Well, if you actually have slept with someone, you are within your rights to tell other people that it happened, even if the way these guys were doing it was super-assholish. But if you're lying about it, then it's slander, which IS a punishable offense.

While nowhere near as old a reference, I super-dug Veronica referencing Full Dark, No Stars.

What I was puzzled by was how Betty and Veronica didn't get in more trouble. They drugged, kidnapped, and tortured a guy. Even if the guy himself was guilty of slander, that's something that should have brought the police down on them, not just a slap-on-the-wrist principal.

Isn't that the plot to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

I'm pretty sure it's a package.

Fun Fact: "Electric Meth" was the original working title for World of Warcraft.

It'll be like the Twilight Zone, except EVERY episode's twist will be that it was all in someone's head!

I find Dick's books have a quasi-stream-of-consciousness thing going on, bouncing around so wildly from one idea to the next, that they become quite engrossing despite their highly flawed characterization and story structure.

What makes PKD so awful as a person?

Except Susan Williams, a news reporter, is the one who told us about the general shooting his way out and still having the nuclear warhead. I therefore assumed that everyone in the press had that information, because if she's got an exclusive on what happened, it makes even LESS sense that she'd be spending her time…

The word "nuclear" (in American English at least) is generally supposed to be pronounced "nook-lee-ar", but that arrangement of syllables is a little awkward on the tongue, and if you say it too fast it just sounds like "new-clear". Putting a "u" sound in the middle there makes the transition from one syllable to the…

She's taking care of all the government work Oliver's supposed to be doing but doesn't really bother with.

"Are these morons getting dumber or just louder?"

The guy she has digging into Oliver's past is a hired investigator, not necessarily someone who has any loyalty to her; she might want to keep her cards close to her chest. She lets that guy present his evidence about Oliver's Bratva ties without mentioning she'd already seen Oliver's Bratva captain tattoo in bed.

Or she's just playing dumb for that private investigator guy.

Oliver mentioned that their sister city is in Russia "as of 12 hours ago", so it's implied not so much a coincidence.

The way she said it, it was clearly something she had already figured out, or at least guessed at. Like how she listened to the guy talk about Oliver's connections to the Bratva, when we know she's already identified the tattoo on his chest as that of a Bratva captain.

Plus it takes time to turn a bunch of stolen arrowheads into throwing stars and track down victims whose names are anagrams of Oliver's victims.

These shows often take a slow approach to giving characters superhero identities. Remember how long it took Roy to actually put on a red hood and pick up a bow? Or how Laurel didn't take up the Black Canary mantle until mid-Season 3?

I for one ain't complaining.