I didn't mind it, but it came of as very tangential to the rest of the show.

They weren't trying to save him. The mother pulled the scissors out to kill him.

This episode marked the directorial debut of James "Bam Bam" Bamford, the show's stunt coordinator.

But at this point in Season Two, Slade as the Big Bad wasn't on our radar yet. The presumption then was that the Big Bad was Brother Blood, who turned out to be more Slade's flunky.

It's actually "Smoak and Meers".

I disagree about "no one gave a shit onscreen", when the episode with Constantine was entirely about that. (I'll agree that the entire Other Realm Stuff was highly underwhelming. "We have to find Sara's soul. Oh, it's in a pool, let's pull her out.") But I don't think Sara's blood lust problem is gone or won't be…

SO. DAMN. EPIC.

I've found the set-up work on Arrow to be perfectly organic. Did Laurel do terrible things? Yes, but I found it utterly believable that when she first hears "There's a pool that resurrects the dead" that her first thought would be "dig up Sara and put her in there". Dumb plan, but in character.

Two Canaries!

I'm not sure why the reviewers here act like setting up Legends of Tomorrow is some onerous burden on Flash and Arrow, rather than threads of the larger narrative of all three shows…

Overhyped, or over-hyphenated?

Which I can do, but I still find the Plinkett character unpleasant. I understand what he's doing, but for me it's something to endure to get the critique, rather than something that's entertaining.

I remember, shortly before TPM came out, I saw a thing where Lucas was talking about the new things he could do with the technology, including taking what Neeson did with his eyes in one take and grafting it onto a different take. Digitally frankensteining an actor's performance into something fundamentally different…

Ironically, this article sites those reviews as part of the "wrongness" of the hate. I kind of loathe the Mr. Plinkett character, but the insights of the review and how the prequel movies don't succeed at storytelling are spot on.

True. But reassembling boneless chicken breasts (what you'd start with for Cordon Bleu) into a whole chicken would be the the opposite of "not domestic". That's some advanced Martha Stewart level stuff.

I've always felt this song needed a cover from Tom Waits or someone who could really capture the creepy I've-got-you-tied-up-in-my-basement vibe the lyrics have.

Doesn't fit Martian Manhunter? The guy who lost a wife and two children when everyone on Mars died?

Spoilers!

The degree of "mistake" one would have to make is pretty supreme.

She seemed really off. Not in a "Sara still isn't right" way, but in a "Caity is phoning it in" way.