Man, I struggle with the "Aries & Neville stole the show at Mania" talk. I struggled with it during the match, when everyone online was extatic about it, I struggled with it afterwards, when everybody was "man, they've set the bar so high the rest of the show won't compare", and I struggle with it now.

This one didn't really work for me.

Just have him be friggin Moon Knight, or something.

Because he got wasted as a Kaecilius underling in Doctor Strange ?

Yup, there are a few set pictures of the new guy-in-a-practical-armor/suit Savitar (as opposed to Guy-in-mocap-tights) out there, and anyway, the difference was indeed quite noticeable during the episode.

It's funny how the "they've improved in quality, these past few years" argument doesn't hold water a single second at Christmas time, when Hallmark clearly goes for quantity over quality, and rarely breaks the bank for any movie that doesn't feature C.C.Bure or a bigger name wanting some sort of easy paycheck.

Supposedly, three ships - the Discovery, the Shenzhou, the Klingon ship - with narration switching from one to another, again and again, and the storylines building up to some common event.

Except, you know, for the fact that none of the parts mentioned in the screenrant piece is for members of the Discovery crew.

As much as I like the Supergirl character & Melissa Benoist in that role, I've just realized that I just don't miss the show in its present incarnation : I kinda started drifting away from it right before the winter break (the crossover episode just bored me, I miss Ally McBeal, and I don't give a damn about half of…

I'm not as hard on the crossover as you are, but yeah, overall, it was, at best, pretty mediocre, with roughly 80-90 minutes of legit crossover spread out over three episodes (four if you believed the CW promo monkeys). In the end, it was pretty disappointing, and felt very half-assed.

Yeah… about what I expected : instead of a four-part crossover, it's gonna be a two and a half parts crossover, half-assed, and one that could have meant more if, instead of shoe-horning it in every show's narrative, Team Berlanti had made it some sort of special event, à la Doctor Who Christmas Special.

The Berlanti-verse writing really bugs me, these days. It's so sloppy, rushed… *sigh*

I'm not there yet with Supergirl (then again, I'm down to Supergirl and Flash, as far as the Berlanti-verse goes, and if I were to drop one, the other wouldn't be far behind), but ITA with you re: the writing.

Given the fact that the Arrow episode is supposedly mostly a stand-alone, too, (because 100th episode), it probably will end up being a two and a half parts crossover.

Right there, a couple of seconds in.

Really, can't Cesaro & Seamus temporarily recruit someone to counter Xavier's influence ? Just ask Sara to bring her facepaint out of retirement, introduce her as Cesaro's close friend & WWE women's head trainer, and let her kick New Day's heads off for a couple of months…

Well, I've dropped Arrow seasons ago, and none of the episodes I've sampled here and there since then have made me reconsider my choice, so…

I'm just not feeling any of the Berlanti shows, right now. For different reasons, mind you, but I'm really hoping once the big crossover is done with, things will improve on every front, otherwise i'll probably bump a couple of those from my schedule, if not all of them.

Ugh. Both leads just have nothing in common with the characters, and everything here feels so… generic. I'm not a Besson hater (he's very flawed, but usually, his movies are still fun), but that trailer had the opposite effect it was intended to, as far as i'm concerned.

Which only makes them worse, really, considering CBS/Supergirl's budget. ^^