The FBI isn't as murderous as the KGB. (Stan's one big murder was him being very much off the reservation.) It's hard to see Paige being tasked to kill them rather than simply make their arrest possible.

For what it's worth, the New York Times was talking about food lines in Moscow in 1984:

It's more that they had an economic and political system that their theory said should vastly outperform market economics, and in practice underperformed it. ("Let me get this straight. We're behind the rest of our class and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they are?")

Though it helps that he wouldn't have been able to do that if the Soviets weren't copiously supplying the possibility of capital punishment for the high crime of sneaking stereos across the border.

The podcast says that it was supposed to take around six hours of digging, with each team digging intensely for fifteen minutes and then resting for a half hour while the others dug.

That seemed like the obvious direction to take him post-high school, especially since for a while he'd retained the martial skills he'd gotten from his soldier costume in the Halloween episode. I was extremely frustrated at the time that they left Xander spinning his wheels for most of that season when he had an…

"We do it because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we ever existed."

Sara [draws circle on the floor of the Waverider bridge]: "This is the Time Master's Circle! You're captain of everything inside it."

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I haven't, and I may be wrong. But their murders of Americans are mostly one at a time— it takes a lot of those to cover, e.g., the 160 men on board the sub they sank.

BFF, polonium poisoning victim— it's all a rich tapestry.

"The coffee is amazing today. Who made it?"

Kara obviously mentioned Bizarro Supergirl in an unseen conversation during the crossover. #noprize

It also depends on the version— the one in the animated Justice League Unlimited couldn't fly, for example. It wouldn't surprise me if Amaya can't to save them the effects trouble.

"I have this feeling that Firestorm is going to show up in a vision inside Rip's head, and I sense that we can't afford to do both at once, in some sense."

My wife, walking through the room as I'm watching: "He'd better not step on any butterflies."

It's a fair guess that their adventures remain largely secret to most of the world, and that none of them write memoirs. After all, from the perspective of people living in time, whatever changes they make become part of history. "And then Camelot rose and Merlin was kind of hot", "then Tokugawa Iemitsu exploded…

Pasha's name may be a strong hint re this season's themes.

But not unreasonably so. The Soviet pattern looked pretty set at that point, and we thought we had a fair sense of how far "reformists" could plausibly go after Khrushchev. (In 1991, when the coup came and it looked briefly as if the reaction had happened at last, a friend's first words to me on the phone were…