Is it wrong that I thought of Elektra before I thought of The Avengers? That's probably wrong.

Or later in this episode, when Oliver and Felicity apparently just left a big, broken window in their apartment unfixed, not even sweeping the glass off the floor, the entire time they were in Central City.

I imagine that in Season 3, the giant water snake/eel/worm thing that ate a guy will become a main character. It and the berserker gorilla can have a love triangle with Bellamy.

I can imagine they try calling him Hawkboy for a sense of symmetry, but he gets all pissy about it and insists on Hawkman, and everyone's like, "Okay, dude, you got something to prove, whatever."

I think Count Vertigo (original version) is still my favorite.

I didn't mind that Iris stayed behind this episode. While she's a part of the gang now, she doesn't have a skill set that would make her particularly valuable in either the A-plot or the B-plot, plus she has a job where her boss is unlikely to accept "protecting a reincarnated Egyptian priestess" as an excuse for…

Giles and Wesley really took exact opposite paths, didn't they? Wesley started out as this fuddy-duddy bookworm and becomes a grizzled, hard-drinking demon fighter, while Giles is a fuddy-duddy bookworm NOW, but when he was younger he was essentially John Constantine.

Season 2 of Arrow had Laurel become a recovering alcoholic/drug addict. Maybe Season 2 of The Flash will have Joe enter a 12 Step program for compulsive liars.

I'm not sure how much blame to put on the actress and how much to put on the fact that, until she jumped off that building, the character had almost nothing to do besides look confused and frightened by everything.

Aw, c'mon, you know if Barry carried a gun that Earth 2 Harry would've been killed the instant he showed up in the Reverse Flash outfit last week.

"A Kryptonian . . . the cosmic ballet goes on."

I'd like to see a Superman (or Supergirl) story where a criminal is firing a gun uselessly into Superman's chest, and he tries to talk them down by explaining that a) shooting him's not going to do anything, and b) firing a gun without proper hearing protection can cause significant hearing loss, so for their own…

Is two really that bad? By my count, there are only five live-action superhero series currently on the air (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones). Two out of five may not be an even 50%, but it's pretty close.

I don't know about including Supernatural in there. I remember the episode they did about hunting dragons. Turns out dragons just look like ordinary guys, and they don't even breathe fire; they can just make their hands burn really hot, and they have a weird obsession with hoarding away gold and young, virgin women.

Totally agreed. It's a shame him and the Trickster never got the chance to team up.

So HOW does the CW have the effects budget for all this?

WHY do those sorts of stories need to be told on the big screen, though?
For big action spectacles, being shown on a very large screen enhances the viewing experience. But is watching a small-scale character drama on a movie theatre screen vs. a television set really all that different?

I'd add The Amazing Spider-Man to that list, too.

I personally love the segment where Ned Flanders does his taxes. Him sleeping through New Year's Eve, then getting up at the stroke of midnight so he can send out his taxes (with mints!) the instant the post office re-opens is just such a perfect bit of Flanders being square and kindly to the point of insanity.

Don't forget "Suspect is hatless! Repeat, hatless!"