I was about to point out that Mon-El’s costume is identical to the one Hoechlin wore on Supergirl, but then I remembered they did a palette swap with Mon-El’s suit and his cape is blue. Plus, the S does stand for hope...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t think they did. That cast list at the bottom of the synopsis has to be from season two, notice how there’s no mention of Lena, and it still calls J’onn Hank? Hoechlin was also listed in the cast for episode 14, and he clearly wasn’t in that episode. So it seems like…

The props department for the show has made much weirder stuff than a bunch of fake whiskey bottles, so I’m sure it was just a Tuesday for them.

Well shit, that makes a ton of sense.

At first I thought that guy was Capone too, but as the episode played out he felt more like a gun thug than the boss.

I am choosing to believe the Why the Hell Not? pile of whiskey bottles was a nod to the old WTFN segments in the recaps.

I still have a hard time believing that a show which has gone out of its way to defend Kara having a secret identity (that was the entire point of the 100th episode!) is going to turn around and say “having a secret identity is bad actually”, but it certainly does feel like that’s where they’re headed.

Everything with Nia was phenomenal. It’s an absolute crime they aren’t developing a Dreamer spinoff show. Kara’s arc I was less sold on because it feels like the show is litigating questions it already answered, and doing so in ways that seem contradictory to what the show’s said the first time around. Maybe my…

Could be for the live action movie, but that would make more sense next year.

I fully expected one of either MacNider or Cindy to wind up still trapped at the end of the episode, so kudos show for not doing that. I also think I like that it didn’t wind up with Courtney pulling Cindy out of the Shadowlands.

It was more Legends, therefore it was good. Honestly all the kvetching about the show’s lack of connection to the DC canon always felt like a false complaint to me. Are the characters fun? Yes. Are the stories fun? Yes. So enjoy the thing.

Spoilers for future episodes

Except the show just last season said Kara was right to hide her identity. So to now turn around and take the opposite tack seems really, uh, odd.

Oh yeah, Esme just straight up saying she knows Kara is supergirl was funny.

Eh, Hope predates Nadia, so you could make the argument that Hope is one of the rare instances where they ported a character from the MCU to 616 instead of the other way around.  Though, as I double check my math, I see that they’re both just versions of a character from the MC2 continuity.

The shot of Courtney taking in Pat’s workshop at the JSA felt like it was supposed to be this grand majestic thing with the spinning camera move and swelling music, but all that was totally undercut by how absolutely boring the actual space was. Bare concrete walls are not inspiring...unless you’re really into…

Speedrunning Quest for Peace was certainly a decision. But then again they’ve riffed on every other Reeve Superman film so I guess they felt they couldn’t leave one out? They absolutely could’ve left this one out,

The better question is why Superman IV and no Jon Cryer?

To be fair, Esme can sense people’s powers.  That gives her a major advantage over Lena.

Man, I hope not, because not even Sully could've saved that plane.