Hey, the original Aladdin story was set in China— albeit that well-known part of China ruled by a Sultan and vizier who both swear by Allah a lot and are served by Mamelukes. (Because westerners aren't the only ones who do projection.)

Sure, you say that sitting safely outside the jungle.

Princess by marriage is still a princess. Mulan's the only one with no shred of royal dignity.

Mulan dumps the dress at first opportunity, and mostly wears a military tunic.

"In this postapocalyptic vision, a rural English village is subjected to aerial gas attacks and occupation by an unaccountable black-uniformed force bent on global conquest. A plucky young engineer is forced to choose between his home and the invaders who hope to coopt him!" (His choice, and the film's, may surprise…

In principle, it's of course possible to do a story in which people do good by changing history for the better— Quantum Leap is the obvious example. (Though it's probably critical that Sam Beckett was forced to leave the details of what he was supposed to do to "God, Time, or Fate" rather choosing.) But it pushes…

With all apologies to Sideshow "do they give the Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" Bob, we generally distinguish between the attempt to commit a crime and actually carrying it out.

I never really came to like Rip (despite looking forward to him when he was announced), and have found his absence kind of a relief— I think the Legends work much better without him. I'll be interested to see if his return results in a new direction for the character, or if he'll just be sand in the gears.

I'm okay with bad decisions. I'm less okay with my four-color heroes leaving a sizable body count of innocents. (Even Ollie mostly kills criminals!) The Flash repeatedly making lethal mistakes and sort of shaking it off isn't really the kind of Flash I want to see.

To be fair, all we're told about this world's Nth metal is that it's "unbreakable". Whether it has any other properties of the comics metal is unclear.

And I'd bet money that's what he was called in the first draft of the script.

Maybe she has a version of the tech that allowed the Legion of Doom to beam threats to the Super-Friends at will.

And simply being an illegal extraterrestrial isn't a crime since the president signed the act. It's a fair point.

One good thing over in Arrow: both Ollie and Felicity's spending too much time on extracurricular activities resulted in their losing control of their companies. (It took longer than it probably should have, but still.)

I'd rather see Power Girl over on Flash and Arrow as the parallel Earth version of Kara.

7. Does this version of Superman just leave the front door to the Fortress wide open???

Between Cyborg Superman and Mon-El, I guess Kara's just not going to comment on random people just using her family's names without explanation.

"Coming up on 'Supergirl': Mon-El is Joey in 'The One Where Everybody Finds Out'!"

Bets on that lasting if (when) she and Alex get into a relationship?

The bugs in the book are divided up into biological castes. The MI mostly encounter workers and warriors, since the rest live underground and going into their tunnels is somewhere between dangerous and a deathtrap. (Where possible, they just blow them up or gas them, except when a mission is specifically intended to…