Hey, they named the whole planet after a noble gas with similarly Greek etymology.

Oh, I know. ("I Love Ya But You're Strange" is the best, isn't it?) IIRC, Grant Morrison called that story a big influence.

I was actually fine with that— the Unseen Character is an old TV convention. But clearly most of the audience disagreed. I'm still a bit surprised they were able to swing permission to actually cast a Superman in the show.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that superheroes only fully utilize their powers when they go bad. (See the Wally West Flash single-handedly standing off everyone on the Watchtower when Lex Luthor took over his brain.)

"If only I had telescopic X-ray vision and super-hearing that should make it at least hard for someone to pull a Batman Exit."

And I'd like to think that was a reference to the episode of the George Reeves Superman series where he did have the never-seen-again power to split into two Supermen.

If any character in the DCU should be all-ages, it's Supergirl. (And Superman, whatever Snyder may think.) And I think the plots on Supergirl are delightful and fun— it's easily my favorite of the four, with Legends making a surprise recovery from last season for #2.

Pronunciation varies by region and subculture: some people have the marry/Mary/merry merger, some don't. (I don't, but my wife does. She can't even hear the difference in the way I pronounce the words, and I didn't notice that she pronounced them all the same for years.)

I still feel like this show doesn't quite fit on the CW-verse.

"Are you volunteering to fix the holes in the walls? Or do you think anyone who can pick up the key is going to have trouble punching through rock?"

There was a pronunciation shift in Wales in the late 21st century that, curiously, affected only the pronunciation of the name Bernard. Linguists have been writing dueling articles about the cause and mechanism for decades.

In "Creature of a Thousand Shapes", they reference "anti-gravity metal". https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-… Does "nth metal" actually appear in the story?

He just has to hope that National City is at the forefront of moving to green bullets. (Which is actually pretty likely, given that it's probably in CA or the nearest fictional equivalent state.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Though "the comic book stuff" really should include more secret identity juggling than it does.

In season one, it was understandable that he'd first make a deal with the devil to change the past, and then go back on it, getting Ronnie and Eddie and some number of victims of the Breach killed.

You have to admit, on the CW's "never tell your love interest your secret" scale, "I'm a centaur who's spent the last three thousand years as a horse, except that I turn human whenever there's a comet in the sky" sure beats "I dress in a circus outfit and fight crime."

I think Jimmy/James as an older mentor figure is fine, but he should be a "seen it all, done it all" type who can tell Kara what mistakes she's about to make because he's made most of them. "Yeah, when you're flying over the bottle city of Kandor with a mermaid and your antigrav belt gives out, you really recognize…

She was a camp guard. Maybe a draftee, but we don't know what she did before she couldn't take it anymore.

I thought not having Skrulls for the MCU is why we got the Chitauri (who were the Skrull counterpart in the Ultimate universe comics) for the movies.

Superman (like all too many people I know) just never bothered to set a passcode.