This show is So Much. I legitimately cannot believe how Much this show is you guys. It is a Great Deal of Much.

If you had told me two years ago that Thea Queen would get the best fight scene this show has ever done, I would have laughed you out of the room, down the hall, into an elevator, up three floors, and into a jail cell. Good Lord.

So the next episode is literally about finding another Firestorm half to replace Ronnie, and Caitlin seems to have pretty much finished the grieving process for her dead ex-husband and moved onto Flashier pastures. Did Robbie Amell just straight-up quit and say he was never coming back? Did he get fired? (lol) …

I am loving this lighter, more hopeful Arrow and I live in dread of the moment six months from now when [WHOEVER] dies and it inevitably returns to grimdark bullshit.

Well, on the bright side, they stopped imprisoning metahumans indefinitely without a trial!

I'm rooting for Luke Mitchell because he's handsome and he seems like a nice guy offscreen, but either he or the writers really need to step their game up to get me on board with him. This episode *was* successful in the sense that it made him more interesting than he was before, but he's still not quite interesting…

I have rewatched this episode four times— more than any of the others so far— purely because of Rami Malek's fucking firestorm of a performance. I don't think I have ever wanted an actor to win an Emmy so bad in my life.

"You knew the whole time, didn't you?" We knew. And Sam Knew that we knew. And Sam wants us to know that he knew that we knew, which is why Elliot tells us that. He didn't just pull a Fight Club, he put the fucking Fight Club song at the end of the episode. Sam Esmail knows exactly what he is doing here, and he…

There is a special kind of tension to be wrung from making your main character the most socially anxious person on the planet. I was biting my nails basically any time Elliot had to have a conversation with someone, because he is SO BAD AT IT. He can't fake confidence, or ease, or normalcy, or much of anything really.…

I hate the Dread Doctors. They are bad fanfiction villains brought to life. Everything about them reeks of a fanfiction author who loves their super-strong OC villain just a little too much. They aren't just supernatural, they're SUPER-supernatural, and thus can ignore conventional supernatural weaknesses because…

Rami Malek is fucking hypnotic as Elliot. I actually feel like I am being physically drawn to the screen when I watch him. Every movement, every microexpression just pulls me in further. I have never seen a character like this performed so well, and if there isn't some kind of awards nomination in his future… well,…

This actually looks like it could be… weirdly fun? Put me down as cautiously optimistic.

I guess I actually am the only person on earth who hasn't seen this and doesn't care to. Maybe I just don't have enough nostalgia for Jurassic Park? My fondest memory of it was when they played the theme at my best friend's wedding as he and his new bride walked down the aisle together, presumably to go off and breed…

Rami Malek is just good looking enough to make me consider watching this.

I agree with most everything here, but screw you for even *suggesting* that Candice Patton needs to lose her job. She's a fine actress who is doing the best she can with bad material. The writing around Iris needs to change, not the actress playing her.

That's why I said creative ENERGY, not creative people. I know it's the same writers; they've just stopped giving a shit.

REASONS WHY THIS SEASON OF ARROW SUCKED:

Considering what happened to Arrow this year, I suppose I can look forward to a drastic drop in quality on the Flash as the showrunners focus all their creative energy on Legends. And I wouldn't be surprised if they just flat-out forgot to make Season 4 of Arrow. "Why do I have fifty voice mails from Amell? Wait,…

I should be used to this show's swerves by now. They were throwing up every red flag imaginable that Gonzales and company were going to be the reason SHIELD goes to war with the Inhumans. Raina seemed by all accounts to be making an obvious play to put Jiaying out of power and create chaos for her own benefit. And…

This whole "magic drugs as an excuse to violate character" thing was fine when they did it to Slade and Roy. It was kind of dumb when they used it on Thea. It's completely played out and just fucking stupid now that they're using it on Oliver. It's nothing but an excuse to create pointless, unnecessary drama…