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As we know with movies, they don’t always follow the source material.  It may be called Flashpoint, but that doesn’t mean the resolution to the story is re-writing history.  Barry could end up shattering reality as a whole which means anything could happen.

Also, the Flashpoint in the comics wasn’t cut and dried alt history.  When Barry got back, everyone was ten years younger even though he did arrive at the right date.  They’re just now exploring how those ten years got shaved off, who did it and why.

Reminds me of the old “wheel format” where four different shows were shown on a rotating basis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NBC_Mystery_Movie

This was actually the plan for Sliders season four if it stayed on Fox.  They were going to produce fewer episodes and place it in a wheel with The Visitor, a time travel type show that wasn’t picked up and one of Fox’s reality shows like “When (blank) Attacks!”.  Under that plan, Sliders would have aired only one time every four weeks with no reruns.

I almost wonder if this is a kind of test run for CW.  Imagine one or two slots per week dedicated to DC programming, and it rotates.  One week it’s Arrow; next week it’s Flash.  And if they crossover more, it’s really like one big DC anthology show broadcast 52 weeks a year.  Doing it in that staggered schedule would make production breaks overlap another show’s filming and that could make crossover production easier as an actor could pop in for a week during their months off.

Finished watching the first half of Discovery, and it feels more like Trek now.  For me it started in earnest with the Harry Mudd episode where he’s trying to take over the Discovery.  All told, that’s a faster turn around than the other modern Trek series; it took each of them a good two years to settle in.

It does bring up an interesting thought, though.  With the full suit and total mask Earth X used (not to mention the blur trick), no one would necessarily know the guy in the suit was black.  With Wally X revealed after damage in a fight, the Nazis would turn on him; and there’s a lot of different angles to take from that point on. What is Wally X’s story and why did he want to be part of the Nazi super team?

Wherever that story went, it would have likely been much more interesting than the convoluted Thawne thing we got.

Incidentally, Thawne taunted Flash at the end by gleefully wondering what face he’ll use the next time he and Flash meet.  What if Thawne comes back with Wally’s face?

Not clear on what it was for, but she got an Emmy for something:

https://www.facebook.com/AllisonMackOff … 3729660761

From what I can gather, it's a Daytime Emmy for the animated Amazon series Lost in Oz:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_In_Oz_(TV_series)

Guggenheim posts the cover pages of scripts on Twitter, and the cover for Legends episode 5 ("Return of the Mack") had blood splatter on it.  Could be a hint to Stein's fate.

As for where to go without Stein, it would be interesting to see them refer back to how it was handled when Jason Rusch first became Firestorm.  Jason became Firestorm when he was caught in the explosion as Ronnie Raymond died in Firestorm form; and as a result, Jason had no partner.   To become Firestorm, Jason could use *anyone* as his partner with or without their permission - ranging from an 8 year old girl to Superman.  The interesting thing is that Jason didn't always end up being the dominant personality as Firestorm - it depended on the person he merged with.

They've sort of established this already with Jax as he had no partner originally but just adapted to Stein.   If the full Firestorm matrix transfers to Jax, then theoretically he could continue to adapt to have anyone as his partner.  And if they go this route, we could end up with all sorts of interesting combos such as a passive Captain Cold voice in Jax's head or even a dominant Heat Wave as Firestorm with Jax along for the ride.

After watching the first ep on CBS, I went ahead and subscribed to All Access.  Overall, I enjoyed it.  For me, it had a DS9 feel - a different tone from what I consider Star Trek, but enough to connect it.  I'll keep watching.

Guest usually sets the tone.  Matt Smith doesn't like people touching him, but he's a shy, awkward guy (very nice, though).  David Tennant and Billie Piper on the other hand just grab right into you.

The only group Ive seen told not to touch the guest was with Stan Lee; and to be honest, I think that was more because they were thinking he might die.  Stan was pretty much just propped up in a chair and didn't move or say anything.

Ha!  And his father was a director best known for work on the Get Smart tv series (for which he won an Emmy).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Bilson

On a side note, Bilson and DeMeo also wrote a six issue arc of the Flash comic in 2006:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flash:_Lig … n_a_Bottle

It passed the mantle of Flash to Barry's grandson Bart Allen after Wally disappeared during Infinite Crisis; and the story featured Tina McGee from the 90's show.  In the arc following Bilson's, Bart was beaten to death by the Rogues, and Wally returned as the Flash.

Well, if he touches on The Killing Joke mythology, then he could present Barbara being shot, paralyzed from the waist down and then stripped naked so that Joker can use the photos as part of an attempt to drive her father crazy.  Actually sounds like something that would fit into the Snyder-depressionverse.

If I'm paying $1200 for a phone, it's going to be this one:

There is only one party with one set of goals.  This is all a show to keep the public at each other's throats and distracted; it's been that way for a couple of decades now.

Don't believe it?  Republicans have full control, but they can't lower taxes or even do something as simple as repeal Obamacare and release restrictions so that all insurance companies can compete in the free market (which would lower prices).  Along that line, let's also ask where tort reform is which would lower doctors expenses on their own liability insurance (which is their excuse for such high prices).

Republicans don't want to do these things - they have the same agenda as Democrats.

The first Amazing Spider-man is probably my favorite film with the character.  They hit all the right notes for me (it even somehow felt like the 80's comics I grew up with); and it provided the best explanation I've seen of why decent people in the world would fear and hate Spider-man (because of his initial focus on the almost ruthless hunt for Uncle Ben's killer).

Amazing Spider-man 2 was a huge drop of the ball and the worst of the franchise in my opinion.  The Spider-man costume was perfect, but everything else was like something Joel Schumacher made.  And as if my disappointment in the movie wasn't enough, the mid credits scene was some left field promo for X-men.

My question - will Mueller start investigating the leaks now coming out of his investigation?  Probably not.  But that's the interesting thing here - only a few are being held accountable for their actions while everyone else runs amok.  It's certainly been the case throughout history, but I don't recall in my lifetime ever seeing it so blatant and out in the open.

If Trump has done something wrong, it shouldn't have to be tried in the media on a second by second basis.  Imagine if that's how our legal system worked?  Actually might be a good idea for a Sliders alt history (though probably not dissimilar enough from Dead Man Sliding to be honest).

The original Guardians was set 1000 years from present day and explored the future of the Marvel Universe (for instance an evil alien race known as the Stark who based their entire society around the technology found in some armor Iron Man had jettisoned).

Stallone was playing a character named Starhawk (the guy in blue pictured below):

Ving Rhames was playing the big guy (Charlie-27), and Michelle Yeoh (the grungy looking girl) was Starhawk's sister Aleta.  The crystal guy always with Stallone was another original Guardian named Martinex (played by Michael Rosenbaum).

Stallone's Starhawk thought he was the leader of the original Guardians, but the leader was really a guy named Vance Astro (a guy from present day who ended up in the future - Vance would even later find Captain America's shield in the future and start using it).  But Starhawk thought he should be leader because he had a seeming precognitive ability; in truth, he was just a guy like Bill Murray stuck in a time loop trying to manipulate events to get out of it.  Starhawk always called himself "The One Who Knows" which sounds like something Stallone would say, honestly.

As for Miley, she was voicing Mainframe who is what the Vision becomes 1000 years from now.   And the red alien was Krugarr who is the Sorercer Supreme a thousand tears from now (which is why they put those Doctor Strange effects on him in the movie).

The past year has been pretty bad for me, and I've missed practically all of the 2016/2017 tv season.   I did the best with Flash, but still missed a good half dozen of those too.

I've only really watched two episodes of Supergirl this year - the premiere and the finale.  In the premiere I saw the potential; and in the finale they delivered. Very well done.   I'm most interested in where they left Mon-el.

Similar to the comics, Mon-el will die of lead poisoning on earth but ends up in the Phantom Zone. In the comics, this was done because the Zone essentially kept a person in stasis - Mon-el's condition would not get worse while they worked on a cure, but it also had the effect of freezing his aging process.  Mon-el spent 1000 years in there until the Legion of Super-heroes stumbled across him, and Brainiac 5 whipped up a cure for the poison.

What I see being set up in the tv series is a potential love triangle situation.  If Supergirl meets up with the Legion next season, then she may follow the comics and get into a relationship with Brainiac 5.  After they've been together awhile, he stumbles on Mon-el in the Phantom Zone.  He can save Mon-el; but what will that mean for his relationship with Supergirl?  Is Brainiac 5 the hero or will he be the villain everyone mistakes him for?

But with the "cliffhanger" tag on the end of the episode, I'm not sure that's in their immediate plans.  That entire sequence screamed Doomsday to me (the skull in the shield?  really?); and I'm excited to think they may actually do something I suggested before season two ever aired.  Could next season tell the comics version of The Death of Superman?

Supergirl would be a great way to explore that story as she becomes the vehicle for taking us to all of these things that are happening.  Supergirl initially finds Doomsday, and he swats her like a fly.  Doomsday marches on until Superman sacrifices himself to stop Doomsday.  Kara feels guilty, and takes Clark's place in Metro; but not for long after a news report hits that a teenage kid has shown up in National City claiming he's Superman.  She goes to check out this Superboy in her city; but while there the Eradicator posing as a Superman shows up because that's where his scans showed the Krptonians on the planet at that time.  Jeremiah Danvers reappears now with more obvious cybernetic enhancements as Cadmus rolls him out as the new Superman (giving us our Dean Cain return in a Superman suit).  While all of this is going on, John Henry Irons is setting himself up as Metropolis's new protector since no one else is there to do it.

It has great, great potential.  I could see it being epic.  But in most cases, I'm usually disappointed by what these production teams end up giving us; so my hopes are not up.

With the Flash finale - we'll, we could have had a lot more fun if HR was Abra Kadabra.    Again, kind of a let down in some ways, but it ultimately was an entertaining episode.  With the ending, I'm just not sure what they're going for.  I guess they're treating this like Barry's death in Crisis where Wally takes over in the red suit?  Then we'll have Barry return after Wally has established himself as the one and only Flash.  If that's their plan, it just seems like an anti-climatic way to set up that story.  Oh well; we'll see.

Well, Star Trek has always liked to dance in social commentary and politics; in my opinion, it's what differentiates it from generic space opera.  With that in mind, I wonder if this new Klingon design has a purpose we're not seeing yet.

Looking at contemporary social issues, could the new Klingons be a Star Trek attempt at commenting on Black Lives Matter?  Is the Federation profiling Klingons just because they appear to be Klingons?  What if they were innocent and a misunderstanding leads to war?

I always understood the Cold War allegory with the Klingons, but the visceral hatred that was sometimes shown between humans and Klingons was a step above the flavor of the Cold War.  Discovery could be where they take a stab at explaining that hatred.

In any case, if the new show wants the Star Trek feel, they'll have some level of social awareness.  It may not be in this Klingon change, but it needs to be somewhere.  There's many different ways they could touch on illegal immigration, for instance.  Brexit could be explored as a culture tries to leave the Federation.  There are several avenues.

Enh.  I'm behind on watching, so I can only respond based on comments.  It seems to me that if they were going to go this route, the season should have been a mystery of "Who is Barry Allen?"  He could have returned from Flashpoint a little "off" but it would progressively get more and more alarming during the season.  I think it would have been a good counterpoint to season one by having a reverse of the Reverse Flash story where Barry isn't what he seems and ends up being the speedster villain of the season.  They could have even completed the circle by having Thawne show up to try to warn them and nobody believing him.

But like many of the ideas we've had since season one, what we get feels half baked.  I think it's still the production team being stretched too thin; and if that's it, it's only going to get worse with Black Lightning and Titans now in the mix.

Now here's something interesting:

http://deadline.com/2017/04/dc-digital- … 202076831/

A new DC Comics focused digital service that's going to offer access to digital comics along with exclusive DC television and movie content - including Young Justice season 3 and a Teen Titans live action series produced by Berlanti.   The interesting bit there is - will the Arrowverse Wally run over to become part of the Titans cast?  Also mentioning we could be one step closer to an Arrowverse Justice League with Nightwing filling the Batman role (or Batman himself showing up like Superman did on his cousin's series).

It's all set-up for DC's greatest idea.

I've never cared much for the Thor movies; and I think the main value of Ragnarok is going to be the reveal of the last infinity stone - the soul stone.  Speculation is that Heimdall has it.  It would explain why his eyes glow orange (the color the last stone will be); it would explain why his eyes were different in Thor's vision during Avengers: Age of Ultron (if Thanos had stolen it); and it would explain his comment in the first movie about how he sees people as souls.

Hadn't really put too much thought into Legends, but something clicked with me this morning.  I think I see where they're going with Snart.

So Flashpoint Thawne is after the spear of destiny so that he can use it to alter reality and will himself back into existence.  Meanwhile, Heatwave is hallucinating Snart speaking to him; but it's the classic Snart who is evil.

I think Heatwave is going to end up with his hands on the spear of destiny; and either on purpose or by accident, he's going to will Snart back into existence.  However, it's going to be a slightly different outcome than what Thawne is seeking.  The Snart that Heatwave would bring back is not going to be the original one who sacrificed himself. The Snart that comes back is going to be whatever perception of Snart Heatwave had in his mind.  It could be a full reset button with no hint of goodness left in Snart; he would only be the cold calculator with a fierce sense of loyalty (as he should be).

If the above is the case, it may explain why they've waited so long to bring back Snart.  Under that scenario, they couldn't really do it without rushing the end of this season's Legends arc; but next season we should see a lot more of Snart across the various shows (and hopefully a lot more on Flash).

In any case, I have to disagree about the Christmas episode of Legends; it's really the first episode of Legends that worked for me.  It had great pacing and a lot of story stuffed into one episode. Everyone had something to do and it didn't seem contrived (though I do agree about Vixen - I just give it a pass due to the overall quality of the episode).  They even did a nice job with the historical aspect for once; a very apt and often forgotten truth that the original ideal of an American was something of a scoundrel.

The last episode made me wonder if Wally is headed for a version of this:

With Wally speeding up faster than Barry did, it's easy to see Wally burn out faster too; Wally may end up saving Iris just to turn into a pile of dust directly after.  And now with Barry pushing Wally, you could end up with Joe and even Iris blaming Barry for pushing Wally too hard.

It would also create an irony of sorts - after all, we started this series with Thawne's personal agenda in pushing Barry to get faster; and now Barry is stepping onto that path.  You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I remember a couple of years ago my nephew and I planned to go to a convention that had Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) appearing.  We've been working on getting a replica of River Song's diary signed by all the stars related to it; and all we have left to obtain now is Karen and Peter Capaldi.

So we get to the convention with our autograph ticket in hand only to find out Karen is not there.  While trying to leave the U.K., her visa to enter the United States was not approved.  She was not allowed to enter the country.  This was when Obama was president.  Where were all the people losing their minds when she couldn't get in?

But what really blows my mind?  Reading that some of these people detained after the Trump order were on their way home from vacationing abroad.  Trump has been saying what he's going to do for over a year.  These people thought that right after he takes office was the best time to leave the country on vacation?  Really?

What worries me is that I've seen how Warner thinks in the past.  In order to bolster this failing pile of garbage, they may totally gut the Flash tv series believing that will somehow stop their movie from looking so bad.

The last report I read stated that Discovery will be on Netflix in 188 countries; the exceptions are the US and Canada.  If we want to watch it, the only option is CBS All Access.

With regard to the Supergirl series, I've seen some complaints on other sites about how her episode was a just red skies story (referring back to the comics - many issues would feature the Crisis on Infinte Earths Crossover banner, but the story inside had nothing to do with Crisis except that the sky turned red).  However, I think this Arrowverse crossover will have more impact on Supergirl than any other series.

In the Invasion era comics, Mon'el had a significant tie to the Dominators; it was his father's sacrifice in protecting people from the Dominator's that inspired Mon'el to become a hero.  Mon'el would later beat back a second Dominator Invasion and seed their metahuman experiments on various worlds so that the Dominators couldn't find them again.  That act would lead to the United Planets and eventually the foundation for the Legion a thousand years from now.

I believe the aliens looking for Mon'el are also Dominators.  And at the end of this crossover, Supergirl is either knowingly or unknowingly bring something back that emits a signal leading the Dominators of her reality to her earth.

Incidentally, the comics version of the Dominator Invasion led to Snapper Carr being abducted and getting powers (the ability to teleport with the snap of his fingers).