Or that those attitudes were only held by unsympathetic people and villains, rather than people we otherwise admire.

One thing I found interesting to think about: Amaya is from about as far in Jonah Hex's future as the Legends are relative to her time.

Stein's visions remind me of the heartbreaking Astro City story, "The Nearness of You."

It's in Expanded Universe, though it's not so much "this could totally work" as "why not?" in the midst of a number of other out-there political speculations. (Another is restricting voting to women who have had children, for example.)

And unlike "A Face in the Crowd", "Gabriel Over the White House" clearly approves of its authoritarian president, assumption of dictatorship, summary trials and executions and all. Identifying the changed President with the Archangel Gabriel isn't meant to be ironic.

Speaking as a purist: Jimmy Olsen following some crazy impulse of the moment into a new pursuit is far from unprecedented, and neither is his becoming a costumed hero. (He's had at least two of those identities, and probably more.)

I'm guessing the way to go is to lean heavily on "the Fatal Five/Mordru/the Legion of Super-Villains has a nefarious plan involving the 21st century, and this small select task force of our vast (but largely unseen) organization is here to take care of it!" Plus maybe a victory party featuring a single futuristic…

I'm pretty sure Intergang arming Metropolis criminals with Apokoliptan weapons goes back to the original Kirby stories in the 70s, with the TAS episode adapting that.

And we really have to just not look hard at how someone illegally impersonated someone at a top-secret government job, was discovered, and was allowed to keep that job. Even if J'onn had been a citizen and had anything like the credentials he was supposed to, there's no way you don't go to jail for that.

Good catch— I hadn't made that connection.

I would pay money for them to try to thread that needle.

- Will someone tell us how Lena Luthor knew where Kara's apartment is?

1. Evidently "Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue Paper" does not apply to Mon-El and Eve Tessmacher!

I didn't know either, but pre-Crisis she was Arlene (later Arlene Thorul after the Luthors changed their names to avoid association with their disgraced son), post-Crisis she was "Letitia" (so good guess!), except in Smallville where she was "Lillian".

Hopefully that's when they bring in the LSH, so he can guest star periodically via time travel.

It's also the way I prefer they do it. I'm more or less reconciled to making changes to long-established characters as a quick response to the realities of every marketable superhero being created before 1975. But I'll always prefer introducing new characters (or new elements to characters without a history) to…

On the other hand, Clark's been balancing both since June 1938.

It may be true. But if so, it was odd to show the flashback as if it were objective, rather than as a flashback while Mon-El told the story to the DEO folks.

My despair is more that the main response to there being more than one show featuring a woman with powers isn't to compare each with the shows trying to do the same or similar things (e.g., JJ with Daredevil, Supergirl with Flash), but to pit them against each other.

I don't think Bombadil could have been Iluvatar. (I think Tolkien may even have denied it in a letter, though I'm not sure.) Tolkien was generally careful to keep Middle-Earth theologically at least compatible with his own Catholic beliefs. God incarnating in the world is a really important, unique matter within…