I'm fairly certain that your confirmation bias is showing. CW Show = shitty portrayals of women = lets find all the instances of weak moments for the women.

Are you saying that Sara's general level of awesome was negated by the occasional peril in which she found herself? If we're talking Island Sara, do we not forget that Island Oliver was basically the damsel for the entirety of season one?

Are we at the point now where if Laurel does a thing, we hate that thing? Or bouncing endlessly between "Ugh, they're not even TRYING with Laurel!" and "Ugh, look how hard they're TRYING with Laurel!"?

Changes his name in homage to his favorite late night host?

All together now. Laz-Rus Pit! Laz-Rus Pit!

That was my immediate thought too.

Was anybody else wishing, when Nyssa asked about Sara's body, that her next line would be "I need to bring it back to Nanda Parbat NOW."

Also worth noting that Marvel movies tend to line up chronologically, which means that Captain Marvel and Inhumans would presumably happen DURING the Infinity Wars timeline.

Pygmalion is also not about a "silly woman needing a man's assistance to better herself." It's about a man who is utterly convinced this is true, and then it turns out that Eliza is smarter than him, and that he is a total jackass who ends up alone while his "creation" goes on to a better life without him.

And also the pilot is terrible. Sonia's (and most others') critiques were on-point, considering that was the only frame of reference the reviewers' had.

She's sociologically conditioned based on insecurity, and learning how to channel what's actually awesome about herself into the real world. It's actually a pretty good, affirmative message when all is said and done. She's not shallow, she has just assumed all the manners and aspects OF the shallow.

I'm learning to even actually trust that the show knows this. Case-in-point: when things early in this episode were a little too unbalanced towards "fixing Eliza", I thought, "ok, there should be a 'Henry is lame/a hypocrite' subplot emerging soon". And there was!

To the point where one of the girls' last names was even "Arden".

Agent Tom Jane?

I was sweating bullets watching it…they REALLY had me thinking this was the "big farewell to Root" episode. Amy Acker was just given lots of fun things to play, they kept openly referencing her arc, she (sort of) admitted her thing for Shaw, and then got a super "blaze of glory" action sequence.

In that case it is literally your loss.

I actively dislike most things that involved Roy. When I say that Thea is "the heart of the show", it's mostly in reference to her role as bearer of the emotional consequences of Oliver's "Arrow" actions, and her work as part of the malfunctioning Queen family dynamic last year.

Notable exception: the 138th Episode Spectacular. Deleted/Alternate scenes for public consumption was unheard of at the time, and those clips spawned scads of quotes of their own.

And an overabundance of "shoehorn Clara into what clearly was supposed to be an Amy story." Though to be fair, Clara wasn't a real character until season 8 anyway.

Guys…GUYS.