell him about WHY she doesnāt want to lose her job and why this is difficult for her and why sheās hesitating and deliberating and he. Wonāt. Listen. To. Her. After TWO EPISODES NOWĀ where heās promised over and over that heāll listen to her and then broken that promise. This is the third episode in a row where he has chosen not to listen to her when she needed him to.Ā
What does he do instead? He interrupts her and starts chantingĀ āDo it! Do it! Do it!ā until Kara posts the blog article, cementing the loss of her job at CatCo, the only place now that he cannot really follow her or be around her all the time.Ā
When he shows up later at her apartment (with food for her that he has already started to eat, how romantic) and she is mourning her reporting job, he just says,Ā āThere will always be other jobs.ā Again, not realizing just how important this job was to her and how much pain sheās in over having to give it up to save people (something he WOULD have known had he stopped for five seconds in the previous scene he was in and just LISTENED to her, but thatās not his style).
And while this isnāt abuse on his part, the scene ends with Kara giving up all of her identities - as a refugee citizen of Earth, as a Kryptonian, as a superhero, as just Kara - and claims that justĀ āhaving himā is enough. She claims Supergirl is justĀ āwhat she can doā (and not her literal link to her Kryptonian lineage and legacy) and that her reporting job at CatCo wasĀ āwho she was,ā that that was where she felt she could just beĀ āKara.ā So now that Supergirl isnāt her true identity and she isnāt a reporter, saying that she could be Supergirl and have her boyfriend and have that be enough is just saying that her ONLY IDENTITY now is in relation to Moldy-Fail. Thatās it. Her entire identity is HIS girlfriend. Her identity isnāt about her anymore.Ā
And thatās what kind-of sealed it for me, that this show I loved last year was gone. Because they literally just killed Supergirl on her own show. Sheās gone. She doesnāt exist anymore as per the writing of this scene. The show had seriously just turned into āThe Mon-El Showā and painted it as romantic.Ā
Anyway, Musty-Eel goes even further in 2x17. Or he tries, at least.
After they realize that itās likely Wonder Breadās mother who put a bounty on Karaās head, he comes up with a plan to run away to another PLANET, just the two of them. His plan is literally to take Kara away from everything and everyone she knows and loves and have her all to himself. He wants her to leave behind all of her responsibilities and dreams and her last remaining links to her family to be with him alone for the rest of their lives.Ā
And when she tells him that wonāt happen because she is the Girl of Steel and doesnāt run from anything, he tells her itās one of her moreĀ āannoyingā traits.Ā
The typical line there for the superhero love interest is to sort-of groan,Ā āI know, thatās one of the things I love most about you,ā insinuating that while they donāt always like their loved one putting themselves in constant danger, they wouldnāt be the person they had fallen in love with if they didnāt. Because heroism and selflessness is SUPPOSED to be a good trait, one thatās encouraged and admired.Ā
But Murky-Fell has never seen heroism as anything but selfish, as made obvious by his line in 2x16 when he claims that he is only a hero so he can spend every day by Karaās side (wow, stalkerish, much?) whereas literally everyone else who becomes a hero on the show has said something to the effect of,Ā āI want to be/I am a hero because I want to help people.ā
So WHY would Mangy-Flea say that Karaās refusal to run away is annoying? Because it means heāll never be able to get her to run away with him and thus isolate her totally. He canāt take the easy way out there and has to actually be a little more devious in order to get her away from her support system. Which requires work and we all know how much he LOVES having to do any kind of work.
Anyway, thatās what Iām deciding to focus on for Day 2: Most Abusive Moment(s) for Kremlin Annihilation Week. Isolation.