Geekly Daily 111 (Wednesday, April 24th):

Now Playing:
Now Listening:  Game of Thrones Aftershow podcasts
Now Watching: Captain America Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Now Reading:  
Now Writing: Dakotah Slade Paranormal/Investigator
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Daily Geekly News Headlines:
April 24th:
 ➤ Science on quarks
https://www.livescience.com/65295-what-is-strong-nuclear-force.html
 ➤ New Joss Whedon show coming to HBo. Casts lead female
https://news.avclub.com/laura-donnelly-to-play-peak-joss-whedon-heroine-in-new-1834245970
 ➤ DC universe streaming service now has every DC comic. Swamp thing season 1 shrunk from 13 episodes to 10. Similar to Titans, which it should be noted turned out good in the end, despite disappointing finale. Expect the same here.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/23/dc-universe-whole-comics-library-available/
 ➤ Finn possibly done after Star Wars 9. But I doubt it.
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-john-boyega-finn-future/
 ➤ Female Doc Ock main villain of planned Spider-verse series?
https://screenrant.com/spiderman-spider-verse-doc-ock-sequels/
 ➤ Earth quake on mars. Marsquake.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/listen-up-weve-detected-our-first-marsquake/
 ➤ Fortnite developers in never ending crunch?
https://screenrant.com/fortnite-employees-work-100-hours-week/
April 23rd:
➤ Mortal Kombat 11 releases and is good, apparently!
https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-11-review-roundup/
➤ Samsung Galaxy fold gets delayed after people find their phones only actually bend once.
➤ Fortnite is getting a crossover with the Avengers Endgame
https://screenrant.com/fortnite-adding-avengers-endgame-content/
➤ Avengers endgame early showing reactions are in.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-spoiler-free-first-reactions-to-avengers-endgame-1834217337
➤ Planned series Mouse Guard by Fox gets cancelled. Based on awesome graphic novel, it's a shame.
April 22nd:
➤ The Game Boy and Yoshi turns 30 apparently. Big month for Nintendo.
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Geekly Weekly TV Rankings (➤ for new) ( I live tweet shows on twitter, but try  to keep those spoiler-lite @AndrewGeczy)

1. Game of Thrones *****
   Great episode this week. A lot of people, including myself, were hoping for some action this week, and on my glance this episode doesn't have any. But that's not completely true. Arya gets some action, if you know what I mean. Her scene with Gendry was awesome. In fact, practically every scene was awesome. I was on the edge of my seat squeeling like a little school girl at lines of dialogue. I love this show so much. Only 4 episodes left :( and I'm really afraid about how there was so much of a focus who would be in the battle, and who would be in the crypts with the children, women, and elderly. If the theory that the Night King might raise the dead in the crypts, it could be a blood bath of their most vulnerable people! I'm almost certain that's how next week will play out. That Tyrion will survive, but what he sees will be so horrible that it'll lead him to make a horribly fateful choice at king's landing to kill everyone in the city before they can be turned into an army against him.
2.  ➤ The Flash *****Hey! The flash beat Killing Eve this week. And what a great episode it was. Some fans of the Flash, the ones complaining when things got dark in season 3, might hate this episode. It was a lot of drama, but what impressed me was how good the drama was written. The argument between Iris and Barry felt so real, and treated their relationship with more maturity and respect than I might have ever seen on TV. This is all we want, Relationships don't have to be boring. They are constant work, and this episode did a great job of actualizing that. I also really enjoyed Thawne, just more and more every episode. I've been really confused by him, unsure what to think of him. Has he changed? Is he manipulating her? DOes he have an agenda? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but by the end of the episode I agree with Iris, I think he actually cares about her. I think he sees her as family, and it's his love for her and the affection she gives him in return that broke him free from the anger of the negative force.
3. Killing Eve ****1/2
   It was a fine episode of the show. One without a lot of stand out moments. It might even be one of the weaker episodes of the show, which means absolutely nothing at all, and I'm still tempted to give it five stars. I love every second of this show. I was disappointed last week with the return of Konstantin, but he was great this week and I enjoyed his inclusion a lot. I enjoyed nearly every scene with Villanelle and can't believe what she's been doing to Eve's husband, the poor guy. Villanelle sure knows how to stir shit. I just hated the whole "They were sooooooo close but no cigar!" thing. I want them to interact, to work together. To fall in love and be together forever. To make out and sleep together, have a crazy night of passion. Which is likely wishful thinking, but I can dream. That razor in the lipstick though, harsh.
4. Legends of Tomorrow ****
   Fun episode of Legends of Tomorrow that also strangely pushed what I thought was the main storyline forward as a subplot in the episode. Like this episode told 4 stories, and Neron's arc was just one of them, given barely equal time. Now Constantine's boyfriend is free from his possession, and it felt a little rushed, but I can't really complain because everything this episode was fun. There were great moments throughout, and Ray is just too much fun. This whole season he's both been one of the show's greatest joys every time he's on camera, but at the same time his character has had absolutely nothing to do. He has no where to really grow, he is who he is and he's happy with it. And it's fun to watch, but it must be frustrating as an actor and I've been fearing his departure from the show. I think adding his wife to the cast was a way to make the show more fulfilling for him, so maybe he's in for the long hall. If Neron doesn't kill him first.
5. American Gods ****
   Fun focus on Mads Sweeny for the entire episode, though you could pretty much tell from the beginning where the episode was headed. It was a fitting send off, I suppose, and interesting despite my lack of much interest. I almost gave up on this show this week, but I'm happy I stuck around, especially if there's just one episode left.
6. Supergirl ****
   Good episode this week, the funnest parts being with Brainy and his little subplot, but the primary story was an enjoyably complex exploration of who Supergirl is and how what she does can cause as much trouble as good. Though it's a topic brought up a lot by villains, I thought when the one guy int hat prison was telling her off, he made some good points. I was almost impressed by the writing of his character, and how Supergirl was continuing to delve into complicated issues, but his character and the depth of the story was undercut somewhat by the extreme contrast between how much he hated Supergirl and how much he absolutely loved Kara Danver's reporting in Catco Magazine. It was cartoonish, to say the least. Also I definintely do not want to see Alex get with James Olsen's therapist sister. I don't want it. I just don't like her.
7. Into the Badlands ***1/2
   I hate condensed storytelling. We're getting it in Game of Thrones and they're barely getting a pass because they are just so good. But even then I hate the way characters aren't even given time to process revelations. The worst offender of condensed story telling is Dollhouse season two. But also you can check out any CW DC crossover event. It's so much fun when we jump from scene to scene so fast, and we can't even slow down enough to capture people's reactions to things. I swear to god, there's even been CW crossovers where they've edited out the pauses between lines. Like completely. To the point where it was jarring. Anyway, so Into the badlands has been alright, but I'm done giving it a pass. It's grown too ambitious, our awesome main character has done like nothing all half season, this story is way too rushed to make any sense. The battle was actually surprisingly good, in that it was clever all the traps they laid out. The actually fighting felt like all the fighting in the rest of these final episodes. Like the show is yadda yaddaing through the cool martial arts fights to get back to cramming in the plot. I would love for Nix and Tilda to build a relationship, but we don't have time for that. They get a scene. A very confusing scene. Don't get me wrong, this show is great, with stand out moments, and great characters and cool fights of which there was some pretty good stuff here. It's just suffering hard from the good ol' condensed storytelling.
8. Arrow ***
   Rough episode of Arrow this week. I got really excited the moment I recognized Ernie Hudson, which was the moment he walked in the room even though I was high as a kite. I'm like Wait, Diggle, who ya gonna call? It was hard to buy into Diggle's plot of being super mad at Ernie, cause he's just so damn likable. Anyway what followed was what can only be described as a terrible episode. The show really bent over backwards to force a laughable torture scene. The escape was just as laughable. This episode had a really difficult grasp on how technology works. Oh and then they killed off the highlander at the end, in a shitty anti-climatic way that was supposed to make Emiko seem bad ass, but just made me sad we'd be getting no more Adrian Paul. There were some good moments, like the fights were alright, and Ernie Hudson WAS infectious even if it was ridiculous how he was just suddenly in the arrow cave and going back to back with the vigilantes, but then when his team could have been useful in forming a perimeter and stopping that dangerous macguffin from escaping by van, they were like "Nah, we got this." It was so bad it was funny at points, and I suppose that has to be worth something.

Geekly Weekly Talk Show Showdown:

1. Vice Special Report: Automation in the Workplace ***** (April 20th)
2. Last Week Tonight ***** (April 21st)
3. ➤ The Daily Show *** (April 23rd)
4. Stephen Colbert ** (April 19th)