I'd say it was about 99% crap. I laughed at the bit with the vending machine.

I am relieved that it wasn't just me not looking at it right. Every time I thought "well this us an interesting development " it almost immediately would be reversed or dismissed or just prove to be not interesting after all.

I feel bad for the Dregs

Ryan with the Hopper virus was cute

BEEBO.

Naturally, I got spoiled for one thing, and it was Ezra Miller.

So how come some Earth's got combined and others didn't? Is the new Stargirl series gonna be set on Earth-2?

Because they wanted an excuse to have all their major heroes on the same Earth?

My understanding is Star Girl is on Earth-2 (though whether it's the same as the old Earth-2 or a new one, who knows?)

I guess the show runners had said previously that Titan's and Doom Patrol were set on separate Earths (though each Earth has a version of both teams.)

Is it just me, or was that Doctor Who episode total crap?

It was crap. But it was nice to see Roger from His Dark Materials getting more work. He's someone to keep an eye on.

I've come across a rather interesting redemptive reading of Orphan 55, that claims the episode is more subtle than people are making out. It basically argues that the story is about the different generations. To wit:

• Orphan 55 - the youngest Boomers are currently 55. Points to the ep's central concern - relations between the generations and how it contributed to the climate change crisis.

• The Boomers in this ep are Benni and Vilma. Now, the setting is a planet largely bereft of oxygen, making it incredibly precious. Benni has an oxygen tank. Direct quote: "He is a wealthy boomer who is shielded from the effects of the devastation around him." And everyone else is put in danger because rescuing him is prioritised over their safety. He remains oblivious to the threat, tossing out a marriage proposal as if there's a future to look forward to. (I'd add: Vilma buying off Kane to continue the search. I think we're supposed to disapprove of Kane in that exchange, for only being willing to save a life when she's paid. But it could be read instead as the wealthy Vilma believing that she can solve her problems just by throwing money at it, no matter who else suffers as a result.)

• Bella and Kane, another generational confrontation. Kane believes that her responsibility as a mother is to provide her daughter with material prosperity. Bella rejects that - the price to her is too high. Not hard to read that as a parable on climate change.

• The scene with the Doctor and Wheezy in the locked room. They survive by breathing each other's respired gases. It puts Wheezy in the position of humanity and the Doctor in that of the ecosystem - the trees, the seas, the earth's lungs (to go poetic). Kill the trees, we kill ourselves.

I mean, that's a pretty nifty reading, and some of it may even have been intentional. I just wish that was the ep we actually got.

Yeah, no, I'm not buying that, and even if that was intentional, I'd think it was crap. Sigh.

Please tell me the person who came up with that interpretation is Black Dynamite!

Also, Crisis-related, justice for baby Sarah!

Yeah, that was nice. I wonder what else has changed.