kickingnames

I should be annoyed by that, but I’m not — she looked great.

I hate it so very much, thanks.

I need this to be the case. I’m another for whom Rogue/Gambit was one of my first OTPs; all I want is or them to be happy and together! Which yes, I know is a ridiculous thing to hope for on this show — no one’s ever happy for more than a few seconds at a time. But I detest love triangles (always have), and never needed Magneto to be anything other than a great villain, so this development is not working for me at all.

@RachelKM I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I think this finale had several really special moments — Lance Reddick as Zeus, Poseidon and Percy finally coming face to face, Sally’s return (even in a dream). I would have liked a little more of both Annabeth and Grover, but hopefully that’s just something to look forward to in Season 2. I really hope we get a Season 2.

The K-Pop style in the actual episode:

Been dealing with real life stuff and missed the early rounds; I am shocked the Klingon moment during the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds musical episode didn’t make the favorite musical moment cut. Felt like I heard about it the most when that episode released.

Drunk nerd Freddy amuses me. Also, his enjoyment of magic tricks — I’m pretty sure Jack Cutmore-Scott learned magic for the show Deception he was in a few years back, so it’s nice of them to incorporate a little bit of that here. I hope the show is given a chance to fully develop — I’m enjoying it so far as a work in progress. Obviously Kelsey Grammer knows Frasier inside and out, but I think the writers are still finding their way with some of other characters, and I’d like the show to last long enough to see where they go. I’ve laughed outright at least once per episode, which more than I can say for several other comedy shows.

Great. Now I can be mad about forever.

Dang, that was good. The more and more I think about it, it was really clever. And beautiful. Not perfect, but definitely clever and beautiful.

Someone please tell me this was on purpose — it’s too adorable to be an accident!

I’m guessing that’s why Yaya is there now.

I feel a little vindicated after ranting to my screen that “this woman is crazy!” several times while watching this season. You just don’t get Lana Parilla to play purely innocent — she definintely delivered on the twist(ed character). I feel like the clues were definitely there throughout the season. Maybe it’s because I’ve never actually seen the movie, but I’m one (of the few?) who buys this Micky and Maggie as a couple in the past/present/future. And I love Micky and Lorna’s dynamic, but I can’t imagine how they would have been as a married couple at all. I’m glad she and Cisco are happy together. I like Izzy and like for her to continue to develop as a character, but I’m curious how well they do that while also keeping her around for the main story going forward. Overall I think I might have liked the first season better, but this one wa still very good and I’m on board for another.

I just wonder how long Kyle stood there with Jordan and Jonathan staring at him blankly until he got back in his truck and drove off.

Just spotted Stephen Amell sitting behind the commentators on tonight’s WWE Raw — I shouldn’t have been surprised since that’s where he got his wrestling start… 😆

What a gem of an episode. So many zingers. I was concerned for a minute that Gregory was going to bow to his father’s wishes for a family landscape business, but thankfully he’s recognized how much personal development he’s gone through with this teaching job. I have a couple of teacher friends who are definitely shorter than a few 8th graders — they would NOT get pushed around though. (They are some fierce elementary teachers who also enjoy this show.) Y’all are making me so grateful that I’ve never seen Toy Story 3. Sounds brutal emotionally.

My favorite episode of the season. Loved all the things everyone’s already mentioned about Parker & Hardison and the heist/date night. A side note I also loved was Harry as Elliot’s sous chef -- his slow, little knife cuts (from which he still managed to knick himself) and his repeated “Yes Chef” comments amused me a bunch. I love the way the actors take advantage of background moments.

That delighted face is GOLD.

The way I read that article was that the conversation happened while they were filiming Season 1, but not necessarily before the Diggle references had already been made. So yeah, it’s a plot hole, but it is what it is. I’m fine with the show not being tied directly to the Arrowverse; the big crossovers had a tendency to hamper the individual shows’ story arc for a portion of the season, which got old as the years went on. It would’ve been nice to include Kara here, but I’m not bothered by the lack of connection to the other shows/characters.

I do agree. There’s no real in-universe explanation for it, beyond just shrugging your shoulders that “genes are weird”. The IRL explanation seems to be that the writers decided to structure the show as “half human / half superhero”, which is why it’s specifically called SUPERMAN and Lois instead of Clark and Lois, or The Kents, or anything else. So far they seem determined to keep it half and half, which means only one twin gets superpowers. (Now, if only they could keep the quality storylines half and half…) Who knows, maybe they’ll eventually get so stretched for stories that they finally give Jonathan powers for real — but for now I think that they think they can mine more family drama out of one twin “taking after Lois” and not having powers.

Every story thread that Jonathan had at the end of Season 1 has been dropped, along with the idea of Lois and Clark being quality reporters worthy of decades-long tenure at the Daily Planet. Every time the superpower stories start overtaking the human stories, these type of shows get out of balance. If the writers are going to force certain characters to stay out of the superpower developments, they need to give them better quality stories of their own instead of just using them as fodder in service of the stories in which they have little to no agency.

Congrats -- hope everyone is happy and healthy. Gotta be honest, I saw the baby’s name and immediately thought of this:

I’m curious when that happened -- I guess I can assume Lois and Sam told Clark their life story while they were tying Jon-El up in the house after Anderson knocked him out, but it seems like they squeezed a whole lot of detail into a very short conversation.

I loved the visual of Clark basically dive-bombing at the last millisecond to save Jonathan. Still pretty done with everything related to the boys decision-making regarding the girls they like. (Guess I’m definitely not a teenager anymore.) Jordan being able to fly at bullet-speed instinctively but not being able to do it consciously is Wile E. Coyote level silliness. At least something good came out of the whole mess: Clark finally told Lana! It was cute how nervous he was to spit it out — the only other person he’s really planned out exactly how he was to tell was Lois. My headcanon: the glasses are a perception filter (™️Doctor Who) -- the glasses shift what people see when they look at Clark’s face, so it just seems like they’ve never really looked at him clearly, until the filter is removed. The one question I do have: how does Clark know all the stuff that we saw in last week’s episode? It was shown to us like flashbacks, intercut with the present-day Bizarro World action, and Clark tells Lois this week that he’d been over there for only a day. When did he learn all of this? It’s not like Jon-El took time out to tell him the whole family saga.

On rewatch I just caught that Jon-El mentioned his dad hosting “the Kevins” instead of the Oscars. Also hilarious.

So this is this season’s “A Brief Reminiscence In Between Cataclysmic Events” — and it was just as fantastic as the Season 1 episode. I could do well with one of these each season. Loved seeing the Bizarro World backstory; so many interesting hair choices lol. I thought it was clever to show Bizarro Kal’s degraded state as the result of kryptonite abuse. I do wish that our Kents could learn about the other family’s history as well. I’d been increasingly convinced throughout this season that Jon is probably never going to truly manifest powers of his own, and I’m still mostly convinced that Clark is going to get there at the last millisecond to save him — but if the two Jons do actually merge and that’s how he gets powers? That wouldn’t be too bad.