Minnesota addendum:

Ha, look slightly to the right!

Yesss, another opportunity to rave about Arrow! I LOVE this show. So good! I mainlined S1 after I heard S2 was getting better and better, and I loved it! I hope it stays good. I loved-loved-loved the introduction of Barry Allen. What an awesome way to portray another superhero who is so different from Oliver, all…

SAM

I just said this to our 3-yr-old yesterday! (Without the Luke part.)

She's the 'protagonist' but the story really is about the whole ensemble, not just her. She makes active decisions, so she's not just an object or a plot point, but this is definitely not a 'chosen one' sort of story. I like your sentence! Thanks!

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Oooh, thanks!

Ok guys, how's this:

She really is the crux of how great Arrow is—except I have to admit that Stephen Amell is a really amazing actor and the show would be crap without him as the lead. And Diggle is absolutely essential to the cast chemistry too. So, OT3!!!

Ok, ok, you got me to smile, BUT I WAS ALREADY SMILING

...I know... I wasn't saying you called me aggressive. I was stating something, independent of you.

Who? I'm not trying to be aggressive here, I'm actually curious who people think would have been good. I'm not all up on actors who can sing, so I don't think I'd be able to come up with anyone. (Then again, I don't think they should have done the whole thing in the first place.)

...you mean because Jamie Foxx is playing Electro?

It's because if Sony doesn't make a Spiderman movie every certain number of years (10? or maybe something else was in the licensing agreement), the rights to the character go back to Marvel. They don't want to lose the rights. That's all. That's it.

He was amazing in Chronicle. Absolutely amazing. He's also in Kill Your Darlings, which I haven't seen but I hear he's amazing.

3... 2... 1...

See, that's the thing—she has always been a whole character, since her very first scene. I can buy the change in wardrobe because it seems like something I could see her doing by choice—she's a nerd, yeah, but she has been wearing more and more cute, fashionable dresses this season. Also that cutout thing is really in…

I saw it as her being so PTSD-scarred that she just couldn't open up her feelings in the way someone who had never experienced war could. I thought Collins wanted that distance and numbness to be a consequence of war. I could be wrong, though.

I'll throw in a dissenting opinion: you get to pick your attitude about your name. People constantly say the wrong name for me, or pronounce it wrong. I get to pick whether I'm infuriated by this or not, and I choose to be chill. I like to think that having to deal with small irritations helps me keep bigger problems…