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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #312 Powerless 1x01 - Wayne or Lose | Recap & Review



Emily is late for her new job at Wayne Security when a battle between Crimson Fox and jack O Lantern derails her train.  She seems to be the only person interested as people in Charm City see this kind of thing every day.  Emily once had a monotonous job at an insurance company in a fly-over state (a state where superheroes fly over but never stop).  Now she's off to make a difference in an office with a bunch of quirky inventors who are quirky and make products like the Joker anti-venom epipen. Except, none of their ideas are very good, and neither are the bosses Bruce Wayne's cousin Van has hired to corral and inspire these people. Emily is the latest in a long line.  Oh, and Van? Hoping to leave the taint that is Charm City.  He gets his chance when his batty cousin gives him a call and tells him Wayne Security is closing down. Van is excited to learn he'll get his chance to be absorbed into the Gotham office until Emily does her job and introduces a supervillain detection device that Bruce loves.  Bruce keeps everyone aboard, Van is stuck in Charm City, and Emily has won the respect of her colleagues.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #311 Arrow 5x11 - Second Chances | Recap & Review

Drug dealer Sean Sonus makes undercover CCPD officer Tina Boland watch as he kills her partner.  Of course, this all happened three years ago on the night that particle accelerator exploded in Central City. This gives Tina a sonic cry and Sonus a special ability of his own. In present day, Adrian informs Oliver that the NSA has started an investigation against Walker, but the files aren't accessible. Oliver sets Felicity on the task of finding the files while taking Curtis and Rene to Hub City to recruit Tina. She's finally tracked Sonus down and plans to get revenge. She initially refuses to join, but eventually Oliver reveals his identity in an attempt to convince Tina, who later attacks Sonus during a deal. Oliver's team helps her defeat the bad guys, but Oliver fails at stopping her from killing Sonus. Meanwhile, a fan of Felicity's former hactivism lifestyle gives her the files she needs to free Diggle, but also inspires her to begin traveling her hacktivism road once more. Tina shows up to tell Oliver that she's decided to join the team, and reveals her name to really be Dinah Drake. In flashbacks, Talia helps Oliver kill Kovar's buddy, and it turns out she trained Yao, and gives him the Season 1 suit

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #310 Legends of Tomorrow 2x10 - The Legion of Doom | Recap & Review

This episode we get to see things from the Legion of Doom’s perspective, and the in-fighting is rampant.  Darhk and Merlyn can’t get any secrets out of Film School Rip because there are none to be had.  His brain has literally been reprogrammed.  This failure annoys Eobard, who admonishes them as he would henchmen.  Fed up with the sidekick treatment, Merlyn and Darhk trap Eobard in a vault and demand to be treated as equals.  It works, because it turns out the watch Eobard has been looking at is telling him how long he has before the Black Racer shows up to snag his soul.  After Eobard agrees to their demands, they use a similar trick to trap the Black Racer and make an escape.  Having bought some time, the trio head back with the prize of Rip’s safety deposit box, which is a memory disk.  They use it to reprogram Rip again, this time making him an assassin.  Meanwhile, Stein and Ray need help sciencing something and Stein calls in the foremost expert he can think of.  His daughter, Lily.  She’s a big fan of the Waverider, even if Sara is a little peeved she’s been brought there, but she does in fact help Ray plug Gideon up to a thousands-year-old amulet, which will hopefully help them find the rest of the spear of destiny before the Legion of Doom.  Unfortunately, Mick lets slip that she’s an aberration and Stein has to face the music on his feelings about having a daughter and Lily’s past.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #308 - Supergirl 2x10 - We Can Be Heroes | Recap & Review

Mon El seems to be mostly battle ready, and Winn needs some sleep. Kara & Mon El set out to track a recently sprung Livewire.  Mon El screws up guarding some civilians, & Guardian has to put his neck out to save a bystander.  He gets knocked out, and Kara learns that Guardian is James Olsen.  This goes over poorly, and Kara swears she’ll stop him from risking his life.  He tells her “Good luck with that”.  It turns out that Livewire was abducted and not rescued though, and when Winn tracks her location, he lies to Hank and Supergirl and feeds the location to James to prove their worth.  Mon El overhears the location & their plan, so he shows up to help.  Unfortunately the scientist gets the drop on Guardian and Mon El, and they get themselves captured, forcing Winn to come clean to Supergirl.  She shows up, releases everyone, and forms a temporary alliance with Livewire to stop the scientist. Supergirl even agrees to let Livewire have a running start before tracking her down again, just in case she’s decided not to be a villain anymore.  Even after fighting side by side though, in the aftermath Kara just can’t agree to support James and Winn’s vigilantism and the 3 of them agree to work separately.  Meanwhile, Hank has to save M’gann’s life after she appears to collapse in her cell.  After much reluctance, he mind melds with her and talks her out of her guilt, which stops her mind from shutting itself down.  The two reemerge as friends and she warns Hank that it was a psychic attack that shut her down, and the White Martians are coming.  Also, Mon El tells Kara how he feels and gets shut down hard.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #309 The Flash 3x11 - Dead or Alive | Recap & Review

Gypsy has come to town looking for HR and it doesn’t take her long.  She finds him and tells him he has one hour to come back with her to their Earth, where he’ll be executed for their cardinal crime, multidimensional travel.  Activating a clause from their laws, Cisco offers to fight Gypsy for HR’s freedom in 24 hours.  Barry tries to take Gypsy out but just makes things worse.  The training isn’t going well and it looks like Cisco is probably going to be death-murdered in battle until Julian spots a weakness that Cisco can use.  In the end, Julian’s stratagem works and HR’s freedom is won.  Cisco refuses to kill Gypsy over the matter.  She takes all the coffee, almost kisses Cisco, then agrees to tell her Earth that HR is dead so he’ll be safe.  Meanwhile, Iris has been hitting the streets after some arms dealers.  She wants to leave a legacy if she’s going to die and Wally agrees to help.  However, after nearly getting shot she has to fess up about her hardcore journalistic ambitions and the men in her life are not happy about them.  Also, Barry has an insight about how to stop Savitar.  He can’t get fast enough in time, but Wally can.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #307 - Lucifer 2x13 - A Good Day to Die | Recap & Review

Lucifer and Dan try to find an anecdote for Chloe the old fashioned way.  When detective work hits a dead end though, Lucifer has Linda and Maze kill him for a minute or two so he can pop off to hell in search of the soul of the doctor who poisoned Chloe.  He finds the doctor pretty quickly but gets himself stuck in a guilt loop when he finds Ariel.  Realizing he’s stuck, Charlotte goes into hell after him.  She manages to talk Lucifer through his guilt and free him but almost gets herself stuck because she can’t bear to leave Uriel behind.  Lucifer has to physically drag her out.  Meanwhile, Ella and Dan have been gathering ingredients and Amenadiel has been standing guard over Chloe’s body, so when Lucifer gets back with the formula they are able to save Chloe.  Lucifer then ghosts Chloe completely and moves without leaving any notice.

SPOILERS/W - DC on SCREEN #306 Gotham 3x14 - Mad City: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies | Recap & Review

Jerome’s followers paint the town red as the city plunges into complete chaos, but Jerome has some unfinished business to attend to.  He storms Wayne mansion and kidnaps Bruce, who buys himself some time at least by appealing to Jerome’s sense of showmanship.  Jim catches on in time to save Alfred and the two take off after Bruce, whom they discover is at a carnival that’s now a Jerome stronghold.  Jim, Alfred and the cops arrive just in time to almost save Bruce, who just saves himself anyway.  Jerome follows Bruce into a house of mirrors where Bruce proceeds to beat his face nearly off his body.  Moments later, Gordon finishes the job.  Meanwhile the Penguin shows up hoping to save Edward but finds that he has been duped by the gang.  After mucking about with some death traps and trying to get Penguin to betray Ed for his own life, Ed reluctantly admits that Oswald does apparently love him, one way or another, but shoots him anyway.  Finally, Alfred and Bruce have a talk about what all this training is leading to and what rules he’ll need to abide by.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #305 - In this episode we discuss:

Jerome’s Joker Influences |

Valentine’s with Supergirl |

Gorilla City and Flash Updates |

Robbie Amell on His Return |

Legion of Doom POV |

Guggs on Legends and Lucas |

Klemmer and Sara’s Story |

Guggenheim Teasing Legends Appearances |

Legends on Being Crazy |

Mick and Rory Insight |

Matt Letscher on Legion of Doom |

Guggs on Arrow |

Guggs and Felicity’s Future |

Wendy Mericle on Arrow |

Team Arrow and Evelyn’s Betrayal |

Fastest Flash Cameo Ever Teased |

Where’s Artemis and How Terrific is Curtis |

Havenrock Will Return to Arrow |

Katrina Law Wish List for Nyssa |

Arrow has a Russian Hood? |

New Powerless Promo with Adam West |

CW Ratings Are In |

Lego Batman The Animated Series |

Superman Breaks His Legs |

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #304 - In this episode we discuss:

Happy birthday Aquaman! |

Geoff Johns Turns 44 Years Old |

Batman Destroys Superman at Auction |

Lego Batman Director Wants a Piece of DCEU |

Ben Affleck Officially Out As Director of Solo Batman |

No WB SUPER BOWL Ads |

John Cleese Teases Something |

Jared Leto Sporting Green Hair? |

DC Films’ Character Problem | 

Ewen Bremner Reveals Details About His ‘Wonder Woman’ Role |

Patty Jenkins Posts Pic of Scoring Session |

Gal Gadot and Chris Pine Wished China happy New year |

Gal Gadot Reacts to Seeing ‘Justice League’ Scenes |

Gal Gadot Doing Post on ‘Justice League’ |

Zack Snyder Says Superman Has a Big Role in Justice League |

Joe Manganiello Confirms Deathstroke Footage Was Armor Test |

Joe Also Has Passed on Other Superhero Opportunities |

James Wan Teases Table Read |

Aquaman Terrible at Secrets |

Amber Heard Officially Preparing For Aquaman |

Kiersey Clemmons Excited to Be Real Life Iris West |        

The Flash Getting a Page-One Re-Write |

Shazam Has a Writer |

Harley Quinn Smith Wants to Play Harley Quinn |

Suicide Squad Nominated For An Oscar |

Suicide Squad Concept Art By Andrew Hunt |

Jim Starlin Talks His BVS Paycheck |

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #303 – Arrow 5x10 – Who Are You? | Recap & Review

Laurel is back!  Except it’s definitely Earth 2’s Black Siren instead.  Felicity throws a welcome back party that’s really a Gather-Your-DNA-From-A-Glass party, which confirms the identical nature of this supposed Laurel.  New-Laurel catches on and tries to blow up the lab, but gets caught.  Felicity then allows New-Laurel to escape, but only after tricking her into swallowing nanotech that will track her.  They find Black Siren, working with Prometheus.  The team takes her down, but fails to capture Billy-Malone-Now’s killer.  Oliver stations her at a nearby ARGUS facility in the hopes that he can one day find a shred of the old Laurel in this new Siren.  During all this, Curtis has been unsure of his place on the team after having his ass handed to him a few times.  Rene, of all people, recognizes this and takes the time to mention to him how crucial he is to the team when he is playing to his strengths.  Elsewhere in the world, Diggle wants to get out of from under his charges the right way this time.  Oliver convinces Adrian Chase to help him out.  Diggle makes it clear that if he is transferred out of Star City under General Clark’s care it will be the penultimate stop on the way to a bullet to the head, so Chase gets a little creative, having Diggle punch him to keep the case in the Star City jurisdiction.  Back in Russia, Oliver gets the face beat out of him for a while in an attempt to make him attend to the Kovar Konstantine agenda.  In time, Talia al Ghul shows up to rescue him.  And in Hub City, a young lady busts up some bar fly assholes using what could only be a Canary Cry.  Oh, and Oliver decides to find another Canary to continue the legacy.  Because that’s what’s happening.