Josh Gad, from what I've seen, is a ham. And that can work sometimes and be funny (and sometimes I think he manages to express more subtle emotions through the hamminess, but they're still in contrast to his character's general hamminess). I don't want that for The Penguin. I want weird and dark and angry (maybe not…

Flash writers: "If we just wave our hands and say 'Flashpoint' and 'Speed Force' enough times, we don't even have to really explain it!"

And I think Earth-2 was the Mirror Universe. Evil Caitlin; Evil Cisco; powerless, dorky Barry; assertive and productive member of society Iris West; etc.

Yes! Thank you for bringing that up! That annoyed me a lot. Total bullshit. I don't remember the wording of a conversation I had this morning, let alone one I would have had well over a decade in the past (plus an "eternity" in the speed force trap), let alone the minor problem that *this is not the same past that…

probably because female sexuality is still equated with "sin", so "good" girls are modest and restrained, whereas "bad" girls flaunt their bodies, flirt aggressively, and usually adopt huskier voices. ugh.

I fear this will be unproductive to ask because we know the Flash writers don't have a consistent grasp of their own rules for time travel BUT…

Some shows can pull it off: S2 of Arrow—although it was helped by devoting parts of episodes to flashbacks, which conserved plot—and S5 has been doing a pretty good job; some seasons of Buffy as @Dr J:disqus mentioned (I'd say…S3 and 5 are the best examples); Fringe; S1 of Flash actually did it pretty well…

And Barry's supposed to be all three, but actually has none of those qualities.

I haven't watched Iron Fist (nor will I, given all I've heard) but already I can tell I don't like the character. Seems like a douche, tbh. I can only hope that all of his teammates just shit on him all the time.

Isn't the new comment section format punishment enough?

Well if he's playing a certain character that existed in the books then… Arya does murder this singer named Dareon for running away from the Night's Watch and breaking his oath it's possible!

But was it ever addressed again? Stein brought it up and then after a brief period of not trusting Barry (because he fucked up the timeline), they forgave him. It seemed like the message wasn't about that, though. Why would Future Barry warn the Legends about Past Barry?

Still very unhappy with the way the show has treated Caitlin/Killer
Frost. When it's pretty firmly established that having powers does not
make you evil *for everyone except Caitlin* and when Killer Frost always
plays underling to a big bad (last season it was Zoom, now Savitar),
it's pretty apparent that the show has…

So either Savitar ties in to the warning future Barry sent to Rip Hunter on Legends (although I've only seen a few episodes of that this season, I gathered it was not resolved on that show), in which case The Flash has done an awful job of making it significant to *this* show so that viewers would be aware of it. OR…

In other news: Greg Berlanti admits to making Faustian bargain so every script he pitches is ordered to series. He's doing so well for himself and it makes me happy.

Fair. I actually like Logan a lot and thought he had some interesting character growth, especially in the seventh season, but the revival threw that (a lot of other stuff) under the bus in the name of "drama".

The only nom I'd be okay with this getting would be for best actress for Lauren Graham. The revival was honestly kind of bad (i.e. perfectly average television that was made well and had lots of attractive people in it). They seemed to just double down on every character's bad traits/the show's worst writing…

smarmy entitled cheating asshole…are we talking Logan or Rory here?

This is a great analogy!

Am I the only one not really invested in the mystery behind Jason's death? It should be omnipresent in my mind because of Cheryl, but I kind of just don't…care about Jason? We haven't seen how his death has really affected people in town (except Cheryl), and for the most part no one is actively concerned that there's…