One thing Flash pioneered that surpassed the worst excesses of the Silver Age was the insane idea of telling everyone but the love interest. (Not just Iris— he followed it up by doing the exact same thing with Patty.)

Not just you. But I'd seen "parasite" in some promo or show description. That said, given this show's history they could totally have called him Parasite but given him Mister Mind's MO. (See also Vartox, Jemm, etc.)

Well, let's say people of good will can differ on some of those. :-) (Though it really does need a deft touch to be comic or evoke light tension, rather than… well, what Flash did with it.)

Kara really does need to learn some boundaries. If someone's wearing a mask, he doesn't want you to know who he is, and given that he just helped out and isn't doing anything criminal she might want to respect that. And then with Alex, looking through the door and then flying through the window? It worked out, but…

Oh, I don't wring my hands over either version. (It's sometimes though not invariably an interesting question to raise, but it's not a litmus test.) But the phrasing of your observation above put it in my mind.

On the other hand, just last week we got to see Kara doing some classic dual identity comedy. Especially given that she's out to her actual supporting cast, I think they could still get some mileage out of Kara Danvers actually having to be creative to avoid giving herself away to random strangers. (Or people of…

They can also do that if Mon-El graduates to flight after enough yellow sun exposure.

Though if the rumor that we've only got Maggie Sawyer because they couldn't use Renee Montoya is true…

The first and second Nightwings were both Kryptonian, which is close enough to Daxamite…

Has the show passed the reverse-Bechdel before this episode? ;-)

It's not that hard to find in the US anymore. Certainly anyplace with a Whole Foods, and I'm pretty sure the regular supermarket has it in the fancy cheese section they put in to compete with it.

Mayfair Games did an Atlas of the DC Universe in the 80s. It was fun and mostly well done (give or take confusing the Balkans with the Benelux region), but DC never showed the slightest signs of canonizing its locations.

DC has always been deliberately coy about where its fictional cities are, to approximately the extent The Simpsons is re Springfield. They've never shown any signs of being bound by anything they've shown in the past. When the story demands it, Gotham and Metropolis are across a bridge from one another. Then in…

(or if there is another character she has obvious chemistry with that maybe does not even exist yet)

I will be extremely surprised if they never run into some sort of space beer, drug, or red K variant that gets Kara drunk. But I also suspect this show isn't going to touch "drunkenly falling into bed together".

Plotwise, J'onn wasn't there so Kara could get in some classic Clark Kent shenanigans. Sometimes you can get Bruce Wayne or Chameleon Boy to cover for you, but a lot of the time you just have to be creative.

The Max Lord thing was clearly being spun as a love-hate thing that could wind up with them in a clinch, if not a relationship.

Which show needs to be cancelled to undo 2016?

And the man who became a billionaire inventor who left a visible stamp on the places he lived and worked keeps being insecure about making any difference at all. Do they need to rename Earth "Planet Palmer"?

Well, probably not. The song was first written down in 1928, and historians have cast strong doubts on its historicity for a number of reasons (not least what's known about how people who escaped slavery managed it).