An excellent and moving episode (and FINALLY answers what happened to King George after 4 years, a pet peeve of mine!) that was really hitting all the right notes… until the needless, melodramatic final reveal. Was that really necessary? *SIGH*

I don't really think the crude metaphor this review is based on is accurate. Mon-El was intimidated by how much more a provider Mxy could be, in a sense (and hey, as a guy, yeah, that's a significant emotional need; to be *able* to provide for your loved ones, everything they need, even if they don't actually need…

Well, he was trying to tell her much sooner, but Alex didn't want it interfering with her big Thanksgiving announcement. So in his defense, he tried to but was a victim of the usual sitcom 'if something is interrupted once, it will not be attempted again' syndrome (a.k.a. Wylie Coyote Syndrome).

But I'm pretty sure that simple physics would render the shockwave or explosive force of a nuclear blast far higher than a meteor impact, thus invulnerability to the former should translate to invulnerability to the latter. (Someone with better knowledge of physics feel free to correct em on that, though- I could be…

Not a terrible story, but SO much accuracy is sacrificed to make it happen…

"I just want to get on that shuttle"?!?!? History fail 101. What's next- a WWI soldier talking about avenging Pearl Harbor, or maybe a jaunt to the 80s where one of the local teens is showing off his new iPod?

As a theology buff, I do appreciate that Emma insists "His soul has to have gone *somewhere*, maybe it's him"- tacitly recognizing that the whole "It even obliterates your SOUL!!!" bit with the Olympian crystal is existentially-ridiculous and conceptually nonsensical. So even though they were explicitly told that, she…

It's not the follow-up to the first half I'd have preferred (I still want a Rumple/Belle road trip into an alternate dimension to rescue their infant son, darn it!) but I wouldn't call it a snoozer. if anything, it's felt like they've rejected some of the melodrama for real drama this season (not entirely, but better…

Ha! Like that would ever happen. This is 2017, not 1992. ;-)

My wife and I were both like "They're still doing this scene in 2017? The 'romantic misunderstanding and one goes to tell the other they changed their mind, but that person's already with someone else?'" I'm pretty sure that plot cloche is so old, it was discovered painted alongside woolly mammoths and stick figures…

But… but where would the false drama have come from then??? ;-)

It really feels like trading in Kat, primary focus on Kara instead of the supporting cast, and shifting over to Cadmus as the villains was a little too much for the show; it doesn't have the same spirit anymore.

The Alex drama is this (as usual) annoyed me. All the dramatic talk of 'I don't want to feel guilty spending time with my girlfriend' and 'I'm afraid of being abandoned/Kara, you'll never lose me' is all so overwrought.

Alex continues to be the worst. This week, she alienates her significant other AND more importantly, tries to get Wynn killed by strong-arming him into traveling to an alien planet against his will, then leaving him there in a hostile environment with no weapons, no training, and not even ONE of the DEO agents she…

"There was a “nasty woman” reference tonight. Make of that what you will."

I like to joke that they could make a Trilogy of prequels that each come just before one of the original movies. After all, there's already a guy in Empire Strikes Back with the call sign of Rogue Two! ;)

My wife was all excited for Rogue One until she found out it was about stealing the plans for the FIRST Death Star. She was all psyched for some Bothans. :-) (But hey, she ended up loving the movie anyway!)

I've checked out a few- and thus far, I haven't seen anything that reached the level of the old EU. I mean, I get that some of those entries weren't the strongest, but… at least they were written for adults.

Seriously. I had my beefs with the portrayal of the Alliance in Rogue One, but I think it was mostly down to him. Guy must have been an ex-Imperial. Like, as of 3 days before Rogue One started. Still hasn't gotten used to being one of the good guys yet. :-)

"* Hera: “Let’s load some of these [poison gas] canisters as proof for
the Senate.” Correct me if I’m wrong but… what Senate? Wasn’t that
essentially dissolved? I get the idea of Senators still running around
and advocating resistance to the Empire but I don’t think there’s any
central government body that the rebels…