Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

November 2014

  • This episode marks the introduction of future Two-Face, Harvey Dent. Here he is a District Attorney, a white knight, and an ally of Detective Jim Gordon. He has the right intentions of taking down the criminals as there are hints of his turn as the scarred-faced villain with the flip of a coin and a… Read more

  • The episode deals with the Flash losing his powers to a metahuman who can use electricity to siphon off energy. They explored the loss of super speed affecting Barry and it is clear that Barry enjoys being the Flash and his powers unlike other superheroes who see it as a burden or curse. The villain… Read more

  • The midseason finale picks up immediately where Empire Day left off. The Imperials are chasing the rebels because a Rodian named Tseebo, friend of Ezra and his family, has secrets of the Empire. To divert the Imperials from them, Kanan and Ezra board the Phantom shuttle and detach from the Ghost ship to keep the… Read more

  • As we look forward to TNA Wrestling’s relaunch under their new home, Destination America, we look back on their 9 years with SpikeTV. In 2005, TNA has left Fox Sports Network for SpikeTV. This was on the heels of SpikeTV parting ways with WWE and ECW, so TNA had to follow them. In the beginning,… Read more

  • After 9 years with SpikeTV, TNA Wrestling has decide to part ways with them and sign with a new network called Destination America, which is under the Discovery umbrella of networks. It marks the end of speculation concerning TNA’s TV deal situation. This results in TNA trending in both Yahoo and Twitter and gaining mainstream… Read more

  • We have an episode that deals with a villainous female archer named Carrie Cutter aka Cupid who kills for her love of Green Arrow. Obviously we have the theme of obsession and stalking that runs rampant throughout the episode that resonates with both Ray Palmer and Cupid. Cupid is a comics character in DC’s New… Read more

  • The Flash takes on a villain that has a connection to him when they go back in elementary school where young Barry was bullied by him. I wished they’d have delve more into this instead of this thing with Iris, who has nothing to do with the villain other than her blog about the Flash.… Read more

  • Empire Day is the first of a two-parter and I think it’s a midseason finale. This episode focuses on Ezra Bridger’s past as well as the Imperials celebrating Empire Day on Lothal. What’s revealing is that Empire Day happens to be Ezra’s birthday. The Rebels were on a mission to seek a Rodian that the… Read more

  • If there was an episode that was going to move things forward, it was this one as we see Jim Gordon making a stand against Falcone and the Underworld and paying the consequences of sparing Oswald Cobblepot’s life. It also affected his partnership with Harvey Bullock, who wasn’t in the majority of the episode. For… Read more

  • The end of last episode saw Roy having dreams of killing Sarah. In this one, they amped it up as they had Felicity do test results and made us think he killed Sarah, but Oliver refuses to accept as he applied the lessons taught to him by Katana by meditation. Now Roy learns that he… Read more