

TVLINE | I was pleasantly surprised to see Maxwell Lord and Kara become quasi-allies in these past few episodes. We choose our families, and had it not been for her Earth family, Kara might not have survived. And while Kara is a lone hero, what we’ve shown all season was this idea of “stronger together.” We’re all bonded by blood, even if that is a love bond. Did you and your fellow producers feel the temptation to go dark with this finale and potentially kill off a cast member, even if it wasn’t Supergirl? TVLINE | This episode had some really high stakes, and Kara is told multiple times that she’s on a suicide mission.

She was sent to save this world, and she does. In the spirit of good, old-fashioned cliffhangers, we certainly answer many more questions in terms of her trajectory with Jimmy Olsen, her relationship with Alex. We’ve absolutely had conversations - we’re waiting to tell CBS. TVLINE | Potentially silly question: Do you guys already know who’s in that pod? Or is that yet to be determined? Hopefully, getting into a second season, we can explore some other questions she might have. We started this season with her asking that real question of “Can I do this?” Tonight’s episode answers, emphatically, that yes, she can. It’s a classic journey where has to sacrifice herself for the greater good, and that’s a trope of comics. What we did was answer a lot more questions.

Traditionally, we want to add as much intrigue into next season as possible. Did you know, going in, that you wanted to end on a major cliffhanger, or was it something that came about as you broke the finale? TVLINE | Walk me through how you guys constructed this episode. First, she and James finally got a chance to talk about that lip-lock from two weeks ago, and when James presented Kara with a candid picture he’d snapped of her a while back, the two exchanged another kiss - and this one didn’t end with James getting overtaken by an alien force.Īnd just as Kara began to celebrate her major victory of the day, surrounded by family and friends, a Kryptonian pod that looked remarkably similar to Kara’s crash-landed outside her loft, and whomever (or whatever) was inside gave Kara a major shock - even though the home audience didn’t become privy to the visitor’s identity.įor an explanation of that cliffhanger and more of the episode’s highlights, we chatted with executive producer Ali Adler. But perhaps the most interesting events transpired after Kara had successfully saved the Earth.
