I say they’re exorcisable up to a certain point. I say this because there’s a real strong possibility that Clark’s gonna get possessed — in keeping with how things went down on John Henry Irons’ world — but then he’s gonna need to get dispossessed.

“Where are the Kryptonian minds coming from? Why are they evil?”

Narratively speaking, the show has to have Superman turn evil, otherwise JHI was just plain wrong, and that serves nobody (least of all the plot). But I could see JHI not understanding that there was a deeper reason than, Superman is disloyal to earth. And to be sure, that would not fly with the audience.

Dang, this show is good. Thots:

I would fully expect a scene where evil Superman is about to vaporize our Lois, and John Henry Irons thinks he’s about to see his worst nightmare repeat itself, but then our Superman flies in and takes the blast. Really, how could they NOT go there?

You make a good point about Clark not reportering. I am okay with it in that he’s been understandably busy with other things, but it would be nice to see him bust out his reporter chops some.

What gets me about the girls superheroing is, they never ever took good advice. I get the cockiness of youth, but come on, at a certain point you’ve got to start noticing how you keep doing the opposite of what your dad advises and then things go sour.

I think JHI is going to help provide enough information, and maybe technology, so that our Superman doesn’t go down the path his did. And then he will return to his earth to help rebuild it, because he is John Henry Irons, and of course that’s what he would do.

“The look of pure admiration on Clark’s face after Lois reveals her plan is a perfect celebration of her impressive investigative skills.”

This season was certainly full of false starts and events that went nowhere, while new plot points parachuted in. But that feels more like network problems than the showrunners.

This show is solid; all the Kents make sense, even as they’re all imperfect. There isn’t a character who is an inveterate screw-up like Alex over on “Supergirl”; even when Jordan or Jon makes what we recognize as a mistake (such as leaving their hotel room), it feels authentic.

“Alex envisions a scenario where her over-confidence forces her to sacrifice herself to save her friends.”

Remember when the Legion of SuperHeroes used to visit Superboy in Smallville? And they used to visit Supergirl in Midvale? There’s an homage at work.

In the comics anyway, they really should have made Lemar Hoskins (Battlestar) the new Captain America. In the comics he’d gone through a physical augmentation process, received the Captain America training (fighting and shield work), and in the 80s / 90s stepped up to the point where he had the gravitas to be a leader…

The thing that’s bothering me about the writing is, there are so many false start emotional conflicts that seem to be there just to pad the episode. Like the drama about “oh no I can’t use the Kara hologram because then you wouldn’t have it any longer” ... did anyone see that as an objection any intelligent person…

True story: I didn’t know “buck” was a slur for black men either. There are probably dozens of other slurs I don’t have a command of, because I don’t make a point of hanging out with racists and listening admiringly as they go on racist tirades.

Nowp, Lemar Hoskins is the one and only Battlestar, even in the comics.

“Black Lightning” doesn’t get nearly enough love. It takes on issues that no other show would dare.

“In addition to Static Shock holding it down, both the Justice League cartoon and its direct sequel series, Justice League: Unlimited would see John Stewart/Green Lantern glow the fuck up. My guy went from the backup-backup Green Lantern to who an entire generation first thinks of when you talk about GL.”

You’re right that “It’s a Wonderful Life” doesn’t hit a whole lot of Christmas themes squarely enough to be inherently a Christmas film; it just so happens to fit well enough with Christmas, and pivotal events occur in winter, so why not.