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In Nora's time, millennial parents are unironically complaining about how their young adult children are less mature and responsible than they were at the same age. If she traveled back in time, she would run into her past self. Rewinding time seems more accurate here.

In the NCIS universe, people like Ziva seem to keep some sort of off-the-books safehouse where they might leave a cache of weapons. Sam and Callen probably do the same thing in LA. She was likely trained to not have too much of an easily tracked routine like sleeping in the same bed every night. I liked Ellie calling out Gibbs on his hypocrisy. She's the right character to do that. Gibbs is going to have an interesting reaction when he finds out she knew Ziva is alive. I don't think Ziva would hide her status from Tony. From her child, yes, because children can't keep secrets, but Tony has been in the game long enough that he would know what to do. Maybe the actors are returning for a story arc as part of the deal for the cop show they are exec producing.

It would make sense if it sets up a later season with Team Arrow becoming the new Suicide Squad with bombs in their necks as part of the road towards a dystopian future. Oliver being forced to do things he doesn't want to do, possibly having to team up with enemies of the past?

The book version is that of a misogynist who probably sees how a woman looks as the most important part of her value. Book Jane looks and acts like an objectified version of a woman.

I knew it wasn't John Goodman, even though that was my first instinct, but didn't realize it was Steve Martin until I saw him at the end of the show. I'm optimistic about Halsey as a host. The track record for musicians hosting is decent. She can be Pete Davidson's next girlfriend.

I can't wait for the scene where mind-wiped Alex confides to her sister Kara that she has a lesbian crush on that hot alien Supergirl.

Meat near the bone tastes better than something like those garbage, flavorless chicken breasts that some people like and they present a superior tactile experience.

There have to be core values that are constant throughout all of the Doctor's incarnations. There is a reason for choosing that name that a regeneration does not change. And we have seen a swing from a curmudgeon who seemed like a misanthrope to someone who seems to have picked strangers to serve as a surrogate family. Isn't an angst-free Doctor enough of a change? I feel like the story arc is coming. This season was about establishing themes and characters. Maybe the point is that gender-fluid regenerations are completely natural and aren't something that needs to be "handled". Do you need an episode where the Doctor dismisses any question about difficulty by saying that it was no problem at all?

It's personal porn. Dudes like porn.

I was expecting Ray's mustache to be possessed.

The guy whose career was ruined committed suicide after Ritz exposed that he was taking payoffs. I don't think that's much of a loss unless you agree with his former chief of staff that sometimes you get dirty in politics. More scummy politicians should commit suicide.

I'll go ahead and say that 12 and 4 are my favorite Doctors and that I enjoyed the interaction between 12 and Clara, but I also really love Buffy season 6, so my tastes are not always the most mainstream. I see 13 being in continuity with the previous NuWho Doctors, but it's like the angst of being the War Doctor isn't weighing the character down anymore. Anyways, this is not the first time where we've seen the Doctor have to stand aside and let history happen. I could see this being repeated and the Doctor reading a breaking point where she can no longer take it and intervenes or it could be foreshadowing that she will have to stand by and watching one of her companions die to preserve history.

Maybe he is not good at reading cue cards (illiterate or poor eyesight or dyslexia or some other reason) so he can handle smaller parts where he can memorize a few lines, but struggles with a full show.

It's going to be fun if Nate finally returns to the Waverider for the first time and walks in on Ray having sex with Charlie in the form of Amaya, because you just know the first time he sees her is going to be something awkward.

Once they mentioned Turk as the other person with a bounty on his head, it was clear he was going to be working with Mosley if he showed up and she was trustworthy, which I assumed she was. The investigator clearly suspected what was going on, based on his facial expressions while listening and his description of their statements as "strikingly corroborative" He knows he is being fed BS, but he also knows that their story is tight and he won't be able to crack it. He basically waved the white flag, but made it clear that he doesn't buy it for a minute and will be back if he finds an opening.

Candace was right; Jonah Hill shines in bathroom humor and I was disappointed that we didn't have more of it in this episode.

Anger isn't always rational. If we understand what it is like to be angry, then we should understand how easy it is to lash out at the most convenient target, even if it doesn't make the most sense. I find it very easy to sympathize with Nora because I've been on both sides of the equation. I've been angry enough that I can sympathize with someone whose rage pushes them into supervillainy on a show such as this. Nora's feelings are more mild in comparison. I approach this from a writing perspective. I would guess that, based on show history, the writers didn't have a set reason for why Nora was chipped at the time this episode was filmed. I could come up with a few reasons. Maybe her metabolism was killing her as a baby and she needed to have her powers dampened so she could grow. Maybe her speed caused her to age four years in a week and they stopped her powers so she grow at a normal rate, explaining why she may be emotionally less mature than her age. If I were in the writers' room, I could pitch at least ten ideas if you gave me a day to think about it.

Barry disappeared a few years after Nora was born, so I'm going with....Barry was the one who had the chip put in Nora, because being a speedster was killing her. I can understand why Nora feels the way she does. She feels that a part of her true self was being suppressed. Imagine if there was a homosexuality-suppression chip that could turn people into functional heterosexuals and you had one in you, then it was removed, and suddenly you're gay and it just feels right and you think it explains that empty feeling you had where you felt you were missing something. The resentment you would have is how Nora feels towards Iris. If you could imagine someone who had that anti-gay chip removed when they are in their mid-twenties and going through a sort of second adolescence with respect to their sexuality, where things feel new and different and they commit all the silly mistakes that many people went through a decade earlier....well, maybe Nora acts childish because she is experiencing some sort of second adolescence as if she didn't really live life the first time through, so now she is, in some ways, learning to be a human being now that she is fully herself.

I could go a bit in the other direction and say that I would enjoy the escapism of heroes who do violent things to characters who are stand-ins for real-life villains. I would hate to see a redemption arc for Agent Liberty.

I think she's dead until the writers see a need/use for her. They left an opening so that competent writer can resurrect her without being any more illogical than the show's extremes.

The bit at the end makes me wonder if Nora has been acting weird around her mother because Iris came up with the idea for her to go back in time and save Barry and present-day Iris is the one who can screw up the plan.

That's kind of how cliffhangers work. The alternative would probably be something like killing Abby off, Kate-style.

OK, I looked that up. Is it wrong that I laughed at the hashtag #blackgirlsarelit? Honestly, not sure she is dead. I think her fate might be undetermined, or it was when the episode was shot. If they knew for sure she wasn't coming back next season, I feel like they would have given her a badass moment.

As someone who didn't have time to watch Infinity War until last week, I feel that any tie-in between the show and the movie shouldn't spoil the ending of the movie. So a non-specific reference to stuff happening in New York is good, but reflecting the movie ending would be bad in my book. I could write a book on my views of temporal mechanics, but suffice it to say that I think time travel should be treated the way magic often is portrayed: there is no single way it works and the rules can shift. Or, different methods of time travel affect the timeline in different ways. Or, repeated use of time travel should be written in such a way as to troll overly nit-picky continuity cops.

This is the nature of a shared universe. It's just easier to assume that anyone else who could help is unavailable for unspecified reasons. If they try to explain it on-screen, it often comes up as a weak explanation because it would take a third of an episode to run down the list of everyone who might be useful.