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Wow, it's been a while since I was here. But I want to to ask: Am I the only one who's really annoyed that Michael and Sari are unreservedly vouching for the nobility and trustworthiness of an organization whose current incarnation they barely know? Especially since they knew about Section 31 even back in their own time? For all they know, Section 31 caused the Burn, and is all that survived. At minimum, we've at least got Evil Admiral Syndrome to worry about. And I'm *more* annoyed at the Vulcromulans for not really calling them on it.

Most Batman origin flashbacks have the same issue. Unless maybe they really were cheap or fake pearls all along, making Martha's death even more tragic.

We saw Batman in the pilot, didn't we? Briefly, but more than we saw Superman in Season 1 of Supergirl. Of course, you can show Batman (though not Bruce Wayne, or Superman) in reasonably-close shots without having to commit to a particular actor...

My guess is uranium. U-238 is the most common isotope. You can’t make a bomb directly from it, but you can turn it into plutonium. And it's very heavy. Maybe Kate's mom's car had a bunch in the trunk for some odd reason?

I don't think that Sarge has ever claimed to care about rescuing any one planet. He wants to stop the Shrike permanently. My assumption has been that he intends (and has attempted) to do so by incinerating them all (and/or their creator) once they've all arrived. The fact that this will also incinerate the planet is regrettable, but necessary.

Beebo says "Bring it."

Of all people, surely Genghis Khan *did* get a pony for his birthday.

Thank you! I am just now starting to catch up on the FTWD backlog in my DVR, and having just watched this episode, I twigged to it being an Oz pastiche as soon as we met beer-guy in the field (with a burlap sack over his head, and his arms restrained). Which I guess makes wheelchair-guy the Tin Man, and Morgan himself both Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion? With the grey-greenish Wicked Witch showing up at the end. I am *shocked* that you're the first other person I've found online who made the connection. I was *positive* that it was all a dream Morgan was having in the truck, so I didn't mind as things got steadily sillier. I thought that he would work out his issues, realize "there's no place like home," and go back to (one set or another of) his friends. Which he sort of did... except that he wasn't dreaming?!? But you know what? I kind of admire this sort of unabashed weirdness in a major franchise, so I'm going to give the rest of the season a shot.

Since 1986, when Frank Miller let Superman do it in "The Dark Knight Returns". It was silly then, too, but at least he had to drain an entire jungle to make it work. For a long time, J'onn used the identity of DEO Director Hank Henshaw after the latter's (presumed) death, and still uses Hank;s appearance. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

I'm assuming that he just comes from an extremely polluted alternate "earth", where people had evolved to need (or just prefer) to breath air laced with oil smoke.

And now we know why. 😉

The fact that he didn't, makes me think that he left them for the serving girl. Not just as payment, but also so she can still use the poison within to kill Dany later.

Also: WTF weren't there some scorpions mounted on the Red Keep?

After the bells, I would have had Dany fly straight to the Red Keep and burn it to get to Cersei. Which still would have killed lots of innocent civilians inside, and still would get the Starks and Tyrion mad at her, but would at least have made sense.

Honestly, they're BOTH the bad guy. Which is par for the course for this show, and for history. And Jon and Tyrion both remain deeply stupid. Tyrion, you could have redeemed yourself by saying just two words to Dany: "Air reconnaissance."

Probably not, since Gordon wasn't there to show him "Rudolph".

As I recall, they hid in the event horizon specifically *because* their quantum drive wasn't working; and it didn't get fixed until after they left it. So, yeah.

Seems to me that people who dislike James as Lena's love interest (or as a superhero) disliked Mon-El as Kara's love interest (or as a superhero) even more. Also seems like people who want a "strong male lead with power" should probably check out the many other shows (some on the same network) that cater to that desire. For myself, I wish they hadn't chickened out on James + Kara after Season 1. And I like the idea of him getting (temporary) super-powers; I just want them to be something more interesting than "generic Kryptonian", especially when there's decades of Jimmy Olsen comic book plots to mine for inspiration.

It was one of many "humanizing" details she shared; but it was an especially relevant detail, because of the obvious parallels between anti-trans and anti-alien prejudice (and the fear they create). Was it blatant, even for this show? Yes. But I have no problem with the subtext becoming text in this instance, since *within the world of the show* the characters were explicitly making the comparison as part of an in-show political message.

I have a strong feeling that A Man came over with the Golden Company, to deal with A Girl. Either because she's *really* broken the rules now (I mean, the Faceless Men literally *work for* the God of Death); or because she was trained specifically for this mission, and now it's done. Either way, I wonder if the last word Arya will hear (or say) is "Today."

As someone else said somewhere: Maybe the Prince was Joffrey? After all, he's the one who provided that dagger... P.S. The showrunners said in the aftershow that the reason the Valeryian steel dagger killed the Night King was that it stabbed him in the heart, where the shard of dragonglass used to create him was.

I *think* we're intended to believe that all the abuse was being done by Neron's people, not Hank's. No, I don't buy it either.

We do have species on Earth where the females can reproduce both with and without males, depending on circumstances. Though I agree that that's not quite the same thing. Until the show tells us otherwise, my assumption is that the Moclans evolved with two reproductive genders, like (apparently) most sentient species; but at some point, they deliberately altered themselves to allow males to reproduce with males (or maybe some meddlesome aliens altered them). This was presumably because whoever instigated the process considered females inferior, though there are other possibilities (e.g., some plague wiped out all the female Moclans, and what started as a desperate attempt to saved their species turned into a self-reinforcing "no girls allowed" club; or maybe some mad-scientist female Moclan geneticist decided it was time for males to do their share of the child-bearing, and things got out of control.)

Well, the female Moclans fought as well, both with their own handful of guns and with guns they took from downed opponents. And with bare hands. And with crockery. 🙄 I think we can assume that all or most of the guns involved were set to "stun", since the Moclans were specifically trying to capture the rebels (otherwise, they could have just bombarded them from orbit). It did bother me a bit that the women didn't seem to start really fighting until Our Heroes showed up; maybe only the leader's bodyguards had weapons (and we saw they were hiding in a hut).