The scene with Interpol guy took place in the same restaurant as Wilson Fisk's interrupted date and had a similar setup. Agent Lukas should be happy his head is still attached.

Sometimes, I amuse myself by imagining how some of TV's more badass FBI agents would have reacted to this show's version of Quantico. Picture Scully, Hotchner or Jack Crawford staring down everyone else with abject disgust after yet another assignment twist or public emotional soul bearing session.

Don't spoil my fantasy that the A.V. Club is just one big cubicle farm, where you happened upon Brandon Nowalk in the tea kitchen and got his old screeners. This is my version and you should stick to it!

You mean you asked your good friend Brandon who kept it just in case, right? RIGHT?!

I feel like the episode structure has not been praised enough. I thought the mirroring scenes on the rooftop were a great (if sad) way to frame the episode.

As usual, I am surprised how much apparent ambiguity this series
generates while telling (and showing) very straightfoward stories.

I think the show made it pretty clear that Oscar didn't act out of envy and spite. Oscar may have been hurt by Sherlock's treatment but he thought that he was just accelerating the enevitable (which may have been the truth). He did it for a selfish reason and that was that after the death of his sister, the closest…

I really like your reading of the relapse as the metaphorical Reichenbach Falls. Especially, since the title of the episode is part of a quote that reads in its entirety "A controlled descent is still falling."
The whole episode showed Sherlock being dragged downwards (and backwards in time). From the opening scene…

I more or less binge-watched until I was up-to-date sometime in season four (I think). After that I was spent and ready to give up on the show but my obsessive Shane love kept me going and I actually thought that season 5 was a return to form. I still remember being excited the show was finally watchable again.
I also…

I'll drink to that. за ваше здоровье!

This is probably inspired by the Greek myth of Tithonus. His lover asked Zeus for his immortality but not for eternal youth. Thus he grew older and frailer, unable to die.
I only now the Tennyson poem, but it's pretty distressing.

True. But to be fair, Thea takes it out on her clothes. The more shit get's thrown at her, the more mutilated her clothes get. I imagine she puts them on a mannequin and attacks them with her sword.

Flashback Tatsu had a loving husband and a living son.
Present day Tatsu is for all we know a hermit, mourning the loss of her family and regrets abandoning Maseo to the League when there may have been hope to save him. She therefore needs a suitably depressing wig to convey her internal anguish.

I am surprised you've all been so hard on the episode.
The opening was great, Roy was like the non-sucky version of James
Hurley and I can't wait for Thea to customise Roy's costume by cutting
the middle out, the suspense whether Nyssa was going to use the knife on
herself or Ollie kept me on edge for a while and the…

Let me guess… it was AWESOME?!

I am actually fine with Laurel's progress. Sure, everyone runs on an accelerated pace but we've seen her getting bloody for weeks until she was able to hold her own. Then she got Nyssa training, which (in my mind) has about triple the effect of regular training, and the Canary Cry seems to be an integral part of her…

I believe they used the constant flashbacks to trick the audience into thinking that more happened than actually did. Specifically in the vein of developing Ollie's fighting skills.

I immediately thought of the Agent Carter finale, as well. While Iris did pull of some pretty great feats for a 'civilian' (taking down the Clock King for example) that people tend to forget, I am wondering how her future role in team Flash will look like. Not every story she investigates can have a meta human/animal…

I thought it was going somewhere interesting when Caitlin aknowledged that she had lied to Iris but didn't apologise for it. This could have been a test passing conversation.
I won't be truly mad, though, if they spend a night or two out, commiserating about the meta humans in their lifes, as long as they develop an…

The one thing does not exclude the other. They will doubtlessly develop Palmer as well, he is a protagonist after all. It will just probably pick up at a different place than I would have expected for a first season arc.
It really comes down to that what happens on Arrow right now informs the Palmer character in a…