NatalieEGH

1. I feel vindicated for my comments about making Earth uninhabitable to the Daxamites by poisoning the atmosphere. I am not positive but I believe it was with lead. 2. On the subject of being able to see through lead. Trying to describe a real reason for not seeing most things through lead. I am quite sure both Superman and Supergirl can see through lead, even thick lead. The problem is what would they see. Assuming the xray vision is similar to real xrays, most of the rays are blocked by lead at levels such as used for medical diagnosis. Most not all. The problem becomes the only way to really see something on the other side of lead with xrays is the material must be denser than lead. Otherwise the sensitivity of the viewer must be very very extreme to pick up the fine nuances of whatever is so heavily shadowed by the lead material. It is sort of like if you were to have a fish tank filled with water and drop in some diamonds. They become almost invisible because the refractive index is almost identical to water. So except for very thin lead foil or maybe lead plating, the amount of energy of the xrays required to penetrate would completely pass through the what is on the other side unhindered. 3. Super hearing, in no way should lead affect the hearing. I do not know the thickness required for the sound to be completely damped to levels that it cannot be heard but the hearing of Superman and Supergirl should be able to hear a pin drop inside a recording studio if close enough to the studio and assuming active noise reduction is not being used and very very well matched to actual sound. 4. In no way should lead be unable to be affected by "heat vision". From what I understand that is just a focusing of a beam of "heat"/"light" like a laser. The lead should melt as fast as any other substance with a similar melting point. On the subject of heat vision, the battles where party A shoots beams of heat at party B who shoots back and they meet in the middle canceling each out. I believe that would only be possible if the amplitute and frequency of the emitted light/radiation are perfectly opposites of each other, like with active noise reduction. Otherwise I would except the beams to pass through each other with some points amplifying becoming warmer and some suppressing becoming cooler until they strike both parties eyes. The decree of change in temperature would depend upon both the degree the beams are synchronized at each point and the amplitude of the beams at each point. 5. Wynn saying I love you to Superman, I suspect is completely asexual in the same way one might say I love pizza or music or Steven King books. Winn has at no time shown any homosexual tendencies and has in fact been geeky heterosexual even to his girlfriend. He reminds me of Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds. 6. I just realized, Monel is being called Monel. He was in the comics given that name by Superman/Superboy (2 different stories) because he (they?) thought he was their big brother. The name was Mon-El as in Kara Zor-El and Kal-El. The El part was the family name of Superman's family.

I hate to say it but the current arc of Supergirl is very very predictable. It is an updated version of H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds". The main differences I see are the Daxamites are the Martians, and the element lead is the germs. Earth would be among the last planets a Daxamite would consider colonizing. Living in a space ship colony like on Battlestar Galactic makes more since for them than invading earth for colonization. The humans of the series have the perfect weapons to use against the Daxamites and the planet is the best fortress. Sure Daxamites can conquer Earth but never colonize it. The abundance of lead in the Earth's crust may only be .00099% but there is a lot of crust. It is 4.5x more common than tin or arsenic. It is in almost all the soil though concentration in some locations are extremely high allowing for mining. Around the refineries and mines the atmospheric content is much higher. The race is especially sensitive to the element Lead. Lead is in the atmosphere as one of the pollutants. Most houses built before the 1970's (I cannot remember the year) still have lead paint under the current paint. Lead is also found in most of the water of the planet. For a Daxamite, the planet Earth is toxic. Mon-El of the Legion of Superheroes was kept in the Phantom Zone for two millennia because he was shot by a gun and poisoned. It was not until Brainiac V discovered a way to cure lead poisoning that Mon-El could leave. As Mon-El pointed out a lead bullet will kill any Daxamite. Mon-El might be cute, but his relationship with Supergirl is doomed as long as he is on Earth. Either he will die or he will be forced to leave. The only way a Daxamite would be safe on the Earth is to live in special enclosures. The all items brought in would have to be purified. If they stepped out they would need special suits to protect them and upon re-entry to the enclosure would have to be scrubbed almost to an atomic scale. The Daxamites would not even want the planet destroyed. That would just scatter the lead. Much better that it remain concentrated in one area that they can mark as a place to avoid. That does not mean they might not out of spite want to sterilize the planet but it might be hard to convince everyone that they want to exterminate a race or group of races as there are a lot of space aliens living on Earth, just because their highly autocratic and cruel queen is upset with them. I say cruel because who were most of the slaves on Daxam, I think Daxamites, of course maybe only elite and their retainers escaped Daxam's destruction which would make then more supportive.