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I did not understand Barry's initial refusal to venture to 2049 based on his fear of causing a Flashpoint problem. He caused the first Flashpoint because he traveled to the past and because he prevented his mother's death, which was a major happening in the original timeline. How could traveling to the future cause an alteration in the current timeline? Was he worried about causing problems from 2049 onwards?

In the article, it is mentioned that the producers of the show may try to shop it around. I sure hope that happens--for at least one more season.

Yes, the spell that Mel cast was so that she and Niko had never crossed paths with one another which meant that they were never in a relationship.

That's how I found out about Pose. I was late to The Fosters--I started watching during the mid-season hiatus of season 5--but I jumped deep into that show and then I followed Mariana and Callie to Good Trouble. I saw Hailie for the first time on that show then in some comments somewhere Pose would pop up--I was late to that game as well. Season 1 was long over by the time I heard of the show. Very fortunately for me I was able to download the episodes from hither and yon to bring myself up to speed on this good show.

Since Donna was the one that injured Chris on the fishing boat I was wondering if he'd recognize her when he ran across her in the hallway. He didn't but then I wanted to know if she would recognize him and it didn't seem that she did. Or if they evolved separately and just happen to look similar from the waist up.

Though I don't doubt that it was shown I was looking at the tanks to see how fresh water was pumped in and the old water was removed. If she were just hanging out in her own waste then... Unrelated to her waste, that tank was so small she didn't have the room to even get a decent breast stroke happening. That's what I really liked about this episode. They were trying to measure and test Ryn while she's wandering around touching and sniffing and exploring everything. The best scene was when Ben weighed her at 196 lbs. Maddie: "That can't be right!" And Ryn had already left the scale to stick her nose in some other business and had to be guided back to the scale to be weighed again. After that confirmation of her weight Ben said that he wanted to test her bone density which, along with testing her muscle density, would probably be the obvious inquisitive follow ups to her unusual weight. For now I'm assuming that the mermaids do have societal relationships that differ from landlubbers and that's why her move from the couch into the middle of Ben and Maddie's cozy little huddle didn't seem sexual to me. She was probably lonely and she was with people that made her feel safe. Even when she felt Ben's arms I thought it was more exploratory than sexual until she started moving her face closer to his then it started getting hot!

That is what I found to be a step less than scandalous--that such a, supposedly, high priced clock would just be plopped up on a table along an aisle with any foot traffic. Any half drunken or clumsy adult could have knocked that crap to the ground, too. That entire verbal exchange was excellent although I would have emphasized "girlfriend" because that, along with JR calling Petra "Baby" made it so very clear to me that they aren't just engaging in bedroom calisthenics; they are serious about one another and that is something that Petra really wanted and needed. For sure, Jane knows that Rose is trying pull Luisa's location from Rafael in a selfish deal for information about Rafael's parents. When JR met with Magda and her lawyer she was trying to catch Magda in a lie. She did find a small one--Magda said she pushed on the bathroom door when it was the pull type--but I think a larger inconsistency was overlooked. Magda said that during her bout of IBS she saw Petra near the front door and that when Anezka made a statement she, Magda, couldn't hear it because the toilet was running. Assuming the toilet wasn't a super quiet model I would have expected both Anezka and Petra to have realized someone else was there though for Anezka it wouldn't have mattered much since she was pushed to the Great Beyond. About that IBS--Petra: "Did she tell you about her bowel movements? It's a whole big thing."

When Petra put on that tight-fitting blue dress so that she could entice J.R. into spending some sexy time with her again it really made me hope they'd be able to work it out. But when J.R. took Petra into the hallway to explain that they were not going to have a romance ol' hardcore Petra just took that hit and let it slide off of her hardened skin. The way Petra always looked into J.R.'s eyes though was saddening. She'd look and sometimes she'd appear to be so hopeful as she did when she ran outside with that pen. But when J.R. wouldn't give it up Petra just seemed so dejected. I like it that she just wants to get with J.R. and will make even ridiculous attempts to be around her. Petra's major effort to restore Mateo's belief in the Tooth Fairy, her insisting that Alba tell her what was happening in the Villanueva family and Jane watching the twins makes the relationship between Petra and Jane, though they fuss and argue, pretty solid. Also on the solid side of relationships is Xo and Alba. When Xo called Alba, claiming that she was upset about the non-working doorknob, Alba knew the real deal and didn't even pretend that she couldn't make it to her daughter's house "with the toolkit" to calm her down.

The guy that helped Anissa choose her outfit probably wouldn't be the only person to recognize her if he saw her on TV or if he ran into her on the street. With that painted on face "mask" I didn't know if she was actually trying to conceal her identity or if it was just another fashion accessory for her outfit. It obscured nada! If Joey Toledo had the footage of him laying those boots into Black Lightning he would have risen through the ranks of his stank organization in a very hot second; that was the highlight of his criminal career.

I was surprised there was no major problem in the city at all during Kara's absence from the planet but I suppose even a large city would have down times. With Maggie's family being Mexican, and presumably Catholic, I thought that was going to be her father's underlying explanation for his problem with her lesbianism when she was a youngster. The explanation that he gave barely made sense. I thought Jonn's father might have been surprised that a non-Martian had the ability to fly but are Martians shown to fly on Mars? I can't remember how they get around. It does seem unlikely that Jonn's father could learn the English language by scanning Jonn's mind but that he'd still be unable to confirm Jonn's claim of being his son.

Yes, indeed it was, especially when Ava and Sara knocked one another to the ground-- Ava: Do you want to take a break? Sara: I could use some water. My favorite scene with Sara though was, after traveling thousand of miles across the planet and seven decades into the past to get Amaya, greeting her with, "Hey, girrrllll..."

That's a character that I miss and that I wish were still hanging on in there with this posse. She'd probably be a half decent leader; Madison certainly isn't. Unless Nick ingested far less poison than the other militia members I don't see how he survived either. I think it was Walker that said the young, and that would include dirty Nick, would be able to recover from the poisoning but that made it seem that the rest of the militia were made up of sexa- or septuagenarians or some shit.

There were things that I liked about the episode and some that I didn't but deep on the like side, as always, was the appearance of Gypsu, Gypsayyyy, Gypsyyyy! I loves me some Gypsy. I liked her sudden appearance and I liked that horizontal portal that she created as an escape. The other thing that I liked, again, as always, was the appearance of the real Flash, Jay Garrick. Barry is always root-pootin' around and somehow shooting himself and the universe in the feet. Jay, on the other hand, gets in and handles all of the business that he can. I was hoping to see her as part of the speedster lineup because she was the only, or the first anyway, person to have fought, and injured, Savitar. I don't think that she's more powerful than Black Flash but that undead speedster's focus is on other speedsters and they're always trying to outrun that thing. Non-speedsters have to come up with other ways to deal with him as Malcolm Merlyn and Damien Dahrk did on Legends of Tomorrow. Caitlyn, with her powers and her intellect probably figured using a super-low temperature blast was worth a try. And it's because of that history that I didn't think Savitar was Barry at all but an entirely different person.

This was one of the most surprising things that I saw in the episode. As a reporter and an adult, James had to know that rolling up in someone's living quarters, touching things and then probably leaving footprints for someone else to clean up was beyond illegal and tacky. If he'd found anything worthwhile and tried to use it in a court case he would have been laughed out of his heroing suit. How large was that transportation ring? I knew it was large but I didn't think it had a diameter great enough for even a single spaceship. Not only did a single spaceship slide through there but weren't fleets of Daxamite ships streaming through that hole?

When the subject of her having a trust fund popped up on this show I was mucho surprised because: the reason for her having access to a trust fund was unexplained, I think; it wasn't mentioned at all when she was on the Atlanta show. The Atlanta show made it seem that she was shaking that boootay to put food in the fridge. When she became pregnant the first time her boyfriend was dead-eyed, droop-eyed and disinterested in the whole situation. She wants to take another stab at a pregnancy with him? She needs to rest, relax and think instead of believing that she's ready for another little one right now.

Sara had her little horn doggy eyes on the queen right from the get-go and Sara's sly "I'm going to get that good stuff" look was pretty funny and pretty lecherous. With Sara being a time traveler her chances of having a long term relationship would have to be less than slim. For any of the women upon whom she's laid her mackstressing skills, for her to have even a semi-permanent relationship Sara would have to stay in the past, which she probably wouldn't ever want to do, or she'd have to remove her fling from her proper time period to bring that woman on the ship and that could be disastrous for the timeline. I missed part of the episode and came back into it with Ray not being slaughtered by Darhk, snow was everywhere and Ray's sword had the coolest looking but, apparently, barely useful lightning effect and I didn't understand the reasons for any of it. How did Ray soup up his sword? In the part of the forest where he was able to battle Darhk: where did the snow come from? When the Legends were fighting the mind-altered knights there was no snow then, correct?

Jimmy's fight with Metallo, including his entrance to the prison, was absolutely ridiculous. Then either Alex or Kara, I think, explained Jimmy's very few injuries by stating that it was a good thing that he hadn't received any direct hits from Metallo.

It was the way Jane was told of Michael's death, the reason for his death, and how soon it was known, which made me think that Michael died in the hospital after being shot in the hallway by Rose and that Jane had been living in a world of depression since then. I thought that some of the season's happenings--Jane and Michael marrying and moving into a place of their own, the revelation that Rafael was not Emilio's biological son, Xiomara's romance with Bruce and some other things that occurred--might have been dreams of Jane's but I realized that I was just making up some explanation so that Michael's death right then would have been unlikely. One of the things that I'll miss most because of the time jump will be the absolutely adorable, big eyed, big cheeked little actor that plays Mateo.

I missed several of the FtWD shorts because by the time I would realize that one of them wasn't a commercial it would be over. The several shorts that I did see were interesting enough for me to wish the show would follow the stories of some of those characters instead of still following Maddy and that whole crew.

I've seen a lot of fights on reality television but that shit took a lot of cake material: Brichelle constantly running around to keep mobbing on Amanda; Amanda's tooth loss; Caylea getting hard-tagged from her blind side by an average sized woman; Bri banging on people with various flat objects. That shit was wild. I think it was Caylea that grabbed Brichelle's cousin by the weave from the rear and the cousin barely paid attention. That woman in the red miniskirt was very poorly served by that piece of clothing. That was NOT an appropriate style for her body shape. If she was trying to get cute in the presence of one of her friends and that friend didn't point out how ill fitted that skirt was then that friend is wholly responsible for that eye burning bullshit. She was leaving very little to chance or interpretation and his trifling ass still had to get one last drink of free water from the fridge. Emily's trust fund has come up several times during this show and I don't remember that the subject ever came up when she was on the Atlanta show. Has she explained why she has a trust fund?

I didn't know there was a marathon until about mid-morning. If I'd known earlier in the morning that this hotness was going on I surely would have been on top of it. I've been watching the marathon ever since. I hope there's a marathon to kick off the new season because I'd like to view the earlier episodes in season 1.

This was a good episode too especially with Jane being awestruck at running into the grand telenovela star Rogelio de la Vega, who, in his sweetly arrogant way told her that her response was expected for "normal" people that meet him. He wanted to tell her that he donated to her gene pool but he was able to keep that secret and I was just hoping Jane was going to learn about their relationship in this episode. I'm still waiting on it! Good ol' hot pants Xiomara is often looking out for her daughter Jane's well-being--down to shouting "Hallelujah!" during church when she heard that Jane wanted to get her bone on with Michael and with her asking Jane if she'd cleaned up "down there." The close relationship between Jane and her mother was cute when Jane needed to get her shoes from her mother's room, in which Xiomara was getting her bone on with Rogelio, and Jane asked why the door was locked "anyway." Apparently Xiomara gets her groove on outside of the house all, or most, of the time. I was a little surprised that Alba was trying to distract Jane when Xiomara was trying to slide Rogelio out of the house but Alba probably didn't want Jane to get any more ideas about having sex.

Disclaimer: Yup, I know that I'm responding to old posts but I'm catching up on this excellent show. And he was so serious about his contact methods. That was funny, too. Jane corrected his misstep and like a good ol' boy he straightened up and restated his goal: "Mostly here to watch and observe." When I saw the character in season 2 I thought she might have looked a little familiar but I certainly did not remember her with any certainty until I ran across these posts. When I read Boobear's post I said, to myself, "Uhhh, yeah! I think the character's name was Terry!" Before that I hadn't even considered that I might have known that actress from anything. Two of my other favorite scenes were: Xiomara rocking the mic at Jane's quinceañera with the embarrassing milkshake dance and the later revealed reason for it; Rogelio's "I want my daughter to have the pleasure of knowing me" and "I became an international star just a few years ago. Imagine what a disservice it would have been to the world if I had given up."

I just started watching this show several months ago so while I'm up to date, more or less, with season 2 I knew very little, and hadn't seen, season 1 at all. I recently checked out the 5-DVD set from the library and I'm working my way through it. The pilot was good but it didn't have the humor, yet, that I'm familiar with in season 2. It was good for me to actually see Jane's life before the pregnancy and how her insemination occurred. I was also able to finally see how each of the characters fit with one another: the relationship between Jane and Michael and the relationship between Rafael and Petra. I'd read about the show's premise online but I think some of those articles were vague on exactly what happened in the doctor's office and what happened afterwards. For sure, it was better for me to have seen the happenings.

Based on one of his last comments--I think he stated that he saw her or the boat--I assumed that she had. She was in her regular ol' Maddy mode: she was telling Strand how to operate HIS boat and when to stop and who he should pick up and though she showed some concern that Alicia wasn't getting enough sleep she started grabbing for the radio just as she did with the shotgun that Nick retrieved from the neighbor's home the night the shit started falling apart in the world. That is currently unknown. Maddie dropped him off at home and no one has had contact with him since then.