I really enjoyed some of the performances this week, but, man, this felt really isolated from the threads of Arrow at large. Nothing about Merlyn, nothing about Sara, not an appearance from Laurel, that absurdly, absurdly awful five minutes wasted on Thea's DJ for no reason. The pantry of reusable characters is pretty…

I'm gonna go ahead and give the direction of Flash a slap on the wrist for that, too. Nobody else is forced to endure lingering shots where the only possible direction they received was, "Look past the camera and smile about that dreamy super fast boy."

IT WAS ALL OF THEM. ALL OF THEM EXCEPT WARD.

Sloppy writing, for sure.

I agree. It's part of what made Laurel so unlikable is that Ollie acts unlikable when he's around her. I actually though the hospital scene here did a sort of nice job of recharacterizing his behavior from controlling ex to concerned friend, even if I will have to retcon some of his actions from my brain. I'll New 52…

I think we're probably all blaming the writing and the actress for poor action blocking here. Despite impactful and engaging fights, Arrow's action sequences regularly make weird, fast cuts that blur the story of the action. My impression was that she swerved hard to toss the badguy out and the car fishtailed. Having…

3D models don't expire, and any Disney artist has access to the Disney vaults. At the very least, I think, the concept and development of said assets wouldn't be repeated. I'm guessing that everything would still be re-rendered for the movie, though.

They were created in 1998, mostly, under certainly culturally unaware circumstances. But, well… Gene Luen Yang said it better than I ever could: http://www.washingtonpost.c…

He's a sailor in New York. He just needs to get laid.

I'm with you. I thought it decently preserved the themes and (conflicted) tones of the book, but the ending… well, it was entertaining enough. My wife has not read the book and found the movie enjoyable for its strangeness.

Hahaha, I kind of think so! He's this asshole kid who never gets to grow up before he gets stranded on this island, where he's forced to become a killer, then a professional killer. I just feel like his self definitions have all come externally. I'm not saying he's a bad person. Maybe "not inherently good" was the…

Arrow remains a compelling show because Oliver is always after the right thing in the wrong way. He's not an inherently good person, but he tries to be the only way he knows how, which is to stick to the thing he believes is right no matter what. I think that's why the seasons' arcs have traditionally forced him to…

Director's cut barrel ride.

In many ways, this was the episode of Agents of Shield I've been waiting for since the series was announced. An MU character or two kicking ass, SHIELD versus the badguys, lots of character development to go around. Nobody was boring to me in this episode, and quite a few people were interesting. It was fun to see…

I'm with you on both of these. I watched a lot of Community, and it got a chuckle out of me, But it basically eschewed all pathos it's characters might have earned with the occasional off-the-wall premise that had everyone not really acting lik themselves. I like it, but I don't love it.

I read that as Fraulein slip.

I initially read this headline as "with cannibals, naturally." I was very shocked.

I initially read this headline as "with cannibals, naturally." I was very shocked.