More importantly, I think, this story illustrates that Supergirl’s powers are more profound than we had even imagined. The story, I suppose, carries on a bit of the metaphor about aliens and others with the lesson that honest communication can go a long way toward overcoming painful memories and past sins. Kara’s romantic entanglements with Winn (Jeremy Jordan) and James (Mehcad Brooks) take a back seat to a story about Cat Grant’s (Calista Flockhart) reunion with her alienated son, Adam (Blake Jenner). Supergirl’s usually about more than superheroes versus aliens, however, and this episode’s no exception. If money was a question, however, I would have voted to spend a little less on the Mars scenes and a little more on the Supergirl/Martian Manhunter/White Martian battle scene that, I assume, was staged under the cover of night to cover up for lackluster effects. Even if the animation wasn’t quite up to current standards, it was welcome. On a lighter note, I always love an appearance by the Manhunter in his green form, and in this episode we get to see glimpses of Mars as well.
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The exploration of these themes does, however, indicate that the Supergirl team understands that the alien threat-of-the-week scenario that the series often depends on has implications beyond their storytelling needs, and is in need of some careful unpacking. I don’t think we’re meant to go there with our analysis, however. And, more seriously, the implication that the White Martian race is evil while the Green Martian race is good is an over-simplification that has some pretty unfortunate implications when applied too readily to our own debates about immigration. For one thing, politicians in the real world almost never learn lessons. It all works reasonably well as a metaphor, I suppose, if one doesn’t push it too far. And Senator Crane, saved by Supergirl, learns a lesson along the way and reverses her position on the extraterrestrial threat. With the help of Supergirl, when he has to, he makes the right decision.
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A refugee from a bloody genocide (illustrated here with animated flashbacks to the horrors of the devastating war against the White Martians), J’onn struggles with survivor’s guilt and an overwhelming desire for vengeance. As it turns out, J’onn, like Supergirl and her more famous cousin, is the last survivor of his culture he’s the last of the Green Martians. In this case, National City is the home to two extraterrestrials: Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and J’onn J’onnz, the Martian Manhunter (David Harewood). An assault by a White Martian, a member of a Martian group bent on the destruction of all Green Martians, seems to confirm the very worst stereotypes that Senator Crane’s promoting aliens are an unknown threat, a different and dangerous other.įortunately, in the world of Supergirl, as in real life, aliens and immigrants bring more good than bad to their new homes. The Senator’s fear, and fear-mongering, feed the beast and make for a good target of just the sort of alien that she’s worried about.
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(To be paid for by the Martians, I suppose.)
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Maybe a dome is what’s called for, the Senator suggests. In a world where the aliens are from places like Mars and Krypton, instead of Mexico and Syria, no wall would ever be able to keep them out, however. They might as well be the rapists and drug dealers that The Donald warns us about, however, or the refugees that we are told are intent on destroying our way of life. The aliens she’s worried about, of course, are of the extraterrestrial variety.
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She holds a rally in National City to speak out against the dangers posed by the alien threat. Miranda Crane (Tawny Cypress) is doing her very best Donald Trump impression. In “Strange Visitor From Another Planet”, Sen.