DC TV Weekly #14

Supergirl 'Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptlk' Review
A Valentines day episode a week late, sure, why not. Make it about a stupid love triangle between Kara, Mxy & Mon-El...preferably not. So yeah, Kara and Mon-El are officially a couple...to compare them to white bread would be an insult to bread. But hey, let's talk about something great about this episode, and that would be Mr Mxyzptlk himself. Sadly he's not a floating dwarf voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, but a hyper-active Doctor Who rip-off is just as enjoyable, also he insults Mon-El, so he's good in my books. Honestly Mxy is one of those characters that I have wanted to see in the DC TV Universe just out of sheer curiosity, wondering what they would do with him, so I'm pretty sure I was going to love him for no other reason than respect for trying, thankfully he was an entertaining character to boot. The actor was really energetic, the lines he was given was humorous and the silly ways he manipulated the world around him made him a delight to watch. But the love triangle aspect was still shit, as nearly all love triangles are. Speaking of love, let's talk about Alex and Maggie, you know, that relationship people are actually interested in, I will say I'm mixed on how they handled this story. The set-up of Maggie hating Valentines Day was forced and poorly constructed, with Alex completely ignoring Maggie's desires (That being, to not celebrate Valentines Day) and then Maggie in response just wants to walk away instead of talking about it like an actual adult would do. But then that ending with Maggie talking about why she hates Valentines Day and how she was outed before she was ready was a really well done scene. So this is a case where the destination is great, but the journey getting there was rocky. Hell, that could describe the entire episode, rocky, but with some greatness sprinkled in. 7/10.

The Flash 'Attack on Gorilla City' Review
Not to sound like a broken record. But you might have noticed a pattern with these reviews that whenever they do something silly and feels straight out of a comic book, I tend to ignore any other issues. In this case we have Flash and co. travelling to Gorilla City in a parallel Earth, where Barry has to fight Solovar, the leader of the psychic gorillas in gladiator style combat, when they are betrayed by Grodd who plans to start the Planet of the Apes on Earth-1…There is not a part of that sentence I don’t love with all of my heart. This is why I love DC Television. This is the stuff even the Marvel movies haven’t been willing to go too in terms of silliness. Yes I could complain about the hokey acting, or the forced melodrama back on Earth-1, but I really don’t want to. The hokey acting adds to that adventurous feel and complete induldgement of the setting, and the melodrama of Jesse not sure if she should stay on Earth-1 actually had a fairly lovely scene between her and H.R. I suppose my only real complaint would be that Julian served no purpose being on Earth-2, but honestly, that’s a nitpick. This is the most entertaining episode of Flash we’ve had all year, I absolutely loved it, and I am very excited that this is a 2 parter. Oh, and Keith David as Solovar, that’s just the icing on the cake. 9/10, but if next week’s episode turns out to be just as good, I might just upgrade it one more point.

Legends of Tomorrow 'Camelot/3000' Review
Well they are just spoiling us with silliness this week. The Legends teaming up with the knights of Camelot to take down the Legion of Doom with mind controlled knights? Oh, and Ray fights with a lightsaber, Stargirl is Merlin, Sara is Lancelot and Mick somehow has the most powerful brain? Do I even need to say why this is so much fun? On a technical level, this is certainly one of the best shot episodes of Legends, that fight scene looked rather expensive, and the final battle between Ray and Damien looked gorgeous, also, that final shot of Rip, anyone else get some Norman Bates vibes from that? Yes I could nitpick the plot and how it kind of doesn't make sense, but I could also do that with practically every episode, so bother? The only actual nitpick I have is that at no point did they make a single Monty Python reference! Come on, you even had King Arthur fighting a black knight! Or even a reference to Shining Knight? Another underrated DC Character, would have been perfect. What else needs to be said? Though I love it when this show commits 100% to being fun, that sadly means there isn't much to discuss in terms of a review without repeating myself. It was super fun, well shot and with some steady plot progression, oh, and we got to see Stargirl again, always gonna be happy about that. 8/10.

Arrow 'The Sin-Eater' Review
Oh hey, Prometheus, been kind of a while since he's done anything. He doesn't even show up in this episode but it's nice people are acknowledging him again, he's also still pulling strings by leaking Green Arrow killed Billy to the ACU. Speaking of, when Oliver confronts the ACU Captain, how in god's name did he not figure out then and there that Oliver and Green Arrow are the same person! This is the worst kept secret ever! He's not even being subtle with how he seemingly knows everything that's going on in GA's head and how he feels, not even saying "I think he'll be upset about this" no, very matter of fact "He will be upset about this" worst-cop-ever. But unfortunately Prometheus screwing over Oliver isn't the main plot of this episode, instead we have more filler. Several villains that no one cares about return for some stupid mcguffin, a flashback that has no tension because we've seen the two characters in the present so we know they're not going to die, and some stupid stuff about Oliver's girlfriend reporter-which again-no one cares about. Dammit Arrow, we were 3-0 for this week's DC TV being awesomely silly fun, why did you have to ruin that streak? 5/10.

-Danny