Slightly puzzled: wait, Flash is still a hero in the 26th century? No wonder everybody from the future hates him, if he's been God-Emperor for six hundred years…

Newsflash: in Europe, we generally consider all your (i.e. Americans') "latinos" to be white. Unless maybe it's someone from the rural Andes.

Traditional comic book reasoning, though. Every hero lives in an entirely isolated world where the others don't exist… until there's a crossover.

If the reviewer thinks Alex was "so far beyond the bounds of normal human behaviour", I can only assume they haven't met many humans…

I think this was the first time there WASN'T a Mon-El problem.
All season long, the show has been weirdly obsessing over him for no apparent reason. That's been a problem (and caused problems because he didn't have enough character development to withstand that attention without the seams showing).

The Eastern Front was legitimately much worse militarily in WWII, and then there's the "Pacific War" element in WWII, although I think it makes more sense to think of that as a separate conflict that happened to overlap with WWII.
The Western Front was much worse in WWI, however. It was even worse when you consider…

My point was that while, yes, the Great Patriotic War (the war between the Nazis and Russia) killed more than WWI, the western front "WWII" that Amaya saw, and that American, British and European audiences learn about, was a much, much smaller and less bloody affair than WWI. I guess it feels a particularly…

I could have done with one of the infodumps, instead of three of them that repeated similar information…

No, Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

I thought the acting for Dana was pretty good, actually. It's just that "confused, depressed, disconnected, self-absorbed and irrelevent to the plot" is a hard look to make appealing, no matter how well you do it. Paige, by contrast, also gets notes of curiosity and of a broader perspective, which makes it much easier…

He thinks America is Satan - evil, but also all-powerful. He has no affection for or illusions about Russia - he works for the USSR only to hurt America. But he doesn't actually think he's winning a war or anything, just that he's hurting America. Which is realistic for someone whose entirely family were slaughtered…

By the way: seriously? You're going to spoil the twist ending of the episode in the title of your review?
I'm not someone who shouts abuse at review writers, but if I were, I'd be doing that right now. That has to be the most basic and egregious sin of a reviewer. Rule One: Don't Give Away The Plot In Your Title.…

I think that what irritates many is that it's not just an unexpected way of seeing a particular episode… it now feels like certain reviewers' automatic first port of call when deciding how to feel about something is just to ask what race the characters are. Which by this point has become boring and lazy. And, frankly,…

Which, realistically, is true of almost all of us.

The way they de-horrible-ised the Somme in general was disappointing. No, it was not a mildly messy field where people fought each other hand-to-hand - it was a cratered mudflat where people were machine-gunned by the tens of thousands. To take one small example: 801 soldiers from Newfoundland were part of the attack…

Frankly the same could be said of finding Tolkien. The guy spent his entire, very well documented, life sitting in a university library - and you pick the one point where he was instead briefly located in a warzone?

I think it's important to also see the way that fascism can rise, and the effects that it can have on ordinary people, from the ground level, as it were, in a way that is very difficult for a sober documentary to really chronicle - particularly regarding days when available news footage is limited.

Pretty disappointing. A lot of the writing felt like it was by people who didn't know the character they were writing for, and the musical side was rather flat.

It's really good. There are Nazis. And bisexual love triangles. And a woman standing on a chair remarkably suggestively. Also, Nazis.

Yes. "Mildly racist" was actually low down the list of offences, behind things like "boring", "confusing", "silly", "cliché", and "total derailment of the established tone and arc". But it was on the list somewhere…