I'm led to believe it was so! His direction must have been "wooden" lol. Cause it does look like not so great acting, like he's stiff and not feeling the character, AND IT WAS ALL PART OF THE STORY.

Aww, I'm sure I'm not the only one in here that'd like to hop on his dick.

Pointedly I'm not too keen on scores being relative within a show, less so because it implies that one show is better than the other but because it's just lowering the bar (for Arrow specifically now)

But I think it's not that strange of a twist, and that's the saddest part. It's like the simulation is running "Ward but with less of a shitty hand in life" and that's the huge difference. These are calculations the Framework is doing, and I do think with the express purpose of making Ward a better one (for his…

Man, I do hope it becomes a plot point and a funny scene in the future.

I have. I maintain my judgement. Arrow has been enjoyable this season, a much needed step up from last season. But we are far from stellar.

That's my bet too!

Exactly; Ward in retrospective, knowing everything about him, is such a tragic character, in the greek sense of the word. Life dealt him a bad hand and he fell prey to others, ultimately becoming the architect of his own destruction.

I think it's incredibly hard to "snap" someone out really; they locked out with Coulson. His brain is half puree and a prayer at this point so Aida's programming didn't even take!

The right way if I do say so myself!

Indeed. I think that knowing that the pain she suffered then could have been so much worse could legit give her a new lease in life, and ABOUT TIME May is ready to embrace life. May is the most self possessed of them all and I think this window to another life is gonna make her reassess some things rather than wallow.

Mack and Hope is the show telling us "See this? This is gonna hurt" and now it's just dread of anticipation.

An Arrow A is like an AoS B-/C+ at this point.

I think that Fitz is the most changed one by nature of his pain, his father's absence* must have shaped him since an early age, and with that gone from his life, his influence altered him drastically (or is at least what the simulation thinks). One wrong path and you might end on HYDRA's radar, being groomed and…

I think so far they make sense.

Mack and Hope was that plot point that 10 seconds in you know it will fucking destroy you when this ends.

Aid- I mean, Ophelia (we won't be calling her that in here, obviously) is so so manipulative I love to hate her and hate her to love her. She has utterly corrupted Fitz while she stills justifies this is the natural course of the simulation (even when her finger prints are all over it) I think we know what was Fitz's…

I think it's mostly a contractual thing, even if she is a regular now, she most likely being paid per appearance (tho at a starring salary rate instead of a guest gig) She most likely won't appear on every episode, hopefully she'll miss just a few. But it also means that the story knows when they will need Peyton and…

I have the the inkling it will allow them to bench Major from time to time to let Liv shine most of the time (or even let Major take the spotlight when Liv is not available) I think the show should keep treating double brains as a treat rather than the new normal.

It's like Drag me to Hell but somehow Meredith never realizes it and the lamia demon is actually getting so bummed out after so many years.