Supergirl season 2 episode 7 Continue Welcome to Supergirl Talk, our regular feature breaking the CW's highs and lows in the Supergirl TV show starring Melissa Benoist in the super smiling title role. Your companions travel along the way to Superman super-fan Chris Haley, and intrepid reporter Katie Schenkel.This week, Supergirl finds out who pulls the strings in Cadmus, the Guardian is wanted for murder, and surprisingly comes back abound. The Darkest Place was directed by Glenn Winter on a screenplay by Robert Rovner and Paula Yoo.Chris: I don't think this week's episode was bad or even not good, but I also don't know how to put my finger on how it made me feel. Left me with a strange feeling. Odd may be the best word. Some things I liked, and some things I didn't like, and certainly there was no shortage of things we could talk about this week, but what do you think, Katie? Katie: Kind of the same place. It felt pretty much like a transitional episode, with storylines moving forward, including a lot of shows of certain characters, but only a few actually big moments. I think I can at first say that I was completely wrong about the preview last week --- it was definitely not because of the blood M'gann that we saw David Harewood attack Supergirl in the preview. No, the real Hank is back! Chris: Yes, now the title of the game will get even more confusing with Hank/J'onn and Hank/Hank (aka Cyborg Superman) both around and attacking people. Katie: I know Harewood is a phenomenal actor and did everything to sell this moment, but I still laughed mine when he actually called himself Cyborg Superman. It's just ... Okay, Hank. Go with that name if you want. It's definitely a choice. Maybe a little weird, since you don't really look like Superman in this universe, but of course. Chris: I was just stunned by it. That is... just not what you would call yourself. I mean, if you want to be a tough, mean guy, you can wait for someone else to call you that, and then do bad things when you say, You know what? I think I like that and then make an evil smile with your glowing cyborg eye, but just call yourself that without explanation it seems... very strange. And, you know, for us at home it makes you roll your eyes at best, and at worst makes you feel like you're going to barf. Don't get me wrong, I'm way into the idea of this twist on character and David Harewood having even more to do since it's great, but this line was just cruel to hear. Katie: I recall Cisco's Flash season one challenge to Leonard Captain Cold, all bitter-like, and Leonard throwing his head back and laughing. That could work. I mean, I still don't know how someone would connect the cyborg's eyes to a cyborg but at the moment, it's happened, it's a thing, I think that's what it's called now. That being said, I liked it looking effects on Hank's face. It felt like a good comic book call call at the same time fits into the show's aesthetic. And it didn't look as nitty-gritty as Metallo's half-shirt. Chris: That's a lot of praise, but it's 100% accurate. It would be hard for me to imagine anything that would look worse than a Metallo shirt. Although, now that I think about it, CGI White Martian M'gann flops around on the ground during her fight with J'onn was borderline Sharknado level bad. And as a guy who watched Mortal Kombat: Destroying over 200 nights in a row, I know bad CGI when I see it. Katie: That was my thought, too... not about your Mortal Kombat project, but the fact that after some decent Cyborg Superman effects, the M'gann/J'onn fight was pretty bad. And it's damn embarrassing when they had some of the most intense performances of the episode when they weren't CGI punching machines. I really enjoyed Sharon Lyal in this episode as she had to deal with J'onn to finally learn her secret. Chris: Yes, I think it's a little less uncomfortable watching them fight if they're both mostly CGI, but scenes are where they're actually people, where all the drama is, so I think it's a tough decision if you're running a show. I really didn't expect it all to end up where it did though, with M'Gann sitting in another of the CW-verse's toilet-less incarceration chambers. Katie: Also, do I feel like the Supergirl Universe made a point of saying DEO would refuse to keep people against their will without trial? I seriously doubt that she will be locked up there for a long time, but still. Equally surprising is the revelation that M'Gunn's blood will quickly turn J'onn into the White Martian, which we already see at the end of the episode. I have to assume that all this is to create a J'onn learning an important lesson, and his connection to M'gann becomes stronger as he puts aside his own prejudices and learns to trust her. Chris: I hope so. Also, a person, what are the chances that just adding your blood to someone will completely transform the entire physiology to fit them? So many strange questions this episode. Katie: My question is, if the white Martians have mutated all their own people to make their blood be transformative, or if they just stuck Green Martian with white Martian blood to see what would happen? Either way, it's pretty dark. Of course, the idea that you only hate and want to destroy people until you can make them look just like your own people is as dark as hell. Chris: Yes. Very.Katie: So, another big question of the episode, why do they want Cara's blood so bad? And while it was kind of revealed at the end of the episode with Cyborg Hank gaining access to Fortress of Solitude, it still raises even more questions. Chris: I have to say, I like the sound of another project. I've forgotten what's called what they ended up having to stop last season was, but I sincerely hope that Medusa is more interesting. Katie: Honestly, I kind of hoped that this meant they were going to make a Power Girl storyline, but I think maybe it was too similar to last year's Bizarro Supergirl episode? I would still like to see Benoist doing her power girl version at some point... though, if that meant having to deal with gross male jokes about Benoit's cleavage online, then perhaps not. Anyway, I'm with you, as far as not super pumped about Medusa just yet. While Cadmus is certainly sinister, it's not pulling me like other versions of it, and seems to way over one note of villainy so far. If Medusa will end up being bigger than that, I wonder. Oh, also Cara found out that her mom is her new best headed Cadmus, that I didn't expect her to find out about it so soon. Chris: Yes, I expected that the reveal to take a little longer too, but it is. I have to say that all that business with Supergirl in the cage and then getting rude and creepy strapped to the table and fearing it was all a bit bigger than I think I was ready to deal with this week. Katie: Same. The surgical table in particular was very unnerving. Chris: I assumed the Bizarro situation was coming, and before I remembered that they had already done it, but it seems that anything doing just so Hank-Borg could pour it on the control panel seemed like a lot of work. Also, if you have her completely depowered, why not just kill her and get her out of your hair forever? Katie: Maybe killing her was their next step in terms of Jeremiah helping them escape? This is provided that Jeremiah does not work for them to get them for some future nefarious purposes that will be revealed later (thus showing that Jeremiah is under their control because Alex Danvers can't have any happiness apparently). I think we'll see where that goes. also, Dean Kane is back! Chris: I really want to be excited about him, alive and well, but does it all seem too perfect that he will help them escape at the right time and he has been alive for 15 years and not trying to let them know? Something just doesn't add up. Maybe he'll end up with Cyborg Superman as well. Maybe all of Kadmus' operatives call themselves Cyborg Superman. Methinks Cadmus is just really bad about coming up with original ideas. So we haven't talked about Mont El and his continued lack of personality and motivation yet. He's certainly still a character that exists this week, right? Chris: Yes, when I watched this episode, I thought to myself, Don't we even remember to mention that Cadmus kidnapped him last week? Katie: How, we finally got to him talking about for being the only survivor on his planet (especially because his prince and friend gave him his place on the ship), but he was dicking around, how many episodes be just kind of jerk? And even a moment of kindness last week felt too late.