Supergirl, Season 3, Episode 15: In Search of Lost Time

The B-plots here... not too much either. We get to see Mon-El's new costume, which is... um... yeah, at least they're trying to be accurate to Mon-El's comic-book counterpart. But the entire bit is just a couple of exchanges of the pent-up sexual tension between Kara and Mon-El, which honestly just feels stretched thin. I get that both Kara and Mon-El have to work with their complex feelings for each other, and in this episode Kara is forced to essentially go crazy and tear Mon-El a new one for being an ass in the past? That Kara is romanticizing the relationship they have at the end of the second season? It's a neat observation, except for the fact that, y'know, Mon-El has apologized multiple times in the past for being an ass, and Kara has had her ass moments as well in the relationship, making this huge 'wow' revelation fall flat on its face. Plus, so much of the episode's interactions has been cape tricks and just 'rawr forced romantic tension!' that like the M'yrnn storyline, the lack of subtlety and focusing on the wrong aspect of an otherwise interesting plot point makes the episode a fair bit less enjoyable than it should.
Meanwhile, Lena and Sam... is even more obviously stretching for time. The whole point of Sam is to ask Lena to help, but she's so angry and refuses every single diagnosis from Lena, causing us to have this long, convoluted and drawn-out scenes of Lena angsting, Lena asking help from James, Lena goading Sam, before we reach a conclusion that really shouldn't have taken this long to reach. It feels out of character for the otherwise intelligent Sam.
DC Easter Eggs Corner:
- Among the prisoners in the DEO are one of the White Martians (possibly the one that impersonated a senator from season one), Draaga (last seen in season two's "Survivors") and Mandrax (last seen in season two's "Star-Crossed"). Agent Demos, a minor recurring character from season two, also makes a brief, prolonged appearance here fighting with Winn.
- Mon-El's new costume is, of course, based on his comic-book counterpart Valor's superhero suit.
- "The son becomes the father and the father the son" is quoted from Superman: The Movie. Kara even attributes the quote to Jor-El. And, of course, it's repeated like nearly a dozen times throughout the episode.
- Zook the fifth dimensional imp is noted by M'yrnn and J'onn as being his imaginary friend as a kid. In the comics, Zook was J'onn's sidekick in the Golden Age (where a lot of characters have their own personal fifth-dimensional imp sidekick), and was erased from continuity during Crisis of Infinite Earths.
- The psychic alien that was taken down early in the episode is identified as a Kalanorian, which is the race that the DC comics villain Despero hails from. Despero, as you can imagine, is an alien with psychic powers. The Kalanorians tend to be portrayed as having pink skin and head fins, though.
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