Well here we go! On one hand, it's time to get Supergirl out of the Phantom Zone, David Harewood returns to the directing chair, and the end of maternity leave and quarantining Melissa is finally at an end. This also marks the mid-season finale for the final season of Supergirl. That countdown clock has been reset for the last hiatus we'll ever have. Yikes, that hurts to say. It will only hurt more when we switch the clock to counting up from when Supergirl last aired. But, let's not let that distract us from the 14 fantastic episodes of Supergirl we have remaining! How did Supergirl get out of the Phantom Zone? Did Zor-El join her? Who might be the final villain of the remaining thirteen episodes? Here's what stood out to us:
- Three-Day Trip: Time travel might be possible but Brainy accidentally spent three days back in Midvale with Nia. The team is anxious to get started on their rescue mission. It turns out that the tower is a Martian ship. It has two hours of shields to protect in the Phantom Zone. J'onn does his best Captain Picard impression and Alex takes on her Riker role and demands that the captain stay with the ship and Alex is a better touchstone for Kara than he is. Turbulence frees the Phantom and it infects Alex. Alex double crosses J'onn and traps him in the container. Alex being infected draws the Phantoms to the ship. Alex decides to sacrifice herself for the mission.
- Ten Minutes Earlier: We jump ten minutes into the past and follow Nia and Lena's journey. It seems like each team member is experiencing their worst fears. Alex's was that she couldn't be there for Kara. A coolant leak draws Lena away from the bridge. A water monster begins to attack. She experiences the fear of being alone and then drowning. So a water monster is there to claim Lena's fear.
- Ten Minutes Earlier Part 2: Brainy and Kelly discuss Kelly's grounding technique. This time Kelly and Alex are pealed away from the group and Kelly investigates why her shielding might have gone down. Kelly sees Lena and Dreamer as phantoms. Alex is turned as well in Kelly's vision. It turns out that Kelly's fear is that she doesn't contribute to the super team and that she can't reach her love Alex.
- Ten Minutes Earlier Part 3: After the low power surge Nia is targeted this time. Nia's dream warns something is wrong with the containment system and Brainy begins to doubt her. Her fear is that she can't control her powers and her dreams will put those she loves at risk because she never received the dream training she needs.
- J'onn and Brainy: This time it wasn't clear to see if J'onn and Brainy were affected or not. The rest of the crew looks to be in a fear dream. Brainy is compartmentalizing his fear which we hilariously discover is balloons. He is able to help J'onn but he sees balloons everywhere. J'onn goes to put the Phantom back in containment. If he does that the other might be able to break their fear dreams. J'onn goes god mode on the Phantom and throws fear back upon the Phantom trapping it. The team is able to break their dreams.
In the final wrap up moments, we join Kara as the anchor falls. Kara begins to lose hope for the first time, Zor-El tries to give his daughter hope back. Kara believes that her friends will die if they come to save her. Zor-El tells Kara that he's been healed because of Kara. Kara's hope is restored just as a Phantom army approaches. The Sun bomb goes off and Kara realizes her friends are here. Kara and Zor-El are saved and Nyxly hitches a ride as well.
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It's possible, if we get no breaks in those final 13 episodes. And it would be really nice. However, just based on history, I find getting zero breaks unlikely. And blu-ray/dvd releases are usually 4-5 months after a season wraps.
I'm expecting the final season to drop on disc around March-May, depending on when the final episode actually airs.
Hi Brierrose - Yippur - I will take the longer ending any way I could get it. Being separate from the shown scene is fine as long as we could just see the scene. I am also hoping that the Blu-Ray is out by Christmas.
Quoting CatPat:
... or... they could have given us the longer version Harewood apparently eluded to on CW Seed or the CW app, like they were doing with S&L.
Quoting LibertyPrime:
Agree that the ending scene could have been expanded. I can't find the article at the moment--Harewood said they did shoot a bit more, but it was cut.
I was just thinking it would be great if there was indeed a longer ending if they would add it to the Season 6 DVDs that come out. They could provide both the ending we saw on TV and the longer version that was cut from the final.
... or... they could have given us the longer version Harewood apparently eluded to on CW Seed or the CW app, like they were doing with S&L.
Agree that the ending scene could have been expanded. I can't find the article at the moment--Harewood said they did shoot a bit more, but it was cut.
No need to respond back to this because at least for me - I don't feel what people were asking would have required mass changing in logistics. That would be like me saying the word "Thank" and not saying the word "you" because if I did it would require massive changes to environmental logistics.
As essential as Melissa is to the series, the production is supported by dozens of actors and crew. Denying them seven episodes worth of work and payment would have seemed an odd choice to honor Melissa's choice to start a family.
The first part of this final season is not all that we would have wished for, to be sure. I'm convinced, though, that the powers that be did their best to do right by all involved.
We all know the timeline and we all know that Melissa was out on Maternity leave & needed time for bonding & just being with her newborn. I think they did well the way they were able to blend Melissa's PZ scenes into the beginning episodes. My complaint is that the ending scene of this episode should not have been that short, yet the scenes that were of what people were imagining dragged on forever - this is not unique to this season or episode. Lack of SG has been an intrinsic problem in the show.
I feel that a longer scene was made & cut and the reason I think that is because why else go through the mention of a touchstone that might be needed. However, I and no one else (except the SG staff) can be absolutely sure there was a longer ending that was cut - but I think it was from looking at that very short rushed scene .
So I thank Melissa for working probably extra time to appear in the beginning of these PZ episodes & when she appeared she as always was fantastic - however, for these ending episodes, please give us more SG/Kara, Alex, J'onn and Lena and less of your newer staff. Stop cutting the SG/Danvers sisters scenes short to give us scenes of supporting staff who I think have appeared in saturation now with these beginning episodes. This is the last time we get to see new SG episodes - I'd like to see SuperGirl.
This season overall, I have found Supergirl far more entertaining than other shows in Arrowverse/ CWverse... except for perhaps Superman & Lois, which was off to great start before its hiatus.
Flash has struggled the most since Crisis. Oddly, my favorite episode since was that 90s episode and it had nothing to do with the Flash.
As for Batwoman, I really disliked the direction it took with season 2. (However, the last two episodes have been promising with the return of Kate Kane, now played by Wallis Day.)
Black Lightning falls inbetween these and the Super shows... middle of the pack. (Surprisingly, I really liked the Painkiller episode. He seemed the unlikely choice for a spinoff, but it worked.)
All said, for me, Supergirl has been overall more consistent and more entertaining than its companion series this season (S&L excepted).