I don't know… Superman fighting giant monsters has been a staple of the character since the 1940s. The giant spider may have been a detour into sci-fi silliness for the movie, but it was still in keeping with the character's history (even if the guy who suggested it was a complete loon).

… Yeah, I guess that last part makes sense. I'll buy it.

"Medusa is the closest English word— and reasonably apt considering what the virus does."

These shows are WRITTEN?!?

Yeah… unlike Superman, Lex is safely tucked away in a perfect little plot box, where his presence can have an effect on the characters connected to him but he's also logically locked away out of sight. This is something they can, and should, maintain… unlike the awful tactics they used to keep Superman off-camera last…

Agreed! I was actually charmed by the scene in which Kara finds out he's working as a low-level mob collector. There was something so refreshingly straightforward about Mon-El's suggestion that, hey, maybe he DIDN'T want to spend his life punching people and putting his safety at risk. After all, being super-strong…

Well, they can save that for next year, when Alex will probably be nursing a broken heart over Maggie leaving town or something and Sara can swing in with her devil-may-care smirk for the rebound.

"YOU may be an alien, but I'M CYBORG-SUPERMAN!!!"

So, um, this may be a stupid question, but why would a Kryptonian scientist name a biological weapon after a mythological figure from an ancient civilization on a planet thousands of light-years away? A planet that Krypton had never actually established any kind of cultural contact with, making it extremely unlikely…

Well, they still have all that sweet, sweet Spider-Man money coming in next year, but they have to suffer the indignity of admitting that Marvel basically made the film for them. Because apparently without Sam Raimi around, they were just not capable of making a good film about one of the most beloved superheroes in…

I felt like the new Ghostbusters was decidedly mediocre, but it was watchable and it had its moments… and honestly, it's better than Ghostbusters II by a pretty good margin.

The Smith draft of Superman Lives reads like an excitable comic geek's fan script— which makes sense, since that's basically what it WAS. It was loaded with comic-accurate details, plot points, and fan service (hello, gratuitous Batman cameo!), but the story was flat and there was a ton of mischaracterization and…

He DID just direct two episodes of The Flash, and an upcoming episode of Supergirl. But that's it.

Well, no, there WAS a story… It was just the most thinly-sketched story they could have possibly managed.

I do hope that if/when Snart returns from the great beyond, he steers clear of the Legends of Tomorrow and goes back to his roots: trying to take Central City for everything it's worth. Cold was much, MUCH more interesting as an honorable villain than he was as a snarky anti-hero, and I honestly think his interplay…

There was a future version of the Teen Titans during Geoff Johns' run that was basically an evil Justice League. And comic-book Barry just ended up fighting a future version of himself a couple years ago that was travelling back in time killing people to fix the timeline… (Hey— that sounds disturbingly familiar!)

Okay, I've bitten my tongue on this subject for the past few weeks, but I think this episode has forced me to ask the big question:

I'm not gonna lie: I don't HATE Avatar. It's a well-made movie that entertained and affected me while I was watching it. It had good performances, beautiful design work, and some solid action set-pieces. And of course, the 3-D in the theater was amazing.

Oh, snap! I forgot that Nicholas Meyer was a producer on this show! The guy pretty much DEFINED good Trek in the eighties. I mean, come on— Wrath of Khan, man! That says it all!

Well, they actually did use that on her in the opening montage in "Human for a Day", and it did jack sh*t to speed her recovery at the time. So it's probably not a factor.