This past Sunday saw a momentous
milestone for one of the DC superhero series comprising the “Arrow” verse in
The CW: “Supergirl” starring Melissa Benoist. While it is currently in the
middle of its fifth season, in terms of the entire series run the episode that
aired February 23 is the 100th total. It is therefore an easy bet
that it will feature a special storyline, as evidenced when Mr. Mxyzptlk (Thomas
Lennon) appears before Kara (Benoist) at the end of the previous episode. What
we get is a Super retooling of “It’s a Wonderful Life” that is dark, gritty,
and just what Kara needs to re-evaluate a broken friendship.
Comic Book Resources tells us that Episode 100 of “Supergirl,”
titled “It’s a Super Life,” sees Melissa Benoist’s Kara Danvers/Supergirl
explore two possibilities of how she might have salvaged the tear-jerking
deterioration of her close friendship with Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath), who
post “Crisis on Infinite Earths” is now aligned with her brother Lex Luthor
(Jon Cryer) with his plans for National City, and is hostile to Supergirl. The
other-dimensional trickster Mxyzptlk offers Kara the chance to see how things
turn out if she had shared her secret identity with Lena before their falling
out.
So Mxy subjects Kara to several
alternate timelines where she tells Lena about being Supergirl. Unfortunately
while this action averts some “canon” disasters, the alternate problems that
appear come off as worse, ending in either Kara or Lena’s death. In one, where
she came clean not long after they first met and became friends, Lena is
targeted by a disgruntled Ben Lockwood (Sam Witwer) who blames Supergirl for
leading his family to commit suicide as part of the Cult of Rao. To spare Lena from
being tortured for her secret, Kara revealed her Earth identity to the public,
only for Lockwood to counter by having all persons who ever knew her murdered
with no survivors.
This particular outcome pushes
Kara to have Mxy show her an alternate timeline where she never allowed Lena to
learn who she was. This time, Lena grows to become a Lex Luthor-esque
super-villain lording over National City with a bloody fist. Concluding that
all her interactions with Lena are doomed to have dire consequences, Kara opts
to keep her timeline unchanged, but fueled with new resolve she confronts Lena
and says she will no longer feel guilt for her choices that caused Lena to turn
against her, just as she will hold Lena accountable for any plans she makes
with her brother Lex, and treat her as any other villain if she causes great
harm.
Only time will tell how this
moves Kara and Lena’s fractious relationship forward as Supergirl continues to
navigate the world of Earth-Prime where her cousin’s arch-enemy is perceived as
a hero and is hand in hand with his sister in whatever plans he makes. “Supergirl”
airs Sundays on The CW.
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