Starling Tribune – Season 7.5 Edition – “Terms Of Service” and “Hey, World!” Review (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST250

The Starling Tribune Reporters SP, Chris and Michelle review the Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 penultimate and finale episodes “Terms Of Service” and “Hey, World!” The reporters discuss Mithra the dragon, Zari’s future in the balance, Gary’s Fair Godmothers experience, Nora’s sparkly transition, Constantine and Astra’s relationship, the quest to rescue Ray, Hank Heywood’s beautiful final moment, the Monitor’s cameos, why Bebo didn’t make an appearance, and the season final conflict with Neron and Tabitha.

Episode:           “Terms of Service” [Season 4 Episode 15]

Air Date:           Monday, May 13, 2019

Director:           April Mullen

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611983/?ref_=tt_ov_dr  

                        2x Killjoys / 4x Wynonna Earp / 3x Legends / 1x The 100

Writers: Grainne Godfree

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3113826/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5  

                        4x The Tomorrow People / 1x Arrow / 6x Flash / 15x Legends

Ubah Mohamed

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6763803/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6  

                        CREDITS

Promo: https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/05/07/legends-of-tomorrow-terms-of-service-preview/

Episode:           “Hey, World!” [Season 4 Episode 16]

Air Date:           Monday, May 20, 2019

Director:           Kevin Mock

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595136/?ref_=tt_ov_dr  

                        1x Chuck / 1x Flash / 5x Legends

Writers: Phil Klemmer

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459237/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5  

                        12x Chuck / 3x The Tomorrow People / 13x Legends

Keto Shimizu

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2582956/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6  

                        11x Arrow / 13x Legends

Promo: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/13/legends-of-tomorrow-spoilers-season-4-finale-trailer-preview-promo-arrowverse/

Arrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Inmate 4587 15-Oct-18 1.43

02 The Longbow Hunters 22-Oct-18 1.18

03 Crossing Lines 29-Oct-18 1.15

04 Level Two 5-Nov-18 1.08

05 The Demon 12-Nov-18 1.26

06 Due Process 19-Nov-18 1.03

07 The Slabside Redemption 26-Nov-18 1.31

08 Unmasked 3-Dec-18 1.35

09 Elseworlds Part 2 10-Dec-18 2.06

10 My Name Is Emiko Queen 21-Jan-19 1.22

11 Past Sins 28-Jan-19 1.18

12 Emerald Archer 4-Feb-19 1.07

13 Star City Slayer 11-Feb-19 1.09

14 Brothers & Sisters 4-Mar-19 0.89

15 Training Day 11-Mar-19 1.02

16 Star City 2040 18-Mar-19 1.00

17 Inheritance 25-Mar-19 1.01

18 Lost Canary 15-Apr-19 0.71

19 Spartan 22-Apr-19 0.71

20 Confessions 29-Apr-19 0.64

21 Living Proof 6-May-19 0.63

22 You Have Saved This City 13-May-19  0.95

Legends Of Tomorrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Virgin Gary 22-Oct-18 1.00

02 Witch Hunt 29-Oct-18 0.94

03 Dancing Queen 5-Nov-18 0.86

04 Wet Hot American Bummer 12-Nov-18 0.90

05 Tagumo Attacks 19-Nov-18 0.91

06 Tender Is The Nate 26-Nov-18 0.97

07 Hell No, Dolly! 3-Dec-18 0.93

08 Legends of To-Meow-Meow 10-Dec-18 1.10

09 Lucha de Aquestas 1-Apr-19 0.92

10 The Getaway 8-Apr-19 0.95

11 Séance & Sensibility 15-Apr-19 0.98

12 The Eggplant, The Witch & The Wardrobe 22-Apr-19 0.85

13 Egg MacGuffin 29-Apr-19 0.91

14 Nip Stuck 6-May-19 0.94

15 Terms Of Service 13-May-19 0.99

16 Hey World 20-May-19 1.05

Supergirl

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 American Alien 14-Oct-18 1.52

02 Fallout 21-Oct-18 1.34

03 Man Of Steel 28-Oct-18 1.28

04 Ahimsa 4-Nov-18 1.23

05 Parasite Lost 11-Nov-18 1.16

06 Call To Action 18-Nov-18 1.13

07 Rather the Fallen Angel 25-Nov-18 1.15

08 Bunker Hill 2-Dec-18 1.26

09 Elseworlds Part 3 11-Dec-18 2.17

10 Suspicious Minds 20-Jan-19 1.04

11 Blood Memory 27-Jan-19 1.34

12 Menagerie 17-Feb-19 1.15

13 What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way 3-Mar-19 1.14

14 Stand and Deliver 10-Mar-19 1.05

15 O Brother, Where Art Thou 17-Mar-19 1.07

16 The House of L 24-Mar-19 1.12

17 All About Eve 31-Mar-19 1.06

18 Crime and Punishment 21-Apr-19 0.99

19 American Dreamer 28-Apr-19 1.14

20 Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up 5-May-19 1.05

21 Red Dawn 12-May-19 1.11

22 The Quest For Peace 19-May-19 1.07

The Flash

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Nora 9-Oct-17 2.08

02 Blocked 16-Oct-18 1.69

03 The Death of Vibe 23-Oct-18 1.87

04 News Flash 30-Oct-18 1.75

05 All Doll’d Up 13-Nov-18 1.73

06 The Icicle Cometh 20-Nov-18 1.60

07 O Come, All Ye Thankful 27-Nov-18 1.79

08 What’s Past Is Prologue 4-Dec-18 1.78

09 Elseworlds Part 1 9-Dec-18 1.83

10 The Flash & The Furious 15-Jan-19 1.64

11 Seeing Red 22-Jan-19 1.88

12 Memorabilia 29-Jan-19 2.04

13 Goldfaced 5-Feb-19 1.89

14 Cause and 12-Feb-19 XS 1.71

15 King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd 1.67

16 Failure Is An Orphan 12-Mar-19 1.55

17 Time Bomb 19-Mar-19 1.64

18 Godspeed 16-Apr-19 1.31

19 Snow Pack 23-Apr-19 1.63

20 Gone Rogue 30-Apr-19 1.37

21 The Girl With The Red Lightning 6-May-19 1.45

22 Legacy 14-May-19 1.53

BLACK LIGHTNING

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies 9-Oct-18 1.16

02 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues 16-Oct-18 1.02

03 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry 23-Oct-18 1.18

04 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Four: Translucent Freak 30-Oct-18 0.97

05 The Book Of Blood: Chapter One: Requiem 13-Nov-18 0.90

06 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi 20-Nov-18 0.99

07 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Three: The Sange 27-Nov-18 1.06

08 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter One: Exodus 4-Dec-18 0.96

09 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of the Magi 11-Dec-18 1.13

10 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Three: Angelitos Negros 21-Jan-19 0.86

11 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son 28-Jan-19 0.93

12 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Two: Just And Unjust 4-Feb-19 0.95

13 The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire 11-Feb-19 0.94

14 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin 4-Mar-19 0.77

15 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha 11-Mar-19 0.75

16 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega 18-Mar-19 0.85

Part 1: The Plot, Themes and Characters

• What was the overall theme? What was the link to the episode’s name?
• • Terms of Service – fine print of Neron’s app
  • Hey, World! – Theme park is Heywood
• Time travel
• • 2019 Washington DC
  • • Young Zari and Mom
    • TV – Ray Palmer, warning us of dangers of monster
    • PalmerX 2019 – Power in the Palm(er) of you hand
    • Young Zari brings dragon to school; teacher uses app to get dragon taken away
    • Odd weather – fear causing a portal to Hell
  • 2019 Heywood
  • • Stage show – Super Heroes vs. Monsters
    • Zari streaming video
    • Good actors doing bad acting 
    • The Monitor is there, eating popcorn
    • Rory – brats don’t respect art
    • Dragon shows up, all grown thanks to Tabitha
    • Dragon goes outside, get back inside
    • Tabitha vs. Sara
    • Young Zari gets between Dragon and Sara – Dance!
    • Dragon eats Tabitha, turns back into young dragon
    • Neron uses her staff to open portal
    • Constantine vs. Neron – Neron chokes Constantine, who is Nate
    • Zari arrives; Nate and Dad; Dad starts to sing, which makes the others sing; Minataur on guitar, filling Tabitha’s staff with love
    • We did this last year?
    • Nate comes back; Zari out of temporal zone
    • Nate hugs Zari’s brother
• Fight scenes and stunts
• • Free monsters
  • • Zari poses as a prisoner
    • Charlie poses as various people
    • Get monsters out
  • Hearing
  • • Tabitha uses Charlie
    • Sara fights Tabitha
• Sara Lance / White Canary
• • Time to retake the Bureau
  • Get monsters out of Bureau
  • We forget we were the losers when we started
  • Waverider has all the monsters
  • Zari, if you stay on the ship, you will be protected from time changes
  • Commercial – pose as Supergirl, Nate as GA, Gary as Flash
  • Rate her as Captain: 
• Ray Palmer / The Atom 
• • Playing Jenga with Vandal Savage, made friends
  • Nora kisses him
  • Nora gets him, his coin, back 
• Ray Palmer /Neron
• • Been fighting monsters; monsters among us
  • Developed Eyes app; save people
  • Zari’s a witch – breeding fear
  • Fear is power
  • Make Earth Hell Again
• Mick Rory / Heat Wave
• • Drinking with the Orge
• Zari
• • Dragon egg in backpack
  • 2 years from now – Argus will take control
  • Takes Charlie to her home; starts to read the fine print – user agrees to give their soul to Neron
  • Forgets Dragon egg
  •  
• John Constantine
• • Price on his head in Hell
  • Looking for Masher, soul trader
  • Learns of Neron’s plan – bring a lot of souls to Hell, become King
  • My soul belongs to Neron, so take me to Triumvirate
  • Chose – Astra or Ray; picks Astra, who’s a grown woman 
  • Being tortured; Nora finds him, frees him
  • Need his token, which is like money
  • Goes to Astra and get her help to get to vault; Astra takes coins for herself
  • Learn deal – if Neron hurts Nate, Ray gets his body back
• Charlie 
• • Stays behind
  • Is used by Tabitha to be the monster at a hearing
  • Pep talk to monsters
• Gideon 
• • Plans and arsenal
  • Possible changes to Zari’s future – no Zari on Legends 
• Nate Heywood / Steel 
• • Dragon egg
  • Theme park – we need a place where people can learn to not fear monsters
  • Gets book, which Rory stole from the Bureau, to create park
  • Sacrifices himself
• Ava Sharpe  
• •  
• Time Bureau
• • Nora 
  • • tired of waiting
    • 327 years – Fairy Godmother in Hell; rescued by Neron
    • Sent to Neron to pretend to be his date
    • Tabitha helping Nora, fellow witch
    • Calls for Fairy Godmother, who tells Gary that they are not friends
    • Becomes the Fairy Godmother – trapped
  • Gary 
  • • is tied to the Fairy Godmother; 3 nipples
    • Fairy Godmother wants Gary to send Legends to Hell
    • just wants to be part of the team; wishes to be part of book club
    • Makes himself captain of the Waverider; gets Sara and Ava, then wishes for the Mick and Nate – trying to help you
    • Tired of being treated like a joke – gets Fairy Godmother to treat Legends awful
    • Gets apologies
    • Sends Fairy Godmother, Nora, to Hell to get Ray- is Nora
  • Mona 
  • • locked up
    • Shift or die
    • Taking care of creatures on ship
    • Trying to get the monsters to prepare a show

ARROW NEWS:

1. Arrow: How & When Stephen Amell Decided to Leave the Show (Date: 02 Oct 2019)
   1. The actor said he decided to depart during a break in filming for Season 6, and while he suggested he would leave the show following Season 7, but Greg Berlanti convinced him to try a different strategy for his exit.
   2. “I decided midway through Season 6 — basically over the Christmas break — that it was time to be done, and I broached that subject with [Arrowverse overlord] Greg [Berlanti],” he said. “He and and I talked for about a month before he formally notified [CW president] Mark [Pedowitz] and [WBTV president] Peter Roth, because he was like, ‘Think about this a lot, let’s talk about it, because once I kick it up the chain, once the ball starts rolling….’ So I thought about it then. I assumed that [the series] was going to end at the end of 7, but Greg’s smarter than me, and he had a really good idea about a limited run in Season 8.”
   3. https://www.cbr.com/arrow-when-stephen-amell-decided-to-leave/
2. Colton Haynes is returning to Arrow for the final season (Date: 3 Oct 2019)
   1. EW has exclusively learned that Colton Haynes is indeed returning to Arrow and will recur in the final season. The news arrives two months after the star’s demotion from series regular status sparked some fear that he might not appear in the CW superhero drama’s farewell song. Thankfully, those worries were all for naught.
   2. “We couldn’t have ended the show without having him back,” showrunner Beth Schwartz tells EW.
   3. https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/03/arrow-colton-haynes-returns-season-8/?utm_term=4187FD02-E610-11E9-AF67-32954744363C&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_content=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
3. ‘Arrow’ Spinoff Starring Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy & Juliana Harkavy Set As CW Backdoor Pilot (Date: 24 Sept 2019)
   1. The CW is moving forward with another Arrow spinoff headlined by Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy reprising their Arrow roles.
   2. The new superhero squad is a next-generation version of Team Arrow with the costumed offspring of the original membership. At the center of the next-gen collective is Smoak, the fierce daughter of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) aka Green Arrow, the central character of Arrow and the former mayor of Star City.
   3. https://deadline.com/2019/09/the-cw-sets-arrow-mia-smoak-spin-off-katherine-mcnamara-katie-cassidy-and-juliana-harkavy-1202743492/

GERNEAL DC NEWS:

1. ‘Supernatural’s Osric Chau Joins ‘Crisis’ Crossover — Is This the New Atom? (Date: 26 Sept 2019)
   1. TV Insider has learned exclusively that Osric Chau has been cast the recurring role of Ryan Choi for this winter’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. So does this explain why Brandon Routh, who currently plays Ray Palmer on Legends, is actually appearing as the “Kingdom Come” version of Superman in the Crisis event? Are they setting us up for a new Atom to replace Routh when he exits Legends this season (along with wife Courtney Ford, who plays Nora Dahrk)?
   2. https://www.tvinsider.com/817540/osric-chau-cast-crisis-of-infinite-earths-ryan-choi-atom/
2. Batwoman’s Ruby Rose Discusses Stunt Injury: ‘I Broke My Neck’ (Date: 01 Oct 2019)
   1. Ruby Rose has stepped up her involvement in doing her own stunts for Batwoman and, in a new interview, she elaborated on how she discovered she had broken her neck while filming the upcoming Arrowverse series.
   2. While promoting the CW series on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Rose noted she had herniated two discs in her spine while filming the series pilot. Although she initially believed the pain and discomfort to be a broken rib, the sensation persisted for months while she was filming a movie in Romania where she similarly performed her own stunts. After receiving an MRI, Rose learned the true extent of her injury, with only a tiny portion of her spine not severed.
   3. Running the risk of becoming paraplegic should she strain and move her back in even the slightest sensitive position, Rose underwent surgery to repair her spine, taking time off to recuperate before jumping back into filming the rest of the series.
   4. https://www.cbr.com/batwomans-ruby-rose-stunt-injury-broke-neck

NEXT EPISODE

Link to Promo Photos: https://www.cbr.com/arrow-season-8-black-canary-diggle-starling-city-photos/ (Date: 10 Sept 2019) 

Episode: “Starling City” [Season 8 Episode 1]

Air Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Summary: In the wake of discovering what his future holds, Oliver will find himself pit against his most challenging battle yet, one that will leave the multiverse hanging in the balance.

Director: James Bamford

Writers: Beth Schwartz & Marc Guggenheim

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9695550/?ref_=ttep_ep1

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Starling Tribune – Season 7.5 Edition – “Nip/Stuck” Review (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST249

The Starling Tribune Reporters Chris and Michelle review the Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 fourteenth episode “Nip/Stuck.” The reporters discuss why Gideon followed Mick’s order, they take some time to rate Sara as a Captain for the episode, the ins and outs of Gary Green taking over the Time Bureau, Mona’s growing relationship with Wolfie, who Tabitha is, why the show used The Donner Pass and that Constatine finally gets his trip to hell.

Episode:            “Nip/Stuck” [Season 4 Episode 14]

Air Date:           Monday, May 6, 2019

Director:           David Geddes

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311454/?ref_=tt_ov_dr  

                        6x Legends (95 Cinematographer credits)

Writers: Ray Utarnachitt

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1234711/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5 

13. Legends / 1x Supergirl / 1x The Flash

Matthew Maala

                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5279759/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6 

                        11x Legends

Promo: https://comicboo

Arrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Inmate 4587 15-Oct-18 1.43

02 The Longbow Hunters 22-Oct-18 1.18

03 Crossing Lines 29-Oct-18 1.15

04 Level Two 5-Nov-18 1.08

05 The Demon 12-Nov-18 1.26

06 Due Process 19-Nov-18 1.03

07 The Slabside Redemption 26-Nov-18 1.31

08 Unmasked 3-Dec-18 1.35

09 Elseworlds Part 2 10-Dec-18 2.06

10 My Name Is Emiko Queen 21-Jan-19 1.22

11 Past Sins 28-Jan-19 1.18

12 Emerald Archer 4-Feb-19 1.07

13 Star City Slayer 11-Feb-19 1.09

14 Brothers & Sisters 4-Mar-19 0.89

15 Training Day 11-Mar-19 1.02

16 Star City 2040 18-Mar-19 1.00

17 Inheritance 25-Mar-19 1.01

18 Lost Canary 15-Apr-19 0.71

19 Spartan 22-Apr-19 0.71

20 Confessions 29-Apr-19 0.64

21 Living Proof 6-May-19 0.63

22 You Have Saved This City 13-May-19  0.95

Legends Of Tomorrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Virgin Gary 22-Oct-18 1.00

02 Witch Hunt 29-Oct-18 0.94

03 Dancing Queen 5-Nov-18 0.86

04 Wet Hot American Bummer 12-Nov-18 0.90

05 Tagumo Attacks 19-Nov-18 0.91

06 Tender Is The Nate 26-Nov-18 0.97

07 Hell No, Dolly! 3-Dec-18 0.93

08 Legends of To-Meow-Meow 10-Dec-18 1.10

09 Lucha de Aquestas 1-Apr-19 0.92

10 The Getaway 8-Apr-19 0.95

11 Séance & Sensibility 15-Apr-19 0.98

12 The Eggplant, The Witch & The Wardrobe 22-Apr-19 0.85

13 Egg MacGuffin 29-Apr-19 0.91

14 Nip Stuck 6-May-19 0.94

15 Terms Of Service 13-May-19 0.99

16 Hey World 20-May-19 1.05

Supergirl

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 American Alien 14-Oct-18 1.52

02 Fallout 21-Oct-18 1.34

03 Man Of Steel 28-Oct-18 1.28

04 Ahimsa 4-Nov-18 1.23

05 Parasite Lost 11-Nov-18 1.16

06 Call To Action 18-Nov-18 1.13

07 Rather the Fallen Angel 25-Nov-18 1.15

08 Bunker Hill 2-Dec-18 1.26

09 Elseworlds Part 3 11-Dec-18 2.17

10 Suspicious Minds 20-Jan-19 1.04

11 Blood Memory 27-Jan-19 1.34

12 Menagerie 17-Feb-19 1.15

13 What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way 3-Mar-19 1.14

14 Stand and Deliver 10-Mar-19 1.05

15 O Brother, Where Art Thou 17-Mar-19 1.07

16 The House of L 24-Mar-19 1.12

17 All About Eve 31-Mar-19 1.06

18 Crime and Punishment 21-Apr-19 0.99

19 American Dreamer 28-Apr-19 1.14

20 Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up 5-May-19 1.05

21 Red Dawn 12-May-19 1.11

22 The Quest For Peace 19-May-19 1.07

The Flash

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Nora 9-Oct-17 2.08

02 Blocked 16-Oct-18 1.69

03 The Death of Vibe 23-Oct-18 1.87

04 News Flash 30-Oct-18 1.75

05 All Doll’d Up 13-Nov-18 1.73

06 The Icicle Cometh 20-Nov-18 1.60

07 O Come, All Ye Thankful 27-Nov-18 1.79

08 What’s Past Is Prologue 4-Dec-18 1.78

09 Elseworlds Part 1 9-Dec-18 1.83

10 The Flash & The Furious 15-Jan-19 1.64

11 Seeing Red 22-Jan-19 1.88

12 Memorabilia 29-Jan-19 2.04

13 Goldfaced 5-Feb-19 1.89

14 Cause and 12-Feb-19 XS 1.71

15 King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd 1.67

16 Failure Is An Orphan 12-Mar-19 1.55

17 Time Bomb 19-Mar-19 1.64

18 Godspeed 16-Apr-19 1.31

19 Snow Pack 23-Apr-19 1.63

20 Gone Rogue 30-Apr-19 1.37

21 The Girl With The Red Lightning 6-May-19 1.45

22 Legacy 14-May-19 1.53

BLACK LIGHTNING

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies 9-Oct-18 1.16

02 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues 16-Oct-18 1.02

03 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry 23-Oct-18 1.18

04 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Four: Translucent Freak 30-Oct-18 0.97

05 The Book Of Blood: Chapter One: Requiem 13-Nov-18 0.90

06 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi 20-Nov-18 0.99

07 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Three: The Sange 27-Nov-18 1.06

08 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter One: Exodus 4-Dec-18 0.96

09 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of the Magi 11-Dec-18 1.13

10 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Three: Angelitos Negros 21-Jan-19 0.86

11 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son 28-Jan-19 0.93

12 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Two: Just And Unjust 4-Feb-19 0.95

13 The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire 11-Feb-19 0.94

14 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin 4-Mar-19 0.77

15 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha 11-Mar-19 0.75

16 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega 18-Mar-19 0.85

Part 1: The Plot, Themes and Characters

• What was the overall theme? What was the link to the episode’s name?
• Time travel
• • Donner Pass – Ice Age – 1.3 million years ago
  • • Neron brings Constantine; needs door to Hell opened so Tabitha can come through
    • Neron threatens to harm Ray’s body, making Constantine use his magic
    • Group plays Ray’s card game
    • Heat loosens ship
  • Celtic Village – 55 BCE
  • • Neron takes Constantine to village led by Constatine’s ancestor, who can teach Constantine how to open portal
    • Ancestor created a rift between humans and magical creatures; fear is a powerful weapon
    • Has a Puca, creatures that aren’t really evil 
    • Does everyone in Hell deserve to be there?
    • Constantine reveals himself to King, who decides to kill Constantine 
    • Neron – a lot of beings are waiting for you, Constantine
    • King uses his people’s fear to power sword
    • Portal opens; Constantine stabilizes it to save Puca
    • Sword fight w/King
    • Sword fight w/Neron
    • Waverider comes; don’t give up on haircut
    • Constantine jumps into portal to Hell
    • Neron summons Tabitha – the Fairy Godmother!
• Fight scenes and stunts
• •  
• Sara Lance / White Canary
• • Mick says fire; Sara realizes it was a trap
  • You get us out of this, Mick
  • Turn on the heat, Gideon, because Ray would want us to have fun
  • Powers up ship; lever time!
  • Frees ship!
  • Rate her as Captain: 
• Ray Palmer / The Atom 
• • Card game
  • Has a survival guide
• Mick Rory / Heat Wave
• • Ray’s gone; you end a traitor teammate before they take you out
  • Points out that Sara goes off and has fun; rest of crew has that right too
  • Ray always has a plan
  • To Sara – we’re the last two
• Zari
• • Dragon egg
  • Crew figures out she’s with Nate
• John Constantine
• • Shoot now, Sara
  • I’ve let too many people down 
• Charlie 
• • Poses as Mick to get Mick and Sara to stop arguing
• Gideon 
• • Created a Constantine tracker
  • Told crew pass will be home to future group who had to resort to cannibalism
  • Why did she follow Mick’s order?
• Nate Heywood / Steel 
• • Wickstable – dragon name
  •  
• Ava Sharpe  
• • “Gary Green is all the man we need”
  • Ignores call from Waverider
  • Gets to Waverider; Gary and Neron have the Time Bureau
• Time Bureau
• • Gary – 2019 Time Bureau
  • • Ava gives Gary the authority to do performance review
    • Confident
    • Everyone says “
    • ”
    • Mona knows something is up; pretends to have had her review
    • Nipple is an eye that memorizes people
    • Neron shows up
  • Nora – 
  • • Worse ID picture ever; read manual
    • Paperwork trouble because system thinks she’s 15
    • Uses Mona idea to trap her because she’s under Gary’s spell
  • Mona
  • • Wolfie – you’re not alone, Mona
    • Taken to Gary
    • Turns into Wolfie; fights Nora and Ava, slams them into each other, bringing them to their senses
    • Wolfie removes nipple

ARROW NEWS:

1. Legends of Tomorrow’s Jonah Hex will return in the Arrowverse’s ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ crossover (Date: 6 September 2019)
   1. EW has learned that Johnathon Schaech (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Now Apocalypse) is returning as Jonah Hex for the Arrowverse’s forthcoming crossover. At this point, there aren’t any details on how his DC Comics gunslinger will fit into the epic five-hour event, which includes Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman.
   2. https://ew.com/tv/2019/09/06/jonah-hex-arrowverses-crisis-on-infinite-earths-crossover/
2. Crisis on Infinite Earths Recruits The Flash’s John Wesley Shipp (Date: 10 September 2019)
   90. Shipp has a role to play in this year’s five-show Arrowverse crossover. However, there’s no word yet on which role he will reprise for the event. Throughout his Arrowverse tenure, Shipp has played three separate characters: Henry Allen, Jay Garrick and the Barry Allen of Earth-90. Henry died in Season 2, so it likely won’t be this character. In Season 4, Jay announced his plan to train a new Flash for Earth-3, after which he would retire from the superhero life. As such, it’s possible for Jay to return with his new trainee in tow.
   91. https://www.cbr.com/crisis-on-infinite-earths-john-wesley-shipp/
3. Arrow Favorite Willa Holland to Return and Recur During Final Season (Date: 18 September 2019)
   1. The character that Arrow fans most hoped would put in an appearance during the final season — Oliver’s sister, played by former series regular Willa Holland — will indeed be seen again, TVLine has learned. But wait, there’s more: Holland is confirmed to not just guest-star but recur during the CW series’ 10-episode farewell run.
   2. https://tvline.com/2019/09/18/arrow-willa-holland-returns-final-season-thea/?fbclid=IwAR2QJpp7uXz2vRsOUdHF_N5taCD1RgObN1ruQNVfYV92BPKnP-ZzIbPunr8
4. Tom Welling To Reprise ‘Smallville’ Clark Kent Role In Arrowverse Crossover On the CW (Date: 19 Sept 2019)
   1. And then there were three. Tom Welling is set to reprise his Smallville role as Clark Kent in the CW’s upcoming DC Arrowverse crossover, joining two other actors who have played the Man of Steel, Tyler Hoechlin and Brandon Routh that are already set to portray the character in the crossover.
   2. https://deadline.com/2019/09/tom-welling-reprise-smallville-clark-kent-role-arrowverse-crossover-the-cw-1202738738/

NEXT EPISODE

Link to Promo: https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/05/07/legends-of-tomorrow-terms-of-service-preview/  (Date: 7 May 2019) 

Episode: “Terms of Service” [Season 4 Episode 15]

Air Date: Monday, May 13, 2019

Director: April Mullen

Writers: Grainne Godfree & Ubah Mohamed

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8312964/?ref_=tt_ep_nx 

Link to Promo: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/13/legends-of-tomorrow-spoilers-season-4-finale-trailer-preview-promo-arrowverse/  (Date: 13 May 2019) 

Episode: “Hey, World!” [Season 4 Episode 16]

Air Date: Monday, May 20, 2019

Director: Kevin Mock

Writers: Phil Klemmer & Keto Shimizu

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8312968/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt 

Summary: Sara and Ava concoct a bold plan to take back the Time Bureau; Zari and Charlie must work together to discover what Neron is planning; Constantine is given a tough choice on who to save from Hell.

Join The Starling Tribune each week as we stream live on Thursday Evenings at 7:30 PM eastern or 6:30 PM Central at www.geeks.live. Join the fun chatroom and interact with the hosts live. Contact us: @StarlingTribune – starlingtribune@gmail.com – www.starlingtribune.com – www.facebook.com/starlingtribune – 612-888-CAVE or 612-888-2283.

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This podcast was recorded on Thursday September 19th, 2019.

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Starling Tribune – Season 7.5 Edition – “Egg MacGuffin” Review (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST248

The Starling Tribune Reporters Chris and Michelle review the Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 thirteenth episode “Egg MacGuffin.” The Reporters discuss what the real MacGuffin was, they struggle and ultimately FAIL to remember the name of the Entrapment film, a question if Nate can actually be knocked out, a possible Hallmark Romanti-Con, if Gary’s turn was believable, if Nate’s decision to save Ray was the right decision and if Nora will be able to handle her love Ray.

Episode:            “Egg MacGuffin” [Season 4 Episode 13]

Air Date:           Monday, April 29, 2019

Director:           Christopher Tammaro

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848699/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

2x Legends / 54 camera and electrical department credits (31x Legends)

Writers: James Eagan

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247063/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5

3x Hellcats / 2x Ash vs Evil Dead / 7x Legends

Tyron B. Carter

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8620229/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6

1x Arrow / 5x Legends

Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Rrq-be8u0

Arrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Inmate 4587 15-Oct-18 1.43

02 The Longbow Hunters 22-Oct-18 1.18

03 Crossing Lines 29-Oct-18 1.15

04 Level Two 5-Nov-18 1.08

05 The Demon 12-Nov-18 1.26

06 Due Process 19-Nov-18 1.03

07 The Slabside Redemption 26-Nov-18 1.31

08 Unmasked 3-Dec-18 1.35

09 Elseworlds Part 2 10-Dec-18 2.06

10 My Name Is Emiko Queen 21-Jan-19 1.22

11 Past Sins 28-Jan-19 1.18

12 Emerald Archer 4-Feb-19 1.07

13 Star City Slayer 11-Feb-19 1.09

14 Brothers & Sisters 4-Mar-19 0.89

15 Training Day 11-Mar-19 1.02

16 Star City 2040 18-Mar-19 1.00

17 Inheritance 25-Mar-19 1.01

18 Lost Canary 15-Apr-19 0.71

19 Spartan 22-Apr-19 0.71

20 Confessions 29-Apr-19 0.64

21 Living Proof 6-May-19 0.63

22 You Have Saved This City 13-May-19  0.95

Legends Of Tomorrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Virgin Gary 22-Oct-18 1.00

02 Witch Hunt 29-Oct-18 0.94

03 Dancing Queen 5-Nov-18 0.86

04 Wet Hot American Bummer 12-Nov-18 0.90

05 Tagumo Attacks 19-Nov-18 0.91

06 Tender Is The Nate 26-Nov-18 0.97

07 Hell No, Dolly! 3-Dec-18 0.93

08 Legends of To-Meow-Meow 10-Dec-18 1.10

09 Lucha de Aquestas 1-Apr-19 0.92

10 The Getaway 8-Apr-19 0.95

11 Séance & Sensibility 15-Apr-19 0.98

12 The Eggplant, The Witch & The Wardrobe 22-Apr-19 0.85

13 Egg MacGuffin 29-Apr-19 0.91

14 Nip Stuck 6-May-19 0.94

15 Terms Of Service 13-May-19 0.99

16 Hey World 20-May-19 1.05

Supergirl

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 American Alien 14-Oct-18 1.52

02 Fallout 21-Oct-18 1.34

03 Man Of Steel 28-Oct-18 1.28

04 Ahimsa 4-Nov-18 1.23

05 Parasite Lost 11-Nov-18 1.16

06 Call To Action 18-Nov-18 1.13

07 Rather the Fallen Angel 25-Nov-18 1.15

08 Bunker Hill 2-Dec-18 1.26

09 Elseworlds Part 3 11-Dec-18 2.17

10 Suspicious Minds 20-Jan-19 1.04

11 Blood Memory 27-Jan-19 1.34

12 Menagerie 17-Feb-19 1.15

13 What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way 3-Mar-19 1.14

14 Stand and Deliver 10-Mar-19 1.05

15 O Brother, Where Art Thou 17-Mar-19 1.07

16 The House of L 24-Mar-19 1.12

17 All About Eve 31-Mar-19 1.06

18 Crime and Punishment 21-Apr-19 0.99

19 American Dreamer 28-Apr-19 1.14

20 Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up 5-May-19 1.05

21 Red Dawn 12-May-19 1.11

22 The Quest For Peace 19-May-19 1.07

The Flash

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Nora 9-Oct-17 2.08

02 Blocked 16-Oct-18 1.69

03 The Death of Vibe 23-Oct-18 1.87

04 News Flash 30-Oct-18 1.75

05 All Doll’d Up 13-Nov-18 1.73

06 The Icicle Cometh 20-Nov-18 1.60

07 O Come, All Ye Thankful 27-Nov-18 1.79

08 What’s Past Is Prologue 4-Dec-18 1.78

09 Elseworlds Part 1 9-Dec-18 1.83

10 The Flash & The Furious 15-Jan-19 1.64

11 Seeing Red 22-Jan-19 1.88

12 Memorabilia 29-Jan-19 2.04

13 Goldfaced 5-Feb-19 1.89

14 Cause and 12-Feb-19 XS 1.71

15 King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd 1.67

16 Failure Is An Orphan 12-Mar-19 1.55

17 Time Bomb 19-Mar-19 1.64

18 Godspeed 16-Apr-19 1.31

19 Snow Pack 23-Apr-19 1.63

20 Gone Rogue 30-Apr-19 1.37

21 The Girl With The Red Lightning 6-May-19 1.45

22 Legacy 14-May-19 1.53

BLACK LIGHTNING

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies 9-Oct-18 1.16

02 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues 16-Oct-18 1.02

03 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry 23-Oct-18 1.18

04 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Four: Translucent Freak 30-Oct-18 0.97

05 The Book Of Blood: Chapter One: Requiem 13-Nov-18 0.90

06 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi 20-Nov-18 0.99

07 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Three: The Sange 27-Nov-18 1.06

08 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter One: Exodus 4-Dec-18 0.96

09 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of the Magi 11-Dec-18 1.13

10 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Three: Angelitos Negros 21-Jan-19 0.86

11 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son 28-Jan-19 0.93

12 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Two: Just And Unjust 4-Feb-19 0.95

13 The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire 11-Feb-19 0.94

14 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin 4-Mar-19 0.77

15 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha 11-Mar-19 0.75

16 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega 18-Mar-19 0.85

Part 1: The Plot, Themes and Characters

• What was the overall theme? What was the link to the episode’s name?
• • Egg – dragon egg
  • MacGuffin – a thing that drives the plot forward, motivates characters
• Time travel
• • Present – Romance Convention
  • • Mick doesn’t like how rude Charlie is being
    • Mick tries to train Charlie to be Rebecca
    • Mick respects his fans
    • Mona goes to finally meet Rebecca Silver
    • Mona recognizes Charlie and goes after her
    • Mick confesses
  • Present – Time Bureau
  • • Book club
    • Everyone thinks Neron is gone; awkward Nate and Zari flirting
    • Ava didn’t read the book; she drinks wine while listening to Mona; this time, Sara
    • Constantine cures Nora; she knows he has Ray
  • Arctic – 1933
  • • Find dragon egg
  • New York – Adventurers’ Society – 1933
  • • Sara – send Nate and Zari
    • Nata and Zari try to get others to join mission
    • Indiana Jones type map – their covers are from movie
    • Nate majorly geeking out
    • Gordon Gilchrist – taking credit for team’s work
    • Nate tries talking; Zari knocks guy out and takes keys
    • Nate does the sexy moves through the wires
    • Egg is a fake; Nate and Zari think this whole thing is a set-up; in come the Nazis
    • Call Sara – mission is real; air and steel escape from Nazis
    • Vincent took egg
    • Punching Nazis – Sara and Ava
    • Zari catches egg
• Sara Lance / White Canary
• • Time to get personal lives in order; “relationship expert”
  • Tries to read book for book club; listens to audio version while working out
  • Rate her as Captain:
• Ray Palmer / The Atom
• • Brings Nora flowers
  • Confused by hand moving on its own
  • Tries to fight Neron; Neron wants him to kill someone he loves
  • Doing science in the lab
  • Tries to find Constantine; Neron disables Gideon
  • Gary tries to help; reads about demonic possession
  • Has to admit he doesn’t love Gary
  • Neron talks to Gary; he sees his potential and promises to make him whole
  • Ray hits Nate; he can’t say he’s possessed
  • Nate tries to convince Ray he can fight Neron
  • Ray gives Neron control for exchange of Nate’s safety
  • Constatine has Ray; Gary comes; Neron gives Gary his nipple back; Constatine tries to talk Gary out of it; Neron points out how Gary is treated; Gary takes nipple
  • Neron and Gary leave
• Mick Rory / Heat Wave
• • Fan mail; Rebecca doesn’t do Cons
• Zari
• • Dragon egg
• John Constantine
• Charlie
• • Easy score – I’ll be Rebecca and we get $20,000
• Gideon
• Nate Heywood / Steel
• Ava Sharpe
• • Asks Nora to be an official part of the Bureau so she can find Neron
• Time Bureau
• • Mona reads to Nora

GENERAL NEWS:

1. ‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’: Brandon Routh & Courtney Ford To Depart CW Drama As Series Regulars In Season 5 (Date: 22 August 2019)
   1. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will be bidding farewell to two series regulars during the superhero team-up drama’s upcoming fifth season: Brandon Routh, who plays Ray Palmer/Atom, and Courtney Ford, who portrays Nora Darhk. Routh and Ford’s exits stem from a creative decision to wrap up their storyline. Because of the nature of the time-traveling Legends of Tomorrow, there has been a natural character turnover, with series regulars leaving as their stories come to an end and new ones coming on board. Of the large regular ensemble cast that started in Season 1, only a couple will still be on the show by the end of this coming season.
   2. https://deadline.com/2019/08/brandon-routh-courtney-ford-exit-dcs-legends-of-tomorrow-series-regulars-season-5-the-cw-1202702311/

NEXT EPISODE

https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/04/30/legends-of-tomorrow-spoilers-nip-stuck-trailer-preview-the-cw/ (Date: 29 April 2019)

Episode: “Nip/Stuck” [Season 4 Episode 14]

Air Date: Monday, May 6, 2019

Summary: When Sara hesitates to make a tough call, Rory steps up creating a wedge in the team. Meanwhile, Ava gives Gary the responsibility of handling the Bureau performance reviews for all the Agents.

Director: David Geddes

Writers: Ray Utarnachitt & Matthew Maala

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8312962/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Join The Starling Tribune each week as we stream live on Thursday Evenings at 7:30 PM eastern or 6:30 PM Central at www.geeks.live. Join the fun chatroom and interact with the hosts live. Contact us: @StarlingTribune – starlingtribune@gmail.com – www.starlingtribune.com – www.facebook.com/starlingtribune – 612-888-CAVE or 612-888-2283.

Starling Tribune is proud to be a member of the GonnaGeek network found at GonnaGeek.com. For more geeky podcast visit GonnaGeek.com.

You can find us on iTunes under ”Starling Tribune.” We are very thankful for all of our positive iTunes reviews. You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.starlingtribune.com

This podcast was recorded on Thursday September 5th, 2019.

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Starling Tribune – Season 7.5 Edition – The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST247

The Starling Tribune Reporters Stargate Pioneer, Michelle and Chris review the Legends Of Tomorrow fourth season twelfth episode titled ” The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe.” The reporters discuss Zari’s difficulties with Nate, Sarah and Ava’s long term relationship issues, notice that Tabitha was introduced, enjoy the Nora and Constantine team-up and look forward to Neuron-Ray. The reporters also help each other out with Zmojis, long term relationships and mattress shipping.

Episode:            “The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe” [Season 4 Episode 12]

Air Date:           Monday, April 22, 2019

Director:           Mairzee Almas

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021772/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

9x Smallville / 1x Alphas / 1x Haven / 2x Defiance / 3x Lost Girl / 2x Lucifer / 2x Arrow / 1x Supergirl / 5x The 100 / 2x 12 Monkeys / 2x Outlander / 4x Legends

Writers: Morgan Faust

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1158909/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5

6x Legends

Daphne Miles

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3514580/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6

1x The Vampire Diaries / 2x Legends

Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYf0aEqYUE

Arrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Inmate 4587 15-Oct-18 1.43

02 The Longbow Hunters 22-Oct-18 1.18

03 Crossing Lines 29-Oct-18 1.15

04 Level Two 5-Nov-18 1.08

05 The Demon 12-Nov-18 1.26

06 Due Process 19-Nov-18 1.03

07 The Slabside Redemption 26-Nov-18 1.31

08 Unmasked 3-Dec-18 1.35

09 Elseworlds Part 2 10-Dec-18 2.06

10 My Name Is Emiko Queen 21-Jan-19 1.22

11 Past Sins 28-Jan-19 1.18

12 Emerald Archer 4-Feb-19 1.07

13 Star City Slayer 11-Feb-19 1.09

14 Brothers & Sisters 4-Mar-19 0.89

15 Training Day 11-Mar-19 1.02

16 Star City 2040 18-Mar-19 1.00

17 Inheritance 25-Mar-19 1.01

18 Lost Canary 15-Apr-19 0.71

19 Spartan 22-Apr-19 0.71

20 Confessions 29-Apr-19 0.64

21 Living Proof 6-May-19 0.63

22 You Have Saved This City 13-May-19  0.95

Legends Of Tomorrow

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Virgin Gary 22-Oct-18 1.00

02 Witch Hunt 29-Oct-18 0.94

03 Dancing Queen 5-Nov-18 0.86

04 Wet Hot American Bummer 12-Nov-18 0.90

05 Tagumo Attacks 19-Nov-18 0.91

06 Tender Is The Nate 26-Nov-18 0.97

07 Hell No, Dolly! 3-Dec-18 0.93

08 Legends of To-Meow-Meow 10-Dec-18 1.10

09 Lucha de Aquestas 1-Apr-19 0.92

10 The Getaway 8-Apr-19 0.95

11 Séance & Sensibility 15-Apr-19 0.98

12 The Eggplant, The Witch & The Wardrobe 22-Apr-19 0.85

13 Egg MacGuffin 29-Apr-19 0.91

14 Nip Stuck 6-May-19 0.94

15 Terms Of Service 13-May-19 0.99

16 Hey World 20-May-19 1.05

Supergirl

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 American Alien 14-Oct-18 1.52

02 Fallout 21-Oct-18 1.34

03 Man Of Steel 28-Oct-18 1.28

04 Ahimsa 4-Nov-18 1.23

05 Parasite Lost 11-Nov-18 1.16

06 Call To Action 18-Nov-18 1.13

07 Rather the Fallen Angel 25-Nov-18 1.15

08 Bunker Hill 2-Dec-18 1.26

09 Elseworlds Part 3 11-Dec-18 2.17

10 Suspicious Minds 20-Jan-19 1.04

11 Blood Memory 27-Jan-19 1.34

12 Menagerie 17-Feb-19 1.15

13 What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way 3-Mar-19 1.14

14 Stand and Deliver 10-Mar-19 1.05

15 O Brother, Where Art Thou 17-Mar-19 1.07

16 The House of L 24-Mar-19 1.12

17 All About Eve 31-Mar-19 1.06

18 Crime and Punishment 21-Apr-19 0.99

19 American Dreamer 28-Apr-19 1.14

20 Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up 5-May-19 1.05

21 Red Dawn 12-May-19 1.11

22 The Quest For Peace 19-May-19 1.07

THE FLASH

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 Nora 9-Oct-17 2.08

02 Blocked 16-Oct-18 1.69

03 The Death of Vibe 23-Oct-18 1.87

04 News Flash 30-Oct-18 1.75

05 All Doll’d Up 13-Nov-18 1.73

06 The Icicle Cometh 20-Nov-18 1.60

07 O Come, All Ye Thankful 27-Nov-18 1.79

08 What’s Past Is Prologue 4-Dec-18 1.78

09 Elseworlds Part 1 9-Dec-18 1.83

10 The Flash & The Furious 15-Jan-19 1.64

11 Seeing Red 22-Jan-19 1.88

12 Memorabilia 29-Jan-19 2.04

13 Goldfaced 5-Feb-19 1.89

14 Cause and 12-Feb-19 XS 1.71

15 King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd 1.67

16 Failure Is An Orphan 12-Mar-19 1.55

17 Time Bomb 19-Mar-19 1.64

18 Godspeed 16-Apr-19 1.31

19 Snow Pack 23-Apr-19 1.63

20 Gone Rogue 30-Apr-19 1.37

21 The Girl With The Red Lightning 6-May-19 1.45

22 Legacy 14-May-19 1.53

BLACK LIGHTNING

Episode # / Episode Title / Episode Air / Date  / Rating

01 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies 9-Oct-18 1.16

02 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues 16-Oct-18 1.02

03 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry 23-Oct-18 1.18

04 The Book Of Consequences: Chapter Four: Translucent Freak 30-Oct-18 0.97

05 The Book Of Blood: Chapter One: Requiem 13-Nov-18 0.90

06 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi 20-Nov-18 0.99

07 The Book Of Blood: Chapter Three: The Sange 27-Nov-18 1.06

08 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter One: Exodus 4-Dec-18 0.96

09 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of the Magi 11-Dec-18 1.13

10 The Book Of Rebellion: Chapter Three: Angelitos Negros 21-Jan-19 0.86

11 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son 28-Jan-19 0.93

12 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Two: Just And Unjust 4-Feb-19 0.95

13 The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire 11-Feb-19 0.94

14 The Book Of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin 4-Mar-19 0.77

15 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha 11-Mar-19 0.75

16 The Book Of The Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega 18-Mar-19 0.85

Part 1: The Plot, Themes and Characters

• What was the overall theme? What was the link to the episode’s name?
• • The Eggplant – Zari trying to tell Nate she likes him; Mona suggests emojis
  • The Witch – Nora
  • The Wardrobe – what Ava and Sara had to build to start their way out of Purgatory
  • Take on the title of the C.S. Lewis novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Time travel
• • 2019 Ava’s apartment
  • • Place is a mess
• Fight scenes and stunts
• Sara Lance / White Canary
• • Ava’s missing
  • Demands Constantine send her to Purgatory
  • Rate her as Captain:
• Ray Palmer / The Atom
• • Stands up for Nora
  • Tells Nate about Neron
  • Helps Nate deal about Hank
  • Constantine not impressed w/his knight in shining armor bit
  • Leaves Bureau – starts to whistle
• Mick Rory / Heat Wave
• • Love’s love
  • Gives Zari words to send to Nate – erotic but vulnerable
• Zari
• • Mona wants her to send Nate emojis – eggplant
  • Texts Nate – asks him out
• John Constantine
• • Thinks Neron took Ava
  • Says Nora is a liability
  • Argues about how to deal w/Neron w/Nora
  • Keeping Neron locked up is not a good idea
  • People can’t cross barrier
  • Offers to flash Desmond; he refuses
  • Thinks Nora killed Neron
• Charlie
• • Poses as Ava so Constantine and get Neron to Time Bureau prison
• Gideon
• Nate Heywood / Steel
• • Shreds files connected to Heyworld
  • Gets call from crew building theme park
  • Crew building from Nate’s drawings
  • Tells crew to tear it down
  • Rushes to confront Neron
  • Hank went behind Neron’s back; Neron wanted to put fear into people w/creatures
  • Changes mind about theme park; steels up to stop wrecking ball
  • Phone busted
• Ava Sharpe
• • Gone about 2 weeks
  • Nora finds her – being prepared for being a new vessel
  • Her purgatory – Ikea type store
  • Gary enters the circle and ends up in her purgatory
  • They have to put a wardrobe together
  • • Sara moves in w/o reading directions
    • Defending herself in argument about creature
    • Build wardrobe together
    • Sara – it’s not perfect, but it’s ours – wardrobe opens
  • Mattress department
  • • Beware of Tabitha
    • Most important decision
    • Ava – Sara, do you just flip something over when it gets saggy
    • Ava – worried about getting old w/Sara; sit on mattress, age
    • Sara – I haven’t thought about planning for future until Ava
    • Pick 50 year
  • Apartment
  • • Do dishes; pick up trash; light goes; mess just builds
    • Argue about moving in together
    • Sara – we’re superheroes; Ava wants a regular life w/Sara
    • They argue; Ava disappears
    • Room full of different Avas
  • Room full of Avas
  • • Pick quickly b/c of Tabitha
    • Sara – not leaving w/o Ava
  • As Is section
  • • Sara loves regular Ava
• Time Bureau
• • Gary – I knew Ava needed me
  • Nora confronts Neron
  • • remembers when she met Constantine
    • Neron – waiting for Tabitha to be released; needs a vessel for his Tabitha
    • Tempts Nora w/returning her father
    • Nora chokes Constantine; enters circle
    • Neron leaves Desmond’s body; Constantine and Nora battle; Ray interrupts battle
    • Neron is out of Desmond’s body

ARROW NEWS:

1. How Arrow saved the TV superhero — and why it had to end (Date: 17 July 2019)
   1. As ‘Arrow’ prepares for the end, Stephen Amell and the producers reflect on its origin story and preview the ‘Crisis’-bound eighth and final season.
   2. Long article
   3. About the show ending, Stephen Amell said, “I’m very emotional and melancholy, but it’s time. I’m 38 years old, and I got this job when I was 30. I’d never had a job for more than a year. The fact that I’ve done this for the better part of a decade, and I’m not going to do it anymore, is a little frightening.”
   4. https://ew.com/comic-con/2019/07/17/arrow-final-season-cover-story/
2. Amell Enlists AEW’s Cody Rhodes for New Wrestling Series, Heels (Date: 20 Aug 2019)
   1. Shortly after it was announced that Arrow star Stephen Amell would headline Starz’s upcoming pro-wrestling drama Heels, the actor put a call out to an old friend to join him: AEW star and executive vice president Cody Rhodes. “Hey @CodyRhodes — wanna come and help me make a tv show?” Amell tweeted along with a screenshot of Deadline’s original announcement. “Congratulations!” Rhodes replied. “…and yea, of course[.]”
   2. https://www.cbr.com/stephen-amell-cody-rhodes-heels/

3. The CW Has No Current Plans to End Any Other Arrowverse Shows (Date: 4 August 2019)
   1. The CW’s Arrowverse of shows will be going through an interesting evolution later this year, when Arrow officially wraps up its run with a 10-episode final season. As network president Mark Pedowitz revealed during The CW’s presentation at the Television Critics Association press tour, there are no current plans for the other veteran Arrowverse shows – The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow – to wrap up. Pedowitz noted that “hopefully it will be a long time from now” until that discussion comes about.
   2. “We believe in these franchises,” Pedowtiz explained. “This universe will continue for many many years.”
   3. https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/08/04/arrowverse-shows-ending-arrow-the-flash-supergirl-legends-batwoman/
4. Arrow Season 8: Colton Haynes Drops Out as Series Regular (Date: 8 Aug 2019)
   1. Colton Haynes is dropping out as a series regular on the upcoming Arrow season 8, which will also serve as the series final season. The change in Haynes status on the show was confirmed during the recent TCA press tour, with Arrow executive producer Beth Schwartz noting the following: “We hope to have him back. We love him and he’s obviously one of the foundations of the show.”
   2. https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/08/08/arrow-season-8-colton-haynes-exits-drops-out-series-regular/
5. Colton Haynes Twitter Account (Date: 8 Aug 2019)
   1. Getting a lot of angry messages so just to clarify…I didn’t exit the last season of Arrow. I was not asked to come back for the final season as a series regular. But y’all know Roy…he’s never gone for too long
   2. https://twitter.com/ColtonLHaynes/status/1159550976543510529

GENERAL DC NEWS:

1. Arrowverse: Here’s When The Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Airs (Date: 4 Aug 2019)
   1. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 1 will air on Supergirl on Sunday, December 8 at 8 pm ET/PT.
   2. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 2 will air on Batwoman on Monday, December 9 at 8 pm ET/PT.
   3. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 3 will air on The Flash on Tuesday, December 10 at 8 pm ET/PT.
   4. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 4 will air on Arrow on Tuesday, January 14 at 8 pm ET/PT.
   5. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 5 will on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Tuesday, January 14 at 9 pm ET/PT. – Not the season premiere; considered a special episode
   6. https://www.cbr.com/arrowverse-crisis-on-infinite-earths-air-dates/

NEXT EPISODE

Link to Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Rrq-be8u0 (Date: 22 April 2019)

Episode: “Egg MacGuffin” [Season 4 Episode 13]

Air Date: Monday, April 29, 2019

Summary: While Ray is worried about Nora, he is suddenly faced with his own problem that forces him to do the unthinkable. Nate and Zari are stuck in an awkward limbo, so Sara devises a plan to send them on an easy mission together. Meanwhile, Charlie and Rory are approached with a lucrative offer that could upend their lives.

Director: Christopher Tammaro

Writers: James Eagan & Tyron B. Carter

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8312956/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

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