DC TV Weekly #30

Supergirl 'Wake Up' Review
First thing to stick out to me in this episode was the reference to Superman: The Movie, which is fitting, as that movie's tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly" while this episode's tagline should be "You'll believe Mon-El can actually be an interesting character". Okay that wasn't the smoothest of openings, but you get my point. Mon-El was never a character I hated, but I also never cared for him, and I certainly never saw why the characters in the show cared for him. Now with his return, 7 years have passed in his time and it shows, he's changed. He's responsible, caring, humble, you know, likeable traits in a character. He's for some reason sneaking around even though I feel he could have just told the others what he needed to do, but let's overlook that for now. The relationship between him and Kara was probably the most engaging its ever been. The two have gone on such different paths since the last time they saw each other, there's still clearly a connection, but it's completely unsalvageable, especially with the inclusion of Mon-El's wife...you know, in case it wasn't absolutely clear the two weren't getting back together. I would criticise them for this inclusion, but if shipper culture has taught me anything, people will ship regardless of how dumb it is. Also Carl Lumbly is back, so of course I'm gonna give it a positive review, because I love Carl Lumbly and every scene he's in is perfect. Oh, I guess I should talk about Sam's story becaus-Whoops! Outta time! Guess I don't get to talk about a storyline that I am so very clearly interested in. Oh well, 7/10.

The Flash 'Therefore I Am' Review
Part of me has to feel this guy is way OP. A villain who is so unbelievably intelligent that he can predict every possible outcome, what exactly are Team Flash gonna do to get around that? I say get around because let's be honest, conundrums like this are not the writer's speciality. That being said, he's a different villain. An actual goddamn different villain, thank Christ! There is no mystery behind his personality, no pretending to be an ally. We just get an episode explaining the man's backstory, having us understand his motivations, giving him a strength, giving him a weakness, and we get some great scenes between him and Barry. Already he's the best main villain we've had since Eobard Thawne. Unless they put him in some sort of robosuit that gives him super speed which...I would say would be really dumb, but this show has had three speedster villains in a row and they didn't seem to realise that was dumb, so I honestly wouldn't be shocked. Oh, and Wally's back; I did not miss you. Oh well, just focus on the positives, as for right now, he's a great villain, great episode, 8/10.

Legends of Tomorrow 'Welcome to the Jungle' Review
Eh, you know what? If I was in charge of these shows, I'd want to use Gorilla Grodd as much as possible to. Cause apart from his appearance in season two, the guy has had a pretty solid record for being a great villain, and you know what? They continued that record. Grodd becoming somewhat of a god like figure who then tries to steal a time machine to erase humanity from ever existing is quite possibly the most Gorilla Grodd thing ever. So they've clearly got the fun and wacky side of Legends down, but it's one of those rare episodes that does equally well with the emotions. Mick meeting his father, a man that he hates-And I swear to god the actor playing his dad is the most entertaining performer ever, I want this man to read me a bed time story!-and get to see him from a new perspective, learn about him, develop as a character, solve his problems and doing it all in a way that never betrays the stoic, uncaring nature of Mick, it was really well done. So to recap: Super fun episode that does a really good job with the emotional stuff, yeah i'd say that's worth an 8/10.

Arrow 'Thanksgiving' Review
So are Black Siren and Cayden James the big baddies for the season? I'll give the show points that up until now I didn't realise that they never set up a main villain for the heroes to fight, they usually do that within the first episode or two. Instead the rest of this season so far has been several medium plots instead of just one giant plot, which in a way I think I liked, because it meant if one plot wasn't working for you then you had several others to connect to. If they are the closest thing we get to a main villain then I'm fine with it. Katie Cassidy is just so much better as Black Siren than she was Black Canary, in the same way Danielle Pannabaker is better as Killer Frost than Caitlin Snow. They're just clearly having so much fun playing villains that they so much more entertaining to watch. Cayden James I'm not so sure about, he's the smug super genius that we've seen a million times before and his motivation is literally the reverse of Prometheus last year. But he's not the worst foil for our heroes that is still Agent Watson, who my god, every time she appears on screen the episode suddenly becomes 1/10th as interesting as it was before. She's just a generic character that has been seen in a million other things. Moving on to some more interesting developments, Oliver is now officially back in the Green Arrow suit, and hey, just in time for the big crossover next week. Also Thea is back!...Okay seriously where the fuck was she. She was hardly in last season and for the first half of this season she's been in a coma? Does Willa Holland just not want to be in the show anymore? I'm getting distracted by little things. But to be fair, this episode, like this season isn't really about one thing, it's about several small things, so I can only give small opinions on them. Sooooo...Oliver getting arrested: Stupid. Team Arrow dealing with Siren and James: Decent. Diggle and Oliver's fight: good. The episode over all: Decent. 7/10.