Game of Thrones is impressive in terms of its production values and little else. And its production values are impressive only in terms of the amount of money that goes into them, it's rare that the production value is propped up by any sort of fantastic creative choices. For instance, the art direction for Meereen…

I want to be excited for this, but I am increasingly of the opinion that this is a rather middling show.

I love that this incredibly dark season ended up being what is the strangest tribute to a departed cast member I have ever seen.

People are supposed to do stupid things due to character flaws, not to advance the plot. Pride? Conceit? Cowardice? These are the things that lead to stupidity. One person just making a mistake works. But having it be the status quo does not.

Even if the first one were true, which I don't think it is, the second one could be true separately. Potential to harm and potential to benefit can occur independently of each other.

I'd rather watch this season of Flash three times than watch Arrow season 4 once.

Oh shit, she's Caitlin right down to having her love interest die!

I'd say it more makes The Flash seem stupid. Eobard is a genius on all things speed force. It makes no sense that he wouldn't have known about cold as a solution. Black Flash was presented as unstoppable. This was another instance where a DCCW show decided to punk out a character for absolutely no reason.

How did I miss that?

That is what AoS would do.

I'd love for Caitlin to join the Legends.

The differences between how Legends and The Flash treated Black Flash is a good illustration of the gulf in quality between their writing. On the former, he was a force of nature, an otherwordly embodiment of the speedforce's rage. On the latter, just some dumb fast zombie.

This is one of those situations where I enjoyed the last few minutes solely because of my personal tastes, rather than quality. I really like the quasi-religious speedforce stuff. Also, on an actual quality note: Caitlin's decision was well-framed as a meaningful choice, even if her gaining control of her personality…

I can see that issue with The Flash, although I liked that it acknowledged Flashpoint and everything that it caused in a major way, so that kindof ameliorated the "doesn't learn from his mistakes" problem.

" I feel like it's time to bury this particular complaint that has no effect whatsoever and accept that the writers want Oliver and Felicity together so they will be"

I didn't really feel any chemistry between them in this episode - I think at this point I've just seen too many iterations of them "circling" each other - but I thought their scenes together were written really well, and if they keep up that level of confident relationship writing that's more than good enough for me.

I think your critiques are fair as critiques more than taste issues. Probably because I feel the same way on these issues, especially Chase going from "chess master" and expert-fighter to a just begging Oliver to kill him because reasons. I loved the action and the journey to the temple, but I would have loved more…

Probably second best for me.
Legends was stronger, thanks to the fact everything that happened paid-off a season-long arc for the characters that featured more developed and consistent evidence of change. Oliver can yell about the fact that he's not a killer all he wants, but the fact remains that he hired Russian…

I agree with you with this show, because the cliffhanger was nothing more than "what happens next?" But LoT and Flash both had cliffhangers that directly resulted from actions that the heroes took, and which will require specific story-driven responses. They're propulsive events that created a definitive premise to…

That was… pretty good? It was a weird mix of stuff I thought was done perfectly and stuff that seemed kindof random. While Chase defaulting to suicide was set-up, it also kinda took the wind out of his sails in terms of his presence as a threat. The defeat of Talia was similarly underwhelming in scope, if not in…