Thoughts on Gotham:

1) Problem with a prequel in a long established world- too many characters who can't die yet.

2) Barbara - I seem to remember this Barbara being pretty selfish and narcissistic in the comments.

3) I don't think the problem with young Bruce/Selina scenes is the writing. I think with young Bruce they are trying portray the roots of the deeply repressed rage beneath a surface mask of calm that most of the adult portrayals of Batman had; but all they is a wooden affect. I'm not certain I blame the actor. That is one thing I suspect it takes an adult to pull off; I don't think I've ever seen a kid actor manage that.

4) From the previews of next weeks Gotham, I gather that they are going to go the "after she got out of that one" route with Fish. No long explanations: she was just badass enough to survive being gutshot, manage to fly the helicopter to safety, and either get medical attention or heal without it. My guess: Mooney will be reintroduced into action scene, and implicitly we will be told "watch the shiny gun/knife/mixed martial arts fight and don't worry your pretty little heads about why she's still alive.

Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell BBC1 trailer - but it's going to be on BBCA.

I think with young Bruce they are trying portray the roots of the deeply repressed rage beneath a surface mask of calm that most of the adult portrayals of Batman had; but all they is a wooden affect. I'm not certain I blame the actor. That is one thing I suspect it takes an adult to pull off; I don't think I've ever seen a kid actor manage that.

I think Kirsten Dunst managed it pretty well in Interview with the Vampire but she's the only example I can think of. (And she's never managed anything nearly as good in the movies I've seen her do since, so I'm assuming that was a perfect storm of good direction and playing off talented costars.)

Flash questions. Answers are probably obvious but I missed them.

I thought show had established that doppelganger guy couldn't duplicate powers. How did Wells get his double to do the rapidly moving hand trick? Or did that not happen?

Also how did Iris know from the hand-zap that Barry is the Flash?

I don't think we actually saw doppelganger's hand go vibrate-y - just threatening it with the hand position. And they showed in the previouslies (or flashbacks?) when Iris touched Barry's hand when he was comatose there was the same little electric-y reaction.

I think you're right, but that whole switching out thing confused me. For one, fake!Wells knew enough about Barry's mom's murder and the time-travel aspect to give Cisco a perfectly evasive answer. I guess you could say real!Wells was on an earpiece with him feeding him lines in real time, but I don't remember them showing that.

The other thing that bugged me was that apparently Cisco's barrier was only proof against speedsters, but ordinary people could just walk through them. Which is a weird design-limitation. I mean with technology like that they could have just set up a fake barrier anywhere to prove that Wells was a Speedster. First time I watched the scene, I actually thought Wells had phased through the barrier, because he was a better at phasing through stuff then Barry.

Yeah, I had a similar issue. It's going to keep a speedster out, but not a speeding bullet?

I wondered if Barry creating a vacuum to extinguish the fire wouldn't also collapse people's lungs. I know humans can survive without air, but a vacuum isn't *just* the absence of air.

...right?

I also wonder if any of them will look back on the fact that Wells insistence on caging the metas at Star Labs basically gave him an army of evil to draft recruits from.

Also, is the Pied Piper still in the hole? Because he might be willing to help against Wells.

I wondered if Barry creating a vacuum to extinguish the fire wouldn't also collapse people's lungs. I know humans can survive without air, but a vacuum isn't *just* the absence of air.

Gives a new meaning to hand-waving...