Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

February 2015

  • Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Spock, for 50 years has passed away at the age of 83 due to lung disease that was from years of smoking. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 26, 1931, 4 days after William Shatner’s birthdate. Leonard went to Hollywood at the age of 18 and was guest-starring… Read more

  • The episode saw the return of Ra’s and Nyssa Al Ghul and Marc Singer debuting as General Shrieve in flashbacks. Seeing that secrets were out in last episode, things go down south for Oliver who has plans to protect Malcolm and Thea. As Thea told Dinah Laurel, it didn’t sit well with Oliver while Dinah… Read more

  • The second part of the season finale arc picks up where Call To Action left off. Kanan is being captured, interrogated, and tortured by the Empire, led by Grand Moff Tarkin who doesn’t believe Kanan is a Jedi until the Inquisitor proves otherwise. Kanan knew how to frustrate the Inquisitor after several battles between them.… Read more

  • We are now in the home stretch of Gotham’s first season where Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock are facing a new threat of criminals wearing red masks or red hoods to steal from the rich and give to the poor. A modern day Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. They discover that if one red… Read more

  • The episode shows Oliver and Thea going to the island to train against Ra’s Al Ghul at the behest of Malcolm Merlyn. As Oliver checks in on the island’s prison, he finds out that his old enemy has escaped thanks to Merlyn. I thought Slade was past Shado’s death here, but the producers are going… Read more

  • Fallout immediately picks up where Nuclear Man left off. Both Flash and Caitlin learn that the nuclear splicer device works and that both Ronnie Raymond and Professor Martin Stein are separated. Presumably things would be back to normal as Ronnie can go back with Caitlin and Professor Stein can be with his wife. Unfortunately, both… Read more

  • After the Jonathan Crane/ Scarecrow arc in the last two episodes, we have an episode that introduces Robin’s parents The Flying Graysons and the Haly Circus. Both Jim Gordon and Leslie Thompkins went out on a date to watch the circus until they witness a brawl within two families in the circus who never got… Read more

  • Lockdown was the finishing line for most storylines that culminated back last month as this would be the starting point of new storylines. However, the ones that remained after Lockdown was the Beatdown Clan and Kurt Angle’s team. It was to be the fallout from Lockdown as we have Kurt Angle confronting Bobby Lashley about… Read more

  • Canaries is the third part of the Dinah Laurel Lance/ Black Canary arc that resolves a lot of things from this season. Dinah Laurel’s doubts after becoming Black Canary are at the fore when she took on a hallucination of her late sister, Sara. Real or illusion, Dinah Laurel is no match for her sister… Read more

  • The episode deals with the origins of Ronnie Raymond becoming Firestorm the night of the particle accelerator from his viewpoint. We also learn that Ronnie is taken over by Professor Martin Stein thus causing him to act strangely towards his fiance Caitlin Snow. There was friction among Flash’s team on what to do with Ronnie… Read more