Supergirl Season 4: 5 Ups & 4 Downs From ‘Crime And Punishment’

1. Super Powers For James

While it was touching to see James Olsen finally receive some meaningful screen-time as he worked through his emotional trauma, his later appearance in 'Crime and Punishment' risks squandering all of that hard work.

Finding himself in the midst of another panic attack, James practiced the de-stressing method that the doctor taught him and, though it started working, things soon got weird as he was somehow able to zoom up on things that were far away, overhear things he shouldn't have been able to hear and he also managed to crush a lamp with his bear hands. Oh yeah, and creepy veins worked their way up his neck and into his head.

The Supergirl writers have struggled to find a place for James on the show since the very beginning. Though they have offered up some decent material for him in the past (love interest for Kara, Guardian), they never manage to make anything stick and, with him now developing superpowers (and actually confirming that he doesn't think his symptoms aren't PTSD-related), it's looking like this meaningful narrative is the next James story to get cut off far too soon.

Also, why does everyone on the show have to have superpowers? James is freakin' Guardian, he doesn't need powers.