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The premiere was pretty solid. I like that it is human-based and not some vague CGI and the threat of an apocalypse. It is the result of everything thst the guys have done up to this point, which is neat. But I agree that the MoL method isn't as realistic in the US. They would have to have implemented it across Europe in order for that to make sense. I kinda doubt that it was as effective as it was made out to be. I wouldn't be surprised if the Men of Letters higher-ups have been infiltrated. Why else would they do nothing as the world came within seconds of being destroyed on several occasions?

Mary was well written too. She isn't just some kick-ass hunter, she is a complex character. A hunter, but with no love of the life. I could see her story going in a few different directions. I hope she doesn't get killed off. Maybe she could eventually even have another family  it gives the show a chance to expand the Winchester/Campbell family and have a character's life evolve. For some reason, it doesn't seem like they're allowed to do that with Sam and Dean.

I agree. Oliver's appearance was a little strange. I think they could have had the scene with Oliver in the beginning and maybe sent someone else with the new guy. Maybe Thea, or Curtis. Maybe someone from The Flash, like Cisco could have been brought in by Oliver. It was just weird to have Oliver there, but then he's just gone. It probably could have been fixed with a simple line of dialogue, like "Just give me ten minutes to get clear before you leave" or something like that.

I thought the premiere was horrible. Usually, the show is just a bunch of crazy comic book fun. It's never been particularly good or deep, but there have been enough moments to make it work, and the cast brought it together. This episode didn't have any moments to make it work. They basically crapped all over Albert Einstein, as part of this trend to rewrite real life history in fiction, for the sake of political causes. I'm all for having fun with history, but this went too far. Then they scattered the team, seeming to set up a season of trying to track everyone and bring them back together... but five minutes later, they were all back together. Months had apparently passed for them, at least, but they carried on conversations as though an hour had passed. And it didn't even make sense to track them down the way they did, because there was no way o track Ray to that spot at that moment.

There was no story here, just a bunch of chaos, hoping to hide the fact that there was no story. And they took characters that had been pretty solid at one point, and turned them into idiots.

I don't see this show lasting much longer, honestly. The sad part is, I'm not sure that Sara could even go back to Arrow, because they've turned her into someone else entirely.

It's okay. I do the same thing with cat people. I mean... Why?!

I think it's really sad, what they've done to the Sara Lance character. She was really cool on Arrow in season 2. Now she is a joke. She used to be strong and cool. Now she's their sex kitten who is incapable of intelligent thought. They probably tell themselves that she is like the macho Kirk-like figures in old fiction, but in the form of a woman. But she's not. She's an excuse for girl on girl action, while looking like a fool.

Maybe she should have stayed dead.

My brother went swimming with his Note 2 a few months ago. He managed to fix it... but then went swimming with it again a couple of weeks later. It didn't survive that one.

He upgraded to a Note 4, which he found on eBay and he seems to really like it.

My two other brothers have an S6 and an S7. My sister in law has the S5, and my father has the S5 Active... I guess we are a Samsung family. So I've had a chance to look them over. Honestly, I loved the Note 7, when I saw it in the store. I think it is a bit poetic that the phone sunk because of the battery, since so many Samsung fans used to love their changeable batteries. It is a shame, because the phone itself is really, really nice.

If I ever do upgrade, I think I'm going to want some of the more recent features, like Samsung Pay. But I don't see myself being able to afford anything like that in the near future, so my S4 will do fine.

I did just set up wireless charging. It is really cool, except I wanted to use it on my nightstand, since my phone is my clock at night. The problem is, the phone stops charging when the battery is full. Then it drops down a percent or two, and starts charging again. When it does, a bright notification comes on the screen and the phone makes that sound that they make when you plug them in... And this continues until you just take the thing off the charger... Which would be fine, if I didn't have the screen on all night so that it could serve as a clock.

But wireless charging is cool during the day. ☺

I don't think that Kasich could beat her. Hillary was never going to play fair or be nice, and he couldn't take her on. He would look weak and forgettable. Ryan, I have to doubt as well. He's seen as a sellout by a lot of people in the party. Many don't even want him to have the job he has at this point.

This time around, I think it was always going to have to be someone that wasn't seen as part of the establishment. After McCain and Romney, people were too frustrated to go for someone like that again. Trump got support because he says a lot of things that people have been waiting for someone to say for a very long time (in between his being crazy). I think Cruz was also as popular as he was because he's always been willing to challenge the establishment (which is why they don't like him). It had to be someone from the "outside".

The problem is that many of Hillary's crimes are directly linked to his crimes. She threatened his victims and used her power and her connections to shut them up.

There are many more crimes to go after, but nobody seems to care about breaking laws or endangering national security. For some odd reason, people can brush that aside. But her threatening rape victims plays against her feminist image. That could be more damaging.

I just thought that Barry was going to go back in time and stop his season 1 self from saving his mother, as we saw before.

Question. Why haven't the Legends gone back to fix what Barry messed up?

I don't believe that NBC worried about the video being released. They have known about it for at least a couple of months. They planned to release it themselves, and edit around their own guy (one might call that a heavily edited video... Actually, it still is). They waited specifically for the purpose of effecting the election.

Anonymous might have proof of Bill Clinton raping a 13 year old girl on "rape island", according to a video that they released. The idea of Trump and the Clintons being in on this together sounds crazy... But there is another connection. Jeffrey Epstein. Google his name with either Clinton or Trump and you find allegations of pedophilia related to both men.

It could be conspiracy. At the very least, it is interesting to note.

I agree. On my personal Facebook page, I don't discuss politics (I use the page as a means of keeping up with my acting stuff. A lot of my friends are actors... Bringing politics to the set would do me no good at all). I see both sides, but I rarely see them talking in a civil fashion. I have always loved the push and pull of debating issues, where everyone can argue, but it isn't about hating each other. That is just gone now, and I think that this culture didn't just happen by mistake. I think that a people divided are easier to control and manipulate. People literally get offended if you present a *fact* that they don't want to hear. They believe lies, which are known lies, because they're holding their person up as some sort of idol.

I hate Hillary Clinton. I think she is a psychopath (literally, not as a figure of speech). Donald Trump is nearly as bad... Possibly as bad a person, with a .001% chance of not completely destroying the country. My horse was out of this race a long time ago, so now I have no good options.

Our whole system depends on people questioning our leaders. It depends on journalists giving us facts and holding politicians accountable. None of this is happening anymore.

http://tvline.com/2016/10/12/supergirl- … mes-olsen/

I may just have to stop watching this show. They didn't actually want Jimmy Olsen on the show, so why did they name this character Jimmy Olsen?

And did they learn nothing from Diggle's helmet?

A lot of the reports of Project Veritas videos being edited were false. They released both edited and unedited versions, but the media only reported on the edited videos, just so they could use the term "heavily edited video". As though their own reports aren't heavily edited anyway.

I think normal people might care about Hillary's misdeeds. They will just never know about them because the press won't report them

Yeah. Though with Supergirl, I think that would be the least of their problems.

That's the impression that I got, but we are going to need a time jump at some point then, because of the crossovers.

This week's Flash pissed me off a little.

I get that they wanted to give Barry a hard lesson and make him regret what they did. Killing Cisco's brother did that, without his being directly responsible. However, what happened to baby Sara... That is messed up. Barry erased Diggle's baby! As a viewer, I'm not cool with that. And he seemed to get over it pretty quickly.

This whole storyline is destabilizing something that worked really well. It is uncomfortable to watch. So, Barry is in this new timeline. Does that mean that the others ceased to exist? Or does Sara still exist out there somewhere? And if she does... We are just ditching the other timeline and following the new one on all of the show's?

Honestly, it would have been funny if Barry erased most of the last two years of Arrow. But why the baby?

See, I don't get how saying "jail her" or calling Bill a rapist is living in the sewers. Hillary Clinton is guilty 100%, without a doubt, of crimes which would have anyone else in the country either thrown in prison or possibly even tried for treason. Acting as though it is silly, reckless or somehow gossipy to point this out is simply a refusal to acknowledge the truth.

And there is at least as much evidence to convict Bill of rape as their is Bill Cosby, if not more. Again, screaming the truth has become the only option, because what other option is there? Neither one of those people will pay for their crimes. They get away with it because the laws of normal citizens do not apply to them.

I'm sorry, but I can't vote for Hillary. Voting for her is not a vote for decency, or maturity. It's a vote for someone who does whatever she wants, because she is above the law. She lies, cheats, steals, kills, and absolutely nothing happens to her. She threatens her husbands victims and their families in order to cover for his misdeeds, and she is held up as a champion of women everywhere. She wouldn't just be a bad president. She is evil. She is a psychopath, with no regard for human life. With no understanding of basic right and wrong.

And don't get me wrong. The idea of voting for Trump makes me sick to my stomach. I don't think that he is qualified. I don't think that he is stable. I think that he has a whole slew of psychological issues, but being a psychopath is not one of them.

This election is a game of Russian Roulette. Side with Trump, and you're playing with a revolver. Side with Hillary and you're playing with a semi-automatic.

There is no decency here. There is no good option. right now, I'm thinking in terms of cutting off limbs in order to save the patient's life.

I'm not opposed to a happier Clark. I think that there is room for different takes on the character. I don't see the DCEU version as being as broody and dark as you see him (he was smiling at the girl in Mexico when he saved her, and then frowned when he turned and watched the building still on fire), but he is a more serious take on the character. I don't expect the TV version to be like that, because the show aims for a lighter tone. However, the writers don't know how to create real, layered characters. Clark and Kara seem to come from a world where people are born with traumatic brain injury. Their smiling and winking and jumping up and down isn't looking like optimism to me, it's looking awkward and fake.

To contrast, Barry Allen is always smiling. He's always joking around with the people he's close to. He enjoys being the Flash. He is a light and fun character, but he isn't acting like an idiot. On top of that, the childhood trauma echoes through his present life. It doesn't weigh the show down, but it is always there.

These criticisms go for Clark and Kara both. I just don't get why they have to take characters with so much to offer, and reduce them to bubbly little high school kids. This series reminds me of the old Superman movie in a lot of ways. It's goofy. It's uneven. It's miscast when it comes to many characters. The writers aren't taking it seriously. They're just regurgitating their idea of what we've already seen before. They're not creating, they're trying to mimic, and they're failing. Superman and Supergirl aren't about smiles and winks. Above all, they're about heart. And that is where this show fails, and Cavill succeeds.

It's the same old problem that I've always had with the character. He is potentially a great, rich character. But too many writers are hung up on Christopher Reeve, which was a bad take on the character. We have moved past that in so many ways, both on Smallville and in the movies, and yet certain writers keep going back to that low point.

Basically, they're writing him like a MCU character.

So yeah, it turned into a psychoanalysis. But I don't think this is about Superman or Supergirl so much as examining the writers of the show. They're just being lazy and not doing the work.

Yeah, I think this was the first time that we got a Gotham reference. Though technically, I don't know if this is the Arrowverse. It's a different universe!

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like any of the show's real problems were dealt with. The move from LA to Vancouver is fine. The show looks fine. But the whole thing is still under-cooked.

First of all, Clark. Yes, he smiled. Not surprising since this is just a rehash of the same thing we've been watching the character do for the past 80 years or whatever. He's "aw gosh" and fun and light, which would be fine if it were in context of making him a real character. Smallville's Clark Kent was a Kansas boy, with down-home values, whose favorite hangout was a barn. Yet, they (mostly Tom Welling) managed to make him relatable. He had layers. He was too good to be a real person most of the time, but he wasn't a cardboard cutout of a cartoon character either.
The Supergirl version is, much like the rest of the show, flat. Bland. Goofy. Cartoonish. And I still have to say, horribly miscast. It's like they waned to hire someone who wouldn't make Supergirl look tiny, but in doing so, they cast someone who makes Superman look like Superboy.

People make fun of Cavill's Superman, but the thing I love about that interpretation is that the writers broke down the character and developed him as though he were any other character in a film. Who he is can be traced back to where he comes from and how he was raised. The flaw in so many Superman incarnations is that the writers base their whole approach on old lunchboxes. When I look at these versions, I don't see me. I don't see the best of humanity.

But Clark is just a guest star. This is Kara's show. So, if they want to make him the cartoon version of Superman, fine. But they should at least invest in the real development of her character. And they don't. They don't even base her on Supergirl lunchboxes, they base her on old, rusted, smelly Superman lunchboxes. Kara/Supergirl is nothing. There is nobody there, except a shadow of Superman. And every time they have a chance to make her more than that, they ignore it. At times, she is way, way too childlike. This chick watched her entire plant blow up. She lost everything she ever knew or loved. She had to rebuild her life on an alien world from scratch, learning the language and learning how to blend in, all while mourning for her entire civilization.

Barry Allen lost *one* person.

For me, everything comes down to character. And I'm fine with making her an optimist. She watches her world blow up, but she survived. She can ride high on that. But none of her history is apparent, so why bother having it there in the first place? Why give her a backstory that even Clark can't wrap his mind around? I hate it when writers ignore the story, just so they can force their will on the characters. And there is a difference between having characters who are fun and optimistic, and having characters who act like their work day should include recess and nap time.

Plot...

There wasn't much to talk about. Kara's sudden shift away from Jimmy didn't make sense, but they never really made sense in the first place. The James character feels really unnecessary at this point. And with Cat going away, I'm not sure that I see the point in keeping the Catco element at all.

Winn working with Alex makes sense (though I don't like the military setting for Supergirl, but whatever). But if they're going to have Luthor Corp as a recurring element on the show, they need to teach Jeremy Jordan the difference between the words "Corp" and "Corps". Luthor has a corporation, not a military branch.

It seems like they're really digging in deep with the show's flaws. And as time goes on, they're just becoming more pronounced. I was hoping that at least the production side would seem more organized, but it doesn't. We have Kara changing outfits three times in ten seconds, and then the editing made it seem like she took five minutes to get into her Supergirl costume.

I really don't think that the L Corp building would be cleared for normal business. I mean, it didn't fall down, which is a victory, but I wouldn't really call that the end of the story.

The drama between J'onn and Clark was so weird and stupid. Clark is pissy about the DEO having a weapon that could kill a kryptonian? So? A few hours earlier, Supergirl was battling an army of bad kryptonians! Not to mention the fact that every person in the DEO (including Clark) had the means to kill any human in the place. Why is it offensive to have a weapon against an alien threat, but just good common sense to have a weapon that would work on any normal person?

The whole thing was just frustrating. I hope they don't cross over too much.

On a lighter note, Brenda Strong is on the show now. She seems to be popping up everywhere now. Good for her! I actually met her... it was awkward.

Exactly. And this is what is so f---ing frustrating to me. Do you watch Fox 4 news (this is the benefit of us living close together!). Every night, they have a report on Trump where they play up how crazy he is. If there is a single protester at a rally of his, it will get its own segment. Then they go to a story about a speech Hillary gave, and discuss her position in said speech... They don't mention her crazy outbursts, or her old recordings. They talk about her pneumonia, but not the fact that people were discussing her issues with falling over long before this diagnosis. They demand nothing of her. They question nothing of her. Basically, they are just campaigning for her.

There is a lot for her to answer for. While people talk about Trump being a pig and saying vile things (he did. It is disgusting. I hate him, so I am not defending him), and equate his *words* to rape, they ignore Hillary's history of victimizing the women that her husband had already victimized. He raped them, and she made them keep their mouths shut, threatening them and their families. Some of them did back down or bow out. Others didn't. Those who are screaming to be heard are not being shown on the news. The media is helping Hillary sweep them under the carpet. Hillary claims to be a champion of women, but she aids the destruction of rape victims. She should be made to answer for that, but she never will.

Hillary Clinton ton is on tape in 2008, discussing the fact that she doesn't want to use email because it will leave her exposed during investigations. This is HUGE, in respect to her email scandal (where she destroyed tens of thousands of emails) but how often have you seen that lost video on the nightly news? Fox 4 cut into programming to report on this video of Trump being a pig, yet they didn't even report Hillary's lost video.

The election is a mess because the media made it that way. They, along with the establishment Republicans, (and Democrats for that matter) destroyed our chances of getting legitimate candidates. They chose who they wanted in office and now Hillary could sacrifice a newborn baby to Satan live on Facebook, and it would get zero news coverage.

I just watched the pilot. I wanted to like it, since I have liked the work of the show's creators in the past... But it kinda sucked.

The history element was lazy. They kept this running gag about the bad guy wearing pajamas, despite the fact that he wasn't dressed too differently than several of the 1930's extras. Coveralls aren't new.

They kept acting as though the 1930's were mind-bogglingly different, but they over sold it. It wasn't the 1730's. Things weren't all that different in a lot of ways.

I also thought that they went for a lot of the time travel clichés. It just felt flat and lifeless. Like it was copied from history depicted in other TV shows, and wasn't written as real people living in a real place.

Time travel shows can't avoid paradoxes. This show was no different. If A goes back in time and alters it, how does B even remember the original timeline? The trick is to sell us on the story, so we don't care about the logic. In this case, they failed to do that.

They shouldn't have jumped ahead three months. They could have done a few episodes that spanned those three months. In doing this, they could have lined up with the other shows in time for the crossovers, but explored their idea more fully.

I read one of the Supergirl's in an interview the other day, and they suggested that the Arrow and Supergirl universes haven't merged. Kara will be crossing over, but her universe will remain as it is. Which is okay with me, because Supergirl just doesn't fit this universe that they've created.

Dude... You have to watch the Ultimate Edition. It is a complete movie now.

While I did like the theatrical cut, I think WB was absolutely wrong to cut the movie the way they did.

Still rewatching Arrow's second season. I reached the point where Moira Queen announces her candidacy to run for mayor. I remember when the episodes first aired, I watched it like "Really?!?! She was just on trial for killing 500 people and now she's up in the polls?!?! REALLY?!?!"

Now I watch the episodes and I'm like "Yup."

Stephen Amell just posted a new trailer on his Facebook page. I have to say, season 3 is looking like it could be really good. I know that I shouldn't get my hopes up, but I kinda am.

If you're accepting that everything on the show actually happened, suck it up and make it work. I hated a lot of what happened in the final season of Buffy and corrected it in my season 8. It took some work to explain some of that crap away, but it's what you do. You can't rewrite the past.

You could incorporate Collin in a somewhat vague and mysterious way, like have Remmy pause and think that someone is missing for a moment, and Quinn holding his breath, waiting to see if Remmy will remember... Then Remmy shakes it off and moves on.

The problem here is that you create a mystery that you don't intend to solve. You can keep Collin out of your master work, but it would probably require you to write a short story on the side that explains what happened there.

You really have to just give in and acknowledge Collin in your series. But you do get to decide how you go about doing that.

There's a reason why the Tops crumbled without the Cryin' Man.

Funny story. I can't watch McGyver. Every time I've tried watching an episode on Netflix, my father wound up in the hospital. So now nobody in my family is allowed to watch that show. We use it as a threat.

Back in the days of movie serials, writers would throw characters off of a cliff and leave audiences hanging until the next installment. Then they'd come back and resolve this impossible situation by rewriting the scene and including an easy out. It was a dishonest cheat because it never really resolved the problem at all. It just made it go away.

My policy is that anything already published is set in stone (story wise. Fixing errors is still okay). If people have already read it, a change is dishonest. Those people probably won't go back and read the previous part, so now they'll just be wondering what's going on.

So... Probably not the answer that you're looking for. Sorry. Plenty of people would revise with no problem. It would just drive me insane.

Why is everyone talking about seasons that never existed? I know there has been a bit of a delay between seasons, and the fanfic machine went a little crazy, but c'mon. Season 3 premieres on October 5!

As for Supergirl... I think people overstated the trouble with matching the look of the show. While Catco has big windows overlooking the city, it is still an indoor set, with fake lighting. Same with the DEO and Kara's apartment. Then we have establishing shots of the city, which can also be used for flying shots, and these are going to be the same. Filming on the street can be helped by using lighting techniques and coloring techniques in post. If The X-Files can make Vancouver look like a desert in New Mexico, I'm sure they can make a cloudy day look sunny.

I rewatched the episode with the Flash last night, because I thought it would be the least offensive way of dipping my toe back in. And yeah, there were some fun moments, but there were some parts of that episode that were just unbecoming of a primetime series on a major network. Really poorly done. I hope the Vancouver crew is better.