...They really named a character Samanda right after killing off a different character named Samantha?

Yeah I’m scratching my head trying to figure out who Nathan is too.

According to Legends of Tomorrow, ARGUS founds a totalitarian police state in the future. Are we seeing the beginning of Evil Lyla???

Just because Donald Trump isn’t President doesn’t mean anti-immigrant sentiments just vanished. It’s entirely possible he still exists on Earth-38, spouting the same nonsense on Twitter that he did before his presidential run.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a complicated issue. Casting directors can’t ask about ethnicity during the hiring process, but I honestly have some sympathy for Lima going for Latina roles. I don’t like that she’s taking them from actual Latina actors, but at the same time, how many parts out there are calling for dark skinned,…

Yeah that was straight up ridiculous and nearly ruined a really good episode for me. I’m just going to pretend it didn’t really happen.

I guess the scene where Carl looks for gas was meant to be a mirror of the first scene of the show, even down to recreating the shot where Rick/Carl places his hat on the ground and lays down to look under a car.

I’m cracking up at you using “undergrad obsession” as an insult on a review of Riverdale, of all things.

Oh I don’t really have any problem with it, except when Joe calls them both his kids and no one else even blinks (seriously, he could walk them both down the aisle and it wouldn’t be weird).

Billy Zane was great, but I kind of wish he’d settled on one or two accents instead of the dozen he meandered through, about half of which sounded vaguely New Yorker-ish (Barnum was from Connecticut*). But hey, maybe that’s how people talked in the 1870s.

No, I really liked it too. I’ll take fun and flawed over pointlessly mopey any day of the week.

I saw that theory banged around last year and I really hope it isn’t true because man, that makes the WestAllen incest look downright tame by comparison.

I actually kind of liked James this week in a meta way—last season Lena pretty much replaced him as Kara’s friend, and this season she straight up replaces him as her boss. I’m not sure how interesting “James struggles against his increasing irrelevance” is going to be, but at least it’s honest.

Yeah I was a bit surprised by that as well. We had Livewire, but that was explained as the lightning transferring Kara’s Kryptonian DNA—otherwise I think all of our superhumans have been either aliens or tech-based (except for Silver Banshee’s “curse”).

Kara not using ranged abilities against enemies that are only dangerous up close continues to be my pet peeve. I get why they don’t have her just heat vision them or fly into them at max speed—it would be visually boring and feel pretty cheap, and then the episode would be over—but it doesn’t make it any less annoying…

She’s getting worse! Which I should find annoying but instead find endlessly endearing.

Not a fan of the Thea fakeout. Oliver and the rest of the team wasn’t nearly mopey enough for her to be dead, so I just kept waiting for the episode to get the rest of the plot out of the way so we could find out what really happened. I agree that this was a pretty underwhelming way to resolve the cliffhanger.

I rewatched the pilot before last season’s finale and had completely forgotten Raisa even existed—I’m not sure I’d have recognized her tonight otherwise.

Oliver helpfully mentioned Samantha’s parents this episode, so they can ship William off there after he’s served his purpose.

Somehow couldn’t find this review last night (thanks new layout!) but man was this crazypants fun. The show knows exactly what it wants to be and the cast has built up some great chemistry over the past couple years—it’s just a joy to watch. And every time Sara has a fight scene I’m reminded how much fun it is to…