The first impression I got of this episode was that they were clearing the decks plot-wise so they can go to the crossover, but this was not good.
Things seemed to move along but it was all just spinning wheels really, and very little of it seemed so much thought out as just happening to check off a marker-board in the…

Sarah continues to be a better presence as captain than Rip because she again manages not to talk about the Laws of Time. It's amazing how much less bogged down the show feels because of that. Plus she wins for the deadpan Trouble Alert line alone.
There's a couple of times the writing edges on juvenile with Hex's…

Possibly she reckons she can trick him into using on Dear Old Dad.

One thing that I'm loving about this show is that it's not gag a minute comedy. It goes on at it's own slightly off-kilter pace and just carries you along with it.
But every moment with the aliens and how this is their daily drudge of a job has been gold.

I can't say I liked this episode because almost every action taken by every character was ridiculously contrived for conflict and lacking even basic sense.

This is the point when I gave up on the show being anything better. It's not that it's not fun, but tiring to see the characters repeating the same notes again and again; Ray is back into self-doubting doofus mode, Martin is again the selfish, arrogant scientist who doesn't realize what's in fron of him and Sarah is…

Best episode yet and I think it's mainly because for the first time Zorn gets to display something that isn't his usual bragging and cluelessness. He's genuinely offended by the portrayals of his culture and his interest in connecting Alan with his heritige comes across as genuine instead of as a checklist for his own…

Watched the first four episodes and pleasantly surprised. They've swapped out the usual histrionics for genuinely interesting stories examining grief and guilt. Plus giant monsters eating people and clever dialogue. Bit of a winner.

The gold gun for Glider was made after Snart & Rory kidnapped Cisco. There's no meta-human component. Same with Rory's flame gun.

"No, we can't save just one man because of the possible effect on history!"

This was filler but I guess it moved a couple of things along. Most of it was the usual CW bullshit were characters become incredibly thin-skinned and suspicious about petty stuff while ignoring the really emotionally affecting stuff. Case in point: as a roommate Barry is getting on Cisco's nerves but he seems…

Last week completely ignoring the Federal Agents being burnt to death was a big one for me. It didn't even look like they thought it was important enough to make the paper.

Physics work different in the CW universe & this is part of it -_-

Good point. In season 1 the aliens were mostly Fort Roz escapees who were 30+ years out of touch with the rest of the galaxy.
Now we have this odd revolving-door policy but dates are casually thrown around, i.e. J'onn has been on Earth 15 years but M'gann 300+ and the DEO has an up-to-date space map. It's basically…

Current comics have played up a fued between Krypton & Daxam with the latter being interstellar conquerers by nature and Daxamites murderous isolationists. Or visa versa, depending on the comic/ writer/ universe changing event.
I miss the days of where magical space racism wasn't the go-to plot for comics.

Not a great episode as the central convention made little sense outside of putting things into a situation Kara gets to resolve with an inspirational speech. As good as Benoist is at delivering these it robs the show of any speech.
This episode we get more fantastical racism that illustrates this perfectly; Roulette's…

They even say this Daxam is a planet of party-loving frat boys so shipping the prince seemed really unnecessary. But I guess anytime any two characters speak to each other is enough for that.

It was nice seeing Linda Carter again. I'm kind of hoping that the President-as-alien thing will turn out to be a double-blind and the alien will be the President's official body-double or something. Durlans are the go-to DC alien shapechangers.

He was also briefly a super-villain and eventually turned into a teleporter with a alien cat-girl love interest. Suffice to say there are no points of connection with this version, apart from being a white male.

Her screen presence instantly reminded me of an inferior version of the character Megan Mulally played in last year's You, Me & The Apocalypse.