Given how Nathan was only into the science fair as a means of getting laid, I suppose they could have tied his story into the girls’ arc with a sexual harassment angle, which would have been topical but also too on the nose (interesting how Nathan in one rant managed to refer to women through euphemisms with words for…

Nice to see some continuity sneak in from episode to episode still — this time it was Heidi’s weight gain implied from Cartman tricking her into thinking fast food was vegan last episode. That reveal will probably show up down the line at this rate.

Well, no, Jax would still be voiced by Franz Drameh, just doing a Stein impression, like he was doing before they merged.

Yeah, plus it wouldn’t make much sense why Martin would be the embodiment of Firestorm in the first place, despite the body switch. There’d really be no reason for it not to still be Jax’s body, just with Martin in control and Jax’s voice being in the head, other than the idea is easier to convey visually by using…

At least with the pierced ears her earrings in the past and present were the same, if that’s an indication of anything.

All I can think is that present Alex basically accuses Kara of dragging her home to feel better about herself after not dealing with Mon-El being lost, and she’s pissed off at her for that, and so the flashback tells us the story that finally bonded them as sisters, so that at the end when they talk about how they…

Yeah, that was just some cringeworthy and lazy writing there.

The problem with the reveal is not with what the characters on the show thinks the characters look like. It’s the way it’s set up to expect the audience to understand who she is.

Yeah, your analogy is simplistic enough to understand. It’s just doesn’t track.

I’m sure you didn’t want to imply Krypton didn’t always have the red star, but your choice of analogy leads to that impression.

Wait, wasn’t the boss the scientist guy who died on the moon?

The deadly factor in the microwaved food would be the microwaves. Once those are gone the food is just food, it isn’t kicking off microwaves.

Like I said, that doesn’t track. Your explanation is based on the idea that the red sun radiation is the toxic element, not the kryptonite itself.

The show invites comparisons to “Star Trek” with its very nature. That’s why I love it. It’s calling BS on Trek cliches every chance it gets while still fully embracing them.

I’m not worried about the BS science, I’m talking about the show’s rules not being consistent. The multiverse time travel theory doesn’t track if she disappears when they destroy the vortex. If she’s really from another universe she’d have stuck around. By her own words her voyage to the Orville will never have…

No, he’s in a ship the whole time. There’s a part where he emerges what looks like a stasis pod so maybe that’s what you’re thinking of.

It’s good that Barry described his love of chicken wings. For a minute, seeing him covered in slop I assumed he had puked over himself.

Kara’s attempts to maintain her disguise are even more laughable considering the Wonder Woman movie ridiculed the notion in a single line a dialogue. And it’s the same friggin’ company. (Different production houses, sure, but the DC Comics family is the DC Comics family).

Their body chemistry is essentially that their cells treat red stars as a default and store energy from yellow stars to charge their powers. There’s no “alteration” any more than plugging in a cell phone would alter the design of its battery.

That’s a big problem with Hollywood’s depiction of journalism (when they aren’t depicting an actual journalistic event). Most movie and TV writers have an ideal of what they think journalism should be, and that’s what they write to, rather than make any attempt to understand the reality of it. Call it the Aaron Sorkin…