Agree completely, this episode was a straight A, no question asked and the viewer rating indicates this is the case. The show has 10 hours to drive the narrative forward, breaking out 45 minutes for the most epic battle ever filmed is perfectly acceptable.

Ser Davos is worse. He committed the entire reserve, which no medieval force would EVER do till the battle is won. A reserve is required to stop you being encircled in a kill box.

Battles on TV and film tend to be shot for their cinematic and heroic aspects and seldom actually bother with any sort of reality. The greatest thing this episode did was capture the real, true chaos of medieval battle. Aspects never included before made it into the battle and the episode was all the better for that.

Fair enough to an extent.

There were virtually no dramas on last summer. It beat Zoo by 0.02 and Zoo never went fractional. Dramas also cost a lot more than the Reality which appears to rate better in summer.

It would have been much more interesting if they had moved on to creating a better society while trying to survive

The ratings for Season One were not "exceptional", they were at best solid averaging 1.1 which is almost the definition of "just about OK for summer" on a Big Three network.

Pretty remarkable that this car crash just got another B.

Really, S1 was not that bad for plot holes. The overall "idea" and "vision" of Pilcher and the Wayward Pines set up was never explained remotely plausibly but if you treat that as your basic premise Suspension of Disbelief then the rest of S1 was pretty coherent for the most part.

The season is becoming ridiculous.

It's all about stupidity and short-sightedness.

A Plot Hole is any instance where the established character motivations or overall story arc does not explain what is happening within a scene or episode. That's what the new season was filled with in just its first episode.

That's a decent summary of what's happened and also gives a small amount of hope that going forward, without new shows being launched, all the shows can improve.

Oh, Arrow has flaws and has reasons to be critical. But it is nowhere near the level that the fanbois try to make out.

Interestingly, from what I've read, SHIELD is the show that has gotten comic fans most excited about following storylines from the cartoons. Yet it's the least popular comic book show on network TV (ignoring iZombie).

That's the problem.

Incoherent, insulting debacle?

It was supposed to be NATO allies.

Why do you think Diggle mentioned Mount Weather a couple weeks ago? They're all in space waiting to crash back down when ALIE gives the signal.

After the utter debacle of the Flash finale, a solid if unspectacular finale for Arrow was just fine for me.