That doesn't seem right. Kill one girlfriend and you get to jump to the head of the line. Otto even had a Stacy bodycount first.

I didn't know about Aquaman and J'onn J'onzz but, unless I missed some later development, Mister Genie is stretching it, too. Wasn't he only in two stories with Wonder Tot? (Who I consider just about the sole redeeming factor of Kanigher's run, but that's another story)

Superman, Batman, Green Lantern in the Bronze age. Golden Age Wonder Woman if you count Etta Candy. Who else?

The aunt that raised him and who he described as the only mother he knew? Most people, probably.

The first Superman movie happened? That means we're all looking in the wrong place. Supergirl is going to be betrayed by MISS TESSMACHER.

It makes sense considering the source material. Lex Luthor's sister was never evil in the silver and bronze age books, and she really was Supergirl's friend.

When I saw that, I first thought 'Uh-oh, she's picking up a pawn, this IS a long game to manipulate Supergirl." Then when the showed the piece more closely. "Oh, ok. The white knight. We're good."

I was thinking exactly that. Or the dialogue could have gone:
"You can catch us or save these people."
"No, you can sit there quietly until I get back or I can choose between using my freeze breath to put you in suspended animation (comic book science) or simply breaking your legs."

I'm not complaining about B:TAS. I liked it a lot. For the most part, the DCAU was much better than Marvel's animated series.

Well, your thesis is just wrong. I started following superheroes when Gwen Stacy was still alive and I'm here now, and I dislike when superheroes, including Batman, are too dark. For the record, my favorite Batman is the early-70s O'Neil/Adams one.

She'd be in the second group. Her portrayal is so good that it defined who Supergirl is.

I always assumed the sixties series ignored that part of his history, since they never did an origin episode (really, who needs one? We already know there's a Batman) and dead parents didn't fit in with the tone of the rest of the series.

If "Against the Wind" is a rock song, anything goes.

No, this wasn't as good as last week, but there really isn't a lot of space between a good episode and a bad episode. It's still stupid, but fun, time-travel hijinks either way. Speaking of which, Rory Hunter saying "Who knew time travel could be so much fun," was a nice meta moment.

For a second, I wondered "Does she even know any adult males, aside from J'onn?" Then I remembered that James, Wynn and Mon-El are technically adults.

Benton had perhaps the best line of that era. "Aren't you going to say it's bigger on the inside? Everyone else does." "It's pretty obvious, isn't it?"

It's reasonable because most people aren't looking at everyone they know and thinking "I wonder if that's a superhero in disguise." It's necessary for the superhero because they need some time when they're off the clock.

That was my thought. Channeling Lou Grant; "Didn't I see this on Friends? I hate Friends."

And Hackensack.

If I have to choose which one I prefer as a writer, I'll go with F. Scott. If I have to choose which one was a better person, I'd say that they were both 100% right when they talked about the other one. There's a story I always liked about a psychiatrist they were both seeing who told his receptionist that he thought…