Supergirl (TV Series) City of Lost Children (2017) User Reviews

New Daxam

[ThomasDrufke · 7/10 · 8 May 2017]

Well, it's about time we've had some movement on season two's big bad. It seems as though it will indeed be Mon-El's mother, Rhea. Her, and an all too unaware Lena managed to bring an entire race of Daxamites to National City by episode's end.

I actually thought there was a chance we were going to get another filler episode as Guardian seemed to be taking center stage. Luckily, that wasn't necessarily the case. However, James did play a role in guiding a young alien boy while he was being controlled by Rhea's device. Which brings me to my big question after watching this episode. Does Rhea even know that she's controlling that alien race of people in National City? There didn't seem to be any indication whether she even realized that was a consequence of her trying to open the Daxam portal. It's strange that they wouldn't clarify one way or another.

That boy wasn't the only one feeling a powerless. In fact, it seemed like the theme of the episode was feeling powerless. Guardian was feeling like nobody wanted him (seriously though?), the race of people were being controlled without their will, Lena was completely clueless, and Supergirl could do nothing to stop an entire alien invasion. Hey, at least they aren't turning this Luthor into a full-blown villain….yet.

Overall, this was a nice set-up episode that feels like part 1 of a bigger story. The idea of having Rhea's big plan being just an invasion and essentially General Zod's arc from Man of Steel seems lame, but I'm optimistic. Let's just hope they don't botch the last few episodes, because this season has actually been a pleasant surprise for the most part.

+Movement on the "big bad"

+Lena isn't aware

-Why the Guardian stuff now?

7.7/10

Supergirl - S02E20 City of Lost Children

[j_forbesy · 6/10 · 10 May 2017]

This interview is going to be short and sweet because my enjoyment of this show at the moment is short but defiantly not sweet. Is this called Supergirl or the Guardian Chronicles, or Mon-el Family Dramas. This show makes me sad because this season started on such a high but now it has equated to nothing more than a borefest. People give seasons 3 and 4 of Arrow flack for what they produced, but at least in those seasons they had an end goal, you could see the direction the show was going, despite how it was executed, you could sum up want those seasons were about and who the big bad was.

We are 2 episodes away from the end and this is the first time I can identify who the big bad is for this season, and that moment came in the dying minutes of this episode. I think the Mon-el family drama story had potential to be something for this season, but if it was, they would of had to establish that they were the big bad mid season, not 3 episodes from the end. At this point, I feel that Rhea and her whole story line of wanting Mon-el back has be rushed in front of use before our eyes and has be made as the make-shift big bad for this season. My question is what is Cadmas doing. This season started on fire when Cadmas was the big bad, however they have seemed to drop completely off the radar as if they never existed.

Touching on James and everything with Guardian, this is a tough one because I think this was a nice story arc they laid out for James, but not at this point of the season. Firstly, my care for Guardian dropped off real quick so it has been a long time since I have cared about this part of the show. Secondly, if they wanted to nail this Guardian arc, they should of had it when James first became Guardian. At this point it feels like Guardian has been around forever and to be having what should be a character defining moment so late in the season just didn't work.

Overall, this episode did very little towards trying to save this season for me. The slide in this show's enjoyment is steepening and steepening. I don't care about the big bad, and the big bad I did care about at the start of this season is no where to be found. If this episode had come out after a few solid episode, my rating for it would be a lot nicer, but at this point, my disappointment in this season is going to be reflected in the ratings.

6/10

Worst episode to date. Awful dialogue.

[tenly-98797 · 3/10 · 12 May 2017]

I'm a fan of the series and have enjoyed most episodes but this one was so bad I had to leave a review warning others. Where to start? Well, firstly, I realize that this is science FICTION and it is our responsibility as viewers to accept certain things that are not normally possible - in order to advance an entertaining story - but Leena Luthor - a successful and accomplished CEO whining that their project, didn't work on the first try and being exasperated enough to quit and walk away from it in the early, experimental stages is way beyond credulity. And her line "...but what if it DOESN'T work?" is just completely ridiculous. It's not something that a person in her role would EVER say! She knows how research and development works and she knows what happens to projects that "don't work". This episode makes her look and sound like an incompetent 4th grade schoolgirl - not an experienced, successful CEO of a large company. Her self-doubt is inconsistent with her character and extremely inappropriate.

The rude way that James Olsens offer of help is turned down is not believable and out of character for the Martian dude. Throughout this episode, the self- doubt that so many different characters experience - and the various and far too numerous "you can do it", "I believe in you" and "you just need to believe in yourself" interactions in this episode made me want to vomit. I expect that sort of thing in "Once Upon A Time" and other Disney offerings - but I expected more from Supergirl. More consistent behavior from main characters, more adult dialog between characters and more Sci-fi/Superhero approaches to problem resolution are required. Whoever wrote this episode seems like they were lazy or lacked imagination - or possibly both.

Oh - and the other inconsistent and unbelievable thing I almost forgot to mention - was everyone in the show instantly calling the actions of the alien Mother (and then later, her son) - as "an attack"! In any other episode, that would have been labeled an "incident". And when the damage was done to the newspaper building - caused by the child - somebody also called it "an attack". Clearly there was no motive for any of the destruction - but instantly, their is a universal consensus that the mother is a terrorist and that her actions - as random as they appeared to be - were an "attack" of some sort.

There were plenty more examples of bad writing throughout this episode. I hope things are back to normal next week. This weeks episode was extremely, very not good. I hope this weeks script was an anomaly and look forward to better episodes in the future.