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I've never understood the praise for season five, either. I haven't seen it since it aired so my memory could be hazy, but it never really worked for me. I never warmed to Chase as a villain, either. He spent about half of the season as a non-entity where he would occasionally appear in a scene or two an episode, and then he was revealed as the villain and was however many steps ahead of everyone at all times, on a show where the lead character had already been written as stupid-for-plot-purposes a lot.

I would like and dislike this in equal measure. Chloe Sullivan is easily my favourite DC character, but I don't think the writing alone made that character. I think Mack's performance really brought out a lot of her better qualities while still making her a flawed, three dimensional character. She just felt real to me. The intelligence, curiosity, and vulnerability that Mack brought to the character really elevated the writing, and even in earlier seasons when she didn't have as much to do she always stood out to me. I would like to see Chloe became divorced from the recent things we've learned about Mack, but at the same time...I do think she brought a lot to the role. I guess there are ways we could see a different take on the character, though. A slightly older journalist mentor for Kara on Supergirl? Could recreate the Kara/Cat dynamic with a slightly younger character, they could have similar kind of discussions about feminism and journalism. Also, since next season of Supergirl is supposedly going to have some stories about technology today that could be something Chloe could have a perspective on, too.

The How I Met Your Mother finale didn't really bother me because the whole show was awful for about three seasons before it ended, anyway. I still don't understand their decision to wrap it up that way, especially considering that they somehow pulled off a casting miracle by getting Milioti in as the mother, someone so charming she managed to live up to eight seasons of expectations. Barney and Robin were both insufferable by the end too. I was glad they split up, but...they were both so awful that they kind of deserved each other.

Nia's been a lovely addition to the show, and I thought she worked particularly well this episode with Kara and Brainy. This passed fairly quickly, but it did surprise me that Nia had seemingly never heard of Lois Lane before...

I liked the trailer for the crossover. Should be interesting to see what happens ratings wise.

Alias/Arrow crossover with Smoak Sark snark please! (But for real I think they would be funny together).

I haven't seen the latest episode, but if they were going to go there they should have committed to the villainy. Presumably they want Caitlin as a bad guy to shake things up a little and raise the stakes before they can get back to Savitar and end the season, but they still want to keep Caitlin around as a member of the team so they can't make her an actual villain. But this weird thing with Caitlin's powers means that she's basically been possessed, so it takes a little of the power away from her actions, because none of it can really be blamed on her, so it's all very odd, and that's not even getting into the thing about a woman being seemingly the only person on the whole show who can't control her abilities.

I'm upset that Heigl's show Doubt was yanked off the CBS schedule so quickly. Now it'll probably be years before the show hits the UK, probably on some low-rated cable channel. Nevermind when the last eleven episodes will air in the US. At least Heigl is getting some really nice reviews for Unforgettable, although who knows where that will take her career.

I agree, and honestly, just having Barry come in every time the team had a problem would be bad storytelling and I'm sure there are scheduling issues with Gustin. My mind wanders when I'm not enjoying the show though, and I don't even want to be thinking about Barry since I usually don't even like him on The Flash. I just wish I wasn't thinking about the other shows during Arrow. Like, when all the big MCU characters separated after The Avengers and went on their solo adventures, I didn't sit in the cinema wishing for any one else to pop up in Winter Soldier, because I was enjoying the movie.

Nyssa's cameo and Thea returning to the show are pretty much the only things making me excited for the rest of the season. I'm not enjoying Chase as much as every one else seems to be. He was a complete non-entity for about fifteen episodes. I honestly could not have picked him out of a line-up at that point. The actor's been great recently but...I just keep wondering why the team haven't asked Barry to zip in and handle things, and I don't even like Barry or need to see him on Arrow outside of crossovers. I don't really think "x, y, or z" should pop in while I'm watching the other Arrowverse shows...

The book came out about a decade ago, but the show is set in 2017.

I kind of hope we're done with flashbacks and time jumps and stuff, apart from like the occasional spotlight episode on a certain character. I'm now expecting the season to end in a very Lost way though, "Felicity! We have to go back..."

I genuinely didn't think I could be interested in a DC movie. I haven't even been tempted to see anything since Man of Steel, but...I was wrong.

Twist! This makes me wonder about all the behind the scenes issues we've heard about. I thought Black Siren was fun in her previous appearances so I'm willing to see how this plays out. Laurel was one of my favourites until season four so...we'll see how this goes!

I wouldn't mind a little mistaken identity hijinks with Felicity taking down her masked counterpart. Make it a comedic hour and give EBR some fun material with and it'd probably be a blast. (Give me real!Felicity pretending to be alternate!Felicity while we're at it because I live for that stuff and still crack up at Willow's attempts at playing the villain in Buffy's Doppelgangland).

Trying to lure Felicity fans over to Legends for a week makes sense, but it's the kind of thing that would have been so lovely to see unspoiled. Oh well.

I wonder why they gave the Felicity on Legends reveal away early? Would've been a cool surprise if we hadn't heard about it.

I honestly think Schmidt from New Girl is the most annoying character on television. He just seems like a series of quirks and ticks to me. Nick and Jess aren't far behind when they're talk-yelling and singing out of nowhere, respectively. I love Winston though, the actor has great comic timing. I'm glad I stopped watching, but I'll still catch a random episode every now and then.

Pretty cool of Amell to write about TVD. The show has been a hot mess for at least four seasons, but those first three or four years deserve praise. They really knew how to pull off a twist and I can't think of another villain on the CW who was half as fun as Katherine Pierce.

I feel like I'm done with any Marvel Netflix show that doesn't prominently feature Jessica Jones.

Why hasn't Chase had more to do if the writers always planned to make him this season's villain? I'm two episodes behind but almost nothing about the character is sticking out to me. Even when he appears in an episode he's usually only in a scene or two...

I really like that Tina Fey has been slowly stretching herself as an actress since finishing 30 Rock. I thought she did a really good job in this movie and would love to see her continue to try out new things. Ideally it would be great to see her do something in the vein of Lily Tomlin's role in Grandma, which I only mention specifically because I think the tone would work really well for Fey; something super funny that contains some good drama. Although Fey did work with the director and Tomlin in Admission.

I've let the latest episodes pile up a little, but I watched last week's episode earlier today and I have to say that Thea breezing into city hall, insulting Susan and Rene and then basically saying that everything had went to shit without her was so much fun. It's the most I have liked anyone on Arrow this season. It was just a fun little interaction where she bounced off everyone around her (Oliver, Quentin, Rene) so beautifully. I'm just noticing how much I've missed her this season.

I agree with this, but at the same time, for me there's as many interesting women on Supergirl as there are on the other three shows combined at the minute, especially now that Thea is basically no where to be seen. The Luthor women, Maggie and M'gann have been nice additions to the Supergirl cast even if I still miss Cat Grant (I feel like they wrote a lot of the more empowering/feminist moments with that character or just talks that discussed those issues, and now they don't seem to go there as often in quite the same way). Alex's focus on her love life doesn't bother me at all though, especially since she was all business all the time for so long. I mean, on the other shows I love Felicity and Sara, think Emaya's been fun so far, and...there are women on The Flash, too? I really like Iris, but I think that is mostly because of CP's acting.

Michelle Rodriguez has a role lined up opposite Viola Davis in the next Steve McQueen movie, which just happens to be co-written by Gillian Flynn! Should be a nice stretch for Rodriguez and with a script from McQueen and Flynn there should be some interesting things in there for her to play. http://deadline.com/2017/02/michelle-rodriguez-steve-mcqueen-heist-pic-widows-viola-davis-iain-canning-emile-sherman-12-years-a-slave-1201913988/