If I advised you to call the Huge Dangerous of Supergirl Season 5 off the highest of your head, who would you say?
A number of folks come to thoughts, starting from Leviathan to Lena. However wasn’t the primary villain imagined to be Andrea, higher referred to as Acrata?
It was made fairly clear on Supergirl Season 5 Episode 6 that that was not the case, which was a pleasant shock, but additionally led to a complete lot of confusion as to what the heck this season was attempting to be.
Let’s begin originally. Does anybody else keep in mind that Malefic was a fairly outstanding evil that the Tremendous Mates needed to tackle throughout this season’s first few episodes?
He needed to take them down, however then he forgave J’onn, his brother, and jetted off to Mars to assist M’gann within the civil warfare.
After all, this was all revealed to be some sort of arrange for the Disaster crossover as The Monitor launched Malefic from the Phantom Zone to check J’onn. J’onn would then go on to turn out to be a Paragon.
Malefic’s story additionally offered some perception into how harmful Lena may very well be if she needed.
However Malefic is a blimp within the general story of Season 5 and contributed little to shifting the plot ahead.
Andrea was seemingly getting set as much as be the true evil that Kara needed to face. All of that acquired taken away when the viewers discovered about her previous.
In a plot twist, it the egocentric millionaire was revealed to have humanity in her and was finally solely getting used as a pawn in Leviathan’s recreation — which we nonetheless don’t know what that’s.
From that episode on, it was clear that she wouldn’t be a substantial menace to Supergirl, however maybe an ally.
Nonetheless, little has been finished to develop her character since, and it’s a disgrace as she is among the most intriguing elements of this season.
It’s as if Supergirl has forgotten about her and her potential.
With Andrea apart, you’ll suppose that Leviathan would step as much as the plate and show to be a pressure to be reckoned with.
As an alternative, they’ve remained within the shadows for probably the most half.
If I needed to make an informed guess, I might say that Leviathan is shaping as much as be the true menace to Kara and her buddies, however do we actually know that rather more about them than we did once they had been teased on Supergirl Season 4 Episode 22?
It may be onerous to recollect now, however the reveal of Leviathan and Malefic had been the 2 massive cliffhangers for the Supergirl Season 4 finale.
Since then, now we have came upon that Rama Khan was the chief of Leviathan, however he proved to be too reckless, so Gamemnae took over his position. And we all know that they’ve kidnapped digital actuality zombies whose our bodies are floating in a secret room.
What’s Leviathan’s plan? To take over the world? To show that superior know-how is a hazard in itself?
With this far into the season, we must always not less than have some sort of concept of who they’re and what they need. But it surely has all been a thriller to us.
The key group has simply been an excuse to introduce a number of villains — Rip Roar, Acrata, Breathtaker — who do their bidding for them.
As we close to the top of the season, we must always have not less than some solutions to questions that had been raised a season in the past. As an alternative, now we have simply been distracted by a post-Disaster world.
Lex Luthor was a improbable villain on Supergirl Season 4, and Jon Cryer’s portrayal of him is among the most pleasant surprises now we have seen on the present.
However together with him on a season that’s already as much as its neck in villains is simply complicated and exhausting.
He may very well be the most effective villain from the DC world — and given that he’s Lex Luthor, some folks would possibly argue that he’s — and it nonetheless wouldn’t make sense as to why he was reintroduced mid-season when there are nonetheless different present threats.
Possibly that is simply one of many downsides of Disaster. The crossover was an enormous occasion that affected each single DC CW present, and it was tough to construct particular person tales exterior of that.
Some had been extra profitable than others — see Batwoman — and sadly, Supergirl’s story acquired misplaced within the Disaster.
Because of Disaster, Lex is now a universally cherished man who’s the proprietor of the DEO, for which there has nonetheless been no clarification.
It is an fascinating idea however is one which acquired sprung on us in the course of the season.
If there may be one silver lining although, it’s that Lex is insistent on taking down Leviathan, tying these two tales considerably collectively.
Lex has all the time unknowingly been a puppet of Leviathan if Eve Teschmacher’s involvement with them is any indication, and him infiltrating them by his alliance with Gemma Cooper, AKA Gamemnae, furthers that story, if solely only a tiny bit.
Lex’s involvement with Leviathan would have made the story much more clearer had it been given extra time to develop by being launched through the first half of the season, which after all, wouldn’t have been doable due to Disaster.
And now we have lastly come to the Lena Luthor of all of it.
I used to be so relieved when Lena seemingly forgave Kara after she got here clear to her on Supergirl Season 5 Episode 1. Turning Lena right into a stereotypical Luthor was about probably the most predictable factor Supergirl might do.
Sadly, my aid was short-lived on that exact same episode.
Lena has slowly changed into a bitter and filled with hatred lady who’s blind to her shortcomings. And that makes me so unhappy as a result of she was among the best characters on Supergirl.
Lena is placing all of her damage and anger in direction of Kara’s betrayal into the making of Undertaking Non-Nocere, which is a tool that controls human beings, basically.
However Lena retains on telling herself that she is doing it to enhance the human race when she is doing it due to her private emotions.
Whether or not anybody likes to confess it or not, Lena has changed into a villain, and as we noticed on Supergirl Season 5 Episode 13, Kara will do every thing in her energy to cease her.
This storyline for Lena has gone on for much too lengthy. If she isn’t meant to be the Huge Dangerous of the season, and if she is finally going to forgive Kara, then the story must pivot.
And in spite of everything that they’ve been by, Kara deserves forgiveness. And Lena deserves greater than being thrown into the large villain pool of Supergirl Season 5.
What do you suppose Supergirl Fanatics?
Are you as drained as I’m attempting to maintain up with all of the dangerous guys this season? Do you have got hope that we are going to get a considerably passable ending with any of our villains?
And in case you needed to choose a villain from this season to be the Huge Dangerous, who would it not be?
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