Not to mention that dramatic pause lasted a ridiculously long time. Quality programming.

My recollection of the early episodes of Arrow is as follows:

The team is actually growing on me. They need a lot of character work, but I'm starting to get attached, even if the episodes have been mostly lacklustre. It doesn't hurt that Skye is hot and her acting has improved, or that they've started to make a joke of Agent Frowny McFrownerson.

Doomed for cancellation, surely. How many vampire shows do you need, America?!

I was kinda pissed they recast and bluffed like that, actually. I haven't seen the early episodes in ages but I sure as hell remember it wasn't Caity Lotz. I just really hate recasting, and it seems like dishonest storytelling in this instance too.

- Iris West Quotes

I totally forgot about that! It did seems crazy random at the time. I mean, it's still random, but now that the scope of the island stuff has expanded so much, it works in retrospect. The Arrow crew run a fairly tight ship, story-wise.

Bond worthy.

Mmm-hmmmmm.

I'd include Sara Canary (now) and Huntress, even if she was a guest star, just due to relationship with the actual lead.

The actor that plays Laurel's dad seems to have toned down his performance considerably but he is still the prince of ham and cheese. He chewed the hell out of the scenery with that dialogue in season one. So OTT. Couldn't make up my mind whether I was loving it or not.

Sin is pretty awesome, I'm glad she seems to be sticking around. What is it with Arrow casting much better supporting actresses than leading ladies? Thea, Felicity and Sin over any other girls on the show any day.

She wasn't very good in The Bling Ring. Never seen Larry Potter.

The perfect troll.

Oliver Stone's Savages has blunts and a Blake, and it isn't better than much at all.

I wouldn't rule out a "The CW Gets Period" headline from somewhere, sometime.

Valid. I think there would have been interesting ways of presenting the character as someone who wanted in with SHIELD to access classified files, and I don't think the way we were presented with that was particularly interesting, whereas the twist here was, a little.

"Robin is not the joke."

I shouldn't have let a little throwaway gag like that bother me, but I did.

The thing that annoyed me about this episode is that the whole Skye-is-looking-for-info-on-her-parents thing is THE HOOK for her character. The viewpoint character. As in, that should have been in the pilot. The problem with Whedon shows is that they play a lot close to their chest with characters who have secrets and…