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I loved the scenes between Polaris and Reed. I wish there had been more of them. What an interesting dynamic. Stephen Moyer played it exactly right; if there had been even a hint of indignation at Polaris’s chilly response, it would have torpedoed his character. He knows she’s right, and when she calls him out for all

I also thought her father’s explanation for rejecting her was bullshit. First, it makes no sense that Earth-38 would be building a Trump-esque wall along the Mexican border, since Lynda Carter is the very pro-immigrant U.S. president in that version of America. It felt like the writers wanting to get a dig in about

Thank you! This was my number one complaint about this episode. Supergirl should never take a life unless she absolutely has to. And when she does, it should be a VERY big deal.

I didn’t make the association with Harrison Wells’s house — I’d forgotten we’d even been shown it until I saw your post — but that house has been featured in just about every show that’s ever shot more than a season or so in Vancouver.

This is one of the best portrayals of a child in foster care I’ve ever seen. Every beat with Deja feels organic to what we know of her and the experiences she’s had. Her actions make perfect sense in context. She’s allowed to be perceptive and three-dimensional.

I would bet it’s less of a matter of 1980 or 1990 and more a matter of Jack and Rebecca being Randall’s mom for the past however many years. As he grew up, they’d have seen this subtle racism up close, even though Randall was too young to parse what was going on for most of it.

Until their date at the very end, I figured that Gypsy was trying to tell Cisco she was pregnant. I thought that was what the whole 1+1=1 thing was about, especially since H.R. had explained a different Valentine’s Day alternative for Earth-19 at some point last season.

I sort of looked at this whole episode as a critique of Spider-Man: Homecoming, which basically turned the Spidey suit into an Iron Man armor. The conclusion this episode came to is correct: The Flash should just be the Flash.

They’ve reused that set a bunch of times across the various Arrowverse productions, with various set dressings to disguise it. But this was definitely the least disguised other use yet.

I’m guessing Willa Holland only decided to sign for 14 episodes or so again this season, and Thea will be riding out that coma for roughly the next nine episodes.

I got the impression that the tremors weren’t the result of PTSD but rather a physical injury from the island that he’s hiding from the rest of the team.

I had a blast from beginning to end with tonight’s premiere. I’m grateful for the hour of more or less pure fun every week.

I LOVED that season premiere. It did a satisfying job creating dramatic build-up to the Flash’s big return, and then the payoff was worth the wait. Barry got his Big Damn Hero moment.

My one complaint — and it’s a big one — is that we’re back to the Caitlin Snow/Killer dichotomy when the season finale promised us

Yeah, whatever they needed to do, they should have just come up with something to explain away the Irish accent rather than trying to mitigate it.

Technically Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom but not part of Britain. Britain and the UK get used interchangeably, but Great Britain ceased to be a political entity in 1801 when the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland merged. Now Britain is just a land mass. But British is still the correct demonym for

And they should have just explained that Lena spent the first few years of her life in Ireland with her birth mother before Lionel brought her back into his nest. Then we wouldn’t all have to endure the strained and inconsistent attempt at an American accent.

It had the alien tech on it to stabilize the internal pressure for use with the cloaking device. Presumably that same tech could have preserved structural integrity.

It was a great showcase of Supergirl, which didn’t always happen last season.

I thought Kara was pretty dour for the majority of the second season. At least with this premiere, the show acknowledged that it was a problem and started her down the path to dealing with the things that are contributing to it.

The idea of Cat Grant as press secretary is absolutely delicious, but the idea of her as a GREAT press secretary is absolutely ludicrous. People with sharp wits and razor tongues don’t mix well with that office.