#sg analysis

I think she is worried, she is worried about her worries before that she overlooked because “life is too short”. And that “fresh off the boat” relationships never work and Alex is so important to her that she is worried. Her worries of “i don’t think you’re ready for this”. She is worried that Alex is not ready to be in a relationship and she cares about Alex to much for things to not work out due to “jumping in too soon”. She is worried to get her heart invested even more because when Alex told her “this is a mistake..you have to go” you can see how much it hurt Maggie. You could see her heart sink into her chest and the tears starting to push to the surface before she made her exit saying, “Okay, got it. See you, Danvers” . So, she is worried and is fighting a battle with herself. If she loses Alex, it will break her. She doesn’t meet many people she cares about, and she cares about Alex…a lot. 

you have kara allude to her incredibly rich backstory when she tells m*n-el to “forget about you and me” and think about the second chance that he’s getting, this chance that she would do anything to have for herself but will never, ever get. it’s a reminder that this opportunity being presented to him is bigger than their relationship, bigger than redeeming himself in kara’s eyes. it’s his family, and the show failed to mention that he’s also getting the chance to rebuild his planet when kara’s literally exploded into pieces.

how can you then have him go to his parents and tell them to get the hell out because kara taught him to be better? isn’t that just throwing everything kara told him right back into her face???

she hates what the white martians did to the greens and wishes she was a green by extension. it's also about hiding from her past and her pursuers. some people read it as a trans metaphor

I get the biggest smile on my face thinking about how Chyler and Floriana are so supportive, encouraging, and just so wonderful. They make me love their characters, sanvers, and the show so much more. Tagging things like #representationmatters. Which i believe was one of the trends Clexakru made trend World Wide. Like, it is making me feel like the pain that I went through earlier this year will not be for nothing. We are being heard. 

I think you aren’t alone in having trouble connecting with Maggie. I’ve gotten frustrated trying to explain why I love and connect with Maggie so much to people that are like “I’m not feeling her”. But I’m hopeful that this show will now be able to dive deeper into Maggie and her past. I feel like in order for us to get to know more about Maggie, and it to make sense for her characterization and story how it is centered around the Danvers, she needed to be connected to Alex in a more personal emotionally vulnerable manner. Maggie is a character that is very guarded and does not open up easily.  Now that Alex and Maggie are together it now makes more sense, in a the story, to have Maggie open up to Alex and we, as the audience, will then see more about Maggie and her past. We are able to see Alex’s POV and verbal confessions about how she feels about Maggie more than how Maggie feels about Alex. I think this is leading to people thinking Alex is more invested into this relationship than Maggie. However, I think that is farrrrr farrrrr from the truth. I will explain this more in this post. Now that they are dating, I can see them showing Alex and Maggie on a date, or just hanging out, where we learn more about Maggie’s past and who she is as Alex learns more. Then during this, some alien incident interrupts them then there is forward progression in the story surround “Supergirl” as a whole. Make sense?  

So, some people connect with Maggie with the small amount of information we have about Maggie, while others don’t. I’m with the former that does connect with her. A lot of it is due to “filling in the blanks” with the small information we have been given. We have only been given a little bit of Maggie’s past, but with it, I have drawn a lot of meta and conclusions about Maggie’s psychology, past, etc. The first information we get about Maggie is that she feels like an outcast. She felt like an outcast growing up and that feeling followed it’s way into her adulthood. From this confession of feeling like an out cast I have concluded that she grew up alone without many friends and got side looks from people growing up non-white and non-straight in Blue Springs, Nebraska. She was also probably called names and was probably called a “freak”. She was also she was socially outcasted from sleepovers and girls would treat her differently in gym class because she was a lesbian. I think she developed a complex about her self-worth and she throws herself into her work to prove to herself that she does have value. 

The worst thing someone can call you is a negative belief you already believe about yourself. And during her last break up, I believe her ex knew just what to say to hurt Maggie the most, and it reinforced some negative thoughts she has about herself. Thoughts that she is “borderline sociopathic, hard-headed, insensitive, etc. All of these things are due to her childhood and not being close to people and/or being constantly hurt by people. Maggie doesn’t open up and she keeps her cards close. I see Maggie having a complex about “i look good from afar, but when you get close…i will disappoint you”. We see her being surprised and not knowing how to respond to Alex when she so freely compliments her. Behind Maggie’s smiles is a girl that was a social outcast growing up and never felt like she belonged. 

I won’t dive deep into my childhood/adolescence, but feeling like an outcast and alone is something I feel a lot. When you have lived most of your life being alone, you are used to it. It is comfortable. I think people who didn’t have any close friends, or friends in general, will understand this and might be the ones that are connecting with Maggie due to this. Being picked last in gym class, praying that the teacher will assign groups instead of letting people choose, being the butt of someone’s cruel joke constantly, etc. I think that is what Maggie went through as a kid and it is something I did too. Maggie has shut herself off from most people. “I don’t do well with partners” “I do like [aliens] more than most humans. I can relate to them.” This is why Maggie’s confession to Alex in 2x07 is SO monumental for her character. She is telling Alex that she cares for her…a lot AND that she doesn’t want to imagine her life without Alex in it. For someone who is comfortable being alone, and has not had many friends or people in her life that she counts on and is connected to, this is monumental. Her voice shaking saying “i care about yOU…alot” shows just how vulnerable she is in this moment. This is unfamiliar territory for Maggie. She doesn’t know what to do with her feelings. She cares about Alex so much that she doesn’t want to lose her….she keeps her at arms length because when people get close, they leave. They always do. 

Other things that I have concluded about her is that she doesn’t want to be a burden on people so she secludes herself. “I appreciate the beer and pool, but I think I need to go home and drink something a little harder and lose my cool. See you later.” Also, we see her playing pool by herself quite a few times then going to the bar by herself. It is something that is natural. Being alone and entertaining herself. I think a scene that emphasizes how Maggie legit has no one is the scene where Alex is surrounded by Kara, Winn, and James and we see Maggie in the background walking into the bar and then again when she shows up at Kara’s. I am looking forward to Maggie having more a “family” as she gets closer to Alex and eventually becomes part of “Team Super”.

Side note: I personally love how they are moving Sanvers along quickly into a relationship and not doing the “pining angst”. Yeah, that’s all and good, but I think that type of angst has been overdone and doesn’t really add to the relationship, but more just emotionally manipulating the audience. They are going to be showing us the angst and bumps INSIDE their relationship and giving us substance. Pining angst isn’t really “substance” in my book. Plus, with Alex and Maggie being older, having this “teen drama” type of pining angst is just not normally a thing. Maggie did have legitimate reasons for not jumping into a relationship with Alex right away, and that was due to her wanting Alex to find herself and it not only be due to Maggie. Maggie helped Alex realize all the repressed things she had been feeling. “And now I realize that it wasn’t about you, but it is about me living my life.” Once Alex realized that, that is when Maggie was like “@self, stop this. You like her, she likes you. Stop getting in the way of your own happiness!” and that is when we see Maggie nervously go over to Alex’s apartment and kiss her. (god, I’m not over that scene and how cute it was and just…i love them!!!)  And as i am writing this I’m listening to “Coming home”.  The lyrics…“I’m standing still with nothing in my way, Letting me go so I can find myself again.” are Maggie getting out of her own way of being happy. 

Okay, I’ll try my best...

When the show first starts we see that Clark is a baby (about 10-12 months old I would say) and Kara is 13 years old when they are put in their pods and sent to earth. But then, we find out that Kara’s pod was sent off course into a phantom zone where space and time do not exist and she was there for 24 years until she landed on earth and was still 13.

“Krypton’s destruction sent a shock wave that knocked my pod off course and into the Phantom Zone. A region in space where time doesn’t pass. I slept there for 24 years until somehow I got here. When I arrived, I was still a 13-year-old girl.”