Guardian Will Tear Kara and James Apart in ‘Supergirl’

One of his coworkers summons him into the lab to examine a wolf that’s been buried under ice for 5,000 years, but is somehow still warm. And the fact that he so effectively wipes out Kara and J’onn adds stakes to the moment Mon-El and James try to take him on by themselves.

But while Maggie is flattered, she politely declines a romantic relationship with Alex. Although watching Kara drunk is good for a laugh, I’m confused with how she can get intoxicated so easily. As I recall, an episode last season established that alcohol has very little effect on Kryptonians. I mean, shouldn’t she have some type of super ability that prevents from getting wasted?

Thankfully, Alex did eventually open up to Kara in a moment of emotional vulnerability midway through the episode, and it was one that reminded all of us that we’re only human and our tear ducts don’t stop working just because we haven’t used them in a while.

Alas, Alex is in for another, bigger letdown: Finally feeling comfortable enough to acknowledge her sexuality, she approaches Maggie Sawyer at the speakeasy, and full-on kisses her, hoping that maybe something could start between them. “She thinks Kara might not be OK with it”. Kara downs it and she is immediately wasted. And then there’s Martian Manhunter, who is unknowingly changing for the worse because M’Gann (Sharon Leal) won’t reveal she’s actually a White Martian. Alex is crushed and goes home. At work, Hayes and her colleagues reexamine a convicted murderer sentenced for murdering one of the wealthy family members who helped him. Alex (Chyler Leigh) will also contemplate about her future. He says that it’s time to spring into action and that he needs the new super-suit Winn has been building for him.

There’s still a couple options besides Hank, including the possibility that Mon-El may be turned into a robotic abomination before Kara can save him.

When the fight is over, Supergirl thanks Guardian, who withholds his identity (he has a voice filter and his armor is made of lead). Since the J’onn uses Hank’s image on the show, the Green Martian could be the one smacking down Supergirl. But none of that is as exciting or moving as Alex coming out to Kara. Mon-El steps up to the plate finally to perform his first act of heroism, and it was enjoyable.

Considering the legendary feud between Superman and Lex Luthor, it’s hard to blame Kara for having some major suspicions about Lena. Supergirl aired a more overtly political episode earlier this season, but there’s a lot of comfort to be had in returning to the show’s optimistic world for an hour this week. But the best stuff this week is definitely with Alex.

After Infection Man (as we like to call him) started to drain Kara of some of her power, she started to realize that he was a problem, so much so that it could get in the way of her other recent activities: Training Mon-El and-or learning to have fun in the way that he does. But as her rotten luck would have it, Maggie was only interested in friendship-which shattered Alex’s heart.