BWW Recap: SUPERGIRL Holds the American Flag on Her Shoulders in 'Fallout'

Last week on Supergirl, the already high tension between humans and aliens in National City was raised exponentially when President Marsdin was outed as an alien. "Fallout" opens with a sight not unfamiliar to society today - two opposite sides of a rally outside of the White House. One side seeks peace and unity, the other demanding that the aliens return home. Talk about an on-the-nose metaphor...

"Fear can create monsters where none existed before" are President Marsdin's final words of wisdom to Supergirl before her resignation. In a tangible representation of what's happening to Supergirl's America, the American flag comes crashing down as the two sides begin fist fighting. Supergirl, of course, flies in to catch it before it does damage, giving National City a glimmer of hope that the ideals their country was founded on can be saved.

Brainy continues to be his mildly irritating self by stating the obvious in his matter-of-fact way. It's hard not to miss Winn carefree version of nerd, but Jeremy Jordan is fulfilling our need to see him back on Broadway, so we must remain Winn-less for the unforeseen future. Sidenote: Tickets for American Son are live now in case anyone was wondering.

CatCo's mini Kara, Nia was beginning to get a little irritating herself during the first episode, but she gets super points for defending an alien she doesn't know (Brainy) from getting attacked by a bunch of bigots with bats. I'm still not entirely sold on Kara taking on the role of Kat to a mini version of herself, but it's warming up to me.

Let's be real: Kat Grant was one of the best additions to TV in a long time, so the blatant attempt to replace her sage and sometimes callously loving wisdom with cheerleader Kara is a tough pill to swallow. That being said, Nia coming out as transgender and fighting for the rights of aliens because she herself has faced discrimination is what we need more of on TV today. I'm officially team Nia. Major props go to Supergirl for casting Nicole Maines, a transgender actress and activist, instead of a cis man - a damaging decision that illigitimizes transgender individuals while taking away their voice.

Mercy Graves fulfills the villain cliche in destroying her own equipment the minute her evil plans to hack Brainy's image inducer were stopped. I don't know about anyone else, but if I were trying to take cause mass destruction, I wouldn't want to have to replace my laptop every time something didn't go my way.

Keeping a secret identity makes it really hard to save the day, but Lena is pretty quick to buy Supergirl's excuses for successfully thwarting Mercy's army when they storm L-Corp (Supergirl chalking up her wind power to an allergy is a bit much).

Before the new president is sworn in, Supergirl makes an official on-air statement citing that "The character of a person or alien is not defined by where we are from, but what we do." Those strong words are not enough to get through to the angry mob at an underground anti-alien rally being thrown by, you guessed it, Agent Liberty.

The creepy masked villain whose mouth doesn't move as he incites hate speech manages to get cheers when he claims he'd rather strike fear in Americans than hope. It takes a truly warped time in history to prefer fear over hope, but this is the first time Supergirl has had to deal with a threat to her main purpose of hope on such a massive level. But Supergirl is facing more than speciest country. The Girl of Steel is no stranger to betrayal and Kryptonite, and it turns out she'll be dealing with them both on a massive scale.

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