Dear Supergirl Characters: Get a Room!

[...] that it's crossed over, Supergirl is ready to start pairing people off and raising that tension to CW heights.

Through four episodes of its second season, the show hasn't been afraid to shake relationships of the past in a sad breakup, like Kara (Melissa Benoist) and James (Mehcad Brooks), or just making characters disappear altogether so they can't haunt the current relationships.

With so much tension going on, it might be a good idea to run through all the combinations and discuss who might take off, who is destined for unspeakable disaster, and who is stuck on the runway.

Things seem to be heating up lately between the pretty humanoids as he shows himself to be douchey but vulnerable and she shows that even a Kryptonian can take haughtiness down a notch or two.

Mon-El meeting Kara for the first time, choking her, and then throwing her through a window, is also a really weird meet-cute.

[...] it's hard to imagine that two pretty aliens, hanging out together all the time, both with destroyed home worlds, wouldn't result in at least some light, tender kissing.

While Kara zor-El has been kicking butt and taking names (and sometimes getting her butt kicked and having her name taken), the subplot around Kara Danvers has been a little anemic, boiled down to a now nearly formula growly exchange with Snapper Carr (Ian Gomez) over her articles.

Finding yourself" is a popular theme in the Berlanti-verse but, unlike The Flash and Arrow, Supergirl's take looked to be more positive, more human, less "time travel is magic.

There's a lot of potential in watching Kara find herself in the newsroom, learn how to be more assertive, learn to break down barriers without having to literally punch through them.

Build the tension, parcel the milestones in smaller increments (half-milestones? kilometer-stones?), and give people a chance to fall in love at the same time the characters are.

Telling her assistant that Kara can