“That makes them harder to sell to streaming services.”

ah that makes more sense, I didn’t catch that. Recent episodes have picked up the pace, I guess I missed some expository dumps.

They really just workshopped the whole series during the break didn’t they?

I thought it was because she was out of the blast radius. But the biggest question really is why when all those humans turned back into humans while they were 500 feet in the air... why are they all still alive?

The season was supposed to be only 11 episodes or something like that, but got extended a few extra episodes at the last minute.

I didn’t really expect or need Kara to actually show up. I just find it strange that a bunch of the dialogue was about Clark being alone on Earth or not having any living Kryptonian family when his cousin is right there!! Like, Edge’s whole pitch was basically, “We’re Kryptonian relatives so we should automatically…

Yeah, other than the outside influence of time travelers like the way this Loki got the tesseract, I just don’t get the logic of Variants.

“They really just workshopped the whole series during the break didn’t they?”

I’m trying to remember, did they come up with a reason why Clark didn’t help out when a trio of Kryptonian witches rolled up on National City and tried to terraform Earth into Krypton? In a perfect world Kara is 100% someone Clark would bring in to help, not just because she’s additional muscle, but as mentioned…

Lara said the process could be reversed if the host hadn’t fully merged with its Kryptonian yet. Leslie seems to have been the earliest successful subject & therefore fully stabilized.

Lara mentioned the process can only be reversed before the host mind is fully gone (days to weeks). All the Smallville victims were recent (Kyle said the previous morning for him), Leslie is not. I’m actually wondering if some are not fully clear of it. The blast likely would weaken them regardless. (I’m also betting…

I like that Rob Benedict couldn’t stop talking as God in Supernatural, and had basically no lines here. He would fit this show (in a different role), by the way, since he’s also able to make an excellent shift between goofy and scary.

Now that I think about it, is General Lane the only father/father figure who hasn’t worked in the Arrowverse? Detective/Captain/Chief/Deputy Mayor/Commandant/Mayor Lance worked from day one, as did Joe West, Gambi and all of Supergirl’s mothers and mother figures. Luke Wilson is so good in Stargirl that he gets his…

Yeah, but with the Kent boys no longer on the team they’re sort of out of the picture at the moment.

The residents of Smallville being the only people in the world who can properly be possessed by X Kryptonite felt very, well, Smallville to me.

I’m kinda glad they’re veering away from canon a bit (Edge, to my knowledge, has never been Kryptonian and Superman hasn’t had a brother unless you count Conner/Kon-El/Superboy in some of the comics). Edge is mostly a boring villain who always feels like Great Value Lex Luthor to me, so him becoming something that…

The first two especially are spot-on. But Lena? Extremely resourceful and smart, sometimes the key to saving the day, but sometimes she can’t be trusted, and not even because she has close ties to the other side? If that doesn’t fit with a certain simple tailor, then I don’t know who could.

Man, Handjobial. They were just running out of names by that point huh?

Agreed about Jo and Linc. They’ve been best friends since prior to either of their introductions and regularly turn to each other for support so it really doesn’t seem like shoehorning them together is likely.

The first half of S5 was a little bit of a dip for me, too, after how fantastic S4 was, but, damn, the back half freakin’ killed.