It's also great seeing Amell go from wooden to nuanced in the span of two seasons. One of my favorite things about the show has been his improvement as an actor.

You can't air Salmon Ladder Slaying that early in the night. This is an 8pm show.

Ghost Shado.

When Oliver gave that speech about Shado I was relieved. The writers didn't forget how wonderful she was.

Fuck Lance, WHATS GOING ON WITH SALMON LADDER? HAS SHE BEEN TAKEN TO THE ER?

I like the way you work it.

That's how I read it as well. That's the only way to ensure that Felicity has the cure with her when she's kidnapped. I also thought that their final conversation in the island clearly implies that they both were play acting for the cameras.

I feel like they lost some of their power since the flashbacks within flashbacks in The Promise when Slade and Oliver had their first big confrontation. Sometimes they strain a little too much to connect to the larger themes of the episodes, but then we get some moments like the awesome dual-timeline fight in…

The cross cutting in that scene was perfect. That fight was edited beautifully.

We got double Caity Lotz this week. I had forgotten that she played Anna's niece in Mad Men until she showed up again this week.

Isobel was particularly unlucky. Last week she got run over by a van mid-speech.

Yeah. I was caught off guard by the mid-episode declaration of love, so I'm glad it was a fakeout. But it actually works well as a starting point for Oliver to start sorting out his feelings for Felicity, if they want to go that way.

I was thanking the high heavens that Sara didn't meet the horrible death we were all expecting for her. Even at the end I was expecting the boat to blow up or something.

I could really use a meeting right now. I’m about to go through some serious Arrow withdrawal.

Outlaw Country: The Judy Greer Show.

extraterrestrials?

I can see him making it work between two shows, but he's supposed to be the lead in the HBO project, so he would have to give up his role on either Hannibal or Black-ish. Hopefully this doesn't mean what I think it means for Hannibal's finale.

Fishburne kicked it out of the park in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

Didn't Fishburne also have a pilot in development at HBO? What's going to happen if that gets picked up?

Actively rooting to put people out of work. What fun!