I kind have to forgive the jumbled mess this episode turned out to be. It wasn’t a premiere, it was a finale, but it had to act as a premiere, finish up a story from last year (with footage that was clearly filmed during the last season) and somehow set up the new one as well. This is clearly not the episode the…

“(Why the new Artificial Speed Force would still have the same persona as the original, now-dead one is not really something we’re supposed to think too deeply about, I guess.)“

I thought it wasn’t artificial, but the actual Speed Force, kept alive in Iris from when she got powers?

Seemed to be something... wrong... between Sarah and her father. I don’t think she has the same happy memories of that song as he does, and it makes me wonder why.

Made his bed? Some bad jokes from nearly a decade a go and the guy loses his career? Proportional response, much?

This was a massive improvement over the slapdash “We want our own Avengers and we want it yesterday!” bit of nonsense that we got a few years back. This film had the time to introduce the characters, flesh out their stories - it even gave the main villain an arc that made sense. The action sequences were complete,…

At least with Livia Soprano there was a legit reason why they had to do it: the poor woman died!

In this case it was a cancelling due to ancient tweets that brought us here. The producers made this bed. They can sleep in it.

“My name is Barry Allen. I am the smartest man on the planet. The remainder of this voice over is repetitive and inefficient. I am ending it now.”

So... the Evan Peters stuff was all just for a “boner” joke?

And I still can’t figure out what Haywood was arrested for. He (unironically) did nothing wrong. He was an asshole, sure, but you don’t arrest people for being assholes.

He was attempting to repair Vision (which was no doubt mandated to the organisation he’s…

I mean... is this part of the Arrowverse? With this other ‘Luthor’ that seems unlikely now, but then again John Diggle is meant to show up later in the season.

And Kara should have been at the funeral.

Space. The effortless frontier. These are the voyages of super Captain Michael Burnham. My continuing mission: To win at everything I do forever, all the while talking about family and the bonds of the crew and whatever else I have to in order to present a level of modesty to everyone else. To seek out new situations…

“When Mando and Boba go to recruit Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves, there is a ship visible that is similar to Kylo Ren’s shuttle in The Force Awakens and beyond.”

“I guess I’d have to ask, where do you stand on the concept of white privilege?”

The only privilege in this world that truly matters is money. Those that have it do what they want. Those without it are stuck beneath them.

Not a single mention of the show’s best character: Cara Gee’s Camina Drummer!!!

But the author of this review isn’t celebrating diversity. They’re happy about someone being excluded on the basis of their race and gender.

“... and it’s legitimately very cool to see a Trek series without a straight white male in a leading, or indeed any, major role.”

What a messed up way to look at the world.

“... as it would be pretty bizarre for the show to promote the distinction without actually using it in the context of the show itself.”

Not when the show hires these actors for no other reason than to, perhaps, signal their own virtue.

Admirable, not admiral. LOL@me! :-D

Just finished it. That was tremendous.

I had a complete fangirl squee moment when Ainsley showed up to read the intro descriptions. I mean yes it wasn’t Ainsley, it was Emily Proctor, but that’s still fun. I love how they got basically everyone back - the press corp, Ed and Larry, Carol, Nancy. Everyone.

So well put…

I remember that night. Jim Waley came on during an ad break to talk about some smoke coming out of one of the towers, and then we went back to the show. It was surreal.

Can’t remember what episode it was...

Once I saw this trailer a few weeks ago I started rewatching The West Wing right from the start. Last night I finished the episode just before this one.

It seems more fitting to watch this version of it before going back to the series.