“ Jealously Thy Name is Mon-El, Hotness Thy Name is Karamel ”
I’ll be the first to admit that Mon-El is not perfect. He has messed up. He’ll continue to mess up. Because that’s what happens when you’re learning to do better; to be better. While it hasn’t been confirmed officially, given the tease that Mon-El was actually the Prince of Daxom it gives me a new appreciation for him and what he’s going through. He’s owned up to the fact that he used to be a womanizer (he referenced objectifying women and not caring back on Daxom in this episode). But he’s also owned up to the fact that he’s trying to become a better person. And I’m sorry, but that’s not something that happens overnight. Or over a course of several episodes. Every day we – including Mon-El – are aspiring to be better in some aspect of our lives.
But I’ll also be the first to say that Kara needed to call Mon-El out for his ego. Because the way he was behaving – trying to treat Kara as this damsel in distress and going against her wishes with an infuriating male ego – is not the way that a man trying to win a woman over should behave. Once again, Mon-El is far from perfect. And that’s why I love him. I love that we get to see the imperfections. I love that we get to see that Kara still cares about him despite those imperfections. I love that we get to see Mon-El continuously evolve as a good person as he seeks to be worthy of Kara’s love. I love to see a representation of someone who’s trying to be better is worthy of that redemption.
After everything was said and done – after Kara and Mon-El had their arguments and it looked bleaker than bleak – Mon-El did one of the most important things he could’ve done: he apologized. He owned up to his egotistical behavior and admitted that he was in the wrong. He showed growth in taking that responsibility, which was something that I don’t think he ever did as Prince back on Daxom.
Mon-El opened up – which is something that I doubt he’s done before either – about how he’s never felt this way about someone before. How he’s never experienced this many feelings before. How the way he feels about Kara almost scares him it’s so intense.
No relationship is smooth sailing – and if it is then something isn’t right. It’s natural for there to be conflicting feelings and judgments about certain things. It’s natural to argue about the silliest of things (as we saw Kara and Mon-El do in this episode.) It’s natural to feel like you’re going crazy in a relationship. That means that you care. That means that there’s something there worth fighting for. And that’s what Kara and Mon-El have discovered.
I cannot wait to see more of these two as they navigate the waters of a relationship moving forward.
- Alyssa Barbieri, Fangirlish.com
