Well, if it's any indication, I've actually been looking forward to the flashbacks this season, and as you know, they've been utter crap in the previous two years. If they can make the flashbacks interesting again, it may be a good indication that things are going to be different this season. Also I really like…

Oliver also made an oddly positive comment about gentrification in season 1 when he explained to a highly skeptical Diggle that one of the reasons he wanted to open Verdant was to increase the property values in the surrounding area and "gentrify the Glades". It made me raise and eyebrow at the time but it also made a…

Honestly, I don't mind so much that the films don't mention AOS because they do at least have enough connections that the show feels like it's happening in the same universe as the movies. It's the Netflix shows that really get me. I like them and I know they all pay at least a little lip service to the events in…

Goof Troop was also the first Disney afternoon cartoon I didn't like, probably because i was too old for it. Darkwing Duck was my favorite of all the Disney cartoons at that time and I was sad to see it go. Thankfully Tiny Toons and the Animaniacs saved me from utter after school boredom.

Why wouldn't she be there? StarLabs, despite the fact that it still seems to be producing technology (at least Felicity keeps mentioning stuff they make on Arrow), doesn't appear to employ anyone but Cisco and Caitlin. It's not a traditional work environment where it would be really awkward to have people regularly…

I also thought they were going to make Caitlin an idiot for this episode, but the way it played out actually made a lot of sense to me.

Furthermore, why does she call Mick's Ninja movie a "movie" when the common term in use during the 40's would have been "picture".

"It's an antimolecular compound. Theoretically it can eat through anything".

Wow! Thanks for the info. I just watched a video of a real person getting picked up that way and man that is crazy! Its a wonder they don't break their necks.

Well, Rene could have shot him without actually killing him. That happens quite a lot on this show so why not one more time? Also, the writers could have just not put Rene in a position where he had to do something that stupid in the first place. Like they could have written it so that Rene gets disarmed BEFORE…

I get what you're saying and I mostly agree, so long as the show or book series isn't particularly long-running. In the case of a detective story, you're right, the detective is generally just doing their usual job and it's the people around him/her whose lives are in chaos and that works well for a good long while.…

I agree that season arcs don't always need to be plotted out ahead of time as thoroughly as they typically are now and I don't even think there absolutely needs to be a single Big Bad every season. However, I do think its silly to have characters experience major life-changing events in one episode and then act like…

I was actually a bit disappointed in Rene for similar reasons. Church put away his guns and pulled out brass knuckles so he could beat Rene with his own hands. Rene, who is probably <1/2 Church's size and has far less experience, responds to this development by PUTTING HIS OWN GUNS AWAY so he can take Church on in a…

I kind of like it that way. I enjoy it when TV shows or book series allow their characters some breathing room between crises where they can reflect on their most recent tragedies and get back to whatever constitutes as "normal" for their lives. There is a certain satisfaction that comes from watching characters…

I'm not disagreeing with you but how do they attach themselves to a line hanging from a plane that's flying overhead at relatively high speed? It seems like that would take improbable aiming skills by both the pilot and whoever is running the winch. I know fuck-all about military tactics so I'm not suggesting that…

Yeah, but in video games, I usually justify it by imagining that you're really just passing the armor's stats around rather than the armor itself. Like there is women's armor that works with that set of stats and a separate set of men's armor that works with it, but you can't equip both the male and female version at…

I was kind of wondering the same thing myself. I didn't get to watch Season 4 until last week when it was released on Netflix but I'm a chronic self-spoiler, so I'd read all the reviews for that season before I watched it. Since I'm not an Olicity shipper or a diehard Felicity fan (I thought she was pretty annoying…

I would argue that their awe had more to do with the collection of costumes, rather than the individual popularity of of any one costume's wearer. The fact that 4 random civilians decided to dress up in costumes and put themselves between the citizens of Star City and the crazy bad guys trying to destroy it is fairly…

"I know this, because once upon a time in the glorious past (and maybe, just maybe, someday again!), I reviewed Farscape"

I strongly disagree with your assertion that Ward killing his parents was thematically or morally similar to Angelus killing Jenny Calendar in Buffy. Jenny Calendar had been Angel's ally, she was an inherently good person, and I think she was generally well liked by the fans (I liked her anyway) so it was really…