Edge’s previous victims got Kryptonian powers because they’d been exposed to X-Kryptonite via the mines in Smallville over many years. That was why he had to be in Smallville, only the residents there were “compatible” enough to receive both the Kryptonian consciousnesses and powers. That was also the cause of Tag’s…

If the lightsaber duel wasn’t the series’ shark-jumping moment, then I don’t know what will be. Pack it up, CW - you’re done. There’s only so much that they can excuse with “but COVID restrictions” - this season was a mess from start to finish.

At this point, the show’s wheeled out so many different ways to put someone’s mind into another person that I don’t even recognise the story-of-the-week that they came from originally. Lately it seems like the show is leaning heavily on “wait don’t we have that gadget that we used one time to do the thing, let’s just…

I’m sure “Five Roomates” had the Friends logo font, so presumably it’s a generic Friends-a-like sitcom.

Allegra and Esperanza are both metahumans who got their powers from the original particle accelerator explosion. The doctor in this episode didn’t give Esperanza powers, he experimented on her because she had them.

I think the team try not to lean on the time couriers (the portal watches) too much, but you’re right, they could have gotten everyone out of there. They even use the couriers later in the episode. I would have appreciated Zari calling it out, it’s reasonable to think she might not have remembered it.

But in-between the season plot, Barry fought meta villains and stopped crime every week as a CSI. These days he spends all of his time worrying about the season’s villain at Star Labs and barely shows up to the precinct. Joe and Cecile spend more time in his office than he does!

This season felt rather perfunctory - maybe the cancellation messed up their plans, but what we ended up with was less of a valedictory run (a la Arrow’s final season) and more of an attempt to throw as much at the wall as possible and see what stuck. Painkiller spin-off? Check. “Passing the torch” to the kids (who…

It’s her jarring, 50-year-old chain-smoker voice that gets me. 

Yeah, I can see which articles I’ve commented on from my profile, but those links just open the comments section from the top instead of taking me to my comment. So, good luck scanning through all of the threads, expanding everyone’s replies trying to find yours…

I think it’s a combination of factors: she’s still wearing the heavier makeup with the powder-blue eyeshadow that she wears under the mask, and also the mask tends to push her hair away from her face a little, so without it her hair can frame her face a lot more naturally. Plus she always wears her hair down while…

I can only imagine that it was heavily edited in order to obtain a PG-13 rating. This is often the cause of blurry shaky-cam fight sequences; obscure most of the actual violence and just show the consequences of it. That said, the second scene does feature a satisfyingly crunchy cage match which doesn’t cut away too…

The Boys spent two whole season asking the question “should supers serve with the military” (in their case - a resounding “no”); Falcon and the Winter Soldier had something to say about that too, given how integral the military was to Captain America’s origins; and even sister series Black Lightning did a commentary…

Everyone’s prom outfits were great - Nia looked gorgeous, and her dance (and kiss!) with Brainy was lovely. Kara’s dress was totally her style - and, just like her, indestructible! (How many dresses could stand up to exploding meteors?) Jesse Rath looked pretty good in a tux, and I even liked Kenny’s bow tie.

Yeah, he got Barry to deliver him the device from Star Labs, offscreen of course (cos shipping Grant Gustin out to Georgia was probably deemed unnecessary). It’s a shame that the pandemic is messing up all the crossover potential despite all the Crisis setup last year, and that Supergirl and Black Lightning are both…

There’s a trend this season for characters not to realise things that should be blindingly obvious. Of course Barry isn’t going to be fine with a cosmic entity who looks just like his dead mother suddenly becoming his new houseguest! That this seemed to be played as something that Barry needs to come to terms with…

It felt like the writers realised halfway through that Legends had already done a time loop story in “Here I Go Again” and that whatever they were going to do could only be derivative. Time loop stories are everywhere these days, too - it’s not just Groundhog Day any more.

I’d imagine that the crew on Superman & Lois have likely made Lucy Lane off-limits to Supergirl. It was fine for this series to use Superman’s supporting cast when he didn’t have a series of his own (and wasn’t even cast for a whole season!) but I wouldn’t blame them for staking a claim to the Lane family in general.

It ends up feeling as derivative of Raiders of the Lost Ark as The Mummy was, but for inexplicable reasons it also rehashes the plot of the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie - the one with Javier Bardem as the cursed Spanish captain - almost as if someone at Disney accidentally mixed up the script files one…

Almost certainly this is the reason. It harks back a bit to the early days of television (as recently homaged by WandaVision) where they were basically filming a stage play, and the blocking and cinematography was designed with that in mind: wide shots with everyone in their own “space” on the stage, everyone staying…