Yeah, our boy Winn hasn’t had much to do this season. I was glad to see him get a little more focus.

Looking at the production stills they also sat Kara next to Harry, which promises to be a delightful clash of personalities.

See comments like this almost make me nostalgic for Pretty Little Liars, where every police officer was either a complete idiot, a child predator, or a boy carpenter with about 48 hours job training.

Once Upon a Time had like an entire story arc of a character staring at her shaking hand and boy howdy did I not need to ever experience that again.

I actually really liked this one, though I do agree that Joe/Kane/Whatever was underbaked. Every time I thought the characters would dive into dumbass melodrama, they instead (mostly) reacted with compassion and maturity. Also that check-in with Lyla was sorely needed.

I kinda wish they’d been more specific about what Helen’s whole deal was—the actress was certainly beautiful, but this is the goddamn CW, literally everyone is beautiful. Having all the guys falling over themselves without some kind of supernatural explanation seemed a little weird to me.

One of Black Lightning’s daughters did date an Amazon.

That whole scene sent my brain on a bit of a meta spin because the thing teen Kara would most likely know Isaiah Washington from is Grey’s Anatomy, aka the thing Chyler Leigh actually was in in 2007 as opposed to “high school”.

Man you really don’t notice how heavily this show leans on its cast to prop up sometimes shaky writing until they hand the reins over to someone else. The kids weren’t bad exactly (I thought mini Alex in particular was quite good—she almost seemed to have some of Chyler Leigh’s mannerisms) but they really weren’t…

I wonder if at some point they’re going to go into Alex’s alcohol use—it’s routinely her answer to stressful situations (sometimes played for comedy, like last year’s Thanksgiving episode) and they’ve also established that’s she’s had problems with it in the past.

Yeah, trying to pass off some patch of woods near Vancouver for the Eighth Wonder of the World was a pretty bold choice.

After working pretty damn hard to get that amulet, Zari sure gave it up awfully easily. I’m also not really sure how she thought she was talking with her brother’s spirit when they were couple hundred years in the past—whatever, this is LoT, I ain’t gonna overthink it.

Los Angeles?

I did at least appreciate the handwave that it was some kind of special lead that only bonded with Daxamite DNA. That plot still ran on pure comic book logic though.

I think the Clexa anger was less over that specific death and more over the entire phenomenon—Lexa’s death wasn’t even the most egregious in a year that had a lot of dead fictional lesbians. It was just the straw that broke the camel’s back (though how it pretty closely mirrored Tara’s death on Buffy, which arguably…

Did the saviors even try to shoot back against Ezekiel’s group? “Oh no, they snuck up on us, better stand here for several seconds doing nothing so they can gun me down!”

“Sometimes we screw things up for the better.”

I would have been 120% okay with this episode just being Sara and Amaya driving around in that car. The fact that we only got like 2 shots of them in it is a tragedy.

I kind of want her to just slowly morph it back into her native Irish so that by next season no one has any memory of Lena ever having an “““American””” accent.

I think I’ve been burned by too many “lesbian is suddenly desperate to have kids” plotlines to fully engage with Alex’s this season, but damn if Chyler Leigh isn’t gonna make me try.