I'm just glad they gave Laurel a storyline. I've been under the impression that the writers no longer know what to do with her. This might rectify that problem.

They should totally do "My ward is a junkie!" as a very special episode. They can recreate this scene: "They say it'll kill me … but they won't say when!" In this alternate version, I imagine Amell smacking Bennett and both of them delivering those lines.

The mask doesn't conceal his face well; it's the hood that does so. This is just one of those things that's gonna require a willing suspension of disbelief because comics. So, at this point, the hood + mask + voice modulator = effective disguise. Realistically, the typical Star City resident won't be able to pick out…

I didn't get why Ollie just stood there while the driver shot at him. Was he just relying on the fact that the driver was a poor shot, or is Ollie wearing bullet-proof armor now? I mean, he posed for an extended period before sending out his explosive arrow.

Awww, son I am disappoint: no Isabel Rochev with Mark Scheffer scene?! Too much to ask for a Simon-River proxy reunion?

Yeh, I get that Dorian was monitoring the cameras, but how would that even tell him how far away the bullet was? Like, he knew the bullet's ETA and trajectory, not just that the cameras were triangulating Kira's position. Did his sensors detect the incoming bullet (super-hearing, telescopic vision, doppler imaging)?

Ooh. Mantis would tie in with Guardians of the Galaxy. The show would be able to plug that movie on top of the Avengers name drops.

I'm fine with that kind of double narrative, but I don't have confidence in the show's writing team at this time. Right now, I'm just hoping they'd even pursue the idea that Coulson will take his team rogue. However, the episode ended with what seems like, "If life throws you lemons, make lemonade!"

Okay, clearly I didn't understand that plot point at all, ROFL! Like, I knew the storm was still going after the device died, but I thought it was on its way to dissipate, since the artificial source of sudden cold has vanished. This is how I fan-wanked (wrongly, it seems) what the device was doing:

Mmhh … I get what you're saying, but I'm still dubious that Coulson would speak this way to May in private. I can accept this speech if he was speaking to Skye, as a means of encouragement and support. However, with May, that speech should have ended with an undercut of "… and we just delivered Skye to SHIELD." *dun…

I had the same reaction. I felt more confidence for the show's future when Coulson took a turn towards distrust against SHIELD. Unfortunately, that closing speech reversed that assurance.

I think the storm died when the device blew up. I won't pretend to know the mechanics behind how that device created a hailstorm, but I got the impression that it was solely responsible for the meteorological mayhem. When it was destroyed, the storm lost its momentum and dissipated from lack of magical freezing energy.

I don't think evil guy wanted to see the polar vortex. He mentioned that the deal was contingent on things being kept secret, but the two geniuses blew that. Instead, he goaded them to trigger the device and conveniently erase themselves in the process.

Yes, Coulson's monologue at the end there was pretty awful. It was so tonally different from what he was doing for the previous forty minutes. I mean, he was going, "SHIELD lied to me; no more secrets nor deceptions!" the entire episode, and then here at the end he's all, "OMG SHIELD is Skye's family, and it's all so…

I think that, at this point, the whining from the commenters regarding Phil's reviews have become the worse end of the stick. I'll take dismissive reviews versus incessant complaining in the comments. Good commentary can salvage these reviews and make these pages worth visiting.

The FX for the bullet's flight was just unnecessary. The most efficient means of delivering this kind of bullet to a target out in the open city (as Kira was) would be to fire it upwards in a parabolic arc. Instead, they actually forced it to weave through buildings ROFL!

Hah, yeah, I didn't get that either. Surely that safe house should have been outfitted with perimeter cameras, which would alert the MXs of people coming and going. The logistics of her escape through one door surrounded by androids speaks badly of the show's planning.

I believe the MX (I guess they're called "Max") stated that it does have more computing power than the DRNs ("Again, Detective Kennex, your DRN is inferior. Its computing power is 18 billion [I think he said "teraflops"] less than my own."). This was right before Kennex blew its head off. Unfortunately, the show…

I agree with regards to the show's humor, the bandaged guy, and the storytelling being all over the place. Right now, the show broaches some bigger technological questions with the world it's presenting, but I can't tell if it intends to follow through with those sci-fi issues. It's also dabbling in odd-couple comedy,…

Yeah, I don't get why the show is treating its androids as inconsequentially disposable. I would think this would be like a present-day police officer routinely wrecking his patrol car on purpose, just because he dislikes the voice-command system. So, in this future, the police force is over-flowing with money, and…