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Briany is Sticking Around for Season 4

There is a little over three days left until the finale for season 3 and we are already getting some information about season 4! According to TVLine.com who broke the story, Jesse Rath's character, Brainiac-5 will be sticking around as a series regular for season 4! Comic book fans might know that Briany and Kara were linked romantically in the books and just what is going to keep Briany in our time is yet unknown! Executive Producers Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller had this to say about the change:

We love the character of Brainiac-5 and can’t imagine anyone but Jesse Rath in the role. He brings such fun, heart and brilliance to Brainy, and we’re so excited he’s joining the cast as a series regular for season 4. We have a lot of great Brainy stories to tell.

What could this mean going into the finale less than four days away? We'll find out soon! Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and in the forum! Keep us advertisement free and help send us to comic con to cover all the news by visiting the support page!

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+2 #31 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4lucykit97 2018-06-17 14:39
I've never read the comics, but I like the Brainiac-5 character, and Jesse Rath does a really good job with it, so I'm glad he's sticking around ...
#30 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4Sully 2018-06-17 07:38
Quoting muckle9999:
I don't think that the Monty and Kara relationship was a mistake and it certainly wasn't defined by that role. Just look where Monty was back in season 2 and now look where he is.

And there will never be a connection spark between Brainy and Kara like there was and is between Monty and Kara. The chemistry is undeniable. My God, they are dating in real life.
My post had nothing to do with the relationship itself. The pros or cons of that topic are completely subjective. My point was that Mon-El has served no other role on the show besides being Kara's love interest. He was introduced purely to be her love interest, which was evident from the beginning and confirmed by mid-season last year but, his life outside of Kara has never been allowed to fully develop. Season 2, his role was Kara's boyfriend and Supergirl's cheerleader. Season 3, he is part of the Legion and married, yet neither of those roles have had more than a few minutes depicted. Instead, this season, he has again been relegated to being Kara's shadow. If Mon-El was only a recurring character, this would be a normal track for his character. But, he's not.

Chemistry and Melissa and Chris' relationship are irrelevant. That is real life and this is a fictional television show and as such, it requires more than emotional character maturation to make the character rounded and believable. My hope is that with Brainiac, they actually put in the groundwork for him to be a strong character on the show, establishing a life and role for him outside of Kara before pairing him up - if that's what they choose to do.
#29 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4Captain Past 2018-06-16 21:39
Quoting Eire El:
Yes, but the problem arises when you take into account how time travel in the Berlantiverse works, how DC Legends describe time simular to the way Doctor Who describes it, that certain events are always set or should not be interfered with, other events are in flux and only to be set when interfered with by the hero or villain. Interesting that the Blight was not one of the preset events.

This leaves a paradox for all Berlantiverse time travelers that for every year that they stay out of their own time they reset there own timeline to die a year earlier than if the character was never introduced to time travel in the first place.

One way to stop this is for characters to return to their own time the same amount of years later that matches the time they spent traveling.


As I said Morbid Maths.

Quoting Captain Past:

He would in your example experience 90 years of life, five here and 86 in the 30th century.


There is only a problem if they use time travel to interfere with their original time travel. So long as they time line started out with them time travelling, they would always have died at that 85 point. An amusing effect of stopping the blight in our century is that Mon-El and Imra might never have married. Poor Imra reappears and has to explain to Mon-El that he is not now and never has been her husband.
+4 #28 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4SuperMatt 2018-06-16 11:13
I do like Brainy a lot, hopefully they can give him a story arc in next season.
+2 #27 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4muckle9999 2018-06-16 11:09
Quoting Sully:
In the small amount of screen time that I saw, I liked the character of Brainy. But, I do have a couple of wishes regarding his addition. One, I hope that he isn't being brought in as yet another love interest for Kara. I would like to believe that the writers have learned from their mistake with the last two characters who were solely defined by that role. Give the character some depth, let him integrate into the cast without forcing a relationship. Then, if a connection begins to spark, let it happen naturally, over time. And second, I hope that he doesn't become the typical caricature of every future/robotic individual who ends up traveling back in time.


I don't think that the Monty and Kara relationship was a mistake and it certainly wasn't defined by that role. Just look where Monty was back in season 2 and now look where he is.

And there will never be a connection spark between Brainy and Kara like there was and is between Monty and Kara. The chemistry is undeniable. My God, they are dating in real life.
#26 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4Eire El 2018-06-16 09:24
Yes, but the problem arises when you take into account how time travel in the Berlantiverse works, how DC Legends describe time simular to the way Doctor Who describes it, that certain events are always set or should not be interfered with, other events are in flux and only to be set when interfered with by the hero or villain. Interesting that the Blight was not one of the preset events.

This leaves a paradox for all Berlantiverse time travelers that for every year that they stay out of their own time they reset there own timeline to die a year earlier than if the character was never introduced to time travel in the first place.

One way to stop this is for characters to return to their own time the same amount of years later that matches the time they spent traveling.


As I said Morbid Maths.

Quoting Captain Past:

He would in your example experience 90 years of life, five here and 86 in the 30th century.
#25 Time travel.Captain Past 2018-06-16 07:32
Quoting Eire El:
This point of view within scifi (writers messing with relativity) has always puzzled me in a mathematical (morbid thoughts) way. We're born, we live a given number of years depending on our health (baring acident) and we die. Imagine if Brainy's body were to live a long healthy life to 90 years old (time travel or not) Wouldn't this mean that Brainy would die at 85 years old when his body is 90? In other words he dies 5 years earlier than his actual age possibly due to his telomeres?

Quoting Captain Past:

With time travel, Brainiac can spend five years here, and then go back a couple of minutes after he left, so that the Legion is not deprived of his presence.


He would in your example experience 90 years of life, five here and 86 in the 30th century.
#24 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4Eire El 2018-06-16 05:41
This point of view within scifi (writers messing with relativity) has always puzzled me in a mathematical (morbid thoughts) way. We're born, we live a given number of years depending on our health (baring acident) and we die. Imagine if Brainy's body were to live a long healthy life to 90 years old (time travel or not) Wouldn't this mean that Brainy would die at 85 years old when his body is 90? In other words he dies 5 years earlier than his actual age possibly due to his telomeres?

Quoting Captain Past:

With time travel, Brainiac can spend five years here, and then go back a couple of minutes after he left, so that the Legion is not deprived of his presence.
+2 #23 RE: Brainy is Sticking Around for Season 4csi cameron 2018-06-15 21:49
I’m gonna say it. I’d rather Mehcad be part time. It’s not like his character does much anyway. Does he even actually work at Catco? :D Winn better get those non lethal weapons and shields made fast I guess.

I’m actually excited to see more of Brainy. But not as a love interest for Kara.
+1 #22 Time Travel.Captain Past 2018-06-15 19:55
Quoting starlord:
I like Jesse as Brainy But in the expense of Chris and Jeremy. I say hell no. And Why is Amy Jackson not being promoted too. How will Legion function without Brainy in the future. I don’t get this


With time travel, Brainiac can spend five years here, and then go back a couple of minutes after he left, so that the Legion is not deprived of his presence.


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