Well as I said, I love the show. I just skip the legal heavy ones on rewatch because we all have those things where suspension of disbelief fails us. A two day death penalty trial is one of those things for me.

I'm not remembering exactly - I thought he just asked if any wore a mask and Digg said one.

Sure they have, and sure you don't have to, but she's a character I like a lot and so would like to see as "good" an end as possible for her.

To be fair, this show has never shown its legal system to bear anything more than the faintest resemblance to real life. Laurel just gets the worst of it since she's a main character.

I agree - I'd be happy to have the season build up some relationship / situation leading to her death that has nothing to do with Team Arrow.

And apparently 19 of them run around killing people without covering their faces…

Eh, but her dad is a cop and she's had self-defense training. It's hard for me to believe he didn't stick both his kids in a gun safety class at some point. It was just sloppy writing for the sake of drama. That said, it fits the tone of the show, so I'll let it go.

That was bugging me, too. I'm thinking that with Isabel and Thea gone, maybe it's just vacant and fallen through the cracks for the time being? If I was Team Arrow, I'd really be scouting for a new Arrow Cave. Though to be fair, they have had a lot on their plate recently.

I had such a head desk moment when Laurel decided not to tell her dad. Ugh!

I'm going to give the writers the benefit of the doubt and say that they did it to recognize the problematic elements of it. As the discussion last week showed, you could go either way with whether it was a fridging. I tend to think that it was but that, like many tropes, it can be handled in a way that makes its use…

I love the show and want to give Laurel a chance, but as a lawyer, the legal stuff is insanely painful to watch. It's not just Laurel, but since she's the main character, she suffers the most from the stupid, bizarro-world legal system the show has going.

I went to school in CA in the '90s, and if we studied it, it definitely didn't stick in my memory. I knew what it was because of Neil Gaiman's 1602. So when they mentioned Virginia Dare, I was totally like "right, the shapeshifter guarded by alternate universe Captain America!"