I assumed his plan was to destroy Star City (i.e the way Ra's in the Batman movies wanted to destroy Gotham). His speech about destroying and then rebuilding the city from the rubble sounded pretty similar.

I didn't have a problem with Laurel wanting to bring Sara back despite all warnings against it - Laurel has long been established as neither the smartest nor the most rational person on the show. She's made idiotic decisions in the past, this isn't the first (and given laurel's own tendency to repeat old mistakes, not…

Malcolm did mention that the bloodlust makes her go for "the one who killed her" and in the absence of that (as Ra's is to Thea), she'd then settle for killing, well, anyone else around. So basically we've got a feral Sara who mainly wants to kill Thea but also wants to kill everyone else.

It's not necessarily the ONLY Lazarus Pits in Arrowverse though, at least in the comics it's been clearly established that there are a number of them. Besides, from the moment time travel became an option, I'm fairly sure deaths on this show no longer had ANY stakes (seriously, why does Arrowverse need two different…

Yeah, Joey seems to have been in lockdown at SHIELD the whole time (at least, I assume, since we haven't seen him around lately). Presumably Lash/Andrew has enough wits about him to know he can't just bust into a SHIELD homebase and try to murder Joey without blowing his cover or getting himself killed.

The problem is probably that S2 was too over-stuffed, so there were a lot of (probably) important character beats the writers just straight-up dropped - the writers could have focused a lot more on Skye's rehabilitation in Afterlife but they pretty much just spent like three scenes of her with Jiaying/Lincoln and…

In all honesty it's still a little strange though. SHIELD was founded to protect the world, and while it's understandable that they can't immediately get back on their feet and get to work, it's a little odd that they seem to have completely dropped everything just to focus on the Big Bads. In S1 they clearly had…

I think another good question would also be: what happened to all the OTHER inhumans that were supposedly living in Afterlife, or did Afterlife have no other Inhumans besides Gordon, Jiaying, Lincoln and that multiplicating woman?

Let Coulson grow some stubble, maybe he'll start looking more like a man and that lets us kill Lincoln off while we're at it.

Yeah but they killed Trip, and THEN added like two or three new series regulars which totally defeats the purpose. Honestly Mack and Lincoln seem pretty superfluous to me, the show could probably do without either of them.

I hate to even mention his name, but don't forget about Kate, Allison's father and grandfather, and Peter too. I mean, I never thought I'd say this but I actually MISS the villains from S1 to S3. The emergence of Theo has made them look like holy gods.

Well, you know TV shows now a days. If Oliver Queen can be declared innocent on Arrow because he "hasn't killed anyone for a year!" I'm sure Regina can be given a free pass too.

I found it rly amusing when they were all cursing Rumple for "changing their lives" (i.e Hook bitching about Rumple probably killing him, Regina moping about speaking frog) when in reality it was Isaac doing all the writing while Rumple just sat there and clutched his heart and tried not to croak before Isaac finished.

Had Regina been left to absorb the Darkness we'd just be right back to where we were at Season 1, which IMO would have been very depressing, especially after all the progress she's made.

There have been repeated mentions of how a "true", pure heart should be red, I think Rumple specifically mentioned it when talking about his own black heart, which suggests whatever has become of Rumple, he's definitely not normal or back to the way he was before. Unless, of course, it was a gaping plothole cos the…

Ironic given how much the other characters (I specifically recall Diggle and Isabel Rochev) tell him he's the smartest guy they've met.

She definitely has gotten better from Season2 though? I mean she went from drunken self-pitying little whelp to someone who's actively taking steps to help others now that she's more or less reconciled with her own life.

Which also means more Felicity next season. At this rate I might well have to drop the show.

Isn't his first choice Nyssa how is she even more batty than Oliver

That's your opinion. IMO Laurel has been getting steadily more likable (I intensely enjoy her telling Oliver to butt the hell out of her business and let her do her own thing, it's a good replacement for Felicity's sass). It just bothers me that the moment they start writing the women on Arrow (relatively) well, they…