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Theres only two ways for this to make sense - Either the ladies of the lake just flat out made another excalibur - Which would be fair enough, they obviously made the first one. Heck going off the design of the sword, the first one we saw in the movies was probably version 7 or so.. (that type of blade is a later design than the round table)- or the excalibur in the show's present will at some point end up back in the past again, and then be destroyed,

Re: Snoke being a woman: They could still go there. That hologram is just so over the top that it could easily be a piece of misdirection, and the actual supreme leader will turn out to be, oh, Natalie Dormer. I actually think a reveal that the image is false is very likely just because if they are going to do much with the character, keeping Snoke a CGI gigant would be impractical.

Snoke's projection is so bloody over the top that I think there is a fairly good chance that it's a smokescreen, but I'm having trouble thinking of any existing characters who would be leading from a false identity like that. But it would be a hilarious reveal if we finally met Snoke and it's Natalie Dormer. "No, I am your mother". >,) I love Rey very, very much. Astounding performance, lovable as all hell character. If she's a Luke expy, she's Luke 2.0 - New and Improved. RE: The entire heredity discussion: Don't discount the possibility that force sensitivity is hereditary and the old republic was quite deliberately trying to eradicate it. The dark side of the force twists people into super powered mustache twirling villains of a regular basis. The Jedi order might have done a lot of good, but it also regularily had people go insane from using the force and embark on rampages. It would make perfect sense if the senate was quietly trying to make it all just stop being a problem. No force users, less wars started for the Evuls.

I'd like it if they tried the double stunt and Cat just goes "Your doubleganger forgot the earrings" - She never takes them off when changing identities!

Check her how, exactly? if she swallowed it, well, I dont even think an xray machine would even *work*. Not to mention that if this is all a long con rescue op, the blue lights might be.. just blue lights, there to be flashy and attention focusing, and her actual counter to kryptonite is a drug. Tough the manhunter did manage to shoot that guy, so.. I think a big part of why Cat confronted Kara at this point of time is that she just displayed major loyalty - It wasn't just that she was sure of her theory, Cat was also fairly confident that Kara would not react by, say, flying off and relocating to Paris or something. And it was probably becoming less amusing to troll her over her terribad secret identity keeping. "What planet are you from?" has to have been deliberate, and it was not the first time Cat was lampshading the heck out of Kara being Supergirl.

Astra's motivation is a thing of beauty - She tried to save Krypton, got locked up for it, and then Krypton blew up in exactly the way she was warning about. Then she lands on a new planet where she gets superpowers. That lady is not going to back down from doing what she thinks is right, ever. As for why she is going after that particular industrialist.. There are only two reasonable explanations; 1: He is working on the same power tap tech that killed krypton. Thus on Astra's shitlist. 2: she's doing a double bluff - What she is actually after is to break out her minions from DEO custody, which is why she put herself in lockup and then drew their forces elsewhere. She swallowed one of those blue anti-kryptonite devices before getting herself caught, so that cell she is locked up in is completely worthless. 3: Both of the above.

The fact that her powers are finite is actually quite clever here - because it justifies her having a civilian job instead of just signing up for full time search and rescue and nagging the government into putting her on payroll or otherwise just using her powers to fund her superheroing. (She wouldn't have to dig very many miles of subway tunnel to pay for even quite extravagant a secret base. Her powers are very easy to commercialize.) Presumably, she'd run out of solar energy very often if she spent 40 hours/week putting out fires and pulling ambulance duty.

The only logical reason for the Kryptonians going for Max in that way is if he is working on the same power source that eventually blew up Krypton. Even then, I got to wonder why they didn't just send him an email explaining why this is a bloody bad idea, but maybe they did, and he ignored it? "We are aliens. The thing you are working on is a world destroyer. Design a better nuclear reactor or something instead" -> trashbin. I got to say, Astra has one hell of a motivation for being a radical. I mean, she tried to save the world, got stopped, and then her world *got destroyed*. That's not a back story that's going to make her inclined to back down. Ever.

The problem wasn't the number of episodes, per say. The problem was that thirteen episodes of Kilgrave was a bit much, hence the repeated escapes. Not sure how that could have been fixed - Both the ending and beginning were made very strong by that tight focus - Hope shooting her parents and Jessica killing Kilgrave were very powerful scenes. A bigger flashback plot to pre-killgrave Jess / Trish shenanigans in the middle? In any case the inevitable second season will not have this problem because making it about one villain in that way would not make sense.

The Trish Walker tag on tumbler is about 50% people shipping it, and well. It's easily the strongest and healthiest relationship Jessica has. Not to mention.. "something I never say, like I love you". I spent the back end of the show going "Marry the woman already", because nothing is ever going to compete with that, to the point where I was wondering if the entire point of Hogart was to avoid Jessica/Trish becoming the only ship anyone cared about in the same way Agent Carter fandom focused on Martinelli

I really liked that Joey's go to reaction to his powers coming under better control was "Gosh, this seems really useful for building things and demolition". Mundane, and non-combat utility isn't something that gets brought up nearly often enough.

More interesting than the biology - because lets face it, she can almost certainly make the "Fun" part of sex work, and noone wants a kara-gets-pregnant storyline on this show anyway, - is the question of what her expectations and models for a relationship look like, She's been on earth long enough to know the dance as it is practiced in the USA, but... she was also old enough to have absorbed the facts of kryptonian life before she left. So what were those like? And does she want an earth style romance, or a kryptonian style one? It'd be hilarious if her comment about not being a lesbian in the pilot was shorthand for something like "Those are not the categories anyone gave a damn about where I was raised, nor do the cultural baggage associated with it make any sense to me. The great kryptonian orientations being : Rivalry - meaning, "Frenemies with benefits" versus Alliance - meaning "Mutually supportive dialed up to 11" and Monogamy V Poly.

They should have made the time differential in their trips longer. They are not in the man of steel universe? Fine, best way to go about this would have been to make their superman literally the 1930's version. Chrash on earth ca 1910, raised by the Kents, legendary hero, whole thing, in his nineties when Kara lands. Heck, could make the trigger for her going public be him finally dropping from old age at 105, having a heart attack while, oh, putting out a fire. Going with the show as is.. I love the sibling relationship as it has been after the pilot. The pilot was wacky, but, you know, pilots. They have strong chemistry. If they are going to have a love triangle involving Jimmy, Kara and Lucy, for goodness sake, make *Kara* the hinge. She's the main character, and it'd be more interesting. Okay, .... mostly i just want to see Benoist be flirted with by a pretty girl. It should be adorkable.

She isn't going to date him. That would require us to believe waaay to much bullshit. That doesn't mean he isn't interesting. Think the writers are actually playing with our expectations here, because a lot of lesser shows *would* go there. But Blaine isn't on a redemption arc, which lots of people also expected, so I think it's just misdirection. .. and a pinch of the female version of "No homo". Because that scene up to that point was just.. very, very ship baity.

It'd be a pretty funny subversion of tropes if the bullet Hunter put in him leads to Ward dying on the operating table a day later. Or just getting his ass kicked by some semi random mook because his shoulderblade got shattered, and the whole kung-fu stick doesn't work so well if you loose most of your articulation in one arm.

It wasn't selfish. It was basic sanity. Wards word is worth less than nothing. Their actual choices were. "put down their weapons, then watch as Ward has Andrew killed on live feed, then shoots their asses for being too dumb to live" and "Lets see how many bullets we can put in Ward". I was just going "Why is this even a debate"? At the screen. I mean, this is not a dilemma. It's a sucky situation because there is nothing they can do to actually save Andrew, but..

The fight choreography was just terrible, but Alex + Shelby is far and away the best chemistry the show has, yes.

It makes no sense to finger Alex as the shooter unless Ryan is one of the conspirators. But the problem with that is that he got shot. And is still onboard with the plot after that? What? Still, my prime suspecs at the moment are him and Liam, because those two were in a perfect position to pull off the frame job, and also, a plan to cause a terrorist incident and then "solve" it by blaiming hapless recruits, makes a lot more sense than a terrorist deliberately putting themselves through a background check and months of living with law enforcement just to gain slightly easier access to a train station. I mean, for real? The terrorist is not one of the recruits because that narrative just makes not a single grain of sense. It stretches credibility that people are even supposed to buy it. There is also the fact that if you listen to their lines this episode while considering them suspects, an awful lot of their dialogue suddenly becomes massively anvilicious. Liam: "You always see the best in people and it blinds you to who they really are" Ryan: "Trust noone".. I mean, really? This is not subtle. Also, in amusing theories I want on record now: The Arab person the southern belle was talking to on the phone? Is her girlfriend. Who she is keeping a secret due to the fact that saudi arabia has the deathpenalty for homosexuality. This will be revealed around the same time the show reveals what ever is going on with Simon. Of course it is possible I am overestimating the writers. I've been known to do that.

It probably wasn't the full files, but she is supervising an NTZ user. It would make sense for her to ask for a briefing on the drug and the effects on users, and for her to get one.

The Daisy/Simmons scene was the best romantic scene tonight. Which is kind of unintentionally hilarious.

... team Blane wants to make *money* of zombies. I figure this means he intends to steal the cure, then spread the infection.

Liv is just.. not a good liar. She's good at keeping a secret, but at this point I'm going to go ahead and call it characterization that she can't make up a convincing lie to save her life.

The destruction we saw was .. strangely limited, if it was supposed to be the result of time ripping that universe to shreds. Honestly, I figure that particular time machine was just a hideously destructive design in some way. That conversation was interesting. The old Alec young Alec was talking to didn't have any memories of having had that same conversation when young. Or of having met his wife in a coffee shop at that date, neither of which is the kind of thing that could plausibly slip his mind. This means he cannot be the future of the alec having the conversation, but either was entirely an illusion brought about by the traveler to manipulate alec... or the traveler reaching across time lines to set in motion a new chain of time travel. And I am not sure why... Wait. Gah. I think I may in fact know why he would do that. Assume that the Traveler is telling the truth when he claims he can reach across timelines. Travel not just forward or back, but to alternate presents. Further assume that his ability to do so has a limited reach. If it did not, it would, after all, be utterly trivial for him to get home. So.. what he is doing is getting rid of the Kiera in one of the timelines he has access to so that he can send the Kiera in this one there. It's not her home, it is just one close enough that she likely wont be able to tell. Or maybe she will. I mean, it would be one hell of an ending if she makes it back to a corporate future very, very like the one she left, and is greeted by a 13 year old girl going "Mommy!" and jumping into her arms.

The show isn't using a loop model. Alex *murdered* himself, and is still around, so yes, all time travelers do appear ex-nihilo, and and violate the fuck out of local conservation of matter, information and energy. From the perspective of the original timeline, the one Alice travels backwards from, she just annihilated herself. After traveling forward, Alice will appear from nowhere in a time and place which is *not* the one she left, even if likely fairly similar, if the only divergent point is that a time machine briefly appeared in the past. This came up in conversation on the show! Departing time travelers simply disappear, never to be heard from again. Arriving time travelers have a history and memories from a timeline they have orphaned themselves from, and possibly destroyed. They dont have information about their future, they just know how events already in motion in turned out in another universe. This is both amazingly predictive - if someone is going to invent a super battery, and are currently running the set of experiments that they did the last time to get there, they will almost certainly invent it "again" - and not. If you brought back weather records I would expect them to become very useless quite quickly.

I don't think *any* of them can go home. They are all deluding themselves, up to and including the traveler. Note how Kiera's "'it's complicated" had his sister and her kids suddenly be alive, when they were dead when he left? The second team that came back wasn't from his future at all, just one that was largely similar in it's generalities. The timeline you depart didn't have time-traveling you in it's past, but any future you go forward into does so even if the timeline you came from does not in fact poof out of existence, you can't get back there.