Your second paragraph is basically describing Superman: The Movie. The whole point of that movie, once Clark gets to Metropolis, is to emphasize the contrast between the shining, heroic example of Superman, and a bitter, jaded, post-Watergate world where "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" sounds more like a…

Stuff like that is the reason I hate it when people dismiss Geoff Johns out of hand. Yes, he's made some questionable story decisions, but the man GETS the DC characters— probably better than anyone this side of Mark Waid.

Bats himself put it best in Batman: Hush:

Basically it's the people who have no understanding of Superman's character whatsoever who see him as a potential dictator. The people who don't care about Clark Kent; who can't see past the fact that Supes is really powerful, and just assume that power would corrupt anybody.

I would say that the bullet got Savitar because he didn't see it coming and couldn't avoid or catch it before it was too late… but then I remember that awesome moment in season one when Barry literally pulls away from a bullet that was just beginning to bury itself into his neck, and…

We're talking about James "Jimmy" Olsen. From Supergirl.

"The stupidest man alive."

It'll probably last about as long as Oliver Queen's "death" midway though season three of Arrow— which is to say, the better part of a single goddamn episode, at best.

Well, at least the Black Flash/Killer Frost thing kinda makes sense. The whole reason Cisco built Snart's cold gun, after all, is because cold is the thermodynamic opposite of speed— and the Black Flash would be made entirely of Speed Force energy. So Caitlyn would theoretically be the best person to take out the…

I would say James is worse, because they actually gave James a storyline that COULD have turned him into a dynamic and interesting part of the show, and instead… meh. It was a stupid, misguided direction that they took James's character in, but it WAS a direction, at least.

I gotta admit, it's pretty damn cool that he's managed to secure not one, but TWO major supporting roles as integral players in the Flash mythos. Thank you, multiverse!

I so prefer Shipp's costume over that dark, muted, ugly version that Zolomon wore. COLOR, man— this show needs more COLOR!

I am so down for Killer Frost becoming an empowered (heh), fun character without somehow having to be eeeeeevil as a result. The Killer Frost arc was one of the most annoyingly pointless additions to an annoying and awful season, but if it means that Danielle Panabaker gets to be a more active, engaging member of the…

Hmmm. So now Jay's free from the Speed Force, and Barry's trapped inside it— possibly for all eternity?

Well, dazzling rescue sequences are probably more expensive to shoot than two costumed actors in a warehouse punching each other.

That's true— this Supes has been "Supermanning" for at LEAST ten years.

I read the first couple of issues of the Rebirth relaunch, and while I appreciated their attempts to integrate elements of the show into the books (despite the fact that comic-book Kara is a teenager), it was jarring to realize just how different a character New-52 Kara is from the show's Kara.

I honestly can't think of a run on Supergirl that WAS well executed.

Yeah, guys like Jeph Loeb and Mark Millar thrive on hyperbole and ostentation to sell their storylines. Everything has to be cranked up to the Nth degree— like Red Hulk punching out the Watcher. WTF was that sh*t?

Depends on the writer. When Jeph Loeb first introduced post-Crisis Supergirl in Superman/Batman, he had Batman talking about her power levels exceeding Clark's— a thread I think he carried forward into Supergirl's solo series. But later writers probably rationalized it away like that because, well, it really DOESN'T…