Yucky episode

I finally watched the Fresh Off the Boat episode with Takei during the week of Thanksgiving. His character was written as annoying, and I'm guessing that Jenny won't be seeing him again after ESL class, so hopefully that will be the end of him recurring on the show. There hasn't been any further news about the scandal, everybody being caught in politicians' scandals instead. The rest of the episode was fairly good, and I was surprised they used the Barney "death" from the 1997 Thanksgiving parade. It was also kind of quaint for Jessica to think that Black Friday is the day that Christmas music starts, when nowadays it can start any time right after Halloween.

As for the Supergirl episode on Monday, Sam finally turned into Reign, but other than that, the entire episode was terrible and unnecessary soap opera. I expected some drama from Mon-el's return but this was disappointing crap.


No matter how much Mon-el didn't want to hurt Kara, there was no excuse for his lying throughout the entire episode. When Kara said that seven months had passed, he could have said, "Seven months? For me, it was seven years. I went through a wormhole and landed in the future."

"Seven years?" she could have asked in shock and pity. "No wonder you were speaking a different language, and you're cured of the lead poisoning. What else happened?"

Then he could describe his adventures in the future, even if he was reluctant to mention his wife. (Mon-el could delay and selectively omit things by saying he didn't want to reveal too much and change the future.) He could instead have focused on how he ended up in the underwater ship, and why people were sleeping in pods down there. He could have explained how the heck the ship traveled back in time to 12,000 years ago, for what purpose, and why they urgently needed to get back and repair the ship. (I didn't imagine Winn saying the ship had been buried in the rock for 12,000 years, did I? I at first thought this was Reign's ship, and was waiting for an explanation for how Reign's ship got here 12,000 years before Clark or Kara.)

Mon-el had plenty of things he could have discussed, while avoiding the topic of his wife, but instead he chose to keep mum, making it harder for him to return to the underwater ship. Why would he do things to make Kara distrust him, and make other DEO people think it wasn't urgent to go fix the damn ship? By simply revealing that he had been gone seven years, Kara would realize that lots of stuff could have happened to him, and why he was acting distant; even if you still love someone, being apart for seven years could make you feel weird at reuniting. If Mon-el wanted to break the news of his wife to Kara, slowly, he could have shown her the necklace he wore, then said, "I never forgot you, but being in future, so far away from you, I never thought I'd see you again... That I'd never be able to go back. That I'd have to move on with my life..." Then he could mention that he'd met someone, and she'd realize his circumstances. She'd be sad and disappointed, but know that he didn't do anything lightly.

Instead the CW had Mon-el approach all of his various secrets in the most illogical, melodramatic, soap opera-ish way. That wasn't heartbreaking tragedy; that was manufactured, immature stupidity. I hate the writers for choosing to introduce Imra in this way purely for shock value. In fact, they could have revived her earlier in the show instead. Mon-el, as I said, could have told everyone, "We need to go back and fix the ship. People's lives are in danger. I don't have time to explain more right now." Several DEO agents could gone with him to try to fix the ship's power, and they could have broken Imra out of her pod. Mon-el could have whispered to Imra to not mention the details of the future to Kara yet, because he hadn't had time to explain yet. There could have been several secret whispering scenes behind Kara's back while everyone was busy working on the mystery of Mon-el's ship. Then eventually there could be a dramatic reveal at the end of the episode about Imra being married to Mon-el. That would have been fine, not this shitshow where Mon-el won't say a damn thing to contradict this "seven months" idea.

The writers still didn't address how and why Mon-el's ship was there for 12,000 years, and the next episode is apparently the crossover episode. Ugh! I'm so mad they left us floundering like this, with no clue what the hell is going on. It's like they want to rile fans against Imra right away, to start a shipper war rooting for Mon-el to leave his wife. What a huge disservice to her character.