OK, Doctor Who, that was way better than I thought it would be. Well played.
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Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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I will no doubt have other thoughts about this ep, but while I was watching it, I was thinking that that castle would be a great setting for a D&D dungeon crawl.
A stray observation from Heaven Sent: it's leading in to the payoff from Day of the Doctor, the return to Gallifrey. The Doctor sends the boy off to the Capitol with these words:
"Go to the city. Find somebody important. Tell them, I’m back. Tell them, I know what they did, and I’m on my way. And if they ask you who I am, tell them, I came the long way round."
And the closing monologue in Day of the Doctor:
"Clara sometimes asks me if I dream. “Of course I dream”, I tell her. “Everybody dreams”. “But what do you dream about?,” she’ll ask. “The same thing everybody dreams about,” I tell her. “I dream about where I’m going.” She always laughs at that. “But you’re not going anywhere, you’re just wandering about.” That’s not true. Not anymore. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone’s. It’s taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I’m going. Where I’ve always been going. Home. The long way around."
Something I never thought I would ever say: I’m really enjoying Calista Flockhart’s performance.
She's been way better than I expected after the pilot.
Pity that Red Tornado got blown up, although I suppose the Morrow could've built more than one. That would explain the reappearing arm.
Episodes 4-6 have done a good job establishing Cat as an actual character, so she's got a lot more to work with as an actor, too.
I'm digging the show more and more. Melissa Benoist's post-car-punching monologue hit me right in the Kryptonian feels.
BUT WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS SHE BLEEDING. Where's the Kryptonite? Is Cat's mom made of Kryptonite? Maaaaaaaaaaybe.
Maybe she used up more than enough "yellow" sun (It's white, dammit!) to temporarily lose her protective crunchy shell.
One theory I saw elsewhere suggested that she drained her power when she amped up her heat vision.
(It's white, dammit!)
Sorry, but no. The blackbody radiation spectrum for the sun maxes out in the yellow region of the visible spectrum, so there is more yellow than other visible colors.
It could be like Superman's (new) solar flare power.
The Flash: That. Was. Awesome.