I'm thinking that maybe Rachel has a stage of the Generic Coughing Disease. It would explain why she's rushing to study the genomes.

So, the birdwatcher at the end asked Mrs. S "Who are these children you brought into our lives?" And Mrs. S replied, "They're Project Leda"

Maybe Slade is just going to repeat the same scenario over and over. Isabel and Blood have already written out their prediction brackets. It would be the shittiest tournament ever.

I actually just meant Alexy- they've proven to be friends in the flashbacks and maybe he will want revenge for the killing of bratva guy.

I know that the kid has to be named Connor from the comics. But a genre show adding a kid named Connor… they might want to take a minute to think about that before they go down that road.

Thea "New Tommy" Merlyn

I'm already tearing up from this episode and you had to go bring up Bratva Guy. You were too good for this world, Bratva guy!

So as for Sara's mysterious old friend, I'm rooting for it to be the KGBeast.

It would be great to see Sara and Malcolm show up together in the finale, but wouldn't she have told Oliver if she knew he was alive?

Oliver finally found the one thing magical island herbs can't cure.

Agreed. The only other way it could have gone was Diggle and Felicity and that would have just broken everyone's hearts.

I'm just so glad Channel 52 got some of that sweet sweet graphic footage to show everyone.

So is this the start of Speedy? Just like Robert died to save his son, Moira died to save her daughter, thus traumatizing her daughter for life and probably instilling in her a desire to shoot people with arrows. It's in the DNA.

I blame my Sarah Survival Obsession for not realizing that it would be Moira and Thea instead of Laurel and Sarah in the "Make him choose" moment.

Sarah could also track down Nyssa and Ollie could break Helena out of jail and we could have the most awesome finale team up ever.

I think it was such a powerful moment when Moira realized they were both on the island because I think to that point Moira always believed that what was happening to her family was due to her involvement with Merlyn, so she's finally cleared of her sin right before she dies…and only adding to Ollie's anguish.

the last flashback was much harder to watch than even Moira's death. I never thought I would feel sympathy for Pre-Island Douchebag Ollie but his tearing up was perfect. He still thinks he got off easy- but he has enough heart to feel something.

I'm debating whether or not Malcolm would care enough to declare revenge on Slade. I'm thinking not, but a Slade v. Malcolm All Out War for Season Three would be fantastic.

Also the line "I wish that courage had been passed down to your son" or whatever- fuck you, Slade. That is exactly what Oliver did when he was forced to choose. He told Ivo to kill him instead.

I actually didn't mind that part- just the Ivo part. He spent all this time looking for Mirakuru and also managed to come up with a cure for a mythical superdrug