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During this week’s episode, Sam visits the home of her adoptive mother, Patricia, and discovers that she is actually an alien from Krypton. Similar to the news about Mon-El’s whereabouts, the reveal of Sam’s true origins isn’t very surprising (especially if you’ve paid any attention to Supergirl news or promo materials over the past few months) however, unlike the Mon-El-centric storyline in “Wake Up,” Sam’s story is much more well-executed and delivers an emotional payoff that is tragic and yet fitting for her character’s journey.
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Just let Benoist and Wood talk to each other about pretty much anything their characters are going through, and it will lead to some emotionally-charged and chemistry-filled scenes.
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In this small moment, the natural chemistry between Benoist and Wood electrifies the screen, and while it will probably be a while before Kara and Mon-El become romantic again (because of, you know, the whole wife thing), I do hope that Supergirl allows for the pair to have these friendlier, more flirtatious moments. Yes, the scenes in which Kara confronts Mon-El and tries to pry the truth from him are powerful due to Melissa Benoist’s performance, but they also feel quite stagnant, perhaps because of how they are staged or simply because we can predict the outcome of this storyline from a mile away.Įasily the best Kara/Mon-El scene in “Wake Up” comes near the end of the hour, when he tells her how good it is to see her again and mentions how she has never needed his protection, except for the one time they got all-you-can-eat ribs together. During this episode, though, Mon-El’s stoic and silent demeanor robs Chris Wood of his natural charm, and all of the secret keeping, while necessary for plot reasons, doesn’t really create a compelling storyline. What made Kara and Mon-El so much fun to watch last season was the chemistry between the two of them, the back and forth that occurred even when they were fighting. While the reveal that Mon-El has been living in the future, a future in which L-Corp has created a cure so that he can breathe the air on Earth again, provides many exciting story avenues for future episodes of Supergirl, it doesn’t really give “Wake Up” the energy it needs. After spending so much of Season 2 building up Mon-El’s character and putting him on this journey from selfish, spoiled prince to hero-in-training, there was no way the Supergirl writers were going to turn him evil in any way or have him actually plotting against Kara and the DEO what would have been the point of his entire Season 2 arc if they had done that? Instead, Mon-El is keeping secrets in an effort to protect Kara he doesn’t want to break her heart, and he understands that the truth about him and Emra will do just that (although he really should have made sure he told Kara about his wife before he, you know, ran up and kissed her in front of Kara). It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book: you can bring the girl and guy back together but you can’t actually have them to be together that quickly–there’s got to be some type of conflict, and that conflict is usually a love triangle.
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This reveal shouldn’t be too shocking to any veteran TV watcher. However, the new developments in Mon-El’s life, major events that have occurred over seven years for him, are made very explicit by episode’s end, as it’s revealed that Emra, the woman he risks everything to try to save, is actually his wife. Sure, in some ways he is similar to the man Kara fell in love with last season he even wears her necklace still as a reminder of her, a reminder of everything she taught him during their time together, because there’s no place in the past, present, or future in which Mon-El could ever forget Kara. That’s right: as some Supergirl fans had already predicted, the portal that Mon-El’s pod went through at the end of Season 2 transported him into the future, and this physical and emotional distance from Kara has caused a change in him. After last week’s trip to the past, Supergirl focuses on the future in “Wake Up,” both figuratively and literally, as Mon-El returns and reunites with Kara, explaining to her that the seven months of separation in the 21st century for her having actually been seven years in the 31st century for him.