Sloppy episode overall. They had too much going on and the whole PC thing was like being hit over the head with the sharp end of an axe.
I think the story editor should have done what Snapper did with Kara’s article and told the writers to tighten it up and remove the bias.
Things that could’ve been improved:
1. More of Mon El and Kara and Kara’s prejudice against Mon El’s people. I think this should have been the focus of the episode but it got lost in the shuffle.
2. Maggie Sawyer works for Metropolis P.D.’s Special Crime Unit so why not make her character an entirely new tv series only character with the same background? It would have worked better and less awkward in having to explain why she’s working for National City P.D. and not Metropolis.
3.They kinda signaled that the President was going to wind up being an alien from the get go. I mean you could see
it coming as far away as Qonos! I mean she did seem to have ulterior reasons to sign the bill.
4. What the heck was with the alien red headed assassin? I find it hard to believe she wanted to kill the President just because she had a persecution complex. Also was I the only one thinking that S-Girl could really use the help of one
Johnny Storm?
5. Jimmy grow some balls if you’re going to be in charge! I mean even Robbie Robinson at the Daily Bugle wouldn’t have taken as much flack as you did coming from Snapper. And Robbie’s are pretty phlegmatic guy!
6.Finally: why did Kara have to destroy the alien detector? As a Kryptonian wouldn’t her biochemistry be as close to
human as to not matter much. I mean I’m sure they still had some bugs to work out of the system and any abnormalities
could have been blamed on them.
The really good parts of this episode were:
1.The whole in joke about Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane from Lynda Carter.
2. The bar scenes.
3. J’onn meeting the other Green Martian.
Can’t wait to see where they’re going with this. Bet somewhere on the line there’s gonna have to be another intervention.
Oh and is H.R. going to be another Evil Wells?
