That RC chopper level was a kick in the nuts. I was less upset about the RC plane level, although there was a moment where I had to ask the game, "Please don't make me hate David Cross. I'd be so bummed if I can't ever re-watch Mr. Show."

It's mostly the writers' fault, but there's no evidence that the actor has anything going on in this performance. Every chance he gets to emote, he handles by looking bored.

Well, short of Elizabeth going all "Show them. Your. Face!" on Paige, this is as close as she'll come to meeting the real thing.

Flockhart's fundamentally a pretty good actress, which stands out on a show that mostly has CW-level casting. The character's grating and exaggerated, but when a scene calls for it Flockhart can bring it a lot better than most of the Pretty Youngish People in the main cast.

Oooh! Nice.

The opening of the episode was a slog. There were so many eye-rolling moments in setting up Kara's sad-sack drone and Flockhart's OTT performance as Grant that in three attempts, I made it less than halfway through the episode. It was just a torrent of clumsy hackneyed exposition focusing on characters who ranged from…

Sadly, I don't think Rip is a fixable character. The plot demands that he be the one who drives the action of the show, but the show's done such a thorough job of making him incompetent and emotionally simplistic that it would be easier to just kill the character off and replace him with some other rogue Time Master…

Yeah, the seven-month jump makes it almost certain. Still, Philip was so discombobulated the day of Martha's disappearance that the gun could easily have been an overlooked detail.

The thing is, they could turn Wally into someone fun, a la redhead Wally. Last episode reminded us that slow Barry is a giant mope; it could be that they've made slow Wally surly and personality-free to make a big contrast with a more dynamic character once he gets his powers. Or, it could be that the show's minders…

Russell did every emotion there is in this episode, right down to the numb shock post-killing Lisa. I'm already pre-angry about her upcoming Emmy snub…

I just mentioned it above but will repeat here: I was so relieved to see Martha get in the back seat of the plane (rather than the one next to the pilot) because it meant she wouldn't be easily chuckable out of the airplane. Poor Martha, indeed!

Checkov's gun is still in play, isn't it? Philip has it, and we haven't seen him dump it. If it isn't sitting at the bottom of the Potomac, it's traceable and can still serve to link Philip Jennings to Martha.

It's got horrible betrayal written all over it…so yes?

Crazy part—it was such a relief that Martha got in the rear seats of the plane, because I was halfway expecting the pilot to kill her and dump her once they were over the ocean. From back there, he couldn't simply push her out of the plane.

I'll miss both Martha and Gaad, although I doubt both of them are completely gone from the show.

D) Because all superhero fights are basically nerds vs. jocks, even when the combatants are both scientists or both superstrong.

But what about the craft violence movement? Domestic craft abusers are making violence that's just as rich and complex as the stuff international abusers are doing! You've just got to avoid the big corporate brands, which are decidedly bland and watery.

Wally doesn't even deserve capitalization, right now. It's a shame. Here's hoping that once we're done with all the extremely awkward efforts to shoehorn him into the show, he actually turns out to be a decent character.

Is it really that weird? I grew up with a number of syndicated TV shows from before I was born (in the case of things like The Honeymooners and Abbott & Costello movies, long before I was born). "Classic" movies from the 80s and 90s make up a lot of the filler that keeps hundreds of cable networks on the air, despite…

Totally agreed that for Martha, hearing about the KGB was a technicality. Even from the perspective of pointing out Philip's disconnect with his fellow spies, it's belaboring the point a little—that point was made much better by the sinking look on Elizabeth's face when she showed up in full "Clark's sister" mode and…