The rabbit test is iconic (though contra the conventional phrase, the rabbit always died), but they used frogs (which didn't have to be killed and could be used multiple times) for longer. Home pregnancy tests don't show up in the US till the late 70s; that Ruth doesn't have to go to a doctor for a test is still…

Well, more difficult than pulling the answer out of our pockets, definitely. But not exactly demanding of a quest to the wisewoman in the furthest forest clearing. If they didn't have an encyclopedia and didn't feel like driving, they could even have called the local library and asked the reference librarian.

Hopefully the irony’s not lost on anyone that a show set in the ‘80s and specifically depicting the struggles of women in that era portrays the abortion for exactly what it is—a clinical procedure—without making it a heart-wrenching debate.

For about a week after watching "Lagaan", I actually understood cricket.

And I cut my TV bill by adding a phone line (that I never set up) and getting a couple more movie channels. Bundle pricing is weird.

Salon had a 2006 article talking about the decision to update that in the book in the late 1990s: https://www.salon.com/2006/…

Circa 1978 or so, our teacher asked everyone who'd read it to raise their hand. I was the only boy who had.

While Byrne made the destruction Kryptonians' fault, it was terrorism rather than an environmental parable: an organization called Black Zero (which was responding violently to the exploitation of clones, some centuries before Kal-El's birth) detonated a long-acting weapon that eventually destroyed the planet.

It wouldn't shock me if improved childhood nutrition and reduced disease load also had an effect.

I think you're thinking of Blackfire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Blackstarr was a human super-scientist who got her powers from figuring out the Unified Field Theory.

Could well be— I haven't seen her lately.

The show really does seem to be doubling down on Krypton basically deserving to be destroyed. (The disaster was either their fault or at least willfully ignored, Kara's dad invented a genocide plague, and now they've created "worldkillers".)

Alison Brie strikes me as pretty slight for Power Girl. (Not even talking about the character's most famous attributes, just that Kara Zor-L is generally drawn as more sturdily built overall than her counterpart.)

Sure. By the 30th century, there was an entire planet of them, Rokyn. (Founded when Superman and Supergirl managed to enlarge Kandor in a 1979 story.) And the Phantom Zone, which probably had enough to populate a space-Australia.

Only until they team up, if it's actually Power Girl. Though I'm not sure if they want to bring in parallel Earths outside crossovers with the Earth-1 shows.

Supergirl doesn't have that many of her own villains, and a fair number of them are, well, lame. (Blackstarr, PSI, etc.) Though I'd still like to see Lesla-Lar one of these days, especially if it comes with a Kandor storyline.

That's been a thing since the Silver Age. They tried to make Superman "Definitely the Last Kryptonian" during the John Byrne revamp in the mid-80s (including a bit where he was the only one with a genetic tweak that let Kryptonians survive off planet at all). But since that got rid of countless fun characters (most…

Not that anyone undamaged would volunteer for it. (Nadezhda and Mikhail weren't exactly the poster children for well-adjusted even before the openly abusive training regimen.)

The Comedian is worse than the Current Occupant along pretty much every axis, from his treatment of women to corruption in politics.

But perhaps not yet quite so low as "preemptively murdering a couple million New Yorkers plus assorted lesser mass and individual murders in pursuit of a baroque geopolitical engineering plan" a la Ozymandias. Veidt isn't someone I'd trust to be in charge of anything remotely important.