Not Diggle! ROY. KILL ROY.

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My sister was on a full on rant last night about why Arrow writers have a phobia of keeping characters alive that people actually like.

Laurel Lance is absolutely a terrible character, in my opinion. That's not Cassidy's fault - it is the fault of the show for giving her an ill-conceived initial plot line, making her character lack any and all subtlety or moral ambiguity, and then shelving her for two years that she didn't know about Oliver's secret.…

This is what I'm saying. How was that fern supposed to live in a basement without sunlight? How did Felicity get rid of all her bruises and scratches in the span of a few hours? Is Oliver living on Ramen? If so, how does he keep that body? Why did Lyla wait until she was four months pregnant to tell Diggle she was…

I want to mail them Tobasco just to see how much of the institutional memory of The WB lives on in The CW.

Ah, I see you have reached the denial stage.

I think they made some offhand comment about the bank backing Oliver's bid to take the company back. Still, the whole "literally broke" thing bugs me. I know it's stupid and I should let it go, but really? Moira had no precious gemstone jewelry? There were no antiques to auction in their mansion? The mansion itself…

All I wanted out of life was a Felicity/Sara buddy episode with subtext. Sigh. Maybe in the next life.

I was thinking Ra's al Ghul, but that seems way too obvious, right? So Thea, Malcolm, Ray seem like other options. Except probably not Ray, because she recognized whoever it was. Hmm. Don't be Nyssa, show, or I will be super pissed.

This will be the show that finally destroys me. I'm sure of it now.

The flirting felt more natural and didn't rely entirely on the fact that the two actors have onscreen chemistry. I think that was the difference, at least for me. They actually wrote them in the script as building toward a romance, rather than it just being something that you could kind of see if you squinted. It was…

I impatiently waited two hours to be able to comment on this and now that the moment is here, all I can think to write is GODDAMMIT NO.

I love Faking It. I didn't want to love Faking It. I mocked it relentlessly before it even premiered. I avoided it during its whole run and then I thought, "Well, surely if it's so terrible, which it absolutely must be, it will make a fun Saturday night hate watch, right? I can at least try one episode." Four hours…

When I really want to get someone into Arrow, I tell them to watch the last three episodes of season one and then just head straight into season two.

I will give them all $10.00 in my pocket if they just have him repeat that line once a season.

And that's how she knew the scientists at Star Labs, right? By visiting Barry? Okay, that makes sense now. Got it. Thank you!

Okay, that's helpful! And makes sense. Thank you!

That was just lots of fun. Plus JWS as The Flash's dad and Jesse L. Martin being all cop-y on my tv again? Yes.

I couldn't figure out at all how the pilot fit into the Arrow timeline.