Huh.

I don't know… I'm starting to get a little tweaked at how every season somehow manages to find a NEW reason for a fresh batch of metahumans to keep cropping up, as if these things still have to be justified by a season-long plotline. First it was the particle accelerator explosion, then it was Earth-2 and Zoom, now…

That always seemed like sort of a fallacious dilemma, considering that every single episode was somehow resolved by Clark using his powers to intervene somehow.

"… things would have unfolded much the same."

" It just shouldn't have taken a decade for Clark to find his destiny."

I actually completely understood Lex's motivations— he does babble them out pretty thoroughly at the end of the movie. The problem is, they hinge entirely on the fact that Lex sees Superman as a symbolic (or a literal) GOD, and his twisted mind can't reconcile the existence of a benevolent deity— so he's driven to…

Don't say too much— AmaltheaElanor might want to be shielded from spoilers.

I can barely articulate just how amazing Tyler Hoechner is as Clark Kent/Superman.

Batman v. Superman is a godawful mess of a movie, but I've always maintained that even a bad movie can have great moments in it.

I found Arrow a lot more fun when 80% of the cast wasn't superheroes.

Yeah, the remake WAS dead serious, I'll give you that… but I almost feel like that contrast between a bitter, traumatized Mia and the doofy, witless Ash would create a lot of fantastic dramatic possibilities.

Yeah, it does seem kind of unlikely… (Unless it turns out that Lacey is actually… *shudder*… BROCK'S daughter, which would make her Ash's half-sister.)

I liked Iron Man 3 a lot myself, too. But I came at that ending with the naively optimistic thought process of "oh, wow… I wonder how they're going to continue from- and build off of this effective, logical character resolution in Avengers: Age of Ultron?"

Hmm… so Pepi Sonuga is playing Lacey Emery, the daughter of the sheriff and Linda Bates-Emery (the waitress Ash reunited with in the first episode of the season). Lacey is apparently going to stick around for future episodes, and of the five teens that were partying in the Delta, she's the only one the Delta DOESN'T…

Well, just consider the fact that they hired a twenty-one year old Brandon Routh to play a Superman who had already come to Earth, revealed himself to the world, defeated Lex Luthor, battled General Zod and his minions, knocked up Lois Lane, and taken a five-year round-trip to Krypton before the movie had even…

Well, Amazing Spider-Man 2 tried to do that, but the writing and direction kinda made Peter come off as a majorly arrogant asshat.

I think he means that the Iron Legion should have just been IT. Like, Tony's armchair coaching the opening battle from Stark Tower, sipping a margurita while the Ultron units are fighting with the Avengers. One of them retrieves the staff and gets corrupted by the gem— becoming fully sentient and totally evil. Ultron…

At least with Dark Knight Rises, Nolan had the basic integrity to NOT churn out a fourth Batman movie two years later, with Bale's Batman back in the suit with no explaination/justification.

It's a vampire show. There'd BETTER be stakes.

I agree… I just hope that future episodes this season take the time to give Sara a bit of Arrow's nuance with the character. So she's more like the Kirk of the original series, and not the Kirk of the J.J. Abrams movies.