It was strange to see a season premiere of a big show with so much…bookkeeping to it. It wasn't so much setting up storylines as straightening ledgers. The purpose of this episode was to write out Dad and Ronnie, write in Jay Garrick, and have the Atom Smasher allude to Zoom. Given that we ended the season with Dr.…

I actually liked Robbie Amell in the role, but his resemblance to his brother was distracting. When they focused on his face as Firestorm it was always "Wait. Why's Oliver Queen on fire here?"

Lampshading STAR Labs secuirty once was cool. It felt like they did it at least three times, which was not so cool. However, the whole thing was saved by Cisco's sad "For real?" when Garrick shows up right after they've been boasting about the tighter security.

Now I miss Raul Julia, all over again.

That was my situation, and Unlimited is pretty damn amazing for a lapsed reader. The only downside is that you're six months behind the publication date of most new Marvel comics, so you're permanently behind on the fan discussion. But if you don't care about that, there's no downside.

Apparently, DC can't do this because of the royalty agreements they have with their creators. They've figured out how to pay royalties for digital sales, but not for a subscription service.

No joke. Dude got shot, checked his mouth for blood to make sure he didn't have a collapsed lung, and then gave an hour-long speech before seeking medical help.

This was always the problem with organic web shooters: the story of a teenage boy who shoots out ropes of a viscous, sticky liquid from his body hits a little too close to home for the comic's core audience.

You could easily hide a case of Pabst under that scarf.

That's…not pee.

Argh! You beat me to it!

DC: Some kid wrote me to say that he'd bet @doesitmatter $20 that we wouldn't give this directing assignment to Michelle MacLaren. I wanted to make that kid some money.

My bad—I misremembered Joey's line. He actually says "Right," not "No." Also, Mac starts the scene by telling Joey "Don't worry, we're going to get you out of here." which is why he says "Didn't I tell you?" when the box lands. Not super-brilliant writing, but not nonsensical, either.

Yeah, Oliver's great, but Set Watch(tm) is one of the least appealing features of these reviews. Maybe best to mention it when he likes the sets, rather than every single time he doesn't?

This'll be the big test, I guess. If the movies don't mention a huge uptick in superpowered people since Avengers 2, then the relationship is truly only one way. Given that we're eventually going to have an Inhumans movie, I don't see how Civil War happens without someone mentioning Inhumans showing up around the…

He was a secret agent on a mission to meet dangerous people. Wherever he shows up, some characters he meets are going to be terrorists or thugs. The cab driver was pretty clearly neither, he looked genuinely broken up that he could neither go to the meet with Fitz or talk him out of it.

You should check your TV speakers, because on the second of those two you definitely missed a line. I saw that scene again with headphones on, and Joey replies "No" to that "It's not like this day can get any crazier." That's why he yells "I take it back!" after the safe room/escape pod takes off.

It's really hard to shave when your hands don't work because of brain damage.

"Mac chipped it off"

He was annoying as hell for about 2/3rds of season 1, but he got a lot better down the stretch, when the show itself got good. In that stretch, he was the one character on the show who was permitted to act like a real human being with emotions while everyone else in the cast was stuck repeatedly hitting the one note…