Oh fandom, you’re so funny. One of the first comments I read after “Al Sah-Him” aired was “I hate this show.” To which I ask, “Then why the hell are you watching it?” I know, I know. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of a show you used to enjoy. But why spend precious time watching something that’s gone sour for you?
In the holy triad of this week’s CW shows, Arrow comes in last. But it wasn’t a total loss.
Nyssa: Can we keep her?
In an episode where Stephen Amell didn’t get to wear his green leather pants, everyone told Oliver Queen how much they loved him. It almost made up for the lack of Stephen Amell in green leather pants. Watching Oliver control Ray’s movements just didn’t have the same impact.
“No plant life will be spared during this raid!”
“Nuclear Man” fallout: Nuclear men.
Ranking this week’s characters:
She rises to the top mainly because she’s finally being given a worthy story line, that of investigating the suspecious activities going on at STAR Labs. Bonus points for no longer working at Jitters.
In an episode of significant events, no one really stood. Everyone was great. The Firestorm arc concluded nicely, leaving open the probability for a return sometime in the future. (Unless Robbie Amell’s movie career takes off.)
So, I ordered a “Sinceriously” t-shirt yesterday. I’m not one to wear a celebrity’s face on my clothes (unless you count the time I ironed a small picture of Benjamin Bratt onto the wrong side of a white tee some years ago), but Stephen Amell’s charity supporting Stand for the Silent and Paws and Stripes is something I can get behind. Besides, can one ever have too many tees? I think not.
But I had a dilemma. Should I order the crew neck tee in aqua Tahiti blue, or the v-neck tee in heather gray. I really like the blue of Tahiti, and all my tees are crew necks. But I also like heather gray and v-necks in general, but it’s $2.00 more.
So, what was my deciding factor?
John Diggle—the Un-Arrow
(Green Arrow—get it?) Oliver is alive! Ok, we knew that would happen, but still. Heck, even Stephen Amell said Oliver was dead (as a deterrent to Olicity) on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The Lazarus Pit wasn’t used. (That we know of…)
The whole resurrection scenario dovetailed nicely with the flashback. And Maseo really is Maseo, not whatever League of Assassins name he gave in the last episode.
We shall not dwell on the episode’s negatives.
Your thoughts?
[The Flash and Supernatural thoughts coming soon.]
You know how they say news comes in threes? Apparently, so do my celebrity crushes.
It all started one summer long, long ago when three of the world’s most eligible bachelors got married: Britain’s Prince Andrew (the Prince Harry of his day), Mark Harmon, and the daily comic strip’s Peter Parker. (Oh, c’mon, you know who he is!)
Mark Harmon then & now: Still going strong.
My types seem to know no bounds. One year it was Lorenzo Lamas in Renegade, Joe Lando from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and… some other good-looking guy I can’t remember. Unlike the first two, though, he didn’t have long hair. Maybe it was Mark Harmon.
The next year it was David Hyde Pierce (whom I still adore), the little-known David Marciano from the early years of Due South, and… crap! I can’t remember #3. Again. But he too was of the not-particularity-handsome, follicely-challenged type. See? I look for inner beauty as well.
These days, I seem to have reverted to the rugged, handsome type.
It’s Santa vs. The Doctor
Except that I tuned it out after 15 or so minutes. Nor was checking in at various intervals enough to interest me. Even the appeal of Danny Pink didn’t lure me in. Instead, it felt as though Steven Moffat is running out of ideas. The dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream-(ad nauseum) has been done before, and better, in Inception. Even the spinning jack was present, albeit replaced by the first word on a randomly chosen page of text. Perhaps it’s time to turn the writing over to someone else.
As much as Peter Capaldi makes a marvelous Doctor, and as good as Jenna Coleman was last season, the prospect of the two of them journeying through all of space and time for another year holds little interest for me.
I have been distracted.
Jamie (Sam Heughan) wraps his “plaid” around Claire (Caitriona Balfe).
SciFi Chick (s) 