There was something in the season 1 behind-the-scenes materials I think where they mentioned it’s harder to do the future from a conceptualization/execution perspective, whereas there’s so much reference material for the past. That’s why the show dialled back visiting the future from season 2 onwards.

those sound fun but in practice the futures they visited felt so generic, compared to the more specific fun stuff they can parody and play with in the past 

My favorite moment from s1 was Sara derisively referring to Kendra as “Big Bird” (after she screwed up a mission) 

The main problem with skipping season one is missing most of Wentworth Miller.

It’s hard to top this as a truly surprising, delightful, “i can’t believe they are doing that” moment. I was gasping.

Just watch S2 onward. If you’re desperate for goofiness, you could go straight to S3, but personally I think that would be a mistake, because S2 is great.

I followed it from the top. I endured the first season in large part because of the gems in the cast, especially (at that time) Wentworth Miller, who did a ton of heavy lifting along with Dominic Purcell to make me give any kind of a crap about what was happening. The bad guys trying to break good was a pretty great…

I have a feeling the Crisis is going to be how they handwave a lot of stuff.

“...if Supergirl ultimately settles on a present-day Kara/Kenny endgame, I wouldn’t be mad about it.”

My theory is that something will happen in Part 2 that will cause Kara to give up supering—again. She'll decide Alex is right and it will also feed into her breakup with Kenny.

The Cat Grant timeline bugged me, but not as much as the implication that her bond with Kara was about beating Lois and not genuine affection. I hated that!

Izabela Vidovic is so good as young Kara. She previously played Charlotte on The 100, the youngest and most tragic of the 100, and Isobel on iZombie, who had a fatal disease. Then in her first episode on Supergirl, her only friend was murdered. It is nice for her to have Kenny back and hopefully having nothing else…

Hologram Peter Sellers cameo or GTFO. I would also accept Henry Mancini playing the theme song. Robert Wagner’s still alive if you want a non-hologram cameo.

“But they’re also able to bring real dramatic weight to Brainy and Nia’s respective arcs too. The confidence of this episode stems directly from their great central performances. And if this doesn’t inspire The CW to give them their own spinoff series, I hope they at least get to become players on Legends of Tomorrow a…

They’d fit in so well with the Legends! I’d have no problem with them hopping onto LOT after Supergirl ends. 

-I know we’ve talked about how great the kids are at channeling Benoist and Leigh’s mannerisms before, but I want to give Young Alex a specific shout-out for how well she channels Chyler Leigh’s interrogation mannerisms on Young Kara and Kenny here. I’ve been rewatching parts of S2-3 and it’s just like watching Leigh…

I loved the Kara Nia  scene but I wonder how much of it grown up Kara will remember of it. 

If you want truly easy access to Kara’s DNA you go back to when she was living on Krypton and jab her with a needle, like Rocket did to Jane Foster in Endgame. But that’s nowhere near as fun.

Baseball preempted this, as if I needed more reason to despise it.

This episode was so delightful, I think I’m freaking out a little. Jesse Rath’s best episode in ages. If you were to rank Brainy Episodes, this one is easily in the top three. Likewise Nicole Maines. The flashback crew upped their game too, reaffirming how perfectly well cast they were in the first place.