Eliza tears into Alex for failing to protect her alien foster-sister, and letting her put on the cape Alex comes out as a DEO agent to her mother at the liberally wine-drunk Thanksgiving table, while Kara’s friend Winn misses out on the chance to take the opportunity of the season to explain that he’s thankful for her, only doing it later in way that makes Kara finally, if uncomfortably, aware that he actually has feelings for her. Leslie though is not among those naturally given to gratitude and when a bolt of lightning hits Supergirl and passes into her, she becomes a more effective electrical villain than Reactro was the previous week, zipping about the place along electrical wires and currents, still snarky as hell but now with the firepower to make her voice truly heard.Īs LiveWire begins a campaign of chaos against both Supergirl and Cat Grant, the superfriends are having a strained Thanksgiving.
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Of course, that’s not what it means or has ever meant, a point quickly underlined by Supergirl saving Leslie from a crashing helicopter after Cat Grant bumps her down to weather reporting for her rant. LiveWire is Leslie Willis, a shock-jock who delivers an anti-Thanksgiving rant about the Girl of Steel to make people laugh and puncture the shield of goodness and sparkly unicorns that seems to follow the SuperCousins around, and which is both their greatest strength and the chief reason they might conceivably make people gag – ‘truth, justice and the American Way’ has the capacity to sound rather militaristic in the 21st century, or at the very least as though they’ll only save the ‘right’ people, the ‘nice’ people.
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What’s more, this week’s villainess of the week, LiveWire, is an interesting avatar of those who like their pleasures a little less wholesome and white bread than Supergirl has traditionally represented.
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Episode 4 begins to really do that, with a timely visit from Eliza Danvers for Thanksgiving, and an exploration of the different relationship with their mother and foster mother that Alex and Kara Danvers have always had. For a couple of episodes now, I’ve been nodding along with Supergirl, waiting for it to start defining itself by its own mythos, rather than in response to that of Superman.