@pirategirljack liveblog roundup for Arrow 3.15 "Nanda Parbat"

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I love this show, but I hope this Ra's alGoul story is done soon because it's making everyone stupid. Like, Laural didn't want to tell her dad that Sarah was dead and left it too long. Oliver was all "I'll just go kill him" and then was dead for three episodes, and then immediately went back to do the same thing like a moron. Malcom is manipulating people for completely confused reasons and it's only making people more weepy and dumb. And because of all this "I'm the boss here" BS from Ollie--which, to be fair, he's always had, though it's been worse lately--Felicity is barely speaking to him, is so tightly wound that she's lost most of her sparkle, and is spending most of her time with Ray who is adorable and much more open than Ollie, but also has barely any space to be a character around all the people being buttheads.

But! The last few eps have given us people finally just confessing and not hiding shit from eachother, and that's been amazing. Thea is way stronger than everyone thought, and she and Roy have things in common again, and she's done with putting up with all this nonsense, so even though she basically ruins everything in the end of this ep, she's the only one who does it by getting to the damned point.

So yeah. I'm a bit frustrated with this middle-of-the-season stuff right now, and I really want a change in plots. So long as that change isn't that Ollie takes over for Dread Pirate Ra's and Nyssa declares a vendetta on him, because that would just be more nonsense.

@pirategirljack Liveblog roundup for The Flash 1.14 "Fallout"

• Imma say Barry goes back, stops the other from killing his own young self, and his mom was collateral. #TheFlash
• Ronnie and Stein are soulmates. #TheFlash
• Did that dude say "it might as we'll be in Dothraki"? #TheFlash
• RT @WhoaMellyNYC: "Like, Terminator." Thank you for translating into English, Cisco. #TheFlash
• I feel like Amanda Waller is gonna want to talk to this soldier guy. #TheFlash
• "I'm still inside Ronald?" "There has to be a better way to say that." #TheFlash
• "Dude, that was like, Week Three." I love Cisco so much. #TheFlash
• Joe just keeps walking into rooms drinking things and taking "guardian" really seriously. #TheFlash
• Welles. I hope you've got a long game and are not actually evil, bc we'll be needing a new Giles if it isn't you. #TheFlash
• I apparently have an unstoppable urge to want everyone that comes against a fav to be swayed by Good and recruited. #TheFlash
• They keep teasing Grodd! #TheFlash
• Psychic self-injury communication! I don't know how to feel about that. #TheFlash
• RT @tniwalker: I could seriously watch a #Firestorm spinoff starting Victor Garber and Robbie Amell. They give good fun bickering @CW_TheFlash #TheFlash
• RT @UrbanNoize: Once Iris makes the Firestorm connection with Ronnie, then it wont be long until it leads her to Barry. #TheFlash
• Where is he getting all these widgets?? #TheFlash
• I was kinda hoping they'd have to hug every time or something... #TheFlash
• RT @iAmourCashmier: Dr.Wells is another Malcolm Merlyn. Both so sneaky. #Arrow #TheFlash #Flash #Flarrow
• @iAmourCashmier What if they met?
• RT @_MAG24: #TheFlash alien reference, Martian Manhunter maybe?
• @_MAG24 Yes please!
• Caitlyn and Mrs Stein are now in some sort of alternative relationship, I think. #TheFlash
• "You two are like ten years of Ross and Rachel smushed into one year." #TheFlash
• Where's the lady that lives there now? Like, they just keep waltzing into that house. #TheFlash
• "One day soon I'm going to be here again fifteen years ago." #timetravelertense #TheFlash
• Protect your own? Which side are you on? Apparently, on Grodd's. #TheFlash

What did you think of this week's episode? I'm super-loving Ronnie and Stein being total BFFs who feel each other's pain, and I hope that whole dynamic gets played out well. And I would SO WATCH a spinoff. Not just because I think that this franchise should just keep spinning off each other like a foldable ladder or something. It's a rich, big, juicy world that will soon also have a cartoon and Supergirl on other channels, so why not keep going? These are likely people that won't get time on the big screen. Let them shine here!

PS: I think I like this format for the tweets. Less mess.

Liveblog Roundup for Gotham 1.16 "The Blind Fortune Teller"

This show keeps getting better, which is weird, because it started out pretty strong. And I'm loving interacting with the audience as I go, so here's last night's Tweets...

Oh jeeze, Pengs, what is going on with your club? #gotham

In #Gotham even the clowns are hardcore.

RT @Gotham: The circus is coming to #gotham at 8/7c. One way or another... it'll put a smile on your face. No joke, ya know? http://t.co/giHKB2riMy

Yes! Be a cop-and-not-cop buddy crime solving team! #Gotham

You shit down that shaming, Jim. You do it. #Gotham

It seems that treating your organ donors like slaves would be bad for your stolen organs tho. #Gotham

What if all of these options are Joker and they all think they're the same person so they get treated as one? #Gotham

Tiny little Fish Moony coming at this guy like That Mom at the PTA, only crazy. #Gotham

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop on our pretty ME. One way or another. Good people have it rough in #Gotham

RT @thenoirguy: WAIT WHY DON'T WE TRAIN DRUG SNAKES IF THAT'S TRUE?! #Gotham

Kid CEO on the case and taking no guff. #Gotham

Penguin plays better piano than his piano player... #Gotham

RT @EasilyEmma: The circus is like an episode of Maury:  "I'm Feuding with my Circus Act Lover!" #gotham

But this steak tho... #Gotham

RT @AlexisDeLaGarza: Jim Gordon is so much more interesting now that he's dating Morena Baccarin #Gotham

TV just loves various Hellfire Clubs, hm. #Gotham

RT @eloqit: A riddle? Get Nygma on it! #Gotham

RT @KathiSeymour: #TeamAlfred #Gotham

"I am not the one who wanted to go out searching for satanist's hatchets. You know what I wanted to do." #Gotham

That's what moms on TV always say when the dad is unknown... #Gotham

RT @AwhHellNaw: Hey Boo, this look from Fish @jadapsmith means you're about to take a beat down!! #Gotham http://t.co/snjxFZby32

So...circuses breed crazies? Poor circuses. #Gotham

RT @cloneposter: Barbara, Ivy and Selina forming a sisterhood of not being too happy with Jim Gordon. #Gotham @Gotham

She's got him wrapped around her finger. Which makes me even more nervous. #Gotham

Butch whaaaaattt??? #Gotham

Look at them underestimating him to his face. #Gotham

Jim just became directly responsible for Robin. #Gotham

"You slept somewhere without razors and you smell like lady soap." #Gotham

Just keep being a condescending dick, everyone on the board. #Gotham

So basically this whole episode is about people dangerously underestimating others, then. #Gotham

What did you think of Gotham 1.16 "The Blind Fortune Teller"?

Shows I want to spawn off of the Arrow-Flash-verse

This is a picture of my tv right now. This has been my TV for fourteen days.

In the last two weeks, I watched every episode of Arrow Season One AND Two to prep for the new season and the premier of Flash. And they did such a good job of spinning off Flash with deep roots in the father show rather than just the usual one-show-there-you-go sort of spinoff, that now I want these two shows to spin off ALL THE SHOWS. But especially the following:

Blue Beetle - They've already introduced Kord as a lab, so why not dudeface himself as an awesome inventor / crime fighter? And for bonus points, give me Booster Gold and make it a buddy-vigilante show.

Nightwing / Batgirl / etc - We have had enough Batman, we all know him. But think how cool it would be, in-world, if te next generation had their own show and it wasn't stupid? What if Barman never shows, is just something people talk about--if he was actually the legend he should be? Bonus points: if he does show, he's Aflek totally being movie-Bats, cleanly uniting the verse in one stroke.

Zatanna - Magical AND stage-magic AND fishnets! What more do you need?

Martian Manhunter - Black cop by day, green alien by night! Shape shifting super-power procedural! How cool would that be?

Power Girl - A girl Kryptonian? Sign me up!

Wonder Woman - This one is probably too much to ask since she's one of the JLA Big Three, and if she's on TV and isn't Gal Gadot, it basically makes uniting the TV-verse and DCCU impossible but... But Wonder Woman. Srsly. 

Shazam - If they can make a kid who is given god-powers and transforms into a super hero cool, which I think these people could, just think how much fun it'd be!

I don't know a whole lot about non-JLA DC, but I'm sure there are plenty more awesome dudes and dudettes (even though I call everyone a dude regardless of gender) that I would love to see have their own show. 

Who would you like to see? Which DC spinoff would make you so happy you'd just keel right over?