Also, in the superhero game you always need at least two bases so you can have cliffhangers where the bad guys break into your main base to steal your secrets/set up a death trap/wreck up the place. Both Team Arrow and Team Flash could benefit from this, considering that bad guys tend to wander around at will in their…

It was also nice of J’onn to make sure his attic superhero club had a balcony of sadness like every other major location on this show. I’m sure it’ll get plenty of use in the future.

Except Lex. She’s never surprised when Lex is bad, only when he hasn’t decided to be as bad as he can be juuuust yet.

The thing about the show that I have found kind of unsatisfying in the nu-Who era is the way that they reference various Rules as to what’s possible and what isn’t (“fixed points in time,” “nobody can cross the dimensional barrier,” “once the Cybermen take you, you’re gone,” etc.) and then after they’ve created a big d…

I really hope they aren’t just coasting on Fraud-Harrison-Wells’s idea of giving tours of the place (foreshadowing its eventual fate as the Flash Museum) and expecting that to work forever.

I feel like they only have enough plot juice for either Ray or Nate, and when one of them gets a meaty plotline the other necessarily recedes. I thought the best use of Nate was him being off the ship and working in the Time Bureau rather than being underfoot all the time, and I really liked Ray’s redemption/wooing of…

Her condolence card was so perfectly Ava: a little self-centered and a lot insecure but with a blunt honesty that is completely winning. And in the end, all she really needed to do was wear that gorgeous Princess Anastasia dress and throw some punches, both of which are well within her wheelhouse.

Me three. Legends has always had kind of a strange ensemble, with characters butting into each other’s roles and not really fitting together cleanly the way they would on less chaotic (in the best way) shows, but Mona had some good episodes. the Jane Austen one in particular, and her earnest fan-love for Rory’s…

Same! It looked like Mia and Dinah exchanged hairstyles, actually — Dinah went to a more kinky/curly default hairstyle and Mia adopted the softer glamour-style waves that Ms. Drake was rocking in previous seasons. But at least Dinah tied hers up a bit when the fighting started, and didn’t let it just hang in her face.

Oddly enough, this episode reminded me most of “Epilogue,” the final episode of the (legendary) Justice League Unlimited cartoon from the DCAU. With one episode left, they decided to spend it building a bridge from the show they were in to a show they’d done earlier (Batman Beyond, also set in the future) and have…

I kinda thought part of the reason for giving her the chance to grieve for Mayor Captain Detective Lance (in the episode right before Crisis) was to make her more at peace with herself, but I guess all it did was help her accept a role fighting for justice rather than looking out for #1 all the time, not make her less…

On the other hand, an Arrow without Oliver doesn’t have to be so gloomy and self-serious that it becomes almost comical. A central character that doesn’t blame themselves for absolutely everything bad that’s ever happened to anybody they’ve ever met might be refreshing.

(During the very first crossover episodes with The…

Spy-fi in general, really, as Chuck Bartowski can attest. On that show (which I just rewatched over Christmas break and found just as charming as it was a decade ago) any random schmo can out-fight multiple trained martial artists, if they have the right information downloaded into their brain.

Gattaca was critically acclaimed, but did flop at the box office — and I agree: both Jude Law and Uma Thurman have no trouble at all convincing you of their genetic superiority.

I know Sky Captain bombed, but damn it, I liked it. I saw it in the theater, twice!  Cast anybody other than Gwyneth Paltrow as the female lead and you’ve got a great retro-future cult classic on your hands.

I liked it too, and was only impatient with the criticism (coming from recapper Vikram Murthi) that it should have been a show it was clearly not intending to be. I still chuckle to myself remembering the scene where Iqbal Theba’s religious zealot general notices Jack Black “in disguise” dressed as a 60-year-old…

“Birdhouse” is almost certainly their most crowd-pleasing, everybody-sing-along song, but my personal favorite will probably always be “Dead,” also from Flood. It has a real Steely Dan/Mountain Goats quality, in that you’re listening to this spare, somewhat jaunty melody while the singer is matter-of-factly giving you…

I’m a bit more lukewarm on the show, myself; I’ve never had a problem with Ruby Rose in the central role (she comes off a little detached, withholding. and isolated from people, but for me that feels right for the character) but other than Mary and occasionally Luke, the rest of the cast has been stiff and…

Next time I’ll be sure to look up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right and press BA before I start.

This looks really good, thanks for the heads-up!

(One small request: you got N.K. Jemisin’s name right on the first mention but spelled it with two Es thereafter.)