I was never into the comics much, but I had a best friend as a child who was into them so I knew some of the basics and I think read a couple.

I think we knew it was Earth 2 Laurel from the promo for the episode. I was a bit surprised that Thea wasn't in the episode and Diggle's storyline seems very detached from everything else.

You're right, I totally forgot about that.

I just can't see the show covering a war for 14 years, I think they'll make it shorter.

There are a lot of differences. If I remember right, in Book 1 they finish school before going off to Fillory so it spans a few years, but I think they're going to keep the Beast around longer in the show than they did in the novels. Julia never worked with him in the novels and he was killed at the end of the first…

I don't think the show is following the novels at this point, so I don't think it matters which you do first.

I watched the first season of this show back when it aired, and then read the book trilogy. I know the show didn't follow the books, but took a number of story elements from them but I kind of suspect that Season 2 will drift further away from the events in the novels.

Alfred the Great was able to defend Wessex against the Great Heathen Army and so far I don't think the show seems to be going in that direction, which is incredibly disappointing. I know the Vikings have had a few defeats, but that's such a huge historical thing that it seems like something they should stick to.…

I liked this episode, but I do think they need to sort of flesh out what the Legion of Doom's goals are.

After seeing how well Radcliffe made an LMD of himself, they should start checking everyone to see if they are also an LMD. They'd learn about May and any others, rather than be surprised later in the season.

Barry really just needs to get over his issues. There was nothing wrong with Wally capturing that guy, and at the time I thought if Wally caught him, and not Barry, then that would change the time-line but it only occurred to Barry later in the episode.

I actually wouldn't mind seeing Kara stop some regular criminals. I believe on the old Superman show, Clark often had to stop human criminals, so what's Kara's issue with doing it?

I liked it for the most part. I don't really get what Bruce's plan was or why he thought it would be a good idea to hand money over to Selina's mom. Her mom obviously isn't interested in getting to know Selina, and Selina doesn't seem to want her around because she knows she can't be trusted.

I think Caroline is the most human of the vampire characters, but she's also the only vampire who doesn't want to be cured. Stefan has wanted the cure since Season 4, Damon wants it to have a mortal life with Elena, now Enzo wants it so he can be mortal with Bonnie. Caroline though told Violet how great being a…

I think whether or not Elena is in the final episode is totally up to Nina. I think they'd love to have her back, but they can't force her to come back to the show since her contract was for 6 seasons and she left when it was up.

The episode description for 8x12 says that Damon makes a deal with Cade to save Stefan's soul and I've seen some speculation that it's Stefan becoming human again, so we'll find out in three weeks if that's the case of not, but if it is - then Stefan will be human by episode 13.

Alaric is off with the twins. I don't think the twins will be until towards the end of the season (probably episodes 15 & 16) so he could be gone for a few more episodes.

I commented about this further down as well. I think they need to fix it, so it's in with all the other TVD reviews in case anyone wants to look back.

I think they're going to turn at least one of the vampires human by the end. I think it could be Damon, Stefan or Enzo most likely, Caroline would be the most unexpected choice because it hasn't come up at all with her. If Enzo is turned then Bonnie/Enzo could wind up together with a mortal life. They could cure…

It also should be on TVD page and for some reason it isn't. - http://www.avclub.com/tv/th…