Supergirl [6x12] "Blind Spots" Post Episode Discussion

[u/MajorParadox]

Blind Spots

Live Episode Discussion | Promo | Scene | Cast & Characters

Nxyly attempts to reunite the Allstone using Mxyzptlk as a power source. Meanwhile, Lena finds out the truth about her mother. (September 21, 2021)

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[u/Aurondarklord]

The moral logic of this episode was just...insane.

Nyxly is a world-ending threat. If she gets her full power and her macguffin...boom, that's it for life on Earth and maybe beyond that.

Nyxly winning is curtains for everyone, black, white, or fucking purple.

So if you have to choose between saving a small number of otherwise overlooked people, and saving everyone, which includes those people, you save everyone. If you fail to stop Nyxly, they die whether you fixed the political issues holding them down or not.

This is always an issue with "street-level hero lambastes cosmic-scale hero for just not getting it" stories, but this was an especially heavy-handed example. It's this all over again, and again ignoring that if the Green Lantern stops an alien invasion coming to destroy the Earth, he's saving the "black skins" too.

having to put the big picture, which includes all of the little pictures, first isn't the same thing as not caring about the little pictures, or not seeing the issues of minorities.

It's just not wanting the world to end and everyone to die.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aurondarklord]

See it could have worked if Kelly understood that Kara can't be everywhere at the same time. And so she could have chosen to become guardian to bring that hope and help to the underserved. It would have shown Kara's legacy and Kelly would have become Guardian too. But nah, gotta shame Kara (and the SF) first.

[u/Sir__Will → u/[deleted]]

Bull. The episode's premise is flawed.