Agreed. Even if they do totally trust him, what happens when he gets hit with red kryptonite, or body-swapped, or any of the other crazy things that can happen? *Of course* they need some way to stop him. 

Yeah, it read much more as “brother in arms” to me. I don’t see them making such a drastic change to the Superman origin story by giving him an actual biological sibling.

Oh, good call. I read it more as trying to hide how broken up he was about losing such a big part of himself, but ‘if we don’t fix this soon I’m going to die’ works too.

I assumed the spell specifically removed John’s magic (since it was “For John”).  It worked on John’s physical body, so Crowley was depowered when he was inhabiting John, and now John’s depowered now that he’s back to himself.

A prequel makes even less sense for this IP than most, since all the good stuff was in the later books - I always preferred the Maturin-spy heavy storylines.

I’ve always understood the general consensus to be Gotham ~ NYC; Metropolis ~ Chicago. Which admittedly doesn’t help much, since that’s still a roughly 10 hour drive from Kansas. But people from out that way always say they’re way more used to driving long distances for things than East Coasters are...

Except Season 2's Legion of Doom is all-time fave villains for me. Damien Darhk and Malcom Merlyn being catty at each other is pure LoT gold. (And my favorite Nate is s2 Nate, when he’s still primarily a history dork instead of a Bro.)

Agreed. Seems like a clear case of “shouldn’t matter” and “but if it matters, it’s entirely feasible that this (fictional fantasy) character could be non-white.”

I recently got around to his King Arthur movie, and came to the same conclusion re the value of style. As a King Arthur movie it...wasn’t, but it had such a sense of Guy-Ritchie-style visual fun, complete with training and heist montages, that I ended up loving it.

That does all make a certain amount of sense - it just all seemed weirdly official. An active terrorist attack scene is not exactly a social context. It seemed like he was still ‘on the inside,’ for lack of a better phrase.  His (and Sam’s) official role is very unclear. 

While I’ll admit the show (like the Cap movies before it) is a bit optimistic about the effect of a good role model, it wasn’t *just* a speech. The equivalent would have been if MLK gave the “I have a dream” speech directly to members of Congress right after saving them all from being burned to death, with the entire…

Tangentially, did I hear one of the background officers/SWAT guys call him “Sergeant Barnes” at some point? Is he still technically part of the US Military, or is he a “sergeant” in the same way Sam is a “captain”? If Sam is ‘captain’ America, could Bucky by ‘sergeant’ something? 

Karli finally made sense to me as a character in this episode, with her emphasis on being willing to die for the cause. She has a martyr complex - she doesn’t have anything except the fight, so she’s willing to do anything to make sure she has a fight. It explains why she was so intent on escalation at the expense of…

Your first paragraph reminds me of something I heard in a KDrama - “Don’t use a tiger to catch a fox.”

I always want to ask “so you don’t trust the media - then why do you trust your media? If we concede that MSNBC has an agenda, isn’t that true of Fox News as well?” If people still learned critical thinking in school, then they might be less inclined toward ‘if it agrees with me then it must be right.’

I always want to ask “so you don’t trust the media - then why do you trust your media? If we concede that MSNBC has an agenda, isn’t that true of Fox News as well?” If people still learned critical thinking in school, then they might be less inclined toward ‘if it agrees with me then it must be right.’

The single shift that would probably help dramatically would be improving the education system (there’s a reason rednecks don’t want their kids going to those ‘liberal conversion centers’ known as colleges, critical thinking seems to be incompatible with the far right), but unfortunately simple =/= easy when the GOP…

I’ve decided the higher-ups behind the project named it Icarus as an in-joke because they knew the crew had to die, and assumed a bunch of scientists wouldn’t get a classical reference...

Huh - I’d call that a “reverse- Stephen King problem”. I generally find that King stories have unlikable characters and drag on for way too long, but then do something really interesting in last few chapters/pages.

I also loved Bucky dropping the shield next Sam with that look, like “get over yourself and do the damn job.”