Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

November 2017

  • This review is for the Flash and Legends of Tomorrow parts of the crossover. Now that the entire crossover has aired for two nights, I have to say that there are many ways to approach this story. In this second part, half of the heroes are in Earth-X where we are introduced to The Ray,… Read more

  • This review is for both Supergirl and Arrow that comprised of the first part of the 4-hour crossover. After coming off the success of last year’s crossover, Invasion, the CW decide to another one of this. The criticisms of last year’s crossover was dealt with the approach of making this a cinematic movie instead of… Read more

  • It’s appropriate to name this episode after a holiday that’s airing on that particular day. We have Oliver celebrating Thanksgiving for Star City until he was arrested for being the Green Arrow and they brought back a returning favorite from the 2nd season Jean Loring, who is the wife of Atom Ray Palmer from then… Read more

  • Last episode, Sara was out of commission by Damien Darhk’s powers. In this episode we get to see how the team functions without her as Zari seems to be taking the leadership role when it should have been Ray. I can see a power struggle between Sara and Zari while we have the return of… Read more

  • The latest episode is an origin episode of how the Thinker came to be and it’s an interesting backstory, one where Barry and Joe were investigating on. The other story was Iris making wedding preparations. Basically the Thinker origin story was more interesting and Barry has become obsessed with it. Though Iris wants Barry to… Read more

  • Actor and singer David Cassidy passed away at the age of 67 due to complications of dementia. He is the father of Arrow star Katie Cassidy and is known for appearing in the TV series, The Partridge Family. Cassidy was one of the first teen heartthrobs of 1970’s. He continued to perform on stage and… Read more

  • There could have been ways to tell approach an episode like this. We have the return of Mon-El, who was inside the underwater ship with four or five other people. The reunion between he and Kara was off to a rocky start. If they were trying to redeem him, it was not a good start… Read more

  • Actress and singer Della Reese passed away at the age of 86 at her home in California. She was best known for the TV series Touched By An Angel and blazed trails for transitioning from singer to actresses that others would do. Della has appeared other films and television over the years until she retired… Read more

  • Malcolm Young, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of AC/ DC, has passed away at the age of 64 due to dementia. He is the older brother of lead guitarist Angus Young. While Angus is the visible member of the two, Malcolm was the driving force and wrote or co-wrote many of their hits. The group was… Read more

  • The storyline with Deathstroke continues as he reunites and spars with his son, Joseph. The family reunion between is very dysfunctional and this whole episode was about him than anyone else, including Oliver who makes a big decision. Upon seeing this some viewers want a Deathstroke TV series spinoff, but that may not happen due… Read more