I apologize for the anything in this post that is incomplete. I finished the second half of this while I am on the road.

Next week’s recap will be better …thanks for understanding…

Supergirl:



Episode 2: Triggers

Psi, a thief with psychic powers that enable her to immobilize people by tapping into their worst fears, attacks National City. Psi, aka Gayle Marsh, is a powerful psychic metahuman. Gayle started out a criminal career when she discovered she could bring anyone down by turning their fears on them. After a series of bank robbings, Psi attracts the attention of Supergirl and D.E.O. Her formidable psychic powers forced Supergirl and Martian Manhunter to team-up.Supergirl finds that Psi is a formidable opponent as it takes more than her physical strength to solve the problem. It turns out Supergirl fears that Mon-El is dead and it is her fault since she sent him away at the end of season 2 when the Earth’s atmosphere was filled with lead dust. Winn sets her straight and reminds her that anyone can struggle with fear and trauma, and Alex helps give her that final “Mind over Matter” push that enables Kara to stand up to Psi. was Psi is defeated and carted off to jail.

Lena, now the majority owner of CatCo enterprises, decides to take a hands-on role in the day-to-day running of the company. This causes conflict between James and Lena as to the direction of the company. Lena and Kara’s relationship is challenged as Kara now must juggle her friendship with her new boss, her reporter job, and Supergirl. Ruby, the girl from the pilot who was rescued by her mother, acts out thinking her mother has superpowers. It also turns out that Ruby’s mother, Samantha, has been tapped to take over L-Corp so Lena can focus on her acquisition of CatCo.

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Overall, a decent second episode.

Main Storyline

As a character that was highly promoted leading up to the season, Psi, at least in her debut, seemed very one-dimensional for being as powerful as she is. I expect to see her return later in the season as part of the Worldkiller main plotline. Hopefully, Psi will be able to add some dimension to an already shallow character. Kara’s whole “mind over matter” which allows her to stand up to Psi, also seemed rather simplistic and a cop-out when it comes to dealing with fears and a situation that is caused by panic and anxiety.

It would be great to see them bring in part of Psi’s Pre-Crisis origin which had her being indoctrinated into believing the sorry state of the world was due to the influence of something he called the Decay, and she was the one destined to cleanse the world from it.

CatCo Subplot

Lena’s taking a hands-on approach with CatCo is similar to what Lex Luthor is doing in the current Action Comics, since buying The Daily Planet. I am certain this was done to further incorporate Lena into Kara’s inner circle, which is going to make things harder for Kara as she is once again a close confidant of the company’s boss. The relationship between Kara and Lena is tested from the start as Kara must shirk her CatCo duties to be Supergirl. Kara learns fairly quickly that it is not a smart career move to tell the owner of your company that you’re too busy to do your job.

The one thing that is off about the CatCo B-Story is the fact that Jimmy, who is in charge is being frozen out by Lena. It is unclear whether or not this is intentional or just Lena trying to grasp what she now owns.

Alex & Maggie’s Wedding Subplot

The Alex-Maggie wedding barely inches forward as the two argue over if it will be a DJ or live band at their wedding ( a topic of which J’onn is surprisingly invested in and knowledgeable about) and the question of having children is hinted at with Alex wanting kids and Maggie not thrilled at the idea.

Samantha (Reign) & Ruby Subplot

No real furthering of the season-long plotline, just more introduction of the characters

Ruby is convinced her mother has superpowers after saving her life at the waterfront and puts herself in danger so that her mother will come and rescue her. After Samantha convinces Ruby that she doesn’t have powers it is revealed that she is going to be the head of L-Corp while Lena Luthor is over at CatCo.

D.E.O. Characters

J’onn gets a message from M’gann that he needs to go to Mars

Next Episode:

Far from the Tree

Maggie reaches out to her estranged father when Eliza throws her and Alex a wedding shower, while Supergirl joins J’onn on a personal mission.

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The Flash

Episode 2: Mixed Signals

Main Storyline

Barry has his hands full when he takes on Kilg%re, a dangerous meta who can control technology and is bent on revenge. Barry must also confront an obstacle in his personal life; the ramifications of abandoning Iris for six months to balance the Speed Force. Meanwhile, Gypsy breaches in for a hot date with Cisco, but she gets annoyed when his work keeps them apart.

Ramsey Deacon, self-nicknamed Kilg%re, is a meta-human with the power to control technology and a former computer programmer in Silicon Valley. Deacon created the Kilg%re application out of his garage, along with Tim Kwon, Kurt Weaver and Sheila Agnani who decided to make it something bigger, stealing the idea and selling it for billions, leaving him with nothing.

Deacon first goes after Kurt who is looking at a luxury apartment (which looks eerily like the one in ARROW, where Felicity lives). Deacon hacks into an elevator he is riding in and causes it to shake him about before plummeting to the ground and killing him. He then goes after Tim by taking control of his computer-enabled car, which thwarted by the Flash who disassembles the car before it can crash. Deacon next tries to kill Tim at Central City Police Department, by controlling a bomb disposal robot and detonate a grenade. Kwon was again saved by the Flash. Deacon next target Sheila, finding both Sheila and Tim trying to figure out who is targeting them. Deacon reveals himself to them and technopathically controls Sheila’s insulin pump, putting her into insulin shock. Luckily, Wally and his dad were staking the place out and were able to save Sheila. Deacon takes Tim to a warehouse, where he chains him up and streams him confessing to stealing Kilg%re.

Before he can kill him, Flash and Kid Flash show up and rescue Tim once again. Deacon, who now calls himself Kilg%re, realizes that the new Flash suit Cisco made is loaded with large amounts of technology. Kilg%RE takes control of the suit and forces Barry to blast Kid Flash, which knocks Wally out. Flash is able to speed away, but not before Kilg%re can exploit the tech in the new suit like an inflatable raft, HUD lenses, the inability to remove the suit, and a self-destruct mode. WHile Flash and the team are working on saving Barry from his suit, Kilg%re focuses his attention back on Tim, deciding to kill him manually by shooting him. The Flash arrives in time, grabbing the bullet and injects Kilg%re with a compound to revert his power.

Deacon is taken to Iron Heights and locked up in a triple-padded cell with no access to electronics.

The scene shifts to The Thinker who says that Kilg%re is right where he needs him in Iron Heights.



Subplot: Barry and Iris

Iris is dealing with the fact that Barry has been acting different since his return from the Speed Force. Barry and Iris, who has taken the lead of Team Flash, come into conflict when Barry doen’t listen while trying to rescue one of Kilg%re’s targets. Catlyn suggests couples counseling which doesn’t really go as planned because they can’t let on that Barry is the Flash.

Subplot: Cisco and Gypsy

Cisco and Gypsy’s relationship gets off to a rocky start as Cisco blows off their first date to deal with away to defeat Kilg%re. We learn some crazy facts about Gypsy’s Earth like Shaq is a Saint and the Valentine

Possible villains

We see that The Thinker has created a number of foe’s to test the Flash. More on this later.

Flash Facts and Easter Eggs:

Kilg%re is a Wally West-Flash villain from The Flash (vol.2). Kilg%re was Created by Mike Baron and Jackson Guice and first appeared in Flash Vol 2 #3 (August 1987)

Kilg%re was an electro-mechano-organic intelligence that needed electro-life to survive. It consumed its entire home planet in the Pleiades sector and then moved on into space. Kilg%re found the number of machines on Earth ideal for its survival, but the humans it deemed distractions and planned to destroy.

In the comics, Kilg%re’s powers included Electrokinesis which allowed it to control and manipulate various forms of tangible and intangible electricity; Electronic Interaction, allowing him to interact with electronic interfaces from the simplest of computers to huge systems, bending them to his will and control; and Electronic Disruption which allowed him to disrupt most any electronic system from security systems such as cameras and fences to more complicated electricity such as satellite tracking systems.

Other Easter Eggs:

While in the waiting room of the marriage counselor, Barry finds a newspaper article that reports about the discovery that Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow. This is a reference to the cliffhanger to the ARROW S. 6 Premiere “Fallout” (which aired one week before this episode), when there was a report on the news about the discovery.

The Tech in Barry’s suit:

Flash suit is comprised of self-repairing armor which provides heightened protection from collisions and blunt force trauma.

Nano-liquid circuitry and full-spectrum scanning, so every aspect of Barry’s health and vitals can be monitored from STAR Labs.

Temperature control, fire suppression, and defibrillator

Deadlock Function, which keeps the suit and helmet locked into Barry’s body in case he is unconscious.

Barry’s HUD display is brought up by lenses that go on his eyes. In the comics, when Wally was the Flash, he also had lenses similar to this. However, they were white

Babel protocol, which is a self-destruct mode, this could be an Easter egg reference to the popular storyline JLA: Tower of Babel, in which Batman is revealed to have studied the weaknesses of his teammates including Flash, and planned methods to take down each of them, in case they went rogue.

Life raft, because he could get knocked out while running on water

When the life raft feature is activated and the suit inflates it is reminiscent of The Flash #115 (vol.1)

While it sounds like they removed some of the tech from the suit, some of the features would be awesome to explore during season.

Next Episode:

Luck Be A Lady

Barry and the team are hit by a string of bad luck and realize it is the handiwork of a new meta, Rebecca Sharpe nicknamed Hazard, who has the ability to give others bad luck, while cashing in the benefits for herself. Meanwhile, Harry Wells returns to Earth-1 to give Wally a message from Jesse.

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

Episode 2: Freakshow

The Legends find themselves in 1870 to fix the anachronism which happens to be at P.T. Barnum’s fledgling circus. However, Nate and Ray accidentally free a saber-toothed tiger, creating a bigger problem.

After the sabertooth tiger becomes a larger problem than expected, Sara decides the best way to track down the giant tiger is to call for help from Amaya who is back in 1942 Zambesi. Vixen wants to help and to see the old team, but she’s wary of dealing with Nate after she left him unexpectedly. After she ghosted him on his birthday six months earlier in Central City, leaving him heartbroken. Sara lies to her and assures her that Nate knows she’ll be boarding the Waverider.

Sara and Amaya manage get the job done on their own, tracking the tiger in the woods and shrinking it into a cute little kitten. The kicker is that Amaya does so without using her Vixen powers.

Meanwhile, Nate gets drunk and Steel’s up in public, P.T. Barnum is on the hunt to capture the Legends to make his show even more exciting for the crowd. Nate spills the Legends’ secrets about how Jax can turn into Firestorm and that Ray can turn “teenie-weenie.” Having seen Nate’s abilities at work, Barnum is even more interested in his friends, and manages to kidnap an unusually gullible Jax and Ray by luring them with the promise of flexible acrobats in his tent.

Nate, however makes it back to the Waverider, waking up hungover with Sara and Amaya telling him he is the worst Legend. It’s his fault Barnum has Jax and Ray locked up in a cage now, and that their Level 1 anachronism has turned into a Level 4.

Subplot: Sara and the Time Bureau

The Legends have been given a pass by Rip to operate as a team. The Legends pick what seems to be an easy glitch in time to fix but as usual things escalate once The Legends try to grab the Sabertooth tiger and return it to the correct time. Unbeknowst to Rip his second in command is monitoring the Legends just waiting to screw up.

She allow lets slip that there is something bigger on the horizon that Rip thinks the Legends will be the best to handle.

Subplot: Nate and Vixen

As we learn, Amaya decided to return to the past after she sees a news report on her granddaughter Mari, the current Vixen. Rip tells Amaya that the longer she stays in the present, the chances MAri doesn’t exist increases. We also learn that Nate dis not take her leaving so well.

Subplot: Mallus

Vixen reveals that her powers are acting strange which is probably due to the mysterious Mallus. More on this next week.

Easter Eggs

B’wanna Beast: The Strongman in Barnum’s freakshow looks like B’wanna Beast another supoerhero that can tap into the Red and channel animals

The Legends decide not to handle a Titanic after an outburst from Stein,Victor Garber, who along with Billy Zane(PT Barnum) where in the TITANIC movie.

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Just for fun, I am keeping track of which Legend is responsible for causing the anachronism or exacerbates the time problem:

Nate Heywood (Steel): 2

Episode 3

Zari

When Sara receives a distress call from their “befriended” agent at the Time Bureau, she learns that they have been tasked with going to the future to capture a rogue time traveler. Unfortunately, the Legends make things worse by trying to protect an outlaw named Zari, to hopefully lure in the time traveling assassin. Meanwhile, Stein tries to diagnose Amaya’s condition, but Nate discovers an unusual treatment that Amaya begrudgingly agrees to.

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ARROW

Oliver tries to balance being the mayor, Green Arrow and a father to William. Anatoly returns to Star City with a deadly agenda while FBI agent Samandra Watson, makes inquires into Oliver being the Green Arrow. MEanwhile Anatoly makes his move in Star City against Oliver. Anatoly says that it was not him that released the photo of Oliver as Green Arrow.

Felicity and Curtis work on figuring out who leaked the photo of Oliver and put the genie back in the bottle by providing proof that the photo was doctored. This doesn’t stop the FBI Agent from continuing to look into Oliver being the Green Arrow.

Oliver makes the decision to hand over the role of Green Arrow to Diggle so that he can spend more time with his son who thinks that Oliver is going to be killed and leave him an orphan.

Subplot: Black Canary and Spartan

We learn that when the bombs on Lian Yu exploded Diggle took shrapnel and it is affecting his ability to shoot and w

Easter Eggs:

Oliver name drops Bruce Wayne at the press conference where he denies that he is the Green Arrow.

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In my Season 6 ARROW primer I mentioned that I thought that they might take a story from Jeff Lemire’s New52 run and adapt it for season 6. I mentioned The Outsiders storyline when it should have been the one that followed it, Broken.

When Green Arrow returned from his battle with the Outsiders in Prague, he learns that Dragon had assembled a team of D-list super-villains nicknamed The Longbow Hunters. This group included Count Vertigo, Red Dart and Brick. More on this later if it looks like this is the direction things are going.

Dragon kidnaps John Diggle, from whom he learned that his father’s downfall was not at the hands of Green Arrow, but at those of Diggle himself.

The evidence that this is probably the direction they are going is Diggle becoming the Green Arrow for awhile. Again more on this next time.

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Riverdale

Episode 2

Chapter 15 – Nighthawks

The episode opens with Jughead’s narration that Pop Tate’s Chok’lit Shoppe is the “heart of Riverdale” but is closing due to the attack on Fred Andrews. And indeed it may very well be. Betty makes saving Pop’s into her crusade du jour as the restaurant is the thread that runs through the tapestry of the lives of all the Riverdale residents. While Pop’s is a place that represents warmth and comfort, for Archie, not so much. after the horrendous shooting of his dad and he contemplates never returning there. He’s not alone. Pop’s employees have quit, and someone spraypaints the words “death diner” on the outside of The Chok’lit Shoppe.

Assisting her in this mission is Veronica, who finds herself increasingly frustrated and at odds with her parents’ secrets and lies. “The blindfold’s off daddy, I just can’t put it back on,” she coldly tells her dad after he arrives at Riverdale High with a floral bouquet peace offering. Hermione also covers for Hiram regarding the letter he wrote to Veronica while he was in jail, leaving the couple’s true intentions to be revealed as the season progresses.

Jughead learns that his father is facing 20 years in prison for his involvement in disposing Jason Blossom’s body last season, contacting visiting “snake charmer” lawyer Penny Peabody. He learnes that if someone from the Blossom family grants F.P. mercy, his sentence could be reduced or even commuted. Betty and Jughead pay the remaining Blossoms a visit to request one of them go before a judge with hopes of helping F.P. out. When it doesn’t plan work, Betty threatens to make the video of Mr. Blossom killing Jason public unless Cheryl speaks on F.P.’s behalf before the judge. Cheryl, commits perjury in exchange for the video.

Archie comes up with various plans for stopping the masked man who shot his dad and killed Ms. Grundy including the following: Going on ridealongs with the Riverdale F.P. to play junior crimefighter, consuming energy drinks/taking uppers, and buying a gun. THis is going to end well.

The crew put together a Retro Night soiree at Pop’s. Betty and Veronica organize through some well-intentioned bullying , Josie and the Pussycats (minus Valerie but plus Cheryl) do a eerie performance of Kelis’ “Milkshake” before the obvious secret is revealed to the audience that Mr. Lodge bought the Chok’lit Shoppe.

“The road to hell in Riverdale is paved with good intentions” comes when Betty’s mother informs her that several drug deals have gone down at Pop’s, during the party at Pop’s and that the young Ms. Cooper has given “crime a haven in Riverdale.” THANKS MOM FOR THE SUPPORT!

The show ends with Moose and Midge Klump are getting high on Jingle Jangle and fooling around when the masked gunman who left Fred for dead and killed Ms. Grundy shoots them both. As blood splashes across the dashboard of Moose’s car it seems like Riverdale officially has a serial killer on the loose.