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There's also the practical reason for the show: the apartment is a fairly deep set so the step lets the cameras see the people back there without having to move or use weird angles.

As someone who has used a wheelchair for many years, the number of apartments with steps in random places is infuriating. While searching for places to live "sunken" living rooms were my bane.

This is what I was afraid of this becoming and it took only one season. I'm fastforwarding through most of the episodes like I used to with the regular Challenges because I don't care about the drama. It's now back to fighting between themselves to try to not compete rather than just having fun doing weird challenges. I think Tina would've enjoyed the first season and competed in the elimination. I can see why someone wouldn't enjoy getting back into this politics version again.

I've been getting tired of all the self-loathing and angst that this show likes to dwell in, but finally it seems like the characters made actual changes at the end of this episode so that was good to see.

In buildings with fairly slow or limited elevators I think that's pretty common to send it back if you know someone is going to need it soon after you're done. I've done it a bunch even in my building where I'm up only 1 floor and my neighbor is grabbing their mail or something in the lobby.

Did anyone else feel like there were pieces missing from the episode? Like when Donna said to Tim "Wow how'd you learn to do that?" when all he did was kick a guy two feet away. I had to rewatch that to make sure I didn't miss him doing something special. There were a few other parts where I was like how did we get here or how did somebody know something. The scientist guy recreating Blackfire's ship is so dumb. Unless Superboy somehow knew how the inside of the ship worked too, recreating the body of the ship doesn't do any good if you don't have the stuff that actually makes it fly (electronics/engines). I at least hope they were making fun of that a bit themselves when they had him say he'd just 3d print parts for an alien spaceship. I thought it took balls to have Batman try to kill himself earlier in the season and then never reference it again. Along those lines, did I miss what happened to Lady Vic? Barbara being more concerned with how Dick and the Titans felt about Jason than she was about letting the murderous terrorist go free was kind of wtf but on par for this show. Jason felt bad about it so I guess it's okay he's not in jail. Vee was actually a good character. It did feel like she was the one actually in command when we saw her before so it wasn't really a surprise. The last scene was quite special. It proves Dick is a villain. He commands a child to torture someone who was already in prison, restrained, and in solitary confinement. I don't think Rachel had ever even seen Scarecrow before then, had she? If Dick was worried about Scarecrow getting out again, maybe he could ask his billionaire friend to pay for some security upgrades instead?

Thanks for the clarification. The last of the Arrowverse shows I watched was the Invasion crossover and never saw Crisis.

Forgot Dick asking Blackfire to check if Connor was okay. He had no idea if it would kill him and did it anyway?

At least I laughed a few times this episode, even though I think it wasn't intentionally funny. The bat airlift was ridiculous (and makes no sense like everything else in this show). And because I'm apparently 12, I laughed when Rachel was being super serious and said: "It wasn't hate that gave me power, it was love...for you...for Dick...". They probably could have worded that better. At least they're making Tim into a worthy successor to Jason: he was so annoying in the car ride with Donna. Dude, you already died once because you don't know what you're doing. They missed a potentially hilarious way to get rid of Superboy: I wanted Blackfire's fire to burn him up because she didn't know that Kryptonite weakens him. It bugs me too much that the afterlives shown on this show and Doom Patrol aren't remotely similar given that they're the same universe.

Connor is not a child. They showed him fucking just a bit ago. He's maybe naive, but he's certainly not a child.

Now, unlike Jason, Superboy does actually have a reason to go after Nightwing. Nightwing literally poisoned him and Krypto just for wanting to help. This is one of those shows where I start wondering if the main character is the villain of the whole thing because Nightwing is really the worst. I guess this might be a good way for them to get rid of Superboy so they don't have to keep sidelining him so he doesn't solve every problem in 2 seconds. I wonder if Scarecrow would be interesting with a good actor because all of his scenes are painful to watch.

All of Donna's scenes made no sense, not that anything else did, but hers were the worst. I have no idea what that "trial" was trying to show. Why is Barbara being written like she doesn't know what job she has? Did she approve the 50 cops in riot gear to handle a few people that were peacefully turning themselves in while the city was being overrun elsewhere? Kory accusing Blackfire of that being Blackfire's plan made me laugh: obviously Blackfire planned for dirty cops to shoot Superboy so it would ricochet off him and nearly kill her which would force Kory to take her and Blackfire to a secluded place so Kory can use her healing ability she didn't know about so Blackfire can steal Kory's powers and then offer to try to give them back but rely on Kory pitching a fit so Blackfire keeps the powers. Flawless plan. Aren't the Titans famous so wouldn't the cops know who Superboy is so maybe think twice about shooting him and making him angry? They need to write this show as villain of the week or something because they're terrible at these long arcs. The previous episode showed it can be fun, while still being nonsensical, because the characters are good and these giant flaws wouldn't show so clearly if each episode had a resolution.

I liked this episode as long as I tried to keep myself from putting any logic to it. (Almost nothing makes any sense in this episode if you think about it for 2 seconds). Hank and Donna were fun together. It was nice seeing Rachel again. I think I was just happy to not see Jason and Scarecrow for an episode. Unfortunately it was all in service of more Bat-drama, but it was nice while it lasted.

What a mess this show turned into. I thought it was promising after the first 3 episodes that we'd have these different types of people interacting and we get to see what comes of that, but they barely interact at all for the rest of the series. It was awfully convenient that all the guests went and got Masha, then walked into the room that allowed Masha to lock them in for their near death experience so they could have their big revelations. No plot contrivance there. One of the least interesting things to me is watching shows trying to portray people on drugs and we got like 6 episodes of that. This episode alone we got 30 minutes of people running around in a forest/field and then about 3 minutes to wrap up everybody's stories which would have been much more interesting to see (Ben and Jessica, wtf?). Did I miss the explanation of what happened to the cars?

I agree that Leland the character is a liar to other characters, but I don't want the show to be a liar to the viewers. I thought that's what the part about the computer was showing: that Leland was spying on David and could see things that David thought were private so that David can't trust Leland even more.

That would be disappointing if that's the case. I like that it feels like what we see is what we get, even all the crazy stuff that isn't clearly dreams, that all this really exists in this world. And haven't others seen the goat man too? I think Lexie and David (in dreams) have.

I'm guessing it was on purpose since it was a UFO episode, but it felt too X-files-y to me with the conspiracies and quick recants by the witnesses and no answers. I was expecting Kristen to say something about David being happy to see her when they hugged.

I watched the whole series over the last few weeks, including season 4. It took me a while to get into it as the premise is just dumb. It took them almost a full season to acknowledge the AP test is what's important, not the class itself. I sort of felt better once they showed Jack could teach biology if he wanted to so the school wasn't dumb in hiring him. After that I just sort of went with it, almost like the kids in the class did. I liked how the show really only covered a few months in their time, even if it caused a few casting problems with the kids. Once all the kids each sort of had their own way of interacting with Jack it became really fun. None of the kids were mean or awful and they all participated in the silly revenge plots, if in their own way, so that was good to see. But this show had one huge problem: it was good to even great for about 2/3rds of every episode, and then terrible for the other 1/3rd. Jack and the kids, the janitors, coach, and sometimes the principal and Helen were all worth watching, but the teachers were awful and unfunny nearly every episode and then never fixed it in 4 seasons. They tried adding Dave to the teachers' plots but that only made it worse since he was just a knock-off Jerry Gergich. They barely interacted with the main Jack story so I never understood what their role was.

I was so confused by the Barbara stuff. So 6 years ago she wasn't even a cop and now she's commissioner? Or she was a cop and just stole stuff for fun on the side? Also, I know it's canon that Barbara uses a wheelchair, but this show has no problem deviating from canon so it could have been interesting to let the actress use her artificial leg in the present day scenes. But I guess they haven't said what her injuries fully were, have they? I don't understand the Titans desire to keep protecting and saving murderers. At this point they're complicit in a bunch of the crimes shown in the show.

I think it's 8 episodes not 6, so there are 3 more still. This show doesn't work in episodes like this. It's trying to tell 10 stories in 40 minutes so almost nothing happens and there's no forward movement. There's no beginning, middle, and end to these episodes, it's like we're watching the middle of a movie and get cut off. I'm still interested enough to finish it, but I'm going to wait till it's all released.

I thought having her in that room was a way to show how little they cared for women there. I think that's also why Kristen was acting out a bit, she knows how traditional church types think about women. Did they ever explain the stigmata part? That wasn't the flies. I thought it was funny having Fenna say she couldn't understand English and only spoke Dutch when Katja Herbers can speak Dutch.

She played a Russian woman in Birthday Girl too, so you'd think she'd be better at the Russian accent. As for her looks, yeah the wig seems pretty bad, but she's also in her mid-50s and I think we're not accustomed to see women that age in films and tv (Melissa McCarthy is 3 years younger than her and definitely looks good for her age too). I don't deny Nicole had work done (people complained about it 10 years ago at least), but I can't see what's so off-putting.

She's an executive producer on the last few series she's done so I'm guessing she's choosing these for herself mostly.

I know it's been said before, but the people making this show have always seemed to want to make a Batman series, not a Titans one, so they must've been overjoyed to make this episode. And yet they've managed to make one of the most annoying and dumb versions of Batman I've ever seen. The reviews must grade this show on a massive curve if they thought this was good. My expectations are so low already for this show and yet it continues to surprise me with its ineptness. They still didn't explain how Jason could go from one of the worst fighters ever to someone that can take over the crime world and who can now apparently teleport. Scarecrow is just embarrassing to watch.

Jessica and Ben were given mdma at the end, that's why she was sitting on him. Psychedelics aren't really for what they needed help with so that didn't seem odd to me.