This is a good gimmick. I approve.

Yeah, but it's one thing if that's poor writing, which is something Arrow's been guilty of in the past. Here, as in much of the rest of this comeback season, they hit their old tired tropes head on - this would have been a four-five episode conflict before, and now it's resolved in one and a bit with Diggle outright…

LMD May had me halfway there. That scene you're talking about convinced me. This is a thing that needs to happen now, AND NOT BE SPOILED BY THE FINALE.

Well, let's see. Other characters also leave, move away, get promoted, are kidnapped by aliens… I mean, I could go on, but then I'd be listing EVERY OTHER WAY A CHARACTER CAN BE WRITTEN OFF A SHOW. Nothing dramatic came of Trip's death, aside from a few tears. More importantly, it served no plot mechanic or…

He didn't actually say that. It was misreported by the geek cut n' paste sites: the original question to him was about whether 'people' from the Framework could be downloaded into the bodies of people in the real world, in the same way that Daisy and Jemma take over from their Framework avatars when they uploaded…

Everything you just said. I was NOT down for Coulson/May, but Ming-Na has made me a believer.

I really loved that line. Inevitable and obvious though it was, he sold it like the commission was feeding his family… and I love the irony that the Framework IS a world without hope to everyone else.

Right - but they didn't have to kill the character. And certainly not in such a cheap way. The only reason they didn't get more flak for casually offing the only black protagonist on the show is that too few people watch AoS.

Mack and YoYo's relationship mostly exists in the minds of the fans that ship them.

Just to say: everything with Mack has been completely on point, and the writer here clearly has no children, or no affinity with children. It's not the show that comes across unbalanced and off-message here, it's you.

It's not like it's the first. In point of fact, Hydra's second ever appearance in Marvel comics was a retcon of their first. In their first appearance, they were just bog standard world-conquering terrorists. Nick Fury was recruited to head S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop them. They retconned their origin to link them to the…

Errm… that's more than a little reductive. His mother and his older brother were sociopaths who abused him and his younger brother throughout their entire childhood, and he was rescued by Hydra double agent Garrett, who raised him as a merciless survivor and duplicitous a-hole like he was. Ward was screwed from a…

Riiight… except she didn't cross her, and this was the dumbest move imaginable on Thea's part. Susan's an ethically questionable reporter, but one with good instincts and - in this case - a worthwhile story to investigate. She had information that the Mayor was a vigilante with more than one death on his record - a…

Prometheus already knows everything about Oliver/Hood/Arrow/Green Arrow. Why would he/she need to hire a PI to dig into the mayor's murky past?

Not necessarily. I'm still waiting (and waiting) for more consequences for Barry Allen and his batshit timef*cking of his friends' lives. That could easily come if - when - Felicity spills the beans to John about Sara.

They still have the orbs. Pretty sure they introduced a version of them last season.

All it would have taken is a 'once he's in gen pop, they'll kill him in days' line and I would have been fine with the jailbreak… so I'm retconning the excuse into the episode in my head so that I don't have to think about it anymore.

Well, if you think about it, neither Barry would help Cisco. But no, Cisco's not exactly thinking clearly: if anything, 'our' Barry's refusal to help him is because he's discovered first hand that it's a terrible, terrible idea to mess with the timeline.

Nope. Remember, this timeline's version of Cisco was already furious with Barry before 'our' Barry met him and realised it.

They screwed the pooch with Mark Shaw, too. Bastardo!