Apparently we're getting more Eobard Thawne soon.

Yay.

I think I've said this before, but I'm still waiting for Matt Letscher to get a chance to shine with the character the way Tom Cavanagh did in, say, the "you've been dead for centuries" scene in The Flash Season 1. I still get chills just thinking of that scene, actually. Brr.

Arrow 5.10, "Who Are You"

There is no way to discuss this without les spoilers.

Legends of Tomorrow 2.09

...I actually don't want to put the title up there, because it's a giveaway to something I want to build up to.

Every science fiction show, if it lasts long enough, will eventually do an episode where the cast meets some historical figure, usually a writer. If it's a time travel show, that historical figure is more likely than not going to be H.G. Wells. Heck, Legends already met H.G. Wells last year. (Come to think of it, the way they hid Wells's identity until the reveal suddenly looks like foreshadowing.)

And that makes sense, right? I mean, H.G. Wells is pretty much the father of science fiction, so of course he'd get honors in every show ever. But the Arrowverse has gotten pop-culture overdosed in recent years (thanks Cisco) and it's not surprising that they did this eventually.

Star Wars VIII: The Search For More Money has a new title

And it is The Last Jedi.

Because that's not officially the dumbest Star Wars title ever.

Not like titles matter. Let's be honest. You'd watch a movie called Milking the Money Tree: A Star Wars Story. 

Now, the "last" Jedi refers to Luke, right? We've been over this. Ma-Rey Sue tapped into the dark side to defeat Clueless Ren. She has great innate dark side energy because she is, obviously, Palpatine's granddaughter. So if Disney had any stones whatsoever, VIII would see her be tempted by her past, as Luke was, and unlike Luke, she'd fall.

Of course, if Disney had any stones whatsoever, VII wouldn't have been a shameless rehash of IV. On the flip side, Rogue One did end the way it did...

No, that's not what's going to happen. Luke's going to die, very sad. Rey will be the Last Jedi, all light and incorruptible pure pureness. Clueless Ren will stomp around and Pathetic Boy-Tarkin will continue to be pathetic, and guys you cannot make good movies without good villains. 

The main series is f*cked because its villains are awful. I hold out hope for the anthology films. Even if they are all Milking the Money Tree: A Star Wars Story. 

The last word on SUICIDE SQUAD

All right guys, time for some real talk.

I really liked Suicide Squad, in spite of its obvious flaws, because it spoke to me. No, I'm not talking about Margot Robbie's ass in hot pants, although... Okay let's not go there. Its entire off-kilter tone is something I could identify with.

See, I have never been part of the "in" crowd. I played Pokemon well past when the rest of my middle-school class dropped it. I was a right-wing student on a campus in Wisconsin during the anti-Walker protests. I could go on, but point is, when Harley Quinn says "Normal is just a setting on the dryer," I was like "Fuck yeah." And when she gets zapped into a fantasy of a normal life, I was still like "Fuck yeah. I feel you, movie, because you fucking get me."

Well, David Ayer tweeted out a message to his fans. And, wow. He went for it. And I salute him for it.

Yes the label is "DCCU" instead of "DCEU" because as far as I'm concerned it's a cinematic universe rather than an extended one. An extended one would incorporate the shows instead of shafting them.

Some random links

Apparently liberals progressives made a big deal about Trump not having a poet at his inauguration. To which I can only suggest that perhaps Trump himself should have quoted William Shakespeare:

Tickle us, do we not laugh?
Prick us, do we not bleed?
Wrong us, shall we not throw people from helicopters?

Just trying to have a little fun here, folks. But in all seriousness, progressives don't seem to get why this happened, and I'm not holding my breath for them figuring it out by 2020.

Okay. First off... are you sitting down? Okay, good. Get this: there is going to be another Terminator film. "Oh," you're saying, "That's just the studio milking the money tree. I mean, it's not enough to just have a franchise now, there has to be a whole cinematic universe, so you can expect a spinoff starring Lance Henriksen's character from the first film within six years." Yeah, let me stop you there. James Cameron is involved. And it's being called "a reboot and a conclusion." Whatever that means.

Here is TvTropes's page on the new Justice League of America title, noting that the lineup seems to be a massive sop to Arrowverse fans. I can't help but notice this will be the third ongoing title Black Canary's in. (And I stand by my earlier analysis that this is the Dinah Laurel Lance incarnation of the character, which means she was re-integrated into comic continuity the same year her show version was killed off.)

Speaking of the Justice League, here's a Watchmen reference in Justice Leave vs. Suicide Squad #5. Given the whole bloody point of Rebirth, I have to assume this is a deliberate reference... but then, I thought the whole bloody point of Rebirth was that Watchmen is not a how-to rubric for how every comic story since 1986 must be written. So go figure.

Here's another political one: Private Manning should never have made it out of basic.

Nathan "Malcolm Reynolds" Fillion managed to bring some levity to today's events.

Here's a British (I think) guy explaining why Fallout 3 is garbage and, you know, he's not wrong. My problem with the Fallout games - well, to be specific, the Fallout 3 and 4 games - is that... look, Skyrim is basically my baseline for a Bethesda game, because it was the first Bethesda game I played. It had six factions, and you could join five of them (two of them were mutually exclusive), and you had to join zero of them to finish the game. As far as I know, 3 doesn't give you any sidequest-factions to join, and 4 requires you to join one of the three factions and wipe out the other two. It makes the world feel a lot smaller and more forced. Hell, in Skyrim, those two factions that are mutually exclusive? You don't need to join either! You can convince them to set a truce that will last until you, the player character, break it. Incidentally, here's someone who thinks that 3 offered him choices, but 4 did not. (Granted, he obviously had not gotten two-thirds of the way through the plot, but he's right about it just being a shooter.)

Here's a new trailer for Arrow 5.10, which airs Wednesday. Let's just say that Laurel, or whoever she is, does the city a public service. And here's the trailer for Legends 2.09, which airs Tuesday. No trailer for Flash because I'm not caught up yet, but that comes back Tuesday as well.

Another reason why LEGENDS is basically the Sara Lance show now

not that there's anything wrong with that

Two of the three main villains this season are personally responsible for wrecking her life - Malcolm Merlyn destroyed the Queen's Gambit, sentencing her to six years in hell, and then later orchestrated her murder; Damien Darhk murdered her sister - but none of the three have a personal connection to any of the other characters.

Here's another reason Prometheus is Tommy

The show likes to forget it's not Batman With a Bow, yeah?

Hush...

Legends of Tomorrow could just rename itself Sara Lance Murders/Seduces Everyone

And it is excellent.

Season highlights: basically every episode that isn't 2.04, "Abominations," but especially 2.05, "Compromised," 2.07, "Invasion!," and 2.08, "The Chicago Way."

Season lowlight: 2.04, "Abominations," easily.

If Rey isn't Palpatine's granddaughter somebody needs to ask John Williams why her theme intro is a rework of Palpatine's.

I'm thinking I'll be reading Justice League of America Rebirth, because, well, look at the cast!