They've answered a lot of questions I wouldn't have expected them to a few seasons ago. Paige's persistence has paid off pretty thoroughly thus far, so it's not unreasonable to double down.

West Germany and Japan were also devastated as of the 50s, but were First World countries by the 80s. (In Germany's case, as in Korea, there was practically a controlled experiment drawing a line across the country and trying the different systems.)

And I'm pretty sure we haven't been getting a lot of North Korean exchange students.

While I'm sure he's older than high school, I think he's way too young to actually be Viet Cong— the war's been over for a decade at this point, and the Viet Cong were largely a spent force after Tet in 1968. War orphan is possible, as is an agent positioned as such by the KGB or Vietnamese security services to get…

I was in college a few years later, and got to experience a history prof saying, "Communism is— [pause] Communism was…"

"Mr. and Mrs. Jennings"

And then there’s surrogate son Hans, whose mentor-mentee relationship with Elizabeth

I think it would have fit the setting. (Give or take calling it Kraft Macaroni and Cheese rather than Kraft Dinner, since it's not in Canada. :-) ) I was Paige's age, and that was one of the few things I could "cook".

I'm kind of amazed that after all the personal health scares and clear incompetence in handling these pathogens that the Jenningses experienced, they were still willing to undertake that mission to send yet another impromptu pandemic sample to Moscow. I would have thought that they were done with that particular…

The DEO's secrecy at least had some level of justification back when the existence of aliens other than Superman was itself supposed to be secret, to avoid causing a panic. These days, there's really no reason for it not to go public.

And outrace a streamline train!

I'm pretty sure Lois and Clark got that line from John Byrne, who originated that reversal of the longtime Clark/Superman dynamic in the mid-80s.

"That Danvers girl is so nice! But it's odd how she insists on paying the rent in uncut diamonds."

That episode should be called "Mr. Action". And should involve him doing at least one of a) turning into a giant Turtle Man, b) cross-dressing, c) being given a field marshal's baton by Hitler himself.

There's an L. Sprague de Camp novel called Rogue Queen. One guess what title's on the spine of my copy. (Which gives a… rather different impression of the contents.)

I'd speculate that TV Mon-El can leap an eighth of a mile, raise tremendous weights, and nothing less than a bursting shell can pierce his skin.

"I know your secret: you're twin sisters, aren't you?"

I really don't like that idea. Either the disguise works by convention, or it doesn't. If they start getting into the idea that "smart enough" people can figure it out, then it just makes everyone who can't look like an idiot.

Alex is an officer of the US government and so has responsibilities beyond "being a badass". It's not about what the perp deserves, it's about whether someone who already has the power to lock someone up in an off-the-books prison should also engage in torture on her own recognizance.

While I'm all in favor of Alex and Maggie, (and I actually like Kara and Mon-El thus far) I also strongly favor the CW highlighting close relationships without making them romantic. (Despite its clear temptation as a network to make every attractive pairing sexual.) Alex and Kara, or Kara and Barry, are great because…