Should’ve clarified, I meant Good/Bad in terms of depicting Joe’s resignation. Both are cliched, and resigning is clearly not as simple as putting your gun/badge down, but at least it had some gravitas and they could’ve stopped there. Joe walking out with the banker’s box felt like overkill.

>Good: Joe turns in his gun and badge.

This episode was kinda meh. The whole mommy/daddy/sibling thing just came off as a weird role playing exercise that made me uncomfortable.

For me Legends actually held people responsible until season 4. Season 2 and 3 of legends was great with the villains and comedy. It had the right balance. However in season 4 was when consequences stopped existing like Nora Darkh who was a honest bad guy who probably killed some people was given a redemption arc and…

I’ll be honest, I don’t know if Legends is a good example because they are actually pretty similar to Flash in this regard. Yes, it leans on the main characters making bad decisions, but it never really holds them responsible for the consequences or has them truly change as a result of those choices. It became so…

It’s not that a hero with severe and consistent flaws can’t be enjoyable; Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow have often been at their best when leaning into their leads’ tendency to make horrible decisions.

Yeah, Bashir proved surprisingly likeable once the mask came off. Team Flash needs at least one full-time snark to mix up the formula a bit. In hindsight I wish they’d set up Allegra as Fuerza - I think she’s supposed to be some other DC character but she really gets nothing to do.

I’m more of a B on this one. You know behind the scenes, the cast and crew reading this script were all like, “Oh God, here goes Barry again!” But the pleasant surprise in both this episode and last was that Barry realized his fuck-up on his own, fairly quickly. These are Barry Baby Steps! I hope anyway.

Curious timing that both Joe and Sophie quit their jobs in law enforcement in the same week.  I think that means aside from Barry the Idiot there aren’t any cops left in the CWVerse?

The show is certainly consistent about Barry being an idiot & not listening to anyone, but that does not make it less frustrating.

(Spoiler Sprinkles)

They don’t say rehab for what. In the future they may have rehab for thing we don’t.

Second reveal that Ava’s also actually an alien and that’s her home planet, Earth just acquired some in the future somehow. Either that, the big bad is trolling, or someone’s done some cleanup (Rip? Time Bureau?) to pretend like that whole affair never happened on Earth.

“Ever Fallen In Love” is one of my favorite songs and when I heard it at the beginning of the episode, I prayed it was going to be Chekhov’s Song. Damn I was so glad they did. I’m so hoping that they filmed a complete version of it. And remember, for Da Throne’s audience, it’s a quaint cover of a 67 year old song,…

I’m going to start with the rehab question. The fact that Zari is an observant Muslim makes it even more scandalous. And isn’t it always about making the rumors as big as possible (see - Cap is on the Moon).

I agree it definitely could have used more subtlety but i did NOT expect that ending. 

It didn’t help that Batwoman’s episode was so poorly done. I’d say it “dark”, but calling it “deep” is giving it credit it doesn’t deserve.

It felt quite jarring to go from this ep to Batwoman’s REALLY deep and dark episode. 

This is super minor, but took me forever to realize the second footnote was attached to the first, and wasn’t part of the body of the review. Also, it was much more of a Voice pastiche than the Masked Singer wasn’t it? I mean, aside from DJ S’More Money (that asshole! sidenote, I deeply respect the show’s commitment…

Somewhere deep in hell, Damien Darhk is very happy about Johnny C, the London street magician.