I’m bracing myself for the announcement that they’re promoting Hartley Sawyer to series regular. Lately these shows just have not been good as intuiting when they need to course correct.

This episode was the least funny episode of the season, but also the most rewarding.

The only reason Oliver didn’t record the police chief and the DA confessing is because the sloppy writers needed him not to. If he had them recorded, there wouldn’t be a single person who’d question his decision to fire them.

There’s no way the police chief could fire the honest cops after she herself had been fired.

The main sin of this season is that they had a five-season arc to turn Oliver Queen into the Green Arrow, and they completed that arc last season. And now, without his inner demons to fuel the show, they have to manufacture drama around him to keep the show going.

I wouldn’t mind a grim season of “Arrow” if the…

I still think she’ll end up siding with Quentin and being crucial to Diaz’s downfall in the season finale. In the meantime, her flirting with redemption and then backsliding is getting really repetitive and stale.

The big difference for me is that between 2003 and 2018, Jimmy Kimmel matured and improved his behavior.

Meanwhile, between 2003 and 2018, Sean Hannity only grew ever more deplorable.

Bill Foster passed away not long after the first season finished shooting.

I’m SO glad that the renewal was announced before the finale aired. Makes the wait until 2019 a bit more bearable, knowing that there’s something to wait for.

The whole sequence of Jefferson getting arrested was riveting television. He got completely blindsided by the A.S.A.’s bold play, but he made the absolute most of his very limited time.

.., bitches!

Normally true. But the Invasion! crossover event was post-Flashpoint.

Given that Jerry Wasserman’s old white man president was president on Earth-1 when the Dominators invaded in 2016, does that mean Obama was a one-termer? Or maybe he got an earlier start and defeated Dubya in 2004? Things get tricky when dealing with real world figures contemporary to the events of the other…

It’s just one of the many contrivences this year to make Oliver’s life miserable, since he isn’t self-destructively making his own life miserable anymore.

This is my biggest complaint. I get why they put her in the coma, given her limited availability, but they should have got this subplot with Merlyn’s legacy up and running as soon as she woke up.

I liked how they wrote Thea out, given the off-screen realities of her availability, but the lead up should have stretched…

The biggest problem is that they had a five-season arc, and they completed it last season, with the flashbacks catching up to the pilot and Oliver’s inner conflict resolved.

I also think the show went downhill when Guggenheim started splitting his time between “Arrow” and “Legends”. It may just be coincidence, since…

My favorite bit of acting from James Remar so far is when Neema’s friend came by Gambi’s shop with the missing posters. Gambi knows exactly what’s going on, and why, but he doesn’t let any of that through. Instead, he takes the time to listen so she knows she’s heard, and then he agrees to put up one of her posters.

Rem…

The remarkable thing for me is Jennifer. She could easily be an excruciatingly obnoxious petulant teen, but she’s not.

Maybe after “Crisis on Earth-X”; her participation in the previous crossover event against the aliens was kept hush-hush by the Earth-1 U.S. government. Not sure that Supergirl would be considered a household name, though.

Unless Earth-38 has its own Vixen, who’s probably wearing the same totem but may or may not be Mari McCabe.

Given that Supergirl’s real, though, it almost certainly isn’t Earth-1.

Somehow it’s perfect that after a season of the other characters alternately dumping on Gary and humiliating Gary, John Constantine — arguably the coolest character in the Arrowverse — is the one to finally give him the time of day, even if he can’t exactly remember his name.