Iris is treating Wally the way Barry and Joe treated her for the whole first season.

And his borrowed secondface can be Madea.

Yeah they clearly tore through him. Maybe he'll turn out to be a metahuman, but having him show up in the flashback throws a cog in that.

"And really, even if this Oliver is never going to turn into the goateed ultra-lefty hero of the comics"

Fictional cities are much easier to run than real ones. After you say "Cut!" they really manage themselves.

The nuking of Havenrock storyline was so ridiculous that I can't begin to invest in the Felicity drama over it this season.

The high speed car chase scene was clumsy…when they'd jump to the closeup view where we saw the actors playing Mac and Phil, the car looked to be going 35 mph tops.

Both Flash and Arrow are downright tiresome so far this season.

It's the Los Angeles "River", isn't it? I think it was used in the movie The Core too.

So far, AoS is absolutely running circles around Flash/Arrow this season.

That's a bit easier to buy…often mayors actually have appointed city managers that in many cases actually do the legwork of running cities while the mayor does the fun stuff. It's looking like Thea might be precisely that.

It's hard to separate a city from a state or country. The concept of a criminal taking over a city without the state and/or the federal government that the city is within doing something about is hard to ignore. I'm sure it's a common comic book concept but it just somehow fails on television.

"To The Moon And Back" might have been better. Or maybe "Are You Jimmy Ray?"

obviously an inside gag. I was fine with it.

They really did change the gender of Diggle's kid?

Barry didn't know Caitlin was a pediatrician rather than a scientist, but he had just swiped her from somewhere. Did he not know where he just fetched her from. She was dressed for work, so presumably he just swiped her form her doctor's office.

And Margaret Colin, who played Goldblum's ex-wife in the first one, was absent entirely.

The plot of the first film was that the aliens were obliterating global cities roughly in order of diminishing size and importance. It's possible they didn't get as far as Kuala Lumpur in 1996, but they surely hit London, so it's hard to believe any pre-1996 landmarks in London survived long enough to appear in tact…

In a global calamity, where would be be vacationing that would keep him away…Mars?

You realize that the shows are reviewed by two different individuals, right?