Supergirl - 'Blood Bonds'

HahahahaNo.

Picking up from our cliffhanger, Non handily beats Supergirl, but his forces then retreat taking Hank hostage. They offer a trade for Astra, after a scene in which a telepath hilariously tries to extract information from the Martian Manhunter with exactly the same level of success that he used to enjoy in Justice League*. Non also displays a Darth Vader level of management relations expertise, casually offing the telepath for his failure. I strongly suspect that Non will turn out to be a bit of a Kryptonian supremacist on the side.

Max Lord kicks the DEO out of his building, refusing to let them treat it as a crime scene and insisting he'll protect himself. He rebuff's Alex's attempts at peacemaking, essentially ditching her now she isn't useful to him anymore.

"Even when you're right you're a douche about it."

Astra refuses to help Kara, at which point General Sam 'Douchebolt' Lane turns up with a presidential order to take charge of the DEO and get Hank back. This he opts to do by injecting Astra with a solution of Kryptonite.

"We're better than this!" Kara protests.
"We are; they aren't," Lane retorts, because in this man's army (this particular man, I mean) generals aren't required to make sense or be aware of their own hypocrisy.

Astra gives up a location and Lane sends a team, who are all killed by bombs except for one, who is only saved thanks to Supergirl's unauthorised presence on the op.

Most supportive love triangle/bromance ever.

While Kara fends off Cat's attempts to prove that she is Supergirl, James and Wynn launch their own black op to try to break into Max Lord's place and find out what he's up to, with what appears to be a private anti-Kryptonian solution. James gets nabbed and beaten up by Lord, and they are barely able to talk Kara down from going all Justice Lord on his ass. Kara muses that she is beset by a feeling of powerlessness, and is finally able to confront the core of her turmoil: Her aunt's insinuations that her mother let Krypton die.

Thus armed with truth, she is able to get through to Astra and learn that, while Allura did condemn Non and Astra it was not to silence them, but because their methods involved the deaths of innocents. She was committed to saving Krypton, but not at the cost of what made Krypton worth saving.

Finally, Alex and Kara go against Lane's orders to make the hostage exchange. Lane's troops won't fire on Supergirl because she saved one of their own, and the exchange goes off. Non's double-cross is defused by Astra, but not before Kara overhears Alex telling Hank that he may 'have to transform', thus revealing his secret to her.

"Nice to meet me."

"You're from Mars!?"
"You're from Krypton."

Importantly, this allows Kara to deal with at least one of her problems,appearing in front of Cat as herself alongside Supergirl, ably played by our favourite Martian shapeshifter.

After Batman vs. Superman, it's so nice to see a Kryptonian in bright primaries again. In Maxwell Lord and Sam Lane, Supergirl has all the anti-alien suspicion that the film wanted, without having to descend into grim darkness, and maintains Supergirl as a powerful, aspirational figure without having to pitch her as a distant, alien god. Hell, in his fleeting appearances and text messages to his cousin, this series seems to get Superman better than Zack Snyder ever has.

* Seriously, he had a really low hit rate in that show, partly because he has such an awesome power set he has to be forever getting knocked out and shit.