Really sick of people saying "It doesn't matter if the writing's bad, it's for kids" about badly written show.

It could be that because it has been used so many times the Black Mercy is considered a character, like J'onn or Lord, so referencing the original story in credit is considered unnecessary.

There's some good things in this episode but to call it wildly over-stuffed is an understatement. Stuff was really just happening all over the place.
Look, Earth 2 Joe! Whoops, now he's dead. Bad call there Barry.
Look an evil Robbie Ammell! Ok, he's dead. Not that you'd really care based on this performance.
Look a…

Which arguably is their ENTIRE REASON for getting together in the first place.

Cannot agree when it becomes plodding & directionless, which after (for some reason) letting VS escape to resurface in '86 threatens to happen tonight.

there is the crossover I want to see.

When he negotiated his immunity he used some pretty twisty wording so that he was immune from everything. Not only did he play them big time but now he makes Peyton look complicit as well.

Maybe they'll release a recipe book with the next dvd.

Maybe she went to college in Smallville.

If Jessie gets powers hope the show makes a quip about Wells saying 'at school they called me Johnny' so we can get him as another famous speedster!

As much as I want to see Iris gain some focus, the chiding moralizer is really a drag. For some reason the writers seems to be swapping that role between her and Caitlin with one or the other reduced to background noise depending.
At least Iris got to do something reporter related this outing, but because the endgame…

Turtle-breain hotshot.

Supergirl's never had the greatest of rogues galleries, but only Reactron has made it from page to screen. Probably a blessing.

In a baffling move they killed his creator T.O. Morrow, so don't look for a new & improved version any time soon.

thank you for doing the research so that we don't have to. Though now I know it exists at all.

At least the episode wasn't over-stuffed as some of them have been, though evrything in the show was the most tropey of tropes garnered from the last decade or so of CW shows.

Word of warning going in; this is a much wryer kind of humour than anything else, exasperration at the absurd is the norm rather than open comedy. Though a couple of the characters are very broad and there's some great dialogue.

Don't get what you mean. Last episode the narrator-to-be lays that part out very clearly.

I found the tease of who had ended up inside the bunker pretty good, each one hinting at a little more until their appearances start matching events on screen.

It was magic and could only be read by a true priestess of Ra.