Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Combining some heart-wrenching backstory and a bit of on-the-nose political commentary, “Strange Visitor From Another Planet” was a good, if heavy-handed, bit of television.
Kara’s romantic interests were brushed aside this time around, with James only in a handful of scenes with no real story of his own and Winn still reeling from the Superfriendzoning he received last week. In their place was Adam Foster (Blake Jenner), the estranged son of Cat Grant, who made his way to National City after receiving a letter that Kara mailed under the identity of his mother.
The themes of the episode were family and loss, with Adam and Cat’s reunion running parallel to the stories of J’onn and Kara’s losses, but it was the least interesting piece of “Strange Visitor From Another Planet.” Despite another funny-yet-touching performance from Calista Flockhart, watching Kara play matchmaker and mediator between Cat and Adam was profoundly boring and illogical, considering the horrific White Martian that was tearing apart the city at the time. I’m just not invested in Adam, at least not enough to feel his plight of wanting a relationship with his mother and certainly not as a new romantic interest for Kara. It was also odd that there was nary a mention of Cat’s other son that we spent an entire episode with some weeks back. At the very least, watching Melissa Benoist bumble around while getting flirted with is charming.
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Combining some heart-wrenching backstory and a bit of on-the-nose political commentary, “Strange Visitor From Another Planet” was a good, if heavy-handed, bit of television.
Kara’s romantic interests were brushed aside this time around, with James only in a handful of scenes with no real story of his own and Winn still reeling from the Superfriendzoning he received last week. In their place was Adam Foster (Blake Jenner), the estranged son of Cat Grant, who made his way to National City after receiving a letter that Kara mailed under the identity of his mother.
The themes of the episode were family and loss, with Adam and Cat’s reunion running parallel to the stories of J’onn and Kara’s losses, but it was the least interesting piece of “Strange Visitor From Another Planet.” Despite another funny-yet-touching performance from Calista Flockhart, watching Kara play matchmaker and mediator between Cat and Adam was profoundly boring and illogical, considering the horrific White Martian that was tearing apart the city at the time. I’m just not invested in Adam, at least not enough to feel his plight of wanting a relationship with his mother and certainly not as a new romantic interest for Kara. It was also odd that there was nary a mention of Cat’s other son that we spent an entire episode with some weeks back. At the very least, watching Melissa Benoist bumble around while getting flirted with is charming.
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