@avclub-669aee218851553304392c2497857c4d:disqus : If Moira does go to jail, we might be in for some "You're not Walter! And Walter's not my dad!" from Thea to Oliver.

Not only did Dig *not* save the day (the "plan" was for both Oliver and Dig to attack the Archer at the same time, since he had defeated solo-Oliver twice already) with a last-minute assist, but it was *Tommy* and not Oliver who rescued Laurel. So much good subversion-of-expectations here. It would have been a perfect…

Good premise, but it becomes unwatchable from the point where she and her old student hook up. (As the review states, that is the turning point.) From there, it's bad, facile, predictable cringe.

Also: We need more of that yoga.

I kept wondering what she thought her son was saying to her, since she doesn't know he's Green Arrow. What did she think he was gonna do to stop the earthquake?

Walter will return as… Colin Salmon Ladder!

It doesn't help Diggle, but I liked the fact that, in the end, Oliver took down the Dark Archer all by himself. Dig went there with every intention of helping, and that was a cool character beat especially given that Oliver failed to help Dig out recently—but ultimately Oliver, the protagonist, was allowed to show…

He has chemistry with everyone! Seconded.

Uncountable names tend to be unwieldy (Heat, Jazz), but: in the aggregate, fans could be known as The Quiver.

She gave him the Miyagi crane-technique approval nod.

The show actually got me believing that Island!Oliver would shoot Shado by mistake.

Cordelia AND Charisma herself, apparently.

Do you approve of Thea's innate "wicked aim"? I would love it if the show found a way to make someone else (other than Laurel) Black Canary, but I think I'm okay with Thea as Speedy.

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She (and E-Rep in general) wanted to annex/incorporate Defiance, and, as you say, getting them bankrupt, and in debt to E-Rep (I think), would be a good way. I'm not sure about her personal profit in this scenario; I get the impression she's rich enough that the Defiance money wouldn't make a dent, and also she would…

Maybe they had initially written a scene at the Healer's, and budget- and time-wise it wasn't worth it to film (the Healer's face makeup; the special effect of having the dude's eyes turn blue, if that was the original plan).

I will now penguin-waddle out of here in a huff before I am tempted to smack you with my purse.

I think it was going to be tiresome any way they did it, once they settled that this was the subplot they were going to have. I do agree that it was super-weird how, unprompted, he just confessed. Even if we accept his weird premise (messiah activated by killing someone), he employed bad tactics: that was not the way…

BSG dangled the notion of having an Earth for the characters to "return" to; here, it seems Antarctica (a Hawaiian sort of Antarctica) might play a similar role, complete with questions of whether it really exists and the prospect that it might exist but suck.

It's true that this is a huge upgrade from his previous participation (his role to this point could have been played by a standee), but at the same time… It comes across as so goofy *and*—I agree—douchey (for some reason). What saved it a bit is that he also seems to serve a utilitarian function, in giving the town a…