Historically, that's what Marvel's approach to superheroics has been. Come for the superheroics, stay for the character interaction. It's what separated Fantastic Four from the other comics at the time. It's why Spider-Man succeeded by utilizing it's soap opera like elements. And it's why X-Men and Avengers have been…

On that Women in Refrigerators (referencing that Green Lantern story), Simone compiled a list of instances of female comic book characters who were killed off as a plot device. But the term came to be used more broadly, over time, to refer to any character who is targeted by an antagonist who has them killed off,…

Nick Fury lost an eye. Coulson lost a hand. Judging off patterns, I think Mack will lose a foot.

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Yeah. It's an example of the trope (not fridging because I believe that's usually more gruesome) but more of the Gwen Stacy variety. But it's one that works given the context. Rosalind herself was a spy and she got a spy death. And as you said, Coulson was already determined to kill Ward.

Definitely. It also felt like the characters were going through the motion of a crossover and origin story, rather than actually being organic. There's also very little stakes. Vandal Savage is after who? Kendra, this person who went on a few dates with Cisco and literally that's all they have told us about her.

To be clear, I think Rosalind's murder was the right move. I'm not against what they did, especially considering Ward's and Coulson's reaction.

I'm hoping that Ward proves himself to be superior to Coulson (maybe by exploiting Coulson's fake hand). Ward gloats, but at last second Fitz sneaks in for the kill on Ward.

I think Flash understands what its trying to be better than SHIELD and thus is a better show overall, thus has a higher baseline. But yeah, this week's episode is proof that people's just wanted to see superhero team ups and flashing lights unfortunately. I dont care at all about Kendra and I dont see why the team…

Finally, the Director of SHIELD is black again.

As far as midseason finales go, I like the idea of a Coulson vs Ward showdown more than a cliffhanger.

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I'd really hate it as a viewer for that to be a cliffhanger.

Flash has been a better show than SHIELD though. If anything it should be graded harsher. But the thing is superhero team up makes people nerd out, and their views are skewed. It's a clear bias.

1, 4, 5 are more reflective of the work relationship between Kara and Cat. I kept the whole conversation so you know who Cat is talking to. 2 is more reflective of Cat's arrogance.

Yeah, no man would ever use boy, but girl is used more commonly among females as a colloquialism than boy is for men. Personally I prefer to not get into simply because DC will never change the name for branding purposes. I think it's better that a character takes the name and adds their own meaning to it.

There's another Debbie Downer among like the first five comments. Personally I prefer Negative Nancy. I'm not going to have a nerdgasm every time this show has superheroes teaming up.

I wasn't feeling this episode at all. Like most of the Legends of Tomorrow stuff, I felt it was needlessly tacked on world buiding (needless for the Flash series, necessary for Legends). A lot of the dialogue was exposition (including magically appearing Malcom. Team Arrow also needs better security, although I guess…

I think people will be fine with it because Hawkman was white in the comics, probably because he was created when they were only making white superheroes when he was created.

Kara Danvers: A female superhero, shouldn't she be called Superwoman?
Cat Grant: I'm sorry, darling, I just can't hear you over the loud color of your cheap pants.