Either that or to explain why it had to be Simmons because Fitz wouldn’t have been able to survive the implant.

My thought is that those robots weren’t the the reason for the collapse, they were just left overs from a society that did not play around when it came to theft. 

The CW really needs to do more crossovers with their non-superhero shows. Liv and Peyton from iZombie investigating a case in Riverdale & trying to mentor Betty and Veronica would be awesome.

So The Ray’s coming-out storyline seems more or less beat-for-beat like Alex’s amazing coming-out storyline last season on Supergirl, with her gradually coming out to first herself, her crush, and then her family and friends, and all the attendant anxieties.

If the CW wanted to go ahead and spin off a new channel and just play nothing but comic book shows, so Vixen and Freedom Fighters could have their own real shows, I’d be fine with that. Or, at this point, spin off all the non-comic book shows into their own channel.

I have that fake “Leanne” song stuck in my head!

And YOU’RE getting healthcare! And YOU’RE getting healthcare! EVERYONE is getting healthcare!!

One thing’s for sure: Ruby’s about to have the worst Christmas ever.

As far as I’m concerned, Arrowverse does include Supergirl - in that it’s established the all four of those shows can and do interact in the same universe (if just different worlds within it).

They have multiple non-white women on Legends with a woman captain. Also having several major female characters even in the same shot is such a rarity on genre shows, is it really time to complain about race in shows with many large non-white roles? Iris West, Firestorm, Martian Manhunter’s human form, they’ve…

Yes. That’s true in general, a lot of the issues with the writing of female characters is that there’s just so few of them in the same story. Putting the effort into just having several female characters is definitely the best ‘first step’.

I’m going to say right off: I agree 100% with everything you wrote.

I DO think you could give more credit to Elizabeth Olson as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, who you don’t mention, who in AGE OF ULTRON is the most powerful of the human characters, controlling the Hulk, frightening other characters and even scaring…

Yeah, no other superhero property has that.

Sara and Alex in the wedding brawl and the warehouse slugfest were absolutely golden.

The CW shows rides a weird line where it’s so unsubtle when it tries to address that stuff that it frequently comes off as just weirdly patronizing. Maybe the real virtue is not that the crossover treated all its women characters better, but that it just had so many that they had to diversify their roles in the story.

Thirteen.

“Black Widow is still one of the few Avengers without her own standalone movie”

I remember reading somewhere that the MPAA automatically gives an R-rating to any movie that features a same-sex kiss, so until that rule changes or PG-13 stops being the sought after rating for big budget action movies, superhero TV has a lot more leeway in that regard than their movie counterparts do.

Alex and Sara in their dresses beating up Prometheus at the church was utterly spectacular.

TV has long been willing and able to embrace more diversity in a way film really doesn’t - or takes years longer to catch up with. Likely due to the fact that television isn’t as high-profile as film tends to be, and combined with tv’s ability to tell long-term stories (and so has more time to focus on multiple…