I started watching this. It got really lame really quick. Too bad the creators can’t be more original and have to piggy back on someone else’s Idea. But this after all about turning Superman into a Girl.
To be fair supergirl’s been around since the 1950s as a DC character in the comics. My big drawback has been the modification of other characters such as Jimmy Olsen and Snapper Carr.
Supergirl was to get girls interested in comics.
A bit of a correction, and I also agree about changing characters is a stupid idea, but they didn’t turn Superman into a girl. There is an actual DC Comics character called Supergirl. She’s the cousin of Superman, named Kara Zor-El, you can read up on her here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(Kara_Zor-El)
Or for the character in general, you can read it up here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl
While DC and Marvel have been guilty of altering various characters for the sake of diversity, which is most certainly irritating to say the very least, Supergirl is not one of those cases, as she already existed well beforehand as an actual separate character from Superman (at most being genetically related).
As far as this episode, honestly, I wasn’t exactly happy at the fact that they made the president a woman since it was pretty clear that they were trying to influence the election cycle (probably my only surprise is that they didn’t make her blonde to make the intended person for the 2016 election cycle more apparent.). And considering this episode was the start of the “complete dreck of turning Alex Danvers into a lesbian” arc (despite the fact that Alex Danvers was never even IMPLIED to be a lesbian in the first season), not to mention the whole Maggie and Alex date arc (look, if they genuinely wanted a gay character in the series, they should have stuck with Maggie as being an on-again off-again character and have them just being friends without actually turning Alex into a lesbian, because at least Maggie was actually a lesbian in the comics. And even she I’m pretty irritated with largely because she was a blonde butch in the comics, NOT a Hispanic. The only lesbian Hispanic character in the comics was Renee Montoya) I’m also irritated about it overall, and, yes, it’s also the start of demonizing anyone who actually has a justified problem with illegal immigration (including my OTHER hated episode of this season, Exodus, which not only had Cadmus’s “ultimate evil plan” being to essentially deport aliens to another planet, even though that wasn’t even close to their most heinous plan, considering they had the whole Medusa virus episode earlier, but Snapper Carr basically alluded twice to Trump’s election in a negative manner, including, while firing Kara Danvers, basically said that leaving out one fact will “result in a fascist becoming president of the united states”. I already had some loathing of Snapper Carr because some of his character, but he really hit rock bottom there and made me utterly disgusted with him, especially when his demeanor throughout that episode seemed closer to Mike Wallace during that Ethics in America debate on PBS, particularly the infamous “Journalists first, Americans second.” At least Kara Danvers would have been the reporter in that North Kosanese example who actually would have made an effort to warn the Americans that they were walking into an ambush. It makes me wonder what Cat was even thinking when hiring that jerk.). And quite frankly, I didn’t see the need to make the Daxomites and Kryptonians into feuding races, since that wasn’t even implied in the comics. Probably the one redeeming aspect to this episode was that it did hint that the president had ulterior motives for signing the bill that probably was intending to put the earth in jeopardy (since it briefly showed she was an alien). And quite frankly, one of my biggest complaints this season is how, until nearly a month ago, they didn’t even begin to focus on the president’s alien status, especially when the reveal was very similar to how they started hinting at Hank Henshaw being an alien. Instead of actually developing on that plotpoint, which actually WOULD have been interesting, they utterly squandered it in favor of trying to make Alex into a lesbian, giving unneeded angst regarding Mon-El and Kara, focusing on a pointless Daxomite/Kryptonian feud that seemed to have more than a few political overtones, and using Cadmus as basically being a border patrol expy/strawman. It’s gotten so bad that I’m vowing to quit Supergirl permanently after the Season finale (I don’t want to just leave it outright in case there’s some redeemable stuff there). Another thing I noticed fairly recently and am actually a little annoyed by is I also couldn’t help but notice General Lane and Maxwell Lord’s absence in this season, and this was despite having a very good setup for this season involving them (namely, Lane giving the Omegahedron to Lord in what was pretty obviously a shady, backroom deal). I mean, that would have been a very good plot point to pursue, in addition to the president being an alien bit.
I found the first season when it was on CBS tolerable. Yeah, sure, they had a few left-wing comments and aspects here and there, but on the other hand, they had plenty of conservative elements in that season, and even demonized the concept of eco-warriors in the form of the evil Kryptonians that were the focus of much of the season (the closest they got to something like that was with Parasite, and even there, he was treated sympathetically compared to the Kryptonians to my disgust). This season? I’m sorry, but it was left-wing garbage with very few redeeming aspects, and I’m definitely not sticking around for a third season, IF there is a third season anyway.