I completely agree with you about this being exactly the right amount of Mon-El. Chris Wood is delightful in that role, when I'm not resenting him for eating up too much airtime.

Yeah, they're basically making this a gender-bent Superman show, which I'm fine with.

Snapper is also the only character that more or less consistently knows what journalism is and what it actually entails.

This felt like a Season One "Supergirl" episode, and that is not at all a criticism. CBS, for all its limitations, seemed to enforce some discipline that has been desperately missing for most of this season.

One of the things the show benefits from at this point is that they've all been through so much shit, individually and collectively, that there's that bond that only comes from sharing a foxhole. They have their issues and grievances with each other, but the shared experiences mean they'll be inextricable parts of…

If nothing else, it makes the hiatus until 2018 feel REALLY long. Because, like, I'm super excited about every single plot thread they queued up in this finale.

Agreed completely. He's starting to edge into genuinely likable territory, which isn't something I thought I'd say about any of our main characters. Eliot's own failures have endowed him with empathy, which in turn makes him a better friend and a better king.

As soon as that name came up, I spent the rest of the episode with Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson stuck in my head.

Regina King just stuck the bits of her that were left after the drone strike in a shoebox and buried it. After three days in the ground, Evie had a real WTF moment.

"Fuck it, we'll do it live!"

The bit with the birds at the end had me thinking it was Australia, but the preacher looked eerily like William Miller himself, so I was thinking that perhaps it was set in upstate New York in the vicinity of Mapleton before suburban sprawl robbed the area of its rural character.

I'm kind of bummed that Sylvia didn't make it. In two episodes, she started to really grow on me.

I feel like goddesses punishing their demigod children for rape, torture and murder are more or less analogous to mortal parents punishing their children for stomping on ants. Sure, maybe mom gives a spare thought to the ants, but mostly she's concerned with her son's disappointing behavior.

One of the interesting things is that it's a decision she never would have made if she'd had her shade. But morality for Julia had been reduced to an intellectual construct, and the decision she made is perfectly logical within those constraints.

My guess is that they have plans for him down the road, even if they're only of the "special guest star" variety.

Also, Mick casually taking a swig of his beer while everybody else is terrified of their imminent demise as the time storm threatens to tear apart the ship.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the Legends (and by extension, the show's writers) demonstrate some uncharacteristic discipline and drop Leonard Snart and Damien Darhk precisely back at the moments in time that Eobard snatched them from, with their memories of Mr. Thawne's wild ride erased.

Yes. Just about the only circumstance in which I'd want to see Alicia make an appearance on this show would be as Colin Sweeney's lawyer with Reddick, Bozeman & Kolstad as opposing counsel.

Because he is one of the most hated men in Chicago and a moment of vulnerability in a public place would make for a tempting target.

I thought the power struggle between Louis Gossett Jr. and Delroy Lindo was well done. The reason it wasn't very impactful is because "The Good Firm" kept flogging the "firm infighting" horse not only long after it was dead, but months after natural decay had set in.