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I never noticed that Nick Zano does look a bit like Kurt Russell. What's weird is that Sarah looked like she was only just having that memory of the timeline changing due to the present-day Legends botched rescue scheme (and the "glitch" on the video seemed to confirm that it was a "new" change to the timeline), but in the finale last season we actually saw Sarah turn and look at something behind her (Behrad?) which suggests that this was always the actual timeline. (Not to mention Ava's previously unexplained/out of character sloppy drunkenness, which we have a rationale for now.)

D'oh!!! I knew that. 😔

Excessive dark eyeshadow = evil female character.

I think that Thuganomics85 nailed it: That was definitely what I was thinking during that scene. Then again, I thought that Clark's "brother" would turn out to be the alternate universe Kal-El, so what do I know? For a second, I thought they were going to have her turn evil like her firstborn (so glad they didn't go that route). It does look like her consciousness will be reunited with Zor-El, which is kind of cool. As is discovering that Zor-El isn't just a programmed recreation, but actually his real consciousness existing within the Fortress of Solitude. I wonder if the two of them will get "real" bodies again next season?

"How are we going to eliminate the threat and save all the people of Smallville?" "I'll create a solar flare while we're all flying hundreds of feet in the Earth's atmosphere, and it will wipe out the Kryptonian engrams and depower the people!" "... but... won't that make them all fall to the ground and go splat?" "Admittedly, it's a plan still in progress."

One thing to bear in mind, the Avengers at least made an attempt to reset the other timelines to where they found them (other than what seems to be the Steve Swerve). Maybe that counted in their favor in the TVA court judgment. I doubt this version (any version?) of Loki would have been so inclined to do something similar. Agreed. I think that is ultimately where this goes (and sorry for not seeing your post earlier; I really should have waited to respond to anything until I hit the end of thread, but couldn't contain my eagerness. 😁) I actually think that is the outcome, and it can almost directly be linked to Mobius' comments about Loki being an agent of chaos in order to bring out the "best selves" in others. I think Loki may end up justifying bringing down the TVA using similar language: by ending the deterministic bureaucracy of the TVA, he is freeing countless trillions of lives to be able to become their best selves on their own terms, and not as dictated/written by anyone else. ETA: I think the imagery of Loki as the Devil really drives this point home, insofar as some representations of Lucifer's rebellion against Heaven are linked to the notion of him as a rebel against the tyranny of God's determinism and a champion of freedom. At least in some of the more modern interpretations of the war in Heaven.

Or option 3: the rascally scamp takes control of the TVA and becomes the most powerful man in the universe. And realizes just how much of a nightmare it is to try and run an omnipotent bureaucracy and decides to tear the whole thing down and let chaos and freedom run rampant (which may also free him from the "destined" timeline he is currently on.)

It's been seven years. Why can't they get S.T.A.R. Labs external infrastructure repaired by now?

That tracks. I think you are right. Yeah- they'd better get another one ready for him at this point.

I think it was putting two ideas together: they knew that the X-Kryptonite was giving people Kryptonian powers. When Chrissy called Lois to tell her about the real names of two of the X-Kryptonians (Leslie Larr and that dead guy), they put that together with Clark's recollection that the other dead guy was saying that he wasn't himself that he felt like he was already dead, etc. Still kind of a big leap to make, but that is the only tie I can think of that might have bridged that gap for them. I thought they did give Jon and Jordan both an ELT in an earlier episode. Didn't Jordan use his when he had his ice-snot fit this episode?

At least, that's the way it works with human anatomy. 🤭 No, but I think you're probably right (obv there is enough genetic compatibility for interbreeding). At this point, my suspicion is that "Edge" is the evil-Superman from Irons' world, but he changed his appearance somehow (Kryptonian tech? Future tech like Eobard Thawne used?) and replaced Morgan Edge of this world to acquire his financial resources for the X-Kryptonite mining.

Do they not stock lunch-sized paper bags in Smallville? 😲

Loved it. Great episode. ET was amazing. Did wonder why Lois didn't tell both Jonathan and Jordan about their sister/the miscarriage at the same time, though. I mean I can kind of understand why (both for dramatic purposes as well as it being Lois' way of connecting with Jonathan about what took place). I just hope that they also told Emo-boy as well off-screen.

That was a clever twist. I actually recall thinking way back in ep 1 or 2 that "Captain Luthor"s suit looked a lot like Steel, but the writers totally surprised me. Didn't see it coming. Overall, a pretty meaty episode. A lot of plot advancement. Just two things that bug me, and I'm sure the answer is "because plot reasons": 1) Why did Clark have to go into the camper to investigate rather than just use his x-ray vision like he did later in the episode? 2) Why doesn't Leslie Larr use her super-hearing to listen in on Lois' conversations more frequently and learn Clark's (and Jordan's) secret?

Coming soon from the CW: Nora and the Forces of Nature!!! What a ridiculous bunch of nonsense this episode was. Ugh.

I liked this one better than the first few eps this season, and I like Constantine and Zari. I don't like how cliche "rom-com" they are making them (especially in this ep), though. It really doesn't fit Constantine's character at all- not even now that he has a new lease on life. I did like the ending song, but everything else was pretty cringe (even the tired "he overhears her telling ____ that it won't work" trope). John's had romantic partners before, and they didn't write him this shmoopily. Can't he and Zari have a more mature relationship (like Constantine did with Desmond ins S4 and 5?)

That is the first time that I can recall seeing the Nuclear Football treated like a real football. 🤣 And as much as I dislike Nate's character, it's nice to see that the writers remembered he is a historian. This was such a fun episode; from Behrad being mistaken for Che Guevara, to "Peace Train," to "Go Crimson!", to some long-missed Rory antics. This is absolutely one of my favorite episodes of this series.

Am I the only one who wondered why no one brought up the idea that if Jon hadn't blocked Jordan's punch, that he might have killed that other kid? Because that kind of seems like an important object lesson here, too. Also, just how many L-L names are we going to get on this show? Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Leslie Larr, possibly an L-Luthor...

Ugh. Add me to the bored camp. And the camp that thinks this parent/kid stuff is just silly. Why would these grown adults call Barry and Iris parents (because some force inside them is pushing them to do it, I guess?). And why would Barry and Iris call them their kids? Didn't we already get the Barry/Iris parent storyline with Nora? I think one of the worst things is they have this whole new cast of characters they're trying to give storylines for, and the rest of the new characters (Alexa, Kamilla, Chester- who wasn't even in this episode) get the short shrift, not to mention the classic characters. It's too much, and it doesn't seem to have any real stakes.

I'm pretty sure they showed FBI guy's eyes glowing like that a couple of times earlier in the season, and I didn't even make the Looker connection until this episode revealed it. 😲

Does every musical dramedy have to end up with the main character on a therapist's couch? Just wondering if I need to be concerned for my real life.

Also: the minute Caitlin suggested that the Meta-Cure might be fatal for Frost, why was Cecile not immediately calling for the judge to consider that the prosecution just changed their recommendation to a death sentence? (And... I am not a lawyer... but can they even change their recommendation at that point? Post-trial? In the RW, of course, not the Arrowverse.)

It wasn't the worst episode I've seen (in fact, its the only one I haven't fallen asleep to the past three episodes), but why do they always have to make court scenes so unbelievable? Not just in this show, obviously, but it does happen a lot here. As if the judge only had the option of either forcing Frost to take the cure or accept her silly "lifetime without parole" idea. Because fictional judges don't have judicial discretion, or penalty guidelines that can frame their decision-making. Oy. Thus endeth the Frost saga; not with a bang, but with a whimper. At least they actually made something interesting come out of the whole Cisco Meta-Cure storyline, even if it largely sidelined the guy who should have been most agonized and wringing his hands over the situation. (Bonus: At least we don't have to sit through any more episodes of "Fuerza, Fuerza, Fuerza" again.)

That would have been in the crossover episode with CBS' "God Friended Me," but y'know, cancellation.

I think all his powers are technologically derived, from his cybernetic spine and the poisonous spinal fluid to the programming the ASA did to him. I still don't quite understand how Jenn can jumpstart her powers when the emitter is still running, but maybe it's something unique to her and her generator ability? Also, shouldn't she have just regained her powers in full once she was out of range of the emitter? The more I see Ishmael on-screen, the more convinced I am that he was either given direction or chose to base his character on Julius Carry's Shogun Sho-Nuff. I was kind of joking when I first said it, but he really has the same facial expressions and vocal patterns.