Yeah, I admit this mostly makes me think the writers lack historical perspective. The generation that had to face actual Hitler and actual Stalin in the wake of the worst economic crisis in history wasn't this mopey, and was capable of imagining a better world than the one it lived in.

Oh, well, in that case, carry on by all means.

He also has a a song!

Lynda Carter elevated the material, to be sure. But have you watched those episodes recently? (They're in frequent rerun on one of the ubiqutous sideband stations.) There's a lot of not-Lynda Carter, not-very-exciting plots by guys in turtlenecks. Even stories involving things like rival time travelers from the…

Well, I don't think someone who's seen both parents murdered, goes into mortal danger every week, and has a headline about his doom less than ten years hence in his basement is likely to think of himself as "practically immortal" just because he has a healing factor.

That's one of those tricky balances. Shooting someone in the leg as a nonlethal takedown is a pure action story move, like hitting them in the head to knock them out. (In real life if you shoot at someone you'd better intend to kill them, or at least consider it a probable outcome.) Of course it would work in this…

I sort of hope that Mon-El will at least turn out to be an assumed name, with the prince of Daxam's actual proper name being Lar Gand.

Usage nit: as things have developed, the people are Kryptonians, the deadly mineral is kryptonite.

But that was the only time in decades of superhero building saves that physics decided to get mean. (Batman doesn't have a Gwen Stacy, and he's been doing that stuff twice as long.) And Peter doesn't have the Speed Force, which is a get out of jail free card for all acceleration and air resistance issues.

Jesse already did something ominously evil: interrupt Wally's favorite movie minutes from the end, in the middle of one of its major emotional scenes, so she could ask questions she should have asked about ten minutes in, and then send him out for burgers.

I think "I got this diamond for free from someone I have more natural chemistry with than you, but don't worry, we really are just friends" isn't quite up there with Barry's story about his grandparents.

Casablanca is on TV constantly.

I'm with Tolkien on escapism being a good thing. But I don't know that a story whose theme is that adults have to forego what they want and what will make them happiest in order to shoulder larger responsibilities, and that Love Doesn't Conquer All, really qualifies as escapist.

Harrison Wells killed the Turtle.

I'm guessing that a meta-gorilla who goes toe-to-toe with Mach 2 speedsters is actually pretty bullet resistant.

The Central City green belt is a source of great civic pride. And extremely high city rents.

They could also give the speedsters a little more variety. Comics Wally made things explode when he ran through them. Comics Johnny Quick (and I think Jesse) could fly. Even just reading through a few years of Silver Age Flash for speed tricks would help move the action beyong "Run, [speedster], Run" and…

Weren't they mostly pre-(TV mainstreaming of)-ninja? But yeah, gangsters in warehouses were pretty much their arch-enemies.

Ok Gypsy would not call her Earth, Earth-19.

We'll also lightly skip over the fact that they were able to give Kara a device to open breaches at will a few weeks ago. A couple of those for the Wellses and they can stay in touch as much as they want.