Yep and also don’t forget the actors have to be paid. Their contracts will be for a certain number of episodes. Want someone in an extra episode in a sibling show? You’ve got to pay them more money.

That’s probably the real reason Kara and Alex were absent for almost an entire episode of Supergirl recently - it can’t…

Ok, now that I’ve read a review, you make some fair points.
But emotionally I can’t help but maintain that this was an absolutely outstanding episode with phenomenal casting, and my favourite song of 2007 to boot.

I can’t explain why, but for some reason I actually found the slight oddness of it to be a positive addition. It seemed in keeping with the portrayal as a whole. Dunno.

My god, Katee Sackhoff was incredible in this episode.

I couldn’t even tell for sure that it was her (though I’d eventually developed a ~50% certainty based on facial features) until my traditional post-game reading of reviews.

And okay her accent wasn’t spot on accurate, but somehow whenever it faltered it did so to…

Holy shit now there’s an idea!

This is a really important observation. Fans tend to say “oh, this series is set in the 22nd/23rd/24th century therefore it should be <such and such a way>“, which is ridiculous when you consider how much our own world’s geopolitical landscape changes in just the span of a decade (and, indeed, considering the…

PatandrickdriveRedfords seems like a really nice person.