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The first time I saw Supergirl it reminded me of Lois and Clark The New Adventure of Superman. Growing up I know that girls are equally capable and strong as boys. But Lois and Clark made me realized that women are in equal footing with men. It made me see that was not only capable because we have to but we are capable because it is in our genes. I have seen a lot of television shows since then, I have met and fell in love with strong female characters and have tried to emulate them. But non made me believe that it is possible to be strong, confident, successful and hot as Cat Grant once said. Season 1 may have been about Kara leaning to be Supergirl, but it is also about Cat Grant learning to open up and show who she is back when life was simple. She is a soft-hearted, hard-working journalists who feels too much. It gave me a lot of ahas and what the f, moments. But all in all it was wonderful to see these two women who both wanted to do good in the world. I Stopped watching season 2 after the second episode, I kinda have a feeling it would not be what it was once. And I was not wrong. I didn’t get the idea of Lena Luthor being a substitute CEO and as some people would say confidant and adviser. I am wondering what a 30+ woman who has no real job, no real experience, no real anchor to the world could offer a 24-year-old cub reporter, former assistant, Alien and super hero? Cat Grant once said that ” you don’t sudden own the building, there is a learning curve”, I believe that but I guess cat forgot to mention, you can step off the elevator and suddenly own the building if your father own the whole damn company!.Lena Luthor is the epitome of privilege, with no stress and work needed to be the CEO. It’s funny when she claims, certain invention as hers or her vision, when she hasn’t work a day in her life for any of the product her company is selling. At least Maxwell Lord knows what the hell his talking about, he knows the ins and out of what his toys and his trains are doing and how to fix it if something happens. They were parading Lena as a strong female character, when all she ever was is a cry baby and someone who needs savings and assurance that she’s doing the right thing. Lena is trying to distance her self to the Luthor name because she thinks her family is bad. She's’s doing because she has an agenda of her own. Now let’s talk about Mon-El, see I’m not a big fan of bad boys that turns out to be good boys. I have no such notion that I can change a guy and make his better. First of all, it’s hard to make my self better, let alone teach some guy how to be a better version of himself. Mon-El is a villain character that should have a villain in the first place. But as fans of the first season know that James and Kara DOESN’T have any chemistry except friendship. So when season 2 happened they needed a stand in love interest that will be the safe corner and warm place of Kara, away from all the fighting and all the drama that CATCO has become. So they needed Mon-El, since Cat Grant is no longer there to be the semi, quasi love/mentor questionable boss/assistant/friend/hero whatever relationship they needed a MAN. But as any character written as villain, it becomes annoying and down right frustrating when they try to make him into a good guy. It’s like buying one thing and using it for some other things. It doesn’t work! It only creates mess and just more unnecessary work. But let’s be honest, this is a show that caters to young and adult viewers so they need a hot guy for the hot girl. I’ve never been one to be interested in what the actors or the actress are doing in real life when they’re not working, so I don’t care about Melissa or Chyler or Calista outside of Supergirl, but it does make me wonder if Melissa and Chris Wood’s dating is the same as Lea Michelle and Cory Monteith dating during Glee? Meaning, staged. This could be the case of actors helping their characters to be likable. We all know a lot of Supergirl fans from season 1 who saw the entire show when it was the show it promised to be hate Mon-El because he is the opposite of what Kara wanted. James is a nice, caring, handsome, passionate, who works not to mention also good-looking and I know he did some stupid thing with the Red K but to his defense his seeing his own superhero fall from her own standard so let’s cut him some slacks. And now they gave her Mon-El? Really? So I guess they did found a solution, coz I may not care about actors and their private lives but there are fans who do. So that’s what their doing, a few pictures of Melissa and Chris in the beach and him carrying her bags are sure ways to sway the fan and leave him alone and next thing you know Mon-El will slowly be a hero. Coz people will be like, oh his such a gentle man with how he do this and that for her, or oh they look good together and the best comment will be, his not bad she loves him and Chris is not Mon-El. Chris is a loving, nice, sensitive guy. Yup, that’s how it would be. People will forget that it’s not the actors lives were watching but the television show about Supergirl who is supposed to be the ultimate girl power who fights crime side by side with her bad ass sister and their space dad, who celebrates Thanks Giving with her family and is hassle by her foster mom because it’s her job, who eats take out with her two sidekicks who for all her power and Alien constitution she still thinks Cat Grant is great even though she’s prickly. So what happened to Supergirl? I think she was left in CBS along with Cat Grant, Maxwell Lord and Lucy Lane. No wonder they have to make so many new non sense characters. And those people who are watching season 2 and thinks it’s the best of the season, I think these are also the kind of viewers who just like destruction and mayhem. These are the viewers who thinks that superheroes are dark, unhappy individual with savior complex. They all believe that every hero is just like Batman with his twisted past and darker nights ahead. They will never appreciate season 1 for what I stand for, for what James and Winn did to Kara when she’s first starting out, or Alex’ support or Cat Grant’s push and pull mentoring to Kara. They do however appreciate Mon-El’s way of being a hero, or Lena Luthor’s brand of girl power. Also, I would like to point out that when season 1 is airing and people are saying that there is something between Cat and Kara, the writers are so defensive in saying there’s nothing there. I know Melissa and Calista are good at what their doing but anybody who’s not trying not to see, can see that it is more than a boss and employee. But sadly they don’t want that, but come season 2 they are making it seems that Kara and Lena are a thing. And it makes me wonder if these “supposed” moments are meant for Cat and Kara but given Calista’s MIA status they have to give it to Lena. It’s funny but fans of Kara and Lena are so sure of them being a canon. Come top think of it, back in season 1 people are calling SuperCat fans delusional and awful things, but now it’s the SuperCorp that’s delusional. I think the Supercorp fans should know that they are the Fanfic to SuperCat’s Canon. SuperCat started it. The writers and producers should know that they did make a mess of season 2, I think the writers lost something when they lost Cat Grant.