I'm hoping that he's related to Diggle instead.

To be fair, if this was the Flash, it would have been a sentient building from Earth-3 who was also Jay Garrick.

Loved that the gang was getting sued for their airline miles and steak scam.

I agree with you about the supporting characters. Just seeing Mike and Ike, James the IT guy, and the janitor standing around holding the Lucy Church signs was adorable.

You mean Headquarters! The exclamation point is very important.

I noticed that when Barry and Jessie were talking about phasing, there's a clear cut to Iron Mask listening in. I wondered if it was a clue that he's from earth 1 and couldn't phase out either (and didn't have a helpful doppelganger pep talk)

He's clearly Zoom. It's all part of a really long con.

Jessie been at that cell for what, two months? And she never thought before that he could be trying to tell her something?

I'm thinking there's four? Twins on both earths gives us Earth 1 Hunter (park guy), Earth 1 Jay (Iron Mask), Earth 2 Jay (ours), and Earth 2 Hunter (Zoom).

I now think it's Oliver because tapping on the glass in POW code (he probably learned it on the island) instead of using charades sounds like the kind of dumbass thing he would do.

The flashbacks become hilarious if you pretend that Oliver is actively remembering the flashback in the scene. "Making up with Felicity and telling her until death do us part reminds me of the time I had to put a gun to my head"

I want them to do a Legends of Tomorrow episode set in Oliver's flashbacks where even they comment on how boring the island is.

Why didn't they just pick up Felicity's dad from whatever national park he's hiding in and have him give her a pep talk?

Did Kratz even watch the documentary (not surprised if he didn't)? Because the bullet in the garage is also covered pretty extensively.

I love that she got to save the day because when Darhk thought about "Oliver Queen's closest loved ones", he didn't think about Laurel.

I'm quite surprised the writers didn't make Barry's last minute holiday guest be Oliver showing up on his doorstep telling him that something's happened with Felicity.

While "Nyssa Marriage" is up there, I still vote for "Shado's Twin" as the most repressed storyline from season 3. It will only be remembered by the show if Slade escapes and Oliver pays her to hang around him and pretend to be a ghost to mess with his head.

I see it as Bear receiving his cosmic comeuppance. The scene where he kills Simone seems to imply some kind of alien presence by how it's shot. Bear thought he got away with the perfect crime because no one was watching (which is interesting how he references God in this episode) but the aliens only intervene when it…

So is the name "Hanzee Dent" and Martin Freeman's presence a clue to how this thing is going to end?

He does now that the shapeshifter mentioned it.