The Thinker: His Secret Identity Reminds Me of This

I really liked his origins, but I was disappointed they didn't bridge that with what he is doing in present day; and can only guess they are trying to tease that out, so as not to give away his motivations or plan too soon. But as you said, it creates this incongruent inconsistency in the character, that makes it seem more like a flaw in the writing.

I do find him a little interesting, but I hate the heavy-handed interaction with Barry. Barry getting so obsessed in the one episode was dumb. He and Joe visit them once, and Barry stops for a single follow up in a more or less public space, albeit talking in private, rather than in front of his students, and all of a sudden they have a claim for harassment? That just seemed like bullshit. Their indignation, especially the wife's, was kind of grating, I think mainly because we knew it was an act; and might have worked better had we not known yet who they really were. But then Barry breaks into the house, which was dumb in itself, and doesn't use his super speed and gets caught on camera?? Jesus tap-dancing Christ, that all annoyed me.


Lois and Clark started off so well, and then seemed to take a dive in production value; and took the scripts and characters right along with it. Suddenly the streets started looking fake as shit, Dean Cain stopped flying for the most part, instead he'd flap his cape as he jumped off frame - something Supergirl has kind of started to do - and most of the plots started getting lame and cheesy. Funny how they also lost Cat Grant after the first season.
Tempus was an excellent villain, all the way around. And likewise, loved the actually time-travelling HG Wells as a friend to Lois and Clark.

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