The pacing was better than it's been for awhile.

It's no Happy Endings, but it's definitely better when it plays that vibe than when it tries to be How I Met Your Mother.

It seems like when New Girl stopped trying to force whimsy and just let these characters go all out, no restraints, it turned into the best version of itself.

It seems like Mehcad Brooks is a good guy and gets along well with the cast but for whatever reason he has never been able to develop a rapport with his co-stars on screen. Wood and Jordan played that scene so well that despite previously assuming they didn't like each other (or Winn disliking Mon-El), I believed that…

This is pretty much his bread and butter, but I remain steadfast in my confusion over the Mon-El is dumb thing. I know plenty of brilliant people who like to drink. I know plenty of brilliant people who are sort of doofy. And none of them have to adjust to a new planet in a few months.

And conveniently enough isn't a be-all-and-end-all in terms of sins…

There was also a reference to 10 years? I have no idea. I was so confused. I guess Kara is 26 too, but that also doesn't always seem to jive.

More confirming I wasn't totally nuts in making that guess.

It's gotten muddied, but yeah, it was never really the most feminist of shows. I don't really totally understand that critique. Less Mon-El, cool, fine, but seems like revisionist history to make Kara Danvers some paragon of feminist ideals after a season spent mostly resenting a woman for dating a guy she liked. At…

J'onn's only family is Kara and Alex. Given the way Mon-El was shown the door, I wondered if his fear of being treated as Mon-El is at first, and then Kara later, kept him from speaking up.

As a female, it was super frustrating for a man to listen to a man instead of automatically listen to his girlfriend. As a writer, it frankly made way more sense than what everyone seems to want which is Mon-El to have some 180 degree revelation on Earth's social norms and gender politics in ten seconds. He's from a…

Yeah, there's definitely room for two different government agencies with opposing goals to butt heads while needing to work together for the safety of the country.

It seemed like J'onn hesitated to allow him access initially, and then be it pressure of the situation or guilt, goes back and says sure, come in tomorrow.

I had forgotten about the office scene, but it definitely feels like the second they got Kara to first they sent her home. And good for them. She's a woman in her twenties who has expressed plenty of interest in dating and men. The almost infantilizing of her character was a little weird honestly.

Like it made sense for James to question Lena given his past with Lex, it actually makes for Mon-El, who has met Jeremiah and been tortured by Cadmus, to question his return.

Is this a rumor? I won't lie, the thought popped into my head, but I hadn't actually heard it as a real rumor.

This. If you take out just the scene where he announces their relationship to the DEO (although this can't have been a surprise, I mean, they nearly made out in the same spot last week) this week would have been his perfect deployment.

I really like Mon-El and I could use at least 25% less of him.

Facinelli's definitely seems to have run his course, but I imagine if she were willing they could find some more meat for Lucy Lane. Tatum and Brooks had at least some chemistry and the military angle paired with Cadmus could be interesting.

This was the first overtly sexual implication this show has had, right? I mean I guess Maggie and Alex being clothed at breakfast, but I was actually shocked they showed a clearly post-coital morning.