On with “The Last Children of Krypton”. Now I have no idea what happened when they moved Supergirl from CBS to CW, but it feels like the creative team is getting to flex some serious muscles and giving Supergirl a punch. Superman is still hanging around National City, though again his presence doesn’t really overshadow Supergirl, so they are balancing it very well. The Kryptonian cousins are flying around saving days and generally annoying the Martian Manhunter, who is still rather unhappy about the Man of Steel’s presence. In case you missed the origin of their conflict, MM is keeping kryptonite at the DEO and Superman isn’t happy about that. Both have very valid reasons for their standpoints on the issue, but honestly I do agree with MM’s logic, though I think more could have been done to safeguard such a rare and important substance.
That’s when John Corbin, sorry, Metallo makes a
comeback. Metallo is a minor villain that’s
made appearances throughout all of Superman fiction, notably in Lois and Clark
and Smallville, and I personally think they handled him better here. More in keeping with the comic book/cartoon
origins of the character he’s been “upgraded” by Cadmus into a kryptonite powered
cyborg who gives the super cousins a run for their money before Supergirl “Terminate
2’s” his hand.
Meanwhile Kara is dealing with major changes at Catco as Cat
Grant is stepping down, appointing Jimmy Olsen in her stead, and Kara is
dealing with her new “boss”, who refuses to acknowledge her as an actual reporter,
much less an employee. Kara does not
deal with change very well.
Cadmus steps up their villain game by launching Metallo 2.0,
in the form of an actual second cyborg and Winn gets creative in generating
armor to protect Superman and Supergirl.
What follows is probably one of the best battles I’ve seen
in the series, not to mention some pretty organic character development for our
major players.
I won’t get into major details but after the predictable
defeat of the Corbin-Metallo, Supergirl uses the cyborg’s camera eyes to issue
a warning to Cadmus. Melissa being
allowed to show that kind of rage and just the pure savagery of using your fallen
opponent to send a message to your enemy was very well done and greatly
appreciated. Please check out the
episode.
We follow this with Season 3 of the Flash, “Magenta”. Iris and Barry are trying to kick start their
romance but Iris is rather stand off-ish of Barry’s fast running ways and wants
to be with “the real Barry.” Predictably
life gets in the way as they are summoned to STAR Labs because a breach has
opened. Lo and behold our favorite
cantankerous scientist Harrison Wells has arrived citing he needs their help to
solve a problem. Namely his daughter
Jesse has become a speedster and he needs their help. Of course he notices some differences in the
Earth 1 lab and comes to the quick and reasonable conclusion that Barry once
again changed the timeline and gives him a little hell for it.
But the team has other problems as a yet unknown metahuman
(named Magenta) has attempted to kill a ban with a light pole. Julian rightly deduces that the man’s adoptive
daughter Frankie is the metahuman and the stress summons forth her alternate
personality Magenta who wreaks havoc in the police department before
escaping. While they are dealing with
Magenta, Wells is on one hand relieved that his daughter is okay, also wants
the team to talk her out of using her powers to save people. Everyone has different reactions to this, and
Wally’s is by far the stupidest as he tries to get the situation to kick start
his own powers, which go over like a lead balloon. Ultimately Barry addresses Wells saying that
he’s the problem with Jesse’s situation and the two men talk about coming to
grips with their various mistakes and the consequences they’ve wrought. Jesse comes to the aide of Barry in the
climax of the episode and the team is left with the question of who the new
villain Dr. Alchemy is and why he’s doing what he’s doing.
Personally I’m loving the new season of both shows and I can’t
wait to see where things are headed.
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