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Something else that really irked me (probably irrationally): When Guilfoyle was tearing the place apart for the servers, and Erlich gets all pissy because "Not on the day I'm supposed to show the house!" It was the SAME FREAKING DAY!!! They didn't even bother to have the actors change their clothes. So, among the questionable legal issues thrown in just because they had to try and get the show to go the (not so amusing) way they wanted it to, I'm also supposed to believe that this Real Estate lady has buyers lined up less than a few hours after Erlich decided to show his house? C'mon, man. (Then again, this is Silicon Valley real estate, so... maybe.)

Wow. The brilliance and comedic gold of "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency" and then the paint by numbers, faux angst of "Two Days of the Condor." There were some funny moments this season, but they pale in comparison to the hilarity of the first, and are virtually indistinguishable from the mediocrity of the rest of the season. Gah. Hope they can get it together for season 3, but they'd better do it quick.

In response to the people wondering if Blaine can be re-infected, I'm not sure how effective a cure it would be if it didn't provide immunity from re-infection. I suppose it all depends on just what kind of physiological changes the Max Rager stuff causes, I suppose.

This is definitely getting kind of dumb now. This whole Endframe thing was funny when it appeared to be a one-off ("whoops! What appeared to be a VC meeting was actually industrial espionage!") but it becoming a plot point? We've already got the Hooli attempting to reverse-engineer Pied Piper thing going on, and having another company in the mix is just... more of the same. It makes the whole Hooli plot superfluous and gives Gavin less to do with the rest of the show (he's basically in his own little side show now), and we just keep rehashing the "Pied Piper falls on its face" thing. This is the post-middle out season; we should be beyond that. It seems pretty clear to me that the end result of all of the mishaps on both sides is going to be Gavin approaching Richard and agreeing to give him full credit and financial backing in order to be the third party that powers Nucleus, and there being wins on both ends. But they're taking a really hackneyed approach to it at this point. There is a lot of funny this season, but the overall story arc is lacking. The Endframe plot is to Silicon Valley what Midichlorians were to Star Wars; an unnecessary middleman to a plot that doesn't explain anything, doesn't move things forward, doesn't serve the plot, and makes parts of it extraneous. EDIT: Traveller59 said it much more succinctly than I did while I was in midpost. :D

How about "Ra'zzz"? :D

While I definitely had the same thought, I choose to fanwank it by saying that a) Eobard may actually be younger than he currently looks (I don't recall quite what the actor playing the real non-dna disguised Eobard looked like), and b) is from the future, where they may actually live longer and healthier lives (and quite possibly genetically enhanced ones). But yeah. It would be funny if Snart's first request was: "World Peace." Barry: "I can't do that!" Snart: "Then No Deal." lol

"So, Lonestar, you see that evil will always triumph. Because good is dumb."

In one of the scenes at Palmer Technologies with Ray and Felicity, you can hear Diggle over the comm saying "We got the 4th guy." So, Dig and Thea. EDIT: I believe his actual phrasing was "Fourth man down," but I'm not 100%.

What was Snart's original request that Barry absolutely wouldn't (couldn't?) do? That's what I'm curious about.

Considering that there were people who actually thought Ollie was dead at midseason and openly wondered how they would continue the show without him, perhaps not unwarranted concerns?

I always thought that Roy looked really bug-eyed in costume. Something about his mask just never quite worked; otherwise he looked fine, but you just couldn't escape those bug-eyes. As for Ray- I almost wonder if that was actually supposed to be his death, at least when you consider that one other character on Legends is already dead, too. Maybe he is going to be considered dead by the world at large, and that's why he is recruited for the team? And Diggle- Oliver called him the team's rock several times. Is his codename going to be Sgt. Rock? :P

Though they've played her up to be this benevolent person, didn't we already have a hint that Jiaying was just as unstable and dangerous as her husband? It seems to me that the story that was told about Skye's childhood kidnapping involved two "monsters" laying waste to a Chinese village searching for her. Two monsters. Unless I'm misremembering (that was way back last season after all).

Just when I thought this show couldn't get any worse... They actually pulled the old horror trope "cat jumping out of the shadows" for shock value. Is there anyone alive in this day and age that doesn't see that coming a mile away? Oy. (And they've reduced the Riddler's villainous motives to the ineffable doldrums of simplicity, when they'd so diligently laid the groundwork for him to be motivated by the rest of the world not appreciating his true genius. Shame.)

I remember how much people complained about Emily Kinney's acting in Walking Dead, and thinking that she didn't seem so bad to me. But in this episode of Arrow, she had all of three or four lines (admittedly, three or four particularly hackneyed, cliched lines), and she couldn't deliver a single one of them with any degree of... anything. Not anger, not frustration, not triumph. Not even scenery chewing campiness. Even with the crappy writing they gave her character, she still couldn't do one iota of emoting with any of it. Yeesh. Definitely the weakest episode of Flash thus far. Not just because of EK; the whole thing was very bad. Ray continues to have no personality beyond "peppy but not as smart version of Felicity"; the whole plot with the bees was pretty mediocre (but then again, The Flash tends to always do better with its B plots than its A plots); and the Iris/Eddie storyline gets even more D-grade soap operatic and does neither character any justice. There was some fun stuff in it, notably with Cisco and of course Tom Cavanagh always brings so many layers to his performance as Wells.

"Nothing is more powerful than fate." Don't these people ever watch movies? Read a book? Write a poem? Love, mofos! Love always trumps fate. Even in the 80s. My favorite was her sotto voice "I hate you" to Cassie. lol

People who have actually watched the credits (I admit it; I didn't) have confirmed that the guy at the end is listed as Stone.

I'll have to watch it again, but, as I recall the scene- the gasoline tanks are ruptured accidentally (by Nobu, if I'm not mistaken), and Matt just kicks him to knock him away, but not intentionally into the gas. He does break the light and create the sparks to ignite the gas, yes, but it was very definitely a desperate, spur of the moment decision he makes to save his life. He was very clearly outmatched and severely injured, and really didn't have much (if any) other options to save himself. Granted, yes, he did go there intending to kill Fisk, and but for the untimely intervention of Nobu, might have done so- or at least would have tried. But it doesn't seem to me he intended to kill Nobu at all and though that was the result of their fight, I don't view it as him "attempting to kill" Nobu.

Interesting. They're saying that fight scene actually was a oner, and that there weren't any hidden edits in there. If so, then it really is just as awesome as it seemed. Pretty impressive. I know Joss Whedon is fond of oners; I'd be curious to see his reaction to this.

Can't disagree with anything in particular you said, except I did find that Marcy was a pretty one-dimensional character; almost a caricature. Which was incredibly surprising to me, as even the most minor roles often seemed to have more depth to them. They sort of turned it around at the end, with her deciding to help Foggy and get her soul back, but I almost felt it was too little too late. Hopefully they give her something more to do next season to make up for it, because her vapidness truly made her stick out like a sore thumb against all of the other characters. When they can make irredeemable people like Wesley and Vladimir almost seem charming and sympathetic, but they can't quite get there with Marcy? Seems like they dropped the ball. Speaking of, I'll definitely miss the villains from season one that didn't make it. Wesley was a standout performance, Leland Sr., who really ought to have known better than to provoke someone he knew (and kept telling everyone else) was unpredictable and impulsive. And of course, I'll miss Ben Urich. Very surprised they offed him, considering how much of a role he has in the DD mythos. But spectacular job, all around.

And it's pretty clear that Melvin is working on his own suit of armor; he sets the box with Matt's suit down on blueprints for it. I agree- this last episode seemed a bit rushed; too much wrapup in too little time. I think if they'd have dropped the costume and Fisk vs. Daredevil ending, and just gone the legal route of getting the feds in and bringing down the criminal enterprise it would have been more satisfying. I see why they did it the way they did, I just think they either needed another episode or do it differently. Plus, I like the black costume better than the Daredevil one. In any event, minor complaint to what has been an amazing 13 hours of superheroic awesomeness. Everyone did such an incredible job on this show. I have high hopes for the rest of the Netflix series; they certainly have set the bar high.

I'm not sure that Matt broke his "no kill" policy at all. Sure, he knew (hoped) that breaking the light and causing the sparks would light Nobu on fire; it was a desperation move, something he had to do to save his own life. But Nobu was still alive- badly burned and unconscious, but still alive. He could have lived; IIRC, when Wesley asks what to do about him, Fisk says "let him burn." If Fisk and crew hadn't shown up, who is to say that Matt wouldn't have tried to save Nobu's life?

Zodiac reference, too. ("Van Lunt and his crackpot astrologer"- aka, Cornelius Van Lunt, aka Taurus)

That was definitely an Elektra reference. I wonder if she'll show up earlier than next season, since they seem to be combining the Hand story element with Iron Fist's K'un-L'un background.

Only if they're wearing High Karate. I do like the way they've gone with his powers in this; instead of his Radar Sense and heightened other senses, it's more just a focus on those other senses.

I'm wondering if that was supposed to be Stone, who was another one of the group that worked with Stick against the Hand in the comics. I'm guessing they're setting up the Hand as a big threat for the next season (which would entail bringing in Elektra, no doubt). The Shang-Chi guess is a possible one, too. I know there are plans for an Iron Fist series, so perhaps they are going to try and make all of those disparate comics properties more tightly wound in the MCU, and this guy is connected to K'un-L'un? He does mention something like "Will he be ready when the gate opens?" which could tie into a K'un-L'un connection. (Possibly it is Lei-Kung, the Thunderer?) (Part of me hopes that the character was T-Ray, Deadpool's nemesis- the deep voice and scars made me think of him first- but he has no ties to Daredevil, nor to Stick or the Hand, and is probably a Fox property.) In any event, Scott Glenn was awesome as Stick. I love the dynamic between him and Matt, that they were able to present him as this utterly cold, mean-spirited character, yet endow him with enough charisma and deep layers of sentiment that he comes across as very three-dimensional, and not just a caricature.