Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 9
This week's episode was interesting cause Iruma finally got a little ambitious and I'm loving it! I enjoyed his laidback attitude up to this point but there's only so long that this show could have played the same joke of Iruma wanting to blend into his surroundings only to be highlighted through the antics of the people around him or the fact that he's a human so demon logic doesn't work on him. Of course the deeply intense and gory way that demons rise in rank is dodgeball! I totally expected it to be something silly as soon as Azz started to depict a scary competition but when it turned out to be dodgeball I might have broken a rib laughing. I also should have expected this whole episode to be about Iruma training for the dodgeball competition rather than the competition itself but I was still surprised that the episode ended with Iruma's training. I loved the joke that the professor was in the delinquent classroom looking furious that all the students were missing cause they decided to join the main trio in the underground gym to have fun. It was also interesting that Iruma doesn't want to use magic to win cause he feels like it's cheating but I'm hoping that this doesn't mean that he'll always turn down the use of magic cause I'm sure there will be moments he can't help but use it like in another lesson such as last week when he had to grow a plant but part of that might just be me hoping that he'll use magic!
Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 9
Batwoman Season 1 Episode 8
This episode was so heartbreaking on so many levels and it's so fascinating cause of all the things that I expected Batwoman to do to me, the one I didn't expect was for it to give me one of the better villains in the Arrowverse and one that's leagues better than anyone we got over on Supergirl. Alice is incredible cause she really truly is a horrible person especially after this week but at the same time we can't help but sympathize and pity her cause it wasn't her fault that she got brainwashed into becoming this person. I have zero pity for Catherine and I still don't understand her no matter how many times she has tried to explain why she did what she did but I still don't think she deserved the death that she got and especially not in the arms of Mary who is one of my favorites on this show. I do have to admit that this episode was a little weird in how it was blocked cause after Alice told Kate that Catherine was dying somewhere in the building she decided to leave instead of trying to find Mary and Catherine? Like just give us one shot of Batwoman in the doorway as Mary cradled her mother and that would have made sense. Catherine's death being the straw that broke the camel's back for Kate was weird too cause we've literally never seen Catherine and Kate interact and we never saw any hint of how the four of them were a family. I straight up thought that it was an evil stepmother type situation where she kicked Kate out so Catherine could have her happy family cause we never saw any pictures of Kate on the wall of family photos! I guess I can imagine that though Kate never showed it that she does love Mary like a sister so the fact that Mary was so torn up was enough for Kate to be like that's enough. On another note Sophie and her husband had a whole thing that was annoying to watch and also like dude now is not the time to have this discussion! I truly don't care what the outcome is as long as Kate and Sophie don't get back together!
So next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Batwoman standalone episode but I'm really curious about whether the Batwoman that will appear is the Batwoman who appeared in the Elseworlds Crossover last year cause she's the Batwoman who knows the rest of the Arrowverse and THAT Batwoman is obviously not the one we're watching this season making me think that season 1 of this show is more of a flashback in the Arrowverse continuity.
The Flash Season 6 Episode 8
Part 2 of the Ramsay zombie attack thing happened this week and it was also meant to be the last stop before the crossover and this was a fine episode overall, nothing out of this world but nothing all that boring either. We were able to defeat Ramsay for good and I'm glad cause he truly didn't feel like a season long Big Bad but at the same time it did feel a bit too quick though honestly I didn't care that much cause I had zero connection to him which is a huge flaw for this show cause other than Eobard and Hunter, I never really connected with a Flash villain. I am left however curious as to who the villain of the second half of the season will be cause unlike the Dr Alchemy and Savitar season 3, there hasn't been another villain set up yet so either it'll be someone we meet in the crossover or someone who will be affected by the crossover or it'll be Nash who I'm almost completely certain met the Anti-Monitor and not the Monitor at the end. If I had to place a bet, the second option seems the most likely. I also liked the idea that Barry actually chose Ramsay last week in order to take him down but seriously guys did I miss something cause since when was Allegra's UV metapowers a way to take down Ramsay's blood meta thing? I also didn't like the stuff with Cecile and Kamilla at all and I feel like it was just a way to kill screen time. The final scene where everyone talked about how much Barry means to them was sweet in a sense but once again meaningless to me unless Barry dies permanently in this crossover.
Next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Flash standalone episode but we will be getting the final part of the first 3 part crossover in which I do have a feeling that Barry will die only to be saved in January in either the Legends or Arrow part of the crossover so we get some sort of payoff for this whole half season lamenting Barry's death while also not making it permanent.
Arrow Season 8 Episode 7
We were back on the island as the final episode before the crossover and it was another great callback to previous seasons of Arrow though I'm still low key heartbroken that we didn't get Deathstroke even if it wouldn't have entirely made sense to have him on Lian Yu since we last saw him out in the world. Then again we met up with characters from the flashbacks of season 1 who were long dead so who's to say that Slade couldn't have dropped by doing something or other. I'm also low key heartbroken that we also didn't get Shado back instead of her father or Friers. I think we're supposed to believe that whatever that weird energy surge was on this island it not only brought back dead plants to life but also the people who died on this island. I kept awkwardly waiting for a Robert Queen to appear too but I guess once again that might have been too much to ask for. It was a bit of a contrived reason to have everyone on the island to build that weapon for the Monitor though as it turned out the weapon was Lyla all along who disappeared only to reappear at the end of the episode as the Harbinger whatever that means. Roy also lost an arm and straight up all I could think was that now he's about to really become Arsenal cause in the comics Arsenal loses an arm and replaces it with tech and I really hope we get at least one shot of Roy with a robot arm by the end of this show whether it's in the current day or the flash forwards cause of course at some point we'll have to see how the current timeline changes changed the terrible future. My favorite parts of the episode were naturally everything with Oliver and William and Mia and I'm pretty sure that Mia is going to be sticking by Oliver's side throughout the crossover but I kinda hope Diggle comes along for the whole ride too cause he's not just Oliver's right hand but he's also Lyla's husband and I can't imagine him deciding to stay back.
Next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Arrow standalone episode but also no Arrow episode in general cause there's only going to be the first three parts of the crossover next week which will be Supergirl, Batwoman and Flash.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 8
This was a really interesting episode of Riverdale cause it slowed everything down and let us look back on what's happened not only this season but the past 3 seasons as well by sending all the main kids to therapy with a therapist who straight up was the most calm person ever cause listening to all the things that our main characters went through was insane. Betty and Alice dealt with how Alice is so controlling cause Alice is afraid to let Betty grow up and become her own person and listening to all the horrible things Alice did to Betty was really just so hard cause I don't know how Betty hasn't cut Alice out of her life yet! I did like the payoff having been that Alice gave Betty her college fund back but I'm still shocked that Betty was rejected from Yale cause you would think that she's a shoo-in! It makes me curious to know which school she'll end up picking now or whether like Veronica and Archie she will end up staying in Riverdale and doing something else. Speaking of Archie, he was the one person who basically didn't listen to anything the therapist told him cause while at first it looked like he might give up the vigilante thing, in the end he turned right back to where he was. Veronica on the other hand decided to turn down admission to Harvard to spite her father and has decided instead she's going to battle him in the rum business and I was sitting here like Veronica who cares if your dad pulled strings?? It's Harvard! And like the therapist told her to cut ties with her father not put all her attention on beating him! Cheryl might legitimately be insane with all that she did this season but once again we're just going to brush by that and instead focus on how someone has been messing with her this whole time. Do we think Cheryl's mom is hiding in the house? In a change of events Jughead was the only one who actually used what the therapist said and had a productive few hours of telling his dad how much he loves him, applying to colleges, finishing the pages for the Baxter competition while also moving the investigation into Stonewall forward. As we see more and more flash forwards I'm leaning away from the theory that this is all Jughead's book but more along the lines that Jughead faked his death to catch the Stonewall kids and everyone is in on it.
Next week is the midseason finale and I'm curious to see whether Jughead will "die" next week in order to set up the mystery for the second half of the season or not. That's all conjecture though cause as we saw I'm not sure exactly what that promo for next week was but I'm sure it's not real cause why would Alice try to kill Betty?
Assassin's Pride Episode 9
We learned a lot this week about Kufa's backstory and it was about time! Apparently he's a half-vampire who spent most of his life hiding his vampire side and eventually ended up in the village Rosetti grew up in and was one of the orphan children Blossom took care of only to be exposed after that spider lycanthrope came to the village. Blossom's wife somehow was turned into a lycanthrope but Blossom made a deal with the spider to get his wife some venom that basically put her in stasis until he figured out how to turn her back but the spider went on a rampage killing Rosetti who was turned into a vampire as well by Kufa cause he loved her like a little sister. I really liked that not only did we learn about this but Melida did as well cause now they're a team and I loved that she was able to convince him not to erase her memories of him. He's going to get even more attached to her now that she was the only person able to still love him after finding out that he was a lycanthrope cause though his superior officer obviously knows I'm sure he doesn't see Kufa as anything more than a tool. In the end everything was wrapped up pretty perfectly with the spider being killed, Kufa erasing Rosetti's memories of what just happened, Blossom's wife being saved while he turned himself in, and Kufa was exonerated from what the villagers thought he did. I'm still curious about whether Kufa has drunk any human blood or whether he needs to cause when Rosetti was turned it was said that she would need to feed eventually but by erasing her memories she never had that impulse? So does that mean that vampires don't need blood to survive but just like it?
The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 5
I wasn't a huge fan of this episode cause not only was it short and nothing really happened in it but there was barely any Baby Yoda and at this point in my watching I'm not ashamed to admit that the main reason I enjoy this show is him. I was excited to see Ming Na Wen though but it's low key annoying that we aren't get any recurring members let alone permanent ones to this show so I expected her to die from the start which is unfortunate cause I adore her. I was also really happy to be on Tatooine which I low key guessed from the start but I still don't entirely know why Mando is roaming around the Outer Rim cause you would think that if he truly wanted to get Baby Yoda to safety then he would go to the New Republic since it's the remains of the Empire that want Baby Yoda. It's also low key insane how little bounty hunters care about killing children especially since it's not like the guild is a criminal one since they hunt down criminals themselves but I suppose it's one of those things where you harden your emotions for the money. I just wish that we know what Mando's goal was and where he's planning on heading or if he even has a plan. I mean he can't just think let's keep roaming around never stopping. I feel like eventually he'll have to go and kill the person who put the bounty on Baby Yoda otherwise this will never end.
Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 2
Okay so not a fan of this episode. It was still really funny and everything but so much of me kept cringing about how terrible it was to see Harley try to show off but instead just look really dumb for 30 minutes! It's interesting cause despite all the humor and cringe, at the core of the plot of this episode is something really intense. Harley has just broken up with her abusive ex boyfriend and she realizes that the friends that she thought were her friends too are actually just Joker's friends and it's something so many couples regardless of whether you're in an abusive relationship or not have to deal with. Which side of the couple gets the group friends? On another note Harley and Ivy are everything and Ivy might straight up be stealing all the attention in this show cause of how deadpan she is and how much I love that she's such a good friend. I know Harley wants to become the biggest baddest villain in Gotham and join the Legion of Doom but I low key just want her to make the Birds Of Prey instead whether that's with Ivy and Catwoman and they do villainous things or if it's more of the anti-hero squad with Black Canary and they fight crime!
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