Chronobabble is the time-travel version of technobabble/Treknobabble, and this show is soaking in it. It means (a) they can say anything they want, even if they contradict themselves, because Time Travel, and (b) any viewer who thinks "but if they can do X, why don't they try Y?" is just wasting his… time. But just to…

I'd say that was true of Jor-el, but I bet if we looked at enough stories it wouldn't be true of Superman. But I will confess I can't come up with an example off the top of my head, so you may have the right of it.

Part the 3: What they've done with Jay Garrick has been a drag since his first episode. He shows up on a new world, with no superspeed - where was he for six months? How did he figure out everybody's secret? (In that episode, Cisco announces they've increased security dramatically, then two seconds later Jay shows up…

Part the 2: The whole Barry/Patty things, with its contrived obstacles and bad logic, was terrible. If villains don't know Barry's secret ID, that protects Patty. If Patty doesn't know, that doesn't help at all. It just makes things worse.

Part the 1: I LIKED the Turtle. Part of that is my affection for Aaron Douglas since his Galactica days. But they also did a good job of making him quirky as well as horrific. Loved the scene of him typing slooooow hunt-and-peck style!

Superman who puts people in the Phantom Zone? Actually, I think it's Det. Joe West who should be giving the lecture.

Right. And after all that, Barry - based on a momentary headshake from a guy he really didn't know (even if it is an alternate him, he doesn't know the guy's origin, history, or state of mind) - decides NOT TO BOTHER to save his mother! He was so set on it he risked everything and everyone (and Ronnie did wind up…

I hate to be logical and all, but the ghosts on AHS:H are (within the hotel) quite solid and animated. March killed Queenie. If Liz and Iris kill the Countess (not as royal as Queenie - see what I did there??!?) in the hotel, can't she just come back and kill them? And isn't killing Queenie in the hotel just setting…

Sometimes this show is the dumbest on TV. Damon and Stefan manage to subdue a 400-year-old vampire. But they can't kill him until they use his blood to unlink a spell. They do NOT pump him so full of vervain that he's asleep. They do NOT snap his neck. No, they chain him to some wooden chair, and they send Stefan off…

"What if nobody's home?" "Then you can come over to my house."
I thought that was perfect. Extraordinary forgiveness spun into seemingly ordinary conversation. I don't think Kevin is Jesus (despite the hole in his side); I don't think anybody in the show is Jesus. But I think the show is a depiction of how you can…

Agreed and agreed. And the mismatch between the childlike pictures in the book and the M.D.-level explanation (totally unnecessary) made little sense.

I don't see any definitive evidence that this episode revealed an actual (additional) supernatural aspect to the show's world, as opposed to just happening in Kevin's head. Near-death experiences actually happen. They may tell you something about the person who is having them, and they may have a profound effect on…

I am really enjoying Grimm long-term. Overall, the stories, and the characters' actions, make much more sense to me than in many SF/Fantasy series, which tend towards the "hey, it's magic and our characters are over the top, so we can just say anything!" (I'm looking at you, TVD.) Overall I enjoyed this episode,…

Towards the end of the previous episode, Betsy asks her daughter if a figure in her drawing is a "rhinoceros." (We didn't hear an answer.) When I saw the title, I had to double-check that this was a new episode. So we still don't have an explanation. (I also thought the drawing had a UFO instead of the sun.)

I'm enjoying this season of Grimm, and I'm glad it's being covered here. But I think they're making Adelind way too sympathetic way too fast. I accept that she's a mother and loves and cares about her children - but they've taken every edge off her character, and she's lost her cunning, her anger, her tendency towards…

It would be interesting if the ancient vampire inhabiting Jo's body were male. But I wouldn't expect the show to go anywhere near that. At least they've given us the first long-term same-sex relationship after all these years - two mean-girl standard-pretty-girl (in appearance, clothing, mannerisms - yes, of course…

I really liked seeing Constantine here; he was well-played (of course) and well-used. But did Oliver actually send away one of the most knowledgable mystics on the planet without asking him if he could help Thea, who is suffering under some sort of Lazarus-pit-based supernatural compulsion? In what fictional universe…

"Almer, not Elmer!" Samurai-Bun (we call them "man-buns" out here) was very annoyed to have to make the correction. A couple of my own: Matt doesn't want Mary back in Miracle for medical attention, but so that the magic of the town will protect their baby from the 90% miscarriage rate her circumstances imply. (This…

I just watched the most recent two episodes and I have to say I just don't understand the story any more - it seems like they're just throwing spaghetti against a wall to see what'll stick. Why do Lily and the Heretics, freed from a Prison World in which they were the only people, want to live in a Mystic Falls ghost…

Did I just watch Captain Cold freeze some laser beams solid, then break them? I realize we're dealing with comic-book "science," but that's setting the bar pretty low.
I also didn't quite get Joe's explanation to Barry: "After seeing the trauma you were going through, I knew I had done the right thing." You mean, after…