I wish they would just make it clear that he's had his share of dangerous situations during his Superman's Pal period. After all, he has the watch, which strongly implies that he made a regular habit of wading in over his head and (if he's anything like comics Jimmy) generally acquitted himself well enough till…

It was even easier once upon a time to turn an eight into a three with a tiny dot of Liquid Paper. Which, in an era where typewriters weren't an endangered species, even came in different colors to provide for better matches. (And they hadn't yet gone to the drivers licenses that screamed "under 21".)

Rittenhouse clearly recognizes talent.

While I'd appreciate a throwaway line about Winn rummaging through stuff confiscated from DEO prisoners (and would be very happy with a reference to inertron or one of the other justaintgonnabreakiums of the DCU), I think it's a safe bet that it's of alien origin.

Or getting powers from a suddenly activated metagene. (In this genre, radiation sickness is about the least likely result of exposure to radioactivity.)

As a fellow alum, I appreciated the shoutout to the U of C and (presumably) William H. McNeill. (They got his age wrong, but there's only one McNeill I know of who'd be a colossus in the Chicago history department.)

"'Smuggling?' You people have no space border control, give or take a couple of freelancers who also work day jobs! Let's just say you don't have to be able to make the Kessel run in twelve parsecs to get Aldebaran whiskey to Earth."

Flynn could conceivably 'win' by finding something easy to screw up in the 80s or 90s and then just paying the most competent teenager he could find to go do it.

Given that they decided to have Rittenhouse show up in history in 1778, I'm surprised they didn't go full Bavarian Illuminati and just make it 1776 instead.

"…who could have imagined the Mirror Master would choose my shop for his throwdown with the Flash…?"

Since they're billing it as Heroes vs. Aliens (I'd expect Thanagarians), it'd be fun if despite the different worlds the bad guys recognized Kara as Kryptonian and hit her with kryptonite, foreshadowing a possible Earth-1 Power Girl at some point.

Nit: went by her whole life, since her friends cooperated to make sure she never found out the truth. (Made especially tricky by the fact that she had ESP thanks to one of Lex's experiments when she was a preschooler.) Her parents changed it after Lex went bad when she was too young to remember.

Daxamite lead sensitivity varies a lot from story to story. And we don't know if they've included it in this show at all.

Part of the problem is that Laurel was never at her most convincing as the Black Canary, which was the entire reason for introducing her. (There's no other reason to have a Dinah Laurel Lance character in the show, especially one who shares no other characteristics with comics Dinah.) Where Sara is a natural. …

I wonder how much of that they're allowed to get into. They have Cadmus, but Darkseid is surely reserved to the films. Can they have Intergang? The Forever People?

I'd say "who is just supposed to serve as the love interest to the lead". There have been good incarnations of Lois Lane, for example, but that's when she's a tough, good reporter chasing down real stories (who'll happily send Clark Kent off on a goose chase if it's necessary to ensure she's the one who gets a…

I'm not sure if you'll like him better in "The Last Five Years" (reactions to the protagonists are incredibly polarized in my experience), but it's on Netflix and worth checking out.

Much though I appreciate the Berlanti shows on many levels, they have a recurring problem with a) introducing the canonical love interest immediately, b) not having the slightest idea where to go from there (since they don't want the characters to just hook up) and so turning the character into a giant load. As the…

Since Barry gave his real name to Kara about three seconds after meeting her, signs point to it being specific to romantic interests rather than women in general.

"Until we can discover a cure, we're putting Flint into the Phantom Zone…"