My week was dominated by waiting in anticipation of this massive DC crossover, but I had plenty to watch before the episodes came out, including the return of Vikings!!!
Vikings Season 4 E11
The vikings are back!!!!!!! When we last left them, Ragnar had suffered a huge loss at the expense of Rollo in Paris and on his return to Kattegat, disappeared into the wilderness, leaving his 5 sons and Aslaug to rule in his stead. Now that he’s returned, he wants to go back to England and see his 6th son (Magnus) and decide what to do about the annihilated viking settlement. Bjorn wants to go to the Mediterranean and find riches there, and has Harald, Floki and Hvitserk with him and a new fleet of ships. Aslaug is staying to rule, with the help for Ubbe and Sigurd, which means that Ragnar goes to visit Lagertha and see if she will accompany him. Unfortunately, she refuses and they have a moment together before he leaves but man I love the two of them. The way Ragnar gets nervous around Lagertha and the air of confidence she has about herself is just so amazing, you know deep down that he regrets ever being with Aslaug and ruining their marriage, it breaks my heart. On the way back home, he tries to hang himself from a tree, but ravens break the rope so he gets back to Kattegat, and asks Ivar to accompany him to England, which he agrees to. I just hope they don’t go down The Walking Dead route and start focusing on too many people and places that it gets boring…
The Walking Dead E06
In this weeks episode, the writers have decided that we needed to know what happened to Tara and Heath on their mission to get more ammo. Tara and Heath are caught up in Walkers, Tara escapes and finds herself at a ocean-side settlement of women, escapes them and heads back to Alexandria but is hopeful Heath is still alive. This show is getting way too boring, and the fact that they spend one entire episode on a different character every week is making it slow and uninteresting. I’m waiting for the fast paced show that we’re used to, but it doesn’t look like things are going to be getting any better. Now that they’re stretching their limited screen-time to 5 different locations (Alexandria, Hilltop, Negan’s lair, the Kingdom and Oceanside), audiences are getting bored. 
Once Upon a Time E09
Again, another boring week spent showcasing Belle and Rumple’s messed up relationship that no one really cares about – JUST TELL US WHO’S GOING TO KILL EMMA! Anyway, in the flashbacks, we find out that Rumple hates fairies because his mother was the Black Fairy who abandoned him as a baby. Back in Storeybrooke, Rumple tricks Belle into speeding up her pregnancy, so she ends up giving birth to Gideon at the end, but makes the Blue Fairy his Godmother, requesting her to take him far away from Rumple. Aladdin decides to become a genie in the lamp in order to save Agrabah (oh yea, completely forgot that his was going on) and Emma finds the sword that stabs her – but who actually does the deed???? Amongst all of this, Charming is still asleep and Regina stops the Evil Queen from killing Zelena. There are too many things going on and rather than focusing on one major storyline, I feel like the writers are doing too many things at once, trying to please everyone, and it’s just not working.
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD E07
After the explosion in the lab which Eli causes, Fitz, Coulson and Robbie get trapped in another dimension, but May doesn’t lose faith, so asks Radcliffe to use the Book to open a portal and get them. Unfortunately, the book can control a human mind, so he introduces Aida and they use her to read the book and open a portal to get the three guys back. All goes well, until we see Aida start using the information she read to create a “brain”, and I can only assume that she’s starting to build one for herself – are we going to have another Ultron situation again? But while Robbie was in the other dimension, the Devil entered Mack and used him, but eventually Robbie and Daisy were able to put the Devil back in Robbie, but not before Mack and Robbie decide to work together to get their vengeance first. Oh and poor Simmons is taken to an unknown location and managed to free a man from his terragenesis case, I think he has something to do with the Senator that the Director keeps talking to, maybe it’s her brother???
Quantico E08
So this weeks class is about creating a cover for their Thanksgiving break, and all manage to do it except for Dayana, but she just doesn’t want to go see her family. We learn about Harry’s adoptive family and his mission with MI6, gathering contacts in America before Brexit goes through and they lose their connections. There’s also more about his lover/boyfriend Elliot – he may have been his adoptive brother? Not too sure about that though. Alex finds out that Shelby is no longer her handler and she’s being taken off the mission, but refuses to go and Ryan finally proposes to her as well. But here’s the interesting part – the AIC manages to get Leon, Ryan and Dayana all accomplices to a murder and have taped the whole thing, which means they now control them. In the flash forward part, Raina finds out about Nimah’s involvement with the Citizens Liberation Front. Miranda, Shelby and Alex are given 48 mins to unarm the biological weapon before the army calls a drone strike, but Alex realises that the bomb is to go off inside the building, so clearly there’s someone inside that is to be killed. But just as they are making their escape, Alex, Harry, Leon, Seb and Dayana are captured – and one of the masked men is Ryan. Ooooooohhhhhhh 
Supergirl E08
Cadmus decides to eliminate as many aliens as possible because they’ve just had enough, so deploy a gas bomb in the alien bar, just missing Mon-El as he leaves and follows Hank out of the bar. He gets some of the gas and collapses, and Alex’s mum comes to the rescue. She also figures out that Cadmus needs a device to help them launch the gas into the atmosphere so Supergirl gives Lena a visit, asking her to help, but she doesn’t believe her that her mother is evil and doesn’t help. So we end up at the mid-season finale, Lena has given her mother the device and the gas-bomb is deployed, but J’onn and Supergirl arrive. Supergirl takes on the rocket launcher while J’onn embraces his new/transforming White Martian body to fight Hank and while he defeats him, the bomb goes off… but nothing. Turns out that Miss Lena Luthor is still good despite her terrible family and switched out the devices, and called the police, getting her mother arrested and ending Cadmus’ projects. All in all, the episode and arc ended well for the year, Alex comes out to her mum and Maggie tells her she wants them to be together, Mon-El kisses Kara but then denies remembering it… and Barry and Cisco come to fetch Kara and take her to their Earth! 
The Flash E08 / Arrow E08 / Legends of Tomorrow E07 crossover
Ok, I’m not going to go into the absolutely details of the crossover because it would take me forever, but I really liked it. There were some parts which I didn’t like and some that I really did, but that always happens. The story is fairly simple – Barry comes across a spaceship with “Dominators” who had once come in 1951, killed a lot of people and them disappeared. They’ve now come back because the threat of metas on Earth is increasing since Flashpoint and they want Barry to surrender or they’ll start eliminating metas worldwide. So he gets the help of Team Arrow, Team Legends and Supergirl to help get rid of them. Of course things don’t go to plan. Stein and Jax tell Barry about their cryptic message from the future, and Barry tells everyone about Flashpoint – John’s daughter no longer existing, Caitlin’s powers and Stein finds out his new timeline resulted in a daughter. The team gets over their issues, and with a bit of time travel and team work, they manage to get rid of the aliens and return everyone to their appropriate Earth/cities/time machines. So things that I liked: although some parts got pretty heavy, Barry, Felicity and Kara managed to keep the quirkiness and humour up. You also got to see a deeper side to Oli and his relationship with Barry and we also get to see everyone’s relationships build. Cisco realises that Barry only did what he can after Flashpoint and forgives him for what happened. Things I didn’t like – the middle Arrow episode. I can see why they did what they did, it was the 100th episode and they brought back characters that had left/died (Moira, Tommy, Roy, Laurel) but there was a serious lack of cross-over material in the episode, which was really disappointing. The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow episodes had more cast members in it and were much more enjoyable, but I guess they did need some depth, and that’s when Arrow came in.
NCIS: LA E10 – the team finds out that the woman who was hitting on Granger at a bar is involved in their case with the mole in NCIS.
New Girl E08 – Jess becomes the principal of her school and Nick gets a tattoo as a Cece and Schmidt’s wedding present.
The Big Bang Theory E10 – Sheldon and Leonard fight over splitting their possessions, Stuart and Raj fight over taking care of Howard and Bernie and then Bernie goes into labour!!!!
Supernatural E07 – Lucifer uses his rockstar fame to get more followers (for fun) but is stopped by Sam, Dean, Crowley and Cas so leaves his decaying vessel in search for a new one.
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