Sounds of Midnight Fury

The Pied Piper plays Barry, and Brick takes on the city, while Ollie continues to recover in this week’s Flash and Arrow. (Be warned, many spoilers for “The Sound and the Fury” and “Midnight City” follow within.)

The Cool Heat of Death

Following Ollie’s battle with Ra’s al Ghul, and Barry’s first real encounter with Zoom, Arrow and Flash return from their mid-season breaks to find their worlds turned upside down. (Be warned, many spoilers for “Revenge of the Rogues” and “Left Behind” follow within.)

Crisis on Infinite Screens

In the coming weeks, I will be leading discussion articles following Arrow and The Flash that will pass thoughts and ideas about them from one long-standing DC fan to all of you in hopes of bringing us all a place to cogently discuss what we may expect, want, and even fear from these shows with each passing episode. But before we get to that as they return next week, let us instead begin our discussions here with a topic that I’m sure many have talked about at length, but with an edge that will perhaps bring some new thoughts to the discussion.

Agent Carter: “Time and Tide”

Agent Carter’s miniseries continues with “Time and Tide.” Like in the first few episodes, they manage a nice blend of humor, action, and period appropriate references and scenery. I like the research they did and the feeling that this is, indeed, very early in the Cinematic Marvel Universe. There were fewer references to the other Marvel projects (I can only think of one, if you don’t count Howard Stark himself), but I think that worked quite nicely.

Agent Carter Episodes 1 & 2 Review (Wayland’s Take)

ABC is filling in some of Agents of SHIELD winter hiatus with a limited series. Agent Carter, the titular character, was a supporting character in Captain America: The First Avenger with a few additional scenes in the Agents of SHIELD show. They reinforce the connection with a few flashback scenes from the movie, as Peggy remembers the last few minutes before Captain America’s crash. They showed the pilot and next episode back to back on the first night, The pilot, not originally, is called “Pilot,” and the next episode was “Bridge and Tunnel.” Oddly, the pilot in some places is also listed as “Now is Not the End.”