On the HIAC endings, that women's match ending caught a lot people by surprise to say the least and is a bit of difficult one. I agree that Sasha seemed to be the logical choice for the victor of the match, but I think there was a also a longer term impact that was considered there. Shoemaker made an excellent point…

I'm really liking the stories Raw is doing for the men's and women's Survivor Series matches. On paper, it seems like they have these really stacked teams that Smackdown should be struggling to overcome, yet the Raw teams are so torn by internal conflict that if Smackdown just get barely functional, they should be…

Briefly on the HIAC PPV, the Universal and Women's title HIAC matches were probably among the best HIAC matches I've seen in the modern era. What I especially loved is both of them felt like wars yet managed to be really different. The Owens/Rollins match was this bombastic, Bay-eish war with sick spots while…

It's by the way staggering to realize that Jericho has never won the US title. When they brought that up, I was all aboard the Canadian Title. Partially because at least Jericho would carry the title correctly.

What I loved about Jericho's list moment was that after he claimed that he wouldn't put anyone on the list as they didn't deserve, he just started putting people on the list as the segment ended because he just couldn't help himself.

No, I understood that J'Onn didn't know it. What I meant was the way the two actors played that moment and how sad it was if the viewer knew the truth.

J'onn's actor is so good in this show as he manages to, at least for me, truly capture the sadness and melancholy that defines J'Onn when needed to. Just his desperate desire to connect to another Martian. And that moment when he expressed surprise about a White Martian being able to feel sympathy was such a perfect…

One of the reasons I'm really in to Maggie/Alex, outside their chemistry, is that they are playing this a lot differently than I've usually seen it happen in these stories. Instead of having the brash openly gay woman pursue Alex, they are having Alex harbor those feelings for her while she is constantly going and…

They are really steamrolling through plot twists here, right? The reason I bring that up is that I felt that was a big issue with Flash especially when hitting the latter part of the season and I hope they have already something planned out that we don't hit those retread, filler storylines just as the stakes get high.

It's a small thing, but something that is starting to bug me with both Daredevil adn Luke Cage is how every female allied with the main character also has an eventual romantic/sexual relationship with them. In the first season, Matt had a romantic relationship with Claire, ended up having a relationship with Karen and…

The narrative choices in this series baffle me. The flashbacks to younger Luke and Diamondback were effective in showing that they once cared for each other, but it was so late that it just felt like a bizarre addition this late in the game. If they had started to show those flashbacks around the time when Diamondback…

I was rolling my eyes so hard when Misty started railing against the system, but I legitimately popped when the Inspector shut her down so hard and made it clear that the reason Candice died was because Misty's arrogance and hubris. The fact that she got the mike drop walk away leading Misty just having to face her…

When Claire told Luke that she knew a really good lawyer, my first thought was that I hoped she was talking about Foggy because Matt would probably get Luke more time at the end.

Seriously, Misty is so bad at her job. She gets a witness connecting Mariah and Shades to the murder of Stokes, but she doesn't rush that witness to the police station to get that on record, instead she just gives her a phone and tells her to stay safe until Misty can handle things. There is this bizarre nature to…

You know, this is what is driving me nuts about the show and the way it approaches race in America. And I will freely admit that as a white guy there is a lot I will never understand about that experience. In this episode they drove hard on how the show is supposed to represent that black in America experience and…

What I absolutely loved about Shades taking out the men in the elevator was that he didn't do it by being this superior fighter, but rather by being smart and keeping his wits with him. Even when nearly strangled to death by Zip, he still realized that the guy had a gun on his waist, grabbed and quickly dispatched the…

I was pondering on Diamondback and the many reasons he is such a terrible character in this show and I think it all goes back to him being a caricature of a character. When the show started, they populated its cast by these characters that seemed to be call backs to tropes in the blacksploitation movies, but then went…

I was surprised how much Zip's storyline ended up affecting me, especially since it was probably one of the few subtle, telling character arcs in this series. Zip was a background character who aspired to be something bigger and meaningful, ending up copying those men above him he saw making moves. Yet at the same…

I really like the way they are using Jianyu and how people interpret his silence, with Michael constantly envying his wisdom and drawing these bizarre conclusions from simple nods. Also his suggestions to Chidi and Eleanor about how he will speak for Eleanor and their response to it still makes me smile.

I love that not only is Trevor a giant douche, he isn't an even an interesting giant douche. Every insult and joke he made was both smarmy and really tired, yet he and his entourage managed to project this air of smug self-satisfaction. They so often go wiht the quippy cool evil lord that there is something refreshing…