Yep, but "Wayne Tech" without Bruce Wayne and Gotham on the air? Seems like fan service that won't ever come true :(

I keep waiting for her to be friendly. At that point, I don't want anything else. Make her do whatever, put herself in danger and all since that's apparently indispensable, but if the writers could just make her "friendly" and not automatically "angry/self-righteous", I promise I'll get on board with her.

I keep thinking that I wouldn't mind if suddenly Caitlin "absorbed" Cisco. Not in a sexual creepy way (unless that's your thing).

and by entertaining you mean you have a ton of ammunition of snark that you can throw at Laurel when nothing comes to mind regarding Iris?

Yep, but season1!Laurel was way better than Iris. She had an actual storyline, a purpose and things apart from the Hood (mostly she was supportive of Tommy and it worked). She also kicked ass, which was then completely forgotten.

Yeah that was bad.

Heh… My money's on the kid. He blames Oliver for his parents' divorce.

I know it's technically a spoiler, but I hope you'll be happy to hear that there's an epic shirtless!Oliver scene in episode 309. Granted, we still have, like, two more episode of hunks wearing clothes but it did soothe my pain a little.

That was sort of the point of my comment, tbh. It sounds like we learnt more (random) detail that we'd never heard of before, yet I'm 78% sure it won't come into play by the end of that mystery which will bother me. Felicity is apparently okay with drawing blood, analyzing it and she's turned into a ballistic expert…

I've been side-eyeing that ring since season 1. I have no explanation. Feel free to do the same as me.

Nope, no surprise, but still nice because even though I noticed it like you, I figured that it was a good idea to plant the possibility earlier in the episode. So it was rewarding for the careful viewer and surprising for the others. I'm more disturbed by the amount of good/efficient archers roaming the streets of…

The way I see it, Roy and Oliver hooking up would mean the return of shirtless scenes. If it gets Roy killed in the process, I think I'll be okay.

Surely, they'll hold off his escaping Lian Yu for season 5 or 6, won't they? To prevent Oliver and Felicity's wedding or something?

"Don't abandon me!" "Never."
"Do you trust me?" "Always." (so much subtlety, amirite?)

The problem is: in both cases, Laurel and Iris are introduced as "The One", that the hero will never stop loving and blah blah blah. Yet the superhero keeps lying again and again and shows focus and go back to these characters whom we won't care about because we can't identify with them.

That. Absolutely that.
And the Salmon Ladder would tag along, badgering Diggle about how "he never climbed her and [she] feels really lonely".

I hear you. To me, it's most definitely a problem of writing Laurel. They want to make her so badass but they never take the time to make their stories make sense. I mean, Laurel could have just shaken her head behind Ted to Oliver, or just said "But we were together this entire time". Granted, Ted could have been…

You're preaching to the choir here. I would watch a Diggle episode over anything Roy-related any day.

With his gangster mask. I'm never getting over it.

He apparently couldn't do Thea back when.
And, thank god, he can't parkour either. He's too cool for parkour.