Yeah, the organizers thought of that but it turns out it's just not economically efficient to enslave rich kids and work them to death, they wear out so quickly.

This is basically Iron Fist's origin story, as I recall.

Hm, maybe it's time for me to reread The War of the Flowers.

Addiction's unpredictable though, isn't it? It affects folks differently. I could start and stop smoking cigarettes at will through my 20s, and it was no problem at all when I decided to stop for good (well, I still enjoy smoking but have maybe 2-3 cigarettes per year). My partner was prescribed morphine and used it…

Wouldn't you?

That's fair, and another thing I like about the relationship, as I also wrote elsewhere in this thread, is how it challenges labels.

See but this is part of what I like about it. Like many things in this show it challenges pat labels. They share a home, they cook together, they cuddle on the couch, they go out together. To me that's a big-R Relationship, and I'd call it romantic. Now if she still watches them have sex then she's also sexually…

I like it because it strikes me as a fairly realistic trio dynamic - Daniela is, I would argue, more than a best friend or a roommate. There's comfort, intimacy, and domesticity in how she is with Lito and particularly Hernando that to me amounts to romantic partnership. She may or may not be sexually involved with…

It's almost like both concert musicians and old hippies know what they're doing!

Lito, Daniela, and Hernando's relationship is easily the closest thing to my own perfect life that I've ever seen on screen. Pretty invested in those weirdos.

In a smallish town like Riverdale I'd say they're probably no more related than the average for two random members of the families who've been there a long time. One shared great great grandfather is nothing.

I'm sorta hoping there's going to be a 5-year gap between seasons (with the pertinent details of Bunker Life filled in via flashback) and I think it would be good use of Clarke to have her go walkabout and come back as the disrupting agent in whatever equilibrium the bunker folks develop. Really it's also just unfair…

You're right of course and I should say I also wouldn't object to Rene accepting his (thus far strictly hypothetical) bisexuality as a fait accompli with a minimum of navel-gazing. That'd be refreshing in its own way.

I would be over the moon if Rene and Curtis got together. And the thought hadn't even occurred to me (because heteronormativity) until the show itself brought it up!

I still have a faint (so, so faint) hope that this season is leading up to Oliver's retirement from at least front-and-centre duty to focus on actually being mayor. Nothing but love to Stephen Amell but I think the show's storytelling would be improved by moving him out of the spotlight. It'd also make it easier to…

I would've appreciated a little more build-up to her going full nihilist in this episode, but I agree that the seeds were there. Luna's always been a bit about throwing your hands up in disgust and walking away. After these last few episodes, being basically kidnapped, tortured, witnessing non-consensual and fatal…

I obviously agree that it's silly to get angry, but I think the answer to your maybe-rhetorical questions is that sex is scary? A lot of what this sort of boundary-pushing relies on is surely risk-taking adrenaline. Another possibility might be the thrill of being in control. But both those things can turn on a person…

This is an accepting community. You don't need to repress your feelings here.

I'm being civil because that's my practice in this type if discussion, but I find the idea that you've had vulnerable people in your care (and that you consider it a personal choice rather than an obligation not to take advantage of such a person) quite upsetting. I hope that you find better clarity on this topic…

No, it wasn't laudable, it was the bare minimum. Think of it from my perspective at that moment: I don't know this person at all. I don't know what her approach to sex or drugs is, I don't know if she's experienced with GHB or if this is her first time taking it. I don't know if she's here with a monogamous partner…