Though he WAS the first to go “Let an AI that destroyed the world rewire my brain? Sign me up!” and so became Patient Zero for the City of Light.

But when they specifically mention sci-fi’s “literary origins”, that does imply something older.

Well, it’s not like you can interview Isaac Asmiov, Philip K. Dick, or Arthur C. Clarke, what with them being dead and all.

Isn’t the main rule of 80's comedies that any action, no matter how horrible and morally repugnant it would be in other circumstances, is good and heroic when it’s done to torment those hoity-toity rich folk?

That happened a while ago, I think. I always click “Show Pending” right away when I get to a comments section, so the grey/not-grey distinction hasn’t been something I’ve really paid attention to.

Marlize mentions that Clifford hasn’t allowed any time for them to be together “as husband and wife”. That’s giving me hope that Ralph will eventually regain control of his body, and they put that line in so they wouldn’t have the unfortunate implication of, “Wait, did the DeVoes rape him?”

I did keep thinking how Leo pulled almost exactly this same grief counselor thing with the Legends, but there it was shorter and had puppets, so it was about a million times better.

Re: Barry running face first into a sonic blast:

*Quentin Lance pops his head in*

Please keep these reviews coming. If the rest of the season is anything like this premiere, we’re all in for a wild ride.

There were a lot of faces in shadow during that last scene.

Nice review!

“Make Algae, Not War”

A written essay can convey an authoritative tone depending on how you word it. A video essay can convey an authoritative tone depending on how you word it, AND depending on how you edit and perform it. Presentation is a much larger aspect of the experience for video essays than for written ones.

Well, there is a point that editing style and tone of voice can make a video essay seem much more authoritative than it actually is.

The things from Season 2 that Kara called out Mon-El for were kinda weird choices to go with. Yeah, he treated superhero training and his job at CatCo with zero respect or responsibility, but then, he didn’t WANT to do those things in the first place. Kara pushed him to do those things because she figures that, if…

She doesn’t seem disgusted by him killing people, but by him being unnecessarily brutal about it: burning a guy alive instead of just shooting him, or repeatedly bashing a guy’s face in long after he was down for the count.

“This show and (particularly) The Flash have their ‘good guys’ failing all the time just to make the Big Bad of the season ‘smart’ or ‘ten steps ahead’ and for the sake of the plot. It’s one of the major reason these shows are becoming less and less enjoyable, and the characters look like complete idiots.”

If Warner Bros. was smart, their upcoming Shazam! movie would lean into this genre. That character was HUGE during the Golden Age of Comics (back when he was called Captain Marvel) but has never really taken off since then. Leaning into the charm, humor, and sensibility of those 1940's stories is definitely what I’d…

I have an odd relationship to that mid-90's darkness-and-edginess style that you see in The Crow. I was a few years shy of being a teenager at the time, and didn’t really partake in this sort of music, fashion, or storytelling style. But I was still aware of it as a thing that older kids were into, so for me all that…