I'm a fan of both shows and I was absolutely delighted. No, it's not a perfect episode, but it proves—as Supergirl frequently does—that even after 30+ years of being subverted and generally trashed, the classic superhero tropes still work just fine.

Today in National City, the Flash/Supergirl team teamed up in National City.

Maybe it's better that they don't conclusively answer whether a Kryptonian or a speedster is faster.

I stood up out of my seat. I didn't mean to. I just did.

OF COURSE WE DO SIR. *guards nuts*

Visions Of Light is excellent, well worth the time for anybody who likes the great filmmakers and wants to learn a little more about how it's done.

A big opening weekend does not mean moviegoers have made up their minds. It means the hype campaign was successful.

It's his dick.

He's really not.

You know, this comes up so much that I'm kind of surprised that people debate whether or not Batman killed the guy (probably not; he's Batman) and overlook the gravity of Batman pointing the gun at the guy at all (which is a big deal just by itself, because he's Batman). For a book that's mainly concerned with how…

"A virtuous person ? In the real world,"

Are they vegan?

Wrong. They try to shoot black people and end up hitting a bunch of other people, including each other.

Those issues are excusable when the storytellers take the time to understand the characters and come up with a solid motivation for why such a virtuous person might be forced to take a life.

I wonder how many of these things have to have a catastrophic second weekend before they have to scrub their plans for future movies.

Paul Schrader had a script for a Hank movie in the late '70s/early '80s, but the family didn't like it, so it never got made. I have to think that if they blocked a script from Schrader at the height of his powers as a screenwriter, they're only interested in a very limited kind of movie and this is probably it.

Exactly. I can accept versions of these characters who are pushed to the point where they have to take a life, as long as the storyteller earns it. Not only did Snyder not earn a version of Superman who kills, he doesn't earn any version of the character. Nothing in Man of Steel is earned.*

Well, that's kind of my point.

EDIT

It was more like a couple hours, or whatever the running length of Unbreakable minus the last scene is.