What did you think of colonel Lauren Haley?

Admittedly, I haven’t watched much of the show. I passively saw bits and pieces because my old roommate was into it. I just don’t consume a lot of superhero media.

But I’m reading Nicole Maine’s’ book, she’s fantastic, and I’m interested in watching episodes that have a larger focus on Nia Nal/Dreamer. I know the general idea of the show, the characters, I’m fine not having the full continuity and context as I jump around.

Is there a best of list for her character?

So during their fallout, whose side are you on?

There was a really interesting section where she talked about how toxic the Supergirl fandom was at times. Things like Sanvers shippers harassing the cast and writers because of Floriana leaving and threatening to kill themselves, the way the fandom treated Staz, the Supercorp shippers who called the show homophobic while completely overlooking the canon representation of Dansen being together and Nia being the first transgender superhero on television, etc etc.

It was honestly kind of refreshing to hear her candid thoughts on the fandom now that it’s been a few years since the show ended. Obviously, the entire fandom wasn’t like that, but the people who were were very loud about it and made the rest of the fandom look bad.

What is one storyline you wish could've been explored more?

Personally I would've loved to have gotten more of Red!K Kara and Red Daughter. Melissa played both these versions of Kara superbly and I wish we could've gotten more of it.

With the incredible series finale of Superman and Lois just airing, I started thinking about the Supergirl finale.

I, like most people, really wasn't satisfied with that final episode. Some parts of it I really loved, like Kara gaining one cohesive identity and becoming public as Kara Zor-El (or Kara Zor-El Danvers), but there's a lot more of it that I dislike.

So, if you had the chance to rewrite the final episode, but only that one episode (Everything through 6x18 stays the same), what would you do?

Here's my idea of how I would do it. I've put too much thought into this.

• Nyxly successfully activates the All-Stone, giving herself infinite power, and is ready to rewrite the universe or

whatever

• She goes to wipe out characters, but they're saved... by Esme. Remember her power to copy powers? Here, she's able to duplicate the powers of All-Stone-Empowered-Nyxly, and is able to hold her off from killing her family for just enough time that Kara is able to fly in and get the All Stone for herself

• Suddenly, with all the power in the world to rewrite reality, Kara "wakes up" in a room where she talks to someone about how she could change the world. I am directly copying the ending of Legends season 2 here, where Sara talks to her dead sister and decides if she should rewrite reality to bring her back. In this case, Kara is figuring out if she should rewrite reality to make it a better world, such as by eliminating discrimination, by bringing William back, by bringing the rest of Krypton back, etc.

• Eventually, after talking with her minds version of Alex, Lena, or Cat, (Probably Lena, she fits thematically the most for this), Kara decides that it's morally wrong for her to abuse power in this way,that it's not her place to rewrite the world. And in fact, it makes her recognize that many of her actions this season, such as destroying all the nuclear weapons of two nations, was her taking too much undeserved power over others. This completes the theme that season 6 tried to establish (Keyword: Tried)

• With this recognition, Kara sees that she should become a more grounded Superhero, one who doesn't put herself above others. And this heavily influences her decision to make her identity public.

• Still have Alex's wedding, but as a more reduced scene. Give SuperCorp a "Korrasami" ambiguous ending. End with the identity reveal as the show does.

So, that's my overly thought out rewrite. What would you do about the shows finale?

I found his backstory of what happened very interesting. He went from defending aliens to his father to a full 180 of attacking them and thinking they should be eradicated. I also thought it was fascinating how he had an interaction with Kara, Alex, Lena, J’onn, and James. I loved Lena saying he would become like Lex if he kept up his behavior because that’s essentially what happened in this one episode.

That said I don’t feel sympathy for him after his rhetoric and behavior. He literally killed and tortured people. I just found his opinion shifting fascinating. What did you think of his backstory?

If ever you can rewrite the show, what would you change?

Sometimes they make right decisions and make good like with Lucifer and Sandman, but sometimes it is quite questionable shit that is the Arrow verse. Obviously it has the fan base, but it has not much actual art value in it, honestly. Compared to marvel series, that are generally consistent and more or less on the same level, part of the universe even, The DC creations are somewhat lacking sometimes or much better in some ways. What do you think?

Tell me ur favorite character without telling me they are ur favorite character.

!Basically from I remember, kara's friends and family do not accept Oliver due to his brutal methods of dealing with things. Or maybe it was just Clark who didn't like Oliver.!<

!This is NOT the soulmate AU one.!<

!I think they had gone up against Cadmus. Clark and Kara get hit with kryptonite. I think Kara ends up taking longer to recover than Clark, which worried everyone a lot, making them think she was not gonna make it?!<

!Does anyone know this fic???!<

When a tv protagonist transitions from novice to mentor at the halfway point of their show, I am not fond of the character brought in to be the new novice. due to this fact I was not immediately drawn to Nia Nal when she first appeared on Supergirl, she was cute so I thought I was getting eye candy as a consolation. When she defended Brainy at the pizza restaurant I started liking her, then when she elaborated that the reason she defended him was because she is trans and has experienced prejudice before, she became my favorite character.

I’m rewatching season 4 episode 18 and supergirl “ attacks “ the white house and everyone is so quick to jump on her. Is everyone forgetting literally all the other times “ supergirl “ went rouge? Bizarro was the first instance and when she was poisoned was another one. Why is everyone so quick to disregard her, am I missing something? Also why did that civilian try to shoot her to death lmao

I'm not sure but I think I made a similar post on the Arrowverse Sub a while ago but I didn't get a response so I hope this doesn't break any rules, so if anyone knows of any, give me reading suggestions, I know it seems silly, but In the difficult time I'm in, reading something like this would really help me a lot

I get that when comes to heroes with iconic or notable rogues galleries, Supergirl isn't exactly high on that list. I bet even if you asked most DC comics fans, they wouldn't be able to name more two villains unique to her. That said, she does, in fact, have a rogues gallery. And it shocks me that more of her villains weren't used in the show.

From what I can recall, there are no more than 4 distinct villains that originate from prior Supergirl media.

Reactron -- Reactron is the closest think comic Kara has to a nemesis, at least in the post-crisis run. Funnily enough, in the show, Reactron is presented as one of the show's few villains that had a prior feud with Superman.

Psi -- Gayle Marsh, Psi, is the first villain Kara faces in the Kupperberg run. The fear-inducing power is unique to the show, but she's still a definitive Supergirl Villain.

Reign(and the Worldkillers) -- Since the other Worldkillers are little more than Reign's entourage in both the comics and the show, I'm not counting Pestilence and Purity as distinct villains.

Selena -- Selena, the Kryptonian witch in season 3, was inspired by the character of the same name from the 1984 Supergirl film. She technically is a Supergirl comic villain as well, having debuted in comics the month before Season 3 aired.

And... that's it. That's all of Supergirl's villains that were utilized in the show. 126 Episodes, 4 Supergirl villains. 6, if you count Reign and Purity separately. If a missed any, let me know. But even if I did miss one or two, that's still a pitifully small number of villains.

That's really sad, isn't it? This show should've been celebrating and showcasing Supergirl's comic history, bringing it to the forefront and making it known, but it instead entirely ignored her list of villains.

The funny thing is, many of the other villains in this show could've been replaced with Kara's comic villains, with no loss at all.

Maxwell Lord -- In the New 52 comics, Supergirl had a tech-CEO villain named Simon Tycho. Maxwell Lord in the show acts a lot like Simon Tycho, to the extent that I believe he was meant to be Tycho in the initial drafting of the show, but was eventually rewritten to have the much more well-known name of Maxwell Lord.

Red Tornado -- One of Kara's comic villains Matrix-Prime, a killer robot. No reason they couldn't used the name of that robot instead of the name Red Tornado.

Parasite - In the Kupperberg run, Kara faces a villain called decay, a man who transforms into a monster that causes everything he touches to, well, decay. They do the exact same thing Parasite's powers do, essentially. In motivation, he's actually way more like the show's parasite than comic parasite. Decay originally wanted to "cleanse the decay from the world" before turning into a monster, just like the weird eco-terrorist thing the show's Parasite has going on.

Manchester Black and the Elites -- Supergirl has a group of villains known as The Gang. They are a group of friends from a poor part of town who decide to band together into a team of superpowered-criminals to escape their downtrotten lives. Their most notable member, Mesmer, has powers that could do all that Manchester Black does to J'onn. Their leader is also unsuperpowered, like this show's Manchester. They are presented as sympathetic villains, and they care for eachother like family. The show could've presented them as a group of aliens, tired ofnbeing oppressed, who band together to rise up against human oppression, just as the Elite are like in the show.

Metallo, Otis Graves -- Could've been Reactron. Yes, I know Reactron was already used. But Otis Graves acts way more like post-crisis Reactron than any prior version of Metallo (to my knowledge), and it would've worked perfectly if they decided to have Lex recreate the Reactron armor and give it to him.

Gamemnae -- Could've been a version of Emerald Empress. Yes, I know she was originally a legion villain, but shhhhhhhh...

Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself now, but you seen my point. I really wish this show chose to bring Kara's little-known villains to the forefront, but instead, it chose to use the names of more recognizable Superman villains. A shame.