When Thanos arrives, it's going to be Terror in Beverly Hills!

I don't really get the "Finn + Poe" stuff. They spend all of 15 minutes together, escaping the Super Star Destroyer, while exchanging some boilerplate action movie dialogue like "Woo!" and "That's what I'm talking about!" and "Don't get cocky kid!!"

That's because my original point had nothing to do with the very real issue of systemic racism in the entertainment industry, and everything to do with the objective worthlessness of these awards shows in general.

This is like telling someone "not to sweat the small stuff", and then them turning to you and saying "I don't think it's your place to tell me whether I should sweat the small stuff". I'm describing the world as I think it should be - not telling people what to value.

No, I completely understand that. What I'm saying, is that artists should define "reward" as career success - fans, happiness, sales - and not what a bunch of old, predominantly white industry establishment people think of your work.

I don't think Macklemore should have beaten Kendrick Lamar for that award, but then again, I also didn't really give a shit. It's an industry awards show that people still inexplicably assume hands out said awards based on pure creative merit. I also recognized that Macklemore was an incredibly popular artist with…

Hey look, that movie I always assumed would be bad, ended up being bad.

I don't give a fuck about the identity politics angle of this - as you point out, any decision could be spun negatively. It get's exhausting. There's an insightful, intelligent way to do a show about a white guy immersed in an implicitly mystical take on Asian culture, and there's the condescending "White Saviour"…

Nyssa is fantastic, but the League were always a joke.

Regarding the League of Assassins… it's a pretty low bar. The League on Arrow were at about the same threat level as the putty soldiers on Power Rangers.

Shakma, one teh walls fall.

I've loved both of the trailers so far for season 2, but I'm a little… worried?… about how they are going to organically combine two seemingly disparate stories (Punisher & The Hand) in such a small allotment of episodes.

She's really good at lending emotional weight to dialogue that would otherwise make me laugh out loud.

This is one of those times where I suspect we may be giving this more nuanced thought than the actual writers did, haha.

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Nope - watch the scene again. She said that having space made her realize that she needed space. She had made up her mind when she wheeled in there, and that was just the proverbial "icing on the cake" to her.

That's a fair point, although I'd note that her exact line was "you've left me out of the decision".

They didn't throw her under the bus (aside from making everyone involved seem irrational as people). As Alasdair mentioned, this was clearly the writers trying to break up Olicity while still making both of them come off as likable as possible.

Why would that be her decision, though? That decision is 100% between Oliver and Samantha.

It would have worked more for me, if the show didn't make it painfully clear (including having Samantha actually straight up tell Felicity) that Oliver wanted to tell her all along. The fact that Felicity even called it an "impossible choice" at the end of the episode, just reinforces that her character realizes…