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It’s just that character beats and exploring moral murkiness will always give an audience more to sink our teeth into than eleventh-hour retcons and flimsy twists. The way that he tapped into his unfulfilled brotherly side in Lena’s absence to win over the Red Daughter was fascinating. That’s not to say Lex is an uninteresting character – far from it. I’m far more interested in the moral ambiguities surrounding who get access to a super-powered serum (and by extension, whether those people remain under human laws or alien laws) than I am in any sort of Lex Luthor-centric gotcha scenario. Claiming that healing Bitsie was bad would be disingenuous, and while it’s good to see the bewildered reactions from Alex and Lena, it’s only because Supergirl was able to acknowledge that good that Bitsie trusted her enough to tell her anything about Tess’s whereabouts. Supergirl is a more effective hero (and a more interesting show) when she listens to people like Lena and Bitsie and can see that there is a genuine good in what Eve did for her, even if on the balance what Eve has done is wrong. I would love to see this season dig more into that, like we saw during the support group episodes that dug into passing and privilege. She passes and is beloved, but she is, in fact, an alien. This is necessarily subtext given that her identity is still frustratingly a secret, but Kara’s also caught between these two warring factions: the human world she has sworn to protect and the aliens, of which she is one. But Supergirl also reminded Lena that she deals with something no one else does: she has the weight of the world on her shoulders. They make up after Supergirl admits that Lena did some good things with the Harun-el, including saving James when/in a way she couldn’t. Many have feared that either Lena or Supergirl would be completely absolved in this argument. Lena’s conflict with Supergirl may have felt like it resolved a bit too suddenly, but at least the conversation itself felt earned, if not the overall shift in their relationship. But instead of it driving a further wedge between then, as Lillian predicted, it helped heal their rift. Kara finally found out that Lena created more Harun-el and that it’s Lex has powers. Lena’s entire through-line was one of the most satisfying parts of a great episode, one of Supergirl’s best this season.