Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Supergirl catchup, this time looking at season 4 episode 6, Call to Action. The Children of Liberty upped the ante this episode making them much more repugnant individuals. They are thugs basically and are channelling their (somewhat warranted) fear into completely the wrong direction. They are very much generalising all aliens as dangerous when that is clearly not the case. They did well to try and balance things as much as they could by having Manchester Black return (yay) to deliver his own violent and it turns out murderous brand of justice. Someone else going about things in an unnecessarily violent fashion.

Kara replaced James on a head to head talk show with Ben Lockwood and although the people ended up cheering for Lockwood, I’d say she handled herself pretty well. She came across as logical and fair rather than preachy while I felt Lockwood came across as a bit deluded, ranting on about the first Thanksgiving. I’m not American though so how often the first Thanksgiving is or isn’t referred to is unknown to me.

I was fine with the switch to Kara too as I found myself agreeing with James once again. I know his plan was risky but I agreed that him trying to get to know the Children of Liberty and the root of their thought process was the right thing to do. It turned out that they were in fact marking out houses to target while he was chatting to the guy but that wasn’t James’ fault. He gave them a chance and that was the right thing to do. Lena was being quite unfair I felt and this was an odd episode for her. I like the character but her attitude towards James and then the weird sub plot with the heart experiment followed by her (rightfully) shot down “make everyone super powered” pitch meant that I didn’t find myself enjoying anything from her in this episode.

Apart from that I am still really enjoying the overall story and how it incorporates the whole cast in different roles. They even managed to trick me with the Colonel again as she wasn’t being as nasty to Alex or aliens as her stance at the end of the last episode suggested. Keeping me on my toes Supergirl, I like it!

DD Rating: 7/10