DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 6.8

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  6.8:  "Stressed Western"  

Well...our Timestream Toublemakers try to adjust to having SOME sense of "normal"....at least for them.  Their intrepid Captain is back, and they're looking to get back to business:  fixing the timeline, and eliminating the aliens that have landed in it, and screwed it up.....mostly due to Sara and Gary having dumped them when they fought Gary's ex-fiance.   But before they get down to the next adventure---they want to properly welcome their Captain home.

So, we got the team whipping up a monster breakfast for Sara, who still hasn't revealed to the team that she's half alien.  She isn't quite ready to tell the team what happened to her, even though she just revealed it to Ava.  She wants to keep it under wraps until she has time to settle back in and come to terms with it herself.   But she professes to Ava that everything is fine.  Everyone wants to get time with Sara, but Ava wants as much time with her as possible.  So, she gets the big breakfast, but her appetite isn't where it usually is, and she settles on the smoothie Zari left instead.  Gideon interrupts Ava and Sara getting closer, as she finds yet another alien messing up the timeline....this time in a old western town named Fist City in the late 1800's.  Sara wants to have a romp, so Nate rallies the troops, and they head into the past to confront this new alien threat to the timeline. 

Before they take off, John confronts Gary about The Fountain of Imperium, and Gary says it's just a myth, and he doesn't believe it exists.  John walks off in a huff, and Gary looks on...knowing he just lied to John. 

When they get to the town, they find out it's....different.  They walk into the saloon, and as soon as they bump into one of the patrons, it looks as if a fight will break out.  Instead, the man is courteous, and orders them drinks....all soda.  There's no alcohol there, and also no gambling as well.  They see the list of rules, and find it weird.  From their research, this town was protected by the first black deputy sheriff named Bass Reeves, but he's considered an outlaw based on a wanted poster of him posted.  The actual sheriff of the town is a man named Stapleton, who was supposed to be the outlaw criminal based on history.  A balladeer shows up, and the saloon breaks out in song, as he tells the story of the sheriff, and Stapleton arrives, curious about the strangers who've come into town.  At this point, Sara is downing milkshakes like they're going out of style, and Ava is worried about her, and why she's acting the way she's acting.  Behrad makes nice with one of the locals, and his sister doesn't think the girl is right for him.  Nate is just trying to keep the peace, and Astra is not happy that the guys playing Go Fish at the tables have no gold on them, and she's heard of it.  She wants to grab some for herself.  Spooner, trying to sense the alien, and Astra giving her grief for having the foil in the hat.  

The tension between team members causes a rumble underneath the ground.  the card player and Astra have words, and they get angry.  Then, the alien shows up---a worm---that ends up swallowing the card player.  It takes the whistle from Stapleton to quell the alien, and force it back underground.  He tells the team to eat up, have a drink or two, and then hit the road.  They question Gary about it, and he says it's a Hadarac---and it feeds on anger.  They realize they have to get the whistle from the sheriff, so they head to the square dance....minus Astra and Spooner are left behind because of their tempers.  Astra then wants to follow the trail to find the gold of the card player.  So, she wants Spooner to help her find it.  She eggs Spooner about her powers, and says that she should learn to control them, instead of it controlling her.  She talks about her time in Hell, and having to fight for her power.  Spooner opens up about her mother, and how she had to survive without her.  Astra did not know this.  They end up finding the worm, and it turns out that the worm leaves a trail of gold in its wake.  They have been followed this whole time by Bass....who's curious as to who they are.  Bass says that this worm turned Fist City into a boomtown, and there's no way the townsfolk are going to let anything happen to the worm.  

At the square dance, Sara and Stapleton talk, and she challenges him to a shootout.  Winner gets the whistle, and the loser leaves town.  Stapleton agrees.  Ava wonders why Sara would do this, and Sara is calm, and she says she needs this.  Meanwhile, Zari and Behrad continue to argue about his flirtation with the woman, Ava is upset Sara is putting herself in danger.  The ground begins to rumble as the alien gets restless.  So, Sara and Stapleton have their showdown, and Stapleton shoots Sara in the head before she gets a chance to turn around.  However, Sara gets up and heals her head wound...a byproduct of her alien DNA.  She then turns around, and Stapleton continues to fire on her, but she takes all the bullets.  She then shoots the whistle off Stapleton.  The worm takes out Stapleton, and then the woman Behrad flirted with turns on the Legends, and they won't let them take the worm from them, so they start shooting at the Legends, who hide inside the saloon.  While the team is trying to figure out what to do, they all begin to argue.  Ava and Sara argue about what she just did, the siblings argue about Behrad's flirting with the woman, and John feels that if he had his magic, this wouldn't be a problem...and that's on Gary.  Nate has tried to keep the order, but then he tells the team to screw themselves, and starts to vent about trying to make this adventure fun for Sara, how he's had to listen to everyone else's problems, and how he's been all by himself because he's without the woman he loves, who's stuck in a totem.  He then goes outside, raging, and hoping to draw the alien to him.  Everyone wonders just what Nate is doing, so they all commiserate outside and see the alien approach Nate, ready to eat him.  But Astra and Spooner arrive in time with Bass to see Nate about to be eaten.  Spooner gets into the alien's head long enough to distract it, and Astra musters up enough magic to destroy the creature.

With the town back to normal, and Bass reasserted as sheriff, and how he uses everything he knows about the townsfolk to ensure they'll toe the line.  Back aboard the ship, Gary tells John where he can find the Fountain...but the only one who's got a clue to where it's at is Aleister Crowley....So, John takes off to find the Fountain to get his magic back...and Gary warns him that if he gets the map to be careful...no one's survived trying to find it.  The siblings make up, and Behrad realizes that Nate's been suffering without HIS Zari.  So, he lends Nate the totem to go and visit Zari within it, but just return it when he's done.  Sarah and Ava seem to be okay again as well.  

Well....we got back to some of the hijinks that makes our Waverider Bunch fun to watch.  We did get a decent dose of humor, but we also got some character development here.  I think that since they got engaged, Ava has now been taking more of a protective stance with Sara.  Call it the "worrisome wife" syndrome, but she's now going into that role.  She has yet to understand the struggle Sara is going through, as she realizes what her alien DNA has given her...a super healing factor, and an immensely indestructible body.  Sara is dealing with her humanity and what it means.  This week, she was unsure about how the team would react if they knew she was half alien.  That brings me to Spooner, and how she not only kept sensing the alien, but Gary as well.  However...it makes me wonder if she could sense Sara's half alien DNA as well.  Astra also made a good point to Spooner about taking control of her powers...and not letting them dictate to Spooner, but the other way around.  Astra also learned that Spooner is a lot like her:  rough around the edges, angry, and both lost someone they loved most:  their mothers.  It was also cool to see Behrad give Nate a helping hand by letting him borrow his part of the totem in order for him to visit Zari 1.0 inside it.  

We got a different guest role for David Ramsey, who also directed this episode.  So, while not a John Diggle appearance, he got a nice little guest role to help the plot along.  Sadly, no real interaction between him and Sara...but it's always good to see Ramsey on TV.  And did anyone notice that Mick had a small part in this week's episode?  He pretty much slept and ate steak in this episode as they went to the Old West.  I guess that they didn't really need Mick much in this episode and gave him a break.  We also got the siblings sniping at each other this week as well, as Zari went all sister mode on Behrad for his choice in women.  But we see that Zari is a loving and protective sister....showing their family dynamic as strong as ever, even when they argue. 

Overall...not too bad an episode.  Had some character development, had a baddie alien, some humorous moments, but doing their usual stuff.  It's not mind blowing things they're doing on this show, and they're staying the course.  Not sure what they have planned, but hopefully something major---especially if it means John and his quest for the Fountain of Illumination.  Because this season has just been staying in it's lane....but in cruise control...and that 's a problem with a show when it gets creatively stale.  That is what I fear for this program.  It needs a major jolt..and soon.

That's MY thoughts on this week's happenings about the Waverider crew....what about you?  What's YOUR take on the Legends so far this season?  Subscribe and drop me a comment below.  

Until next time....Time is on our side.

SUPERMAN & LOIS 1.11

 

RECAP - SUPERMAN & LOIS  1.11:  "A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events"

This week, we took SOMETHING of a brief pause in the action in Smallville, as we focused on Superman, and what's going on with him, before we jump into the next disaster awaiting the Kent Family and Smallville.  We see Kal-El take a stroll down memory lane, as he recovers from his encounter with the neo-Kryptonians created by Tal-Rho/Morgan Edge.  He's depleted of power at this point in time, and has headed to the Fortress to recover before going back after his half-brother.  So, what journey did Clark take us through, as he recovers?  Let's find out....

This episode focused on Kal-El's journey from when he left home in Smallville to "find himself".  We start out with Clark making the journey north to the Arctic, where he tosses the Kryptonian crystal into the snow....and then the Fortress rises.  He then uses the crystal to activate the hologram of his father, Jor-El.  Jor-El then says he's going to teach his son how to be a hero for this world.  So, we go through a montage of Clark training in the use of his powers.  Once he finishes his training, we see him return home to Smallville...telling his mother Martha about meeting Jor-El, finding out about Krypton, and realizing what he's been put on Earth to do.  Martha then presents him with a gift...clothing that she had saved from the rocket crash, and said she'd made it into a uniform for him....so that he could be the hero he was destined to be.  Clark went to go see Lana, whom he had a crush on back in the day...but when he goes to tell her he's returned, he sees that she's with Kyle...and Kyle proposes to her.  Clark is heartbroken, but Martha makes him understand that life went on without him.  So, he must do the same. 

We move to Clark in Metropolis, looking to find his way around when he hears with his super-hearing about a car about to crash into people....he races out, and saves the boy we saw at the beginning of the season, and how everyone talks about the rescue.  He had changed to and back to Superman in an old phone booth (an ode to what he used to do in the past), and overhears someone talking about the Daily Planet getting wind of this story.  It inspires Clark, as he turns around and sees the Planet in the distance.  Jumping again, we see his job interview with Perry White, whom he convinces to hire him, and pairs him with Lois Lane.  They have their moment in their first meet, and then we jump to them working together through a montage.  They had been working on a story, and getting closer.  Eventually, Clark comes into the Planet looking for Lois, but she's missing.  With his hearing, he finds out the person they were investigating had Lois in his sights, and planned on killing her.  He races out, and rescues her, and stops the man from harming anyone else.  This is the first time Lois meets Clark in his superhero identity. When she asks his name, he amusingly says that she'll think of something.  When some bystander asks her who he is...she coins him "Superman".  

Later on, we see Lois on TV talking to Superman about who and what he is, and he's careful enough to not divulge too much information.  They take a break from the interview, and Lois is frustrated that he won't give her a straight answer.  Her friend tells her that he likes her, and she's not interested, since she's already in love with someone else----Clark.  Not knowing that, at the time, Clark can listen to her whole conversation.  They go back to the interview, and Superman says that Clark is a lucky guy to have Lois.  Moving forward, we see Clark bring Lois to Smallville to meet his mother, and she's worried, but Martha is very welcoming.  Clark then tells his mother that he's going to confess to her about who he is.  We then see him finally tell Lois of his dual identity.  We go from there to Clark proposing to Lois, to their marriage, and then to when they find out they're pregnant with the boys.  

It's when Lois is in the delivery room, having the boys, that Clark ends up "stepping out" of the dream, as he keeps seeing some kind of flickering shadow...something he'd notice in his dream before...and it ends up being his half-brother, Tal-Rho.  Tal says Kal is weak, and will use his secret against him to destroy him.  Tal threatens the boys, and Superman says not to kill them...they're babies.  But Tal says he wouldn't do that...but teenage boys, however---that's another story.  Superman wakes up, and realizes that Tal is there at the Fortress, using a Kryptonian dream device to show him how weak his life is.  Tal is there to discuss the terms of Kal-El's surrender.  Superman isn't in the mood for it, and he goes to attack Tal, but Tal is still more powerful than Superman right now, as he's still recovering.  Tal and he did damage to the Fortress, and Superman is left lying, as Tal leaves...looking to destroy his targets. 

Back in Smallville, Kyle is still trying to process everything that went down with Edge, and the incidents that led up to him being possessed by a Kryptonian.  Lana is trying to console him, but he still feels guilty.  He apologizes to Lois, and is grateful to her.  Lois says it's okay.  Meanwhile, Jon, Jordan, and Sarah are talking about the events, and she thanks them for their help.  She wants to speak to Jordan privately, and Jon excuses himself.  Sarah is especially thankful to Jordan, and says she doesn't want to be just friends anymore, and kisses him.  Later on, Lois and the boys return home, when they're confronted by Tal, who is there to kill Lois and the boys.  Jordan orders him to leave, and fires at him with his heat vision, but Tal easily fights it off, and blasts Jordan, knocking him down. Superman arrives just in time to order his brother to stop.  He says he'll surrender, just as long as he leaves Lois and the boys alone.  He bows to Tal, and as much as Lois and the boys beg him NOT to do this, he surrenders, and he and Tal take off.  They arrive back out into the desert, where Tal shows him HIS fortress...where we go back in time to see how HE arrived there, his Fortress rising, and conversing with HIS father about their master plan---but they don't have the Eradicator machine---but soon will.  Tal takes Kal-El to meet his father, and they said that he will learn, and he will become one of them.  Then, as what happened to Tal, Superman gets blasted with a red energy beam just like his brother...converting him to the Kryptonian side...becoming more evil.  At the end, we see the boys and Lois at home, worried about Clark.  Lois then makes a call to John Henry Irons....and she tells him that their worst fears happened...and to be ready.

This was a nice place to pause, and give us a pretty cool retelling of Superman's story from when he left Smallville until now.  It also establishes his origin in the Arrowverse.  And yes, while we KNOW how Clark proposed to Lois at the end of the ELSEWORLDS crossover, CRISIS re-imagined the universe, so events unfolded a tad differently.  That was the good thing about that crossover, is that it wiped the slate clean enough for the show runners to be able to have a clean slate to work with.  We also get to witness the great chemistry between Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch---they DO make an amazing Lois &Clark.  And to watch their story unfold was fairly sweet.  It was also cool to see Kyle and Lois make amends....and you have to commend Lana for sticking by her man...though all the mess, she's been a loyal wife.  Hopefully, this will push Kyle into a better direction, and mend the fence with Sarah as well.  And as for Jordan and Sarah...we saw them to getting together at some point.  But...there's still the looming issue of Jordan's powers hanging over them....and how will Sarah react when she finds out?  She might not take the secrets as well.  And will Lois fess up to Lana when they have to try and save Clark?  We've got some pretty interesting questions to answer within the last few episodes.  But we're along for the ride.  

What did YOU all think of this little trip down memory lane?  And did you expect...as I did...that John Henry Irons' premonition about Kal joining Tal to happen?  Albeit, the circumstances are different, it looks as if Lois was prepared for this eventuality.  I feel A LOT of heartbreak is going to happen before the end of this season, and we're going to see Superman's good standing fall.  How he manages to redeem himself will be the story to tell.  But for now...we're prepping for the worst.  But...hey!  Lemme know YOUR thoughts!  Subscribe to the blog, and hit up the comments section below!

Until next time....Up, up and away!

THE FLASH 7.14

 

RECAP - THE FLASH  7.14:  " Rayo de Luz"  

As we gear up for the final 4 episode arc (which will---FINALLY---feature Godspeed), Flash gives usw one more single episode arc focusing on one of the members of Team Flash.  This time around, we finally get more into Allegra Garcia's story, and her issues with her cousin, Esperanza---whom we know as Ultraviolet, who's terrorized the team before, as well has having been employed by Caver's group, Black Hole.  This episode was directed by Danielle Panabaker, and it does feature a more female-led story, but Chunk is there along for the ride.  But mind you...we haven't forgot about Barry & Iris...and we DO touch on Joe this week, as he continues to dig into Kristin Kramer's mysterious background.  So, let's see how things unfolded this week...

As we opened up at a point in the show where Allegra is doing battle with her cousin, we backtrack to 12 hours prior to the incident, where Team Flash is chilling at STAR Labs, not doing anything.  Barry zips in, and says he and Iris are taking a little vacay, but of course he's vague about what they're doing....not that anyone doesn't know what's going on with those two at this moment...they're getting freaky for baby's sake.  So, as awkward as Barry comes off to everyone, he does bail to go on his little island trip with Iris.  Frost has returned, and while Chunk is ready for some serious D&D, he invites Allegra and Frost, but Frost herself says she's got a thing, and awkardly shuffles off herself.  As for Allegra, she passes on Chunk's invite, and says she's on a search for her cousin, who is just freshly out of prison.  Chunk inquires how she found her, and she said she used the Citizen Tip Line...which she wasn't supposed to...but did anyway.  Allegra wants to make things right with her, considering Esperanza has blamed her for abandoning her years ago.  So, when Allegra DOES catch up with Ultraviolet, Esperanza's been in a vendetta kind of mood.  So, when the two cousins meet, it's not good.  Allega tries to appeal to her, but Esperanza would rather kill her.  And had it NOT been for the timely appearance of Sue Dearbon, Allegra would've been dead.  This, apparently, has been part of the reason Sue has stuck around, because Ultraviolet is still working with Black Hole.  

Back at STAR Labs, Allegra fills the gang in on what she's trying to do.  Sue warns her that Ultraviolet is a killer, and she needs to be stopped.  Caitlin and Chunk wonder why Allegra would try to save her, and Allegra says that it's what Barry would do.  So, she's taking cues from the boss.  Sue reluctatnly decides to help, and has a device to track Esperanza, but they don't have a powerhouse on the team....Frost is M.I.A., and Barry and Iris are on vacation, so they are all there is....Sue says for them to get ready, and meet back at the lab to put the plan into action. Once ready to go, Allegra wants Chester to sit the mission out, But Chester insists on going.  They catch up with Esperanza again, who is looking for a particular doctor to kill.  She finds the doctor---a Dr. Olsen in question, and is about to kill him, the team shows up to stop her.  Sue and Allegra capture her, and Esperanza says that she was trying to kill the doctor, because HE was the one who created her.  At STAR Labs, Esperanza explains what happened to her, and this somehow convinces Allega to work with her cousin to find him, and bring him to justice.  Sue tells Allegra that this isn't a good idea, but Allegra tries to train with her cousin, but she can't muster up her power enough like her cousin.  Sue jumps in, and decides to throw down with Esperanza, as they have so many times before.  In the process of their little fight...Ultraviolet shoots her power, and Chunk takes a hit.  Caitlin and Allegra tend to him, and Esperanza takes off, saying they're all weak.  Later on, Chunk is in a sling, and Allegra apologizes.  Sue comes in to try and convince Allegra that her cousin is a lost cause and evil, and Allegra doesn't listen.  Sue wants Chunk to talk some sense into her, but he says he can't.

Sue tries to reach Allegra about her cousin, but Allegra gives her some backstory, about how they grew up, and how Esperanza felt she abandoned her.  Allegra feels she can offer her cousin a way out...at least she has to try.  Sue finally opens up about her parents, and how they took Carver's bribes in order to stay out of trouble---but then they learned to like the lifestyle, and covered and helped Carver with his criminal activities.  Sue feels bad because she COULDN'T get her parents out....because they didn't WANT out---and Sue feels that Allegra is trying to convince someone who kills and is a criminal to give it up.  Allegra, however, sticks to her guns.  

Chunk has figured out how to track Ultraviolet, who has found Dr. Olsen, and he has offered her a chance to get her voice back...to finish what he started. Chunk figures out that Allegra and Esperanza are the yin and yang of their powers...and they use that find her.  Chunk, Sue, and Allegra head to a warehouse, where Black Hole guards are posted.  Allegra goes to take out a few of them, but gets into a bit of trouble.  Sue is there to help with the guards, as is Chunk.  Allegra meets up with her cousin again, and Dr. Olsen says he plans on staying in business...even though Carver is dead.  He's not going to be caught, and says for Ultraviolet to kill Allegra, so that she can get her voice back.  The two cousins battle, but Esperanza still gets the better of Allegra.  As Esperanza is about to put the finishing touches on her cousin, Allegra's powers...which aren't born from hate, start to amplify.  She stands up, and fully powers up in a way she never has before...and she attacks her cousin, and Esperanza can't overpower her this time.  Allegra wins the fight, and the battle is over.  Esperanza can't believe how Allegra powered up, but Sue asks if things are okay, and Allegra says it's good.  

Caitlin gives props to Allegra for following her heart and for powering up....she's on another level now.  Caitlin manages to save a file from Dr. Olsen that created Esperanza, and it gives information on how to save Esperanza.  Allegra promises she'll be there for her cousin, and gives her the file...with a chance to Esperanza to finally be free and cured.  Sue still plans on sticking around...and maybe talk to her parents finally...feeling a tad inspired by Allegra's ability to not give up on her cousin.  

Elsewhere in this episode, we check in with Joe and Cecile, who're still working on Kristin Kramer and her shady past.  Joe comes acorss an audio recording of a member of her team the night they died, talking about the set up that killed them.  They wonder just how deep Kramer is in, and Cecile tells him to ask her.  So, when Joe goes to confront Kramer...who still says she an INTERIM Captain of the CCPD...about the night her team was killed, he lays out the file for her to see.  She instantly gets defensive, and calls out Joe, reams him, and says that if he digs more into her life...she'll arrest him.  Joe is shocked, but takes the file and leaves....leaving Kristin shook up at finally having her past come back to haunt her.  Joe just feels that she's not being honest when he talks to Cecile again, and she urges him to maybe give it another shot.  Listen to his gut.  Kramer eventually calls Joe, and wants to meet.  So, they meet, and she opens up by first apologizing to him for her outburst, but then reveals her story about how she had a member of her team...her brother in a sense, who grew up outside the reservation with her (thus informing us she's Native American), and how she knew he sold their team out, and how helpless she felt that she couldn't stop what went down.  She asks Joe to help her find her brother....and bring him to justice.  

Finally....we catch up with Frost at the end...as she tracks down Chillblaine...ready to put HIM back on ice at Iron Heights.  But he has a HUGE surprise for her:  He's turned state's evidence, and has been released.  So, now like her, he's free.  

In a lot of ways, this was a filler episode before we get to the final arc of the sesason, but it was good that we got to dig a little more into Allegra's life.  Outside of the fact that both her and Esperanza grew up on the streets, and that they both spent time in Iron Heights, we didn't know much about her.  After tonight, we got a little more, and she finally showed us what she's capable of.  Her power increase is a phenomenal gain for Team Flash, and it means she'll be more ready for field work should Flash need a helping hand.  As for her relationship with her cousin...that'll be work, but it looks like she's up for it.  But will Esperanza take the cure?  Get her voice back?  Or will her spots never change?  Maybe we get to find out, maybe we don't....we shall see.  It also looks like Chunk and Allegra are getting closer...we saw hints of that a couple of episodes back.  So...we getting another couple here?  

Looks like Joe finally broke down Kristin's walls.  Now...I'm still NOT 100% behind her, and putting my money on her to be the actual good guy...but it seems as if she trusts Joe enough with her story to let him help.  See...THIS is why Joe is the heart of this show right now....his guidance and wisdom guide this show throughout...and it effects EVERYONE.  Jesse L. Martin is so incredible with his performances, it just radiates on the screen.  Joe is that dad we ALL want, the great husband Cecile has...and the stoic man of justice we need.  This show would be LOST without him. So, it will be interesting to see how Kramer's story pans out.  

I think that now Chillblaine is a free man, will he stay on the right side of the law so that he and Frost can date?  We know she's crushing hardcore on him, so that'll be something to pay attention to.  As for our main two characters....Barry came and went after HIS awkward reasons for bolting.  And when he returned, saying that he and Iris had a good time....yeah, I'll BET.  Baby making is FUN!  So...we KNOW that both of them are making the most of this.  And while we've had episodes where Grant Gustin has only appeared briefly....I honestly belive THIS is the first time Candice Patton was NOT in an episode in ANY fashion....except having Iris' name mentioned.  I know she wasn't crucial to the plot this week, so that allowed Candice some down time...but when your other main star is out...it DOES feel a little weird.  

Okay, gang...how did YOU feel about Allegra's story?  Do you trust Kramer?  And will Frost and Chillblaine have their first date?  And when will we get the announcement that Iris is pregnant?  IF you have theories....subscribe to the blog, and leave a comment below.  

Godspeed is coming....next time!   So, until then......Keep on running! 

BATWOMAN 2.17

 

RECAP - BATWOMAN  2.17:  "Kane, Kate"  

We've reached critical mass in Gotham City.  We've got a war about to erupt, and Black Mask is at the center of it.  He's amassing more people to take up the cause of "cleansing" Gotham.  Tavaroff is now loose on the streets, and he's got his own agenda.  Jacob Kane is in prison in Metropolis, far away from the happenings in his town.  And then there's Kate/Sersi---a war in the mind of Kate Kane for control, and we have no idea who's the dominant personality from one minute to the next.  Alice is not there for her sister, because she's mourning the loss of Ocean.  Safiyah is here working with Black Mask, and has her own agenda....and what of Ryan?  With Kate back...does she get to remain Batwoman?  Wheels within wheels as we head towards the season finale. So, let's examine the happenings in the penultimate episode of our Scarlet Knight.

Everything that the Bat Team thought was better....or looking up, for that matter....was actually falling apart in devious little pieces.  With Kate having flown the coop, Batwoman was on a quest to find her, knocking heads and kicking ass across town to find her.  Having no luck getting any answers, she returns to the Cave, and then Mary gets a call, saying there's a stranger at the bar saying that there's a woman who acts like she owns the joint giving everyone free drinks.  They head there and find Kate all passed out.  They get her back to the loft, and Ryan wonders what will happen when she wakes up, and afterwards.  Mary feels that the only person at this moment to help Kate is Alice.  She goes to find alice in the subway tunnel, and sees her over the fallen body of Ocean.  Alice wants Mary to fix him, and make him better, but she can't....he's long dead.  Mary let's her know that Kate is fine, and Alice wishes she had left with Ocean when she had the chance.  

Ryan feels like she's seeing the writing on the wall....with Kate back, and overseeing the security feed of Kate talking to Mary and Luke, looking forward to getting back into action again as Batwoman, Ryan feels that her time as the Caped Crusader is done.  She packs up from the loft, but runs into Sophie.  Sophie is dolled up to meet up with Kate, and Ryan says she's got to move on now that Kate is back.  Sophie says that she can't go...and that she IS Batwoman...she has made Batwoman her own. Besides, they know Safiyah is working with Black Mask, and that's a threat they'll have to deal with down the road.  Ryan says that her and Safiyah are on good terms, so she'll have to find out more.

Luke presents Kate with her old journals, in hopes that it would jog her memory, as well as the keys to her motorcycle.  She takes off, and heads to some run down abandoned warehouse, and goes inside one of the rooms, where Black Mask and Safiyah are---turns out, it's just been Sersi who's been in control, and played everyone for a fool.  She now has all of the secrets of the Batcave, and the Bat Team...and they intend to exploit it.  Roman later on meets up with a few of the Crows who got left in the cold when Jacob shut the organization down...including Tavaroff.  Roman promises them a chance to help "clean up" Gotham, without restrictions and legal parameters to hold them back.  Everyone's on board---except for Tavaroff.  He's not interested in being someone's stooge.  Black Mask makes him a better offer...by being the one in control.  This raises Tavaroff's interest. A chance to BE the mask...instead of hiding behind one.

Batwoman...in perhaps one of THE best scenes of the episode...invades Roman's company to get information that he doesn't want prying eyes to see.  So, she spooks the accountant working on his laptop by himself by throwing her voice out, keeping to the shadows, and turning off the lights to scare the man into being distracted enough to grab his laptop.  It's a great, classic Batman move, and she works it to perfection.  Later on, we see her in the back of her old van, contemplating what was, and leaving the Batsuit behind.  She then flips up the laptop to start gathering intel on Roman and his holdings, and following the money trail.  Unfortunately for her, the GCPD raids her van, and arrests her for possession of Snake Bite.  She's taken into custody by heavily armed cops.  Once at the GCPD, the cops leave the squad car, and Roman sits in there, trying to make Ryan and offer, and letting her know that he knows she's Batwoman.  Whatever he's offering, she isn't buying, so she knows she's going to die anyway.  When Mary and Luke find out, it's all hands on deck, and they look to Kate to suit up as Batwoman to save her.  At first, it looks like Kate is about to get ready, but then she turns around, and shoots Mary, Sophie, and Luke with tranquizlizer darts.  They finally find out that it's been Sersi in control all along.  And now with the keys to the kingdom, she starts romaing the cave, looking for certain things that both Black Mask and Safiyah wanted.  She comes across a room with some old weapons and artifacts, but totally skips what's underneath a dark sheet in the back.  In another room, she sees a cabinet that has biological weapons in it.  Among them are the deadly rose from the Joker, the Mad Hatter's hat, and a vial that contains a vine from one of Poison Ivy's plants.  Sersi grabs a few items and she's off to Black Mask to present him these gifts...which he plans to use to take down Batwoman and all of Gotham. 

Meanwhile, Alice has had Ocean creamated, and she's spreading his ashes into the ocean.  Safiyah comes to pay her respects, and says that her and Alice are even.  Since Alice took away the one thing Safiyah loved most---the Desert Rose---she took away Ocean.  Safiyah offers to take Alice away back to Coryana...to spare her from being locked into a cage from what's about to happen in Gotham.  She says that she'll have her island paradise again, thanks to the Poison Ivy weed she got from Sersi Sionis---which means that Alice hasn't gotten Kate back.  Alice is upset, and Safiyah says that she's the only one who loves her, and wants to spare her from what's about to happen.  She has no family, Safiyah says, as she hugs Alice.  But Alice says that's because Safiyah took them from her, and stabs her with the Desert Rose knife.  Alice says that she'll return to Safiyah and pull the dagger out once she gets her family back.  Alice says she knows she'd never kill Safiyah...that wouldn't be much fun.  But leaving her to suffer in this torture....that delights her, and she takes off.  

Ryan is in custody when her parole officer shows up, upset that Ryan got busted.  Ryan tries to reason with her, but her parole officer won't hear it.  Ryan says that she's going to die in the station, because of the armed guards outside.  She tells her parole officer she's Batwoman.  When the guards come in for Ryan, her parole officer tries to stall for time, but the cops whip out their guns, and Ryan attacks....taking out all six corrupt officers.  Her paorole officer believes her, and gives her the ID pass she has to help Ryan get out of the building.  Once Ryan is gone, she makes her way back to the Batcave, she sees that Mary, Sophie, and Luke are trapped in a cage, and that Sersi is on the prowl.  Sersi attacks Ryan with a crossbow, and Ryan ducks for cover.  Ryan eventually gets the crossbow out of Sersi's hands, and the two get into a fight...but Sersi is too strong, and beats Ryan.  She ends up taking off, saying that Ryan isn't good enough to take her on.  The trio escape and tend to Ryan.  Ryan is scared because now that Sersi has her suit and equipment...there's no stopping her.

We later see Sersi maniaclly tearing up the Batsuit...and we see her then deface the symbol with her knife as the episode ends.

This was an intense episode, with a couple of nice little twists.  Sersi playing everyone all along seemed like the route we were going, because from the previous installment, it looked like Sersi got control of Kate's mind.  Also, the fact that Black Mask has made Tavaroff an offer to be THE mask, and be the man who gets to take out all his enemies and those he feels are just for dying...with no rules to hold him back---is too tempting to for him to resist.  With Sersi gaining the Batsuit and equipment, all the secrets to the Batcave, as well as leverage to expose Ryan's ID as Batwoman...plus anything ELSE Bat related, she's going to enjoy tearing everything that Kate had cherished most.  And Kate cannot do anything about it, because she is unable to fight back right now. And among the afroementioned items that I listed above that Sersi had brought her father...Venom was another one---which was Bane's power of choice. 

Alice has finally learned about suffering and loss....and Mary expressed her condolences to her step-sister.  Mary said she'd never wish heartache on anyone...and even told Alice even SHE deserved love.  Her finally stabbing Safiyah with the Desert Rose knife...and leaving her lifeless on the beach in a comatose state---is just a small ounce of revenge on her for tearing apart her family.  Alice getting them back means that SHE will have to confront Sersi...and try to break through to get to Kate.  However it plays out, it will be interesting to see if the Kane women can reuinte.  

As for Ryan....she'd been worried about her own future.  With Kate returning, Ryan felt lost in the shuffle...but she exercised caution with the Team when it came to Kate's well being.  Once again, Ryan's instincts proved correct.  It was Sophie, of all people, to convince Ryan that SHE was Batwoman....that she had EARNED the right to be Batwoman, and made the hero her own.  And now with Sersi loose...it's going to take Ryan stepping up, and being Batwoman to take down her predecessor before she destroys the legacy of everything the Mantle of the Bat stood for.  This is going to be a great fight.

What did YOU all think of this episode?  Are you ready for an action packed season finale?  I sure am.  I've been jazzed about this season, and it FAR dwarfs Season 1 by leaps and bounds.  Where the future of Batwoman goes will be interesting after this next week.  What do YOU all have to say?  Subscribe and drop me a comment.

Until the Season Finale....The Signal is OFF!  

DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 6.7

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  6.7:  "Back to the Finale Part II"

Who says you can't have a happy ending sometimes?  As our Goofball Time Travellers, it seemed like it wasn't going to happen...and they almost screwed the pooch again...but thankfully, their amazing Captain manages to find a way to ensure things get set right.  This week brought to an end a storyline that seemed to meander a little bit, and didn't seem to go anywhere until the last couple of episodes, and THIS one has been the best of Season 6 so far.  Sara faces off with Bishop as he mounts his plan to clone the human race, while the team seems to be mourning the loss of her, as Spooner had repeated what the Amelia alien had said to her about the death of Sara.  But our team somehow rises up to see if they can find a way to prevent her death from happening....and it all starts with Behrad.  Time is what they do best...and that's what our hemp hero decided to use this week. 

To start off....Sara is in shock when she sees her lifeless body.  Bishop informs her that there was no cure from the attack by the Amelia alien, and thus knocked her out, so that he could put her into a cloned body---one merged with an alien.  He feels that this is the way to help ensure the survival of the human race---by merging them with aliens.  This doesn't sit well with Sara, and she wants her body back, or a new cloned body.  Bishop refuses, and has her taken away, because HE has a new cloned body.  He plans on cloning more until he's gotten the entire universe molded to his whims.  He feels that with many clones of Sara, he can have his army for conquest. And he doesn't like that she's resisting, so, he's going to have her destroyed, and he'll keep tinkering until he gets her the way he wants her.  Meanwhile, Mick and Kayla come out of the pod after their little tryst, and she goes to charge the fuel cell, and gives Mick until the 3rd sun of the planet sets to find Sara and bring her back, otherwise she's taking off without them.  And he eventually bumps into Gary, and he finds out where Sara is. 

While all this is going down in a galaxy far away, the team....especially Ava...is in deep mourning for the loss of Sara.  While Nate tries to console her, she's just too depressed to be of much use.  Nate says that they'll stick together no matter what, because it's what Sara would want.  But amongst the crew, someone was missing:  Behrad.  While they think he went to his room to light up and smoke a few....it turns out, he bailed on the team, after working out on a white board about how to get Sara back, and the words "BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II" is circled.  The team is then privvy to the fact that Behrad has taken it upon himself to warn or stop Sara from being abducted from the concert in London that night in 1977, so they know they have to stop him before he screws up the timeline even further.  They all arrive, and they all know they can't interact with Sara, because they were with her that whole night----except Behrad, who had left to light a doobie around midnight or so, and wasn't by Sara's side at tht time, so he feels he has the perfect window to warn her about what's to happen.  While several members of the team try to see if they can find a way to interact with Sara and distract her just enough to avoid being abducted, they fail.  Ava comes across them, but it's Ava that timeline, and she knows they're messing with time, and she orders them to stop it.  As they feel they're ready to give up, Behrad has an idea.  He'll load a mannequin with explosives, while dressing it like Sara, in hopes that he can get that abducted instead of Sara.  Zari does her best to dress it up for him, and then they try to go put the plan to work.  Of all the people who DOES interact with Sara, that wasn't there that night...it's Spooner.  She talks about having something inside of her that could hurt her new friends, but Sara assures her that they would help her.  Sara mentions proposing to Ava, but says she's got the same anxieties...and Spooner uses Sara's own words to reassure her all will be well. 

Back on the alien planet, Mick finally finds Sara, who plans on cloning a new body of herself that doesn't have an alien with it in order to plant herself back into it.  However, Bishop, who was drugged, has now been downloaded into the mainframe, and he plans on uploading into the system...allowing himself to clone himself...and anyone else...anywhere in the universe.  Sara had planned on blowing up the generators to stop him.  She plans on staying back as Gary, Mick and the others leave.  But Mick refuses to let her go.  She worries about what she's become, and Mick says all he sees is his Captain...and his old friend.  That's enough for Sara to tell Gary to blow the generators, and they do, before Bishop can finish his upload. They escape Bishop's little bunker, and make their way to Kayla's ship.  Nurse Ava and the guards will stay behind....they're trained in survival, and they'll be fine.  They warn Sara about the alien nightstalkers, who will attack them once things go dark.  So, they have to fight their way through the monsters, as they get to the ship, but when they arrive, Kayla has gone.  As Sara and Gary feel Kayla left them for dead, Mick doesn't believe so.  So, as they're on the run from the nightstalker aliens, Kayla returns to help the team out.  She lands, and starts attacking back, and the team makes it to the ship, but it looks like Kayla doesn't make it...appearing to sacrifice herself to save Mick and his friends...as they get on the ship, and take off, hitting hyperspace as they head home. 

Behrad was in the right position to get to Sara and stop her from being abducted back in 1977, but she got too distracted by him, and she was kidnapped anyway.  The team returns to the ship fairly down. They can't change the past, and they have to accept Sara is gone.  Ava is watching Sara's proposal on TV again and again, but the file becomes corrupted.  When Ava asks Gideon what's going on, Sara speaks up.  Ava is in disbelief in at first, but they eventually reunite.  Later on, as Sara rejoins the team, and everyone is overjoyed to see her, they're about to leave for home, but Sara takes that time to stop and formally propose to Ava....who is overanxious to say "yes".  But she does, and the mannequin with the fireworks goes off, creating a nice little moment as the team cheers on their Captains on their engagement.  

Honestly...THIS was, by far, THE best episode of the season.  We had a plot that had a dangerous precedent to it, a villian with delusions of grandeur, and the leader of the team reunited with them.  The show had a nice pace, and I was glad that it was Sara that was able to take down the major villain.  Sure, she DID have help, but it was cool that the villain was defeated, and she FINALLY got home.  Of course, it appears we lost Kayla in the process, so not sure how Mick will feel about it, but he's happy (for HIM, anyway), to have Sara back.  We need to take note of all the quiet moments between Sara and Mick, as he will be gone at the end of this season. They are the OG's, and once Mick is gone...Sara is the ONLY ONE tying this show to its beginnings.  But we DID get our first interaction between Sara and Spooner...and that was cool.  And, of course, FINALLY got her and Ava together again, and that was a great romantic moment.  

Some of the other things we caught in this show as Zari finding out that both John and Astra have no magical powers, and they faked it.  Zari wasn't pleased he lied to her, but she's okay being the super-hero of the couple for now.  Behrad tapped into his inner Doc Brown with the idea to try and snag Sara before she gets abducted in 1977, and he was both goofy, but also despondent about Sara being gone.  I like how Nate stepped up as a leader when Ava was just down for the count.  

I'm glad we finished off the Bishop storyline, and that Sara is back with the team.  Hopefully, things pick up the last half of the season, and send Mick out on a high note.  They still have other aliens they need to capture that are floating about the timeline, and it'll be great to see Sara back in the mix, leading the team.  

So...what did YOU guys think of the this installment?  Glad that Sara and Ava are reunited?  Glad Sara is back leading the team?  Subscribe and leave me a comment below.  

Until then....Time is on our side.  

SUPERMAN & LOIS 1.10

 

RECAP - SUPERMAN & LOIS  1.10:  "  O Mother, Where Art Thou?"

Revelations galore are what we get in this week's installment of The Man of Might and his reporter wife.  As Morgan Edge has finally shown his hand, and revealed his master plan.  Plus, we find out the REAL story behind the business mogul/supervillain.  And it's a bomb that's dropped on Kal-El's world.  As the family now has to rally together in order to face the threat of a total world takeover by Edge and his newly created Kryptonian Army.  And the boys are there for Sarah as well, when she begins to worry about her dad Kyle.  So, things have culminated into this one moment, and let's see how things unfolded in Smallville.  

We picked up from last week, when Superman met Morgan Edge out in the desert, where Edge revealed his master plan of taking over the Earth:  by re-creating Krypton.  As it turns out, Edge IS a Kyrptonian who also crash landed on Earth.  In fact, as Edge further reveals to Superman, he was the FIRST to land on Earth from Krypton, before Kal-El and Kara.  He landed in the English countryside (which accounts for the accent), and that he was sent their by his father to help restart the Kryptonian race in the wake of Krypton's destruction....but that's not even the BIG shocker laid on the Last Son of Krypton:  Edge...or as he reveals his Kryptonian name---Tal-Ro.  His mother was Lara----yes....Kal-El's mother.  It turns out, that prior to Lara marrying Jor-El, Tal-Ro's father and Lara were matched up, and he was created in a chamber from their DNA.  But their mother spurned his father for Kal-El's.  His father never got over that.  He's been spending time using the X-Kryptonite to revive their people, and when they are awakened, he's going to need Kal-El by his side, so that they can bring Krypton back to life.  Superman isn't down with it, and he attacks.  They both fight, but Edge gets the best of Supes, and then gives him time to make his choice.  With that, he disappears. 

Back at the Cushing household, Sarah is hashing it out with her mom about the excuses she makes on behalf of her dad, who keeps letting her down. Lana is trying to reason with Sarah, but it goes unheard.  Lana is worried what happened to Kyle, so she goes to get answers.  When she DOES talk to him, she wants to know what went on, and whether or not he started drinking again.  He tells her that she lied to him about the job Edge offered, and that he didn't believe in her.  She wasn't sure what the job entailed, and that he took it anyway.  She wants to know what went on with the job training, and he told her about how he was taken someplace, and put into a machine.  While Lana is trying to get more out of Kyle, Lois and Clark are discussing the reveal he got from Edge.  Lois has been worried about Lana, and has been trying to contact her, but to no avail.  Once Clark fills Lois in on what and who Edge is, she encourages him to head to The Fortress to get some answers from his father, Jor-El.  So, Clark departs for the Arctic, and Lois decides to pay the Cushings a visit.  When she arrives, and Kyle sees her, he instantly goes into Kryptonian mode and attacks both Lois and Lana.  However, General Lane arrives with the DoD to subdue Kyle with K-Gas, and capture him.  Lana is confused, and Lois explains to her what's been going on.  

Clark and Lois go over everything Morgan Edge as been doing to Lana, and how Edge has turned her husband, and many OTHER citizens of Smallville, into Kryptonians.  Lana said she had been asking Kyle how he got his powers, and he explained about a machine somewhere in the warehouse district, and they manage to find it on a map.  They also discover that there was a prominent scientist, Dr. Donovan, who had been assisting Edge with the conversion of the townsfolk to Kryptonians.  Smallville was the most likely candidate because of the townsfolk have been long exposed to the X-Kryptonite in the mines and all over town where it's been buried. 

The boys are trying to console Sarah, as she is worried about her dad.  As the DoD is moving into town to prepare for Edge's attack, they finally fess up to Sarah---sort of---about what's happening.  She doesn't want her last memory of her dad being that of a fight.  They also agree to take her to see her Dad.  At first, they meet resistance from General Lane, but his grandson Jon pulls him aside, and says that he needs to act like a grandfather for once...instead of a military man.  Because despite ALL his best intentions, everything he tries to do RIGHT blows up in his face.  He relents, and lets them in.  Once Sarah sees her dad in a cell with  Kryptonite running through it to keep him subdued, she tries to reach him, but the Kryptonian within him says he's gone, and that he's going to kill all of them.  As they get Sarah out of there, Kyle says that he plans on killing Jon first.  

The DoD did find the machine Dr. Donovan and Edge were using to convert the townsfolk to Kryptonians, and they arrest him, and want to know how to reverse the effects of the Eradicator machine.  He says he only knows so much, and that the only one to be able to reverse it was the one who created it:  Lara.  Superman is taken aback, because he knows that the ONLY way to stop Edge's plan is to bring his mother back.  Once at the base that the DoD has set up in town, Lana is taken aback at seeing Superman in person.  Lois had still wondered why Edge would give Superman time to think, when he's much more ruthless than that.  All involved realize that Lara must come back in order to find a way to reverse the effects of the machine.  Lana volunteers, because she says she's been here the longest, and has been exposed like everyone else.  Lois and Superman refuse, but Lana says that she's let this town down, and she won't allow it to fall because of Morgan Edge.  So, while Lois and Clark confer on whether or not it's a good decision, they give her time to think.  Lois encourages Clark to talk to her, and give her a pep talk.  I think Lois was also kind of nudging Clark to tell her that he was Superman....but instead, he tries to offer her comfort and confidence.  I think she senses something, but passes it off as him being an optimist.  

Lana goes through the process, and comes out of the other side of it as Kal-El's mother, Lara.  She is overjoyed to see her son, and is proud of what he's become, and that he had a family that loved and raised him.  She talks about how her and Edge's father, Zeta, were matched, but she ended up leaving him for Jor-El, because she fell in love with him.  She also says the Eradicator Machine was NOT created to supplant a race, and that Zeta got delusions of grandeur about it.  They effects CAN be reversed, but they have to get EVERYONE exposed to be put through the machine again.  Edge calls for Kal-El, and Lara urges him to go...and Lois urges him to reason with him as a brother.  Superman and Edge meet.  Edge discusses how he was hunted, captured, and tortured as he grew up until he escaped.  He believes he was charged with a mission, and that's to bring back the Kryptonian Race.  He won't fail his mission.  He tells Kal-El that he doesn't understand what it's like to lose a world, as Earth is all he's ever known, while he knew Krypton was dying.  Superman tells him he will fail in his endeavor, and Edge thinks otherwise....as he has called upon his army from all over...as they've been flying from all over town to answer his call. He gives Superman a choice:  Us or Them.  Superman says that there IS no "Us" or "Them". Superman flies off, and takes the army with him, as they give chase to him.  He races towards the Eradicator Machine with them, and says that there is no way to get that many people to the machine, and Superman says they need a bigger power source...so he offers himself.  Everyone is NOT in agreement with that, but Superman insists it's the only way.  He'll be drained of power for awhile, but there is no other option.  He races in, grabs the device, and he flies off overhead, as he uses his heat vision to activate the device...the army is chasing him, using their own heat vision.  Edge witnesses this, and urges them to break off the attack, but they don't listen.  There's a huge blast, and we then find all of Edge's army all back to normal, as the townsfolk are returned to their human selves.  

Lois checks on Lana, who sees her return to normal.  All the townsfolk are okay, but disoriented.  Sarah goes to see her dad, as it appears Kyle is now back to normal.  But there is no trace of Superman.  It turns out Superman made it back up to the Arctic north, and landed just outside the Fortress...falling to Earth, now powerless for the time being.  Not too far behind, we see Leslie Larr and Edge...who managed to avoid the blast, and still kept their powers.  Leslie asks him about the plan, and he said they're without an army....for now.  But being just outside the Fortress, it appears Edge has a backup plan to still make his mission succeed. 

This episode moved pretty quickly, and I was a bit surprised as to how the plan of Edge's with the Smallville townsfolk elevated, then was resolved so quickly.  I was expecting more of a build, and have the final battle for everyone happen in the season finale, but judging from the END of the episode, Edge has a Plan B...and I feel we may STILL see Kal-El get twisted and turned against Earth, as he is now powerless for the time being, and will be susceptible to Edge and Leslie Larr's powers.  And with the Kryptonian knowledge at the Fortress at his disposal, Edge can still execute his master plan...on a much lager scale.  So, the battle isn't won yet.

I give credit to the kids for being brave in the face of danger...but that's becoming something of a normal thing for the boys.  Jon REALLY stepped up this episode by giving it to his grandfather once again.  These boys do NOT get enough credit for the smarts they have.  And it also fortifies this trio as friends that will come in handy in the future.  Sarah expressing regret over the fight with her dad, and then seeing him as someone else allowed her to have a little catharsis at the end.  That despite all his flaws...he's still her dad...he still loves her, and she loves him. 

I thought it was such a sweet moment for Clark to have with Lara.  The look of wonder in her eyes, seeing her grown up son, and watching him be the hero, it was a great performance by Emmanuelle Chriqui to give us as Lara---her facial expressions, and her stoicness as Kal-El's mother...as well as her usual great performance as Lana---wanting to step up and be a better person than she has been.  I HAD hoped that when Superman was talking to Lana, that he'd tell her who he really is, or that Lana would've told HIM, having known for a long time....but they didn't go there.  Which is a bit disappointing.  These two are best friends, and we honestly don't see that enough on this show. It's something I DO hope they explore down the road. 

Edge being the illegitimate child--of sorts--to Lara is something that, while surprising, isn't TOO surprising.  It was honestly the only play the writers had.  It pits brother against brother, and they feel that it gives the story an extra amount of weight to it...as one brother...abused and tortured, did NOT receive the love and nurturing the other got.  Edge is about restarting the race, and making humans suffer for HIS toil...whereas Superman...having been RAISED on Earth, despite being born on Krypton, will fight for the world that has become his.  Now, with Clark powerless...it makes me wonder if he'll be manipulated into becoming Edge's main weapon, and whether or not the prophecy of John Henry Iron's world becomes reality on this one.  

Either way, we're in for a wild ride the last 3 episodes of this season, and I look forward to what is gonna happen.  How about you?  What do YOU think and feel about what transpired this week?  Subscribe to the blog and leave a message below.  

Until next time....Up, up and away!