I was extremely dubious of Helmeted Bad Guy being effective without his Dark Helmet, and we knew it was going to come off from the trailers, but I was shocked and impressed by how good a villain he was without the Dark Helmet of Darkness. That was a feat of acting that doesn’t exist anywhere in the prequels beyond…

The Jedi were the worst thing about the prequels. Did anyone give a fuck when Anakin killed them all? I was happy. “Good riddance, you suck!” I gleefully chortled in my mind.

Snoke showed up and told him all that stuff about Vader killing the Emperor was fake news.

I looked at that Snoke manipulated Ren into believing Ren was the heir to Vader’s true power. And that the power was tied to dark side, something Luke and Leia would never let him tap into. I imagine Ren had some typical issues being raised by the people who saved the galaxy and felt that pressure to be great and…

Ren works for me because he’s the first of these cinematic “Dark Lord” figures that didn’t try to out-Vader Vader. The recent sci-fi/fantasy boom has brought all these characters out of the woodwork in menacing black armor, who speak in intimidating tones about “Plans, plans, darkness, Yesssssss”, and since Ren is…

You know what bothers me about Kylo Ren? The fact that he is seemingly obsessed with Vader’s villainy, but was raised by Han and Leia and presumably trained at a young age by Luke. I’m sure they must have taught him that Vader turned from the Dark Side to save his family from the evil emperor, right? Just seems like…

I’m pretty sure his rationale was right in the scene. He looked at the picture of he and Iris and realized that becoming a fugitive would end any chance of having a life with her. Facing the justice system at least gives him a chance of prevailing and clearing his name.

The knife was sent as gift so that Barry would unpack and touch it so that his prints would be on it.

I would have liked to see more growth from Ralph by having him actually “detect.” In the comics, his skills are supposed to be on par with Batman. Why not let the satellites churn away and find nothing, but Ralph does old school gum shoe work and finds Caitlin? It would have grown the character as both not a jerk,…

TBH, this author has felt like they phoned it in on so many of the reviews, that I just scroll down to the comments now. The version of the show they seem to want doesn’t at all align with where it’s going, I think the Thinker has been a pretty good shakeup on the speedster villains so far, and really enjoyed the…

No, for the same reason that he didn’t murder Reverse Flash with his vibrating hand in the 4th episode of the crossover last week. Barry does things the right way, that is who he is. Which I think both infuriated Reverse Flash & delighted him, because being from the future he knew how much trouble that was going to…

I was surprised they acknowledged that hijacking Barry and Iris’s wedding for their own was kind of a dick move.

Firmly on the entire other side of this, actually.

Given this network of sites, I’m sure there will be some article somewhere about how racist the show is for having a white guy take over a black guy and have the black guy as the Big Bad of the season.

It would be one thing if it was just a quick explanation, but instead each review spent a whole paragraph talking about why “this episode doesn’t really work as an Arrow episode” and worrying about netflix viewers getting confused.

It was like they had never encountered a miniseries before. Like, Defenders JUST happened this summer. 

THANK YOU for finally abandoning the conceit that this is “not a regular episode” that the three other reviewers used as an excuse for knocking off points.

Hey AVClub Review Staff: note that the CW is calling all FOUR (4) episodes of the Arrowverse shows

I never knew how much I missed Thwane-Wells. He’s great in that role, and his greatness got diluted by the fact that every other big bad was a speedster. I’m sort of hoping he somehow gets back into the mix as the occasional one off baddie. The guy who manages to inflict pain once or twice a season while being fought…

OMG enough with the complaining about how all these episodes aren’t like normal episodes of their perspective shows, already! Sheesh. You critic folks have been the biggest buzzkills about this event.