Wanderdown

Adult William is in the future. Young William left with his grandparents for Central City...where...where it's safer? Does Cisco not share info with Felicity about what's going on there?

They just wrote out every gay male character in the show...

A number of cities in the DCU/DC Comics are analogous to real world cities. Metropolis is 'Totally Not New York-idealized' Gotham is 'Totally not New York at Night', Flash's Central City twigs to kansas City or St Louis. St Roch (Comic Hawkman's stomping grounds) is Totally Not Baton Rouge. And so on. Since it's already filmed there, I always read Freeland as Totally Not Atlanta.

I hope in future episodes we get more...well, pimples and popping. So much of these episodes felt like 'Let's carve out this lipoma' or something not in the job description (varicose veins, or that earlobe thing from last week's episode). I was kind of bored, especially with the last episode. Are there no ginormous cysts needing to be busted left in the world?

Well, Laura herself is tedious, along with insufferable. I think with an eight episode season, this should have had more story advancement and not be filler like this episode was.

I think the Monks are a different group than Lydia's dad's Totemists. Speaking of, Lydia was awesome defending the others (despite her making a speech about herself at someone else's wedding; bad form, Lydia), but I despise the 'we should be thanking you for saving our miserable hides, but we won't because reasons' trope in stories. Then Lydia compounds it by going to her son, Baron Poutmaster McPoutyPout (Because Oliver Stark has no other facial expressions; angry pouting, frustrated pouting, smug pouting, I-am-creeping-with-my-dad's-fiance pouting, ect; for all the crap MK's actor gets, Ryder's actor should as well) I'm happy they didn't drag out Sunny's imprisonment in the mines. Going through an entire season waiting for a lead to reunite with the rest of the main cast leads to padding and a lack of satisfying resolution (coughPennyDreadfulcough). I think the point of Nick Frost's Baije is to keep the scenes of Sunny journeying back active with dialogue (Let's be honest, if Sunny escaped alone, it would have been very, very silent). Baije can be annoying, but I liked Frost in Hot Fuzz and it seems the character has plot-purpose. Just once I'd like to see a tale where the young apprentice (in this case MK) just stops and sits and listens to what the master has to say. I don't mind the monastery scenes because I kinda want to understand why MK has this ability and how it came to be. The other guy given a name there (Tate) fled the monks, and I think that plot point might come back. I think Waldo is playing the Widow, and possibly everyone else he comes into contact with, but I can't get a clear picture of his endgame by doing so. Hammy, yes, but Martin Csokas' Quinn definitely brings the party with him. I am waiting for him to smack the Perma-Pout off of his son's face.

The show is interesting, and I am waiting to see how it all falls out. I just hope Rimmer and Bart never meet in the show. Their voices are painful to listen to, and both of them on screen at the same time would make my eardrums rebel against me.

There is nothing about the Lindsay story line that couldn't be solved by shooting Lindsay into the sun.

What I did like. Seward, after it being suggested to her she stay outside as a civilian. "I'm from New York; I know my way around a gun fight." (Paraphrased) Seward, at the end. Everyone else is "I'm staying," when Dracula tells them to leave. Her? "Fuck him."

One part got to me. Vanessa, to the Creature: You're a kind, generous soul. I wanted to see someone else come in. "Uh, Miss Ives? There's a Mr. Proteus and a Mr. Van Helsing who would like to speak with you."

Okay, I love Eva Green in this and all, and she hit it out of the park again this episode. But with only nine episodes in the season, focusing an entire episode on her asylum flashbacks is a bit of a waste. We didn't even get John Clare's real name out of it.

Who do we have to bribe to get the return of "Doctor Weed!" in future episodes?

Just a little while longer... https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/609398074234945538 July 13th! Soos' birthday, even!

Looks like we're back on for July. https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/601862231085559808