It’s very easy to dismiss the entire secondary cast as “evil” that way though, and that’s not good character development. The comics didn’t honestly do the best job of this - one of each of the kids’ parents is just there and has no real impact on the plot - so one thing that the show benefits from with its slower…

Whedon cheated on his wife with the Justice League?! Just a few, or all of them?

And a joyous Bobunk to you all!

Yeah, for a guy who’s meant to be able to calculate every possible consequence for a single action or decision, his “oh no Barry’s escaped, better drop the force-field!” moment was monumentally stupid.

Ah yes, the commercials. Which people watching on streaming services rather than broadcast TV don’t see.

He’s meant to be representing some kind of bogus international amnesty organisation.

I think the writers feel the same way, judging by Felicity’s line - “Since when did her super-powers make her a super-villain?” She’s absolutely right but the Powers That Be inexplicably won’t drop this stupid contrivance and so poor Caitlyn has to go through the same character arc for another season. It’s like she’s…

I don’t think it ventures Down Under exactly (that’s a trap a lot of fake-Brit actors fall into), more that his natural rhotic accent slips into a lot of his line delivery - take the start of scene with the chalk pavement pictures, where he addresses the camera with “Hello art lovers” - a Londoner would say “aht”, or…

Curtis references the first dead guy’s “UpSwipz profile” early in the episode... UpSwipz being the dating app- I mean “holistic social networking platform” - that Ray Palmer found himself working for over on Legends of Tomorrow.

Well, and the “lead character wants to be a musician but his family forbid it, so he has adventures in the Land of the Dead to convince them that his passion is worthwhile” plotline...

Coco’s a bit brighter in that regard; here, the dead are remembered as long as their stories are passed down by the living. So your great-great-grandson doesn’t need to have known you, he just needs to remember you via his great-grandma’s stories.

He’s basically Roy Harper at this point, isn’t he? I’m reminded of that time over on Arrow where Roy parkoured into battle, only to be knocked out almost immediately and just left face-down in a puddle for the rest of the scene.

I’ve always felt that the “frost powers make you evil” conceit was complete nonsense and really hoped they’d finally allowed Caitlin to move past it. Every other Earth-2 doppelganger is completely different in personality to their Earth-1 counterpart (see the ongoing thing over on Arrow with Black Siren) and yet poor…

Hardly a surprise, Colleen outright says that Danny owns a state-of-the-art medical facility which could help Misty.

I read this as most of the “ninja corps” having been under Nobu’s command and decimated by Matt and Frank at the end of Daredevil season 2. The Hand are also the kind of employer who will throw away a dozen elite ninja warriors in a training montage for Elektra, and Gao (at least) tends to casually murder underlings…

I’d have to go back and check for sure but didn’t Stick tell Matt that he’s been blind since birth when they first met?

That’s an insane overreaction. Try to tone down comments like these in future; be realistic.

I was more surprised that they cast Erick Avari (who was born in India and is ethnically Parsi) as her father. But then they also cast Michael Clarke Duncan as Wilson Fisk (an excellent portrayal, by the way - no complaints), so let’s just agree that the Daredevil movie’s casting was more-or-less colourblind and not…

Reading Alias again while watching this show is interesting. You can see that the core of her character is there, but the setting hugely informs how she and everyone else behaves, and in turn affects the focus and tone of the series.

That scene had the same kind of feel to it as the cinema scene from Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Ultraviolence for the audience, but with a stern look from the filmmakers: should you *really* be enjoying this?