This episode kind of solidified something that I have been thinking on for the past couple of weeks or so. Someone mentioned on Twitter that Lena is the one of the only relationships that Kara has actively chosen over and over again, and I thought about it and it’s absolutely true.
Her relationships with James, Mon-El, and William, all in their own way have some sort of compulsive measure to them. With James it’s implied that there was a there was some notion of “it should have made sense” but when it didn’t it fizzled out and wasn’t really revisited.
With Mon-El it’s implied that the initial attraction was because of interest in a new alien or was born out of a feeling of not belonging and that dynamic is played on. After he comes back after she sent him away, she chooses not to go back to that relationship. Even when she went back in the past in 5x13, she didn’t dwell on their relationship. In fact, she talked to him in order to get advice on Lena.
With William she literally she tries to avoid their date multiple times and is told by her friends and family that she should give it a try but it was not born out of an actual desire to do so herself.
But when it comes to Lena she has made the active choice over and over again to continue to solidify and build that relationship. In fact, her friends and family at times actively promoted against the building of that relationship. Alex, James, and generally everyone in her life didn’t trust Lena because she was a Luthor and Kara constantly fought against them, proving over and over again that that was the relationship that she wanted to keep for herself, that she chose for herself.
This episode definitely solidified that for me. They go out of their way to highlight the importance of Kara making choices for her future and not being locked into them, and I can hardly think of any more solid of a choice that she has made for what she absolutely wants in her future than Lena.
Pretty in line with how I see things, especially regarding the “choices” element. Because when Kara comes back from PZ, she’s going to have some choices to make because she’s likely to have a new outlook on life and be figuring out once and for all what she truly wants most. And who. And yes, she DOES want a who. Any other hero I’m cool with “women don’t need a love interest” but Kara has SAID (twice with passion in S1) she wants one. And even Eliza called her out in S3 when she basically pretended she was happy with her choice and sacrificing the ability to have love in her life, given her heroics, when Eliza said “You don’t seem happy.”
Anyway, with Kenny, some may say she “chose him” in the end by saying “Come with me?”... but, he was an after thought. He was just the cherry on top she thought she might be able to have, not the sundae she really wanted. She wanted to go to NCU, whether he came or not. And it also happened after endless back and forth, driven always by outside circumstances and a call to destiny, more than any true need to be with him. She was absolutely ready to drop him and go to NCU, then after thinking she could hang out in Midvale Super-ing in fun adventures with him (more about fulfilling her desire/destiny to help people than be with him), she was back to thinking she’d stay and go ahead and have a life with him. Then she got a glimpse at that life and basically (with some pain, because of course she cared about him) said “See ya.”
Like Mon-El before him, Kara “loved” Kenny in that simplistic, “I want a companion, but can ultimately live without this person and won’t fight to keep them in my life” sort of way. Just another person she helped become a better person because that’s what she does for everybody (though Mon-El really didn’t become THAT much better in some ways). She brought some light and inspiration to them, sure, and that’s great. But what did they bring to her, really? As a teen she was lonely and not feeling like she belonged and he was a great companion, just like as an adult when everyone else paired up and found love and she was feeling lonely, Mon-El was... there. But that’s not true love. That’s not a true partner. That’s not a true soulmate. Comparatively, you have Lena, whom they have quite literally shown us as of 6x01 is Kara’s sun. Kara’s light. Kara was Kenny’s light, he said it himself. But Lena is Kara’s light. They literally showed us this in 5x17 with the light stream framing on Lena in the fortress, and with the “Lena Luthor Protocol” saving Kara with sunlight.Â
Meanwhile like you said, again and again and again Kara has chosen Lena. She’s fought to keep Lena in her life and has made it clear she cannot and will not live without her (literally at times, since Lena saves her life almost as much as she saves Lena’s). No matter the sacrifice. No matter the stakes. She will turn back time for her, die for her, kill for her. Lena is her true love. Lena is her true partner. Lena is her true soulmate.Â
So again, what the hell will they do with this PERFECT, slow burn set up of Supercorp Endgame? Just let it all be queerbait and pointlessness? TBD.Â
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