To Be Conituned Super Girl Episode 16 to Be Continued Supergirl Episode 16 in the Flash
Medusa
Doesn't Kara Danvers, Earth's hero, deserve a prince? Yeah, that answer turns out to be Mon-oh-El-no.
Kara's using her funemployment from CatCo to work through her Netflix queue and snuggle with Mon-El, who requests one of those movies where everyone breaks into song for no reason. Patience, my friend! Kara recommends Funny Face, although I would've bet the entire contents of my wallet that she's more of a Pitch Perfect gal.
She and Mon-El are all dopey grins and stomach butterflies and blanket cuddles until a transmission crackles across the TV, demanding that Mon-El's "captors" relinquish him by dawn or be met with force.
Everyone but the CW's viewing audience is confused about why the mysterious star cruiser would go to all this trouble for a low-level Daxam guard, particularly when the cruiser opens fire on Supergirl as she's flying up to negotiate. After she narrowly escapes a bubble-trap that plummets her to Earth, Mon-El's had enough, announcing that he'll relinquish himself. He promises Kara that he'll be okay, but as the ship's transportation beam encircles him, she throws herself into his arms to be transported, too.
Mon-El's displeased; he wanted to make this trip solo, and it's immediately apparent why: Everyone on board the ship kneels except for the two people he introduces to Kara as his parents, Queen Rhea and King Lar Gand.
"Which makes you…" Kara trails off, and yep, confirming what most of us have suspected since his earliest appearances, Mon-El is the prince of Daxam. Kara is… not pleased.
Now that their planet's safe to inhabit again, the king and queen set out to locate Mon-El to "make Daxam great again." (Ha! Seriously, Hollywood, this joke will never get old.) However, they're concerned about the pernicious influence of Kryptonian Kara, particularly in light of Mon-El's heroics on Slaver's Moon. They're condescendingly amused that he freed the prisoners there and have a less-than-friendly exchange with Kara about the ethics of selling people.
At this point, they're sitting down to dinner. Kara shovels food into her mouth with a fancy Daxamite two-pronged fork and asks for details about Mon-El's escape from Daxam. (As you'll recall, he told Kara that the kindly prince insisted he be the one to escape.)
Now, Mon-El reluctantly recounts being hustled out of his bed by his guard, leaving a terrified woman behind but stopping to change into a red turtleneck (which is an odd choice, both symbolically and sartorially). The guard uses lethal force to commandeer the Kryptonian emissary's ship, and Mon-El escapes, leaving his people behind to perish in the fires.
By this point, Kara's heard enough and icily excuses herself. Back on Earth, Mon-El tries to joke, "So you survived the first dinner with the fam." But Kara. is. steamed. Mon-El tries to defend himself, saying that he knew how she felt about Daxamites — and the crown prince in particular. Would she even have talked to him if she'd known? He says it doesn't change how he feels about her, but for Kara, this revelation changes everything. "I thought you were just born on a cruel planet, but you led it."
Know who else is having relationship trouble? Wynn, whose hot alien girlfriend talked him into breaking into the National City Art Museum to engage in… well, let's just say the aesthetics he was appreciating were the three-dimensional kind. Unfortunately, that same night, Van Gogh's Starry Night disappeared, and security footage shows Wynn wandering around alone.
Maggie brings him in for questioning, and Alex (with Jimmy in tow) shows up as soon as she learns he's in custody, displeased that her squeeze didn't give her a heads up that she was arresting a buddy. Wynn admits that Lyra's been ghosting him hard since their museum encounter. Maggie gives them 24 hours to come up with proof of a frame job, then sends Alex on her way with a kiss.
Turns out, Valerians can't be seen in photos or videos, and two other men over the last few months claimed their girlfriends had set them up for the thefts of a Warhol in Metropolis and a Rodin from another museum. "She femme fataled me!" Wynn yelps. But Kara, just a teensy bit making it all about herself, says it's not his fault that you've sometimes got a blind spot about the person you're closest to.
When Kara offers to help Wynn and Jimmy track Lyra down, Alex swings into big sistering mode, asking if it might be better for Kara work through her Mon-El feelings instead. Kara's sick that her boyfriend's family kept their subjects too drunk to care about their oppressed conditions and says, "I don't even know who he is anymore." Alex suggests that Mon-El was looking for redemption from past behavior, but before Kara can respond, Queen Rhea appears and demands an audience.
She tells Kara that Mon-El needs to help rebuild what the Kryptonians destroyed, which has the lovely side effect of not leaving him on Earth to "learn by degrees" that Kara thinks she's better than he is.
When Kara reluctantly delivers this request to Mon-El, he tries to charm her by saying that in the movies, the heroine's forgiven the hero by now. He's literally Prince Charming here, but Kara wants none of it. So he segues into begging, telling her that whatever she needs him to do to be forgiven, he'll do it.
But Kara says he can't un-tell his lie and demands to know if he understands the second chance he's been given. He… does, I think? Isn't that why he didn't come clean about his identity when he had the chance? He was learning to be a better man without any additional layers of Kryptonian judgment, becoming a better person by degrees, to use his mother's phrase. Kara clearly doesn't consider this a worthy argument, spitting, "You're a prince, so start acting like it."
In the B-story love trouble, Alex is busting heads in the Alien Bar, looking for Lyra's likely location. A rough-around-the edges beardo agrees to spill in exchange for orchestra-level Hamilton tickets, which Alex accepts. ("The guy who plays King George is from Rimbor Five. He owes me a favor," she explains, because apparently Hamilton tickets are the preferred currency of informants on every version of Earth.)
Address in hand, Wynn enters Lyra's trailer first, begging her to tell him that he was more than a mark. But no, she says, he was nothing but a long con. Guardian and Alex are waiting outside to arrest her, but she has hired muscle, too. There's a fight, and the thugs escape, leaving Lyra and the painting. Once she's locked up, Lyra explains that a multi-planet art-theft ring is holding her brother, Bastian, and she was running cons to pay his debts. Now that this job fell through, he's as good as dead.
Then she tries honesty on Wynn, talking about the 10-year Starhaven war, her parents who starved to death, the pitch-black below-deck conditions as she and Bastian were smuggled to Earth. Wynn says he would've helped her if he'd known, and she in turn admits that yes, she cared about him, too.
She eventually tells him that the buyer is Mandrax, an escaped Fort Rozz resident, and even though J'onn fears it's another con, Wynn wants to try to rescue her brother. In the end, Wynn lets her out of her cell so the two of them can complete the deal. ("It's great that Picasso is intergalactically adored," he deadpans.) When Lyra and Wynn arrive at the meet, Mandrax immediately identifies the Starry Night they offer him as a fake and threatens to kill them all.
Guardian jumps out of the shadows at this point and is quickly and rather soundly defeated. "You humans all think you can be heroes. It's so annoying," Mandrax sneers. But wannabe hero Wynn grabs a gun from one of the thugs, and the ensuing shouted threats and overall confusion give the DEO enough time to burst in and arrest all the baddies (with 45 minutes to spare on Wynn's 24-hour deadline, no less).
Lyra's not pleased that Wynn kept the DEO's plan from her, but then again, her brother's no longer indebted to thuggish intergalactic art thieves, and Maggie's willing to cut them loose if they'll help with the prosecution. So that seems like a win for her.
Sure that Wynn hates her now, she makes plans to vacate Earth, but he assures her that's not the case at all. They kiss, and when she leaves to visit her brother, Kara sidles up to ask how Wynn can trust her after she lied and hurt him. But Wynn says she was willing to sacrifice herself for someone she cared about, which is worth forgiving. Then, realizing that this is more than a little bit about Kara's love life, he tells her that Mon-El probably had a good reason for whatever dumb thing he did, too.
But Mon-El's reasons aren't good enough for Kara. When she arrives home, he's there to deliver one heck of an apology: "My name is Mon-El. I'm the former prince of Daxam, and I was a spoiled, useless person, but I didn't know… until I met you. And I love being a hero because it means I get to spend every single day by your side." He says he loves that she's honest to a fault and that she fights for those she cares about. "And I love you. With everything that I have, I love you. You're so special," he concludes, almost choking on the words.
Thing is, Kara knows she's special – special enough to deserve not being lied to. She asks Mon-El if he ever would've told her the truth, and his eyes well as he gives her honesty now, telling her he doesn't know. He's crying, I'm crying, and Kara says he'll never hurt her again. She tells him it's over and asks him to leave. He goes without protest.
On the ship, Rhea tells Mon-El that Kara did what was best for him by ending things, and Lar Gand insists that he stop dwelling on the Kryptonian and get on board with the plan to rebuild Daxam. But Mon-El says no. The memory of how little they cared about their people makes him ill, and he refuses to rebuild that society.
Rhea accuses him of being poisoned by Kara, but he hotly defends her, saying she makes him a better person, the person he wants to be. "I wish you no ill will, but you should leave this planet and never return," he tells his parents, demanding to be sent home.
And we end on Mon-El's new home, where Wynn's thrilled at Cisco's inter-dimensional portal gadget, correctly predicting that they'd be BFFs should they ever be on the same Earth at the same time. Side-eyeing Mon-El, who's slinking around the upper level of the DEO, Kara says she could use a little intergalactic vacay herself, post-breakup. Oh, Kara Zor-El, be careful what you wish for.
Because at that point, J'onn escorts out a new prisoner, who catches sight of Kara and exclaims, "Oh, there you are!" The Music Meister (Darren Criss, a.k.a. Melissa Benoist's Glee castmate) announces that he only let himself get caught to find Kara and use the portal to escape to Earth-1, where he'll chase down the fastest man alive.
But before he goes, his pupils spiral and cause Kara's to start going haywire, too. At the first sign of trouble, Mon-El leaps over the railing to get to Kara and is there to catch her when she swoons.
She wakes up in a world of blue eye shadow and long gloves and a man telling her that she's going on as the last-minute opening act. Stepping through the curtain in a gorgeous beaded gown, she stands onstage facing a vintage night club audience, draws a breath at the microphone and… to be continued! No singing tonight, folks. Mon-El requested a musical, and tomorrow on The Flash, that's exactly what he's getting. And I don't know about you, but I am beyond excited to see Benoist and Criss join former Glee-er Grant Gustin, Broadway legend Jesse L. Martin, and human embodiment of perfection Victor Garber in the second part of the musical crossover.
In other episode news, are you Team Kara or Team Mon-El in this breakup? It's one of those fights where everybody's a little wrong and a little right, which always makes for delicious conflict. Yes, he lied, and that's bad. But Kara's feelings about Daxamites were strong and unwavering, so you can't totally blame the guy. Mon-El's transition from party prince to woke bae hasn't been easy, but he's done the work. It's been hard and frustrating, and he's got Kara to thank for making him the kinder, more heroic man he is now. Here's hoping she'll see that, let go of some of that Kryptonian stubbornness, and let him back in.
One thing I'm sure of: We need more Hatcher and Sorbo. The former Lois Lane got to have a little fun tonight, but that was a waste of Hercules, no? Let these two have some more fun in the Berlantiverse!
So what do you think? Am I being too easy on Mon-El? Should Kara stand her ground? Let me know in the comments. And until next time, friends, may your Van Goghs always be authentic and your forks two-pronged.
Medusa
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