I thought the idea was they knew because CADMUS broadcasted that it was the end of all aliens, etc.

Translation convention. It's "really" called something else and Medusa is the closest English word— and reasonably apt considering what the virus does.

??? Are you normally interested in women? I generally keep my more shallow observations to myself, but the tight pencil skirts they've been putting her in since day one have been, at times, impossibly distracting.

… what?

I just naturally assumed you were a librarian at the Los Angeles School System.

Joe: Great detective who always trusts his gut.

That's a good interpretation.

Perhaps we can be charitable and infer that all the "good" White Martians were murdered by the evil ones, so any survivors are presumptively evil. But yeah, it definitely does play a little awkwardly.

The funny thing is, it actually does tie into the premise from the pilot of LoT: That is, Hunter chose them precisely because they have no impact whatsoever on history so he could "safely" remove them from the timeline and he just fed them a pack of lies about how they're legends in the future. Jimmy Olsen seems…

I guess I can buy Kara being beyond honorable and some sort of "hyperstupid honorable," but Lillian is a very specific level of crazy if she (i) realizes that Kara is that good-hearted but (ii) still wants to murder her because she's an ALIEN!

I'll be in my bunk.

I have to think it's a translation convention. E.g., WWII era Germany called their nuclear project Uranprojekt while English-speakers refer to it as the "Uranium Club," and "Medusa" is the closest English equivalent of whatever the real Kryptonian name is. And, um, the computer is used to those wacky Kryptonians…

Is that right? My mistake, I can't keep my fictional materials straight. It occurs to me that freeze breath is also an option here. Blow cold air on them to incapacitate, then immediately summon medical help. They *should* survive but, even if they don't, that's acceptable.

And as I posted as my own parent comment: How are they having a two way conversation? If it was a one way conversation, I'd think it was some sort of pulse only kryptonians can hear, but Lillian can hear Kara respond to her and they have a conversation. All I can figure is that Lillian hacked the DEO comms, which…

Also question: When Kara is flying and gets the "come here alone or else Mon-El dies" threat, I'm confused. I can accept that CADMUS can transmit some sort of signal that only Kara (and, I guess, Clark if he's in town) can hear. So far so good and as old an idea as Superman.

That comment reads as, uh, a little autobiographical…

She should still be fast and strong enough to use less lethal measures, such as breaking the arms and legs of everybody else in the room before they can stop her. True, somebody could die on accident (there really is no such thing as truly non-lethal force), but that's on them and far less risky than hoping they'll…

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS.

Right— Kara is a good person, but she's really being foolish by being so result-orientated. Had things gone badly, suddenly there's a pile of corpses that Lena isn't "responsible" for and Supergirl looks reckless (which, to be fair, is largely Supergirl's fault for being reckless). That things worked out doesn't…

I like this show for being lightweight and amiable, but as with last week, some of the basic plotting needed work. Am I the only one seriously questioning the wisdom of Kara fighting with the bad guys at the gala? Their entire motivation, from the start, was to acquire loot and get away with it and they never…