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The Flash – Legacy

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The Flash - Legacy television review

There’s quite a bit happening in the show’s season finale which says farewell to two heroes, ends the season-long threat of Cicada, and brings back the show’s most notorious villain. Faced with the choice to destroy the dagger and save Grace (Islie Hirvonen), thus releasing Reverse-Flash (Tom Cavanagh) from his imprisonment, or forgo saving the girl in order to stop Thawne from returning, Team Flash chooses to help the innocent. The quandary proves to be the most interesting aspect of the season-long arc, although the show never really explains how it is related to Thawne’s countdown? Anyway, destroying the dagger has the expected effect to altering the future timeline, restoring the Reverse-Flash’s powers… and wiping Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) out of existence.

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Arrow – You Have Saved This City

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Arrow - You Have Saved This City television review

Although the show will return for a final season next year, “You Have Saved This City” comes as close as you can get to a series finale for a show that isn’t cancelled yet. The season finale wraps up both the current battle with Emiko (Sea Shimooka) and the Ninth Circle who plan on releasing a biological weapon across Star City and the future arc involving Mia (Katherine McNamara), William (Jack Moore), and the others also fighting to save the city decades from now. The epilogue even offers a ride into the sunset for Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) before foreshadowing Oliver’s call to arms by the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) leading into next season’s Crisis.

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Game of Thrones – The Bells

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Game of Thrones - The Bells television review

While I can concede, and even understand, the logic behind the writers’ plan with “The Bells” it’s hard not to come away conflicted after the penultimate episode of the series. After a 20-minute lead-in during which Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) executes a traitor, mourns her personal loses, and is once again spurned by Jon Snow (Kit Harington) who cannot return her advances, the war with Cersei (Lena Headey begins. Isolated and alone, she chooses fear over the love now absent in her life and embraces the Targaryen name and a thirst for vengeance offering no quarter to Cersei nor any of the subjects taking refuge in her city. Although we’ve seen this level of viciousness in her before (remember Khalar vezhven?), never to this scale have we seen it unleashed. I couldn’t get the words of Ron Burdgandy out of my mind, both in the rapidly-descending mental instability of Daenerys and in the attack on Kings Landing, each of which get out of hand in short order.

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Remington Steele – You’re Steele the One for Me

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Remington Steele - You're Steele the One for Me television review

Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. What appears to be a simple traffic accident leaving a grieving brother (Marc Hayashi) seeking answers becomes far more complicated as Steele (Pierce Brosnan) and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) uncover a connection to the hit-and-run victim (Sab Shimono) and the Yakuza. It seems there’s a group of unsavory characters all after something very valuable in the victim’s possession at the time of his death. The episode is notable for Laura instructing Steele on how to be a detective (though he reputation makes more headway on the case than her deductions for much of the episode).

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Batman & the Outsiders #1

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Batman & the Outsiders #1 comic reviewDC Comics relaunches the Outsiders with Batman & the Outsiders #1 putting together a team of Black Lightning, Katana, Orphan, and Signal together under Batman‘s loose supervision. The first issue gives us a look at the team under Black Lightning’s command still struggling to come together in the field (with several characters struggling with their own issues).

The comic also introduces the team’s first mission as Batman sends the group after Sopia Ramos, the sole survivor of a secret organization Batman destroyed years before that hoped to create their own super-heroes. When her father is killed, Sofia’s powers are activated and she is hunted. The Outsiders aren’t the first to find her, but neither is Ra’s al Ghul (who apparently is behind the attack on the young woman and her father).

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