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I don't think the President is going to be "willingly" stepping down... They deliberately put the shot of Shepard and Roman standing in front of what I can only assume is a nuclear missile as one of Roman's flashbacks. I think that COGS will end up being the government, simply because Shepard is planning to purge the current government in nuclear fire. Shepard, it would seem, must think that the members of COGS are ones she's sees as "fit" to run the new government.

When I first saw the 'Transmatter Portal', I was like "Hey, its a Stargate!" And then Winn was like "Hey, its a Stargate!", and then also made a Portal reference! So that's my main takeaway from the episode.

Hugh Jackman. "But he's Wolverine!"

Yeah, she's a Justice Society of America villain (in the Post-Crisis continuity), and in particular for the original Mr. Terrific (the Terry Sloan version, not the Michael Holt one that's in Arrow), though she pops up in the wider DC Universe from time to time. I thought Supergirl had a pretty spot-on interpretation of her.

The Uncle/Niece thing is purely from Young Justice, which had a slightly different version of Miss Martian. She's always been a White Martian in the comics, sent to Earth by her parents to escape the Martian Civil War, and initially pretended to be a Green Martian as part of the Teen Titans. One of her main storylines involved her encountering and defeating an evil future version of herself that gone full White Martian, only to have elements of her evil version merge with herself which she has to overcome. Miss Martian is a fairly recent character to the comics, only coming in shortly after the Infinite Crisis storyline (mid-2006), and I can't seem to think of her doing too much outside of the Teen Titans books. A couple of cameos here and there in Supergirl and Batgirl books, but not much else. I'm not even sure if she's been introduced yet in the New52 continuity yet. The main thing I remember about her is that she lived in Australia for a while, because the Australian Outback reminded her of Mars. I always that was pretty cool, because we don't get too many super-heroes down here. We're claiming her as an Aussie!

Maggie Sawyer is white and blonde in the comics, and she's drawn as a bit 'older' (like in her 30s) since she's usually depicted as a Captain. Supergirl's Maggie Sawyer actually seems more like Renee Montoya from the pre-New52 continuity to be honest - a Latina detective in the GCPD, who is also gay and also dated Kate Kane lol. Montoya is a Batman character mainly though, whereas Sawyer was originally a Superman character that moved across to the Batman comics for a while.

That's not entirely out of line with her Post-Crisis origin in the comics - as a college student, Pamela Isley was duped into an experiment that turned that turned her into Poison Ivy. I guess this is somewhat similar, in that Ivy unwittingly ends up with her powers after a transformation.

Probably because the risk of being caught out is too great. The idea of a mole is you sit in deep cover, doing nothing to arouse suspicion (which means no contact with your handler) until you get activated. That way you run no risk of being pegged by a random counter-intelligence sweep that watches you doing something odd.

There is some very bitter relations between Japan and China, dating back to the late 19th Century when the Japanese fairly convincingly won the first Sino-Japanese War that resulted in influence over Korea being wrestled away from China and to Japan. That had some pretty big repercussions in China, since they had been forced to sue for peace which put a huge strain on their economy, and was basically the beginning of the end for the Qing Dynasty (which had ruled China for over 250 years but collapsed not long after, just before WW1 started). Japan later perpetuated some horrific war crimes in China when they invaded during WW2 (ie the Nanking Massacre), and that is still a very strong point of contention between the two nations particularly because there's a culture of denial in Japan about its actions during WW2. In more recent times, there's disagreement over the status of Taiwan, China's concern over Japanese-American military cooperation and disputes about ownership of islands in the East China Sea that continue to flare up. Peng's personal vendetta against Japan definitely 'makes sense' in that context. Obviously it was taken to a xenophobic extreme, but Peng was the bad guy after all...

Its weird considering how Warner Bros. knocked it out of the park with the other DC Comics stuff. Wonder Woman especially, but Suicide Squad and even Justice League had good showings. But all the Flarrow stuff seemed really tepid in comparison, even accounting for the fact that its relative to the fkn amazing Wonder Woman stuff.

Power Girl was never part of the classic Birds of Prey, aside from a few issues where she popped up (and I seem to remember a very big distrust of Power Girl by Oracle, to the point where Oracle only called on Power Girl as a last resort). The original Birds of Prey one shots/mini-series in the mid 90's were mainly Babs and Dinah, though Huntress and Catwoman made appearances. When the series launched as an ongoing in 1999 it was just Oracle/Black Canary again, and it wasn't until Gail Simone took over about 4 years into its run that Huntress and then Lady Blackhawk got added as full time members.

Well given that Kate Kane is rumoured to be appearing on the show I think that's the direction where any of Maggie's romantic interests will be going. And judging by the casting, I wonder if they actually wanted Renee Montoya but couldn't get her due to Gotham. Or if they're blending a bit of Montoya into the Sawyer character.

Awesome! Back when they announced Maggie Sawyer, I posited that Kate Kane might show up. Especially because Cameron Chase had already made a brief appearance. They probably won't get Renee Montoya, but Maggie and Chase both had recurring parts in the recent Batwoman title which made me think that Kate was a natural follow on. Barbara Gordon as Oracle is just icing on the cake (yeah, take that New52!). A Batwoman/Oracle "Birds of Prey" duo sounds interesting too. The original Birds of Prey title - when Chuck Dixon was writing it - was for a long time just the team-up of Barbara Gordon/Oracle and Dinah Lance/Black Canary. It wasn't until a fair way into the run that Huntress and Lady Blackhawk were added into the team as regulars (though the very first Birds of Prey one-shot, written before the on-going series, had Oracle, Black Canary, Huntress and Catwoman if I remember). I guess with one Canary dead and the other tied up with Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman steps up and I'm completely fine with that. I like Supergirl just fine, but I'm not going to lie - a live action Batwoman on the screen had me way more excited than anything else announced for the show lol.

Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman were the executive producers. Jonah Nolan is the brother of Christopher Nolan, so you might know his writing credits from movies like Memento, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. Nolan's next project is an adaptation of Westworld (1970's movie that was written by Michael Crichton) about a futuristic theme park with Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood amongst others. He's also supposedly starting on TV series based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.

The Z-11 is a Chinese designed and built helicopter that's heavily based off the AS-350 Eurocopter. It looks very, very similar to the point where you could definitely paint a red-star on an AS350 and call it a Z-11 for TV show purposes. And both the AS-350 and Z-11 have military variants - the Royal Australian Navy for example uses AS-350s in training and surveying roles, and the Chinese have variants on the Z-11 suited for Light Attack roles

Oh, as far as I'm concerned its not even a question lol. The subtext seemed blatantly obvious to me, and its Bridget Regan like you said. Plus, since they killed off Valerie in the opener (or did they... I mean it'd be fairly ludicrous if anyone survive on that plane, but meh I don't care. I liked Valerie D: ), I could get onboard with Granderson and Jesse. The action sequences were pretty good, especially Wolf's fisticuffs in the alleyway. That was some neat stuntwork. Also, the scene where they walk into the bar, and Sasha does the shot and everyone stops to look at her (including the Parrot) was cheesy as hell in exactly the right way lol. I think the Pirates are stealing the cured blood from the NJ Command Crew in order to cure themselves, and maybe sell it. Also, not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping that Slattery would get all the blood sucked out of him though so we could get rid of Baldwin...

"Yeah, my friend is all seeing, super-powered robot. And that scary ninja-assassin lady over there is Her girlfriend. You probably don't want to mess with either of them, so I'll be having my job back thanks"

The music that played during RootMachine's upload and Reese's death, was Metamorphosis One by Phillip Glass. I remember Battlestar Galactica used that track too (at the start of Season 2, when Starbuck and Helo rest up for a moment in Starbuck's old apartment back on Caprica). Which got me thinking about Series Finales - Battlestar Galactica was probably the show previous to Person of Interest that I really deeply got into, but I think its pretty widely accepted that BSG's finale was less than satisfying. PoI on the other hand I think went out with its head held high, and for that I'm really happy. There was definitely shades of "The Dark Knight Rises" with Harold and Grace, which is probably not surprising given this is Jonathan Nolan (also think of Interstellar where Cooper ends up with a somewhat similar "happy" ending). I think the episode hit the right notes too about making it more-so about The Machine Herself - The Machine was always the 'big picture' idea of the show, and I like that She was firmly at the centre of the episode. I just think that's such a fantastic evolution of the show, from "Pilot" to "Return 0". Successful Execution. I felt the action was surprisingly muted, but I think I prefer that to get the character stuff we got. There was so much great stuff for Shaw in this episode, from her attempts to say goodbye to Root first at her grave, then to the physical servers of The Machine and finally the ending with Shaw accepting the phone call. Sarah Shahi absolutely nailed that scene in the subway, where the The Volume get turned way up when The Machine was talking about Root's feelings for her. Sarah Shahi needs to be in all the things (starting with Shaw spinoff yes please. Though also maybe that Foundation series that Jonah Nolan is developing?). Reese went out exactly how he should have; saving All The Numbers and saving Harold. RIP The Man in the Suit. Fusco surviving was pretty important to me too, because his journey over the show has been so fulfilling. Imagining him dealing with Admin!Shaw and MachineRoot post-finale brings a smile to my face :) Edit: Forgot to mention the other track used Bunsen Burner by CUTS, which was also on the Ex Machina soundtrack (when Harold walks out onto the roof, and MachineRoot asks him "is this now?").

Yeah, I'm not sure how Alex is at fault here. Red and Freida flat out told Alex and Piper to keep quiet, not say anything even if one of them got brought and the guards were saying one of them had squealed. Alex was doing what she'd been told to do, for the good of all them. But obviously the guilt was eating away at her, so she was about to turn herself in (hence the 'goodbye' of putting Piper to bed). Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your view, Healy came forward first with the information that Lolly had told him which until then he'd assumed was her delusions.

Heh, it seems natural to me - Jessica Pimentel had a recurring role in season 4 of Person of Interest, where she played a lieutenant in the Brotherhood (a violent street gang). Plus in real life she's in a couple of heavy metal bands. I think she's just playing to her strengths lol.

Heh, when I saw the episode title I was wondering if it was a reference to the Wonder Woman villain and turned out to be explicitly so - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Psycho I think the Judy King as Wonder Woman self-reference might be a bit of a stretch though lol.

Ruiz's backstory was that she didn't give care for her father's national pride as she grew up, and she got kicked out for hooking up with a Mexican boy. She was pointing out in the TV room that the Dominican soccer team is shit and their coach is Cuban and national pride is bullshit so she doesn't get why you'd bother to watch a World Cup qualifier where they're going to lose anyway. But it looks like she's coming around to the idea, which is why she's getting support from the other Dominican inmates. I've only watched up to this episode so far, so it remains to be seen if her actions are out of true national pride or if she's just using that as an excuse to gain some power or maybe she just doesn't want to see a bunch of idiots start a clumsy gang war.

They aired somewhere and/or were leaked, since the episodes are out there.

http://4aspinoff.com Petition for a spinoff featuring Root and Shaw. Regardless of how you feel about one (me, I'm all in!), or how effective you think internet petitions are, their website has a pretty sweet design.

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