"Supergirl" Recap: "Solitude"

​Written by John Edward Betancourt

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Over the course of fifteen episodes, Supergirl has proven itself to be one of the smartest and consistently well written superhero television shows out there. It's challenged our minds, our hearts and our characters week in and week out with its sheer brilliance and every week seems to be an improvement on the last episode.

This week however, the show decided that it was high time to take a break from the cerebral and thoughtfulness of its writing and instead, throw a little fun our way. It's not a bad thing, sometimes you have to kick back and enjoy yourself and I'm glad the show decided it was high time for that as well, because "Solitude" turned out to be an episode filled to the brim with easter eggs and geek out moments galore and I loved every single second of it. 

But before we get into those geekier moments, we do need to cover the fact that the show did bother to wrap up a lingering plot line in classy fashion...the resolution of Kara's anger and hurt over the death of her Aunt Astra in battle, and the discovery of who actually put her Aunt down. I really enjoyed that the show continues to emphasize teamwork and unity over all things and it rammed that point home over the fact that Indigo was able to get far into her plan without everyone coming together as a team and I especially loved those final moments when Alex finally told her sister the truth and the fact that Kara handled it with grace and class.

However, as much as I enjoyed all that, nothing compared to all the fun this episode brought forth. First and foremost, we got a member of the Brainiac family to pop up on the show in Indigo, played by none other than Smallville alum Laura Vandervoort and I must say, she did a fine job bringing the evil in this episode and while she was a treat to watch, I geeked out way harder over the Fortress of Solitude. I mean, they had the key and everything inside was simply perfect. That entire sequence left a smile on my face and I'm so glad they took the time to put it on the show and do it right for that matter. But the best part of the night for me turned out to be the race to stop the nuclear missile headed for National City. The show has had some pretty epic superhero moments before, but this was one of those classic comic book moments that managed to take my breath away.
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Of course, while it seems at first glance this was a standalone episode with zero ties to the rest of the season, it turns out that was not the case since the mystery that is Myriad popped up once again and Indigo is the only character to give us any sort of insight on what it is and well...I'm curious what she meant in regard to Myriad being part of Astra's plan to live alongside the humans. Guess we will have to continue our long wait to find out what this program is all about. Either way, as I mentioned before, this episode was one incredibly fun ride with enough action to keep me on the edge of my seat after taking us through the emotional ringer the last few weeks. Oh, and the show also gets mad props for bringing forth the first real tie in to the 1984 Supergirl movie with the brief but awesome appearance of what looked like the Omegahedron, that was nicely done. Until next time. 

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