Supergirl: Are Kryptonians Flawless Heroes or Entitled Brats?

Cat's exit is a blow but Snapper Carr taking her spot as a reluctant foil and mentor to Kara will be a nice salve for those wounds.

[...] when I watched Snapper holler and grumble his way through a newsroom as Kara (Melissa Benoist) chirped after him, I already felt myself siding with the gruff vet.

[...] when Kara, hurt by Snapper's rejection, whined that this was the job she chose and that it should come easy, I could feel the same frustration boil up inside of me.

[...] it turns out, when you're a beautiful, invulnerable, graceful alien whose best qualities are powered by something as ubiquitous as a yellow sun, things have always come easy for you.

[...] both Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) and Kara get pouty when they don't get their way.

Superman's beef with J'onn (David Harewood) is that he has a bunch of Kryptonite to help protect the world against ne'er-do-well Kryptonians who might try to, I don't know, hypnotize Earth's greatest guardian into mounting a large-scale extinction event because his Kansas-learnin' made him susceptible to space madness.

Instead of trusting J'onn with the material, he pouts for years about it, so much so that Superman cuts ties with the Last Martian and ditches the American effort to curb malicious aliens.

No one as cavalier with grotesque body augmentation, human life, and wanton park damage has ever found themselves shaking hands with the good guys at the end.

After Kara's whining and complaining (and even tattling, which is a low moment for our gal), she finally pulls it together and writes a 500-word (for reference, this piece on bratty aliens is over 1,000) article, put it inside of a science fair project triple-brad folder (email it?) that's been fully-researched (alright, you got me there), and then presents it to her new boss.

All of that gets worked out in the end of the episode, but it's important to note that the show seems to want us to pay attention to that division