At first I was thrilled about this, because I have always loved the comparison between Superman and Supergirl and immigrants, but he then goes on to talk about the massive alien prison that crashed on Earth, meaning that Earth is ransacked with alien prisoners. When Kara is first introduced to the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, Hank Henshaw, the agent who runs the department, derisively refers to aliens like Kara as immigrants. I have very few complaints, so let’s start with those and get them out of the way. Overall, I absolutely adored this first episode and I can’t wait to watch the rest of the series. Our episode ends with Kara firmly deciding to become a hero like her cousin, and it’s revealed that all these alien criminals are rallying around General Astra, the twin sister of Alura Zor-El, Kara’s biological mother. Kara squares off against Vartox and eventually defeats him, with some help from her sister. For awhile these criminals remained in hiding but have recently become active, and an alien named Vartox from Valeron was the one who sabotaged the plane Kara’s sister was on. Kara also discovers that the Kryptonian prison that was in the phantom zone was dragged out somehow by her pod and has crashed on Earth. Kara eventually learns that her sister works with the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, which tracks alien activities. Kara flies to the rescue and saves everyone, but she ends up exposing herself at the same time. Kara gets the chance when the plane her adoptive sister Alex is on begins to crash. She wants to do more with her life than fetch coffee she wants to help people and use her powers instead of hiding them.

We then see Kara as a young adult working for high profile CEO and reporter Cat Grant as her assistant. The Danvers raise Kara, and because her cousin is already a hero, Kara decides to live a normal life.

Eventually Kara’s pod managed to escape the phantom zone, and when she lands, she is greeted by a now adult Superman who gives her to the Danvers family, a family who had helped him when his powers were developing. But the blast from Krypton after it exploded caused her pod to get knocked off course and sucked into the phantom zone for years where she didn’t age. She was older than him-about thirteen-and was sent to Earth by her parents, both to save her and for Clark to have someone to protect him as a baby. We learn that Kara Zor-El was Clark’s cousin. Our episode starts off with a bit of an exposition dump.

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