Though at least that gives Kara a motive to actually maintain the secret identity with someone.

I think it was in Kurt Busiek's "Marvels" that someone complains about Peter's composition. "It always looks like it was taken from a camera stuck to a wall or something!"

I agree. But Welles still pretty clearly intended the reveal to be a sort of anticlimactic stinger, and I'm sorry that experience is largely lost.

Mon-El's history here is sufficiently different from the comics version that familiarity with the latter doesn't tell us anything.

They made Vartox into the Persuader, so obviously they can. But it does raise (again) the question of why use that name if they're not going to use anything from the original character.

Yeah. One side effect of social changes (and the emergence of shipping as a dominant note in media fandom) is that the longstanding problem of not being able to show a deep male-female friendship without a romantic component is now extending to same-sex relationships as well. Nothing wrong with romance, but every…

At least as long as they don't have a book of matches. (©Bruce Wayne)

Though given that one of the Martian powers is intangibility (e.g., J'onn walking through M'gann's door), it would have been entertaining if he'd stood there impassively while M'gann and Draaga just punched empty air.

Though of course Vartox and Jemm were heroes in the comics and villains on "Supergirl". But yeah, Mon-El would be a bigger deal among fans. (It would certainly bug me.)

I could be wrong, but I don't think you do a Mon-El story without the lead vulnerability. If he's a permanent cast member, they can always devise the anti-lead serum early.

And kryptonite was devised to give Bud Collyer a chance to take a vacation from the radio show. (Though Siegel had previously invented the very similar "k-metal" in a comics story that got spiked.)

I wonder how hard it would be to CGI these days.

The original version was still an unrelated person from Daxam, but he arrived on Earth with amnesia and Kryptonian-like powers and a note from Jor-El. Superboy inferred (incorrectly) that the new arrival was his older brother. He gave him the name "Mon-El" because a) he was a presumed member of the El family and b)…

I thought that was very Peter Parker of her.

Also the JLU episode with Canary, Huntress, Vixen, Hawkgirl, and Wonder Woman.

Conversely, though, we don't worry that the mercenaries I shoot in Mass Effect or an animatronic gunfighter in Disney World actually feels pain, even when they cry out and show outward signs of injury. We likewise don't blame HBO or the production company, even though they also cause something that looks like a human…

We already make things that look like humans die for thrills cheap and expensive, on movie screens and in video games and on television. If there's something inherently wrong with wanting to see that, then Westworld has called its own existence (and HBO's) into question.

One is falling in love with the "robot" and the other treats them all as nothing more than targets….clearly the second dude is a less than sterling individual.

"Howdy, Partner! By liftin' this gate and crossin' this bridge, you acknowledge that you will hold Westworld Holdings, Inc. and its staff harmless and not liable for any injuries you may suffer during your adventure in Pariah! Just put yer ol' thumbprint there on the register! If'n you don't , I'm afeared that the…

I'm sure it will. And the creators are pretty clearly culpable in a way that's unconscionable. "We'll create a theme park in which people can work out their violent fantasies harmlessly, and then intentionally upgrade the hosts into sapience without telling anyone. Psych!"