I tend to agree. I think the even bigger possibility in terms of going against expectations is that Ezra Flash might very well be dead and not have been in the Speed Force at the time his world died. But because of the wonkiness of the Speed Force this is a version of him that was in it at some time ever....past or…

“What I’m asking is, what do you ultimately want?”

1) Stop begging the question about racism-at-large or “does this problematic thing I enjoy make me problematic” because that ain’t what we’re talking about and you know it.

Think of it as being a multiverse but there are different planes of existence and each plane has a multiverse. You have the comics, the tv shows, the new movies and animated stuff. Normally each multiverse is completely walled off with...I don’t know...magic? It doesn’t matter, the point is a comic book character…

If an artist is racist but a work is not transparently racist, can you separate the art from the artist and enjoy it?

Not really true in Lovecraft’s case, though.

Reread The Call of Cthulu and pay attention to his descriptions of people, you’ll notice that it’s not as separate from his writings as you think.

Potential varieties of crisis to be explored in the future:

I saw an interview on a site with the showrunner of the crisis who basically explained they “had” to bring back the multiverse in the actual crisis because their bosses already have new shows coming and they did not want the show to imply they are killing those shows.  However, in the CW “Arrowverse” I think it is…

I mean the comics has the local multiverse (The Orrery of Worlds), the Dark Multiverse, and then all the other stuff thanks to Convergence. 

The term “multiverse” is taxonomic anyway; matter and energy used to regularly travel between universes on the CW shows, which means it’s all technically one universe (and one timeline; that’s what really gives away the game.)

It’s comic book world, of course there can. There’s megaverse and then there’s an omniverse, which includes a bunch of different multiverses, and includes our reality...

Also, DC/WB aren’t even attempting to tie their movies together anymore. Even the next Suicide Squad has been described as a soft-reboot with many of the same actors.

The first episode for a new Doctor are always a little rough, so I never judge a writer by one of those. But I loved ‘It Takes You Away’ because it really committed to the batshit strangeness, which is my favourite mode of ‘Doctor Who’.

I thought It Takes You Away was pretty good. It had a wit and energy missing from the rest of the Chibnall era so far, and was actually quite ambitious. Not a brilliant episode by any stretch, but still my favorite episode of the 13th Doctor’s run to date.

The other big question, for me, is how this affects the Bruce Wayne we eventually get to resolve Kate’s quest; while obviously the former Earth-1 had one the Bruce on Earth-38 had one who presumably knew Clark if not Kara. That’s two sets of memories forced into a hell of a brain.

Dude, this was like a sporting event, not the final installment from MCU or Star Wars. Are you gonna be upset in two weeks when all the news sites spoil the super bowl?

Within 5 minutes, I was thinking to myself “this feels like a RTD era episode”.

I hate bickering over graders but there’s far worse Doctor Who episodes out there. There are too many things happening so the episode never quite works as a whole but it was exciting and well done. I’m also enjoying Jodi’s coming into her own as the Doctor and how smoothly she and the Fam are turning into a team.

I can’t understand why they didn’t take the TARDIS on a rescue mission at the end, though.

May be a personal preference on my part, but I do think messages like that are more effective when they’re organically integrated into the story. Doctor Who is no stranger to difficult issues, but it isn’t usually this jarring.