I thought Maggie was (transparently) closeted early on— didn't Luthor lean on her by threatening to publicize her "lifestyle"?

I think (hope!) the "actually took up arms in rebellion against the US government" would be a bigger obstacle there.

"Oh, if only our military hadn't switched to non-lead bullets for environmental reas-!"

A newbie with zero experience that he was recently (if only briefly) dating. Yeah, that looks really good.

Since James is never going to angrily shout her name, there's really nothing left for her to do without Cat.

Thus continuing "Supergirl"'s tradition of using one character's name and another's characteristics.

Hey, Kara worked for them for a year without noticing the giant building in the middle of the city with the name written on it.

They defeated the Kryptonians, but I don't think most (any?) of the non-Kryptonian escapees were involved in Non's final assault.

I'd been spoiled on it, but that would also have been consistent with his being the Cadmus (Kon-El/Connor) Superboy stuck in a captured pod to try to infiltrate Supergirl and the DEO.

To be fair, Siegel and Shuster's Superman didn't even find out he was an alien for ten years. He was thoroughly assimilated for his first couple of decades before becoming more of an explicit immigrant figure in the Silver and especially the Bronze Age.

"A week ago I couldn't even spell 'journalist', and now… well, I still have a little trouble, but I'm not letting that stand in the way of my dream career that I just decided that I always wanted!"

For Alex, it's a reasonable starting presumption, until/unless she's given a reason to think there's another substantial source of aliens on Earth. At this point, as far as she knows, virtualy all the aliens on Earth are from Kryptonian space, with the overwhelming majority being from that one prison. (Plus a couple…

That's one area where mental radio has some big advantages (though it's a real pain to FOIA).

Hopefully she gets a scene with Helen Slater and/or Dean Cain.

"On Themisc— I mean, in a small town in Nebraska. Except the hall of records burned down. Twice."

"I've developed an improved version of the anti-Kryptonite shield. Superman, I've incorporated yours into these stylish red trunks!"

Olivia Marsdin, which is a nod to Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and Olive Byrne, who was in a poly relationship with him and his wife. (IIRC, her bracelets inspired the ones the Amazons wore.)

I'd prefer if they used this shows optimism to have Kara succeed where Clark failed, and actually bring Lena back over (or stop her from going bad in the first place.) Emphasizing choice over family destiny is part of what Kara has been about.

Though if a plurality of refugees were heavily armed escaped criminals, that would change the equation somewhat. Is there a big population of aliens who aren't from Fort Rozz?

And as far as we know, the overwhelming majority of aliens on Earth are escapees from a Kryptonian supermax.