Survivors and Monster, Supergirl and the Flash update:
It’s not that I don’t like Arrow…I just don’t talk about
Arrow. Because I don’t want to.
I do want to talk about this weeks’ episodes of Supergirl
and the Flash.
In Survivors we get more backstory on Mon-El (is “El” like a
common name on Krypton and Daxum? Like
Smith?) and a little more of his personality.
We also follow the teams investigation of the Alien Fight Club run by
none other than Roulette.
When translating a character from page to screen, sometimes
it can be hit or miss…but they completely nailed Roulette. The revelation that Miss Martian was
participating in the fight club wasn’t all that shocking, we knew pretty
quickly that she had some secrets and I would have preferred they dragged that
out a bit, but I guess they wanted to get it over and done with soon so they
could get into her next shocking secret.
If you haven’t actually seen the episode, I won’t spoil it for you, but
it explains why she didn’t want to mind meld with Hank.
Kara’s budding friendship with Lena Luthor, while
convenient, does kind of smack of “Smallville”, letting us know that it’s going
to emotionally hurt Kara when she discovers Lena is a villain. I mean, she’s probably going to be a
villain. Probably.
The ended was good enough, it tied up pretty well as well as
showing that Roulette would be back to trouble the girl of steel again. Again, this was a pretty strong episode from
a show that hasn’t had a bad episode this season. But was it good as the Flash with “Monster”
No, no it wasn’t.
This week’s Flash touched on a lot of different notes, but all carried
the same message: Fear can make you do strange things. Caitlin fears what her powers are turning her
into, Joe fears entering an intimate relationship, Barry fears he’s not in
control of his life (when has he ever been in control?), Cisco fears the new
Harry, or H.R. if you will, H.R. fears that he’s actually a fraud, and our
weekly villain fears being a victim for the rest of his life.
The biggest reveal comes from Julian however, as he is so
driven to solve the case that he nearly kills the teenage hacker responsible
for the monster menacing Central City.
Finally after having his soul saved by the Flash, he comes clean with
Barry that he lashes out because too is scared of the unknown and unpredictable
meta-humans. Barry invites him for a
drink, which both men could probably really use.
So the monster in this episode was, clearly fear. Many critics are calling this a filler
episode but I disagree. This is a
developing episode. It creates character
development while planting seeds that may take root in later episodes. Like, who is this kid that created the
holographic monster? Will we see him
again? (as of right now I have no idea
who the character is supposed to be and all my research into the cast just
lists him as “kid”). I’d hate for him to
be a one off character.
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