By Aden Penn
Remember that dark cloud from before with the glowy eyes? Well he’s back, and he has a target. I am pretty happy about that target, because I was hoping they would give this Godfrey jerk a face and not just make him a voice on the radio. I am really enjoying how they are throwing in things like catch phrases (truth, justice and the American way), and how they mentioned Superman last week. It’s these clever little touches that make it an enjoyable show.
Godfrey signs off on his radio show, and that doomy storm that started before gets worse. As he turns and looks out of the big window he sees that dark mass, that looks like it is filled with shadowy bats. It busts through the window and overtakes him, and as we hear him scream all we see is his scared eye start to turn black. Very nice. Now let’s hope this turns out a little better than Doomsday.
It looks like Godfrey is holding some kind of rally gathering, the scene opens with shots of his book “Superhero or Super Menace” He is spouting on about his fear of everyone being dependent on the vigilantes to take care of them. Have to be honest, I kind of tune that out. The camera pans to Clark who looks about as thrilled with this jack hole as I do, and in the background a familiar figure shows up. Lois is back!
Clark and Lois’s reunion in the street is a very nice mix of awkward and quirky. Lot’s of things said but unsaid and plenty of reading between the lines going on. They bring up Cat and Clark says, with a great expression “She’s no Lois Lane” damn right she is not! And apparently she also got conveniently sent to Alaska to cover a dog sled race. I snickered, loudly. And that moment was topped off with a funny little blip of music that I thought was quite appropriate. I usually don’t pay much attention to the music, because sometimes in this show it is a little too much. But it was a nice quick supporting character at the right time.
“We know who are real heroes are, and they are not these faceless mutants.”
I really want to give this guy a good smack with something metal and heavy. Now I am paying attention, because he is getting my dander up. And, Lois’s too apparently because after he takes some over the line pot shots about the Blur she moves through the crowd and starts heading up front. Sadly we never get to see what she had planned to do. We pan back to Godfrey as he says “Stop the Menace” the camera pans up to a billboard covered with a red cloth, that says just that, with the Superman S crossed out. The execution of taking the cloth off the billboard didn’t go so well and the crane manages to knock it down, and it starts falling towards the street. Clark runs in his blur fashion to go stop it, but then…it just stops. The music swells so we know something good is coming, and we see the sign flip upright, and there is Supergirl holding it up. She doesn’t have the most pleased look on her face, but the look on Godfrey’s is just as bad. Kara gives Clark a little wink and a smile before taking off.
The screaming headline on the cover of the Daily Planet says “Maiden of Might” with a picture of Supergirl holding the sign. (*sigh* I miss Jimmy) Clark and Lois are talking about Kara and her super hero status, and we are treated to Clark once again pondering the idea of coming out and showing his face to the public. Lois is quick to try to convince him that it’s a bad idea, because she is worried about the danger. She slips up for a moment though and almost makes it known to Clark that she knows what is going on.
Clark goes off to find Kara and he does, she is standing on a roof somewhere with an American flag flying behind her. She is posing in different superheroey type poses, and then sees Clark walk up and decides it’s time to take a break. I was amused by the rack of clothes behind Clark that is filled with red and blue clothing. Apparently she is trying to get her image around the city as quick as she can, and Jor-el has given her a mission. The imagine spreading, and getting her powers back was part of it. She tells Clark that Jor-el told her he has let Clark go and that he is no longer his son. Man this guy can really pile it on.
We see Godfrey walking through a church and when he moves to sit down in a pew, Lois is sitting there next to him with her nose in the bible. When he sits she closes it and gives him a patented Lane smirk. “Not a bad read” They exchange some low toned barbs, and then Godfrey hits Lois with a good one. He knows from an associate of his, the real identity of the Green Arrow, and he plans on letting it be known to the public when he realizes the final chapter of his book online the next day. I can tell by the look on her face that Lois is about to get herself up to a whole heap of trouble.
Oliver is having a flash back moment to the time when he kissed Chloe. (*sigh*) while doing a little working out. He is visited by Lois, who is of course here to tell him the good news. He doesn’t seem to be too worried about, in fact he brushes it off kind of quickly. At least on the surface, but Lois is persistent in making him believe this is a very big deal. Ollie is having the same but much more severe train of thought that maybe it is time that people know the truth. He doesn’t seem to want to stop Godfrey from posting the chapter.
Godfrey’s publicist is giving him a hard time about seeing said chapter of the book, but he won’t relent. She mentions that just three weeks ago things were different. He starts monologing about how he wants to be on every television and newspaper. “I want to touch every soul” There is a very nice little image in the scene as he is talking, the exhaust from the limo is creating a very nice play of shadows out of the window near Godfrey.
“If I can plant an idea, a seed of doubt…”
He kind of freaks his publicist out when he talks about giving humans enough rope to hang themselves. That shadowy mass is making him a little freaky. After she steps out of the limo, he pulls a flyer card out of his jacket for a fetish club. Oh someone is a little twisted. He tells the driver to take him to the club, and his voice shifts letting a bit of the evil force out. As the scene closes we see that the driver is Lois. Here she goes getting herself in her usual state of trouble.
Back at Kent farm Clark pulls out the book, but notices that the key is missing. Kara wooshes in, and tries to tell him there is no point talking to Jor-el, but rightfully so Clark wants answers. Or is a glutton for punishment and wants more Daddy abuse. Clark has seem to let his destiny go to his head a little, because he is pretty adamant about it being him that was sent to the earth to save it. He is really not happy about getting family back up.
“There’s nothing out there I can’t handle.”
Kara knocks him down a few pegs by reminding him that he still doesn’t have a full grasp of his powers. Bringing up the fact he has been on Earth for so long and still can’t fly. Clark makes a point that Kara is his only family and that he needs her help.
Speaking of not being able to fly, Kara and Clark are standing up on a windmill platform on the farm. She is trying to explain that flying isn’t hard or easy, it just is. That she reaches for the sky and the world just falls away, Clark seems to struggle. When he tries to make the world falls away but that just makes him hear everything. The scene gets very deep and master/student teachy and then BAM! Clark is flying, with a funny expression and awesome music. And then he must of realized he was flying because then we see him crashing through the roof of the barn. It’s just not his time. While they are bickering Kara tells him about the darkness that showed up three weeks ago, and Clark has his first light bulb moment of the episode. He takes Kara to the roof where he had opened the portal using the book. He has a thought that if it came in this way, maybe they could send it back in the same fashion.
It looks like Ollie has decided to take a step towards spirituality. He steps into a church, but not to talk to God, but to his parents. This is a nice scene, because it is showing that Oliver is having a true moment of both doubt and clarity. He is trying to follow their teaching of helping others, but then realized that he doesn’t want people risking themselves for him anymore. (Yeah honey I miss Chloe too) I just hope that he gets to it soon, I am ready for some kind of “I’m Green Arrow bitches” and done with the thinking and wringing of hands.
Lois decides to step into the “fetish” club that she has taken Godfrey to. I was wondering if they were going to show it, and just how they were going to make it out to be. I mean this is the CW and not, say, FX or HBO. (Also it has to be said that Lois looks really cute in the limo driver get up with the hat) We see a few writhing bodies in leather and corsets, plush velvet furniture and someone dancing on a pole. And of course Godfrey in the middle soaking up the depravity. They cut to a tight shot of a pair of very shiny black boots with severe heels moving down the stairs. Oh sweet Jesus. Lois is decked out in…well she fits in. (but the blonde wig…yuck) Holding a riding crop she walks over to Godfrey and leans in with a great line. “You look like a man in the need of a little corrupting” And it is at this point that I realize that Lois NEVER thinks through anything she sets in mind to do. (and that this episode will please the Lois fans quite nicely) In an even “smarter” move she takes him to a private area of the club. She was doing pretty good, but Godfrey started to get handsy and that broke her stride but only for a second because she gets the upper hand and manages to cuff him up. Line of the night has got to be when Lois calls over two girls that start to walk through the room, and she calls one of them “sin on a stick” She has the girls crawl all over him, and put him in a very compromising position. Lois snaps some pictures, and then unmasks herself much to the twisted delight of Godfrey. He tries to cut her a deal, offering her the information on Oliver but she hits send and the pictures go off to the Daily Planet. Godfrey gets a little cranky with being chained up and breaks his bonds, and now his voice has gone full on Goa’uld. Thankfully Lois tries to put up a fight, including a taser but Godfrey’s got a little darkness going for him and knocks her out.
Kara and Clark slip up to Watchtower and start searching out the news feeds trying to figure out where this darkness could be. They play a video feed of him talking during which Clark and Kara catch the Goa’uld voice. Tracking down his limo, they zoom in on the driver, see that it’s Lois and off they go.
Lois comes to, and sees Godfrey upside down. The shot pans away and we see he has her trussed up like some kind of kinky anime video. Clark and Kara walk into the fetish club and both stop in their tracks.
“What is this place?”
“It’s kind of hard to explain.”
It’s nice to see a little subtle comedy mixing into the heat of the moment. The super family splits up and Clark finds Godfrey first. Which is of course just what the darkness wanted, because he immediately starts pointing out the doubt that he can see in Clark’s heart. And the bad guy just starts dropping some serious science on Clark. After which the smoky blackness busts out of Godfrey and starts swirling around Clark. Kara busts in at the right moment and drives it back with her bracelet, family symbol shining. The darkness seems not to be destroyed, but just scared off. (I really hope they don’t make this a “darkness host of the week” situation)
Clark hears Lois struggling for breath, and he rushes off to get her out of her curtainy bonds. Which we only see as a red curtain billowing over the screen, as we hear the rush of his super speed. Lois comes to, but it’s not Clark that helps her up but Kara. They switch view to Clark lurking in the shadows and maybe realizing it might feel good to the be the one there, seeing the face of gratitude.
“Supergirl” closes first with Lois and Kara having a little girl talk, and Lois asks her the ultimate question. “what is it like to have powers?” Kara likens it to being free, and brings up a good point that it is easy for people to see the powers and not the person behind them. The second part of the closer puts us in the Planet and Clark dresses down Lois for going too far to try to discredit Godfrey.
It only took three episodes to make me tear up, not too shabby. What did it was Lois’s line. “My worst fear is to be alone in the world without heroes.” That struck a big chord with me, and I think even this early in the game it is safe to say that Lois really is my favorite character.
It seems like the more Lois talks about how the Blur is different than other super heroes with their flaws, and the higher she builds the pedestal she has put him on, the more Clark doubts his own powers. More and more it is turning out that Lois really is a form of kryptonite for him. (and I love it, not for what it does, but for the story)
Kara is sticking around, and assumed a cute little disguise. Of course she isn’t much convinced that Clark is going to be much help, because she knew the darkness could possess him. She tells him that battling the darkness is not his fight.
Lois gives Oliver the flash drive that contained the final chapter of Godfrey’s book, but he has his own agenda and trick up his sleeve. He calls in a group of reporters, and says that everyone has the vigilantes all wrong and that there is only one way to set the record straight.
“I am Green Arrow.”
Oh hell…
Aden Penn is a mild mannered document clerk by day. She divides her love between Orson Welles, Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Douglas Fargo. Things on her list of “Cool” include superheroes, Pop Tarts, most things sci-fi and giraffes. For more Aden, visit her website, Aliens & Airships.
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Aden Penn is a mild mannered document clerk by day. She divides her love between Orson Welles, Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Douglas Fargo. Things on her list of “Cool” include superheroes, Pop Tarts, most things sci-fi and giraffes. For more Aden, visit her website, Aliens & Airships. 
