Yeah, I've not washed up in two days and I've run out of forks.

It's quite likely. I think we're basically going to find out that either Team Arrow and Talia joined forces to use her escape route, or - more likely - that Felicity used her magic divining tablet to locate the caves and tunnels beneath the island that Oliver and Taiana hid in. Or there's the ARGUS supermax -…

Right? A two-part finale would have given it all more room to breathe… but cleverer writing would have found better ways to plot the inevitable confrontation between the two sides.

HE! WILL! NOT! DIE!

Well, yeah. A cliffhanger IS a stunt. A cliffhanger is always a stunt. But cliffhanger endings have been a staple of shows like this since forever. I watched the old Republic serial Zorro's Fighting Legion when I was a kid. Every episode had a cliffhanger ending, and that was made in 1939, before the advent of…

Nah. According to the show, Simon Morrison was born in 1986, making him a year younger than Oliver and 26 when his dad died in 2012. He could easily have passed the bar at 25 and been a practicing lawyer for anything up to a year by that point - and he could have gotten married at any point.

Well, attitudes like that are why we can't have nice things.

Sure, and that's a personal preference. Me, I don't mind either way. However, in your comment you referred to it as 'absurd' and 'weak storytelling'. There are plenty of things about this show you could hang both of those allegations on. Going for a cliffhanger ending for the first time isn't one of them.

I believe so!

I take your points, and I make them my own!
-Found out Ollie was the Hood/Arrow/Green Arrow - a small child with a smartphone could probably discover who the Green Arrow is. It's the least secure secret ID in the world. The US government knows, every ex-member of the League Of Assassins knows, every main season villain…

I would laugh my absolute ass off.

Yeah, it's another weirdly unanswered question: what exactly did all those flunkies think the plan was? Talia seems to have been content to sacrifice herself and her students' lives on someone else's batshit revenge plan, which is very un- Al Ghul of her. Artemis is, in her own way, as screwed-up as Prometheus. Black…

Like Agents Of SHIELD's recent season finale, this episode struggled a little to cap off a really great season in a way that did it justice.

Ahhh! Of course. I steered mostly clear of Legends because time travel is the kiss of death for superheroes, and I didn't want to watch a show where it was the whole premise. Which was a personal tragedy for me, because Caity Lotz is pure magnificence and the greatest thing to come out of San Diego since…

The League?

No way in the world that would have worked. They're clearly hitting the reset button within - at most two episodes of the beginning of season four, so there'd be no point in delaying that scene to S04E01. Besides, it's one of the only character moments this season that's made sense.

Well, no. It's s cliffhanger ending, a staple of episodic storytelling since they started monetising it. Get the kids coming back next time at all costs, right? It's the wrapped-up ending that's the Johnny-Come-Lately, because you've got to be pretty assured of your audience to give them no need to see what happens…

Jesus, if that's your breaking point with this show then your willing suspension of disbelief is a tripwire.

Those weren't LoA dudes - although Arrow has been pretty inconsistent about how unstoppable these ninja assassins actually are. They were Talia's students, her ersatz League. Kind of like Pepsi Max to League's Classic Coke.

Suspension of disbelief is a contract between the audience and the storyteller, and both sides have their part to play to honour their obligations under that contract and make it work. Fandom, by and large, is willing to let a lot of things go when it comes to fantastic narratives, but an inconsistent internal logic…