I think he played the role of stalwart friend/moral anchor well and for me, he certainly started off stronger than Finn's actor, whose storyline should be Wells' and it would have more impact that way, and also Clarke's actor, who didn't get interesting to watch until the last episode of season one and even now I find…

Probably a particularly block-y bit of the mildest most flavourless cheddar that's about to start moulding.

Sadly, Colton is one of the worst actors on the show and appears nowhere close to getting better (like Amell who has at least improved a lot). I think Roy in the hands of a better actor who isn't the living embodiment of a block of cheese would have been a fan favourite.

Personally, I wish the show would let Raven and Clarke hook up romantically - there's just about the same amount of symbolism and parallels between them as there is with the fandom favourite 'Bellarke', if not more "I'd pick you first" and this recurring beacon image. And it would certainly be compelling to see a…

This show is so good, too good almost - I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. My highlights this week are the same as yours, Thelonius' storyline was especially affecting and Raven stumbling in that leg-brace, fighting and then learning to work with the limitations of her body made my eyes tear up a bit there. Both…

It's obvious that this is Clarke's perspective but it's a flawed perspective just as Anya's own ideas about Clarke & Co. are similarly limited by the foul experiences she's had with them (although, Clarke & Co. killed 300 of Anya's people by blowing up the bridge, so Anya kind of holds my sympathy more in this…

Yeah. I think it's interesting that already we've seen Joe stand in the way of something Iris wants to do/be with joining the police force, and she found a different way to channel her energies. I highly doubt it's going to go well the second time around when she discovers that both Joe and Barry, the two people she…

What in Iris West's general approach to things as a character makes you feel she would respond to such a situation in exactly the same way Laurel Lance did…? Pretty much nothing. I highly doubt that if that would happen, which I don't think it will, she'd jump to blaming Barry. There are valid reasons for her to be…

Hm, I think as per usual, the strongest part of this episode were the Wests and Barry. I loved how tickled Joe was by Barry's voice modulation technique. Did not love so much him and Barry persisting in lying to Iris and then attempting to gaslight her into quitting her blog - just craptacular behaviour and I can't…

I feel like I spent the majority of this episode with a Kermit the Frog face shaking my head. Because really, the show is doing the exact opposite of everything I hoped.

If it comes in the form of topless Wes/Connor/Frank/Khan with a healthy-portion side order of also topless Michaela/Laurel/Rebecca then I'm going to say yes :).

Yes. I think it was really well-shot and it made me think. There's some foreshadowing in there that I think will only fully reveal itself as the season goes on but that juxtaposition was creepy and weird, which is how I sort of feel about Rebecca and Wes' relationship. I like them together, they're awkward and…

Same.

The only acceptable flavour in the asshole character stew is Connor (and occasionally Asher). This is what I'm getting from reading the majority of commentary on this show so far. I will not even attempt to analyse why that is because it might give me a severe headache.

They're always sitting with each other and chatting, Laurel's pretty aggressively protective of Wes and he's often visibly concerned for her sort of the counterpoint to Connor/Michaela's snide frenemy thing. It's all cute.

My thing is, the weaknesses people see in Rebecca characterisation are true of every single thing on the show. Quite literally. That's why the reviewer's 6-paragraph length break-down of the issues with her reads as overdone to me. As for Wes, well the suicide mother goes some way to explaining his tendencies. I'm not…

I personally think the Bellamy/Clarke ship is odd because I don't think the show is writing them romantically at all. Like, the trope is there for initially adversarial co-leaders falling for each other but the show itself isn't presenting them as romantic and, to my memory, never has. It's the same problem I have…

Amen to the older actors being the best. Them, Lindsey Morgan and often Bob Morley are the most impressive to me thus far. Can you imagine if they'd kept Ellen Tigh on the show? I kind of hope that her character somehow survived and shows up in season three.

Completely with you in not being here for Bellamy/Clarke. The show was hilariously emphatic about the contrast between Bellamy and Finn's actions this episode and what those say about the show resisting typical CW love triangle fare that would make Clarke some sort of 'prize' to be competed over and won by the male…

Also, will I ever recover from Clarke not even thinking - even for a SPLIT second - about freeing the rest of Anya's people? Anya's summation of Clarke's motivations was so ruthlessly spot-on and I appreciate the show for making it clear. Bit baffled that people seem to be glossing over that. The best thing about…