Smallville was just so so bad but it was also so insane it somehow made up for that*

One of the best things about Nora was that she never "raised her eyebrows" at Nick's lowlife friends. She loved those mooks and they all loved Mrs. Charles.

But the second one can teach you how to throw a New Year's Party in someone else's house

"That was my first blow job… and that kids is how I met your Aunt Manny's husband"

totally agree with all of this. I'm the same age and "Shout" was absolutely my first experience with defining rape and I think it was perfect in teaching kids about it (rapists can be anyone, they don't have to be strangers, you need to tell an adult, no one will get mad at you, if someone you know is going through it…

I think it works by tackling all the issues because they're are so many episodes that there is bound to be an episode that you are 100% going to relate to

Spinner gets knocked down all the places for marrying Emma

I like to think that Arrow is the CW's present and apology for those of us that stuck with Smallville to the final, bitter end and I expect better from it.

I think Slade will stay around for another season at least, at least on the island, because Waller knows Slade and I don't think they're going to start Waller backstory until season 3.

Sarah: "HIVE work is clean, professional. It's surgical with them. In a way they're the only organization I still respect"

A book he still has… it's great that he's not killing all of them but most of the people in there were doing pretty illegal shit

Not to mention the Arrow and Black Canary ran off holding hands last week. It would be hilarious if he thinks Sarah's cheating on Oliver with the Arrow and finds it all too awkward to bring up.

The best moment of the episode- and I think the point where you can clearly see that Island Oliver is going to be the Arrow is when he, who's just spent hours getting tortured by Slade for his supposed "choice", puts himself between Sarah and a gun again. That's just what he's going to do from now on.

I also didn't like the Felicity moment. Sarah was making good, logical points and Felicity just told Oliver what he wanted to hear. Roy is somewhat right in that the team often affirms Oliver when they should be taking a step back to look at the situation.

My opinion is that he doesn't know. Last week Laurel almost died and this week Thea was kidnapped- if he knew he wouldn't maintain the pretense when something important as that happened.

And he hijacks a bus full of prisoners- is there anything more classic comic book villain than that?

For me, the line of the night went to Alexei: "When did you get so scary?"

"I didn't understand that, but it had the cadence of a ransom demand"

I find it strange that they devoted all their time to the dangers of the particle accelerator and then when it actually blew up they stopped talking about it all together.

I'm thinking maybe the daughter of that guy Robert Queen killed that one time.