ItCouldBeWorse

CRISPR Not a drug therapy, but a genome editing tool. It was very cute, but I was wondering how cold their apartment was that Agnes needed her little crocheted cap inside.

We called them that in 1990.

Not a good sign that her friend took the whole thing, though. Probably better that she doesn't get involved driving the girls to soccer.

Red said that Katarina was sent to seduce many men, not only Kirk and himself. Perhaps she became pregnant from one of the other men, but kept the baby because she didn't want to/couldn't abort it, and because it would keep Kirk even closer to her if he thought they had a child together. At what point did Katarina need to provide Kirk with false DNA evidence demonstrating that Masha was his child? Did he doubt Masha's paternity because he knew she was sleeping with Red? It sounds like he knew their relationship wasn't good some time before Red took Masha. I don't know what Red whispered in Kirk's ear, or why he had to whisper it since no one else was there except to keep the mystery going, but since Red has memories of Katarina walking into the ocean I hope that it's not that she is still alive. What if the secret that gave Kirk the will to live (with Red still in the world) was that when Katarina left him, she was actually pregnant with a second child, who was Kirk's, and that that child is out there somewhere? Completely farfetched, but that would get him moving quickly. Red would have had to have given him some message that could only have come from Katarina to make him believe it, though. I still don't think that Red is Lizzie's father. Maybe Katarina asked him to take care of Lizzie if she died, so in his mind he was her father, although he gave credit for that to her adoptive dad.

Assuming that Prince/bodyguard is a binary question (he's one or the other) let's take a look at possible statements and consequences. 1) "I am the crown prince of Daxum" - True At best he gets treated like royalty. At worst he gets treated, well, like he's already eing treated. There's been no indication he has any real enemies. Daxum was destroyed in the same disaster the destroyed Krypton. 2) "I am the crown prince of Daxum" - False ("I'm actually the bodyguard") It's not like he'd expect anyone on Earth to be able to call his bluff so he could expect the same treatment as the True statement. Really this would have been what I would have expected, that Mon-el pretended to be the Prince only to confess later. 3) "I was the Prince's bodyguard." - True I see no advantage to Mon-el to say this. He's essentially admitting "I had one job, to keep the Prince safe and live and I fucked that up. He's dead along with the rest of my people." Since Mon-el is apparently saved by the wounded Prince's unselfish, it fits the relative lack of guilt he shows about the death of his charge. 4) "Was the Prince's bodyguard." - False (as, I'm really the Prince") I see no reason for this to be the case aside from some weird psychological guilt thing or some "just because it's TV" twist. As I've said, you could be right. I partly agree with your statement "I see no reason for this to be the case aside from some weird psychological guilt thing.... " If he is indeed the Prince, Mon-El either: 1) Feels guilty that instead of staying behind to die with his people (as the Prince in the story he told the D.E.O. did), he survived. He abandoned his subjects. or 2) Is aware that his actions in leaving Daxam might appear cowardly so doesn't want people to know the truth.

When Kirk had Red, why not obtain a sample of his DNA and conduct a rapid comparison with Lizzie's DNA, which he already had?

Maya really doesn't respect the kids' personal boundaries.

Also a serial killer.

Yes, the writers are dropping multiple clues.

By that logic maybe Kara and Kal-el are lying aliens bent on world domination since we only know what they've told us about their own backstories. Unless we learn something new that gives us a concrete reason to doubt his story, I'm inclined to assume that Mon-el is telling the truth. Sure, but: 1) I think we can rely on the fact that this is not the show that's going to turn Supergirl and Superman into villains who've been playing the long con and 2) I think that the writers have been leaving clues that Mon-El is not who he's claimed he is, for instance, saying he's never worked before when I would presume that a palace guard actually does do work. I've been wrong before, but I've also read a lot of fiction and watched a lot of TV!

Others (and you) are wrong. We saw Mon-el's backstory. Mon-el was the Prince's bodyguard. On the day of the disaster, the Prince was injured and chose to stay behind and die with his people while sending Mon-el to safety in the Kryptonion ship. As has been said before, some of us don't believe that backstory, which Mon-El was relating, not an omniscient narrator. We think he swapped the bodyguard and Prince characters. Time will tell.

Ruby: "I've been noticing you've been a bit cruel to your brother." Diane: "Long-head or Dumb-dumb?"

I guess I didn't get it because it made no sense (Ruby has access to monkey pox?), but thanks! Why is (drunk) Earl driving the kids to after-school activities? Where is Black Nanny? Too many conflicting activities for one driver?

What was the deal with the ice cream? Why was Ruby afraid to eat it?

When there are multiples, you have the inevitable comparisons and jealousy, made worse by the fact that Randall is clearly more talented than Kevin in areas that are highly prized. Yes, younger siblings are often unfavorably compared to older siblings who did better academically, but it must be so much harder when the kids are in the same grade, potentially with the same assignments and tests! Kate is not going to feel the comparison as much, since she is the only girl, but just imagine if one of her brothers had instead been a girl who was not considered heavy. Even if this sister had been adopted, so that the comparison would in no way have been "fair" (which could be said about Randall and Kevin's respective academic abilities), it would have been extremely harsh, much worse than having a slim mother or slimmer peers. I do get what you are saying. It seems like Rebecca never got over the shock of expecting multiples. Also, Since her cerebellum hurts so much from helping with third grade homework, maybe the daily indignities of parenting don't come super easily to her. Had she and Jack started out with a single child, she might have decided that one was enough of a disruption for her, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Here, she didn't have much of a choice (except between 2 and 3, and I'm still not sure why she agreed to take Randall except that I think she was in a waking nightmare state and Jack was so fixated on coming home with three children that she acquiesced) with regard to having multiple children, but to her credit, she seems to be giving it her all. In real life, I know stay-at-home mothers with 5 or more children who manage with occasional, reasonable complaints, and mothers of 1 or 2 to whom everything is a major deal. (I'm aware that I've left the whole aspect of the respective fathers out of the discussion). Of course, these differences might be the reason why some people have the number of children they do. Finally, I know a family who had 2 children under the age of 3 whose "3rd child" was triplets! They had local relatives who helped a lot at the beginning and they ran a tight ship, but you never felt that they were in the least bit overwhelmed. They were the right family to have the gift of unexpected triplets!

This made little sense to me, too. I get that he could put his misery aside to help Chloe in her misery, but we should have seen that.

Perhaps Mon-El feels guilty that instead of staying behind to die with his people (as the Prince in the story he told the D.E.O. did), he survived. However, he had that story prepared before he even knew that no one else had survived. Perhaps his parents had planned for the potential fallout from Krypton's destruction and had sent him into space in a parallel to Supergirl and Superman's story.

I think the white collar snobbery is funnier at work, because everything there is absurd, including some of the clothing Dre wears, although I realize that his shredded sweatshirt might cost thousands. In reality I believe that most upper middle class parents who have a kid who is interested in how things work and who is able to fix things automatically think "engineer!" and are thrilled. That doesn't mean that being a mechanical/electrical/chemical engineer is intrinsically better than being a licensed mechanic/electrician, welder or plumber, but that's where their minds go first. The fact that Jack's evaluation concluded with "unionized group of skilled laborers" influenced their opinion, but that's more absurdity, because how would that ever be evaluated for? If they even had career tests for 9 year-olds, perhaps Diane indicated that she likes to be in charge, and Jack indicated that he like to be hands-on, and voila!, the reported-upon results appeared.

Agree to both. As for Gloria, her storyline made limited sense. Obviously she could bathe for hours while Joe and Manny are in school every day. So, let's say the issue is that she wants to drink wine, bathe, and then fall asleep. And, she wants to do it when Jay isn't around. Presumably, Joe is usually in bed by a certain hour. Does having Manny in the house seriously preclude her from relaxing in the tub? Will he really barge in on her if she tells him she is taking a bath? Isn't he equally likely to call her on the phone when he is at a party due to his customary problems? There are certain things she might not want to do when her 17-18 year old son is in the house, but taking a bath should not be one of them. Finally, if Joe were to wake up when she is in the tub, she would have Manny to take care of him so that she would not have to get out. We've seen that Manny knows how to watch TV with Joe!

I thought it strange that Phil got locked into yet another enclosed space and didn't comment on it at all. Yes, he was visible to Jay the entire time, unlike when he was trapped in the closet, but I would think there would have been some kind of call back.

As is turned out, my polling place on Tuesday did not have stickers, whereas some of my co-workers, whose polling places are not far from mine, did receive stickers. Not a big deal now, but when my kids were little and came to vote with me, I felt that putting the sticker on them kind of cemented in their minds that we had done something of value.

Lena has said she was adopted by the Luthors, and "Lillian" told the bad guys she was doing this to keep her daughter and her son safe, so she is Lena's adoptive mother. I guess Mom blames Superman, and, by extension, all aliens for Lex's legal problems. True, but I also don't understand why she would take on the dangerously armed criminals in the middle of the party. Wait until they left with the loot and were not in the middle of a hundred people who by all rights should have experienced a great deal of collateral damage. This guy never worked a day in his life. As others have said, he was the Prince. Was pretty worried about that. After all, Kara had to give him a haircut using her heat vision because his hair is superstrong. Yup.

Or the little house?

The writers only used the shrinking power when it helped advance the plot. If Ray could have made it into Savages's brain while Savage was fighting the Hawks, he could have easily caused a stroke and the whole storyline would have been over.

It's based on an adult character in the comic, and is short for Beatrice.