Come on, Mick. If stealing weren't against the law it wouldn't be any fun.

Yes, they did. (I was likewise pretty sure, and confirmed with a quick Google Books search.) But hey, maybe Earth-1 vocabulary was different. And after all, Amaya wasn't born in the US.

There is nothing typical about Vixen's background or personality. A woman who has lived on three continents, wanted to be a cop, did become a superhero, fought in a major war, and had an interracial relationship all in the 40s can be expected to consider other conventions less than inviolable.

My wife had the same reaction: "Why are time travelers always giving automatic weapons to the bad guys?"

They're shamelessly taking advantage of the fact that Jitters loses its records during every supervillain attack.

It would help if she actually investigated things as a journalist more often

Canadian history would be rather different if the US War of Independence had failed. Whether Britain would have felt the same pressure to give other colonies increased self-government under those circumstances is hard to know.

Fingers crossed for Sir Justin.

There's a lot of dismissal of the first Battlestar Galactica, but I think that sells it short. It didn't have the ambitions of its successor, but it was great fun for what it was, and the Apollo and Starbuck pairing were a big part of that. They got to face off against some great scenery-chewing villains and…

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One bit I really liked from the Showtime series "Episodes", about an English TV writer couple who've come to Hollywood to remake their series for American TV: The original had the main character, a headmaster, hopelessly but silently in love with a teacher (or maybe a librarian), who's lesbian. The whole point of…

Yeah, maybe putting a nuclear reactor that can destroy ten city blocks supplying a facility expected to be targeted by superpowered aliens inside National City wasn't such a good idea?

Pretty sure a troop of Boy Scouts with a baseball bat could overrun the place.

I don't think the reason Kara isn't decapitating her opponents is lack of capability.

I really don't think that secret IDs are less plausible than other superhero conventions. (E.g., there's usually some weak handwave as to why this person dresses in a circus outfit and adopts a funny name, but ultimately it's because that's what superheroes do.) Just play it for humor and light drama instead of…

Not every superhero story needs a secret ID. (Barry Allen had one as the Flash, but Wally West quickly abandoned it, so they could use that model.)

Plea deal, plus Superman's testimony that she saved his life and, by extension, California.

I was likewise jarred at the idea that Rebecca Bunch was going to use a passage from Corinthians in her vows. She may be atheist and non-observant, but I still don't see someone from her background diving straight into the New Testament like that.

While Fatal Attraction in particular may not have been an influence, I think the show as a whole (and the musical numbers in particular) demonstrate Bloom has a pretty fair familiarity with and interest in material from before she was born.

Though that just makes me sad about Kevin Smith. (No, not that one.) He was really fun in the role, and died way too young. (And would also have been great to play a villain on "Supergirl", if it had been possible.)