[Dr Kain]

So we spent the afternoon watching episodes 15-20 of Supergirl and overall, they've been a mixed bag.

The one with Cadmus kidnapping aliens was not bad, but my god I am getting sick of seeing Henshaw. Can they make his mask look any more over the top in silliness? I just can't take him seriously at all. In fact, if I were Supergirl I would break down in laughter whenever I saw him. It's kind of sad that a movie from the 80s can pull off a better looking cyborg face than a TV series made 30+ years later. My biggest complaint of the episode though was how Maggie pretty much stood by Alex regardless of her feelings. LIke seriously? God that was dumb. I also got a laugh out of Lena when her actress broke into her accent. That was pretty funny. Lastly, whole subplot with Lyra was meh.

The next two episodes with Mon-El's parents were decent, but highly predictable. Good god, what happened to you Kevin Sorbo? You've been reduced to minor character cameos. How the mighty Hercules has fallen. Oh, and good god was that mind battle with MM and the other dude hilarioiusly bad, but not a good kind of hilarious. This is why when you have a mind battle, you actually show the people fight inside the mind. There are so many jokes you can make with their facial reactions due to how stupid that scene was.

Finally, the episode with Ravi from iZombie was hands down the best episode of the season. Now that was a damn good episode! It wasn't perfect since the subplot with Lyra was all over the place (she just goes ape shit on Winn for no reason), but it was a highly enjoyable episode. I don't know why, I really like Lena and I hope they don't dive into the generically overdone, "She's a Luthor so she has to be evil" plotline that they keep hinting at. I really hope this show does better.

BTW, it just dawned on me that Alex's dad is played by the dude who played Superman in Lois and Clark. lol

Not sure how I feel about episode 19 as it feels like they ripped off the plot to The Cell, but forgot to add in all of the 90s Marilyn Manson kick ass visuals that makes that movie watchable. The whole plan was flawed but I couldn't help but get a kick out of Alex's comment about not wiping her punch from the dude's memory. Oh, and I'm glad to see Lena wasn't an idiot.

As for the next one, it was nice to finally see Jimmy actually get an episode that didn't feel like they forced him into it. The stuff they did with him was kind of touching. Unfortunately, the invasion plot feels like they are just copying last season's finale, just with Dax instead of Krypton. I hope it is at least played out well.

Oh, and I really want a screen shot of the scene when the queen says, "Lena, you're a marvel," but then it is followed by, "But I'm a DC," and then a picture of Lillian saying, "She's adopted." That would be hilarious.