Diapason Untuned

Yeah, the scariest thing about the Candy lady wasn't just the rotting interior disguised by the suburban veneer, it's how practiced she was at what she was doing. The way she chose her victims, the way she lured kids into her van, the way she preyed on their fears and created artificial deadlines to sap their will to resist, it was a very realistic kind of fear. If every GCPD officer was as good as Jim Gordon, Gotham wouldn't have any problems in the first place. Regarding Ryan and Angelique not going near the police afterwards, I recall the case of the Milwaukee police officers who returned one of Jeffrey Dahmer's child victims to him, even though bystanders told them he was being coerced, Dahmer was a registered child offender and he had a dead body in the house with him. If stuff like that can happen, what are the chances the GCPD would believe two street kids over a "kindly" suburban woman?

This is hands down the funniest episode of this show, ever. I literally howled when they broke out with "Doppleganger". "Damon, don't do this" was another favourite. The writers must have been cracking up too when they wrote this stuff. There being no Bonnie because there wasn't actually a black girl currently on cast to play her did not escape my notice, though the mentions of how Plec did her dirty were...interesting. Also nice that they brought up the squickiness with Caroline and Alaric...and then did it again with Jade and Josie. I really, really wish they would stop putting all the girls that like Josie on a bus.

Archie not getting to graduate (honestly, they should just let everyone graduate after the horror show of a high school career they had) was rough, but Riverdale High managing to gouge Archie one last time for free music is probably the most actual high school thing this school has ever done. Cheryl showed some real growth by putting off college to fix the damage her family has done in Riverdale, which is actually a nice direction for her character moving forward. I have to admit, I really felt it for Jughead when he showed up at Pops only to find no one there. I'm honestly interested to see what madness will happen after the timeskip.

The irony is that the original was more like Sailor Moon than anything else. I actually managed to finish this and it wasn't totally bad, though I may have enjoyed it more if it wasn't a horrible adaptation. For me, the cheapness comes from the fact that the way they shoot scenes, the sets, even the sound effects feel like something I've seen before. You'd be surprised. My mom used to do the same to me, insisting I go out and do stuff that she considered fun when I was perfectly happy enjoying myself in my room. That's why I sympathized with Bloom at first, though that evaporated after her behaviour got more and more erratic. Others have mentioned, but Aisha was also super odd. One minute she's obsessing over Bloom's life, the next she's acting like she doesn't care. Just bizarre.

Going to hope and pray this means Raf will come again like King Arthur. As for the rest, I actually like Handon, so I wish they would stop with all the drama. Alyssa, taking the nuclear option as always. She does something crappy, people retaliate and she decides to destroy everything for revenge. Please try something new, show.

Even if she buries the hatchet, I highly doubt she'll come back full time. I would think they would have recast her from the start if this was the case. Sorry but that just sounds like a horrible idea. It worked right there because it was from Ryan's perspective, but it's not a trick they can keep doing. Kate's friends and family mourning her is only right, there's no problem there. The problem is that the show just introduced a plotline that, judging from last season, they'll drag all season and it probably can't have any good resolution. The best way for this plotline to end is if Safiyah reveals that she just stole Kate's necklace and is pretending Kate is alive in order to manipulate Alice.

Even if we got a cameo, she's not coming back full time, so spending half the season on people chasing down Kate only for her to maybe appear once, give Ryan her blessing and then disappear is just a waste of time. Ryan's PO is trying too hard. Give her some room to breathe. Yeah, this Zsasz was great. We're really on a streak of them. Yeah, this wig suits Ryan way better. Well, she's a med student, she runs a free clinic, she volunteers at Batwoman Inc, so she doesn't really have a lot of free time. Plus, didn't her reputation get damaged because that stuff with her mom, to the point that she took a break from social media?

That's what I thought it was as well. On one hand, this is yet another example of Sir Reginald being an asshole. On the other hand, they did break into his business, stalk him, accuse him of murder and cause his girlfriend to break up with him, and that's without even getting into the dinner disaster.

I think it'll come up eventually, but since Yolanda can barely stop herself from killing Henry, I'm not sure if that'll be a good thing for her to learn, considering how vicious Cindy can be, Plus he brings his zombie henchmen to meetings. Who does that? Jokes aside, her father seems to either ignore her or gas her when he needs to deal with her, is it any wonder the girl can't create healthy relationships with people?

Sounds a little farfetched to me that the whole ISA was involved in this. Most likely, Dr. Ito told her to get with Henry to observe him, she saw the pic on his phone, grabbed it, texted it to herself, then mass texted it to everyone, and moved from there.

Kids these days have flying fingers, man.

It seemed to me that he was showing the pic to his friends and Cindy texted it to herself when she grabbed the phone. Yeah, I caught secondhand embarrassment when she called her parents her best friends and her mom had to shut that down. There'll be plenty of time for that when you turn 40, Beth!

Wizard was under the impression that it could have been an accident so he opted to question first, blast later if necessary. Of course that was probably part of Icicle's plan to steal the wand and replace Wizard.

Because it sells snuff films in the back. Exactly. Just last week, we see him patronizing a snuff film store, so this good guy thing doesn't exactly work. I can buy that some of the stuff he did was within bounds, like what happened with Cheryl and the cheer coach, or Betty and the quiz team, but others not so much, like the way he trashed Reggie's car or what he did with Betty and the yearbook.

I think we can chalk up the doppleganger thing on Supergirl to aliens being exempt from the rule. Barry was the first person to notice something off with sirI. She just gaslit him into believing that nothing was wrong, and that she had just changed because of thinking he would die in Crisis. In light of that, it isn't odd that he wouldn't feel anything too off about what she said this episode. This is an issue, but I suppose Mirror people are immune to empathy powers. Letting the Spectre into the Speed Force wasn't really Barry's fault (what choice did he have?), but ignoring the signs that something was wrong since then kind of is. I took it to mean Barry noticing something was wrong with the Speed Force, but not calling him to do something as simple as ask "Hey, have you had any trouble with your powers lately?"

When this happens with a child in fiction, there's a good chance it's done to hide the baby's origins. Add in the fact that Lucy went out of her way to haunt Nancy... Weird, but not totally out of the realm of possibility. They lied about her age, since Kate clearly wasn't pregnant when they left.

Same! I really swore it was Owen too. No surprise on Nancy being Lucy's kid, I was wondering if it was so for a while and the bee thing confirmed it for me. I think the writers themselves aren't sure what the pairings are and they're still winging it. If Nancy and the new guy work out, they'll stick with that. If not, back to Nick.

Yup. Taking pulses is not as easy as it sounds, especially in the dark, when you're scared out of your mind and the patient is already injured. Because they probably weren't rich kids, they were most likely the same as Moose. Kids with a broken life that no one would miss or make a fuss over who they brought in via scholarship Saving it for later maybe? That's Riverdale for you. Best part of the episode.

The Grodd/Flash team up was interesting. Barry going "Run Grodd, Run" got a chuckle out of me. I have to say, Grodd did have a point about his imprisonment, even if it was necessary. I did empathize with Chester during his hallway chat with Frost. He seemed to have picked up the wrong idea from his teacher and acts over the top because he's afraid of missing his one chance to impress people and prove himself. It's odd to think this is probably the most The Flash has talked about race... ever.

Everytime Lala thinks he's made it, someone comes out to put him down again. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for the guy. I love when Jeff starts bragging 🙂 I figured they were moving Khalil out of the way to set up Brandon and Jen. Legends will be having an opening soon, maybe he could go over there. If anyone ever needed sometime on the Waverider, it's him.

Lena tried to brainwash the planet, and showed no remorse after the fact. In fact she's planning on doing it again. That's some top-tier villainy right there. Kara made the right decision, letting her know that if she's going to behave like a villain, she'll get treated like one. Anyways, this is one of the best 100th episodes of anything I've seen. Mxy was great, and seeing Kara relive her life like a soap opera was hilarious. J'onn and Alex not trading along kinda sticks, but they were there at the end, where it matters most with a nice speech at the end.

It wouldn't even be hard. Just have Alice come back as an Encore(from Legends of Tomorrow) and have Beth use an image inducer or something to keep her around. But of course, that would require Beth to be more than a throwaway character, or for the shared universe to be more than an excuse for a yearly crossover... Speaking of shared universes, Kate needs to learn from Kara's mistakes and pull Mary into the loop already. It's getting ridiculous now. If she knows about multiverses there's no reason to keep the truth from her.

Let's recall that Werewolf Boy wasn't firing on full cylinders. The other two knew this, but they let him out anyways.

As others have said, no way the ASA honours their deal, hell they're already planning to take out Lynn if things go south.

At least Frank didn't rob Archie on his way out. Seeing Veronica at all normal with her parents made me think I was watching a different show for a minute. Did she forget all the horrible crap Hiram did to her not that long ago? Was this filmed before the current season as part of the backdoor pilot or something? It wouldn't be a Lodge family reunion if it wasn't shady. To be fair, I heard sirens in the background when Archie was being attacked, so I assumed FP did send someone, they were just late. Totally right about the Mr. Honey thing though.