hey, so what's up with that crazy angel Cisco keeps seeing? Is his new GF a meta or, like, celestial?

She's Hawkgirl, who has had a weird complicated backstory in the comics. (Seriously, it involves reincarnation and another planet and shit.) I'm hoping the TV version has a simpler backstory.

So as of yet, we don't know if she's a meta or what.

So, Sleepy Hollow just went full-on Gift.

Yep. I mostly enjoyed it, though I called what was going to happen--my only question was which Witness ended up in the underworld, and my money was on Abbie. I even, pretty much, fanficced the thing, only my version was much shippier 'cuz that's how I roll. Still, it's weird to write something like that and NOT have it be immediately joss'ed.

Also, if Abbie and Crane are part of a long line of Witnesses, and it's not the two-and-only Witnesses from the (even more loosely interpreted than the craziest real life speculation) Book of Revelation, but more "into every generation two Witnesses are born"...then what happened to the other Witnesses actually born ~1750 and ~1980 they should've been paired with? I kinda want to write THAT story now.

Is his new GF a meta or, like, celestial?

It could be the Earth 2 version of his GF.

"into every generation two Witnesses are born"...then what happened to the other Witnesses actually born ~1750 and ~1980 they should've been paired with? I kinda want to write THAT story now.

Slayers?

>Three things: 1) My God, I still hate Laurel. 2) OMG Harrison Wells is awesome in every universe and 3) Cisco is my heart and ALL MY LOVE.

I agree with this one million percent.

Nobody wants to talk about Doctor Who?

DH asked me what happened and I started to tell him and realized that this episode's plot was incredibly complicated. It wasn't hard to follow while it was happening, but answering the question "Oh, how did Clara die?" took at least ten minutes.

DH asked me what happened and I started to tell him and realized that this episode's plot was incredibly complicated.

It really was, not that I'm complaining. As you say, it all made sense at the time. Interesting too that two weeks after the Zygon Inv(a/er)sion ran a terrorism plot, we get an episode set in a refugee camp.

Re: the other thing, it wasn't exactly a surprise, given the season's had a running thread of Clara's increasing recklessness and more than a few death motifs. And of course that this was Jenna Coleman's last season. I wasn't in any explicit sense spoiled for it, but it still felt like that. I didn't quite connect with the emotion of the moment.

That left me focusing more on how they went about it. Some stray observations: I like that her death was the result of her own, reckless and very Doctorish decision. Clara expicitly had a death wish in Last Christmas - my favourite Christmas special yet - and I tend to feel she never actually lost that. I noted that they couldn't really have the audio of her screaming, not for a show with a large kiddie audience, but it didn't stop them actually showing it four times. Clara died doing what she loved - ordering the Doctor around.

Less stray: Clara is the first companion since Adric to be killed. (Before him, you have to go back to Sara Kingdom; I'm just noticing that all three died as a result of their own choice, and said choice proved to be unnecessary.) It's not a complete shock in Nu Who. All the companions appear to leave in some sort of trauma. Most of them are forced out and unable to return. For season-long companions, the only exception's Martha, and that departure had its own issues. I get it; the show's premise promises adventures in all of time and space. Why would anyone give that up unless they had to (and stay true to the show's own outlook)?

Nonetheless, after ten years of traumatic departures, I would really really like a companion to leave the way Clara left in Last Christmas - to go find the adventure in an ordinary life.

I suppose Sarah Jane did that in "School Reunion," though of course with her own spinoff series her life turned out to be anything but ordinary.