I'll allow for the fact that they were basically rushed into the first two missions. But they should develop better prep and cover stories as the show progresses. Probably a permanent wardrobe department too, though they could get some gags out of getting things set up and then returning to find that it's all been…

Chasing a bad guy through time is such a cute, daft concept for an adventure show.

Maybe Kara can find her exact twin, only older and unrelated, on another planet and set Clark up with her!

Agreed that he's not comics-Barry or comics-Wally, but he's not really Peter Parker either— neither the perennial bad luck/money troubles nor the wisecracks in costume. But the character basically works, give or take the insistence on angsting him up.

Personally I miss the Argo City origin, though of course it would have required more tweaking. (Even on this show, "an intact city was thrown clear of Krypton's explosion and lasted fifteen more years" would be a stretch.) But AFAIK the "Kara was a teenager on Krypton, but arrived later and younger" was new to…

He's also really good in "The Last Five Years", which is on Netflix (or was last I checked). Bonus points for his first number being a love song to a blonde dressed in a blue top and red skirt.

And they both still look basically right to me, vs. the variants used for, e.g., the recent movies or the New 52 Supergirl comics, which just look wrong.

I'm guessing it's Superboy/Kon-El, but really hoping for Mon-El.

Come onnnnn, Comet!

To be fair, dark as "Jessica Jones" gets, that's the thing that makes her a superhero.

I think once you've got people in skintight outfits with giant chest symbols and capes, it's time to stop worrying about justifying it and just go with it. History, shmistory: he wears it because he's Superman, and that's what Superman looks like.

I never even saw it, but using Michael Shanks for an archeologist hero with connection to Ancient Egypt and interstellar aliens gets points all on its own.

And I've said this before: I hope they never merge them, and give both sets of heroes room to breathe. The parallel Earth structure is perfect for allowing crossovers without demanding them when the plot doesn't call for it. The multiverse was a brilliant idea in the Silver/Bronze Age, and an even better one for TV.

I'm guessing Chidi, at this point, would consider that wrong.

I think that's true, since they all do seem to be the age we see more or less. But I'd hope that in the Good Place you incarnate at the age you liked being the best, rather than at the age you died no matter how decrepit.

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's Inferno (SPOILERS for a decades-old book) turns out that way. The protagonist's guide has long since redeemed himself but has remained in order to guide people out of Dante's Inferno (success at which requires navigating the moral as well as physical obstacles). It ends with the…

The real Jianyu wouldn't necessarily have maintained his vow of silence, since Jason only did to avoid being caught out.

C.S. Lewis makes the argument in The Great Divorce. (Where even after death it's possible for a soul to make the choice whether to stay in Hell; if they leave, then it will have been Purgatory. He grants that this is doctrinally dodgy.) Though you can tell by the hesitation of his self-insert narrator (the story's…

Maybe liking ice cream produces negative points somehow, so that there's a selection effect among the worthy.

They probably can be, just as there's no actual need for garbage cleanup (when the system isn't borked). But choosing to do it is still treated as a sign of goodness, and once people have chosen to do the job it evidently remains to be done.