Order of the Phoenix is also my favorite of the books and it truly is a rarity to see someone else think the same. All alone no longer.

No wonder the town was so depressed, it wasn't the nefarious government forces taking control but rather their inability to tune into DJ Alak Tarr's sweet radio show.

"When we last saw Alak in the first season, he was part of a Romeo and Juliet teenaged love storyline that threatened to drag down everything around it."

I love, love, love the DragonStrike video. Owned it as a kid and watched it an ungodly number of times.

But Simmons is too adorable for me to not tune in.

Damn right. Also a fan of quality television.

I would forgive a great many of the show's sins if Fitz' trauma causes him to gain a different accent. The worse the better, as far as I am concerned.

Don't you see?! Fitz won't be smart next year and that was his whole identity! Drama!
What use can he be to the team without his big ol' brain? Drama!!
How can he win Simmons' heart now that he isn't as smart as she is? Drama!!!

This was bad. So, so, so bad.

So after enjoying(more or less) the premiere this episode comes around and just about does everything wrong for me. The problems I had with the premiere are still around, the biggest being that after all this time, the different country and the different circumstances, this still feels like the exact same show(You…

Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow!

This is going to make me sound like the pretentious prick I occasionally am but: If the only music you listen to is the mainstream, generic, hear it 100 times a day on the radio Top 40, then that is a dealbreaker.

Lackluster episode. I mean, sure, it is better than a lot of the earlier bland episodes but it is not like it has made some monumental turnaround.

Thank you for writing this, that last sentence perfectly articulates how I generally feel about him.

Oh Arrow you awesome so and so.

Hey, I'm not saying we should lure him away from his home in the dead of night, hogtie him, and leave him for dead in the woods far from the bright lights and gentle warmth of society or anything, but he is of a certain archetype(let us call it the Buffoon Hero) that I really dislike.

That is an insult of the highest order, sir. I listened to a lot of crap in my younger years but I never fell sway to that 2000s-ish rap-rock nonsense.

Perfect.

Question time: Does anyone else hate Steven as much as I do?

It can't "needlessly drag out tension" if there is no tension to drag out. This episode had a sequence with a superpowered crazy person stalking a lone woman in the night and there was no atmosphere, no menace.