moonshine71

When Sarah is explaining what was happening to the blood that she took from her mother and Erin w/ them, she mentioned a disease that makes people extremely photosensitive and iron deficient, and that it is a the source of some myths/legends(I can't remember the exact wording sure use). I think that was a clear allusion to vampire lore and that it exists in the universe. I think the writers avoided using the word vampire purely for stylistic reasons, even though the concept exists in the universe and it doesn't make much sense that no one would just come out and say "jfc, the priest is turning everyone into vampires!"

I'm just here to point it that carrying a monkey on a motorcycle by holding it in a cage with one arm behind your back would be sustainable for about 30 second. Don't get me started in how they try to pass off the motorcycle as some old beater that needs all kinds of work when it's actually like a brand new, $16,000 Triumph Scrambler.

Just for reference, Netflix's Ragnorok was just a bit ahead of Disney on this, portraying Loki as gender fluid/pan or bisexual.

He's a million times better than Smallville's Jor-El, who was a complete asshole, so I can't complain...

There's a few weird premises that this show is built on. Even the fact that they had "play hide and seek in an empty house" on their to do list(and the list itself is weird to me). 1. They're about to be sophomores in high school and playing hide and seek is on their list?😒 2. An empty house sounds like the most incredibly lame place i could imagine playing hide and seek. You're literally just opening doors and looking in empty rooms or closets with nothing to hide behind/under/inside.

The requirement of malicious intent only applies to public figures, which would certainly not describe Jeanette.

I don't really see him buying stuff as that big an issue. I think people are elevating the level of celebrity a high school assistant principle has exponentially. Basically, high school students will recognize him. I doubt most of the parents of those students would, much less the rest of the town. And that's ignoring that we don't know how big this town is. It doesn't really feel "rural small town" to me, more mid-size suburb that's probably not immediately adjacent to a major metro area, but probably not in the middle of nowhere. My son just graduated last year, I consider myself pretty involved father, I went to all the parent teacher meetings, award ceremonies, school programs, etc. I just went down the list of the administration staff on his school website, there is not a single one of them I would recognize if I just randomly came across them in public. That includes his principal, who I know I've seen speak at several functions and briefly met at least once, much less any of the assistant principals. There's a few teachers, coaches, or advisors that he had good relationships with that I might recognize. All Martin h as to do is stop at the nearest Costco or Sam's Club and buy tampons and other toiletries, people will just think it's some random young just shopping for his wife. Same with buying a dress. To be honest, from the start, I've felt one of the strangest aspects of this show is how interested an affluent, and kind of snobby, group of people seemed in a new assistant principle and the efforts they made to involve him with their social group. Everyone was just fawning all over him at the garden party, and then inviting on an overnight hunting trip w/ your gun club? The whole thing is weird to me.

Not sure I can agree w/ this about informing Superman about these weapons. In the unlikely but potential catastrophic event that Superman were to go bad, I imagine you would want him to have little or no information about the existence of these weapons. Then learning that Jonathon built himself a little stash of "solar powered" weapons that could hurt Kryptonians makes him a bit of a hypocrite. How in the hell did he get those weapons, anyway? After he was barely rescued from the murder van, and then subsequently lambasted by Lois for going into the murder van alone, he snuck back into the murder van to get the weapons? And John Henry didn't bother to check out his van before he left and notice that a bunch of his weapons are gone?

Pretty sure Jeanette doesn't think the snow globe can help her case, she wants to get it back from Mallory because she thinks it can tie her to Martin's house after that Christmas Eve call was made. Imo, it's a pretty big panicky mistake. All she is going to do is draw attention to the snow globe, which probably would have stayed under Mallory's bed until the end of time, she didn't seem to know It held any significance or that it came from Martin's.

I feel like your overestimating the speed of the court system and how quickly the wheels of justice turn.

Whatever... 😒 Simple answer? Sure. Correct answer based in anything other than your preconceived bias? I doubt it....

Seriously? It's high school, not the NFL. You'll find literally hundreds of top notch high school quarterbacks across the country every year that are 5'10" or less. The actor is 5'9" . Tate Martell was the Gatorade National Player of the Year a few years ago, he was a 5'10" quarterback.

Yes, you can certainly recognize a name and not a face, but I was thinking along the lines that if Lois recognized this person's name and was familiar enough w/ him to know that he was a threat to Superman, she certainly would have at least seen a picture of him before. I don't really follow Supergirl, but fwiw, I believe that they have introduced red-k on that show and it has dis-inhibiting effect in the cw-verse. Maybe, post-crisis, all bets are off, but I would think it would make more sense to keep playing by the rules they have already established.

On Mallory. Sorry, but count me in the camp that just doesn't care for her. I like Harley, she seems sweet and I don't want to totally shit on her acting, but her trying to play "edgy" is just...😒 1. Joy is an asshole, but if some teen were to come in my home and dismissively talk to me and shut me down when I was trying to discuss a lawsuit that will affect my whole family w/ my child, that kid is going straight the fuck out the door and not coming back. And I just don't buy Harley in that "tough girl" turn. 2 A 16/17 yr old assistant manager can just shut down that place of business "for maintenance" ...😒. Please. I guess the actual manager or owner won't even bother to ask what that maintenance actually was or if there is a bill to be paid, they're just going accept the loss of hundreds of dollars(maybe more, Kate said the place is always packed) without question... 3. I don't even like '93 Mallory, I thought Jeanette was on the nail when she was describing her as pushy.

I assumed that at first too, but didn't she wake up to find her room had been heavily stocked with food, toiletries, etc.? I felt like it was a misdirect, too make us assume he was assaulting her, and then find out that he used the time to stock her up, so he wouldn't have to come down and risk another escape attempt for a while. I guess he could have done both, but I get the feeling he's trying to break her down until she submits "willingly".

I don't know that It really needs to be admissible. 1-It gives Jeanette's lawyers a line of questioning to go after. 2-It can easily be leaked to the press. 3-I have a lot of sympathy for Kate, but I don't consider this victim shaming. It in no way excuses what Martin did to her. We don't know what exactly her story was about how she ended up there, but it appears that this would deviate from whatever that story was. At the very least it paints her recollections of her abduction as unreliable. If Jeanette IS being wrongly accused, she has every right to point to that.

Very good episode. I like this show a lot more than I anticipated I would. A lot of interesting developments, but maybe the best for me - with Jon injured and Jordan sidelined with everything he is dealing with, I think we may have seen the last of the poorly written football stories for a while.😂 Biggest surprise- John Henry Irons. I did not see that coming. Second biggest surprise- John Henry doesn't know that Clark is Superman. I had really gotten the vibe that he did. I think in a previous episode there was a scene with him watching Lois w/ Clatk from afar and displaying a sense of pain. I assumed it was from seeing his dead wife(or someone w/ her face) w/ his enemy, I guess it was just from seeing her happy w/ another man or seeing her at all. One down side, now I have to accept the fact that John Henry just stood face to face w/ Clark and an hour later stood face to face w/ Superman and didn't recognize him. He just seems too clever for that.

I don't know if Jon will get powers, but the suggestions that him using the hammer is evidence of it doesn't work for me. He was being bathed in red solar radiation, which takes away Kryptonians powers and makes them "human", it's the reason John Henry was able to kick Clark's ass so easily. That said, Jordan was still incapacitated by his superhearing when it should have been at least dampened to some degree, but I'm chalking that up to a bit of sloppy writing.

That wasn't red-k, it was red solar radiation, as from a red sun, to weaken Clark. Obviously not enough to make him completely human, since he was still durable enough to survive hits that would kill a normal man instantly, but enough to give John Henry a chance. Red-k doesn't harm or even weaken Clark, it makes him lose his inhibitions and go kinda bad. Probably the last thing you would want around if you were fighting him, he might just go ahead and kill you when normally he would hold back. Jordan was still incapacitated because of his super-hearing. Although that creates a bit of a plot hole, since the red solar radiation should have dampened his abilities, too.

I've seen this response about Lois "recognizing" John Henry Irons several times in this thread, or that she/they "had history" w/ him, and I couldn't disagree more. Why would she recognize his name but not his face in even the slightest bit? Her reaction was in recognition of the fact that the John Henry Irons of their earth had been dead for 6 years, and that this John Henry was likely from another earth, which would make him a prime suspect for being "the stranger".

Good points. Suburbs sure. But even in my suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio we have 3 high schools, so there's Hilliard Darby, Hilliard Davidson, and Hilliard Bradley(often just referred to by their second names) and most of the surrounding suburbs are the same. Columbus has multiple high schools, including Columbus West, North, etc, and other non-directional names. Most other cities will use a direction, a historic figure, or a description like the example you described(Chicago Vocational Career Academy)when naming a school, i.e. Columbus Alternative School, Cincinnati Taft, Dayton Stebbins. Metropolis is literally supposed to be... a metropolis. The city school district would have multiple high schools. They could have at least called it Metropolis Central. It just seems so lazy. Maybe Metropolis Luthor...😂s Also, I didn't mean to imply an overnight trip never happens in high school sports. We did them for wrestling tournaments that lasted 2 or 3 days. And would certainly make sense for the x-country trip you described. But for a 3 hr trip, a post game overnight is pretty unlikely. I know the distance hasn't been specified, but if was significantly greater than that, an overnight trip BEFORE the game would be in order(no coach wants there kids to get off a 6 hour bus trip and then immediately try and play game, plus the notion that Sarah was going to go that day suggests it couldn't be THAT far). Pre-game overnights are a lot more common. Hell, i played football at a small college, and that's how we did it, even for night games. Overnight before the game, the whole thing was super structured w/ films, walk throughs, meals, and lights out. Then back on the bus and straight home after the game. Even for 8-10 hour trips. They weren't messing around w/ us in a hotel after a game w/ nothing to do but get into mischief, and we were adults. This had a bunch of kids w/ virtually no supervision(the twins are 14?) just left to do whatever they want. No chaperones I guess. And just going out to buy booze.😕 I don't want to hear about how bad Jordan wants to play our how sad Jon is that he is out for the season, because that is literally something that would get all the kids involved kicked off the team for the rest of the season, and they didn't give a shit about that. Yeah, high school kids drink, but having the audacity to pull something like that on a team trip? Any coach that would let something like that go would lose control of his team. Hell, it would likely be out of his hands, because any competent school or district would have clear rules for that kind of thing.

More strangely to me about Tanya, wtf kind of story is that too tell to Harris about your false paternity claims and child support? "Hmm, this guy doesn't seem very into me. Maybe if i tell him something that makes me look like a complete nut job and a horrible person that will get him interested! I've known him for a couple of hours, I should go ahead and share a deep, dark secret w/ him..." I know, that's giving her to much credit, since they are portraying her as completely(and ridiculously) oblivious to the fact that he clearly wants nothing to do w/ her. On Cindy- Why the assumption she chose to give up being a wife and a mom? I got the impression her going to her sisters was out of frustration, to cool down and think. A flight attendant can be a wife and mother. I know several that are. It's no different than any other parent that travels a lot. And it's not like her kids are infants, one is already leaving for college.

1. Plausible, maybe, but not especially likely. Most high schools will play about 7 league games(pretty local) and 3 non-league ones which will usually also be relatively local. A 3 hour trip is unusual. A team like Metropolis, who Lois referred to as one of the top programs in the nation, is more than likely going to fill those non-league spots(especially a game that requires that kind of travel from one of them) w/ another powerhouse program. Also, wtf kind of name is Metropolis High? That's like having Chicago High, New York High, or L.A. High. At least give it a direction. Even more unusual would be spending the night in a hotel. One, for budget reasons. Two, for the exact reason we see, so they don't have to worry about kids getting into any kind of trouble. A post-game 3 hour bus trip is absolutely the norm for that type of situation. 2. They couldn't even have been in school for a month. Football season hadn't started yet. Most states the football season starts concurrently with or even the week before the school year. Nothing about the whole bullying thing made sense. Apparently, the powerhouse program of Metropolis has like a dozen 14 yr old freshmen in their starting lineup.

One thing to keep in mind w/ Eve, in addition to the limits of her power(as stated in my post above), she is still VERY human and vulnerable. She can make shields and whatever to protect herself(and those have been shown to be breachable), but if she were to ever receive an unprotected blow from a Viltrumite, she would almost certainly be killed instantly. Facing one head on would be unwise for her.