It's appalling what they've done to Thea's character. And that every time I think Roy's turned a corner, he talks to her and sounds stupid again.

I didn't understand why the henchmen didn't just start shooting into the crowd. Because they had guns. And the other side had bats, fists, and parkour, and Laurel.

Oliver was also legit, "We're going to talk about the I Love You thing, right? Cause I was going to die and…" And I love that she just shut that down as not being the issue anymore. I had such a different reaction to that scene than most here. I was like, "Thank God. Real!Felicity has returned."

Yes. I want this now please.

Yeah, it's pragmatic to work with Merlyn. On the other hand, Felicity isn't necessarily a pragmatist. Merlyn murdered their friend. He took away every bit of agency that Thea had and turned her into a murderer of someone she knew and loved. He murdered five hundred innocent people. He murdered Sara to set into motion…

While Laurel is still irritating, this arc has improved her greatly over season 2 Laurel, so grudging respect for that. I no longer feel the need to fast forward every scene she's in, so cool. Meanwhile, this show is redoing the exact same mistakes they made with Laurel with Thea - leaving her out of the loop,…

That was baffling. Sure, leave the guy with Special Ops training in the Cave while Six Weeks of Boxing Laurel fights in the streets. Sure. Fine. Whatever, show.

Rose was also a lawyer, right? That was a thing? Pre-marriage to Emilio?

This show plays with visual cues and direction - the montages, the scene with Rogelio and his leading lady acting out the script as Jane wrote it, the narration in writing at the bottom of the screen - in the most interesting ways of any show in the last decade, probably, save for maybe The Good Wife, which does…

The law on this show is…. not good. Particularly the criminal procedure stuff. You kind of have to telenovela hand wave it. I'm not sure why it bothers me so little on this show, but makes me so crazy on other shows - ahem, Arrow and HTGAWM - probably some combination of the telenovela aspects and just my love for…

I'm often kind of "meh" on the Jane/Rafael stuff - they are cute enough together, but both tend to be more interesting when interacting with others. I'm a liar, actually. Jane is always interesting. Rafael is more interesting when he's interacting with others where he's not the cute love interest - like with Jane's…

The Passions line is probably my favorite line of dialogue from television in a really, really long time.

Basically. Occasionally they all show up at The Hague and either prosecute or defend a genocidal totalitarian war criminal.

I pretended to understand international law when I studied it in law school. My professor did impressive international law things with the ICC. He was very smart and intimidating and would be 100% useless to a criminal profiling squad, so clearly I was ripped off and I'd like my $100,000 in tuition back now, please.

I think Lexa was called when she was Anya's second. I heard the writers said its in line with how they find the next Dahli Lama. Like, there's a chosen few who get to try to identify the previous Heda's personal items. I wonder if it's always young people chosen though and if it's always a woman.

Octavia. I've decided it's 100% Octavia.

Nothing MG says ever makes anything better. Usually it makes it worse. And I agree with your point. Far be it from me to ever defend Laurel in any way, but Oliver legitimately should have zero say in what sfe does unless it somehow puts himself or his team at risk or she starts killing innocents or something. My fear…

Agreed. I feel like if you're going to drop a reference to LA in 1992, you need to do something with it and explore the moral questions further. Otherwise, leave out real life tragedy and just make it comic booky.

I mean, it's Roy. Baby steps and all. My guess is he still feels like the kid in the room who can't act without the approval of the parental figures. At least it's occurred to him that someone should tell Thea. Further than anyone else has gotten. He's probably also worried that Thea wouldn't believe him since she ran…

Having perused my Twitter feed, I have to be honest that it concerns me that the Arrow Writers hash tagged Laurel's interrogation room scene #StraightOutOfTheWire. I mean, no, show. No. Also, by tagging the Canary/Quentin scene as "FEELS", they meant Feels Of Rage And Exhaustion With That Plotline, right? Right?…