Is it just me, or was Jon Cryer wearing a bald cap this week? And, like, an obvious one at that? Was I just seeing things, or did he actually wear one? I'm confused. I know he's shaved his head for this role in the past, but I'm fairly sure that he had a bald cap on, and it was not hidden well.
That question aside, I couldn't decide if I wanted to rate this episode a 1 or a 5. It's nowhere above a 5, certainly, but the episode has at least a bit of merit with the Phantom Zone scenes, and the fact that the writers fixed Nia and Brainy after what they did to them in season 5. The majority of this episode is complete garbage though.
For one, there's this weird one-off character, Silas, who's only there so we can have a gay vampire on screen for some reason. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. That's literally the extent of his character. Moving on.
I guess we'll talk about Nia and Brainy next and save the worst part of this episode for last. Nia and Brainy have reverted to form, which is a very welcome change for both of them. Nia's struggling with things again, and her and Brainy clearly still have some chemistry and are desperately in love with each other again. Good for them. After last episode I was thinking that I was over these two, but that scene of Brainy and Nia training was enough to get me into this relationship again. Clearly, the writers realized what they did, and retconned Nia's character back in line.
Okay, time to address the elephant in the room. Lex Luthor's trial in which he admits to all the crimes he committed, and somehow gets off scot-free. I'm not the only one who saw him admit to everything he's being accused of, right? Like, that scene with him and Lena in the courthouse happened, right? Well, I guess the writers wrote that scene, Jon Cryer and Katie McGrath filmed that scene, and then in the very next scene the writers pretended that scene never existed? Remember in Arrow when Quentin Lance admitted to working with Damien Darhk, and on the strength of his testimony alone, Darhk went to prison? Yeah, the Supergirl writers attempted the same thing here with Lena admitting to everything she did wrong, but then backed out of sending Lex to prison at the last moment. This entire courtroom plotline made me want to vomit with how stupid it was, and yet it was still better than "The Trial of the Flash" in Flash's fourth season. I wholeheartedly believe that's the worst episode of the entire Arrowverse. Nothing in that courtroom makes sense, people are speaking out of turn, THE WHEELCHAIR NOT BEING AT BARRY'S APARTMENT IS COMPLETLEY IGNORED, which would've been damning evidence in favor of Barry's case mind you... Huh, most of that stuff happens in this episode too, huh? So I guess the Arrow writers are still the only Arrowverse writers that know how a courtroom works, huh?
There was one silver lining with this episode, and that's the scenes in the Phantom Zone. I like the guy that they got to play Zor-El. His monotone voice and stature really sells him being this broken man just trying to stay alive for no other reason than to stay alive. Kara giving him hope was also nice. That's what she does. I really didn't expect this plotline to last past this episode, but I guess we're getting more Phantom Zone. Nice. Definitely not lasting more than two episodes though.
All in all, this episode was terrible, but it had moments of merit. The courtroom was all over the place, and I guess that conversation about Alex telling Kelly that Kara is Supergirl happened offscreen, but the Phantom Zone stuff is super cool thus far, and Nia and Brainy are back on track. Couldn't decide whether or not to rate this episode a 1, so I'll give it a 3 for now, and meditate on that for a while.
3 / 10.
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