And her whole deal loses a lot of subtext when the Talosians spell it out for the audience in the pilot. "Although she seems to lack emotion, this is largely a pretence. She has often has fantasies involving [Pike]."

There are all the quest hooks. The characters we're following seem oddly uninterested in them, but presumably that's what most paying customers are doing, saving attractive victims from owlhoots or pulling off great train robberies or finding Curly's gold as suits their interest.

Yeah— I thought that if anything it was a little early to try to revive the name of the organization that spent decades not noticing that its archfoe was encapsulated within it, and was totally fine with the idea of Unaccountable Assassination Helicarriers right up till the moment the non-suborned fraction found out…

"Welcome to SHIELD HQ. It has been ___ days since we have been infiltrated by HYDRA."

Inhumans are clearly inheriting the "hated and feared on being outed, even by people who know them" mantle from the mutants they're subbing for.

IIRC, Frasier explained some of them (e.g., his saying his father was dead) as him just lying to the folks in Boston.

It's actually pretty traditional for DC to treat time travel differently in different series, despite the ostensible shared universe. In the Silver Age, Superman stories had a bunch of firm rules for time travel (no existing in the same place twice, no changing history, etc.) that Flash stories routinely violated.

they have one of the first (first ever?) live-action depiction of an iconic superhero who's been around since the 40s,

Rory and Snart alone were able to hold their own against Barry.

Indeed. Attractive people in compromising situations? On a CW show? Shame on anyone involved for even thinking such a thing might be appropriate.

"Sara" is literally written in stone:
http://vignette2.wikia.noco…

Another option for someone whose entire shtick is projectile weapons would be to use one. (Even if they're not formally armed, use that nigh-superhuman unerring aim to throw a shoe at it or something.) Pull an Ender's Game and separate the stated goal (ring the bell) from the apparent one (defeat or get past the guy…

"Look, if anyone in the Arrowcave served time for all the murders they committed, we'd never have a team."

He tried to operate the salmon ladder with shirt on. Rookie mistake.

Flash has Gorilla Grodd. (And they've at least hinted at Gorilla City.) I'm not giving up on Kandor so easily.

I'm assuming we'll just get a "previously" that includes the Flash scene with Felicity explaining it. Which may be the entire reason that of all the people in all the gin joints in all the world, it was Felicity he decided to have that conversation with rather than someone in his own supporting cast.

"In '85, no, but in 2017 there was this incident involving Geo-Force, Starman, and this guy named Thom Kallor from the 31st century…"

Although since one of the things that will be affected going forward is everyone who will ever travel in time after that, there could actually be secondary effects on the past.

That is perfect casting, and now I really want them to do it.

If that means we also get to see Captain Marvel, Mister Tawky Tawny, and Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, I'm on board.