DearEvette

Yeah, The Wesley Snipes line was great. Even greater, they all played it straight and serious. so only the audience go the laugh. Rufus was too scared, Flynn was too pissed (although you could practically see Flynn doing a mental eye-roll when he had say the line all deadpan), and the Fed guy was just out to get his man (and woman). Also loved Rufus' lookon his face when he realized they left him. Poor guy. I think the actress who played Bonnie was excellent! She was just riveting to watch. I could easily see how Lucy could be seduced by the charisma of the historical figure, the actress really brought it. I thought she eclipsed the the Clyde character. This was a fun episode, but the Rittenhouse plot feels labored. I know they need a reason to go romping through history but the fun tends to grind to a halt whenever they bring it back to the main plot.

I wonder if it has anything to do with your member station? I have had the experience of some select shows being free on the PBS app. And then some being free within a few days of the original airing. And then some not being free at all. They show up on the app withalock symbol which only unlocks if you donate and become a member. I didn't realize that the most recent season of Endeavour was out and when I tried to see if I could see the first couple of episodes they had they dreaded lock symbol.

Not only this but the sheer hypocrisy of their reaction. When Cisco dropped his bomb everybody got all judgey. You'd think at least the LOT folks would pause and think that "Hey you know what, the things we do all the time could have much more far reaching consequences, we just got lucky none of them came back to bite us in the ass yet." And then Stein had to double down "Unlike your friend Barry I can fix my mistake." So not only does Stein acknowledge that it was possibly him and not Flashpoint that caused his daughter to exist in this timeline.. and therefore acknowledging that Barry is hardly the only person guilty of changing shit, he then proceeds to forget all the warnings they just gave Barry mere hours earlier about going back and changing things.

My hands down favorite Colonel Abrams song is Music is the Answer. Such good memories of clubbing to his music.

Honestly I don't feel either Rebecca, William or Randall bear any blame at all. They are all caught up in a situation of their making that they all made out of fear and love, but it is something none of them were emotionally able to navigate well. In my opinion, "blame" should be apportioned when someone does something bad for the wrong reasons. I don't think Rebecca or William necessarily did anything wrong. In hindsight maybe what they chose to do wasn't wise. But the only reason it is even an issue is because Randall feels hurt by it. If Randall didn't care or if he was understanding or forgiving would Rebecca's actions still be considered wrong? Her actions would not be the thing that changed, only Randall's reaction to it. But, having said that, I also don't think Randall is wrong about how he feels. I give Rebecca a lot of slack over not telling Randall later in life. At this point we've only seen age 9 Randall making a big deal about his birth parents. Maybe after they enrolled him in the martial arts classes and he was around black people more maybe he stopped feeling so out of place. Or maybe he just learned to hide it better and stopped talking about it. And if that is the case, maybe Rebecca felt is was no longer an issue or he no longer had the desire. Unless he brought it up later or she was aware he was actively searching, then I can't think of a reason or time for her to initiate the conversation.

It does set up the potential for a fight. It'll all depend on if RA feels he is being heard and if he sees this as some trump card he can play if he feels Charley and/or Nova are shutting him out of decisions. The story has the potential to play out in a lot of different ways. First there would be the determination if the letter constitutes a legal will. States have different requirements. Some states requires a will to be witnessed by at least two people, i some states the states wishes of the testator was enough. If it is legal and RA wants to claim it solely for himself he is up a creek. He can't get a loan, he has no money and he has to way of getting the sugar milled. He really needs Charley's capital. And second, even if what Earnest wrote isn't legal, then Charley and Nova will know that Earnest really did not intend for them to share in the farm. That is a psychological kick in the taint for them. No matter how it turns out, there is the potentail for some real discord there.

Overall I think the whole was better than the parts. But I am still a bit let down. I think Cisco's drama felt misplaced amidst what should have been something much bigger than them all. But then the writers go and make it all Barry's fault because of Flashpoint which feels so damned illogical. Between all of the time travelling and affect on people's lives that the Legends have and Barry & Cisco opening portals between infinite Earths that act as some intergalactic Uber, Aliens decide that Barry's Flashpoint is what gives them the willies about meta-humans? I thought the Flash episode was the strongest from a character involvement standpoint. I thought the Arrow ep felt like it was barely even part of the crossover. And I thought the Legends ep was fun an actiony, but also felt it did the LOTs characters a disservice. They felt like supporting players on their own show. Felicity is not one of my favorite characters and Cisco is on my shit list, so having the two of them have such major parts while Jackson was virtually non-existent til almost the second half of the show just pissed me off. I don't watch Supergirl so I don't know how her ep happened. But she also felt weirdly side-lined in this one until the big battle in end. I felt like I could almost hear the writers justifying it by thinking she is too powerful so they had to create some weird argument between her and Oliver to take her out for a bit. It was popcorn action but overall it felt a little empty.

This is why I can't wrap my head around the Diggle anger. He knows there are other dimensions and other timelines and time travel and magic. So Barry saying, well splintered a timeline I was in before and in that one you have a daughter, should be a matter of curiosity and wonder but not necessarily anger. If someone came to me and said they changed my timeline and the two sons I have now were two actually daughters I be like 'Huh? did they do chores without complaining? Because these two are always complaining.' I don't know those two daughters they theoretical. I know these two sons, they are my reality. In this timeline, the only people who knew about baby Sara were Barry and the fans of the show. So Diggle's anger feels more like fan service to me than really about how someone in his shoes would really react.

Oh but that was just the first time, he became faux-Irish the second time "Top o' the mornin' to ya'" I forgot to mention, but just as much as I liked this Stevens, I also like this Dre. No self centered man-child in sight.

This is about one of the top five cold opens for me. This was brilliant. All I could think of when the credits came on was that man, I love this show! I also loved Amy "Get to the math!" She was so ridiculously thrilled to do math. And of course Hitchcock's hero would be Marie Callender. ha! Honestly I wished that the Boyle cousins would have been too beige even for Gina to sway. I hate that she seems to be a writer's pet. So happy to see Kevin!

I loved this! Neither one of them even asked anything about the girl. They were just so happy he had a girlfriend at all cracked me up. "He wears capes" (oh God I am still laughing about this!)

I have to agree, Negan is a bad villain. Not because he is villainous, but because he simply isn't compelling. I am of the school that believes that a good villain, in his mind, thinks he is the hero of the story. Everything he does, he does from the conviction that he is doing right. It is just that he can't see how twisted and wrong his perception is. If written that way he gets layers and motivations and his actions have a logic behind them that make them compelling to watch even in their wrongness. I hated the Governor, but I always felt that the Governor was written this way. Meanwhile all we have of Negan is that he likes to shake people down and kill them with bats. He has no other layers. He is just a thug. It doesn't make for a character you want to get to know.

I am wondering if Earnest wrote that in preparation for changing his will but was waiting for Ralph Angel to settle a bit and maybe spend time with him before he did it with his lawyers. I could see it as something he thought was right. I mean, Charley was barely in NOLA she had her life in LA. Nova showed no interest in the farm and had a full life with her community projects. But maybe he saw this as a way to give RA something of his own and possibly keep in for Blue. But he knew RA wasn't ready (why it was still in a locked box ion a top closet shelf). And of course, Death waits for no one.

This one had me laughing right out the gate! What a good one. Poor Jack and his 'C' They let Steven go back to just being a clueless rich white privileged guy and not a frothing racist. His 'You know how I get women, I say that's my jet' was perfect. This Stevens is the one we like, not that other guy. Charlie, of course is the MVP. Snow J. Pimpson! Ha! When Bow saw Megan for the first time and the Ironside theme played and everything went into slo-motion I cracked up because it reminded me of the movie Kill Bill. Everytime the Bride (Uma Thurman) saw one of her enemies she went into a red-fugue state with the Ironside theme.

Charley took me on a rollercoaster ride. One the one hand I LOVE what she is trying to accomplish with the mill and how she hustled Felix. But I hated all the stuff with Davis and it cost her Remy. But I did like her interaction with the owner of the NOLA team who seemed to think she was too good for Davis. I like Ralph Angel and do think he is being dismissed by Charley, but I am not convinced he has the maturity to run the farm on his own. But I do hope that he, Darla and Azul (ha!) form a strong family unit. That would be a fantasy outcome and very affirmational. God, Nova and Calvin are all sorts of screen chemistry but they feel like they are doomed and that makes me sad because they looked so happy. I can't help but think that the guy's reaction to her, once he discovered she was Nova Bordelon is a not-so-sly dig at how out of control irrational and even violent some folks get at a little bit of criticism toward the police. Because god forbid, someone criticize the police. I do think this is a meaty conflict to place on their relationship. One would think that the bigger obstacles toward them being happy would be him finalizing his divorce and to some extent their interracial relationship. But those two things aren't even their biggest barrier to their happiness. And the hardship isn't necessarily Nova's, it is Calvin's. So does he put his money where his mouth is? Is she worth the ostracism he will face from his brothers in blue? Overall such a strong season and great show that deceptively packed a LOT of stuff in to 13 episodes.

I think that was the point of the dojo exercise -- reassurance that if Jack wasn't there or could not lift up Randall that there would be a whole line of men ready to hold Randall on their backs to "lift him up." Which is why the rest of the men also had to lift up Randall. I think the message of the initiation was to assure that that Jack show he was willing to lift up his kid, no matter how hard, but to be assured what would happen if he couldn't. I would imagine that the men who lgo to that dojo kinda know what to expect so they might be prepared. Yvette knew of it, because she sent them there deliberately. But I would imagine a less fit father, or a mother who enrolls her kid there who has no father would have gotten a similar but not 100% the same message. Now, I think Jack did so many push ups because he was trying to prove something to himself given their circumstances. He wanted to be the guy for Randall. The Dojo guy actually told Jack to "stop, that is enough" but Jack kept going.

At the very top of the show, while Randall is writing his "Rebecca list" there is a container of some awful healthy looking smoothie in a similar size container. So either he brought his own (and we didn't see it) and he confused he two or he took the guy at his word and tasted some of his smoothie cuz it is just the sort of thing Randall would drink.

Olivia was on my shit list last week. But I couldn't get over just how cavalier and thoughtless she is about everything and everyone. She has no polite social skills. If it wasn't being clearly shown that she does have feelings, then I'd think they were trying to hint that she was a sociopath. I loved how Sloane was "I hate her but I have to be nice to her" which also tells me that not only is Olivia rude and thoughtless but she is a bully. I also hope they aren't going for a lame love triangle. And I sincerely hope we are not going to get some lame redemption arc for her. I never once got the impression that Rebecca was being shown to be either insecure or a bitch. I do think since the story was being told from Randall's perspective and also young Randall's perspective it does lend one to want to see their side of things. But overall, this felt to me to be such a complex boil of emotions. Rebecca seemed tortured to me, tbh. I think Mandy Moore did a great job of showing Rebecca's anxiety. I think seeing him all clean terrified her. This was her nightmare scenario. Running like that was completely irrational, but that is the point. She wasn't thinking rationally. I don't know any adoptees on an intimate enough level to understand some of the issues, but I can imagine that there are a lot of adopted parents who might be seeing the show and see themselves in Rebecca and there are a lot of adult adopted children who see themselves in Randall. It just strikes me as a complicated emotional stew that nobody is completely wrong or right.

Ha! I know right? Did I hear they were possibly blaming Barry for Stein's new daughter? Because given how much Stein has interacted with his past self...it is entirely possible that this all on him. Also wasn't Rip Hunter's entire motivation all last season was defeating and stopping Vandal Savage's rise to power so it would undo his killing Rip's wife and kid?

Cisco was annoying the hell out of me this episode. He was petty and passive aggressive. Frickin' Aliens are invading and you need to take the time get everybody all up in their feels about Barry? Sit your ass down. And come on! How is it that nobody except Oliver said "dude, not the time... we'll deal with this later." I also cant behind Diggle being mad... you don't know anything about this daughter. The you that is standing right there right now has a son that you love an know. So you get mad about a daughter you didn't even know existed in some other timeline until just a second ago? Would you rather the son you love didn't exist? STFU. Other than than Cisco's pettiness, this was fun! I wish we'd gotten a smidge more awe from the group once they got a load of Kara's power. I didn't mind Iris' protectiveness over Wally. She is right, he is untutored and all he has is speed and he only just hatched out of his tree-egg. Maybe fighting aliens shouldn't be his first test right out the gate. And he did get his ass beat and slowed Oliver and Barry down to boot. Also nice acknowledging that this was the first reveal to Iris of Oliver's Green Arrow identity. Loved her line when she discovered it.

Kevin read Olivia for filth! And I was here for it. My God, she just gets worse each week. That was my favorite scene until the initiation scene. Holy God, Dad Jack doing push ups with Randall on his back while getting a motivational "we are all each other's support" speech was just everything!

@jhlipton - a good companion to Easy is Lovesick you might find that one interesting too. Also on Netflix. It features three friends one of whom is Antonia Thomas (she played Alicia on Misfits). It is a British show where the central plot is about one of the friends, Dylan, who has learned he has chlamydia so he has to track down all the women he's had sex with to let them know. Each episode is the name of the woman he's contacted and it goes back and looks at how they met etc. But the other two friends also have ongoing stories and there is a nice supporting cast. Dylan is an equal opportunity STD transmitter (LOL) so a couple episodes feature WOC. And of course Alicia is a main co-lead. There are two seasons of it. That was also a very "easy" binge. (What? i was on vacation last week!)

Ok, that makes me a feel a bit better about Lawrence's phone call. It is always interesting how a viewer or reader interprets the work of a filmmaker or author versus the intent. I actually do believe the hypocritical conversation at the strip club was very deliberately put there just because Issa strikes me as a very smart filmmaker and that conversation, juxtaposed with Lawrence's upset and his boys' upset over Issa cheating is just the sort of thing that this show would do.

Yeah, the bow tie thing makes me eye roll. Unless you're tying a bow tie all the time, you aren't going to have the muscle memory to whip it out whenever you need it. When do we see these guys wearing bow ties outside of tuxes? Also it is hard enough tying it on yourself much less facing someone and doing it on them. I used to know how and if you asked me now I couldn't do it.

This one feels like a step back rather than a step forward. Or rather, no step at all -- more like jogging in place. At least last week's episode gave the three an opportunity to work through their stuff and gave some face-and-character time to the poor, thankless characters Lucy, Rufus and Wyatt leave behind every week. But this was a return to the Flynn story and it feels murky and unsatisfying. What exactly does stopping the moon landing have to do with stopping Rittenhouse? I asked this before but what is it about these specific trips to important points in history will actually stop it? Yes, Lucy always gives us a quick precis on ... if this [important event we are at now] doesn't happen then [this will pave the way to this unhappy consequence]. But still... how does that exactly tell us anything? The moon landing happened in 1969, by then Rittenhouse was already a power as we know from the 'Watergate Tape' episode (which takes place only 3 years later than this). On the Flynn side all this episode accomplished was to save his brother who got stung by a bee (although couldn't Wyatt's presence at her house change things up some small way so that younger brother wasn't stung at that exact moment or wouldn't younger brother have been in the house already watching the moon landing if Wyatt weren't there?) Also let's just kill a NASA engineer and an innocent bystander janitor. I did like that show talked up Katherine Johnson. I did not like that her contribution was just to help Rufus understand the hardware and marvel about what to us now is obsolete technology. By all accounts the woman was a brilliant mathematician. Why not show her make some critical calculation that made the difference instead of taking the credit for something Rufus did. TBH, this kinda feels as patronizing to her as all the 'honey' and 'darling' stuff did to all the other women. And BTW, when did Anthony have time to make a computer virus on and old fashioned reel tape like that that could interface with their computer? But It is nice we live in the now altered timeline where they made a move about her. They really need to pull the trigger on this Flynn/Rittenhouse stuff and start moving the story forward or this is just gonna get even more frustrating to watch.