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Presumably, this must be to fuel whatever it was that Lex stole from the Fortress of Solitude last week. It’s exhausting.Īnyway, Supergirl and Dreamer track down and defeat Ramma Khan, only for his capture to turn out to be an intentional part of his evil plan to infiltrate the DEO and steal Kryptonite. (Surely, he could have just waved a sign around that said “I am working with Lex Luthor” in massive block letters and it would have been simpler.) It’s a relief to see Nia finally call Brainy out for his behavior, but because we apparently haven’t reached the point in the story yet where he can admit she’s right and fess up about the fact that he’s been working with Lex for months, what we get instead is more stonewalling and protestations that he just can’t tell her the truth right now because reasons. Even interactions that very much needed to happen largely felt like they were treading water rather than moving the story forward.įor example, we have all waiting for that Brainy and Nia confrontation about his bizarre behavior for weeks now, which had honestly become weird to the point of ridiculousness. So much of the plot of this episode feels like a necessary ticking of boxes-here are all of the things that need to happen before the final part of the season can play out-and while some of its developments are exciting to watch (the fight with Ramma Khan in the DEO was pretty great), most of them just… aren’t. Unfortunately, however, since we’ll never see the payoff for many if not most of these narrative pieces, the episode generally feels like an hour of our lives we’ll never get back. It’s a macro problem that’s apparent in this week’s episode as well, as “The Missing Link” is a largely workmanlike hour that seems more concerned with moving pieces into place for what’s still to come than it is in legitimately telling a story.
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(Yes, we know every kind of tech is basically dangerous and bad if you give it to Lex!) There are plenty of overarching problems in Season 5 that are worth discussing: the fact that the Leviathan story has been a dud from jump, that the show let Lex Luthor take over a story that should have focused on Lena, and the season’s general abandonment of the “dangers of technology” theme it initially promised to tackle this season. Presumably, any resolutions we see in next week’s makeshift finale will, of necessity, not be terribly satisfying. Knowing that this season came to an end three episodes before it was meant to, it’s honestly so difficult to judge the final episodes of Supergirl Season 5. This Supergirlreview contains spoilers for Season 5, Episode 18.