DC TV Weekly #23

Supergirl 'Resist' Review
Wow. I guess I'm a Cat Grant fan. You never realise how much you like something until it's gone. She disappears at the start of the season and shows up for the finale to be sassy and cool in front of everyone and I honestly loved it. No joke, I had a huge grin on my face when she showed up in the middle of a debate between President Wonder Woman and Queen Bitchface-and within a millisecond was already done with everyone's shit, that's pretty badass. That being said it seems this series is suffering from the same finale syndrome other DC Shows have, that being, having the same finale over and over again. Now granted, this isn't the finale yet, but an alien invasion focused specifically in National City and humanity regaining control through a televised speech about hope? The similarities are there. I will say this is certainly the best we've seen Supergirl in a while, not to say she's been poorly written or anything, but after saving the day she still goes through the extra effort of offering Mon-El's mum (Yeah I never learned her name, she's kinda boring) a chance at surrender, which is a very Supergirl thing to do. Unfortunately that's all I have to say. The story was structured the same as the finale last year, Cat Grant was awesome but it's an episode that can be written off as just standard. Enjoyable. But standard. 7/10.

The Flash 'Infantino Street' Review
A season of dicking around, Barry acting out of character and a season long story arc that I really couldn't care about and here we are, the penultimate episode, and I have one request. Go through with it. You have killed off Iris, don't you dare have Barry travel back in time, or bring in an Iris from another world, or somehow heal this one, go-through-with-it. Show that you still know how to write Barry Allen. Savitar's main goal was to break Barry, corrupt him, make him desperate enough that we'd believe he could turn into a villain. Everything has lead to this, Flashpoint, Savitar, time travel, let this be the absolute lowest Barry can be, let him be in pain, let him feel failure, let him accept that he can't change things, and have him recover. That's what I want our next episode to be. I want Barry to defeat Savitar without corrupting himself. I want him to admit he can't change things because he's spent a whole season trying to break the rules and be told how big of a fuck up he is. You want to make up for that? Well you've put him in the worst position he could possibly be in, have him push back. Don't take the easy way out, let the season end with him defeated Savitar but be depressed over the death of Iris, and use the time in between seasons as a chance for him to recover. I'm not saying he has to be back to his happy self for season four, but have him grow up. In fact, I'm not going to rate this episode. Because the quality of this depends entirely on where they go from here, for the love of god Flash, don't screw this up.

Arrow 'Missing' Review
Wow, a villain who's plan all along was to get captured, thrown into a see through cell and then break out, haven't seen that before. But to be fair at least this one has a little bit of creativity by having the hero forced to break him out. It's also nice how personal this finale is shaping up to be, with Chase capturing Oliver's friends & family instead of any kind of city destroying nonsense like we've had literally every other season. In fact starting the episode with a birthday party and the characters even joking about how they always get the summer off made for a nice change of pace. Plus the flashbacks were small yet had high stakes and gave Stephen Amell a chance to show off his acting chops, showing a weakness to Oliver that we rarely get to see. And I'm not gonna lie, the idea of Green Arrow and Deathstroke fighting side by side makes me a little bit giddy. Though this makes all those angry denial posts Manu Bennett made a few weeks ago claiming he wasn't in the finale very odd. Malcolm Merlyn has gone back to his irritating state, after being a fun villain on Legends he's now just wining about his daughter again for the millionth time. It's hard to review the episode seeing as this is basically part 1 of the finale, but as far as set ups go, it's quite a strong one. 7/10.