I don't think the 'blinds her followers' thing was intended to be anything more than a passing reference to the warehouse of blind workers Gao had packaging her heroin on an earlier episode of Daredevil.

Reminds me of the one time a season or two ago when I found myself thinking, Cosima has been kind of on the backburner lately, I hope the actress who plays her doesnt get frustrated and leave the show. … :-/ … lol

I appreciate how often the CWverse brings back episodic villains, but most of the time I do not remember them without an assist.

I completely forgot who he was and had to do quick wiki search. Thats what I get for fast forwarding through the "previously on Arrow."

I think the gun episode reinforced these writers are too liberal to write an actual leftist.

Did you leave Aidy off your even list?

MAYOR ROBIN GIVENS IS NOT AMUSED

I mean if the show actually actually went there, you COULD say that the major difference is about power and the State. It reminds me once again of how this show consistently betrays what I understand to have been the comic book Green Arrow's leftist radical origins in favor of Berlanti liberalism (in this storyline,…

We also don't know nearly enough abt Helix's political/ethical goals and motivations to make a convincing case that supporting their agenda equates with "crossing over the dark side", whereas we know lots and lots about the messed up stuff that Argus has done prior to Lyla's leadership. I'm fine with the grey space,…

there's an additional plot question that for me further contributes to the Felicity motivation issue. W/ the Arrow team having a relatively collaborative relationship with Argus, why wouldn't Felicity just try to convince Lyla to let them work with Cayden while under Argus control/oversight? Was the whole "they wont…

focusing on the interpersonal drama within the context of, and accelerated by, this operatic version of political power & spy shit is this show's MO, and this team knows how to deliver a certain kind of OTT character-based fireworks display… so like on a purely surface level, I thought this was the most…

Valentina is also an oddball art freak intellectual in her own way though, I find her glorious, unexpected and unpredictable.

She'll need to de-Tennessee-ify her looks, it's hard to imagine pageant wig bumps and performance spandex carrying her to the end—but a year of national touring could really up her aesthetic given the creativity and willingness to take risks as well as elevated body shaping technique that she's already exhibited.

Me too, especially with the silence during the performances and the fact that with the no-elimination opening episode and extra queen, it seems like a double elim or something MUST be coming (or is it? I haven't checked the episode count). But I also couldn't believe they would taint Cynthia's rep with that particular…

It was on UNTUCKED. and was a wonderful combination of hilarious and sincere.

To me the problem, if it exists, wasn't so much with this episode as with the fact that her overwhelming sole character trait when first introduced was Martian nationalism. If there had been a bit more meat on the bones of that in terms of loyalty to team, and principles of honesty and integrity, this turnabout would…

I am having a hard time with Snart being plucked out of the timeline, for how it undoes his character development prior to his sacrifice and the nagging, distracting questions about how if he doesn't return to become a hero it could become an aberration and mess up the rest of the Legends and why aren't they…

I can see that. The Benoist thing might be mannerisms and line delivery as much as appearance.

maybe an exaggeration, but her entire character objective and personality is to make Rip and the crew happy, to imagine also her hot and into you is definitely a dude fantasy. It's like sitting in your living room and jacking off while you talk to Alexa or Siri.

She's not a person, she's a servile femmebot fantasy. Like, eww.