Is Supergirl new tonight, April 3?
By Buckie Wells
Supergirl stays on hiatus until April 24. In the meantime, let’s look back on some of the previous episodes and at what we can expect from “Ace Reporter.”
Suffice it to say, Kara Zor-El’s been on an interesting journey this season. At the beginning of season 2, she decided that she was going to be a full-time journalist. After Cat Grant’s departure in “The Last Children of Krypton,” Kara had to learn to work under Snapper Carr instead. Unsurprisingly, he turned out to be a real jerk. Not even in a television way, where you could see where he was coming from or he shared his true feelings once our protagonist left the room, but just an all-around unlikeable guy. My main feeling is that he’s one of the show’s afterthoughts in a land of a dozen afterthoughts.
While Snapper loves to kick her down a lot under the guise of mentor (“There’s a difference between truthful reporting and biased reporting.”), he doesn’t stop her from pursuing her dreams or learning to balance her life between Supergirl, a Personification of the American Dream, and Kara Danvers, Reporter Extraordinaire. Of course, she’s only a halfway decent reporter, but since this job gets her onto the scene with Maggie and Alex (and interviews with Lena Luthor) when things go wrong, we accept it as a legitimate thing. She obviously can’t be a crime scene investigator because of Barry Allen. But I wouldn’t mind if she was a pastry chef during the day. That would be fun.
Amidst all the investigating and reporting, Kara eventually finds Jeremiah Danvers. In addition to living as Lillian Luthor’s prisoner, he contributed a lot of his scientific knowledge to Cadmus’ villainous plans. (Cyborg Superman‘s a thing and I have mixed feelings about it.)
Basically, all of the focus that Kara started with in the first few episodes has gone out the window. Her relationship with Alex is strained (both their faults), she’s just Supergirl in a show with more than a few people who can fling someone across the room, and she’s a so-so unemployed reporter.
But when Supergirl returns on April 24, it looks like she’ll be getting back in the saddle:
There’s so much happening in the promo, it’s hard to unpack it all at once. And knowing Supergirl, this story can go a thousand different ways. If we’re lucky, Kara will be defending Lena like her life depended on it, Lena will learn her Supergirl secret, and they’ll be best mates forever. Or maybe — because this is the world we live in now — Mon-El becomes a reporter and hits it off with Snapper Carr. Plus, once the world learns Kara’s secret, he’ll probably become the new Super in National City. The show will be rebranded as a What’s New, Scooby-Doo? buddy cop show and the world will implode.
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Supergirl’s next episode airs on April 24. Stay tuned for our recap of “Ace Reporter” and all of our Supergirl coverage right here on FanSided.