On the other hand, the show doesn't engage in pure equivalence. The one murder committed by Stan was illegal and on his own hook, against an enemy agent, in revenge for the KGB murder of his partner— and admitting to it even to his boss is taking a risk. By contrast, P&E are trained killers for whom murder is an…

I think Philip talking up owning your own business is in the running.

Sure, but they did that forty years after the first JSA story.

I get tired of all the remakes and reboots. On the other hand, neither the Wizard of Oz nor the Maltese Falcon that's remembered was the first film adaptation of those stories. (Oz in particular had lots.) Sometimes it's the retread that becomes the classic.

Interesting that it was founded as late as 1968, in response to the previous cycle of clowns then aging and not being spontaneously replaced.

"Can't sleep. Clown will eat me."

There are adblockers that work on YouTube?

That's easy: "When you're ready to retire (or, time forbid, about to die), see that the Waverider is parked at this time and place for pickup. That way we both can have one."

It's more the original version of Picard and Riker. (But "Riker leads the away team, Picard stays on the ship" didn't survive Patrick Stewart's popularity.) The problem is that Rip was kind of a drag on the show as captain, since his role was always to say "no" to stuff the viewer might want to see. (Sara feels…

That's more a shared universe problem that includes high-powered supers than a specific speedster problem. The same issue has existed since the first Justice Society meeting in 1940. ("Hey, Spectre, why don't you solve all of our problems up to and including dropping Hitler and Tojo into the sun— and grab Stalin too…

Well, when we first encountered her she was with a Queen.

This episode, they kind of did: their original Waverider was lost, and now they've got the one from an alternate future that they prevented from coming into existence.

Re 6, those people will presumably be fine once the timeline is repaired.

The lie only helps if it works. Paige knew they had a secret, and she wouldn't have believed a flat denial. They had to balance this costs of telling her versus her snooping around in a house full of secrets that they're away from a great deal of the time. Possibly finding out something that she'd act on,…

And of course if things go wrong and she has to kill him (and thus sets back the research)…

I had to lobby my high school teachers to accept the papers I wrote on my Atari and printed on my Epson MX-80. (Though I think "true descenders" were one of their advertised features. I'd print double-strike to make the characters less dotty, but they were still very clearly computer printing.)

To be fair, Oleg's father also had a son fighting in Afghanistan.

Though a high school kid who spent a lot of time on a home computer in 1984 was at least pretty likely to be a science/math geek or adjacent. Math skills weren't actually needed unless you were programming (and even that was pretty basic understanding of, e.g., Boolean logic and hex math). But an academically bright…

Paige pretty much forced the issue. They could have lied, but she'd have kept pushing and investigating. Even if she didn't completely compromise them, her being less isolated but more paranoid and constantly struggling with P&E wouldn't necessarily be an improvement for her.

And of course he thinks it's because of normal parental favoritism, when it's actually it's pretty much all a consequence of her discovering and demanding to be brought into their secret. They can't exactly spend equal time managing Henry's risks to out them or training him to be a spy. (At least until he twigs or…