The Surface Pro is a nice ultralight laptop that can also serve as a tablet in a pinch. It's not as good at being a tablet as an iPad is, but it doesn't have an iPad's limitations, which can be really handy.

In earlier episodes, he seemed to be using Gideon to check the effects of his actions on the future. (E.g., the way the Flash/Crisis headline changed.) Presumably he was careful to make sure that the records of Eobard Thawne remained relatively consistent.

But the whole "compensatory effect, etc." is all just handwaving to put him into a circus costume with lightning bolts all over it. It's not something anyone would realistically do. (The world is full of protective gear, none of which looks like a superhero costume.) It's there to give a thin veneer of…

And he wasn't so much a villain as an antagonist— a hero from another planet who kept having terrible things happen to him that he wound up blaming Superman for.

Hey, he was really a centaur! That makes it okay, right?

I'm inclined to doubt we as viewers are supposed to read it that way. Thus far, any divine intervention is deliberately ambiguous and obscured by mixing it with magic, and I'd be shocked if there's ever any straightforward evidence of the gods' involvement over the course of the series. But it's certainly a…

Sure, she can do it. It just doesn't seem as if it's likely to make anyone better off, including her.

If her solution to a fractious realm full of self-interested factions that won't work with her for the greater good is to burn it to the ground, maybe it would be best for everyone if she stayed out of Westeros.

Not uncommon in Communist states. Cuba still bans "publicly manifested" homosexuality (and famously put AIDS patients in quarantine camps), the USSR under Stalin made male homosexuality punishable by five years at hard labor, East Germany censored mentions of homosexuality in the press and broke up attempts to…

Certainly Cisco feels unaccountably compelled to go to Detroit and fight for justice. And revive breakdancing.

DePaul University is run by the Vincentian Brotherhood.
St. Vincent DePaul worked in Paris.
Paris was responsible for starting the Trojan War.
The Amazons fought for Troy.
WONDER WOMAN APPEARANCE CONFIRMED!!!!111!!!!1!

Given when he retired, I bet Merv never had a computer on his desk. (Though toward the end, I'm sure his secretary did.)

While I think Erik's right that Betty evokes Elizabeth's mother, the dying widow of a soldier in the Great Patriotic War, she's also a parallel to Elizabeth herself. Starting obviously with the name, but also the marriage that first went nowhere because it was based on illusions, and then became real when they really…

That sort of conversation is only going to lead to William wanting a doll.

"It's a common practice among my people. Men of my village carry tires to prove our manhood."

Though the Flash less than most when it comes to romance. Barry was married to Iris till death did they part. (Twice, because yeah, comics.) Wally played around for a while, but once he finalized things with Linda that was pretty much that. And Jay was with Joan from the day criminal carelessness in a chemistry…

Time travel logic is always tricky. But it's possible that the first version we saw isn't the first iteration of Barry's life through the timestream. Maybe the "original" life story of the Flash is closer to the Silver Age version— no dead mom or jailed dad, Barry is raised by his parents, then is caught in an…

Though as many have pointed out, Iris's apparent lack of a sibling is a real damper for producing Wally. Obviously they can decide that there's someone previously unmentioned (much older sibling from dad's never-brought-up first marriage?), but it's a little odd they didn't lay the groundwork.

I liked it for the first year or so. ("Tenzil for the Defense", in particular, is a stone classic.) Then it rapidly evinced terminal ADD, an overfondness for continuity patches and reifying decade-old fan theories over actually telling a coherent story, and an increasing reliance on Shocking Developments, e.g.,…

My only Legion continuity ended before she was born, though I dutifully tried every one that followed, sometimes for years.