SUPERGIRL Season 3 Episode 7 Review: Wake Up


Before we hit the seriousness of this episode, we're brought to the realization that poor Myr'nn has apparently been wandering the DEO looking for the bathroom ... for three weeks. Luckily Winn shows him the way. After a brief conversation with him, Winn talks to Hank about taking him out after he's been a prisoner for so long.

Winn also finds out a submarine discovered an alien spaceship was attacked. Supergirl, Winn and Hank go investigating the ship and see several pods occupied with people but with one empty. They're shot at by one of the visitors and he steps into the light. After months of mourning his loss, Kara is finally brought back face to face with a visibly shaken Mon-El. It's about time.

Mon-El comes back to the DEO but is unable to tell them much other than he and the other pods are passengers on a ship. Although he tries to continue to speak with Kara privately, he's too weak to carry on a conversation. 

Samantha is testing her powers by sticking her hand in boiling water which to her surprise brings her new pain or injury. She to visit her adoptive mother who she has a very tense relationship due to the fact that she had Ruby young and was kicked out. 

She questions her about anything odd that happened when she was younger, trying to see why she seems to be bulletproof now. Initially, her mother tries to write it off but eventually shows her, her own pod that she arrived in that ejects some type of alien tech. 

Since there is no news about the spaceship carrying the other passengers, Hank goes out for father-son day to show him the park and are best achievements as humans, coffee. But they fight over Hank spending so much time at the DEO and separate. 

Meanwhile, when Mon-El is left alone, he gets out of the infirmary and goes straight to the weapons even taking of a few guards along the way. He doesn't get far though. With one hell of a right hook, Supergirl knocks him out. 

When he wakes up, Kara gets choked up trying to get him to tell her why he went for the weapons but he still says nothing. Winn comes to see Mon-El next and is vocal about how upset he is about him hurting Kara’s feelings. But Mon-El gets him to let him out telling him a lot of people including Kara will get hurt if he doesn't. 

Kara finds them in the ship trying to get the others out. Mon-El and her fight and reveals while it's only been 7 months for her, it's been 7 years for him. And he was sent through a wormhole which sent him to the 31st century on Earth where a cure to the lead was developed. 

They barely touch the subject when one of the passengers nearly drown before Kara breaks the glass for a woman, Imra, to be released and they bring her back the DEO infirmary. Kara and Mon-El talk and he apologize for hiding the truth. They're interrupted by the woman waking up and kissing him. Kara is blown away when Mon-El introduces Imra to her as his wife. Nothing is ever just easy for her. 

Samantha decides to go on a road trip to see where the part of the alien GPS tech takes her. She gets into the middle of the desert where the alien tech seems to unlock a type of fortress. Similar to the fortress of solitude when she walks . Color me intrigued. 

When she places the alien part into the dashboard, she has a holograph of a her own that is the woman from her nightmares. The woman tells her it's a Fortress of Sanctuary, part of Krypton and she is supposed to be a bringer of justice and that she will be a “world killer”. She even call Ruby an error that delayed her powers emerging. Samantha is freaking out, rightfully. 

By calling her “Reign” she unlocks something in her. Her eyes turn a deep red and speaking in an alien tongue says she's awaken. 

Samantha is well on her way to becoming a badass villain but in her journey it looks like, her Reign persona may put her own daughter in danger. With Lena not even showing up this episode, it's a given that her and Kara should eventually come in contact with her. 

Hank has mended fences with his father by giving him an apartment for them both to live after being apart so long. Neither of them have had many scenes this season together. Their bounds to have complication while living together after so many years of being apart. 

Poor Kara can never catch a break. After finally finding the man she's been grieving for, turns out he's from the future and he is a wolf. That just takes the cake. With them seemingly stranded on earth, it's not going to be long until the DEO starts feeling a bit more crowded

Written by Carly B., SUPERGIRL Beat Writer


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