Arrowverse Couch Club, Week 8: May 10-12 episodes (Flash season finale)

[arkhamassassin]

Her pregnancy was also the reason why the last few episodes had Frost either facing away from the camera, only showing her head and shoulders or strategically placing pillows on the couch when she was sitting down

[Row.Harper]

I must not be as observant as I thought. It all make so much more sense now. Thanks!

[ImpulseMaxMercury]

@arkhamassassin

Batwoman – “A Secret Kept From All the Rest”

• This episode saw the return of Parker Torres, as she got drawn back into Kate’s escapades and even helped her out in finding Luke and Julia. Would you want to see her become a regular member of Team Batwoman, or should this be more of a one-time thing?

I love when shows use characters who may have only appeared in one episode again for specific purposes. It gives it more of a sense of continuity and that life goes on beyond the main storyline. This being said, I hope it is used sparsely as some shows I felt I needed one of those walls of string to keep track of characters (Person of Interest and Burn Notice I’m looking at you). I like if she is used occasionally but part of me got a Robin vibe to Kate’s Batwoman. Eager to help, young, knows her secret. I grew up with Tim Drake as Robin so the skills there reminded me of him.

On a separate note, I did not like the fact that Julia is being tortured, Luke refuses to give Alice a way to kill Batwoman, and they hold up for a long time, and Kate undies all that in mere moments by giving Alice glasses to decode it. What was the point of what happened to Julia and Luke if the bad guy gets what they want anyways?

[ImpulseMaxMercury]

@arkhamassassin

The Flash – “Success is Assured”

• Now that Eva’s gone full Mirror Mistress, should she stick around as a long-term villain on the show, or would you rather her story be completely wrapped up at the start of season 7?
• Even though it didn’t screw over Ralph this time, this episode did see Sue once again lying to him to further her own agenda. Going forward, do you think the show will ultimately try to bring them closer to being the iconic couple from the comics, or has she just been lying to him too much to make a potential relationship work?

My preference would be for her to last through maybe the first part of the season to really show us what she can do. I don’t want them to wrap up the Sue framed storyline too quickly because we still need time for her and Ralph to make up and trust each other. Yes I believe they will get together as all she has done is to protect her family which is noble even if the means were not. Ralph used to be pretty shady himself and so I think he understands better than most the gray area.
As for Eva I’d like to see more outside the Mirror world as that dragged on way too long. I want to see what she is capable of as the fight scenes using mirrors was very well done. Then if they clear Sue they can arrest Eva and put her in Iron Heights to be used another time or hoping for a Rogues team

[ImpulseMaxMercury]

@arkhamassassin

Legends of Tomorrow – “Freaks and Geeks”

• While it’s hardly been completely removed, there does seem to be less time traveling going on this season, as we spent this episode entirely in the present. Are you fine with seeing this part of the show scale back, or would you rather it become the central focus again?

It does not matter to me about the time travel as long as they keep the character development going. I keep tuning in for the characters and if they time travel ok if they don’t ok. There was a little time travel when Rory got a hall named after him but I was fine without time travel. If they relied solely on that the gimmick would wear thin quickly. I’m glad they mix it up but such you don’t notice what time period they are in

[arkhamassassin]

@ImpulseMaxMercury

part of me got a Robin vibe to Kate’s Batwoman. Eager to help, young, knows her secret.

I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s a really good observation. Granted, I do think Mary fills the Robin role on the team better, but now that I think back on it, Parker was definitely giving off some of those kind of vibes as well

@ImpulseMaxMercury

What was the point of what happened to Julia and Luke if the bad guy gets what they want anyways?

Well if they weren’t in such immediate danger, Kate wouldn’t have traded over the glasses for their safety. I imagine she was extra desperate when she saw the kind of pain they were inflicting on Julia

@ImpulseMaxMercury

Ralph used to be pretty shady himself and so I think he understands better than most the gray area.

I keep forgetting about this aspect, but that’s actually good reasoning for why he has more patience for her than most. It does make me wish we had gotten to see a bit of shady Ralph before he got his powers so that part of his personality could’ve stuck in our memories more

@ImpulseMaxMercury

Then if they clear Sue they can arrest Eva and put her in Iron Heights to be used another time or hoping for a Rogues team

We can only hope

@ImpulseMaxMercury

I’m glad they mix it up but such you don’t notice what time period they are in

That would be interesting to see more instances where they’re in a place that could conceivably be in any time period. Like I’m assuming that they’ll still be in the present in the next episode when they have to survive zombie’s at Constantine’s house, but I suppose something like that could happen whenever

[krd1687]

@ImpulseMaxMercury

I like if she is used occasionally but part of me got a Robin vibe to Kate’s Batwoman.

I love this idea. Now that you mention it I got vibes like that from her too. But would we call her Robin?

[krd1687]

@arkhamassassin

Legends of Tomorrow – “Freaks and Geeks”

• While it’s hardly been completely removed, there does seem to be less time traveling going on this season, as we spent this episode entirely in the present. Are you fine with seeing this part of the show scale back, or would you rather it become the central focus again?

While, I do think that this season got off to a really slow start (if you don’t count the crisis as the first episode) I haven’t really noticed there has been less time travel. From my perspective since the encore’s are from a certain point in history, the time travel aspect seems alive and well. Considering Charlie is thousands of years old, Ava is from 2213 and Zari is from the future as well. I’m definitely more interested in the characters storylines then the place they are going. I think if they became more dependent on “must physically time travel with the ship to keep the premise of the show” then the show would suffer for it. But don’t get me wrong, if they wanted to travel somewhere significant in history just for the sake of it during an episode, I’d be down for that.

[ImpulseMaxMercury]

Maybe Sparrow?

[ImpulseMaxMercury]

Just saw the news that Ruby Rose is leaving Batwoman with the character being recast for second season!

[krd1687]

Me too! I’m very surprised. One of my friends just told me. We were then thinking “imagine if Stephen left after season 1?”

[AntLeon]

Just did my quick confirm 'tween cbr and cinemablend. both quote the same source about the quit.

[krd1687]

Just looked it up. I suspected when they said “it was mutual” it really wasn’t. But oh well, I still look forward to the next season!