6x02 A Few Good Women

I just... what is... going... errg.

Lemme see if I can break some of this down:

• Silas of planet Transylvane. Okay, I see what they did there (missed an opportunity for Gotham bat jokes?), and despite the initial cringe-moment, the explanation kinda works. And I ended up kinda liking the poor guy. Almost hoping he'll stick around (and that J'onn will take it easier on him).
• Dad? Okay, stumbling into recognizable new characters can be kinda fun, but... A little too cheap and convenient to the circumstance, perhaps? (Of all the spots in all the fractures in all the Phantom Zone...)
• The courtroom scenes: W. T. F. Any armchair-jockey who's seen two episodes of Law & Order (much less watched any actual court case) would know better than to construct that childishly simplistic farce of a trial. I know it's a comic-book show, but it's live-action, too; does the courtroom have to be so senselessly absurd as to be less plot-satisfying than a plain comic-panel with the text "Lex was charged with [crimes], tried, and found not-guilty"?
• The Phantoms: Or dementors. Or whatever they are. Meh. Okay. As long as they develop into something a little more interesting as we go. (Hope.)
• Brainy's too-quick of-course-The-Phantom-Zone-has-fractured...: Far too quick a realization-and-discovery (as usual), although I suppose the explanation itself, as a set-back vehicle, works well enough.
• Multiple emotional-breakdown-and-pep-talk scenes. This is certainly a situation that called for bits of despairing over Kara's fate. But could at least someone hold off on the despondent catastrophizing until after a little longer than the first day?

Overall high-level storyline: fair (6/10).
Actual story-portrayal execution: ranges from terrible to fair (4/10).
Sigh.