I think it's so funny when Oliver "protecting" his son is brought up, since Malcolm, a guy who killed 500+ people and drugged his own daughter to get her to kill Sara to manipulate Oliver into a fight with Ra's - flat-out told Oliver that he knew about his kid - and Malcolm actually used that info to have William…

Well, I imagine Sara's grief is going to be handled over on her own show, since they have to answer the question of why she doesn't just take her time-traveling ship back to the past to save her. We've seen about enough of Laurel's mother's grief considering we barely know who she is as a character.

Oh, it'll come up again. I just don't think there will be much of a fight over it.

They did continue it, though. She was clearly upset with herself when she was watching the news, and probably would've gotten lost in it if her father hadn't turned it off. There were other matters at hand - like stopping the rest of the nukes from being launched with her father. And I think it's a pretty normal human…

Normally I'd agree, since this show loves its ridiculous drama, but since she's seen Felicity and her dad stop a nuclear attack together, I just don't think there's going to be a big blowout over it.

So, you're unhappy with her coldness, but didn't want an episode with her crying and being self-absorbed over deaths you think she should feel guilty for? Oh…kay.

What more needs to be done to deal with Laurel's death? There was a whole episode dedicated to it, and this is the first ep she hasn't been mentioned in since she died. That's more than any other character who has passed has gotten. And I'm guessing Oliver is going to think of her to help defeat Darhk's magic in the…

They haven't ignored the consequences of the attack. It only happened an hour-ish ago in show time and the multiple news reports they showed mentioned that they still weren't sure how many casualties there were.

i figured Donna would back down about it.

Didn't that happen this episode?

I'm not sure how the photographer is scheduled. Perhaps there are other commitments the network has to work around? I don't particularly care- I'm not in the habit of complaining about promo images.

LOL, I can tell.

There's a photographer present on site only a couple days out of their shooting schedule - it's not like they have pics from every second of the ep to choose from. Seems like they release the best of what the photog got, whether those moments are in the ep or not. And the Felicity pics are probably a lot less spoilery…

Barry and Iris are totally trying to out "meh" each other with their romantic declarations this season.

You underestimate the power of WestAllen.

Needed more dead bird references. I don't think four were enough!

I think we *might* get a better idea of when all of this happened on The Flash next week. Considering that Arrow planned the flash forward before Flash had most of its season written, I imagine they probably just didn't want to change their storyline to make sure everything lined up in a timely fashion.

It's tough to tell with The Flash, because Barry actually took off to Earth 3 (or wherever Supergirl takes place in this universe) during the show 2 or 3 episodes ago, and he never mentioned that to anyone - and we actually saw him disappear mid-show, haha.

Yeah, Star City is in the Seattle area. But they didn't have to travel that far, I don't think - Felicity and Co. went and picked up Kuttler from some place called Cypress Cove, which has to be pretty close to Star City.

Do we know for sure that was after he got his powers back, and not before he lost them?