I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of authors that've made me audibly amused in the last few years or so - and now I have one more.
Kara isn't a Kent in Supergirl. At most, Ma Kent is her cousin's adoptive mother.
Awww. But the down-to-earth, practical advice and stuff was always some of the best Superclan material. Common Sense is the strongest superpower, as well as the rarest!
I mean, that's just war against violations of human values. "Conflict" is far more fundamental to Entity worldviews than to human ones.
If a few geese die, it is a price Minnie is willing to pay.
You're not wrong, because comic book logic, but I feel like you'd need fiber optic cable or evacuated conduits for it anyway to prevent just turning the air in the path of the beam into plasma that blocks and dissipates all your power, if you were going to apply something close to real physics. I mean, look at how much the air dances just over a hot parking lot when it comes to deflecting and dispersing the beam, multiply that by a thousand times at least, then make it actively exploding into something that's only not fire because it's being energized directly rather than something being oxidized to fuel it. You'd be lucky to get any real energy transfer a hundred feet, let alone over distances that make it useful for mass power transmission.
Entities played with lasers pretty frequently in worm, they probably got way to deal with it, like projecting forcefield that eject air or something.
More than just that, I think that it is sensible to try an pivot a millions of years traumatised genius away from their history of imposed weaponisation. I mean, sure, she does enjoy it, and I suspect that she is much less traumatised than Addy is, but I am quite confident that she could benefit significantly from somewhat liberating herself from the "all conflict, all the time" mentality that she has been raised to.
Legend: homing lasers that freeze. Kid Win: lasers that punch. New Wave: seemingly laser-based power-suite that includes many solid-object implementations... . I rather suspect that the sole flaw in your point is the idea that the death-beam would need any help maintaining cohesion from some forcefield.
I'd argue that the conflict focus is not so much a problem as the over focus on violent conflicts. After all, the idea of conflict driving progress has solid backing and is generally true. However, it's also worth noting that not all conflicts involve violence. Even setting aside the more grey area of sports (or the less scientific entertainment industries like idols/bands, actors, authors, etc.), there's the basic principles of free market, wherein conflict arises between various parties over materials, marketing, target demographics, buyers, etc. With all kinds of complex relationships to consider regarding traits like manufacturing cost & time, distribution, creating interest in the product, convincing people it's more worthwhile than other products, etc.
Consider all the DATA Mogo has as a consequence of his work. Perhaps Administrator will eventually grow into a similar role.
Who is Mogo?
A sapient planet.
No, no:It would have been more fun if the bookshelf had real books on it, marked something like 'Hestia's Secret Cookbook Y', where 'Y' is something like 'I' to 'XV'...
Who could resist wanting to look at those?
He showed up in the recent epilogue twice.
I mean to be fair to Mogo, they'd just been relieved from having to manage so many issued caused by the Death March, so it's not like they are abandoning their duties, they're just splitting their attention to something that is also personally interesting to them as well.
