I think we’re meant to look back on those opening scenes in the context of the introspection he’s been going through. It’s clear that he wasn’t really ok, and in hindsight it feels like he’s trying way too hard to have a “perfect Christmas” with his kids because he thinks that’s what will make him feel complete again…

They could have done it by saying “we downloaded the good Ward from the Framework into an LMD body” etc. etc. if they’d wanted to bring him back for good. But I think there wasn’t enough mileage left in that storyline anyway, and trapping Daisy in constant love triangles wasn’t the best thing for her character.

Agent Nobody Wants Until He’s Not There

Possible Runaways cameo - “Your parents are villains? Where have we heard that one before?”

It’s still valid character development to know that Chester and Allegra do actually love each other. That’s a kind of dramatic irony - we, as watchers, know more about the characters than the characters themselves do, because we have the pseudo-omniscient point of view and aren’t constrained by what’s observable to…

Nobody ever went wrong casting Tony Curran in anything, but I do wish they’d given him some better dialogue. Despero is lumbered with being Mr. Exposition as well as being an Honorable Warrior, so he gets simplistic declarative statements and clichéd threats - which for an actor of Curran’s calibre is a bit of a waste.

Ah, I was wondering how he was teleporting around with one of those wrist devices that Jack used to use. That makes much more sense now.

Yes, I wasn’t convinced by Swarm’s nonchalant “ah, we totally meant for you to do that, you’ve done exactly what we needed for our evil scheme, so thanks... and now we shall be going” routine at the end there.

Moffat’s last season with Peter Capaldi was the same. After two interminable seasons of the Clara Show (guest starring The Doctor), we finally got a fresh companion and setting, and it produced some of the best stories from his whole run - not to mention, giving us Bill, Nardole and the redemption of Missy.

Classic Who didn’t have next-episode promos right after the credits though!

It’s mostly been to cover for Melissa Benoist’s absences and pregnancy this season - they can replace her with a CGI double like they do with J’onn all the time. (That’s why David Harewood wears the full Martian Manhunter suit in later seasons - so that they have on-set references and can just do a head replacement if…

I had that thought too. They have a spaceship and various portal devices at their disposal, Kara could have popped over to an uninhabited (yellow) star system and sucked down its power instead. But then there wouldn’t have been any conflict in the episode, so...

Unless the Big Brain needs Brainy as he is now, in his prime with his emotional issues mostly resolved, and if he waits too long he will be too old / slow / obsolete / damaged to save it.

I always imagined Lena was good friends with Neneh Cherry this whole time. Just hanging in a buffalo stance.

Freddie’s sexual orientation was not by any means a secret. He himself never tried to hide it. You’re probably thinking of his AIDS diagnosis, which he did keep very private right up until the day before he died. But it was very well known that he was gay, certainly as much as other pop stars of the era like Elton…

Poor William, one-time love interest in waiting for Kara, retooled post-Crisis because his original iteration was really unlikeable, but the deadline hanging over the series meant that he couldn’t really get the development he needed. He ended up filling the dependable civillian reporter position, but the show had…

Not only that, it’s a deeply stereotypical “magical Irish nature powers” plotline too. They made Lena’s mother Irish (or Newfoundland Irish now?) I think as a nod to Katie McGrath and her wandering accent, but they just couldn’t resist going the whole hog and having her be descended from benevolent Celtic nature…

Ava’s a flesh-and-blood human clone, not an automaton. As seen last season, all of the Avas that Bishop created have free will, albeit coloured by certain personality types “baked in”. (Our Ava is a “bossy Ava”, for example).

It shows how comfortable Legends is with itself that it can, with a straight face, pull off “the power of love is what will save us”. And Sara and Ava’s wedding was perfect, it hit me emotionally in a way that Barry and Iris’s renewal-of-vows over on The Flash totally failed to do, despite following a similar template…

Tobias was a classic case of casting an actor who was too good (and too charismatic) for the material. Krondon stole almost every scene he had in the first season - and for being mostly known as a rapper with little to no acting experience, he did phenomenally well. I think the producers tried to write him out in the…