The Legion's fallen on hard times in recent decades, so none of them are first or even second string. But back when it was a going concern (pushing Superboy out of his own book, twice, then becoming DC's #2 hit after Teen Titans in the early 80s), I'd say Mon-El was in the top five or so Legionnaires in terms of…

But there's still room for a kryptonite-related accident to give us Streaky! #kitty4kara

To each his own, but if showrunners thought everyone felt that way they wouldn't have featured two flight ring teases, in two different shows. Whether or not they ever pick up the thread, someone there loves the Legion.

Is an underground fight club really underground if the host is sending out public invitations to public figures, who has hard copies to show rookie journalists? "Look Alex there are the hedge fund managers and city councilmen". The fight club should have ceased to exist after the first raid.

The "superhero testing" was just stupid. When did they start doing that? Superman and Supergirl crashed on Earth too, and they did not confine them.

if I heard that there's a world where visitors sometimes inexplicably gain super powers, I might want to go there.

That was actually a plot point of Roulette's second JLU appearance, with her reduced to running bored fourth-string villains in front of a sparse and disengaged crowd in a dump. Her (well, Lex Luthor's) solution to the problem of viewer fatigue was at least creative.

It seems especially inconvenient to have multiple ambassadors to a planet you're ever on the brink of war with sharing a one-passenger ship.

And if Roy Thomas were writing this, maybe he'd actually be Lou Grant, and Cat's ex.

I don't know— they let him be right too often for him to be dismissed as Old News Patriarchy. (For that matter, I don't think he's ever been dismissive of Kara for being a woman, just for being the CEO's pet with no news experience.)

That's conclusory the other way, though. There may be a continuum along which we grade the experiences of a flatworm, a fish, a dog, etc., and people of goodwill can disagree on what ethical obligations exist to each and why.

We have participatory violent scenarios too, and have for forty years: tabletop RPGs, computer RPGs, LARPs. Is it worse to play a game with painted miniatures, because they look more like real people than unpainted pewter?

I hope Barry eventually makes an appearance so she can call him "the Sultan of Speed".

We already got that on Flash, where Earth-1 just happens to be the multiversal nexus.

I think that was "my people" in the sense that he's their prince. He's the captain going down with his ship, while Mon-El doesn't bear that responsibility.

Though if Mon-El is so outclassed by Kara, it's a bit odd that last week he was able to toss her around like a rag doll and escape, and later put up a respectable fight before losing. Kara may be stronger, but "not even close" isn't how they were playing it.

Though one thing special effects aren't yet up to is convincingly simulating low gravity.

I mean why else build robot birds?

I hadn't noticed that Ford's first name was Robert. Here I'd been thinking that having characters named "Ford" and "Bernard" was a Brave New World reference.

He has less reason than anyone else does, since unlike the rest of the cast he doesn't actually see Supergirl on a regular basis. And may not realize that Supergirl has another identity versus just being an alien, living in a presumed superhero headquarters, etc.