Yeah. I reeeeally wish Hawkman had been ditched and replaced with Nyssa, who is a much more fun character, and would allow her and Sara to fill the troubled couple niche.

As a big superhero comic fan, I appreciate this show’s willingness to embrace the most far-fetched elements of the genre.

Halfway through the first episode, I was thinking that if it weren't for Isabella's continued brainwashed state, the show was as close to perfect as if it was ever going to get. And then that got resolved. I'm really excited about how the season will end.

Nope. She was in the center of a low-key love triangle between Red (played, by the way, by Eka Darville of Jessica Jones—actors from that season have done damn well for themselves) and Black, with her implicitly choosing Black by the end.

My favorite bit of meta? The Power Rangers references. Not only am I happy as punch to see the new film referenced—and now wonder if the character who supposedly auditioned for the film was played by an actor who did the same—the fact that it happened in a show whose star is in fact a former Power Ranger (in the…

Oh! Thank you.

Yeah, I didn't like that either. The series has a rather dismal record when it comes to women of color*, so trying to bring up things that matter, only to undermine their importance, while at the same time introducing a character—or caricature—to suggest Liv might eat her felt like a bucket of cold water.

Sure!

I'm not sure how Bendis' marginalization of many popular X-Men for his run is an inherent negative: Morisson's X-Men arguably did the same thing, consisting as it did of Professor X, Cyclops, Emma, Jean, Beast, Xorn / Magneto, Wolverine, and his new mutant students.

I know, I know… Silver linings were there for sure, and held on to them like a baby duckling to a mother figure, but then the episode went and had Rebbecca compare her situation to Paula's (what) and then tell everyone in her office that IT'S OKAY TO FEEL, as if that is ever the problem in musicals or at Whitefeather,…

I think I've realized where I stand regarding Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: I enjoy the show a lot, but I'm pretty sure I don't actually like it.
This episode was half-and-half for me. I'm glad that they finally had Rebbecca considering therapy and medication again, and rather miffed that the latter was treated as something…

Having the newest crime lord be someone close to Luisa again is repetitive. Having it be Luisa's mother again is brilliant. It's a damn good thing the elder Solano is too dead to marry again, is all I'm saying.

The episode's first scene, with Liv and Major dealing with their new circumstances (in bed), reminded me a lot of Pushing Daisies and Ned and Chuck own obstacles, and then the magic-themed murder made the vibe all the stronger. While the episodes as episodes are comparable in quality, I feel, I think Pushing Daisies…

This is true, and it makes me wish we knew more about Rebecca's life in New York. As is, there's still a disconnect, I feel, given that Rebecca tends to talk about her mental health in terms of depression and low self-esteem, not mania, while we've seen far more of the latter than we have the former. While this…

Except…she's clearly far more happy in West Covina than she ever was in New York, where the implication is that her depression led to actual suicide attempts (while still, somehow not at all hampering her ability to consistently work at a super-demanding job and being liked by her co-workers), And that's where the…

Yeah, you're right. I just mean that she's not getting married of for a single specific purpose, which means there's more space to operate than might exist if, for example, she were key to finalizing a war-ending treaty. It seems to me that, even if she couldn't have the final word (which would be not marrying)…

Should? In theory? No. In the particular context of Brave (and, more generally monarchies) where lines of succession and alliances by marriage are key elements of maintaining a sustainable status quo and a functional state? Then yeah, telling one's daughter that it's totally fine to put one's desires ahead of the…

To add to this, I think it's also that this status quo isn't exactly exceptional—Cary has been chronically marginalized since season 4. When we got his legal troubles in season 6, I remember that it felt special because oh my God a Cary plot.

Five episodes in, and I think I'm pretty sure I will never be okay with the show's premise and what it ends up saying about mental health and mental illness—or the formulaic nature of the songs, which leads me to believe they'll be bringing diminishing returns soon enough—which is a shame because there are a lot of…

I'd stopped watching Reign shortly before the end of season 2, but decided to see how things were going with the show, largely because I'd heard they might finally kill Francis. So Kenna is gone, apparently? Lola is married to Narcisse? Greer is around in some capacity, and possibly not still a madam. (Don't tell me…