but still – Question of Smoke

zor-elluthor:

So I’ve been thinking about it
lately and there’s one simple switch that could have put season 3 in a
different, possibly better developed direction. I’ve seen it mentioned before
but the more I dwell on it, the more sense it makes.

Lena buys CatCo and brings in Sam to
run that instead of L Corp. That’s it. Here’s why:

First of all, and this is a big
thing that has been bothering me, but Lena would never leave L Corp. L Corp,
her baby, her family company that she has vowed to pull out of the ashes and
make it a force for good under the new name she’s given it. She has poured her
heart and soul into this company and is damn good at it and they want me to
believe that Lena would ever give L Corp to someone else to run so that
she can look after another company? L Corp is the one part of the Luthor Legacy
that Lena is clinging to because she can do good and great things as its head.
It’s her father’s company, her brother’s company, her company and there
is no way in hell that Lena would hand the keys over to someone else, say “lol
it’s your burden now” and leave. L Corp means too much to her, it’s the key to
the redemption she thinks she needs just because she’s a Luthor and Lena would
not walk away from that.

Now Lena would of course still buy CatCo and take a little
time to know the company, that’s a no brainer. It’s a good investment, she’d be
pulling one over Morgan Edge, and most importantly, Kara asked her to do
something and Lena is whipped. Kara
is also whipped. Both these soft girlfriends are so in love and so whipped that
of course Lena would buy CatCo because she can’t resist Kara’s pout as we’ve
seen time and time again

Where was I going with this

Right so since we’ve established that Lena belongs at L
Corp, here’s why Sam would’ve been a good addition at CatCo…

KARA AND SAM WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE
SCENES TOGETHER AND WE WOULD GET TO SEE THEM BOND INSTEAD OF HAVING TO BE TOLD
HOW CLOSE THEY ARE IN A SHOE-HORNED SPEECH. I’ve talked about how much it bugs
me in this post but goodness
gracious, I really can’t believe how badly they rushed their dynamic??? The show
is called Supergirl and we barely get to see the relationship between her and another
Kryptonian/possible relative? If Sam were at CatCo, we could see how she and
Kara interacted. We could see them become friends, how they work together, how
alike they are, how Kara and Ruby bond when Sam brings her to work. We could
have been invested in that relationship because we actually saw their relationship. We would’ve
rooted for Kara and Sam to be BFFs and would’ve been devastated during the
Supergirl/Reign showdown because it would have been two people we saw become friends
now fighting each other. It would have contained that emotional element that
the original, admittedly cool looking, fight scene lacked and the development
of that relationship would have been a lot more organic.

Plus can you imagine Sam’s reaction whenever she can’t find
Kara only to be told by some employee that “Oh Kara just left for her exclusive
interview with Lena Luthor.”

“How often does she have those?”

“Like every other day.”

Sam immediately calls Lena up “I know I can’t say anything
because you’re my boss but as your friend, damn get it girl.”

Plus whenever Kara isn’t out “interviewing” Lena 😉 you know she’s out on Supergirl
business and now imagine not one but two people with secret identities leaving
CatCo only to fight each other in the streets five minutes later.

Sam being at CatCo means an easy
integration into the friends group. She knows Kara, Lena, and James so being
invited to Kara’s apartment for game night? It’s no problem, she knows most of
them. Alex would still be introduced to Ruby and that part of the storyline
could continue without issue. This also raises the stakes for everyone because
the more fleshed out connections Sam has with everyone, the sadder it’ll be
when Reign is finally here to stay.

Speaking of James…James. I know
many, myself included, dislike the current story the show is doing with him and
I think Sam being the one at CatCo instead of Lena would fix all of that. The
most obvious reason being that there would be no abrupt BS “romance” between
him and someone the writers have made him continually put down. But for other
reasons too, I promise!

The transition of a new head at CatCo would have been easier
if it wasn’t Lena. James’ hostility towards Lena, whether it’s snapping at her
for asking where Kara (an employee of hers) was going during work or having a bit
of a condescending tone when explaining to Lena about advertisement space
wouldn’t have existed. He might have been wary of Sam when she started since
she was put in charge by Lena but I don’t see that lasting long.

James is so sure Lena is like Lex. He felt that way before
and after meeting her. He felt that Kara, who defended Lena over and over, was
under the same Luthor spell that Clark was under and because of that, didn’t
believe her. I know it’s silly to think that Sam of all people would have an
impact on James’ opinion regarding Lena when he doesn’t know her but I think
that’s why it would work. Because Sam
is someone completely unconnected to the Superman and Lex Luthor debacle. She’s
just a regular person (minus the whole…worldkiller thing) who’s friends with
Lena and has funny anecdotes about her and makes the woman in question seem
more Lena than Luthor to James. And I think that’s important because while I don’t
like the romance at all, I need James’s opinion on Lena to change and for them
to even become friends.

And you know what, I think James and Sam would really get
along. I just do. Whether as friends or a couple (we know James likes and is
good with kids) I think that if they wanted to put James in a romantic
relationship, this would have been a better choice. Sam’s a new character and
it would have been a much cleaner start since there’s no baggage between them.
And James is a good, stable guy. He’d be there for both Sam and Ruby.

And I do want James to have an actual storyline that isn’t
just about romance. James helping Sam run CatCo but having more time to return
to photography, getting over his unfair opinion of Lena, and connecting with
Sam in a platonic or romantic way seems to be a good start, at the very least.

Lena being at L Corp means that Kara
doesn’t have to lie to her as much. It’s amusing when it happens every so often
but becomes decidedly less so when Kara just has to run out at work and Lena
notices or other people have to lie on Kara’s behalf because Lena’s at CatCo
and can’t find Kara. If Lena’s at L Corp, Kara doesn’t have to make up excuses about
why she’s not at her day job.

The Morgan Edge storyline could
continue as planned because Lena would still have bought CatCo.

We could still get cute scenes of
Lena at CatCo because of course she would check in to see how things are doing.

We would get Lena back in her
office!!! Do you know how much I miss seeing Lena in her office?

The desk?

The couch?

Supergirl landing on the balcony
to talk/flirt with her?

I just miss all the supercorp office
scenes. They are so pure.

TLDR: It just
makes more sense for Lena to be at L Corp and to put Sam at CatCo instead
because everyone’s characterization would have been better, Kara and Sam would
actually have scenes together, and it’s so much easier for Supercorp to bang in
Lena’s office when Lena’s actually in her office.