I think Lucy was put there by Hank's mental suggestion to the brass, so that excuses that.
The power dampening thing is the usual silliness you have to come up with when you have over-powered characters. Stupid, but par for the course for comics.

Need to know. All Danvers needed to know was how to kill it.

Was it even a boa? From a quick glance it looked like a harmless corn snake, although that was mainly based on the colouration.

I disagree that a tropes is a "crutch." It is (and the site itself notes as such) a storytelling device. Neither good nor bad in itself - but helpful to analyse stories and learn their commonalities, and perhaps avoid overly common tropes.

They're also home to Drop Bears, so doubly dangerous….

Oh, security is so lax you'd almost think Cat deliberately left all that up to Supergirl to handle….

I know - my uncle's a Marine vet* and it can be fun to tease….

It's certainly going to reward rewatching, at least.

I don't know, but there are regularly huge chunks of this comment section devoted to comic topics. I don't object to that per se (my initial post was a little tongue-in-cheek), but sometimes they do drop spoilers, like about Siobhan and other characters. Whereas I'm the sort of person whose knowledge of "Marvel" and…

Yes, the military dude had a CLEAR conflict of interest, and should not have been allowed within miles of the investigation. That stupidity was cast into shade, however, by the cartoonishly over-the-top Evil Military Officer stereotype.
You have to cut them some slack - shows like this are written by people whose…

Reading through the comments here, it's clear we need two Supergirl comment sites, like for Game of Thrones: one for comic readers, the other for newbies….

We get a closing mention of the distrust as well.

When you think about it, the filler's the most important thing. Would you like a hamburger with no filler? Two plain buns? Not me, either.

He was explicitly stated to be Marines, but I can never tell the difference anyway. If you're on a boat, you're Navy. If you're in the air, you're Air Force. And if you're on the ground, you're Army, in my book.

Quite possible, but not sensible and not something Siobhan should have banked on. She didn't seem surprised. She could have learned that earlier, mind.

Being raised on shows that explicitly hit the Reset button after each ep. to allow for syndication, any mention at all makes me happy….

Also, login passwords for email don't exist at CatCo? Anyone can send anything from anywhere? There are no security pass-coded doors to the main office so anyone can enter at any time? Slack, Cat. You've been a lazy-puss….

The whole start of the episode was Kara unable to come in and face work due to feeling the emotional repercussions of last week's ep. And, while as clumsy as a hammer to the face, the Lane bit also dealt with that at the end. I would like to see more of it, absolutely, but they're not ignoring it altogether.

John Oliver is shifting his accent to become more American. In the Trump Wall of America segment currently linked in the Most Read sidebar, he pronounces "jaguar" as "jag-war."

I wonder if the lenses are lead crystal….