In the Supergirl season finale recap, Kara has to take down Non and Indigo or watch the entire human race eradicated thanks to myriad….
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
The first season of Supergirl came to a close on Monday night as fans anxiously await word on whether or not the series will be renewed or not.
While there were plenty of bumps in the road for the first season, Supergirl was a great addition to the “Berlanti-verse”, joining shows such as Arrow and The Flash, bringing a much different tone to the traditional superhero series that typically decorate our TV screens.
Hopefully, Supergirl will get another season because the show really started to pick up steam in the second half of the episode order not to mention the series has been a phenomenal vehicle for girl power everywhere with the majority of the cast made up with strong, female characters — a rarity in the spandex and cape genre.
The finale brought to a close the season long battle between Supergirl and her relatives from Krypton, who followed her to Earth via a gigantic floating prison while also teasing another Kryptonian showing up as a cliffhanger going into next year assuming the show gets picked up.
With that said, let’s recap the Supergirl season finale titled “Better Angels”…..
A Message of Hope
Picking up from last week’s episode, Supergirl is forced to battle her sister Alex, whose mind is being controlled by myriad thus being controlled by Non. Supergirl does her best to battle back without hurting her sister, but matters are made worse when Alex gets the upper hand using her kryptonite laced suit and sword to inflict some serious damage.
Before Alex can strike the killing blow, her mother Eliza shows up and pleads with her daughter to stop this before it’s too late. Despite myriad’s mind control properties, Eliza reaches her daughter by invoking the name of her father and a few moments later Alex wakes up from the drug induced haze.
Alex tells her mother and Kara that while she was under myriad’s control, she could see and feel everything she was doing, but it almost felt like an out of body experience. Only through the words of hope and encouragement shared by her mother was Alex able to fight out of the myriad control and regain control of her own mind.
That gives Supergirl the opening she needs to reach the rest of the people in National City.
Along with help from Cat Grant and Maxwell Lord, they broadcast a signal across the city with a message of hope from Supergirl along with a symbol of hope — the famous ‘S’ on her chest — to break through myriad’s control. Sure enough, Kara’s voice along with the vision of her symbol — a true sign of hope to the people of National City since she first arrived — wakes everybody up and myriad’s control is broken.
The world is saved for now but Non and Indigo won’t be defeated quite so easily. In fact, Indigo suggests that Non was thinking far too small with his plans for myriad. There are plenty of worlds to conquer so why not leave Earth behind — after pumping up the signal from myriad and making every human’s brain pop like a Peep in a microwave.
Suicide Girl
Now that myriad is being amped up, it’s only a matter of time before everybody on Earth is dead as a result. People are already reporting massive headaches and over the next few hours, the intensity of the signal will continue to eat away at the brain until the human race is extinct.
Kara knows she’s the only hope that Earth has left and it looks like she’s going to have to do this all alone. J’onn J’onnz is still being held captive by the DEO plus he’s injured from the battle with Indigo and for some reason Superman never woke up from the initial wave from myriad (or maybe Supergirl just isn’t ready to cast a Superman yet).
Supergirl knows going up against Non, Indigo and the other Kryptonians is a suicide mission — one she’s not likely to return from — so she begins saying her goodbyes to anyone and everyone in her life without actually telling them that she’s probably going to die. Kara says kind words to all of her friends and even tells Cat Grant how much she’s been inspired by her over the years as her assistant.
The only person Kara can’t brave to say goodbye to is her sister because she knows there’s no way she’ll ever walk away after telling Alex what she’s about to do.
With Supergirl all but walking into a disaster, J’onn decides to help her out even if it means his own demise and he also shows General Sam Lane that he’s never really been in captivity after he breaks out on his own. In other words, J’onn was doing the General a courtesy by staying in jail because he could have escaped at any time.
So with J’onn by her side, Supergirl sets off to intercept the Kryptonians at Fort Rozz in Nevada, which has been their secret base all along. It seems the government cloaked the crashed alien prison in an attempt to keep more people from discovering its location, but in hiding the craft, they also managed to give the Kryptonians a perfect place to plot their plans with no chance of being found.
Now Supergirl and J’onn have to fly to Nevada to stop Non and Indigo while trying to destroy the Kryptonian power source that’s amplifying myriad to death level.
The Final Battle
When Kara and J’onn show up for a fight they find Non and Indigo waiting for them. It’s going to be a two on two battle because Non has already put all the other Kryptonians into sleep mode for their trip back into outer space.
After the fight ensues, J’onn is stabbed by Indigo for the second time and it looks like the last living Martian is about to meet his end. But just before she strikes the killing blow, J’onn musters the strength to grab Indigo by the arm and lift her into the air before literally ripping her in half. It sounds graphic, but considering Indigo was really just a living computer, it looked like Christmas tinsel flying when she got torn in half.
Meanwhile, Supergirl fights Non in a battle of heat vision, but the Harry Potter/Voldermort like fight ends with her Kryptonian rival getting destroyed after Kara over powers him with her superior eye lasers. Non’s eyes are burned up and it appears he’s dead. Indigo has been stopped but not before passing along one final ominous message — the countdown is still going on myriad and there’s nothing Supergirl can do to stop it.
Save Supergirl, Save the World
Supergirl knows the only way to save the world is to carry myriad into outer space so the signal can no longer reach anyone on Earth. If Supergirl thought she was going to die while battling Non and Indigo, now she’s certain that there’s no coming back this time. For some reason, Supergirl can’t survive in space like her cousin Clark so she knows this really is a one way trip.
Finally, Supergirl tells her sister Alex goodbye before picking up Fort Rozz and carrying it out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space. The world is saved but Supergirl passes out from a lack of oxygen and it looks like she won’t be coming back for season two.
But of course we knew that wasn’t going to happen so out of nowhere, Alex appears in the sky riding in Kara’s transport pod that brought her to Earth in the first place. She flew the spaceship out of Earth’s atmosphere to rescue Kara before she died. There was no way she was going to let her sister go that easily!
Back on Earth, Kara and Alex reunite with their mother before they finally reveal the big secret they’ve been hiding from her. Jeremiah Danvers is actually alive and well and being held as a prisoner at a complex called Project Cadmus.
The Cliffhanger
So the day is saved, the Kryptonians have been defeated and Supergirl is still very much alive. Back at work, Kara finds out that Cat Grant is giving her a promotion that comes along with its own office, not much more money but the chance to create her own position doing something that she’ll love to do.
Cat even calls her Kara!
General Lane tells J’onn that he’s been issued a pardon by the president and reinstated as the leader of the DEO. J’onn says one thing he’s learned through this entire experience is that secrets only hurt the people they care about the most so he’s not hiding anymore. Unfortunately that rule doesn’t apply to General Lane, who presents Maxwell Lord with the Kryptonian energy sphere that was being used to power myriad. What he’ll do with that is anybody’s guess.
At dinner later that night, Kara spends time with her family — including Alex, Eliza, J’onn, Winn and James. She even shares a kiss with James out on the terrace. All seems right with the world as J’onn and Alex also promise Eliza that they will stop at nothing to find Jeremiah.
Before the group can enjoy a nice family dinner, a giant red streak is seen tearing through the National City sky and it force Supergirl and J’onn to fly into action.
After tracking the object, Supergirl and J’onn find it crash landed on the ground and the vessel looks eerily familiar — like an exact replica to the space craft that first brought Kara Zor-El to Earth. Kara quickly approaches the craft and rips open the door and her eyes go wide as saucers looking at whoever is inside.
Fade to black and that’s the end of Supergirl season one!
One side note — considering the alternate universe plot that brought The Flash to Supergirl earlier this season and the fact that the producers behind the two shows would be crazy not to cross them over again, my theory is that the pod contained another version of Kara Zor-El from an alternate Krypton that crossed over to this version of Earth. It gives a perfect segue to bring the Flash back to National City a season from now!
And then we will return with more Supergirl recaps!
