Season 2 ended as pat as expected.
Fight fight fight. Casting call for all the characters in the show showing up to fight Brainiac. All the Metallo robots Brainiac hijacked turn out to be made of the same explodium as the Leos from Gundam Wing. Amanda Waller even takes out a couple just by shooting them with conventional bullets. Brainiac mind controls Supergirl evil by saying "Eradicator override", which makes me wonder once again why they had to go with the name everybody knew instead of the actual comics character that's an evil robot hell-bent on creating an ideal Krypton. Though speaking of which, we get some cheap heat from Brainiac saying "I blew up Krypton to prevent them from making peace with the galaxy", which while still a hundred shades of dumb at least prevents this show from ever bringing Rogal fucking Zarr into things.
Kara's defused by having the good guys hug her, and she and Supes push Brainiac's ship into the surface of the sun, who counters by somehow making his whole ship radiate Kryptonite (Why didn't he just do this before? Why didn't he make missiles with Kryptonite payloads?) and throws the Kryptonians into the sun because a character whose comics namesake is a hyper-intelligent being devoted to logic is too stupid to realize that even million-degree temperatures won't kill them nearly as well as shooting them with Kryptonite beams. Turns out being on the surface of the sun means there's so much yellow sunlight that it overpowers Kryptonite. Kara's outfit changes into a more traditional Supergirl one, and they smash Brainiac and his ship in what looks like a reference to Superman Red/Superman Blue by having Supes turn into a blue beam of light while Kara turns into a red one. They save his CPU for hell knows what reason, probably so it can be a plot device next season.
Kara joins the Kent family by playing catch. Cheap wrap-up montage, feels like this whole season was storyboarded back in 2023 and they made no effort to act like they had a chance of renewal, ironic as it was confirmed they were getting two more seasons a couple days before Season 2 aired. There's a clip of Lex and Deathstroke joining forces that a few Tumblr people will use as yaoi bait, and the last scene is Luz saying she's not going to Gotham and is staying in Metropolis.
Yeah, this ain't a good show. Lazy animation, ugly CGI, a scant handful of very surface-level references to far better anime, and a very baffling handling of the source material that feels at times like the writers or producers are unironic fans of the Zack Snyder atrocities. There's so much goddamn Suicide Squad nonsense that only fills time and detracts further from the show, and it probably only exists because of how the Suicide Squad is one of the only DC things making money outside of the comics. Seems like the legacy of this show will be a few months of jackasses making threads with the show's Supergirl as the OP to bitch about black men stealing their girlfriend.
