Yeah, if the idea behind a bottle episode is to save money, the way to do it is not by having a dozen guest stars. So I don't think this was intended to be bottle-episode-like.

Also Flash Gordon aka Whitney from "Smallville" (as the handsy neighbor). Canada overdose!

There were too many locations—including exteriors!—for this to count as a bottle episode, I would think. It *was* a little "cozy," I do concede that, but more in a farce sense. (That does, unfortunately, contribute to the impression that nothing really happens. But the takeaways you yourself mention are pretty…

ALL THE SPOILERS:

It's not your FAULT.

Ten minutes ago you told me you wouldn't!!

Is that a backhanded compliment?

Nice!

I try to do the same (with varying success).

This might explain Thea wearing her school jacket inside out…

This season of "Survivor" had a Malcolm, a Reynold(s), and a codename Serenity. Talk about pushing my brain's buttons.

I worry about the bow sometimes when he uses it to smack bad guys…

In Walternate's universe, "Aquaman" got twenty seasons.

Indeed. Some shortcuts to an Osborn or (Lionel to Lex) Luthor situation.

"I'm really a brunette. But the rest is me."

Also five-o'clock-shadow. Dark!

And-RAY-uh or AN-dree-ah?

It was suspicious to get Brenda's tears over subsisting on merely water in tonight's Previouslies. I thought she was doomed tonight. It's weird that she has gone from no interviews at all to an odd focus on her. I don't know what to make of it. I hope it means she goes far.

I would totally say only good things about people, in preparation for the inevitable All-Stars.

I had been dreading that Tommy would throw some (character-assassinating) hissy-fit but instead he was kinda noble (?) and told Laurel that Oliver was still in love with her. He could have played that much differently, and that sort of tempering even of the (future) bad guys is appreciated.