The Blog to Nowhere

- Supergirl's season is still going. I'm going to miss out on the last few episodes while on my cruise, so I'll have to play catch up once I'm back.

( Spoilers for The Flash season four )

( Spoilers for Arrow season six )

- And Arrowverse crossover news for next season: Batwoman!!!!! The plot of the crossover involves everyone going to Gotham for some reason. I can't imagine a threat big enough that would warrant all of the Super Friends to get together, though. Like, what the heck is happening in Gotham that the resident bat vigilante can't handle it? This also raises some questions, like, is there a Batman? Bruce Wayne certainly exists, but is he dressing up like a bat at night? One would assume he is around, if there's a Batwoman, but maybe Kathy Kane became the bat themed vigilante first and Bruce was inspired by her. That'd be a fun twist. As this is Earth-1 Batwoman, they could have an Earth-1 Maggie Sawyer as well, which would be awkward for Alex, who was engaged to Earth-38's Maggie Sawyer. That assumes, of course, that Alex is doing the crossover again. Frankly, it'd be nice if J'onn got to tag along this time, and maybe Winn, too. Winn and Cisco need to meet; they can exchange super suit tailoring tips. It'd also be nice if the Legends were more involved. I want Constantine to meet everyone and just flirt up a storm.

Ooh, I had a thought. What if they visit Gotham not in the present but in the past? Ollie and Kara haven't experienced time travel yet and it'd be a good way to have the Legends more involved in the plot. It would also get around the whole "does Batman exist or not" quandary. I do believe in the comics that there were two Batwomen: one older, named Katherine, and one younger, who's Kathy. They could meet Katherine Kane, who could or could not be related to Kathy. It'd also be fun to visit the 1930s or 1940s, the setting of the Golden Age of comics.

I also had a thought on how the show could release Melissa Benoist for a handful of episodes for the crossover: use the actress from the flashback episode "Midvale". She was perfect as young Kara. Why not have a villain de-age Kara into a teenager? Sure, it's kind of cliched, but I feel like the Supergirl writers could make the scenario work. You could have so many jokes about how cute Kara was when she was a teenager. Or you could have Alex trying to pass off teen Kara as her cousin. Frankly, I just want to see the actress again. She was on iZombie for a bit and she was pretty funny there.

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season five and Avengers: Infinity War )

- In ongoing TV news, The Expanse has been saved! Amazon Prime has picked up the show for season four. I think this easily means the show will last long enough to cover all of the books. It also helps that the CEO of Amazon is a big fan of the books. I'm not sure what this means for Canada, though. Space airs The Expanse in Canada, but can they still do that if Amazon Prime has all of the distribution rights? The Expanse is filmed in Toronto, so there's enough Canadian content to justify airing it on Space, so maybe Bell Media can wrangle a deal with Amazon. It's amazing how, in this day and age, cancelled shows have a chance to find a second life. Had this been five or ten years ago, this would have been the end of The Expanse.

Looks like most shows are on their winter break now, so I thought I would get a few thoughts down.

( Spoilers for Supergirl season three )

( Spoilers for The Flash season four )

( Spoilers for Legends of Tomorrow season three )

( Spoilers for Arrow season six )

( Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season one )

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season five )

And there were a couple of shows that finished their season, too:

( Vague spoilers for Inhumans )

( Vague spoilers for The Orville season one )

I'm currently trying to catch up with Runaways, but it's been kind of slow so far so I haven't felt the need to binge it. Also, it airs on Showcase here in Canada so airs weekly rather than being available all at once like on Hulu. I may have more thoughts later. In the spring, iZombie is back and there's also Black Lightning. I don't know if I'll check it out. If it's good, maybe I'll watch it later.

Whew, that was a long post. Clearly I watch too much TV. :-D

TV shows are pretty much on a break for the winter. I thought I would get a few thoughts down.

( Spoilers for Supergirl season two )

( Spoilers for The Flash 3x09, "The Present" )

( Spoilers for Arrow 5x09, "What We Leave Behind" )

( Spoilers for Legends of Tomorrow 2x08, "The Chicago Way" )

And jumping comic book universes, over on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ...

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season four )

I'm actually glad that my TV shows are on a winter hiatus. It gives me time to watch other things I've been meaning to watch. But soon we will have new Doctor Who and Sherlock to watch. :-)

First off, TV show renewals and cancellations:

- Well frak. ABC has cancelled Agent Carter. :-P Damn you! Please move the show to Netflix. I need more Peggy in my life.

- Incidently, ABC also cancelled Castle, which is a good thing since the show was going to suck without Beckett around. I wonder how they'll end the show. I read they filmed an extra scene just in case they didn't get a pick-up. Hopefully no one dies.

- Thankfully, Supergirl got renewed for another season. And it's moving to the CW! Crossovers galore! I think the show is also moving to Vancouver to take advantage of the low Canadian dollar. Makes sense. The Flash can do weekly wonders with a CW budget in Canada, so Supergirl can now follow suit. Now they just need to figure out how to incorporate Kara's world with Earth-1.

Moving on to general TV show thoughts:

- So Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. did have a reference to Captain America: Civil War.

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x20, "Emancipation" )

- Kevin Smith's episode of The Flash wasn't bad. I don't think I've ever seen any of his movies, so I don't know what his directorial style is like, but I didn't feel like the tone was out of place. There was a tad more humour, but given the situation, you can't help but joke.

( Spoilers for The Flash 2x21, "The Runaway Dinosaur" )

- Oh, there was something from last week's Arrow that bugged me.

( Mild spoilers for Arrow 4x20, "Genesis" )

- The description on my PVR for the latest episode of Legends of Tomorrow started off with the words: "Rip and Rory..." I'm sorry. I instantly pictured Rip and, well, Rory from Doctor Who. If you must, please refer to Heat Wave as Mick and not Rory. But this also gives me a germ of an idea for a Doctor Who/Legends of Tomorrow fanfic.

Whoo, the comic book expo just announced Clark Gregg as a last minute guest!!!!

That's going to be so awesome. He's just here on Friday, but that's okay. Hey, Friday is parade day. Maybe he'll be in the parade!

I wish I could break out my Melinda May cosplay, but I'm doing my femme!Four on Friday. Whatever, I still want a photo with the Director. :-D

- Turns out, if you want to be on EI, you have to provide bi-weekly updates to the government. You have to provide proof that you're looking for work. Back to the employment agency I go.

- So I was watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. last night and for the first time in a long time, I was sad that the episode was over. I looked over at the clock and saw that it was near the end of the hour, but nothing had been resolved yet, and I couldn't believe it. Most weeks, AoS doesn't hold my attention like The Flash does, but this week, I think it's safe to say that both shows were excellent.

- But to be honest, The Flash still won the night. Why? Crossover! They dove right in and didn't look back. It was very much the Flash/Green Arrow hour rather than The Flash guest starring some characters from Arrow. The crossover is all about setting up Legends of Tomorrow, so there's a ton of set-up, but they had a lot of fun with this episode. I'm super hopeful that the second part tonight on Arrow is even better now that all of the exposition is out of the way. I'm not sure I totally agree with how they're handling the origins of one of the characters, but they'll probably expand upon it during the course of LoT.

- Oh, and for some reason, ABC has pushed back the premiere date of Agent Carter's second season. January 19 rather than January 5. I think that means that Agent Carter and Legends of Tomorrow will be airing against each other. At the very least, people will be comparing their ratings. As much as I love Peggy and her ass kicking ways, I don't know if she can compete against another comic book show that has like, six, superheroes in it plus time travel. So when it comes time to renew Agent Carter for another season, I hope the network execs keep in mind that there was stiff competition that year.

- And I'm nearly done Jessica Jones. Just three more episodes to go. It kind of feels like the show is running out of steam going into the final leg, like they only had enough content for ten episodes and they were forced to stretch it out to thirteen episodes. It's still a joy to watch David Tennant, though. He makes everything better. :-)

About time they made an announcement, but I guess they wanted to include it in the overall press release.

But another season of Peggy kicking ass. Whoo! I can't wait. Too bad we have to wait until 2016 to see any of the new episodes. Ugh, that's too far away. Still, I'm glad that ABC made the right (and only) choice. With the Captain Marvel movie a few years away, Agent Carter is the only female led vehicle Marvel has right now.

Oh, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got renewed, too, which is good, but I was happier to hear about Agent Carter's renewal. Sounds like this means the Mockingbird spin-off that was in the works is on hold. No offence to Bobbi, but I'm glad to hear it. A spin-off with her and Hunter would just be more S.H.I.E.L.D. related antics and AoS still needs to find its feet.

On the DC front, CBS ordered a full season of Supergirl and the CW renewed iZombie. The CW also picked up the Arrow/Flash spin-off, to the surprise of no one. The spin-off finally has a name, too: Legends of Tomorrow. The title is bleh but the premise sounds cool. Annoyingly, we'll have to wait until midseason to see this show, too.

Hmm, I wonder if we'll get more crossovers, across all three shows.

So my fall TV season looks like this (so far):
Castle
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Flash
iZombie
Arrow
Supergirl
Agent Carter (midseason)
Legends of Tomorrow (midseason)

Heh, Castle is the only non-comic book show. I don't know what that says about me or the state of television.

Now to see if there are any new shows worth watching...

I'm on Ming-Na's Twitter!!!

Yay, she actually posted the photo she took of me! She says "top picks", which seems to imply that she saw a lot of Melinda May cosplayers, but I didn't see that many. Wouldn't it be funny if the three she posted were the only three she saw.

Thank you, Ming-Na. You are even more awesome to me now. :-D

Sunday recap is coming soon...

- I followed f_march_madness this year, and it's the first time I've actively paid attention to it, and I was very pleased to see that the the bulk of the characters that made it into the later brackets were women. This is solid proof that all of the awesome characters in TV and film are female. :-) The last two characters in the final bracket was an impossible choice: Veronica Mars vs Peggy Carter. Who do you vote for?!?!

In the end, I had to go for Peggy (sorry Veronica). But it's awesome that Veronica made it to the final bracket.

- Mark Hamill's episode of The Flash is airing this month. March 31st! Mark your calendars! They released a trailer for the rest of the season and apparently there's footage of him as the Trickster in it, but I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I don't want any spoilers. But I can't wait. I managed to watch his first Trickster episode of the 1990 The Flash and he was absolutely brilliant in it.

- I splurged and bought a replica Melinda May vest off the internet for my Melinda cosplay. It's actually not that bad. The pattern is nearly spot on and for faux leather it's not smelly at all. The leather is a bit thicker than I expected, so the vest is little heavy, but I can live with that. The only thing that seems off is the length of the vest. The hem on Melinda's touches the top of her thighs and mine ends around my hips. I have a short torso, though, so I'm glad it's not too long. The rest of the cosplay is really easy and I love it. A blue shirt with thumb holes, black pants, and black knee high boots. I found an awesome pair of boots on sale and it has the double bonus of not having zippers up the side. My calves are fat so I can't fit into high boots that do up with zippers, so it's a great find in my mind. And I can wear them to work after the comic book expo. Triple bonus! I just need to buy some S.H.I.E.L.D. shoulder patches (or make some) and I'm all good.

- Speaking of the comic book expo, I also decided to get a custom t-shirt made for when I meet Stephen Amell for his photo-op. I know, I know, I could dress normally, but I wanted to have something Arrow themed. It's not anything fancy, just me playing around in Photoshop with the filters, but I think it turned out really good:


And it took like two seconds to make at the custom t-shirt place. It's just an iron on and a fancy press that dings when it's done baking the image. I don't know why I was under the impression that it was a more involved process but it's definitely better than what I could do with some transfer paper bought at Staples or Michaels or wherever.

- Ugh, I have jury duty. :-P Went through the selection today and my number was called within the first 12 people. As a jury consists of 12 people, I wasn't not going to be picked. It's only for three working days for me (as I have the Friday off), but the trial starts on my birthday and that's the last thing I want to be doing on my birthday. Alas, nothing can be done. It's a civic duty. Unfortunately, that means we're down to one admin at work, as I was supposed to cover for the other admin who's on vacation right now. I just hope the remaining admin doesn't get overwhelmed. Fingers crossed that the rest of the team actually helps her out.

- I see that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got renewed. 13 episodes, so not a whole season, but that's still good. I was worried it would be cancelled. I guess the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier gave the show the boost it needed. To my surprise, I saw that ABC greenlit the Agent Carter TV show, too. That's so great. Peggy's such a great character and that's an interesting time frame for the Marvel Cinematic universe. And we need more shows with strong, female leads. And the showrunners are women, too, so the show is in good hands. Entertainment Weekly has a good article online about why Agent Carter will be awesome and I totally agree with all points.

- So that means there will be quite a few superhero/comic book TV shows in the fall. The Flash show got picked up, too, and there are a few others. I'm dubious about Gotham, though. A Batman TV show without Batman? How can you have Bat villains without Batman? A TV show strictly about Gordon in his early days sounds great, but I don't need to see Catwoman and Poison Ivy and Penguin before they became villains. I mean, how will you sustain the show? The good stuff is with Batman and his crazy villains. How they turned into villains might be interesting, but I don't know. Plus, it's on FOX and I don't trust FOX to treat it right.

- Is it bad that I hope I come down with the flu before my jury duty starts on Tuesday?