Monday Media Musings - 4/5/21

The Flash, Season 7, Ep 1-3: Looking back on previous journal entries, it looks like I mostly stopped writing about Arrowverse stuff in mid-March, which is also around the time I paused this weekly blog series. ( Some general Arrowverse commentary )

But then I was underwhelmed by the Batwoman S2 premiere, and soon after I lost track of when everything was premiering, and the CW app is a terrible watching experience, and we'd put our YouTubeTV subscription on pause, and let our HBO Max subscription lapse in favor of Disney+, and by the time YouTubeTV was back (we timed it to come back at the beginning of April, to coincide with baseball season), I only had the four most recent episodes of each show available to me -- which means I'm missing several Batwoman eps and, most irritatingly, episodes 2-5 of Superman & Lois, which I'm really eager to check out. (Fortunately the first episode re-runs tonight, so I'll be able to catch it soon). So the only real option was The Flash, and I watched the first three episodes. ( Spoilers for 7:1 - 7:3 )

Outlander, Season 4: Well, okay. Things I liked: Brianna and Lord John, Claire and Jamie, a bigger role for Fergus and Marsali. Things I didn't like: the vast changes from the book to the Roger plotline and what's happening with the Regulators. I have a hard time caring much about Roger and Brianna in this version of the universe and almost found myself wishing she'd ended up in the partnership with Lord John instead. I suppose I'll keep watching it, but I wish they'd trusted the source material more.