DC TV Weekly #15

Supergirl 'Homecoming' Review
Talk about having your cake and eating it too. An episode that for 2/3 of the runtime criticised Mon-El for his behaviour, not respecting Kara's wishes, breaking an agreement and accusing her adoptive father of being their enemy...and then in the end suddenly having him be right. You can't really do that guys. You can't spend the majority of your episode saying a characters behaviour is wrong only to then say "Oh but turns out it was a good thing he was an arsehole because it saved the day", that's bad encouragement for him to not actually learn. In fact that's an important point to make, how little Mon-El seems to be learning. He started off as a sexist egomaniac, Kara apparently changed him, yet in this episode he talks about how he preferred it when he could view women as objects. He supposedly wants to be a hero and has spent several months training, yet he still shirks off his responsibilities and works in a fucking bar for some reason. Between Mon-El and James, I'm not sure what the writers are thinking. They so badly want to get Kara together with every man on the planet, yet insist on writing them like absolute twats. Oh, to make matters worse it's another Cadmus episode, because they haven't been idiots in the past(!). But despite all the negativity there is still elements to praise. It's great to see Dean Cain return and the emotional dilemma's presented, whether they be him betraying Alex or even his wife Eliza questioning their marriage, were well done. Speaking of Alex, she's pretty much being the big star of the season. It's strange looking back at the first half of season one where I hated her, yet here we are now where she has the most interesting story, is given some of the best scenes acting wise and basically at this point I'm more invested in her relationship with Maggie and her family than I am with the fucking alien killers. But sadly that's not enough to redeem this let down of an episode. 4/10.

The Flash 'Attack on Central City' Review
I feel like I'm not prepared to review this episode because I don't remember anything that happened. Now that's not saying it was a bad episode, I think just because last weeks was so awesome and my excitement for this one was probably a little too high that in reality an okay episode is now disappointing. Even taking that hype aside though, there are still a number of issues, mostly for the lack of focus. Let's take a look at what everyone is doing in this ep, Cisco is upset that he can't get a girlfriend, Jesse wants to tell her dad she's staying on Earth-1, and Barry debated whether or not he should kill Grodd (Even though he's killed several times in the past!). All of this nonsense when they could be focusing on the fucking Gorilla army coming to destroy them! Last week's episode knew where the focus should be, on Gorilla City and everything that happens there, with a little bit for the people on Earth-1 worried about the others. Cisco's romance problems aren't connected to anything, Jesse's problems could have waited a week, and Barry's moral dilemma is moronic because he has killed people before, Atom Smasher, Sand Demon, Zoom. Even Reverse-Flash-though he didn't kill him-he was more than willing too. I've said it before and I'll say it again, stop having moral dilemmas over killing CW. You're not good at it. Honestly with all of this filler by the time Grodd and his army had shown up, I had completely lost interest, the momentum had died down and I didn't care. 5/10.

Arrow 'Fighting Fire With Fire' Review
Hm, so in order to avoid the twist of Adrian Chase being Vigilante (As he is in the comics) they made him Prometheus instead...I can't tell if that's really clever or not. Not only did that major reveal happen, but we also got a fair amount of story progression, some in small ways like Curtis' balls (hehehe), but also with Oliver declaring the Green Arrow an enemy of Star City, I'm actually curious to see where that's gonna go. Also, the most unrealistic thing in this show? Politicians caring about doing the right thing. Also just as a small thing, seeing Prometheus and Vigilante fighting was cool, something about villains fighting each other is just always fun to see. Wait a minute, I just thought of something. If Adrian isn't Vigilante, who is? Could it be Talia, because she was my guess for Prometheus. Wow, I don't think I've been this engaged in Arrow in a long time. Granted I'm not on the edge of my seat because I'm sure I'll be disappointed, but still, any engagement is better than none, because this is the show that I care the least about each week, but maybe not now, or at least, not for a while. 7/10.

-Danny