Another quick note - I enjoyed the "woman vs. girl" argument that Kara and Cat had in Cat's office.
Yeah... It seems to me that a lot of women have embraced the "girl" label these days, seeing it as symbolizing youthful energy and potential rather than immaturity or weakness. I think there are a number of contexts in which men are okay calling themselves "boys" too -- fanboys, Boyz in the Hood, good ol' boys, etc.
I liked it, and my 7 year old daughter REALLY liked it. She is really into the whole 'girl power' thing, so for her to see a female superhero on screen is a big deal for her.
I cringed a little when that guy started talking about lesbians (not ready for that conversation yet), and then when the bad guy stabbed himself in the heart, but otherwise it was ok for her.
Well, at least Supergirl didn't kill him. Hopefully this show will do better than other productions at the whole "superheroes don't kill" thing.
-If the show lasts a few years and Marvel premieres a movie with another blonde superheroine named Carol Danvers, who sues whom first?
I don't think either side would sue over something like a last name for a character.
And if they would, they would've done it back in 1977 when Carol Danvers was created. It's indeed possible that she was named as an homage to Kara Zor-El, aka Linda Lee Danvers. There's a long history of DC and Marvel creating characters as "homages" to each other's characters; for instance, the Shi'ar Imperial Guard from
X-Men is a thinly disguised Legion of Super Heroes, and Marvel's Deadpool (Wade Wilson) was originally a knockoff of DC's Deathstroke (Slade Wilson), though he ended up going in a more comedic direction.
Maybe both characters were named for Mrs. Danvers in
Rebecca, though.
Of course, calling this version of Supergirl Kara Danvers instead of Linda Danvers increases the confusion. I did wonder if the decision to have Kara pronounce her name "Kah-ra" rather than "Kare-a" is to differentiate it from Carol Danvers.
On the subject of last names, Kryptonian women go by their father's name for their maiden last name and take on their husband's name for their married last name. Sounds stupid, but that's how it's been in the comics for a while, hence Lara Jor-El and Alura Zor-El.
That's news to me. But it's no more or less stupid than our custom of women going by their father's surname and then adopting their husband's surname; the only difference is that they use the whole name.
I've seen some versions that treat the house name as a surname in the Anglophone sense, like "Jor-El and Lara-El."
I am glad it had a good rating for the premiere. 
