Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

November 2019

  • Today is the birthday of Martial Arts legend and actor Bruce Lee, who would have been 79. His influence is felt for generations and still does to this day, through the community worldwide and his daughter, Shannon. He lives on through us. Read more

  • After being double-crossed by Lyla last week, we see Oliver reliving a time loop where Quentin Lance was killed. Oliver didn’t grasp it at first, but he eventually figured it out that he couldn’t change Quentin’s fate and couldn’t change his own either. it was part of the Monitor’s test that he had to be… Read more

  • The first part of the midseason finale begins before the Crisis when Barry is caught between life and death with his friends being attacked by Bloodwork. Among those who were attacked by Bloodwork was Ralph, Caitlin, and Cisco, but Ralph was hit the most. Bloodwork saw Barry’s team as a threat to his vision. As… Read more

  • Black Lightning is not too happy these days despite being free from the Markovian occupation. He and Henderson have a disagreement over dealing with the ASA. His relationship with his eldest daughter, Anissa, is also strained over her dealing with the ASA occupation. An example of this is when Anissa sees that Grace’s shapeshifting is… Read more

  • After last week saw the future Team Arrow in the present, they take it further when Oliver take his children, Mia and William, along with Earth-2 Dinah Laurel to Russia to get involved in a fight club. He also meets an old ally once more from the Russian organization that he did many jobs for.… Read more

  • After coming back from a week hiatus, we have a filler episode that focuses on Ralph Dibny as he and Barry go undercover to find and rescue Ralph’s future wife, Sue Dearbon aka Sue Dibny from the comics. Sue wasn’t cast by this episode hence why they didn’t rescue her. This is the second episode… Read more

  • The episode did several things – introduce the faces and origins behind Leviathan, Kara learning the truth from Lena, and Malefic also learning the truth about J’onn and their father. This is essentially the first half of the mid-season finale. They had to set things up at an accelerated pace due to the Crisis crossover.… Read more

  • The episode centers around Sophie thinking she knows Kate’s secret as Batwoman and threatens to tell her father Jacob about it. Sophie is really naive because the Jacob she told is actually Alice’s minion, Mouse, in disguise. Alice likely did this to protect Kate. To put a wrinkle to it, Sophie sees Batwoman and Kate… Read more

  • There was lots that moved forward in this episode during the November sweeps. Chief among them is Tobias Whale finally discovering Jefferson’s secret as Black Lightning after 3 seasons. Why did it took him 3 seasons to figure this out? It seems as if it came out of nowhere. They had many opportunities to tackle… Read more

  • Just Flash had less of Barry and Iris due to the Crisis crossover, the same thing has happened to Supergirl when we have an episode that shows the history between Lena Luthor and Andrea Rojas in how they came to be at this point. Their history took up the bulk of the episode because Supergirl,… Read more