When Jasper wanted to wander off into the forest, I was literally yelling at the tv for Bellamy to just let him go. Then he'd probably die out there on his own and the show would no longer be saddled with such a useless/annoying character.

I read it more as that he just generally feels a connection with her - she's gone out of her way to make him feel included and non-judged, so it makes that he would still reach out to her.

There's always room for redemption. She was pretty vengeance-driven through the entirety of her screentime and didn't care one whit about collateral. Having a Helena who was trying to move on from the dark deeds of her past could be immensely compelling.

But that's kind of the point - each side was complicating the situation in equal measure. Mick's reasons for going with Snart were understandable from his perspective, while the team's anger at his betrayal was equally understandable. And it all just spirals from there. They're dancing around each other and finding…

I also appreciated the story complications. I fully expected the just to undo the reality change using the Spear - but with it destroyed, Amaya dead, and Stein not himself, things are in a wonderfully dire situation. I'm genuinely invested in seeing how they get it out of it.

Eva Longoria would make a stellar villain, I'm sure.

That's fair. At the same time, it doesn't help that 98% of women on tv are thin.

Oh, I hope not. I rather liked Huntress; when they revealed her face, for a split-second I was excited because I thought it was a long-awaited reappearance of Helena. But alas.

I freaked out at Amaya's death, but I take comfort in the fact that it will likely be undone next week. I really want her to come back next season.

Well, last season Perd Hapley was National City's local newsman…

Something like that.

True, but my point is more that if it were an ongoing thing, it would be a problem Say, for example, if Kara was constantly having to be rescued by Mon-El.

Arrow gave us Nyssa, Lyla, Moira, and Sara, among others. Something I will always love it for.

And once again, I've completely forgotten that James is CEO of CatCo.

But they only got into a romantic relationship the last few episodes before the crossover. Which is why they had to kind of rush things into the breakup.

Yeah, it would've made more sense for him to go after the alien, but then we wouldn't have gotten to see him be so utterly useless against Mon-El.

Yep - the hidden princess trope is exactly what I was thinking of during this episode. And that Mon-El had so many things happening to him in an episode like this - while Kara got to be the pro-active hero - says loads.

Well, they kind of broke up abruptly, too. And since both came about largely to justify the musical, I think we can just attribute it to the need to write around the crossover.

I would be all for an Evil Trifecta.

What struck me about the Mon-El material is how much he played the role of the typical girlfriend. From the gender-swapped opening (she flies off to save people while he does housework) to needing to be rescued (again). He may be getting a lot of screentime, but it's still pretty clear in details like this that he's…