Though the closed captions spoiled that he was Mon-El about halfway through the episode. (They really should have captioned him "Daxamite" till the reveal.)

Like pretty much any proposed ticket, I'd take it over either of the major parties'.

While the show's take on Daxam is new, there was a 70s Supergirl story featuring a monarchical planet whose people were the hereditary and implacable enemies of Kryptonians. (To the point that Kara's parents chose to die with Argo City rather than accept a rescue from one.)

So here Mon-El is actually his name (not a sobriquet given him by a Kryptonian who thinks they're related.) And Kara takes no notice of the fact that he's an El?

Rather than cutting back and forth between two unrelated storylines, Supergirl can now have Kara explore the same issue from both her superhero and civilian perspectives.

Though I could see a medical program for the old and sick operating under relatively conservative constraints since it's supposed to be palliative rather than straight entertainment.

Not that old. Kelly's tombstone said she was 73, didn't it? So it's around 25-odd years from now, assuming she was a teenager/young adult in the 80s. The 2002 cases are presumably middle-aged people with terminal illnesses, or severe disabilities like Yorkie's.

"I would like to speak to a sysadmin. I was promised that someday I would win the fight, and that cat would stay out for the night!"

Though it would be an interesting re-twist if she deleted herself, and it was possible to just restore her from backup for a few minutes to double-check if she meant it.

BTW, "Think Like a Dinosaur" was based on a 1995 short story of the same name by James Patrick Kelly, which is also worth tracking down.

Though if there's a soul, it's harder to see the uploads as having subjective experience. (Not impossible— some belief systems have multiple souls with different functions, and I suppose there's nothing impossible about having both an immortal soul and a materialist theory of consciousness. But it at least gets kind…

Even if non-terminal patients can't jack in due to lack of resources, there'd be no reason that phone or video calls wouldn't be possible. But since the main characters don't have anyone on the outside they'd be interacting with, it makes sense that it doesn't enter into the story.

Sure, but in those five hours, there's no reason you couldn't, e.g., spend your first hour in the 80s club and your second in 2002. (Or rather, they could make up a handwave since it's all fantasy tech anyway, but probably not a very convincing one.)

I think the bit about knee surgery was the first thing that made me suspect that the characters were oldsters in a nostalgic environment. (Which I'd certainly twigged to by the time Yorkie mistakes the picture of Kelly for her mom.)

That may be, though I wonder then why Yorkie waits a week between searches.

In retrospect, their both lacking close family seems designed to take that issue out of the equation.

There was a series of short stories in the 80s centered around the implications of a destructive teleporter. One consequence was that anyone who'd taken at least one Transmat trip, which included pretty much the entire off-Earth population of course, subscribed to the philosophical conviction that the self survived…

Depends on one's understanding of personal identity. (Which tends to be a) very deeply held, and b) nonfalsifiable.)

And since I always need to pick nits about the intricacies of each episode, San Junipero should have a massive overcrowding problem.

He's already done the horror spin in White Christmas, anyway.