Supergirl Season 4 Hypothesis

What the what! So I guess I was wrong because it appears to be our Kara in that suit. I can't wait to find out the story behind it.

I disagree that the show doesn't have a good track record when it comes to costumes. Kara's skirted suit is always highly rated among TV supersuits. Tyler's Superman suit was well received. Of the many complaints about Martian Manhunter his suit is not one of them. Mon-El's caped suit was great. I know some were disappointed in Saturn Girl and Brainy's Legion suits but I thought they were fine. I suspect the reason Mon-El had a more "comic accurate" suite while the others didn't is he was originally going to get his suit in season two, Chris Wood alluded to this, so they were able to pull that one out of wardrobe. I would have made one adjustment to Odette's Reign suit but Purity and Pestilence's suits rocked. I'll admit Cyborg Superman was a rare miss.

It might be Kara but it is not Original Melissa cuz she ain't filming yet, so that's what I meant by it being maybe a stunt performer or cheap version of the suit for the stand in...I like Supergirl and Superman's suit, the rest were underwhelming, and did not like Mon-el's version, too puffy and his cap was oversized to the point it was distracting whenever he tried to walk (you could see the actor leaning far over like it made him off balance?). Don't get me started on Brainiac the Maniac's getup.

What the what! So I guess I was wrong because it appears to be our Kara in that suit. I can't wait to find out the story behind it.

I disagree that the show doesn't have a good track record when it comes to costumes. Kara's skirted suit is always highly rated among TV supersuits. Tyler's Superman suit was well received. Of the many complaints about Martian Manhunter his suit is not one of them. Mon-El's caped suit was great. I know some were disappointed in Saturn Girl and Brainy's Legion suits but I thought they were fine. I suspect the reason Mon-El had a more "comic accurate" suite while the others didn't is he was originally going to get his suit in season two, Chris Wood alluded to this, so they were able to pull that one out of wardrobe. I would have made one adjustment to Odette's Reign suit but Purity and Pestilence's suits rocked. I'll admit Cyborg Superman was a rare miss.

Of course it’s not Melissa in that suit. But the doubles have thier own skirted suits that are just like Melissa’s and they don’t normally put them in special suits for stunts. I believe there’s going to be a story behind that suit besides being a convenient way to film without Melissa.

I'm one who would be okay with Kara getting a new suit but, if this is what they've come up with as an upgrade then, no. Stick with the original. This combination NFL/Robocop/PowerRanger suit is ridiculous.

Ok. So. Question....

If they're going with Red Son/Red Daughter and nature vs. nurture... how's that concept gonna work? Wasn't she created when Supergirl, Reign, and Sam all touched the Hara Nel (spelling??) at the same time; and thus, the new Kara is already grown up and didn't actually grow up in Russia? Would it possibly mean the Hara Nel didn't split Kara or create a new Kara, but simply brought the new Kara from a different earth? Or... could this have actually happened from Kara's time travel?

Good questions to which we don't have answers. I do think the Russian Kara is due to the haron el not time travel because we saw the smoke both when our Kara touched the haron el and when the second Kara appears. I'm trying to find a source but I seem to remember reading somewhere that Jessica Queller used the term "blank slate Kara". Total speculation but what if the second Kara is a clone created when our Kara touched the haron el and she has our Kara's core personality but no memories. Kinda like someone with severe amnesia.

If it's a nature vs. nurture concept, I don't know that the Russian Kara would even have a personality as there is a debate that personality may be developed through environment, too. If a blank slate is what Queller stated, then my prediction is that this Kara is equivalent to a newborn and that the plan is for the show to use the two Kara's to depict the difference in attitude, beliefs, approach and personality of a person who is imprinted by an rigid, authoritarian type environment and one that has been raised in a more open, democratic type environment. Kind of like a twin-study in psychology.