Pace probably had a line or two to say but got so stunned when he realized the writers remembered his character existed that he simply got caught up in the moment and forgot about it all.

Even though Horner dropped out of scoring this film, it's as if Debney decided he'd do his best to provide something that sounded as close to what Horner might've delivered in full. The end result is almost too Disney even for Disney, outside of involvement from the likes of Alan Menken and Tim Rice.

Hopefully they can stick to it, unlike their urge to bring Lunchlady Doris back into the fold ten years or so after Doris Grau passed.

I don't want this to make it seem as if I've suddenly become optimistic about the entire idea but if the writing staff ever figures out what they want from Laurel as a character then it might come to pass that Cassidy can actually grow into the role.

They do have skulls. Thinking back on grade school and refreshing my memory on their look, I now begin to see perhaps where inspiration toward the look of so many alien beings as conceived by numerous artists comes from.

The one thing that really irritates me about the island flashbacks is Amell's hair. I don't know why he didn't just have Slade act as a barber or something and get rid of the grime-ridden mop that sits atop his head.

That's sort of the point I tried to make though - they didn't want to introduce Batman into Smallville, just Bruce Wayne and DC gave the big veto. I'm not saying it's entirely out of the realm of possibility but it seems like DC keeps a specific inner circle pretty close to the vest when it comes to their small screen…

DC creative has tended to be cagey about letting the Bat family roster out to play in live-action small screen situations. Their reluctance is what kept Gough & Millar from introducing a young Bruce Wayne into the Smallville universe (they claimed it would've dealt a negative blow to Nolan and his films at the time).

Same here. I was half expecting him to let out a big "HARUMPH" after he let go of it but it was still great otherwise.

I liked the commitment to the gag though. Mere moments before that he's going on about how not paying for it would be a crime and then one phone call later and it's chucked onto the curb as if it were nothing.

I don't see it proving to be a great success either. Probably a bit too convenient with the show's Black Canary being presumed dead sister Sara Lance and all, so they can treat the viewers to that little piece of drama that kind of slid onto the backburner when more imminent threats began to materialize in the first…

The "demon route"? You mean it isn't obvious that he's the show's Brother Blood? His name, fanatical followers and his grandiose speeches cinch that up all on their own.

The actress has always been the same, her hair color has not.

Beyond that casual mention of Nanda Parbat last season, I doubt the show actually gets there anytime soon, given how glacially slow it is, and the fact that it still isn't done stuffing Lian Yu down the viewers throats yet. One exotic locale at a time, I guess.

That wouldn't really make it very anachronistic at all then. Honestly, you nearly had me believing that "anacrostic" was some combined term that was in common use on the A.V. Club and I'd been stuck in limbo wondering if my having said something about it had been merely a means to highlight how green/new I am to…

Why would it be anachronistic though?

The more I look at the picture and the more I think about the episode I get reminded more and more of how eerily similar Janney is to Katey Sagal in this. I couldn't help but picture Peggy Bundy in her place in this episode.

That it even happens on a sitcom that ends on no cliffhangers is a weird mix of odd and sad - odd that it's being used to shoehorn in nothing more than joke recaps and sad that the show's creators apparently have little faith in the show's target audience to retain what they saw a mere week before.

"Previously on…" aka "Our blatant excuse to recycle what we hope everyone thought were our best jokes last week, without making much of an effort on the whole recycling bit".

Anacrostic? I take it this was meant to be acrostic?