I suspect she is not “cool with the way things are”, so much as she is experienced enough to not tip her hand before she’s ready to act. If she’s going to impeach, she wants to do it when she’s ready, when the case is properly lined up and the public is behind it.

What gets me is, over and over we see evidence that the problem with our medical system is the providers — pharmaceutical companies and emergency rooms gouging the public — and yet 99% of progressives think the solution is single payer. What we need to do is regulate medical providers directly — curb greed, as well as…

Bah, none of them compare to Kristen Schaal:

There is a really good “tell” that this isn’t satire: successful satire can be recognized as satire. Even if this were incompetent satire on Taibbi’s part because he erred on the side of sublety, at some point he certainly would have made noises about how nobody recognizes satire any more. A genuine satirist would…

Well, right! That’s kind of my point. They could have gone a different way with the memory wipe, like it wasn’t undone, but Alex uncovered evidence that Kara was Supergirl and that she used to know but her mind was wiped. Or maybe she remembered just a little, but not everything. In a lesser show, that would be…

Yeah — presumably she remembers why she had her memory wiped, which makes it really difficult to complain about. Myself, I am too old to be interested in people harboring grudges for no reason. It’s a poor way to live and it makes for even worse TV.

May I offer my current head-canon on the matter? Lena figured out that Kara is Supergirl ages ago, but also understood why she wants to keep it a secret. So, Lena did some form of self-hypnosis such that she would 1) forget and 2) be disinclined to re-figure it out.

Good things:

In the comics, Cap was about the first non-Thor to ever wield Mjolnir; first time he did it, it was extremely difficult. Since then, when Cap has had to pick up Mjolnir, it’s generally been pretty easy, and there’s an ever-growing list of characters who can.

I’m going to say the boring thing that is boring because it’s kind of self-evident: if you are planning to take your kids through something that they stand a good chance of not being able to handle, maybe you shouldn’t. I’m not talking about being able to guarantee good behavior with 100% metaphysical certitude, just…

You know what cameo would make me completely lose my shit? The Phantom Stranger. Just a low-key scene where one of the characters is feeling down about something, when a dude in a fedora and a cloak gives them the words of encouragement they need to hear. And then he’s gone. I know the temptation would be for them to…

Confession: my brain is getting mixed up because I’m having flashbacks of John Sheridan bringing down President Clark and his regime.

It would have given me reason to think Alex takes her job seriously, so that would be something.

I’m guessing your kids have trouble with analog clocks. I’m seeing that so much in kids these days. Queen King Beauregard’s kid can study an analog clock for a bit and correctly tell you the time, but it’s not instinctive the way it is for you and me.

Of course, James was once in Lena’s place, and Clark/Superman had to tell him about Superman/Clark. There’s almost certainly something the show could do with that, and it could go in a few different ways:

Yeah. That’s the same strategy that got her to this point; how’s that working out?

I’m calling it: the president is Lex Luthor with an image inducer.

“Why does he need to be superpowered?”

We’re reaching a point where we’ll be mocking our grandkids for not being able to fix the blinking 12:00. “Haha, maybe there’s an app for that?”