You know what angers me the most about this scene? The fact that she’s alone.
I don’t know if they meant this or if I’m looking too much into it but this is a very cruel thing to do. And a very painful metaphor to execute. Because here’s Alex, the woman who often feels alone, left out and not good enough. Here’s Alex, the woman who loved her father more than anyone in the world. Here’s that woman, facing a man who’s far from being her father. Here she is, alone, left out and not good enough.
Alone because Kara was her only backup and she had to leave to fulfill her Supergirl duties. Left out because there’s no one else around her. And not good enough because she couldn’t arrest that man. Or shoot him. Or do anything to stop him. Suddenly she was that 14/15 year old girl who’s father vanished all over again.
Alone, left out, not good enough and powerless.
I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Into The Woods but it’s basically a metaphor about how sometimes you find yourself “in the woods” of life and you need to figure yourself out. Alex got into the woods with her sister but she’s alone now. And she’s probably still mad with her sister. Not for leaving, but for believing someone else. And now she’s mad at herself for not believing her sister.
Alex Danvers is inside the woods and she’s all alone. She’s going to lose herself in these woods, she’s going to free fall deep into that same dark hole Hank rescued her from.
There was another way to do this and I’m afraid the writers choose the not so good way…. With that being said, I’ll try not to think about this episode and this moment in specific and focus on this version of the story where the Alien Family, as a family, deal with this.
#i keep having feelings about that last gif #because she’s such a soldier #she’s having a breakdown #all alone #in a forest #but she’s still a soldier #she doesn’t just fall or stumble back against a tree #no #she takes a knee #she squats down and moves to one knee #gun still in hand #so she’s ready to move at a moments notice #that is the only respite she can give herself #this moment #this moment she can’t even fully have #because there could still be danger behind any tree #because her backup is gone #then she bottles it up #because she always has #because it has always been expected of her #ever since she lost him the first time #and if it wasn’t for maggie #nobody would have known exactly how much pain she’s in #and god her fall is going to hurt so much via @nerdsbianhokie
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