Quick Hits:
- 8.7/10
- Sane Slade >>>> Crazy Slade. I have missed him. It's why I've always preferred S1 to S2. Making Slade jealous or Mirakuru-induced irrational made the flashbacks kind of a chore and took a little of the shine off of the present action that year (though he was thankfully calmer in Starling). He…

I was really hoping Kovar succeeded and Flashback Oliver was still on the island at the end. Arrow premiered in October, so they could've made him stay there and legitimately grow hair and a beard over the next five months. There was a real rush over the last month of episodes to connect this finale's flashbacks with…

Doesn't matter. He's getting new memories because Prime Barry is doing different things. He's a remnant created by Emo Barry, so he should really only remember things Emo Barry did. Prime Barry should've been a mystery to him the second he began deviating from the chicken-and-egg cycle (which shouldn't be possible,…

For some amounts of time, it required Wally and Jay as well, though. I get that Barry had to go at the end as penance, but the implication of the continued tag teaming in and out is that the jail needs an occupant - guilty party or not. Which is weird.

His motivation was weak as stated and I never for a second found it believable that Team Flash would shun him as hard as the show claims they did.

Absolutely nothing about the paradox taking time to catch up to Savitar, the Speed Bazooka time scatter or - going back a while - time remnant SaviBarry sharing memories with Prime Barry made a lick of sense, but I totally bought all the emotional beats in this finale.

If I'm questioning anybody, the beef is with the writers for not crafting a less war crime-y solution to stop war crimes rather than the characters for doing what they did in the situation presented. My hope is that we eventually see them - the creators and characters - reflect on the line they've toed up to by using…

You're assuming every Daxamite feels the same as Rhea. I wouldn't make that leap. The soldiers on the ground were shady, but I kept wondering if there were civilian Daxamites up in that fleet. They never explored that, though.

Yep. I thought about that during the episode last night, but it slipped my mind by commenting time. I remember thinking at the time, without some explained weakness, that the portal device Cisco gave Kara was a narrative can of worms on both Earths. They should be using it more on this show and Flash.

Plus it's Team Supergirl doing the exact same thing they stopped Cadmus from doing while claiming great moral superiority earlier in the season. This time it's tailored for one kind of alien instead of all, but the principle is still there.

Now you've got me imagining a deleted scene where the whole gang takes a vote not to tell Kara about any of the Mon-El alternatives. Like they had been planning an intervention for a while, but lead bomb came up and they figured that gets the job done without the awkwardness.

Was it Loeb's Superman/Batman comic introduction of Supergirl or the Apocalypse animated movie based on that arc where Bruce tells Clark that Kara's cellular structure processes yellow sun more efficiently than him? Either way, for years, I've simply taken it for granted that Supergirl is baseline stronger than…

The fact that they were shooting for the entire episode turning on the Kara/Mon-El relationship was the shriveled cherry on top of the melty sundae that was this finale. I cared not one bit about any scene to do with that situation. I've wanted him gone since pretty much the beginning, so Mon-El's goodbye scene didn't…

My recollection of those episodes was them being in Russia during the Cold War. Did they go back to the 1800s during that two-parter at some point?

One of the producers said they kicked Vigilante to next season.

As excited as I want to be about the finale, I looked up the episode and found out Jesse Warn is directing. His past episodes directed in the franchise do not exactly breed confidence.

In an episode this confident and pitch perfect in the execution of drama, character, action and tone in every other moment, I don't understand how that ridiculous Felicity and Diggle car crash made it onto the screen as sloppily as it did. It definitely played like, sword lady or not, Diggle was Dukes of Hazzard-ing…

And last week was the real end of the Framework for me.

Don't get me wrong, I loved every single second of having Snart back, but it raised so many questions. Did he ever notice he was in 2017 and get curious about that? Did they have to explain the differences in Team Flash to him? Why didn't Joe know Snart was dead? When were the Legends ever in Siberia in the late…

Out of a sense of guilt, HR switched himself with Iris using the image changer tech while Barry and Savitar played bazooka tag. That's my theory right now.