I just can't believe they would go this route. Having Lena turn out to be evil would be the lesser direction for her character. Having her continue to resist her family's pull of evil is so much more interesting.

I'm hoping some good Teri Hatcher scenery-chewing will help justify it.

I imagine she and Karen Page would get along swimmingly.

But that doesn't mean you weren't born for it!

It's called "going to Mandyville."

I was born for this, okay? It's my destiny.

That's fair. Maybe he can just go back to Metropolis then and only appear every now and again alongside Superman.

Well, Maggie has yet to be defined by outside her relationship with Alex, so we can take comfort in the fact that they're likely due for another meltdown before season's end.

I watched this episode after reading about 45's new surrogate, and the whole thing felt eerily serendipitous.

There's gotta be a happy medium here. I know it's not quite in the same venue, but I still loved in first season of Arrow how valid Lance's hatred of Oliver was. And that Oliver and the show knew it.

Because EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE A SUPERHERO.

He reminds me a lot of Lincoln from AoS that way.

Me neither. I spent too much of the episode frustrated at the naivete of both Alex and Kara.

I would love if they found a way to keep Lena around full-time. Though I think it would need to be next year, once they've definitively resolved which side of the moral line she's going to land on.

He also brings more with him to the table, what with everything from Daxom. I think James's strongest ties last season were to the Lanes and Superman, but they've become kind of irrelevant this year.

Kind of sad, but true.

I thought he already was…

This on the CW. Of course their relationship is being setup to fail.

Not by much…

I dunno, Argus has Lyla running things, so I'm less inclined to doubt their competence.