I’m guessing that the waitress was XS (Jenni Ognats) from the 31st Century’s Legion of Super-Heroes, who is Barry and Iris’s granddaughter by way of their daughter Dawn Allen, one of the Tornado Twins (the other is Don Allen, oy). It could be Dawn, but Jenni was a rather excitable character.

The modern strains are so potent it would probably lay me out for the rest of the year, and a month into the new year... but thanks for the advice.

I hate hate HATE “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”. My late brother (God rest his soul) loved it, and bellowed it out every Christmas; he had many positive accomplishments in his life but couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, so I feel absolutely no guilt. It’s an insipid song that has all of the verve and craft of…

Her talking about how everyone will be okay made me think about that hadron collider that Whiterose and an associate were near in the first episode of the season. I’m wondering if it’s some kind of time machine/quantum entangler thingy, plus the one guy who spoke of alternate universes last season.

This show just kicked its viewers in the nads and did the happy dance, especially with Irving’s speech about how all revolutions are paid for - and profited - by the rich. The present political situation doesn’t help either.

I really, really wish they had named this episode “Weird War Tales” since a telepathic gorilla controlling soldiers on both sides of a war leading to WWIII would be a prime example of that comic’s story telling. Grodd being menacing and creepy brought to mind some of the stories from so many years ago; it’s probably…

Nice catch, I had almost forgotten that. From what I remember he did a pretty decent Mirror Master.

From here in Georgia it sounds like MARTA is getting the brunt of the blame. This will be another excuse for the Legislature to cut funding, and people who don’t want MARTA in their counties* to double down on the inefficiency claim. All of the other shots were from the air or surrounding buildings, and I wondered how…

You’ll have to vault over the rope barrier (hint: be in a wheelchair), sneak coffee into the Louvre (hint: colostomy bag), melt the bulletproof glass, and find a way past the Louvre’s highly trained team of Mona Lisa Ninja-guards, who will not think twice about sacrificing their lives for the glory of France.

I’m hoping the BBC adaptation of Good Omens will tell us.

In the first season, there’s a scene with Lucifer at Dr. Linda’s office ranting about how humans blame him for everything, and the dialogue is almost verbatim from “Season of Mists”, where Lucifer is tired of humans considering him buying and selling souls “like a fishwife come market day”. While TV Lucifer doesn’t…

Excellent episode and a great write-up; you made me think of tangents in the show and this ep that I hadn’t thought of. I really had to work to follow the timeline; they didn’t drop enough hints that the first half of the show was a year in the past (I missed the scarface reference), and even thought, “Dan? Back on…

Duke is what got me started on Genesis, and I happily worked my way backwards through their catalog and the solo albums (shout-out to Tony Banks’ A Curious Feeling, a vastly underappreciated album). Both their self-titled album and Invisible Touch contain half “okay” tracks and half classic-quality material.

Someone may not like Golden Earring, but you can’t say they haven’t put out masses of music. A concert of theirs probably lasts three hours just to play the European hits; they had 30 top 10 singles in Holland since 1961 (39 if you go to top 20).

Perhaps I’m biased, but this is one of the best acted of the fantasy shows that I watch. The DC/CW-verse has a dependable core, and Doctor Who can range from great to okay, but Lucifer has a solid ensemble that never fails to hit their marks, even in the small moments. Ellis and Helfer did such an amazing job playing…

Sharper Image!

“Justice”, a first-season episode. I don’t know why I remember that.

“All Good Things”, the TNG finale, was a two-parter, and very well done - probably the best sci-fi ending next to Babylon 5's “Sleeping in Light”.

Um, Mick did get to shoot people towards the end of the episode; we didn’t see the flame come out and set his targets on fire, but he did, indeed, shoot.

Well, it’s a low pole to clear.