This show has been "blah" for a long time, certainly all season. The best thing that can be said about tonight's episode is that it reminded me why I fell in love with the show in the first place.

And generally this show has been good about subtitling for instance "2016" instead of "present day".

Especially since Merlyn is supposed to be second only to Oliver Queen among Earth-1's foremost marksmen.

It's amazing how dropping Hawkgirl and adding Nate has rescued Ray as a character.

The time travel stuff is still incoherent, inconsistent nonsense, but the characters are so much fun now, with the weak links either eliminated or better utilized, that I don't care. I have a blast just about every episode.

"…And ever since, I've had a fear of giant toads."

I'm torn about the big reveal. It was definitely earned, and it definitely paves the way for a second season when the existing premise seemed to be out of runway.

I had a feeling I missed something.

It does beg the question though: if everything about Sully is innocent, then what was in the balloon?

I agree that it's criminal that "The Middle" doesn't get a weekly review. But this show is very much deserving.

I love that they had two fatalities less than a month apart in '82 and it apparently impacted the park's attendance not one iota.

I must have misheard; I thought the counter started with her score at time of death, and the meter only started running again once the counter was introduced.

The other possibility is that there are different neighborhoods for different scores. This community is obviously for the top of the top. But perhaps there's another neighborhood full of people that are just a smidge into positive territory.

I love "real" Eleanor, but I'm not convinced she's really Chidi's soulmate any more. He has been shaped by his experiences with "fake" Eleanor, and that's bound to change the parameters of his soulmate.

I really appreciated that Eleanor was only 4000 points or so in the red at time of death when it's not uncommon to be in the millions in either direction. Her failings were pretty small and petty in the grand scheme of things, and they often hurt her as much or more than they hurt the people around her.

This was the first episode that felt like it was treading water plot-wise. But there was so much to enjoy in the execution of it that I didn't mind much.

I definitely think we're headed into a Nature vs. Nurture debate, where Tahani will argue that upbringing creates unfair advantages and disadvantages when sorting into the Good Place and the Bad Place.

And at least Scarlett in "Nashville" 2.0 has some self-awareness about what a liability it is. I loved his mini-freakouts to Deacon as she recognized but seemed (initially at least) powerless to stop the sabotage she was committing re: Gunnar. And Gunnar, instead of being obliviously cruel like he was for most of last…

The problem with Mary on the show was the same problem ACD ran into with Mary in the stories: She's an obstacle to the core bromance. We want to see Holmes and Watson solving mysteries together. Her very existence complicates that, since it pulls the center of Watson's gravity away from Holmes. Making her a…

I LOATHE Gatiss's "Doctor Who" episodes, but I happily tolerate his "Sherlock" episodes. And, whatever his faults or virtues as a writer, he makes a GREAT Mycroft Holmes.