The TV thread

The problem with Tom Welling is that "Smallville" is really a different continuity than "Supergirl." Kara was older than Clark in "Smallville" but she's younger than him on "Supergirl." Fanbois may not be able to get past that.

It is pretty cheesy. Some parts make me grimace. But the only thing that's truly bugging me is that they seem to be determined to fold in so many plot threads. I think the pace needs to slow down a little bit.

I'm wondering if "Supergirl" is a part of the same universe as "The Flash" and "Arrow." Since CBS and Warner co-own the CW, it's not impossible for there to be crossovers.

 

They already have former Superman Dean Cain playing her adopted father and former Supergirl Helen Slater as her mother, so why not go with Welling?

 

Same production team - Greg Berlanti.

 

I feel like this season of Fargo is about as good as TV has ever been done, from the writing, acting and unique styles of the episodes. This season should be taught in film schools for years to come.

 

Every episode of Fargo ends and it feels like we're only 10 minutes in. The True Detective team should take note. This is how you do a second season.

 

I follow along with Entertainment Weekly recaps. They point out some interesting stuff like Hanzee shoots the guys at the bar in the knees, giving them..."wounded knees." And the game of hangman on the phone booth Ed was using foreshadowing the end of the ep. Still can't figure out what the word was, or how you play Hangman in a phone booth. Throw in identifying the author's being quoted and the nod's to other Coen Bros. films, and it's just been great. You wonder if they could do a season set in the summer, or if that would throw everything off.

 

The Flash brings back Mark Hamill as the Trickster just 10 days before the new Star Wars movie. Coincidence?

Also, Agents of SHIELD worked in a Star Wars reference tonight. With the Disney connection, no way that is a coincidence.

 

That Hamill thing is interesting. IIRC, he also played the Trickster in the short-lived Flash series that ran on CBS many years ago.

 

That is correct. I know this is at least his second appearance on the current verion The Flash and he was on the old one, pretty much playng the same version of the character. It is a live action version of his Joker on the animated Batman and Justice League series. In other words, he keeps tweaking the same villian over and over. Then again, he does it very well.

 

I liked Arrow's reference to Age of Ultron in last week's episode. ("A group of superheroes in a farm house? I've seen this in a movie.")

 

I thought that was joke about Smallville and how everyone in the DC universe showed up in Clark's barn before Superman.