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Not being able to catch it I can see, as she couldn't find it; kinda hard to catch what you can't see. But standing there agape while it inched into his mouth, that Yo-Yo could have blurred in close, grabbed, and at least had a very interesting time yanking that thing back out. Even if she failed and it slipped in anyway, it'd've still made more sense.

Funny how so many can get so many different reactions from listening to the same speech.

I think that, in the process of demonstrating herself as a real valid person, she simply started with the other controversial aspect of herself, one to whose similar difficulties some of those hearing the interview might relate. She then followed it with several less controversial aspects of herself such as playing kickball as a kid, being close to her mixed-race parents, being an MTBI INFP, liking s'mores and Harry Potter and Game of Thrones and April and nerdy boys. All of this together seems intended to demonstrate that "an alien" isn't the singular whole of her identity, but that she's an amalgam of many aspects, a couple of them perhaps seemingly unusual but many of them highly relatable even to most native Earthers, and all of which weave together to form the whole of her self. Much as is the case for any person.

That's not to say that Supergirl isn't sometimes a bit overly (and even clumsily) on-the-nose with such things, but this one didn't feel quite so much like that, at least not to me. (IMO, YMMV, etc.)

Seems as though Billy would have wanted to make certain that Frank found them like that, after expending his whole crew on riling Frank up into mad shoot-first mode.

@legendaryfang56 , I think @m0ssb3rg's point is that this Third Season is the final season with Henry Cavill playing Geralt, and that some won't care about a Fourth Season without him.

The Right Thing, one might say, in a crazy charged morally ambiguous situation like that, is highly subjective.

IMO, the right thing would have been to refuse to answer Anatol's question, to make it clear that whoever Anatol chose to kill would be on Anatol and Anatol alone, to demonstrate that she, for one, would not choose one person to live or die over another, human or synth.

OTOH, weighing that against the intensity of the moment, any lingering biases, and belief in Anatol's seriousness about killing one or the other (and her responsibility thus to save at least one of them), and just trying to think clearly through that mad cacophony, Laura was in an utterly impossible situation, and it's difficult to fault her too hard whatever she ended up choosing.

But, try explaining all that to poor Sam... or Stanley... or Sophie...

This is basically what I was thinking. Really ragged rough start in terms of story flow, but improving along the way into a pretty good fun finish.

They did use Noir nicely as a foil from which to tell us the story of What Really Happened the day Soldier Boy disappeared.

But, yes, after all that, that end was sadly disappointing. I can see that as being part of the point: to further punctuate the tragic futility of trying to eliminate the unstable toxic mess that is Homelander. But, still,... sigh.

Everyone in this show can be a bit overly one-dimensionally motivated at times. Ben's almost berserker-fervence in pursuing callings (which maybe he'll finally absorb now). Angelina's obsessions with fitting in and connecting. Cal's she's-supposed-to-be-here surety. As though no other factors exist, like they've never experienced the complex interactions of life.

Not that that's not necessarily realistic. I see real-life people who behave like this, too. But... sigh.

Well, she did just lose an entire universe...

My impression (admittedly including some theorizing to try to fill in some blanks) is that Lena's gone through enough inner turmoil and worldview shift since last season's end (Lex, Eve, Kara, everyone?) to keep a therapist busy for years, and her fundamental approach to how to help humanity with her technology has changed harshly as a result, and that the writers haven't done a very good job of showing us enough of that to help us understand and sympathize with Lena's new point of view.

Is that what Quentin dropped in the kitchen when MonsterEliot suddenly appeared?

That was one of those moments in which I was happy to have a "pause" button. (Otherwise, I'd've missed the "Sorry, couldn't resist.") :-D

The pacing was certainly a problem in this one. Too much was too rushed, too simplified, too quick. I hope that doesn't stick around as the new trend...

Or Trakt could at least give us a way to report various types of inappropriate comments...

Or perhaps Davos simply has decided that he now sees what it is that is keeping Danny in New York away from his Iron Fist duties in K'un-Lun?

I know what you mean. I get the impression of someone who wants to do the right thing for the country, and is maybe teetering a bit this way and that as to what that is. That last bit, with the file on Kirkman, seemed presented with a dark suspicion that Aaron was working toward undermining Kirkman, but it could just as well have been him researching any possible skeletons that Aaron might need to be prepared to head off to protect Kirkman in the future. As always, we'll have to watch and see...

Redd always has the most lopsidedly theatrical presentations. :-)

I was kinda thinking Douglas Adams one some pretty weird drugs channeling The Matrix plus Sense8 across the Multiverse, but sure. ;-)

Heh. True. And no voice-distortion.

At least Black Lightning has the excuse that their visors generate electric fields that distort the face. And Flash's voice-vibration distortion (even if they do forget to use it too often).

But, despite all that, this show is still the best of the Arrowverse right now.

Sounds like she may be modeled after a comics character named Alexandra Allston (Parasite).

https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/Ally_Allston
https://screenrant.com/superman-lois-ally-allston-parasite-villain-explained/

I'm not quite seeing the full connection so far, but we all know that the Arrowverse has drawn some rather interesting new interpretations from existing DC comics characters before...

I don't know that I would say "just", but the similarities are a bit striking, aren't they?

Adam: I have the answer.

Eva: No, I have the answer.

Adam: No, I have the answer.

Eva: No, I have the answer.

Claudia: Shut up, you two; I'm solving this.

You could see the conflict in his face as he tracked her running away, the decision that he just couldn't allow a witness this time, the pain afterwards. I suspect that that (piled atop everything else that'd just happened) is what broke his willingness to stay with the Syndicate (and to "do this any more") at all and pushed him to run.

Or "Captain America and the White Wolf"?

Yeah, that's probably my only real nit with this one. He'd have to know that creature's physiology pretty well to have a decent chance to plant a single killshot with that knife like that, and that seems awfully unlikely. (Maybe if he'd sunk it into an eyesocket.)

But otherwise, the way the battering he received so badly damaged much of his armor and left him clearly exhausted by the time he pulled that knife... Wow.

Hunter Rambo? Yeah, kinda.
And Tech, when he has his full helmet and gear on, looks just a bit like Ant-Man.

Agreed. Even when the story does hit its occasional strong strides, the cheapish visual effects can make for some weirdly jarring interruptions.

The Blacklist actually had some very... unusual... planning discussions around exactly that.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6910915/blacklist-season-finale-animated/

No kidding.
After that, I practically had this voice in my head yelling, "Yeah, kid, you're aunt was an elite marine. What did you think was going to happen.?" :-D

I still think that The Expanse is to today what Babylon 5 was to its time.