So with the
back half of the DC TV imperium kicking off and welcoming the new kid to the
sandbox we are dropped right in to the action.
Supergirl: The show opens up with old man Schott approving his own early release
by the way of a Yo-yo. As fun as that might sound this introduction to the
character of Toyman is downright creepy, as it should be when you are dealing
with a murderous inventor with a stone to grind and no real regard for human
life. Now some of you might say… Schott... That sounds a tiny bit familiar.
Turns out this is the estranged father doing time to Winn Schott Jr Catco´s
resident it support and all around tech wizard. So the episode mostly deals
with Winn having to confront his own fears about becoming like his father and
his feelings for Kara. It goes about as good as one can expect. But Toyman gets
tucked away and while Winn finally admits how he feels to Kara it only serves
to further complicate their relationship. In the other main plotline we see
D.E.O (they smell so nice…) chief Hank break in to Lord Industries in order to
find out what he is hiding there. Turns out it is a sort of comatose girl that
looks very much like Kara. Now it has pretty much been confirmed who this is,
and it is a take on the classic Superman villain Bizzaro. I did at first think they
were going to do the Powergirl character but that might be saved for later
seasons. So for those who do not know who that little rascal Bizzaro is… The
character is usually a zombie-esq mirror image of superman that sometimes hails
from a universe where everything is opposite. So love is hate and happy is sad…
Other times it is a scientific experiment, more in line with the story I assume
they will go with here. Any way it will in essence replace the kryptonians as
the “strong enough to pose a threat” for a while. The episode ends on a real
cliffhanger as we see Max Lord spying on Kara and Alex by way of a bug he
planted on Alex bag while she was out on the town with him (as a distraction to
get him to leave Lord industries) and I can´t but help that the writers got a
tiiiiny bit lazy here. After all I find it hard to believe that a trained agent
of D.E.O would not go through her clothes and other things to check for this
sort of stuff. But as it stands he now know… well… Everything (or as much as
the plot needs him to know). This series is picking up steam and sort of
finding its stride. It has more work to do but all in all it is turning out for
the better. Going to be very interesting to see the direction they take this
half of the season.
The Flash:
In this episode we find out if slow and steady really do win the race as we
meet the Turtle. A man so slow he cannot be caught. Beyond that this is a very
classic “everything is falling apart” episode with several shifts in relationships.
But the main plot revolves around a metahuman who can, for a lack of a better
word drain the kinetic energy from his surroundings. In essence slowing
everything down. It turns out that Cisco have been on the case of this guy and
several other metahumans unbeknown to Barry. Now in order to stop him Barry
have to overpower the slow-power of the Turtle, this tying in to him further
developing his powers in order to be able to beat Zoom. Beyond this we had a
literal smorgasbord of emotional fuckups. Jay is dying from plot… Wells is
slowly going insane, Patty is leaving town to pursue an education as a CSI (the
fact that she was kidnapped did not exactly help either.) Joe and Wally have a
breakdown and a sort of understanding and Barry... Well… He just keep on being
Barry.
To add some
extra WTF to this episode we see Eobard Thawn aka Dr Zoom/Reverse flash pop up
again… So all in all this episode was a lot of setup and very little payoff.
But the series itself keep doing much right and very little wrong.
Arrow: Dark
dark dark angry angry angst and some amazingly poor decisions making… That
pretty much sums up this episode. We see Anarchy popping up again and in what
can only be described as an astonishingly shortsighted move goes for the throat
of Damien Darkh by taking on his family, or what the girl and the woman he has
been seen with are. Oliver on the other hand is dealing with Felicity being
shot and paralyzed. He does this with the grace and deft touch of a wrecking
ball... As usual. So after murderifying a few of Damiens ghost soldiers and
both setting Anarchy on the loose and then promptly losing track of him it is
up to team Arrow to one again pull his arse out of the fire. Fortunately the
rest of the team is on the ball and team Arrow can manages to stop Anarchy from
killing Darkhs family and not get killed by an enraged Dark in the process. Again
this episode was a lot of setup for things to come. Arrow as a series has this
problem with Oliver being about as stubborn and boneheaded as mule, now this is
very true to his character in the comics, as a very dear friend pointed out “he
is no Batman”. But the constant shifting from one extreme to another does get a
bit annoying at times. Now we have a lot of interesting things coming up and I still
enjoy the series but I I am not all that sure they will be able to keep the
steam up for the entire season.
Legends of
Tomorrow: The new kids on the block can be summed up as follows. Time jumping arsehat
steals time machine and then lie his arse off to gather a team of historically
insignificant persons under the pretenses that they are destined to become
legends. All this to save his family. Hilarity ensues… Actually it is far from
that bad. I do like that the setup we had shown to us just was a rouse and that
Hunter is in fact about as damaged as the rest of the team. Anyway…
Timetraveler Rip Hunter gathers the Atom, Firestorm, former black now White
Canary, the Hawks and the oh so shippable pair of Heatwave and Captain Cold.
The goal is to go back in time and take out Vandal Savage. (yeah… his back… Not
really like he was going to stay dead now anyway.) In essence we have a
Taskforce X in time and space. The team go back to the 70´s to talk to the only
Vandal Savage expert in the world. Turns out he is a child of the Hawks from an
earlier life. We then get a very effective demonstration of “thou shalt not try
to fuck with time for your own personal gain” and poor dr Boardman dies and the
team is forced to flee as a time jumping bounty hunter almost take them out.
This is part 1 of a two part “pilot”.
Now while
this show is about as surprising as vanilla ice cream. The writing for
especially Heatwave and Captain Cold is really funny and both actors do a
stellar job delivering what is in short comedy gold. They end up carrying a lot
of the show in this episode. Now that is not to say the rest of the characters
are not well written. In fact this series does not really seem to take it self
all that seriously, in a good way. For an example we have the scene were dr
Stein is trying to convince Jax that they both need to go. Jax refuse and dr
Stein simply choose to drug and kidnap him. This will not be a series of boy scouts
and honor students.
So with the
end of these seasons on the move things are looking bright but not entirely unproblematic.
We will see were we land by the end of it. But I am sure it will be an
entertaining ride to that point.
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