I'm on the edge of my seat, wondering what will happen with Barbara - the well defined, interesting character we've gotten to know over the past four weeks, and who appeared outside of their apartment for the first time at the end of this episode.

Oh bullshit. Chris Pratt is pretty clearly the central star of that movie.

I think Evans' chief concern has always been the pace at which they are cranking these things out. I saw an interview where he lightly complained about how he doesn't have a ton of time to work on personal projects or whatever, because he's just constantly riding the Marvel gravy train.

I blacked out there for a second.

Having some heated skirmishes is one thing, but the free-for-all of death it becomes… including enlisting bad guys in the fight, for gods sake… was ridiculous. I also thought it was odd that one woman guilt tripping Tony Stark was all it took to turn him into a staunch government stooge willing to go to war against…

Should be noted the MCU version will also likely be heavily, heavily condensed compared to the insane amount of stuff going on in the comics version.

Evans has hinted for a while that he wants to stop after his lengthy Marvel deal is up… which I think is after Avengers 3. Said he wants to direct and stuff, I think.

The writing is bad, but the events themselves are interesting enough. Presumably Millar will have little or nothing to do with writing the film version, so it could be way, way better.

I've been mostly enjoying the show so far, though Fish Mooney is becoming a little gratingly one note as a character, and they really need to show a redeeming side to Bullock soon. And of course, the logistics of the balloon man episode made no sense, but aside from that parasite eating at my brain, I thought the…

In an ideal world, creators would have the final say on anything done with their creative ideas. But they don't - they typically (and knowingly) agree to sign over this control, often for bags of money.

A new Ghostbusters could be fine, so long as the director understands why people like the old one, and he gets a cast that works well as a comic ensemble. It will never be the same, because the actors WERE that movie, but that doesn't mean "different but equal" is impossible. Certainly very hard, but not impossible.

Also… there are "Lorde age-truthers"? Who gives a shit? She's a musician.

I love the idea that a small article was brought to their attention, and they thought it was fucking stupid enough to devote an entire subplot to making fun of it.

Yeah, his vegan character in Pilgrim was hilarious. Fuck it - that whole movie is great.

I think Brandon Routh is fine. He just happened to be in a shitty Superman movie. There have been better actors, in worse movies. Look at some of the dogshit De Niro and Pacino have been in, in their waning years.

This episode was too overstuffed with table setting stuff, and I almost got whiplash from the speed of the character development - Oliver shows a willingness to do more with his life than just fight crime, and them BAM, nope, back to normal. He and Felicity go from being in as good a place as they've ever been, to a…

Oh, and I also like the relationship between Mac and Fitz already. Mac is probably the new character I like the most.

Fitz's scene with Ward was fantastic. You could really feel his anger and frustration when Ward was insisting that he actually saved their lives.

I think you guys are being kind of hard on this show. It's not "Arrow Season 2" good yet, but I think the C-ratings are pretty harsh.

There's a DC video about their Supervillains, where Geoff Johns says that he considers Captain Cold to be the "opposing force" of the Flash, because when you cool something down, it's molecules slow down.. as opposed to the Flash, who is constantly in extremely quick motion. Get it?