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Stargirl - S1 E9 - Brainwave

Well, this episode boring and pointless.  I don't even know where to start. So Brainwave recorded a series of expositional videos explaining his powers in minute detail; which is super convenient in order for his son to learn what he needed to know.  Although, considering Papa Brainwave wakes up by the end of the episode, why was that even necessary to contrive Jr's instruction like that?

For someone supposedly so intelligent, at no point in the last 20 years, Brainwave never considered transferring his video diaries from VHS to digital?  I mean, it's hard enough to even find a decent working VCR anymore, much less the tapes; and obviously the tracking wasn't working right with some of those. It would have been hilarious if Jr was watching one of the videos and discovered it had accidentally been recorded over partly with some old show. Naturally, Courtney needs to spell out the fact that maybe, if you're going to read someone's casually thoughts, you need to dig a little deeper to get a full picture of who someone actually is, rather than just a flash of what's at the surface.  But not surprisingly logic goes out the window the second Plot Contrivance, Attourney at Law walks in thinking about how he's trying to scam him.  Heaven forfend Papa Bear actually left instructions about not wanting to be in a persistent vegitative state and have Jr read genuine sympathy from the lawyer for having to deliver unpleasant news. The scene between Yolanda and Henry was almost good; and it really should have been more the central focus of the plot, expositional dump and contrivances to drive Henry to the dark side.  They were on the cusp of exploring something that could have been very effective, where Henry how his behavior has hurt people; and that there is more than just darkness beneath the surface of other people's minds. But no.  Instead they threw that aside in favor of the more simplistic plot.  Mind you, the fact that Henry Jr looks 40 and ever since his powers started kicking in has looked increasingly constipated, I'm not sure there's any level of better writing that could have compensated for those shortcomings.  Looking the actor up, I know he's only technically 23, but man, that's a rough 23... So daddy big-brain was a weak willed scientist who was tormented and abused by his father, then gained super-powers.  Yeah, I think that pretty much wins super-villain bingo.   As soon as Courtney inexplicably tried to pick up the baking dish from inside the oven without oven mitts, only to realize, "oh, shit, ovens make things too hot to touch with my bare skin." I knew there had to be some contrived reason to have a character do something so obviously stupid.  So naturally Icicle picks up the pan without issue - because it's only fair if you're going to make your superheroes incredibly stupid, that you match them against equally stupid villains, who don't know how to not be obvious they have super powers by ignoring things like picking up something that's probably hot. And I'm sure they couldn't have come up with some other intelligent way of having Courtney realize who he was. But should "Icicle" be invulnerable to heat?  If anything, shouldn't be he be more sensitive to eat sources, rather than less?  I suppose that might make it difficult to walk around in any temperate climate; and would probably dress in much less insulated clothes.  I mean, that is the entire premise behind Mr. Freeze's refrigeration suit; he can't survive for long outside of it anything higher than subzero temperatures.  But I suppose Mr. Freeze and Icicle aren't strictly the same. You gotta love the fact that when looking at the "Seven Soldiers of Victory" photo, Courtney points out whom she describes as Robin Hood; and when Pat is identifying everyone's actual name, he doesn't mention the fact that the "Robin Hood" looking dude is actually supposed to be an alternate version of the Green Arrow.  I guess it's understandable not to want to have to explain that or make a correlation that could misconstrued. Why was the photo in black and white though?  How old is Pat?  And why is he always involving himself with underage superheroes?  I mean, I know this isn't revealing a new partnership, it was still whats-his-name (probably not Courtney's dad) who started out as the Star Spangled Kid and later became Star Man; and that they had already established that Pat met him when the Kid was a teenager and Pat was in his 20s, but now with Courtney and subsequently her Jr Justice Society, it's a little weird that this is becoming his thing.  I think they might have gone overboard with how young they made Sylvester, especially in contrast to him growing up to look like Joel McHale, this kid, for one things, is obviously a kid; standing next to the clearly grown-ass Pat, who barely looks any different than he does now.   And come to think of it, Joel McHale is 48; even giving him the benefit of the doubt and saying Sylvester/Starman was only 40 during the fight where he and the rest of the Justice Society was killed, but that was ten years ago; meaning if he were still alive, Sylvester would be at least 50, pegging Pat to be somewhere in his mid 50s/early 60s. Aaaand of course Barbara walks downstairs while the floating, magic cosmic staff is our and Pat and Courtney are talking about it; because a) they picked probably the most asinine place to hide it, short of just laying it out on the kitchen counter, and b) naturally she would find out in the same episode Pat starts talking about telling Barbara the truth, only for her to find out some other way than them being upfront with her. Honestly, I like Amy Smart, but her character on this show is so useless, and the writers keep using her to hamstring the plot with inane subplots, like making dinner for her supervillain boss.  I hate to say it, but if they can't use the character effectively, I kind of hope they kill her off.  She's no Joyce Summers.

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Stargirl - S1 E7 & E8 - Shiv Part One & Part Two

Dear God, once again Pat and Courtney proved to be the worst liars, which is kind of a prerequisite if you're going to have a secret identity.  I swear, to the outside observer it has to look like these two are screwing around - which obviously would be really bad, what with Courtney being his step-daughter and, you know, a minor, but that with all the sneaking around and clumsy explanations, it makes whatever they're doing that they've covering for seem even more suspicious.

Okay, so Barbara does apparently work in... an office... for the Mayor?  Governor?  I know it's Icicle, but I'm not clear what his position is.  He's talking about some property out of town, but he mentions city council. So if they need someplace to train, why not the JSA base?  Surely they had some sort of practical space, unless it was only used for hanging giant banners of their likeness.  Naturally it's not super clear where the base is located relative to Blue Valley, seeing as Courtney rode STRIPE there the first time she visited, but she went back on her own to get the JSA gear. Whatever.  If Pat can build his mech suit in secret, it really doesn't matter... I honest to God expected Pat to say, "Teamwork makes the dream work." Shock, gaps, Cindy's the daughter of a villain, who has trainer her to be a villain.  I can not believe it. 😐 I mean, I can believe it, because even before I saw the stills of her in her villain outfit prior to getting around to watching this, I could see what they were planning a mile away; because again, despite it's initial appearances of being something awesome and original, is basically a mash-up of Disney's Descendant and Power Rangers.  And not even the classic MMPR, but one of the lamer later seasons, like Dino Thunder.  So of course her dad is going to turn out to be a villain, because half the parents on the show have turned out to be a villain; and now Cindy's basically turning out to be that one evil Ranger that appears each season.  Which probably means Courtney will deliver some grand speech about friendship or smash and amulet or some bullshit and Cindy will want to give up killing people and become a hero... I think the more disappointing element is that they had the chance to a route more like Cordelia on Buffy; who started out as an entitled diva and bully, only to develop into a character with much greater depth and compassion.  Maybe that sort of arc would have been predictable too. Yeah, okay, so Pat's son (whose name is apparently Mike), is jealous of the "dad-time" Courtney's getting from Pat.  Although, for one thing, the show has relegated both this kid and Barbara, to the background for the last 6 episode; one of the rare exceptions being last week when they actually did have the two bond, which kind of undermines his argument a little that he doesn't interact with Barbara the same way Courtney has been with Pat.  And seeing as how in truth Pat and Courtney were hardly interact for a long stretch while Courtney was running around behind his back to assemble a new JSA; Mike's argument seems a little overstated.  I suppose I can understand his resentment to a point, but until now we didn't have any reason to think Pat hadn't been giving his son the enough attention (aside from that time he and Courtney randomly decided to up and leave to visit the JSA headquarters).  I don't count the last episode where Pat didn't go to the science fair, since Matt told him parents weren't invited.  Sure, in the real world information probably would have gone out to parents to tell them otherwise, but seeing as neither Pat nor Barbara knew of the fair beforehand, they also wouldn't have any reason to doubt what Mike tells them when he says parents don't attend; which is not impossible for some types of school functions.  I thought it was weird Barbara showed up anyway, even if it was predictable. Hmm, now I wonder who Matt's mom is (was?) and why she's no longer in the picture.  Probably a super villain... Is Sports Master Pat's trainer?  Or are they just two generic looking white guys? Let me guess, the janitor is Johnny Thunder?  If memory serves, in the comics they did some type of story where Johnny, in his post hero life, kind of lost touch with his sense of reality.  People didn't understand the importance of his pen and thought his stories of a genie were delusions. I could be way off and it could be someone else from the old JSA... Part Two Well, ramming your car into a post is...one way of explaining Courtney's injuries.  I can't think of another plausible way, but how exactly did that all work out, since I assume Courtney wasn't in the car?  Or maybe she was, so paramedics on the scene would find her there, but what about Mike?  He definitely wouldn't have been in the car when Pat clearly, intentionally crashed the car; so what's the explanation for Courtney and Pat out riding around without Mike?  Are they going to claim Courtney was driving?  *Sigh*.... They're going to claim Courtney was driving.... But how did Pat get her to the hospital?  Like, in what condition? She seems to be waking up in the hospital, ostensibly for the first time since the fight; did Pat... changer her out of her Stargirl costume, before taking her into the hospital? I'll admit, they kind of had me with Cindy's visit to Courtney's house; because of course it would be cliche for her not to pick up on the obvious clues that Courtney was Stargirl and go to her house and make it seem like she knows, only for it to turn out to be because she legitimately wanted to show her sympathy.  Figuring it out is a level of self-awareness they couldn't even give Lena Luthor... Did this really need to be two episode...? I really feel bad for Pat; he's basically gone from side-kick to babysitter... If you're going to use your brain to float an old fashioned key around the room and see what it might open; might it not make more sense to try one of the less common locks in the room first?  I mean, why both trying to use it on the fucking patio door before the random locks on a bookcase?  For someone with telekensis, this guy's kind of dumb. This last minute rematch feels so fucking anti-climactic.  Like, sure, Cindy beat Courtney bad the last episode, but there's virtually no stakes here, other than Cindy knowing Courtney's identity.  And she could probably figure out by association who her super-friends are, but they're treating this fight like it's some sort of epic showdown, with a bunch of build up that's never actually happened.  Plus, they've staged things in such a way that there's really only likely outcome; which, even before I watch more than the first minute of the fight, I can probably guess that Cindy is going to be taken down to such a degree as to be near death, either by Courtney, which will weigh on her, or by Henry, possibly as a result of him losing control of his powers.  Given her advanced healing, compounded with her knowing about Courtney, it's the only viable conclusion to the fight that allows Courtney and the others to go about their so-called normal lives next week.  It's the exact same reason Brainwave ended up in a coma.  They've made her too powerful of foe and given her too much of an edge to allow Cindy to come out of this episode as a continuing threat. No doubt whatever condition she's in at the end, her father will stitch her back together or grow a new one or whatever. Which will probably be the concluding shot of the episode. And....it's Henry. Called it... Albeit, Cindy's less defeated than expected and more...dragged down to the sewer to by monks...?

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Stargirl – S1 Ep5 – Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite

Just by virtue of the episode title and the previews after the previous episode, it’s obvious that this is going to be the fourth origin story out of five episodes; for a total of five new heroes.  I’ve already complained at length about the poor pacing of this story, to be more than a third through the season and still introducing new main characters; and I expect more forced development via Courtney handpicking at least one if not both the new Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite.

And just as with Yolanda, we know virtually nothing about Beth or Rick prior to this episode. I don’t even think we’ve met Rick before this episode, but I’m not even sure about that; because this show keeps having all these different characters flit in and out and most of them are interchangeable, and they don’t give any of them enough time to establish who they are. And all we know about Beth is that she’s… intense, even for her parents. Man, could they make Rick’s uncle more of a dick without attaching a large scrotum to him? I get not everyone’s cutout for being a parent and he had the job literally dropped in his lap, but Jesus Christ; if you feel he’s that much of a burden and you know both his parents are dead, of which one of them was your fucking sister, surely you and he would both be better off finding someone else to raise him. Another relative or adoption, something. And what’s the point of him selling the carburetor Rick bought for the Mustang? Sure, looking up vintage carburetors for a 66 Mustang can run a few hundred bucks, which is nothing to sneeze at, but what are the odds this moron happened to find some random person looking for the same part Rick needed? For that matter, Pat apparently had the right kind of carburetor just laying around to gift to Rick. I suppose the truth is that Pat could have had the part for Rex and it wasn’t really a coincidence. What exactly is Courtney’s mom’s new job? Have they even said what she does and I missed it? I know at some point she was in a meeting with the evil mayor, but was she there for work? Was it a press conference and she was there as a general member of the public? A reporter? Do we actually know her name yet? I have to believe that someone at some point has actually mentioned it, but I’ll be damned if I remember that happening. I remember the kid they killed off was named Joey, yet Amy Smart’s character has so far only managed to rank as “Courtney’s Mom”. And sure, I could look it up, but I shouldn’t have to do that much work to know who the fuck these people are. How the fuck does the Dr. Mid-Nite goggles know all these current factoids about people like Beth, when it hasn’t been in use in 9 years? Has it really been updating while gathering dust at JSA headquarters? Of course Brainwave’s kid is going to develop the same mental powers, because this show has basically become the DC/Warner Brother’s equivalent of Disney’s Descendants… Courtney is very careless with her secret identity; first Yolanda, then Beth overhears, then they casually reveal themselves to Rick, who they barely know. Given his response, this could have gone very badly for them.  They could have made the approach in costume and kept their identities secret until they knew whether or not they could trust him. But there again, the writers could have also had him discover his connection to his father’s powers in a more natural way. Huh, I was a little surprised to find out that Rex Tyler was played by Lou Ferrigno Jr.; a fact I only put together when I looked him up, on account of when I first saw the name in the credits at the top of the episode, I completely missed the “Jr” part and not only assume it was the Lou Ferrigno, but subsequently assumed he would be playing Solomon Grundy – an assumption that seems more unlikely seeing that Lou Sr. is pushing 70, but still not necessarily outside the realm of possibility. But of course when we not only didn’t see Grundy, but also no sign of Lou Ferrigno, I had to check what I was missing; only to see the “Jr” part of the credit; which I then had to look up.Still, that only further highlights my gripe with how they’ve been plotting (or rather, plodding) this story. If this series was going to be more than just “Stargirl” as the title would otherwise suggest, then assembling the JSA should have happened within the first 1-2 episodes. Getting Yolanda or Rick’s backstory could have come later, building to an episode like this; which absolutely should have been a Grundy episode, that not only dealt the Jr JSA taking him on, but also went into more detail about what happened to Rick’s parents and his relationship with his uncle. If they didn’t have to spend so much time establishing Beth and Rick and in their respective hero roles during this episode, they would have had more time to flesh those other areas out.

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Stargirl – S1 Ep 4 – Wildcat

This episode once again underscores the major problem I had with the third episode; which is that they’re still fucking world building.

Don’t get me wrong, character development is good, but this is the most ham handed way to go about it. We knew virtually nothing about Yolanda, except that she was harassed for some incident that took place off screen; and even before they revealed that revealing photos of her had been leaked around the school, it was obvious by the taunts that that was what happened.

Objectively that’s not strictly outside the realm of reality, but it’s literally the only thing that’s defined this character for the first three episodes; we don’t even learn she boxes until the episode that is all about her.  On top of that, the only reason it’s about her is because the writers decided to make Courtney borderline obsessed with getting to know her and be her friend; and subsequently decide to make her the next Wildcat.  They couldn’t have been any more blunt in their storytelling if they had Courtney declare, “This episode is about Yolanda!”

Here again the writers could have laid more of the ground work during the first three episodes, doing a better job establishing a rapport between Courtney and Yolanda and building up to her taking on the mantle of Wildcat.  Arguably, her becoming Wildcat should perhaps have come later, though admittedly when your first season only has 13 episodes, you don’t want to waste too much time.  But of course, therein lies the problem of pacing the story this way, where episode four is the first time we’re really getting to know this main character in any sort of depth; and it just becomes this exposition dump, compounded with Courtney making the proactive decision to recruit Yolanda to be the new Wildcast, forcing a plot development, rather than letting it progress organically.  Had Courtney managed to get through to Yolanda in the first or even the second episode, that’s time they could have spent doling out these details more evenly; and then found a way of having Yolanda choose to be Wildcat, rather than have the idea thrust on her like it was some sort of game she and Courtney were playing.  Seeing as how Courtney is trying to fill roles that were vacated when their predecessors died, in order to go up against the people who killed them; the whole thing is be handled rather cavalierly, especially since between this episode and the previews for the next, they’re basically reforming the Justice Society with teenagers. And I have a sinking feeling this show is gradually turning into Power Rangers.

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Stargirl - S1 E3 - Icle

Honestly, I wasn't nearly as impressed with this episode as the first two episodes.  There were a few decent parts, but the story felt weak and a lot of pointless plot points that felt like something you'd see from an Arrowverse show. The part where Pat took Courtney to the Justice Society headquarters was nice, but that felt like something that should have happened in either the first episode or the second at the latest.  Ditto the ending, when Courtney takes the Justice Society gear to recruit new members; and I don't know how I feel about that either, as it feels a little forced. And what's up with the JSA having giant banners of themselves hanging in their headquarters?  I can buy the villains doing that, but it seems pretty narcissistic of the heroes.

I'm seriously over the trend that happens virtually every new show now to take for fucking ever just to set up the core premise of who the main characters are and what their dynamic is; get to the fucking point.  Maybe I'm to impatient, but I saw nothing wrong with how they used to start a series by using the pilot to layout the framework of the series and then just hit the ground running telling the stories.  Look at the first episode of Buffy, within the first two hours of the series (and let's be honest, "The Harvest" was part two of the pilot) we knew the "sitch" as Buffy would say of who the main characters were and what their deal was.  We met Buffy, Joyce, Giles, Xander, Willow, Cordelia all in the first episode too; plus the big bad of the Master and they still advanced the plot by having the Master try to free himself. Meanwhile, three episodes in it's obvious they're going to make Courtney and the girl who's being harassed and called a "slut" best friends, but Jesus they're dragging that out. And while I applaud Courtney for trying to stick up for her, the dialog felt contrived. Then of course they try to go to the opposite extreme by trying to rush an investment in a new character, just so they can kill them and try to milk some kind of sentiment for an intentional, yet seemingly pointless death.   I fully expect this magic kid (Joey, I think they said his name was) to also befriend Courtney in a Xander-esque capacity (not to lean too hard on the Buffy comparison), but come on, we're supposed to give a shit about this kid getting killed by Icicle just because we saw a couple of scenes of him doing some shitty card tricks (badly); and sharing one scene with the main protagonist?  Let us learn more than his name first; or even just let us be sure his name is in fact Joey if you want us to care when kill him off. And what the hell was up with the level of enthusiasm for this school's talent show?  I think they said something about "regionals" or some bullshit, but come on.  Is this one of those performing arts highs schools?  And if it is, why did Courtney seemed so surprised by everyone being in costume?  Why are they all in costume during the regular school day?  There's need to be in costume all fucking day, rather than change right before your performance; that's what the call time is for.  It's the time ahead of the show during which you get ready. Why were so many students gathering around to watch this lameass card trick?  Who would give a shit?  Are they all stoned?  Did serious no one else, besides the one guy, not see the card Courtney picked, to realize he later picked the wrong card?  Because they absolutely would have called him on screwing up the trick if anyone else had seen. I'm also starting to think the writers have no fucking clue what to do with Courtney's mom.  What was the point of her coming home only to find Pat and Courtney were out?  And why did they choose that exact moment to leave and take a tour of the JSA HQ, when at least Pat knew that what's name would be home before they could possibly get back; to say nothing of his own son. Her being at...whatever that meeting was for city development, seemed random - especially since I either missed it or it wasn't made real clear who Icicle is supposed to be in his public life.  Is he the mayor or something?  Her comment on the community theatre was yet another instance in this episode that seemed random and kind of forced.  And why are these characters, who I can only assume are elected officials, at least in the context of that scene, talking about the community theatre losing money; it's not a fucking subsidiary of a business you own.  Maybe that theatre group is renting space from the city or something, but if they're losing money, that's not really the city's problem, unless they're in a position to support it; and they're not losing money from that fact, unless the theatre group is behind on their rent.  But considering how big of thing the fucking high school talent show is, I'm kind of astounded to hear them suggest their community theatre is losing money.  If they're losing money it's probably because all of the fucking high school students keep renting their costumes and wearing them all day, getting them all sweaty and stained at lunch (theatre rule #12: never eat in costume); and then drop them back off without washing them, so the theatre has to drop a shit ton of money to have all of those costumes drycleaned. But apparently the writers just needed some contrived excuse to show Courtney's mom expressing interest in what's happening in her town to justify her joining whatever board or committee we see her attending later in the episode; rather than just having her say she'd decided to get involved by serving on this committee or whatever, like any normal fucking person would.  And how much you want to bet it's not even the fucking the community theatre board she's joining, but just some random community development committee or something?  Or even who fucking cares?  Because in three episodes they've given her about as character much development as the kid they killed off this week; and I'm not even sure they've mentioned her name.  It seems probable they did, but I'll be damned if I can remember it.  So far the only defining aspect of her character is that she's played by Amy Adams, who is apparently a vampire, seeing as she doesn't appear to have aged in the last 20 years.  We sure as hell haven't been shown anything to show that she and Pat are actually in any kind of romantic or sexual relationship.  I can't even remember if they said they were married.  I think they did, but much like her name, I can't fucking remember. And why did Icicle kill Joey?  What possible purpose did that serve?  He seemed to have an ulterior motive for it, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it could be, other than naming the community theatre after him and milking people's emotions over that.  But they couldn't even be bothered to draw an association between him and the community theatre to make that make sense. Is Icicle omnipotent, that he can so effortlessly manipulate the environment from a distance?  He can light blow, from wherever the fuck he was, and make the road/bridge ice over in just the right spot? Why would Joey just leap into traffic like that, just to retrieve of his stupid fucking playing cards?  Spend a buck and buy another pack?  A lot of card tricks tend to bend up or even tear their cards, so I'm sure you're regularly buying new decks anyway. Even if the road wasn't suddenly icy, he jumped into oncoming traffic, without a care of any cars heading his way.  It's not like the ice made the car speed up; it just made it harder for the car to stop when some asshole jumps out in front of him. And why should we care that his father is also murdered?  It was obvious from the start that he was probably also a former member of the Injustice Society; and given how hard they leaned into the magic stuff in his introductory scene, it was equally obvious that he possessed real magic.  Yet apart from whipping out his wand, so to speak, we don't actually see him display any real magic.  Nor do they really tell us anything worth knowing about him throughout the rest of the episode; other than he was apparently some elected official.   Was Courtney's mom filling his vacancy?  Was the why Icicle killed him?  Because that just seems round about. And, shock, gasp, the boy Courtney was talking to earlier turns out to be the son of Icicle!  Who could possibly see that coming...other than people watching it with the sound on (and probably a few without sound)?

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The Flash – S6 E19 – Success is Assured

If there’s any doubt why I’m finally getting caught up on The Flash, make no mistake, it’s because my internet was out for most of the day…. Oh, hey, shine that random treasure map on this equally random map of the city; don’t worry about how you’re supposed to orient it or reference points for it to coincide with or anything like that. Holy shit, the center of the treasure map lines up perfectly… with the center of the map. Can’t be a coincidence. It’s science.

So the writers for The Flash have reached the point of exhausting all ideas for big bads to go up against; that the best they have to offer is entitled, rich douchebag? Maybe season 7 is a good time to wrap things up…. Uh, Nash has demonstrated that he apparently has the ability to teleport; why are they talking about using the sewers to get to the douchebag’s magical fortress? What the hell kind of panic room, or force field for that matter, doesn’t have it’s own independent or internal power source; to protect against an attacker from cutting the power from the outside?? And naturally, when you have a back-up, you’re going to put it in the fucking sub-basement. Dipshit. “This panic room is comprised of thick concrete and has no mirrors in it.” Does it have any type of reflective surface? “Well, sure, but that’s only so I can admire my reflection while I touch myself…” What’s the point in framing Sue for the douchebag’s murder? For one thing, apart from Sue’s plan to murder him, which since she didn’t actually even attempt and unless Eva somehow recorded Sue’s conversation with Ralph, there’d be no evidence pointing to Sue, seemingly no motivation for Sue to want him dead; or any indication that the socialite Sue the world knows would even have the means to carry it out, let alone be linked to a crime syndicate. What’s more, why even point the finger at a real person? Saying it was a “crime syndicate” is ambiguous and plausible enough to believe, without giving anyone any solid leads to actually narrow down a real suspect or follow the trail back to Eva. If anything, framing Sue suggests Eva knows all about Sue and what she’s capable, that she did have the means and motive to murder what’s his name; and now she’s taking the woman who wanted the same thing Eva wanted and turning her into an enemy, after pissing off Team Flash. It’s not just arrogance that she’s untouchable, it’s unnecessarily stupid. She didn’t need a fall guy. For that matter, why even paint her husband out to be the hero who rescued her? Authorities were already looking into him and building a case against him; why protect his image, instead of telling the world who he really was and what he did and say the people under him turned on him or something? What was even the point of sending Joe into witness protection, if he was literally only going to be absent for a single episode? I had to rewind it to see if, when Joe walks in, they greet him with, “Yo Joe!” in an homage to GI Joe. It turns out they said, “Oh!” “Joe” – which seems like a missed opportunity.

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The Flash - S6 E18 – Pay the Piper

Huh, I figured when they shipped Joe off to witness protection, it was a way of explaining the actor being gone for a prolonged period, but they’ve barely gone an episode before putting him in an episode again.

What difference would it make to assume the worst about Iris and the others being dead, in the absence of any proof?  Sure, Eva saying they’re still alive doesn’t mean it’s true or need to be true as an insurance policy, but for starters, as insurance policies go, not killing her hostages is arguably the safest way to ensure she can hold that over them; because if they were dead and Team Flash found out, she’d lose all of her leverage. But even that aside, while it’s a possibility they should at least acknowledge, it’s one they can’t do anything about if it’s true; if they’re all dead, there’s nothing any of them could do about it, aside from stopping Eva, which they intend to do either way.  And if there’s a chance any of them are alive, then they can’t afford to endanger by assuming the worst.  

So is “Nash” of no use in helping Cisco work out the dimensional aspects of the mirror-verse, that he’s accompanying Ralph rather than helping Cisco; and Cisco grousing about having to work on it alone?  Is this Wells not a science genius like most of the others?  They haven’t exactly been clear on that.  He seems to be fairly smart, but if he’s not good enough to help Cisco, what exactly does he do?  How does he contribute to Team Flash and why is he even still around?

“And by the way, do you not have protective protocols for this place?” I think the last six years has proven the answer to that question is, no.

So…. “Vibe”…does not have a deep understanding of….vibrational science…Yeah, alright…

Wait, are they saying that in the Post-Crisis timeline Barry inadvertently killed someone (Hartley’s “right-hand man”?)

Oh… he almost killed someone, leaving him essentially on life support…

Ah, I see what you did there; Pied Piper, mirror Star Labs says “rats….

So Iris has been in the mirror dimension for weeks, but never bothered to check out mirror-Star Labs?

Iris has known Kamilla for months, better part of a year at least; she works for Iris at her newspaper and had become pretty involved with Team Flash – but the extent of Iris’ knowledge about her to prove she’s the real Iris…is all about Kamilla and Cisco’s relationship….? (sigh)

Okay, a) why is the Flash suit on display while Hartley’s there, if they’re going to act surprised that they have any connection to the Flash when he calls them out.  And b) Why do they have the season 1 version of the suit hung up?  This is the second time this season they’ve shown the suit hung up at Star Labs, only to show the oldest version of the suit.

And we just ignoring the episode from season 2 where Barry went back and accidentally made Hartley an alley to Team Flash?  I know they never brought it up again after that episode, and that was at least two timelines ago, but it still seems weird to pretend it never happened.

Gee, I’m sure the whole thing about Cisco saying the person Hartley loves the most being himself won’t come back around in any meaningful way.  It certainly won’t relate to his “right-hand man’….

Jesus Christ, Barry is dumb. How did it take him half the episode to understand why what’s his name is so important to Hartley?  They’re clearly brothers…. 😏

Let me guess, this mystery substance from Atlantis is going to be called something like impossibarium or unobtainium or Aquaman semen.

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The Flash - S6 E17 – Liberation

Oh, wow; so the machine they built to create their own cosmic speed force, which is smaller than the particle accelerator, didn’t work on the first try?  Well, I guess it’s never going to work then…

God, these characters are stupid.  The only person who’s stupid behavior is justified is fake-Iris, who is doing this shit because she’s been ordered to, yet the response from everyone else isn’t to even question it.  I mean, Jesus Christ, she’s blaming Barry for Joe going into witness protection as if Barry made the choice for him; or locked him in a bunker somewhere and won’t let him out.  Why the fuck is Cecile humoring this shit?  Why isn’t she pointing out to “Iris” that she’s not the only person faced with the repercussions of Joe’s decision to go into protection – which nothing to do with Barry – and that Jenna also has to be without her father right now, and she’s a fucking baby, not a grown ass adult; and she didn’t get to say goodbye to him either. And oh yeah, Cecile is without her partner, taking care of their daughter alone.

Plus the fact that Cecile got to say goodbye to Joe and knows how much he wanted to be able to say goodbye to Iris, but they couldn’t fucking find her before it was too late.

Well, thank fucking God, for once they let Barry not be a fucking moron; and figure out the truth about Iris…

Wait, if Barry is actually smart enough to figure that out…. Should we suspect that he’s been replaced too? I mean, Barry usually too fucking stupid to figure anything out on his own; least of all without some sort of father figure giving him a pep talk and all but spelling it out for him…

 When was the last time Cecile came home that Barry had time to set all this shit out; especially since he couldn’t have used his speed to do it?

Oooooooh, so they went the other way by making Barry go down such a deep rabbit hole of stupid, he came out the other side and stumbled over the truth.  That makes much more sense.  Classic.  I believe that’s known as the “Days of Our Lives problem solving method.”

That’s a mighty neat camera filter that can capture dimensional shifts.  Can you get one of those off of Amazon?  I bet they’re expensive.

 Because of course nothing happens when using the special dimension shift filter device…

Fuck all these fucking morons.

It’s super convenient that Cecile’s psychic/empathic powers don’t seem to work when they need it to the most.

So now Cecile is tunneling her way the long way round, through stupidity, to reach the right conclusion in the face evidence presented to her to the contrary.  I mean, I’m sure there’s a bunch of other reasons she should doubt that Barry isn’t the impostor “Iris” made him out to be, but the it’s the fact that none of those are the reason she’s convinced Barry is Barry. It’s simply because she feels it in her heart.

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The Flash - S6 E16 - So Long and Goodnight

So let's see here, I watched the first 5 1/2 season of Buffy, 2 1/2 seasons of Angel, caught up on the most recent season of Lucifer, roughly the first 5 seasons of Community and re-watched all seasons of Charmed; read the last two Harry Potter novels, started reading Oliver Twist, got about 3/4 through the outline for the second draft of a play I've been writing; built a website, started working on another website...and now, here we are...So bored, it's time catch-up on The Flash.... (Sigh)

Little known fact, most hired assassins won't kill someone unless you explicitly tell to; or say, "please." "It's like someone cut the brakes while I was driving..." - no, it was more like someone hacked your car, seeing as how you were accelerating, not just not slowing down. Which is possible, assuming Joe owns a type of car with an automated steering system.  But could he not just put the car in neutral?  I asked that as a legitimate question, because I don't know if self-driving cars work that way, in contrast to other cars.  And of course most people in movies or TV when faced with non working brakes don't bother trying those kinds of measure.  It may not do your car's transmission any favors, but it's arguably better than careening through traffic uncontrollably; and anecdotally better than throwing it into park, if memory serves.  I don't remember where I heard that, but I want to say that could actually be dangerous, even in contrast to cruising along without brakes. Sue getting away from Cisco and Ralph is pretty much all the reasons why people just kind of wander in and out of Star Labs at their leisure. Holly shit, Barry's doing a forensic analysis of a crime?  He should really leave that up to the people who do that sort of thing for a living. What's that?  Really?  Since when?  Arrow season 2?   Huh.... Yeah, an EMP pulse wouldn't instruct Joe's phone to delete the voice recording; if anything it would have shorted out the phone and it would have gone dead completely. And while maybe not a high likelihood, there'd probably be at least a small chance, given that it didn't actually fry the phone, that whatever Joe recorded up to that point would be stored as a temporary file somewhere in the recesses of the device that police techs could potentially retrieve it. Fuck, Joe shouldn't have even dicked around with recording it that way, he could Facebook live'd it or something and had not only the same effect, but the recording wouldn't have been erased. Wait, so the guy flashy-thingies Joe's voice recording of his initial..."confession" slip up, but again, the device is still working; and in fact, the app to record was still up and running - and the guy goes on to say that no matter what Joe thinks he's done, he's actually done far worse??  What idiot destroys evidence of one crime, then confesses to more? This guy would yell at a meter maid not to give him a parking ticket, because it took him longer to bury the hooker he murdered than he thought it would. Well, the Sue story is, not surprisingly, playing out anti-climactically.  What was the point of having Ralph catch-up with her and do the heist hijinx, only to have Sue seemingly betray Ralph; if she was going to turn around 10 minutes into her next episode and have everything settled again with Ralph?  It's a complete waste of time. What's that?  Right, right, that's all the writers know how to do... I'm sorry, but Nash chiming in a pledge to also protect Cecile, in a conversation he wasn't apart of, made me laugh.  He's just casually eaves dropping and decides he's going to help, despite not having any powers or seemingly the 2nd or 3rd least resourceful of all the various Wellses... Maybe it's because I've been watching way more Community than is healthy to watch in short amount of time, but I'm starting to think Wells might be the Dean Pelton of Team Flash.  Every seasons it's a new costume and wacky character, he's often not actually all that helpful in the grand scheme of things; and his dynamic with Barry in season 1 was a lot like the Dean's and Jeffrey Winger.... Okay, Rag Doll is the worst assassin.  Why tell Joe, let alone Cecile about the pressure bomb?  And why bother making it a pressure bomb if you're also putting a timer on it?  Or give them five minutes?  Why not only one minute? What the fuck, Rag Doll used a bomb you can google?  Seriously? (Sigh) Yeah, fine, whatever... Why wouldn't Cecile and Jenna go with Joe into protection?  Do Joe and his loved ones stop being targets just because Joe's not actively around to lead the investigation?   This setup should have been about him going into witness protection under the pretense of him dying.  They could have set it up at the start of the episode attending a funeral, not even showing right away whose.  Pretty much the entire rest of the episode could have played out the same as a flashback or "12 hours earlier" type narrative; and there would have been moments just based on how this episode went where you wonder, maybe Cecile died.  Maybe Nash or Allegra died (less probable).  Then you get to the part of Barry trying to race back to rescue Joe and inter-cut it with scenes from the funeral and it becomes clear that it's Joe's funeral. And then boom, Barry arrives, the chair is empty; and Joe says he's willing to go into protection.  Jump forward to the end of the funeral and the team talks about bringing down blackhole so Joe can come back to them. I'm not the least bit shocked that Singh is playing a double agent or whatever.  I had actually expected to find out he was playing both sides in the previous episode.  There was just something about the way he talked to Joe always seemed like he had an ulterior motive. I assume though, if he's talking to Eva, that this is probably another mirror doppelganger.  Mirrorganger?  Doppelmirror?  Reflecticon? What, has this guy spent the last 6 or 7 years avoiding mirrors? Are hundreds of tiny mirrors better than one large mirror?  Because it really doesn't seem like that would be better when there are now hundreds of crazy ex-wives looking back at you, instead of one....

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The Flash - Season 6 Episode 15 - The Exorcism of Nash Wells

"Speed Gauge"?  Not Speedometer?  Or maybe Barry-ometer (barometer)? Yeah, Cisco, I've got nothing either. So this thing is basically a speed force mood ring?  You know, it's lucky for Barry that gauging speed force isn't like checking your temperature; you know where they say the best to check that is....

Ok, I'll admit the idea of the different iteration of Wells merging into Nash; particular the ones who had a history on Earth-1 now New Earth, makes some sense.  maybe not so much with Thawne, since he wasn't really a Harrison Wells, but maybe whatever his means of taking on that identity went a little deeper than just looking like Harrison Well and somehow, improbably, still counts. Here's hoping that if the Green Arrow and the Canaries show does get picked up, that they explore a similar story for Laurel, who should definitely experience the same thing. Holly shit, I didn't expect Barry to make an actual, logical observation about Thawne not being an actual Wells; especially since they just told Nash he opposite.  But I'm going to have to mark you down for making it all the Wells in the fucking multiverse.  Why?   It would be one thing if it were all the Wells who had any major presence on Earth 1, thus affecting their history.  Things like, how does a machine that Sherloque built last year before Crisis still exist post-Crisis, if Sherloque never existed?  But it could exist if Nash was being amalgamated to be the average Wells between the others from the last five seasons. But more importantly, why just Wells and not everyone who had a doppelganger? He wasn't even at the end of time to make him some sort of exception to the reboot of the universe; he had to be given his pre-Crisis memories just like almost everyone else who wasn't a paragon.  If anything, there's no reason he should have even been Nash in the first place after Crisis, but rather the original Harrison Wells that Barry and friends never actually met. And they're fucking morons again.  Well that flash of brainpower didn't last long.  Although just because Barry, Cisco and Caitlin were knocked out, how did Thawne get out of his cell?  I mean, was it supposed to be because of the EMP?  Because that arguably makes it extra stupid that Cisco would just do it without taking precautions, if he knew the cell might open from a EM pulse.  I'm not sure whether the cells opening under those circumstances is a flaw or not.  In spite of the potential hazard of getting stuck in a cell, given some of the threats they've faced, it would be a better precaution to lock in the event of a power failure, with an external, manual release.  But hey, the villain has to get away to do his villain somehow, might as well be because the good guys are idiots.

So not only is Barry an idiot for trusting that it was Nash, rather than than Thawne in the drivers seat, without doing anything to verify it; he superspeeds to catch up to Thawne. I get they were knocked out, but just how much of a head start could have had? Because if it was more than a couple of minutes, that's gotta be super bad for their brains. Why was the speed gauge reading increasing elevation of his power usage when he was standing still? Was he vibrating his hand the whole time? Because it looked a lot more like he only started doing it when they panned out; and if he was, that's pretty irresponsible. That'd be like Barry sitting in a idling car when he knows that gas no longer exists. Plus, does vibrating his hand like that use more speed force energy than running down a hall? How does this Thawne phantom even know about Nora? That iteration of Thawne was from 30 years into the future. So how does this amalgamation pick and choose future versus present day versions of doubles to merge with Nash? Oh, yeah, they have a fucking telepath who can read minds. Why the fuck didn't they bring her in to read Wells/Thawne in the first place?? (Sigh) why wouldn't you put the meta dampening cuffs on Nash to start with, just to be safe? Wait, where the fuck was she drawing sunlight from in the middle of Mercury Labs?? Or is it just light in general? Was the whole thing a sting? Because it kind of looked like she killed the first couple of cops she went after, before taking out Singh... Wasn't Alt-Alegra tethered to Nash? He made a point of noting that she was was at the end of the rope or something, that there wasn't more slack to give her; how does she fall into the abyss?

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Well, I can't believe it; first Arrow, now the Flash is going to come to an end this year too?   What's that?  The show's not ending?  But how can the show continue if the speed force is going to die in this episode? You say it's probably not actually going to die in this episode; and the title is just a ploy to make us watch?  Yeah, alright.

"Why is it every time I visit all hell breaks loose?" Because you're dating a semi-retired, quasi-superhero who's on a team of superheroes, in a city in constant dire need of saving?  Or maybe because the producers like the woman who portrays you and just want an excuse to have you around? Either way, acknowledging that you're developing a tendency to be at Star Labs during moments of crisis, without actually offering an explanation, is not itself an explanation.  You're just making it more obvious that there is no reason for you to be there; something I hadn't really given much thought until you mentioned it.  I just chalked it up to the fact that you're in the know now and, in spite of Cisco's absence, have becomes friends with the rest of team Flash; which makes you a de facto member of the team, if albeit maybe an auxiliary one.  It's basically the Scooby Gang of Buffy; no one asked why Cordelia all of a sudden started hanging around before she started dating Xander, or after they broke up.  She was there because Charisma Carpenter was on contract, dammit.  This would be like Cecile exclaiming, "why am I even in this episode?"  It's a level of self-awareness that isn't necessary; especially if the writers do their job and make-up a fucking reason. I'm much more interested in the fact Caitlin actually gets to be Caitlin in this scene and not Frost. So the Star Labs equipment can tell them when a speedster is running around somewhere in the city, but isn't programmed to tell the difference between Barry or Wally.... Yeah, alright... Random observation - would Eva really still be wearing heels in this mirror dimension after 6 years?  I mean, I supposed all of that could be relative, given some of the other things that are relatively, like needing to eat or change clothes periodically in general.  And while I've never worn heels myself, I understand they can get pretty uncomfortable pretty quickly; so what would be the point in wearing them in a universe you're alone in, or even now where you have just one other companion? Wait, Eva's husband knows she's in the mirror and spend time trying to get her out?  I feel like they glossed over that little tidbit. Wait a fuck second, Eva's drinking water?  How the fuck is she drinking anything?  Does this mean they do get hungry and thirsty in this dimension after all?  Where the fuck is she getting fresh food, much less water?  I've brought up before that it makes no sense for some of the other trappings of this world to even exist; like a marker board or canisters of liquid nitrogen.  Do they somehow have running water in this backwards reality with all the stuff humans made, but no actual humans beside  these two people?   I'm not even going to broach the logistics of the other end of the digestive cycle. So how much of this mental breakdown is an act and how much of it is actually Eva?  Because in the previous episode when Iris walked away, Eva's mentality switched from someone on the razor's edge of sanity, to someone much more composed and intent.  This episode would suggest that things like her nervousness and focusing on the number of days she's been in this dimension are real, given how she's involuntarily manifested all of that in the Iris double. Yeah, Barry, let's just assume there's absolutely nothing wrong with the speed force; and not, I don't know, look into and check.  I'm sure if your speed force guide was dead, they'd have told you. Okay, two things.  First, if this meta-of-the-week can kill whomever this woman was with the wave of her hand; why not just do that in the first place, rather than whatever they apparently did to the helicopter at the start of the show? Second, not that I want to see the transition, I take the show poured the vast majority of its effects budget into some combination of Crisis and the recent Grodd episode; which would explain why all we're going to get is the rendering of a green bubble forming over the victim and then a shot that goes on for too long of the other woman just waving her hand, before cutting to the woman on the ground mummified.  And we're just going to have to fill in the exact effect of that with our imagination. "Other people? From other Earths? Not really, because any doppelgangers who managed to make it here, they would all be dead by no due to neurological degeneration." Shit, they must be dropping like fucking flies in National City.Good thing Other Winn snuffed it when he did.  And let's not forget that it's not just the doubles, but their counterparts who are indigenous to this Earth start to die too; and without some type of intervention that would allow one of them to die first, both would die at the same time.  That's a whole lot of fucking deaths; and a shit ton of stupidity they're carrying over from Batwoman. Wow, I never noticed how cluttered Star Labs is, or how many counters it has until recently.  You'd think they'd design the set better, to give a clearer shot of people; especially Caitlin.  But I guess on the upside, they're making up for it with a lot of close-ups; I assume because she's so beautiful, which she is.   On a completely unrelated note, I look forward to next season's story arc for Supergirl, where the big bad will be a hoarder; who fills National City is 3' tall stacks of old magazines and others odds and ends that Kara will spend most of the season wading through. Jesus Christ, Crisis is the shitty gift that keeps on giving.  So during Crisis they made it seem like Oliver was connected to a source that was somehow related to the Speed Force; or that it was all somehow different names for the same broad reaching thing and that they were as much entering Oliver as the Spectre as they were entering the Speed Force.  And they sure as hell acted like Oliver supercharging Barry was a good thing.  Oliver even says, "I've unlocked your potential, Barry." Which would suggest that Oliver, the man who had the power to reboot the universe and reshape it into a better world where all his loved ones didn't die and crime wouldn't happen in Star City for decades, knew what the fuck he was doing; and that it was a good and safe thing to do.   Now it would seem that Oliver basically gave the speed force syphilis. The speed force avatar speaking to Barry as if it really were his mother is just fucking weird. "We still have a residual amount of speed force left in us...." Wait, wait, I've seen this one. I've seen this one.  They need to stop Rita from burning the green candle, before it kills Tommy; I mean, Barry.  And then the other Rangers will need to use some of the energy from their power coins to infuse him with power.  But eventually he's going to lose his powers entirely, until Zordon makes him the White Ranger. I'll give them this, "Thawne" not realizing he has no powers in Nash's body, while predictable, was still funny. Ah, why do they have a season 1 Flash costume hung up at Star Labs, where his current costume usually hangs?

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The Flash - S6 E13 - Grodd Friended Me

Oh, good, we have Team Flash - The New Class. So in, I think, season 1 of Flash, Hartley was brought on as a bad guy.  Then in season 2 (?) Barry goes back to learn something from Thawne and comes back and something's changed that now he's a good guy.  Now we see him again for the first time in four years and the writers have decided to use Crisis to make him a bad guy again.... Got it....🙄 Wait, they've had the blackhole-guy at Star Labs for like, what, the last 6 months; and he's just now finding out that Barry is the Flash?  Has this really not come up before now?  And all because Barry was too fucking lazy to walk 10 feet at normal speed.

So are we going to find out that Barry's parents are alive post-Crisis? I know Barry's always been a bit...slow, oddly enough, but does he really not get that they don't seem to be responding to him in a way that would suggest they actually understand him? Oh, God, Chester is Curtis, Ray, Cisco and Nate rolled into one, isn't he? Man, they better be hiding a special guest appearance by Sigourney Weaver in this episode...

You know, for all the changes resulting from Crisis (trillions, according to Gideon), how does Barry know that the Post-Crisis Grodd was nearly as bad as he remembers him to be?  I mean, he's apparently still bad enough to have been put into a coma, but for all Barry knows, half of the things Barry recalled Grodd doing might never have actually happened in this new timeline. Speaking of, I let it slide that somehow Nash, a person from a parallel Earth that never existed somehow has something like a photo a version of Allegra who never existed, but how does a device designed or built by Sherloque, who in this timeline could not have ever existed and without the help of J'Ohn Caitlin/Frost would not remember, still exist at Star Labs Post-Crisis? Why would Solovar, real or imagined, give a fuck whether Barry stays or leaves?  And how does one get drawn into a prison such as this?  Should Solovar being just as keen on keeping anyone out? Barry phased through an entire fucking speeding train earlier in this episode; there's virtually no who should be able to stop him from getting from point A to point B.  Never mind that he should be able to run faster than Solvar can even perceive and just sort of walk around him really fast.  Of course this isn't really Barry, at least not a physical manifestation of Barry; and his powers in this form are literally imaginary, as is, presumably, Solvar; so I guess it's a wash... I thought Frost didn't have access to Caitlin's scientific knowledge.  Isn't that the whole reason she's even reverted to Caitlin at all this season? Of course the real reason is that Caitlin wouldn't be likely to randomly wear baby bump basic black; even if they still showed Caitlin in the Grodd minscape earlier.  I have to say, just on the earlier scene alone, I miss Caitlin; and am over emo-Frost. Considering what little Chester did before Barry took the interface away from him, it's apparently not that hard to amp it to 900%. Wait, Star Labs has a janitor?  I'm just going to assume it's some version of Wells that crossed over from another Earth between seasons and he's just been puttering around behind the scenes, because this Wells never went to college or something, but he's still a super genius in some sort of Good Wells Hunting scenario.  We're going to find out he's been there for years and periodically solves or fixes some of the most crucial problems Team Flash has ever had, in between emptying the garbage and waxing the floor too much. Leave it to Barry Fuckin Allen, the dumbest hero alive, to say something as stupid as, "We have to try something new.  We have to run forward, not backward."  What a novel fucking idea. I don't mind the idea of redeeming Grodd. I don't entirely believe it's genuine, but I'm kind of on board with it if it's true.  I just think they could have earned it more; which they could have done without so much ancillary stories, like the bullshit with Nash or the patter with JV Team Flash or the shit with Iris stuck in a mirror or the mirror Iris tricking Joe.   Why has pacing in tv shows become so bad the last few year?  If they're not dragging ass, like fucking Picard, or any Arrowverse season arc; they're trying to cram too many things into one episode and do disservice to all of the plots.  I spent much of Saturday watching reruns of Quantum Leap - you know, for Leap Day - and while not everything is perfect, over all most of the episodes still fucking hold up; and you know why?  Because the writers put an ounce of thought into the episodes and took the necessary time to tell it, without trying to milk it or dilute it with a bunch of other crap. Would anyone tell Chester anything other than, "you're awesome" in the exact moment they need him to perform a miracle?  

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Supergirl - S5 E13 - It's a Super Life

I kind of forgot Mixy was already on Supergirl.  I was ambivalent with the actor choice when he showed up at the end of the last episode, but given the alternative, I'm okay with it. All this hand-wringing about altering history, but they're currently living in a radically altered timeline right now as a result of Crisis.  There are facts about their own lives and histories that they still completely surprised to learn; so would this one thing really be that big of a deal?  I mean, it probably will be, because the writers are fucking morons, but it shouldn't be; especially if, presumably, Mixy offers some type of escape clause should things not pan out to Kara's liking, which she should definitely insist upon. It goes to show how little I actually care or pay attention, even as I review these shows - did Lena fess up to Kara that she remembered Pre-Crisis?  Because if not, why is Kara even worried about it, if she's still operating under the assumption that everything is good between them Post-Crisis?

So when they go into Kara's past is she interacting with Pre-Crisis Lena or Post-Crisis Lena?  Because technically the only past that still exists is the Post-Crisis timeline, which should mean it'd be the Post-Crisis Lena, but since Lex made a deal for the Pre-Crisis version of Lena to exist once Crisis was over, where does the one end and the other begin?  A Post-Crisis Lena's experiences and perspective on the world should, arguably, be different from Pre-Crisis; for starters given the fact that in the Post-Crisis world, Lex was never brought down or considered a criminal or a murderer and Lena never had to rebrand the family company.  She obviously still has mommy-issues, and some other things in common, like ostensibly her relationship with Andrea and the way that played out, but there would be other differences.

"So much exposition." Okay, I like this version of Mixy. I know the actor probably didn't write that line and has nothing to do with it other than the delivery, but still, it was a good line taking the piss out of how much exposition there is in any of these shows. I mean, if they've found the sweat spot where Kara can reveal herself to Lena without Lena going over the dark side, even if there are ramifications like Lena, Mon-El or Sam dying; shouldn't that be kind of a minor point to fine tune?  If you're going to fuck with history, you might as well give it the full shaft and do it right.  That's what Oliver did. Well obviously this happy-go lucky timeline is going to get fucked up somehow.   Why would their public relationship change so radically in this altered timeline?  The only thing that's different is that Lena knows her secret; either way she'd have worked alongside Kara just the same as she did before, maybe siding with Kara a little more often, but this is over the top.  Any ideological differences in opinion that they might have had in the past wouldn't have necessarily evaporated just because Lena knew Kara was Supergirl; and why would they go out of their way to make a public brand about this partnership. Also, isn't that exactly what the Post-Crisis DEO & Luthor-Corp dynamic is supposed to be; Lena and Supergirl (and Lex) working together?  How is this not the reality they live in then? Wait, so Lockwood still ended up working with the same people as he did in the original timeline, but why?  That was all orchestrated by Lex.  So what, Lex still brings on Lockwood, only this time he does to kidnap his sister?  For what purpose?  He's not even in jail in the Post-Crisis timeline; and is there even a Reign, much less a Red-Daughter in this other other timeline? I'll admit, the episode wasn't terrible up to this point, but there's some logical inconsistencies with how they're trying to make the best possible outcome a bad one; it's just too forced. Wait, what?  Why is Winn suspicious of Lex in this alternate-alternate reality?  When Winn came back from the future he had no idea that Lex was supposed to be a bad guy, meaning he had all the Post-Crisis memories until J'Onn mind whammied him.  Or in this Lena-Kara team-up timeline did Kara and Lena uncover Lex's crimes and bring him down after all?  This has become a bigger clusterfuck than Crisis.... Also, Winn's appearance in this episode makes sense being the 100th (I think), but it seems a little undermined by the fact that he was just in the last two episodes and they made a big deal about him leaving in the last one. Seriously, it's not the person knowing someone's secret identity that makes them the target; it's telling the fucking world that they know such a powerful secret.  No one knows Winn knows Kara's identity, so how often was he targeted specifically for his association with Supergirl?  Sure, you might say, "well he's Winn, the average person doesn't know who the fuck he is," but that's part of the point.  He's walking around with one of the biggest secrets and they just don't fucking draw attention to it and no one asks, "hey, do you know Supergirl or what secret identity is?"  If they put a picture of Winn of the front page of the Daily Planet that he's Supergirl's best friend and keeper of her secrets, that alone would make him a very public figure with ties to Supergirl that could be exploited. Surely the world was aware of at least some of the things Lena helped Supergirl with in the original timeline, did anyone assume she knew her secret identity?  For that matter, why do they assume she has one? So in this happy, shinny timeline they said that Lena made Supergirl's new suit - so she happened to make a new suit that was identical to the one Brainy made for her in another timeline?? I honestly had already seen spoiler pictures of Kara revealing her secret identity at a press release.  I kind of wondered if they would be so bold as to actually go that route for real, but kind of figured they'd find a way to walk that back or not play it for keeps; and the second I knew what this episode was going to be about it was clear that this was how they were going to incorporate it without actually owning the outcome moving forward. You gotta love the fact that they're doing this big, "It's a Wonderful Life" style retrospective 100th episode celebration, bringing back past actors, but because they clearly couldn't get Calista Flockhart for the episode, for whatever reason, they just throw up her image and declare her dead. Not only that, but with the likes of Supergirl and Superman (not to mention the Flash, Green Arrow, et al, who now reside on this Earth), how does Agent Liberty manage to go after all of Kara's friends and family and there are no survivors?  Fuck you. Why would Mixy suddenly get pulled into this new-new-new-new timeline? Especially since it was just a preview and he wasn't pulled into any of the others? Seriously?  Kara doesn't befriend Lena, so she goes full on Dark Warrior Duck?   And here again, this is all Pre-Crisis shit; there is no L-Corp Post-Crisis and Lena didn't take over the company, she runs it alongside Lex. And would Nia still become Dreamer in this reality?  Hell, would Brainiac even be here?  There's a lot of shit that wouldn't have happened in the aftermath of Lena going to war with Lex.  How does Lena control Reign and what about the other World Killers?   You know, it wasn't until Jimmy's sister pulled out the Guardian shield that I a) remembered that Jimmy passed the mantle on to her (I think) and b) realized that, apart from footage from past episodes he hasn't made any kind of cameo; which you'd think if they were going to bring some of these others back, they'd have brought him back too.  Especially since he was there when it all started. "Where were you when my brother blew my helicopter out of the sky?" Kind of a legitimate question.  I mean, yeah, this is supposed to be the timeline where Kara and Lena never became friends, but just because they're not friends doesn't mean Kara wouldn't save her if she were able. So if Lena is using 5th dimension energy to power her drones, preventing Mixy from using his powers; and she's only doing this in National City, why don't Kara pick-up Mixy and fly them straight out of town and as far as way as necessary so that his powers work again?  Surely there's limits to where Lena's tap on the 5th dimension would affect his powers, right; even if they have to go halfway around the planet? Kara should be dead, right?  After that many direct blasts with Kryptonite energy?

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The Flash - S6 E12 - A Girl Named Sue

Why would a literal mirror dimensions exist of Central City with all the buildings and marker boards, etc. exist, but not the people? Wait, this woman has been trapped for 6 years?  Without food or water?  How?  I know this isn't the first show to play fast and loose with characters getting stuck in some altered state for a prolonged period where they should at least feel hungry or thirst, if not actually potentially starve; it doesn't mean it makes any less sense.  How does this dimension make one immortal?

You gotta love how the accelerator meltdown has become the be-all catch-all of explanations for whatever latest fuckery they want to explain away, even six years after the fact.  Make the Flash and a bunch of metas?  Sure, why not.  One of sister shows is even going to borrow from this and say that a new character they're introducing was there, so that she can receive powers retroactively too.  And let's not forget that, though not strictly the meltdown, they used the same basic premise of dark matter to give tech special powers too. Now it also apparently turned a mirror into a "gateway".  Was no one else in front of a mirror when this happen? Was it just this one mirror for some reason of was it all mirrors in Central City?  This mirror has apparently remained an open gateway this whole time for Iris to fall in, but no one else in 6 years ever went into this room, let alone near enough to the mirror to get pulled in beside Eva? So I had to jump back, because I apparently missed the part at the beginning where the episode was picking at the moment the last episode ended.  I thought it was going back to when she first arrived and maybe catch us up from her point of view how things actually played out, which kind of made sense; and from that I assumed that Eva was going to turn out to be the one to escape and take her form.  But that's all apparently wrong, she's been replaced by a "fractal duplicate" or something, which, fuck you - there's no other living being this side of the mirror, but just ending up on the other side inexplicably makes another Iris out of thing air; one who speaks Italian and knows how to cook?  How?  Why?  And why didn't it make another Eva? Secondly the last episode spanned a couple of days; so Iris was literally standing there watching the whole fucking thing unfold and it's only now that she runs across Eva?  And why are they even this lab instead of the reflection of Barry and Iris' apartment?  How is she viewing these specific events through this magic mirror?  I mean, I guess it would be just as weird if she was running around Mirror-Central City trying to find the closest reflect to Barry, but this is pretty inscrutable. Ralph has been searching for Sue for 274 days?  I don't care what her parents are paying you, unless it's like, $100 million dollars, this goes beyond the pale of doing your due diligence to your clients.  You're crossing into creepy obsession territory and I'm not entirely sure I want you to find Sue, for fear you might lock her in your basement. The random pictures of her riding horses and graduating, I hope from college, only adds to the creep factor, dude. "It's still in the Starchives, right?"

Why or how does a replica or facsimile of Iris, much less one with her memories and apparently the same personal objectives and obsessions have any kind of ulterior motive; much less one that would be so specific as to want the mirror gun of all things?  Does she know she's a mirror duplicate?  How? So they have liquid nitrogen on this side of the mirror - again, how and or why?  I know they're not going to give me any answers; the writers answers are probably, "fuck you, that's why."  But they're still answers that should be asked; because if there are no people on this side of the mirror, how did the liquid nitrogen or anything else there get there?  And does mirror liquid nitrogen still work the same way as regular liquid nitrogen?  I mean, I don't know why it wouldn't, but all things considered, there's nothing special about this place other than the fact that there are no people, everything's backwards and anyone who does get sucked in probably can't die.  But it doesn't serve any other purposes, so what's the point if chemicals can't have weird, inverted properties to what they would have in the normal world? Holy shit, are they actually including a CCPD sub-story?   Oh, fuck you.  Fucking meta-human Elongated Man can't make a dent in the hire gun, but the regular human half his size can take him down?  Fuck you. Sigh... They have no fucking clue what to do with Cecile.... This is an episode of The Flash, right? Where the fuck did Sue get a Mission Impossible style mask from?? Way to frame Joe from robbing a bank, Ralph... Oh no, Sue betrayed Ralph, I can't believe.....😐 So Ralph can squeeze through the pipes in the sprinkler system, but he can fit between the bars without touching them? How the hell does his mask, much less his costume contort and compress that much? Because sure, when you're a meta who can shoot waves of heat or whatever from your hands, you definitely let someone goad you into a hand to hand fight that doesn't involve your powers. Oh, hey, the Flash, I thought he was a myth.

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Supergirl - S5 E12 - Back From the Future Part Two

So based on the opening scene, I'm guessing there was a discussion that went something like this: Director:  We've shot and edited the episode you wrote and it's only 20 minutes long. Writer: What?  How is that possible?  It filled like at least 30 pages, one-sided. Director: How big was the font? Writer: I don't know, like 20-25 pt?  What does that have to do with anything...? Director: Look, we need them to do more in the episode to pad the run time, what have you got? Writer:  Oh, what if at the start of the episode they sing karaoke?

Director:  Alright, so what are the characters talking about as they take turns singing? Writer: What?  No, I mean that is literally the scene; just them singing karaoke.  Like have Kara and that William guy sing a Toto song - "Africa" or something. Director: Right, but I mean that's only going to be good for a couple of minutes of material.... Writer: Nah, that song goes on for a while. Director: You mean we should.... Writer: Have them sing the whole fucking song? Yeah.  Maybe twice. Director: Oh, say, before Winn leaves, maybe we should mention what his Legionnaire nickname is.  Got any suggestions? Writer: Not off the top of my head.  They like calling their heroes "something" Lass or Lad, right? Director: Something like that; they're often very literal names. Writer: Right.  So how about Computer Lad? Director: Is that the best you can come up with? Writer: Possibly.  I'm super high right now. Director: Yeah, no, I could tell based on how red your eyes are and the words you've been saying. Writer: Yeah, you look like a talking lizard right now. Director: I assure you I'm not. But back to Winn's codename, will people even still be considering the informational devices they use "computers" a thousand years from now? Writer: Maybe, what do they call them now? Director: Phones. Writer: Right.  I have one of those.  In fact, I wrote the script on my phone. Director: Well, let's use "Computer Lad" as a placeholder for now and I'm sure we'll come up with something better to use by the time we film it. Writer: Yeah, I'm sure we will.   That's a pretty shitty laser defense system if literally everyone it targets manages to deflect the laser. Wait, so the DEO has some sort of WMD as their power core that detonate in the event their servers go down?  Even if they're referring to the physical placement of the servers and the effects of destroying them causing the "core" to go critical; it seems like a pretty serious design flaw that everything in a 3 mile radius gets destroyed if something bad goes down at the DEO.  Especially considering how often something bad has gone down at the DEO; you know, the place they house super-dangerous criminals with powers? You know a great place to build a facility that could destroy everything in a 3-mile radius if it's ever compromised?  4 miles away from anything and anyone you don't want destroyed in the event its ever compromised. What is it with these shows and landlines?  First Mary wacks Alice over the head with one in the Batwoman episode that immediately preceded this episode; which then turned out to be an active phone for Alice to use.  Now there's one in the DEO, apparently placed there by Lex... you know, the tech genius.... Why do they keep referring to the internet as the world wide web?  Does anyone under 70 still call it that? You know, this whole thing of Lex being in charge of the DEO would make a lot more sense if they simply had him be President in the rebooted timeline.  The idea of the DEO being somehow privately owned by Lex makes no fucking sense. Why would the downloaded consciousness of a super tech smart psychopath restrict his AI to just one server instead of copying his code and running himself across all servers he can access at the DEO and make it that much more difficult for the DEO agents to isolate him and stop him?  I mean, that's the inherent danger of him getting access to the internet, right?  He gains access to the outside network and he's everywhere, not just one server. Plus, how much storage would an AI of someone's consciousness, even a facsimile of a human consciousness, take up that it fits on a laptop hard drive, much less a single server? Wait, Winn is the only one who knows the code?  Why isn't that the first thing he says or for that matter, why was anyone else planning on going? And Winn also has tech that lets him crawl around inside technology that he's conveniently neglected to mention until it was absolutely necessary to use; and not, I don't know, a few hours earlier when trying to figure out how to stop this cyber-threat. How does Alex not know the DEO has Lexosuits?  When everyone was given their pre-Crisis memories, did they lose their Post-Crisis memories?

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Batwoman - S1 E12 - Take Your Choice

So right off the bat, we have a scientist commenting on the idea of someone patch-working human skin to make it look like another person's face as being like "a work of science fiction" - in a world where extra-terrestrial immigrants live on Earth, two of whom can fly and shoot laser out of their eyes; and a man can run fast enough to break the sound barrier.  Plus meta-humans.  Never mind some of the freaky shit that people in Gotham must be accustomed to if this is in anyway a post-Batman world.  I mean, Clayface, Man-Bat, Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze.  Come on.

Okay, here we go with the cluster fuck of the Crisis fallout.  At the end of Crisis the entire fucking universe was rebooted from the beginning of fucking time as one universe.  At least for all intents and purposes - they suggested that other universes do still exist, but ostensibly that was just an out to keep the other DC properties canonically separately; and as far as anyone else is concerned, there are absolutely, positively no other universe than this one and there never has been.  Ipso facto, the laws of this single universe theory means that the laws that now govern this singular universe are in some ways inherently different from when the multiverse existed; and therefore any science born from the study of those universal laws would also be different.  Whatever method of proving the existence of the multiverse pre-Crisis would consequently be flawed or potentially prove the exact opposite now post-Crisis. Now I suppose the conceit here could be that Beth-2.0 is technically, somehow a pre-Crisis being; and thus her knowledge of physics would be based on the how things could work pre-Crisis.  But even still, that knowledge presumably goes out the window if the laws of physics themselves are now different from the precepts she knew.  A prime example would be how on The Flash they can't use portals anymore; or at least their function works differently on account of how things have changed.  So any speculation Beth might make is going to be based on essentially outdated scientific principals. Never mind the fact that Supergirl has introduced a whole slew of alternate-refugees; and while I'm behind on those episodes, they haven't hinted at this being a problem for any of them so far. Uh, Mary, Beth isn't an extraterrestrial; so therefore her cell decay is just....terrestrial...?  If only Kate knew someone, or perhaps a team of people, with experience and insight into the multiverse and doubles; maybe someone with a lab who could help them figure this out in a flash or something.... Oh, okay, so Lucas is going to acknowledge knowing the Flash, but definitely not going to ask for his help.  It's not like he could sneak Beth out of the city in a blur, much less lend any help on the scientific or technological side of things....oh, wait.... Damn, the Crows really suck at their job. "Beth needs you, we're running out of time!" "Right!  What do you need me to do, instead of running after her psychotic doppelganger?" "I don't know, just sort of touch her arm comfortingly?  We really don't have a clue what will help right now." "But you're saying keeping Alice here will definitely not help, right?  That's why you stopped me from going after her?  Like they're proximity will make it worse?" "No." "So why did you stop me from going after her?" "Because....fuck you, that's why." Wait, didn't they Jacob getting pretty seriously stabbed in the last scene?  Like, there was major blood spatter across the screen as they cut away.  That was Jacob getting stabbed and not doing the stabbing, right?  The scene was so dark, like physically dark, it was hard to tell who was who in that scene.   How is he still alive, much less conscious and throwing shade at his attacker after not only being stabbed, but having his dunked under water then bashed into a mirror? Okay, the Crows are creeps and they suck at their jobs; that's a given.  And their standing as private security essentially act as unchecked police/militia in Gotham is pretty fucking dubious, but have we seen any indication of the level of corruption whats-his-name is talking about? Mary, I'm pretty sure you're not going to find anything on the effects of cosmic crises on doppelgangers or what to do when the multiverse reboots itself into a single, streamlined universe in a book.  I mean, what book are you even looking in?  Unless it's the script for this episode, it's probably not going to help.   Let me guess, because Mary drank some antidote for some random poison, that's somehow going to make her the cure all for what ails anyone else?  Unless that rose juice or whatever came from the fucking Lazarus Pit, I'm pretty sure that's not going to help. Plus, if Alice got her hands on this magic potion, why not go straight to the source instead of whatever other method she has in mind for Mary?  I assume she needs to drink her blood or eat her toenails or some stupid shit to benefit from the byproduct of Mary drinking this antidote, but surely whatever trace remnants are still her system aren't going to be as potent as the concoction itself.  They're not seriously going to suggest that Alice would go to the trouble procure only exactly enough antidote for a single person she planned to poison and not any extra to keep in case she wanted to pull the same stunt again or needed it on account of accidental exposure; or maybe just for the simple sake that it apparently has super-healing properties that can cure God only knows what? Of course the one plastic surgeon who hears Jacob out is Mouse's father... in a mask.... and hasn't aged in 15 years.....and passes himself off as someone with a much less raspier voice than he naturally has.....🙄 What are the odds Alice and Mary are even the same blood type?  There's gotta be, what, at least a 50/50 chance that injecting herself with Mary's blood would do more harm than good, even if somehow a drug she'd taken weeks ago was still inexplicably in her blood. Okay, that Mary was able to find a massive landline phone in 2020 to hit Alice over the head may be the least believable thing in the entire Arrowverse... Oh, and it's a working landline phone.  In the secret underground hospital Mary's been running.  Right. I kind of feel like I'll be disappointed if they kill Beth and keep Alice.   If they kill Alice now, it won't change what she's done to the city or the people in Kate's life; and while Beth being a good person doesn't lend itself to conflict, she's still have to live under the shadow of what some alternate version of herself was capable.  Meanwhile, if they kill Beth and keep Alice, this whole arc is nothing but a tease for the best and truthfully only real option to redeem Kate's sister at this point; and Alice can't be the big bad of the series indefinitely.  So if she has to leave eventually, do it now before they're just beating a dead horse. (Random aside) - Holy shit, I was just looking up the actress that plays Beth/Alice, Rachel Skarsten; and how did I not know she played Dinah on Birds of Prey before now? God that show was awful and I don't remember her being all that good in it, but then it's been a while I don't remember much about the show, other than how bad it was.   There is something about her performance on Batwoman that I like and not just because she's hot. Oh, good, fucking good.  For a second I thought they were actually going to guilt trip Kate into save Alice.  This is actually halfway decent.  The device of saving Beth is dumb and contrived, but choosing Beth and going to Alice and say good-bye and be with her as she fades is actually pretty good. Oh, fuck you.  Fuck this show.

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Legends of Tomorrow - S5 E1 - Meet the Legends

(Sigh)... Yeah, I'm so bored, I'm going to watch Legends.......(sigh) Wait, the Legends saved the world and warmed up everyone to demons and metas and whatever; so why was the Time Bureau shut down?  And why the fuck would the Wave Rider be at risk of being impounded?  What, did Sara take out a mortgage on their time machine or some bullshit?   Why the fuck does congress from the 21st century have any authority over a time machine from the future patrolling time? Also, if they want oversight, why the fuck would you shut down the Time Bureau??? Why have they managed to annoy me this much less than a minute into the first fucking episode of the season?

Wait, Nate was raised from the dead....?  I guess that's something that sounds vaguely familiar; I'm completely out of fucks for this show to keep track of that shit.... Augh, because they had to make Super-Bro Nate more obnoxious for some reason... Cool, so Charlie's going to get the universe's first TTUI?  This is where we find out that she crashes the jumpship, which causes the extinction of the dinosaurs, right? Is Mickey being the author of these romance novels a secret at this point?  He's gone to book signings.  He was at one during fucking Crisis! (Sigh) Fucking Gary..... So they're just going to gloss over there being two Supermen?  I mean, I kind of get not going into so much detail as to bring up the fact that one of them looked like Ray, which only leads to more questions, but still... It took me a minute, but I take it the guy yelling, "I'm still outside, I'm still outside, don't leave me!" was the camera man shooting the exterior of the ship?  Yeah, I guess that was reasonably funny. Jeez Gideon, this is why you never log onto the internet with protection; you know where that networks been.  Are you at least using a firewall? But seriously, where the fuck does a sentient AI from the future pick up a computer virus that actually manages to cripple its systems?  Is this a byproduct of Zari's timeline changing? Remember back in the day when doing a time jump everyone aboard had to get buckled in; and upon arrival almost everyone felt queasy or disoriented?  No?  Yeah, neither do the writers. I get that we wouldn't get to see what Constantine and Gary were doing otherwise, on account of the documentary conceit, but seriously, why the fuck would the camera crew be following these guys who are not presently involved with whatever the Wave Rider crew are doing? Also, so does being a Fairy God Mother mean you can negate free will?  Because how did Gary wish for something that required Constantine's consent and Nora just grant it without John having a say?  Good thing Gary didn't wish to have sex with John, so far as we know... (Sigh) Fucking Ava..... This just further supports my theory that Gideon is actually a super villain who's been getting in the heads of all the heroes and personnel who come aboard the Wave Rider and makes them stupid, in order to carry out some grand scheme.  Who the fuck would be the oblivious as to write a condolence card like that? (Sigh).... Fucking Atom-cam..... seriously? And yeah, at least this instance Ava has it right; if you're a time traveling superhero and some creep in the past who supposed to be dead is suddenly not dead, you don't dick around, you put him in the ground.  Is it too much to hope for the other morons to get caught in the crossfire?  Nothing fatal, per se, but just like, "oh no, Nate accidentally caught a bullet in the leg and he forgot to list all the medicines he's allergic to, so the sedative they gave him at the hospital caused a bad reaction and he's lapsed into a coma for the next 50 years...." The real question that Ava should be asking is, will a bullet even do the trick if Rasputin managed to come back from everything else; especially if his return was supernatural? Seriously, how is Nate and the camera crew not dead?  Also, why the fuck aren't the camera crew disguised and concealing their method of recording? This shit is why I didn't want to watch this fucking episode.  I didn't know exactly what was coming, but I'm not surprised... How the fuck is Nate in Ava's shot, when he's easily 4'-5' away from Rasputin and she's even further back and like 15' up above them?  I have a hard time believing she doesn't have a clear line of sight. Come on Ava, would it really be so bad to fire, even if Ray and Nate were in between you and the target?  History is on the line after all..... Wait, what did happen to Ray?  How did she fire while he was still in the barrel only for his to still be in the barrel....? God damn this series... Ray: "Nate, I'm coming for you buddy!"

How can a fucking sentient time machine AI not be able to process two conflicting timelines?  Wouldn't that be, I don't know, a design flaw?  Particularly considering that it was designed to travel through time and correct these sort of problems and has been used by the fucking "legends" for years?  They've broken time so much worse than this before.  In season 1 they started getting erased from history. Are we sure the writers haven't gotten into whats-his-name's stash? They left the director behind.... 🤦‍♂️ It's convenient that Not-Zari, while being mind controlled by Rasputin, doesn't have the level of self-awareness to use his powers against Sara; she'd probably be pretty fucked against a guy who can control the air. Wait, they went to the trouble of having Mick shove a camera out of the way and the lens of the camera; then cut to a camera that isn't shattered - how many cameras are on the scene exactly?  Seems like they left more than just the director behind. I mean, why not just use that infinite shrinking thing they used on the Anti-Monitor on Rasputin?  Even if he can't die, he's got to be less powerful than the fucking Anti-Monitor.  You probably don't even need him to be perpetually shrinking, just shrink him to a size where he can't effect anything anymore; he'd be essentially dead at that point. Or, you know, blow him up from the inside out.... God, Sara and Ava are fucking boring. You know, I know they had Jim Carey's character in The Truman Show do the whole thing of reconstructing the face of a woman using cut-outs from a magazine, but when Nate does it it's creepy as fuck. Although to be honest, in hindsight, it was kind of weird and creepy when Truman did it too.... How exactly does this documentary or screening it to an audience who gives them a standing ovation address any of the very legitimate concerns congress had about the time ship Lolipop and its crew? I mean....how does an audience that large go into a screening of a movie, a purported documentary about fucking time travel and sit through it with such absolute certainty that it's all real that they all lose their collective shit like this when the so-called stars tell them it's not?   Don't get me wrong, the premise of them taking the piss out of some of the things, like Rasputin speaking English, was kind of funny; up to Mona talking about the effects looking bad, because then it just seemed obvious they were trying to pick it apart and discredit it.  The whole thing would have made a lot more sense had they played it straight, like they were really just actors in this sci-fi time travel mockumentary; and they wouldn't just start ripping on it during a Q&A panel. How does this affect Hayeworld though and the positive impact it had on demon/human relationship and whatever other bullshit they said it did?  If they're not walking back the idea that this lot travels through time, doesn't also undermine all the other wild things they claimed as fact recently? Oh, and now Ava says that Hayworld was fake - so fuck that change to history, apparently, right?  All that good will, etc., down the drain? Yet again, how does a team aboard a self-suficient, advanced time machine that has the resources the provide anything the crew needs or wants, have money problems??