All cogent points. Also: As recently as last week, part of the point of the mission was to convince Dany. Closer to the start of the season, Tyrion implanted a code phrase so Snow would know it was really from Tyrion. Now Dany is apparently convinced both that (i) the raven is really where it comes from and (ii)…

Octavia set aside her need to prove herself, or win in honorable combat, or whatever. She was playing to win, everybody else was playing to aggrandize herself. This is entirely consistent with a honor and glory obsessed grounder culture that, among other things, has warriors commemorate their victims with hashmarks…

I am. However, that does not make me incorrect in this instance.

With all due respect: It is almost certainly the case that you can't recall this perfectly. You just think you can. There have been many, many empirical studies on this. Most famously, they'll have people write down their experiences on the day of a national tragedy (think 9/11), then track those same people down…

Bizarrely, Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the few shows that got this right, although it may have been on accident. Worf meets a future version of his son Alexander through time travel nonsense that, I assure you, is not worth discussing. Alexander "proves" that he's the real deal by citing a memorable…

The waverider flew into the sun (or very close) in the season finale last year. What's more, they don't have to get that close. Just accelerate, throw the box out the airlock outside of earth's gravity and conservation of momentum will keep it going towards the sun, then eventually the sun's own gravity will take…

Thank you for this. I love how everybody goes along with this plan which is obviously destined to make everything worse. This is almost, but not quite, "give Zoom Barry's speed" levels of stupid.

I thought it was a private ceremony without cameras?

I liked the callback to how the Arrowverse started.

Translator: "You know what? Fine. It translates as Project Xenovirus. Are you happy now?"

I looked out my window and I'm in space right now. You jealous?

Barry even looked up at the end! Where did he think they were, a blimp?

I always read Sara as a silver star lesbian.

Divine plans according to Rory: God created a bunch of aliens who are going to invade and murder the president. To balance things out, those who are familiar with a particular method of studying Hebrew can understand their language.

I think that's right. The US Army fought them off 60 years ago with only a few hundred casualties— awful, but fewer people than lost just training for D Day. Heartless as it sounds… do that again. That's what the army is there for. The Dominators might be a big threat, but it hasn't been proven yet.

I liked it, but I didn't think it was that great. "Mind control" is a contrived way to get the fanservice hero fights in— contrast with Civil War which, for all its flaws, had everybody except Bucky acting out of their own convictions. Mind controlled conflicts just aren't that interesting, because of course…

… what's more, I'm guessing the "nobody can be trusted" refers either to mind control or shapeshifting of some kind, which Future Barry is being a dick about not revealing. Or he just knows it works out because he heard himself deliver this message and we're in a full on ontological paradox.

Re: The last point. Yeah, we talked a fair bit about this last week. Kara made the wrong call and was only bailed out by luck/the screenwriters. This is almost, but not quite, as bad as the inane "Flash gives up his speed" nonsense from last year.

Post-death, Medusa's head was severed and put on Minerva's shield, but retained its petrifying power. So it's kind of a "defensive weapon" in that it doesn't just defend you, it also kills your enemies, much like the proposed use of the virus was to kill every alien on Krypton (Come to think of it, I guess that means…

I know everybody wants to talk about the crossover but, independent of that, this show is continuing to be really, really frustrating.