National City is essentially L.A. Depending on which continuity you're taking about, Metropolis is either New York (the Christopher Reeve movies) or some large city in or near Kansas (Smallville), possibly Wichita, since the Metropolis skyline was visible from a tall windmill or some such in Smallville.

If things had been developed differently from the beginning the way they were with Superman in Season 1, or the way we never saw Columbo's wife, I think it might work but not now.

Character development? What's that? Seriously, I'd like that too. There are loose threads all over the place. For example, Jeremy Jordan said in an interview that Winn still has feelings for Kara and that it would be explored. Then Lyra came along and we never got that bit of exploration.

Yeah, that may be. I did wonder what her answer was going to be when next season rolled around. I doubt we'll ever know which came first.

Most shows have someone like that, for example Patterson on Blind Spot. Like it or not, it's a trope, plus stuff is possible that couldn't remotely be done in real life. At one point Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer said there were several kids in the Science Club who could construct a Frankenstein creature. What…

I've always been a Winn fan even though I knew he didn't have a shot with Kara. I guess it comes from being a geek myself. I'm not happy with the transformation they made in him last season though. He originally seemed like a dorky guy who maybe wasn't great with women and had a secret crush on Kara but then Siobhan…

Oh! Oh! I know! Reveal that Maggie was so good at her job of investigating alien crimes because she was secretly an alien shapeshifter herself but a tragic freak accident has happened and she had to choose a new form.

It does open the possibility of more screen time for James, whether they decide to continue the Guardian plotline or not. It could also allow more CatCo related scenes since there won't be as much Alex+Maggie stuff.

That's the way the scene was written but we all know reality has a tendency to require mid course corrections, as when Cat was essentially written out. I have no idea which came first but my guess is that the scene was written before she made her decision known.

True. Then again, half the cast is in scenes at the DEO where they're not only unnecessary but have no business being.

There are tropes and tropes. Some make sense or at least have reasonable explanations (large rooms, 555 prefixes) while others don't. In the scenes you're talking about, it's also implied that the characters are whispering; not so with James and Winn, Kara and Clark, Alex and Kara, etc.

Maybe maybe not. Loving gesture or incompetence. Let's see, which is more likely?… Seriously, I hope it's being written as a "loving gesture" but I can't rule out simple bad writing.

I've seen it plenty of times and it was always fairly obvious the characters were whispering. That hasn't been the case in the series. I each case, they were depicted as having a normal conversation.

I think more than anything else it demonstrates the absence of a series Bible. The writers or the actress may have forgotten Cat finally figured out how to pronounce it.

The writers like to throw in lines like that. It's one of the relatively few things they do well. Last season ("Myriad") she said she wasn't interested in Harrison Ford because she doesn't date older men, especially married ones.

Of course you're assuming that's the reason she continues to call her by the wrong name. She may just not care enough. Remember that she had no trouble getting Siobhan right last season.

One big problem this whole season has been the amount of relationship drama. I'll be happy to see no Mon-El and less Maggie if we get to see Kara actually being a reporter and being good at it, and James contributing something useful. Less Lyra would be great too.

There is no theoretical safe level of lead. The CDC says "For infants and young children, lead levels of 10 micrograms or more in a deciliter of blood are levels of concern . . ." 1 microgram is 1 millionth of a gram, which would equal 1 milligram in 1 liter of blood. An 82 kg (180 lb.) adult will have 5.5 liters of…

Yes but I said someone like Lar Gand. It doesn't have to be him, it just needs to be someone with similar ideas (i.e., of cooperation rather than conquest).

It may be a trope but it's still dumb. They could have the conversation take place in private.