Well, time travelling supervillains DO ruin everything! That's just realism…

It may be illegal in some places, depending on how exactly Joe formalised his guardianship of Barry.

Apparently not. "Earth 3 doesn't have a Flash anymore! The world needs me! Unlike the world I come from, which also doesn't have a Flash anymore!"

Literally nothing happened this episode, except that the end of the last episode was reversed, and a character from another world we never see anyway sacrified himself (and probably became Savitar, but we didn't see that)

Seems like Jay is the obvious candidate for Savitar now.

*supresses mildly condescending European laughter at hearing the words "dating back 100 years" and "really old architecture" in the same sentence…*

It may be easiest to think of there just being a 'cooldown' period.

Which is odd, because it's Angel who actually says that the vampire is the same person as the human - or, at least, partly so.
I never saw Angel and Angelus as all that different, to be honest. Angelus is Angel without the inhibitions and the Catholic guilt - guilty and controlled people often have something to be…

I certainly suspect that's why there's such a Xander-backlash now…

I prefer to think of it as Xander's consequences just occuring out of sequence. He is, after all, the one who is repeatedly almost eaten and who gets the funny syphillis. And he's a git. So he gets the terrible karma, it just always line up precisely with his action, in terms of cause-and-effect…

I agree. I actually don't much like S5 as a whole, because I don't like its tonal direction and the writing feels lazy (relative to S2-S3 - of course, it's great compared to S6!); the arc is good, but few individual episodes are memorable. But Dawn's a great concept, and I think she's well written and really well…

"the… thing they mess around with for a little bit before dropping completely" - AKA everything at the beginning of S7.

Yeah, but if you're going to be a shy introvert, better to be a Willow. She has skills, and interests, and hidden badassness! And some of the time isn't patronising!

I know it's become a cliché, but the writing and the line delivery for Snyder's "There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after
school; horrible murders with hearts being removed; and also smoking," are so good I think they elevate it above the trope and makes it perhaps the best version of…

"Slow down" was probably too vague an expression for me to choose, but I was just typing as I was thinking.

As Seric and Joe Don Baker say below, I think you need to add in The Puppet Show. I think it may actually be one of my favourite episodes overall - really creepy, good twisty plot, hilarious (particularly the end credits), and it's also iirc the introduction episode for Principal Snyder: "My predecessor, Mr. Flutie,…

Well, both sides are fair here. On the one hand, this is an established convention in a lot of SF. On the other hand, it's basically nonsense.

Which also raises the question: can the person who becomes Syd use Syd's powers? Or do they just LOOK like Syd? (although a cooldown would take care of that problem too, I guess).

Hang on, how did that work, anyway? Because if she turned back into herself while she was still having sex with him, shouldn't she then have immediately become him (and he her)? Not that that would make it any less weird and mutually traumatic, but you'd have thought it would be worth her mentioning…

That was Man Who Wears All His Clothes.