Another reason this season has been a disappointment for me aside from the political undertones and going too soap opera-like is James as this lame Batman-like character. I hope by the end of the season Guradian is done away with. BUT...I did see on social media a BTS picture of a funeral with Superman attending it. I hope, HOPE that this does not mean James is the one who dies in either of the next two episodes. If it is, I would be sad at this because I wanted to give James a chance and I am ready to do so, but just not as Guardian. Besides, the show is called SUPERGIRL. Better writing, please student of Mark Guggenheim?

That said, I do sense a father/son relationship with James and the alien kid once the Guardian stuff lays low. I think though this is a James-centered show, it may not really be a throwaway because there is more on Rhea and Lena's plans and how Mon-El may have snapped and is going to do major harm to his vindictive mother, who killed his father.

And of course poor Lena is the tortured soul in this...I have begged time and again do NOT MAKE LENA GO HEEL!

I think Guardian is scary to people because of the mask/helmet. And to be honest, the mask, the voice, that is a lot more Batman (who intentionally uses fear against his enemies, "I am the night!") than Superman. In that episode where he wrongly gets framed for murder, he was still stringing people up, which was still pretty dark.

I don't know how they can resolve all that though without him taking off his helmet.

I hope this will be the end of James as Guardian as he has a lot on his plate with Catco.

I wonder if James is in the final two episodes of the season.

Okay maybe this episode will be a three-prong fork on the road for the Guardian character. 1) Nothing significant happens and it'll be status quo for him 2) He's seen the light of what damage he has done all along (let's juxtapose the Supergirl series here) and will throw off the helmet 3) like Jacksc01 said he'll submit to be under the leadership of the DEO. I'm open to the latter two.

Being under the DEO he can be an asset. To me what was unappealing with the Guardian was he is answerable to no one, and he's a distraction (both to all the characters and the show itself). It could have been more meaningful if the writers knew where they were going with the character and had planned for this episode early on if J'onn made it clear once in a while how opposed he was to James being in the way as Guardian. To me the writers didn't know what they were getting into by introducing Guardian. (I could be very wrong.)

We'll see how the rest of the series goes from here.

Wow - this looks like it will be a cool episode. This goes back to my thoughts that people fear Guardian because he tends to go off doing his own thing instead of working on cases with SuperGirl and the DEO. This could mean that James gives up being Guardian or it could be a leadway into Guardian becoming part of the DEO (a thought that would be cool because then the Superfriends would still be together). I think that if he goes out on cases with SuperGirl and the DEO, people will recognize him more in the same respect that they hold for SuperGirl. Should be interesting to see which way this turns out for James and the Guardian character. Either way, I hope James the character is here to stay since he is an original and helped SuperGirl become the hero she is today in National City.