But she often actively lies in order to keep her identity private. Like telling Snapper that Supergirl is waiting in Jimmy's office, when she's actually standing right there talking to him.

You could also have replaced "And then the murders began" with "A shot rang out".

How about the fact that Kara's contract almost certainly included a non-compete clause, so taking a story CatCo rejected and self-publishing it somewhere else is a breach of contract?

I really was hoping that Kara wouldn't be able to stop the ship, partly because Cadmus needs to win now and then if they're going to be the season's Big Bad, and partly because doing a "Search for Spock" style story with Alex would be neat.

Especially since the whole secret identity thing means Kara actually lies all the frickin' time.

Well, Flash episodes usually have a beat-the-villain plot that's introduced and resolved within the episode, but it's often the least interesting thing about the episode, more there to give the heroes something to do and provide the necessary action beats while the story arcs gradually develop.

THE best. Hands down.

My recommendation is to start with "Prophecy Girl" and "The Puppet Show" (in whatever order) as a best-of-Season-1/what-to-expect-going-forward thing, and then people can decide for themselves whether they want to watch the rest of Season 1 or progress forward from there.

Though trying to read those reviews NOW is insanely difficult, since the updated A.V. Club isn't really designed to handle reviewing two different shows in the same article.

Yeah, Buffy's main effect on the evolution of American TV is definitely the idea of giving each season it's own story arc that wraps up with a big climax in the season finale (something it was lucky to do just as DVD sets of television seasons were becoming a thing).

Series full of Earth-like other planets still exist, but they're either old franchises where that's been grandfather claused in (like Star Wars and Star Trek) or they don't ask you to take their science at all seriously (like Guardians of the Galaxy or Supergirl).

Team Arrow always does flips, rolls, or dives when someone shoots at them. Bullets can't hit you when you're doing something cool like that.

I got spoiled for this ep simply by going to the homepage for YouTube, and seeing "Adrian Chase is Prometheus" as one of the videos recommended for me.

All Thea asked her to do was check out how Susan came to suspect Oliver was the Green Arrow, which is entirely within the usual purview of what she does for the team. In doing so, she happened to mention how Susan had one of the least secure passwords ever for her computer, and Thea just ran with it from there.

There's also the time Oliver and Felicity were in a limousine that was shot up and Felicity got paralyzed.

I think part of it's that visiting other planets has gone out of style as people have become more aware of how unlikely it is to find another planet where human beings can breathe, eat the food, and the romance the locals. Time travel lets shows do the same science-fictiony visiting-another-world adventures, but in a…

How has no one suggested that Iris take some time off work and just take a vacation out of town somewhere till her best-if-killed-by date is passed?

Because you never start a number with a zero. You don't write "five hundred miles" as "0500 miles" do you? I know it's a top secret military code, but that's no excuse for bad . . . grammar? Does grammar cover numbers, or is that something else?

Not Godot, GRODD-o!

Which raises the question, how do they still have nukes? Literally every nuclear missile on Earth detonated in space at the end of last season.