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| Snapper Carr, occasional snark god. |
Finally, the unemployed life is starting to pall on Kara, as an
uncharacteristic slump in world peril means that being Supergirl is no longer
picking up the slack left by the absence of CatCo.
Into this void walks Lena Luthor, looking for some gal time to get her
head in the game for a reunion with the one that got away, a former business,
research and romantic partner Jack Spheer (played by iZombie's Rahul Kohli.)
Spheer has perfected the design that they never could in their time together,
before the call of L-Corp, and produced swarming 'BioMax(1)' medical nanites
which can repair any ailment without surgery or anaesthesia. This is all pretty
shiny, and Spheer seems keen to relight old flames, but the journalist in Kara
has to look into things, especially since Snapper Carr is doing the same.
Kara and Snapper both meet sources that claim the human trials for
Biomax never happened, before being nano-murdered by BioMax swarms. Sure
enough, breaking into Spheertech's labs (in a double-act with Mon'el which, okay, is adorkable) reveals that the only human trial data
comes from tests that Jack Spheer performed on himself. Recalling that there
were side-effects to their prototypes – in particular incredible susceptibility
to suggestion – Lena only twigs too late that Jack is being controlled by his
CFO (played by Timeless's Claudia
Doumit) in an attempt to – dare she say it – rule the world. Kara can't stop
the BioMax swarms, but Lena is able to shut them down, and in the process kill
Jack. This leaves her feeling cold inside – she warns Kara 'when I start to
feel something again, be scared' – at which point Mon-el's mother pops up with
a proposition.
Oh, and Kara gets her job back for doing proper reporting. Yay!
Elsewhere, Guardian is finding plenty of street crime to fight,
although there is a bit of a hiccup when Winn tries to get Lyra involved in the
fighting of crime and James takes exception to her default violence level.
Things threaten to get nasty, but James realises that Winn is kind of
struggling with having multiple friends with different priorities after so long
just hanging with Kara and smooths things over with Lyra so that Winn doesn't
have to choose between his girlfriend and his best friend.
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| Aside from anything else, I'm pro female friendships which don't develop into either romance or nemesis. |
I have to say, I'm not loving the direction they seem to be going with
Lena, which would be to suggest that Luthors are somehow genetically programmed
to react to a significant enough loss by flipping the fuck out and going full supervillain.
I hope it's going to be more nuanced, because honestly that's always going to
be more interesting. Besides, it would be nice for Katie McGrath not to get
stuck in that particular character arc just because she's a natural born femme
fatale. I also like it when the hero says to trust someone and their trust is
rewarded, rather than the cynical voices around them proving the wiser. After
all, we've seen Kara built up as a strong judge of character with the Jeremiah
subplot, so it would seem odd to turn around on that and suggest she's too naive.
(1) A sort of cross between Big
Hero Six's microbots and the name 'BayMax', but more evil.
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