That person holds different political beliefs than me! Let’s hound him over social media until he’s forced to quit the thing he started, because that’s a totally rational thing to do.

And some people say that cancel culture is a myth...

I am endlessly relieved that the show didn’t pull a “Superman’s mother was actually always secretly evil, is supporting her other son, and now body-snatched Lana is the Big Bad!”.

Nice to see Rex.

And yeah, I think the call to the Empire will see Crosshair and his team come back.

Can we just give another shout out to Natalie Holt and her amazing score for this. We get spooky theremin sci-fi music mixed with more mournful tones, and it just works so well.

One thing I think is worth pointing out is the opening “news reel” voice over by Tom Kane.

Tom Kane has been part of Star Wars for many years, voicing not only Yoda in anything that didn’t have Frank Oz, but as the narrator to every Clone Wars episode, Admiral Yularen, and many others. He’s been voicing SW video game…

“I look forward to the inevitable statement from Disney flatly denying that Omega could possibly be considered the franchise’s first transgender character.”

Sometimes a cigar’s just a cigar (or, really, in this case, pretty much all the time).

Instantly assuming that anyone had a problem with his speech is “anti-woke” is kinda silly.

A simpler way to get people to re-examine the speech is to ask them a single question:

If Steve had given that speech would you have accepted it then?

“It’s hard not to have low expectations for a franchise that dragged its feet for years before Black Panther...”

I’m imagining what the screeching think/hit pieces would be like if it’d been a female character taking off her shirt to that song instead.

“I figure she’s not working for the Power Broker, but I’m curious where her loyalties lie now.”

Assuming she isn’t the Power Broker herself.

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…