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I sure hope it's not her old one, as it was all covered in blood from when she hit the trash can AND the pavement. I also hope it's anew bodice. No number of dry-cleaning can make that item of clothing wearable again. - - - I had another wild thought. (First I had the Buffy inspired thing that Sara was at peace but...) What if she went to an actual Hell - you know, because she was this bad-bad assasin (not my opinion, but still), and - now alive - Sara decided to drop the black, take on white and never to kill again, to "wash the red off her ledger". I really want to know Sara's perspective...

I didn't read the delicate hand rubbing as erotic, but rather reassuring, grounding the other person in "here and now" rather than the past.

I kind of want Sara to feel like Buffy after coming back from the dead, bitter about it inside, because she was happy and at peace, in a better place - then someone took her and ripped her out of it. I want her to be angry at Laurel for breaking her peace. I want her to take unnecessary risks when fighting, to be almost suicidal. I want other to notice, not Laurel, bacause, let's be frank - she won't. I want Oliver and Felicity to notice. I want Sara to awkwardly talk to Thea, testing the waters, wary of their past. I'm not sure I'll get anything like that, but a girl can hope. "You saved me, Laurel!" -> that's probably what I'll get.

So, who else thinks Sara's skills in fight will suddenly be dumbed down so that Laurel can look better? Or we'll have a scene in which Laurel saves Sara in a fight. Something has to happen for Sara to leave the city and Canary moniker. It cannot be a sudden struck of animalistic love for Ray Palmer, now can it?...

Speculation / wild thought: With the recent episode reminding us heavily of Oliver/Laurel's "friendship" and "connection", maybe the writers are testing waters how will the audience react to a possible rekindling of their romance? (I can't believe I typed it) As the writers state they don't know who is in the grave (yeah right - but it actually works with these writers, "chaos driven development" or "no-plan is the best plan"), perhaps they're doing a little test to see if the audience would like Oliver/Laurel together again IF they kill Felicity. My answer is - no. This particular audience of one (meaning: me) will not like this and will cross out Arrow from my list.

Frankly, Oliver's fence mending with Laurel was the better political move - even if the spin-doctor Thea hired thought otherwise. Laurel's unstable. Had Oliver distanced himself from her, she'd just pop up on his rally and start rambling how he doesn't think about her and her feelings. Now that's a scandal in the making. Laurel needs acceptance and that's what Oliver did. It was, sort of, like dealing with a mentaly unstable person... Or a teenager with a really bad case of puberty. Even the dialogue was spot-on. "You don't care what I think!" "You'd just judge me!" Laurel should check on her hormones level. I'll probably rant more on this in the Bitterness thread, but let me just say that I hate the fact that the writers make he dislike a female character. I hate it, because I feel my comments can be read as misogynistic, and I still say that the character of Laurel brings shame to all strong female chcracters with their own agency that were ever created. Other thoughts: - Constantine! Drop by anytime you want. I missed you. - Andy's drug dealing past is probably a smoke screen. - Ray... I knew you were coming, so... The sooner you're here, the sooner you're gone. Bye. And one final thought: - What will Sara say to Laurel's Black Canarying? Will she laugh? With the way this writing is done, she'll probably say "You were always trying to save the world. You saved me, Laurel. You deserve to be the Black Canary" ...and then I'll go and sell the tv.

I saw it two days ago, having read all those mild reviews but still determined to see Hiddleston. I'm not complaining. It was a decent gothic romance, full of stunning visuals (ghosts included), trully a story with a ghost in it, not a ghost story. I blame the mild reviews on wrong marketing strategy - it's not a horror. It can be scary and gruesome, but it's first and foremost a gothic novel, with it's riddiculous plot contrivances and lost heroine in billowy night-gown. It's supposed to be illogical at some point. Having said that, I was a bit disapointed. I was expecting something more from the director, a double take, a worthy twist. The way I see it, everything was failry obvious from the start, the villain/ villains were clearly shown, the heroine and the man (men) who loved her defined. I was hoping for a different take on the gothic genre - to have the seemingly villanous sibilings innocent, to have the good doctor the true villain. Alas, it was not to be. A side note: Edith was a really tough young lady - to take such a lenghty fall with just a wooden balustrade to break it (and a small snow heap to land) she escaped with just her leg fractured. Oh, adrenaline. I'd hate to be her the day after.

Seriously, after this episode I'm pretty sure that writers rather hate Laurel's character and I don't believe Guggenheim speaks his mind when he defends her actions on twitter and tumblr. Probably the writers realized the character was messed up beyond redemption with bad casting choices and abysmal writing. It's time to kill it with fire. Either this, or a group of people actually believes that bringing back a person from the dead in order to feel better oneself is a good thing. Chaining the said person in the basement is an act of sisterly love. And giving your father a heart-attack with a family reunion is a normal thing to do (once you've spend half of a previous season whinning about his weak heart). The rest of the episode was a haze to me - my disdain for one particular character was too great. But some bits I've liked: the elevator scene ( even the B!tCh face was funny then), the talk Oliver had with Quentin... And I really, really like this new Oliver - not his suddenly inept fighting skills, but his openness, the family love he oozes from every pore. The sense of duty. Felicity looks good on him.

Let me just say, from the shallow end of the pool, that the way Jay disarmed the crazy "CIA guy" in the warehouse was totally hot. I'm not even ashamed of rewinding the scene and watching it again.

Firing a loaded gun with safety off is extremely easy. Speaking from experience here. (Glock 17) Hiting a stationary target is also quite easy if you know what you're doing and which is your dominant eye. I wouldn't call Felicty firing a gun a Mary Sue or fanservice or what-not... Unless they do it with some kind of mind control magic mumo-jumbo, then I cry foul!

The vote was to have all the families in one room for the DNA targeting weapon to work. It has a limited span and the 9 are probably paranoid and won't be lured into one place unless something big was involved. That's what I got from the story, anyhow. Khylen seems to be involved in everything, but he still does not control his men / partners / other level 6. Earlier we were speculating that John is going to leave to become level 6 and i wonderd if the little "I will find you" speech from one of the trailers was directed at Johnny - well, close but no cigar. The wrong Jaqobis brother. I need this show renewed. Where should we write? Who should we bug about it?

I'm guessing the guy that can burn 8-balls with his hand is the one that gave the town Michael visited the fiery statue and the sin confessing ritual. (What if he's Lucifer?) Does Legion/Dominion history have Jesus? Because Gabriel had to regain enough love for mankind to actually perform the Annunciation. But the liberties the series took with David's story make me wonder if there was no Jesus, and everything just went off the rails. Is it wrong that I like Claire with Gates? I actually like this pairing, i don't want it to be broken by Alex's sudden but inevitable return. I didn't predict the baby will die, though. I thought it was pretty important, the child of the Chosen One and all that. But it didn't come to pass. And finally, much love to both Gabriel and Michael. Those boys together... And now Julian will probably take Gabe's body and taunt Michael. If that happens, i hope the real gabriel will be there still, and haunt Julian from the inside.

I still believe the Tyrant in the title is more metaphorical than physical entity - it's the idea of a tyrant, an idea that power corrupts and turns you into the worst version of yourself. The power is the tyrant that crushes everyone who weilds it.

"Do you love him?" - Oh, Sammy. What kind of question is that? The drugs are talking. Also, yes, I think she does. This was the episode where everyone found themselves in peril (or will find out that soon enough). Well, Molly probably is not in much peril herself, unless Jamal starts choking her. Jamal is playing in a pretty gruesome Shakespearian tragedy - killing his mother while trying to kill his son... Being the target of his own wife's murder attempt... Even uttering a lengthy soliloquy (or a monologue, depending if we consider Amira's remains an addressee). I feel pretty sorry fo Bassam and his followers - they seemed to be doing pretty well until Jamal inserted himself into the mids and blew everything side-ways.

It could also happen that a near-death experience will bring back her memories.

I don't. Fullstop. - - - As for Khylen pronunciation - perhaps the "y" is silent? ;) I didn't get the impression he's Dutch's father, but rather that the real father would order her dead, but Khylen and other faction wanted her alive. I hope we'll see more of it. Or perhaps he was in love with her mother, that always works. Count me in the club of those who liked the small scene between Dutch and Johnny in the car-thing, with a trip down the memory lane. This was the show's essence in one scene - how geat the two were together alone - and then the brother came. (But don't get me wrong, it's not that I despise D'avin. I like him in small doses and when he's not interrupting important scenes.) Some other nice things from the episode: Johnny: "But i don't want to be a KillJoy without you!" Dutch vs Khylen The way the trio flinched when the EMP grenade went off... silently. Titanium stiches.

Oh, but Dutch is Dutch. Plus, she was full of nanobots at that time. Two is... whatever she is. At this point she can be an android/wolverine/space vampire.

I just hope Deliah is alive and well. Last I saw her she was climbing up some ropes and then almost got shot. She's one of my new favourite characters so... I know I should like Molly, she's good in theory - a faithfull wife that regained faith in God and found her inner strength, now fueled with newly found revelations that her loved husband is alive. But... It doesn't work with me here. I usually love such characters, and here I found myself thinking "maybe Molly gets offed in season finale?". It's awfull, i know. I almost feel guilty. I can actually get behind that - Jamal is so sure he has killed Bassam, he would not believe his eyes if he saw his brother standing in front of him. I also think Molly believed too easy, but maybe that's my resent towards the character.

Say what you will, I still think the 2005 movie didi good job on establishing the relations between the characters and the cast, though less titled, was better matched. I will wait for home release to watch and judge this new movie, but let me tell you - I just don't get the new Reese. Paradoxically, the actor is the thing that bothered me most initially. Also, isn't it kind of rasist to make the character who burns black? I would have made Reese black. And older. And by older I mean looking 34, which by Hollywood standards is old enough to be someone's grandpa.

I must say that i loved the fact that Dutch cannot bring herself to fully trust D'avin after what happened. The reasonable part of her knows that it was not his fault and his conscious doing, that she did away with the good doctor and the technology and D'avin cannot be activated again. But the instinct tells her "run". The scene with knife-throwing showed that perfectly. Here's Dutch and her brilliant idea. At first she thinks it's great - she'll let D'avin throw the knife just past her head and prove to him that he's perfeclty fine. But then the fear kicks in and she realizes she's scared of D'avin. Perhaps it's the fear of unpredictable. Perhaps it's the fear of losing control. After all, she did expose herself to him in the most intimate way and then was forced to fight for her life with the very same body she made love to. Dutch's strong, but she's human. She needs time. She overcalculated her strength. Not many shows and certainly not many sci-fi shows chose to dismantle a team and not put it together at the end of an episode. Even Firefly had an episode with Jayne and his betrayal and it was dealt with by the end of the episode. Dark Matter uses the concept of lost memories to make its characters act out-of-character every other episode. But perhaps messy is too much? Maybe the audience needs each episode to conclude with the team drinking and laughing, cutting cheesy jokes at Pree's? Maybe that's the expectation this pretty decent series cannot meet? I'm keeping fingers crossed for the series to be renewed, I hated seeing "Only 2 episodes left" in the preview for episode 9. It looked so final.

They act like tween girls, because that's the only way in which John can be close to her. If they take the step to be more, Dutch will ruin things - at least I'd think that's how John may think. He saw her ruin all other relationships, he said it himself - she's not good at that part of her life. Hey, she has probably never been in love (just married some royalty). So in order to be in her orbit, Johnny convinced himself to keep it platonic. And Dutch feels safe with him, because he's probably the only man that doesn't try to woo her or sleep with her while remaining friendly and open. That's refreshing. I don't know if John planned the whole game with the outcome in mind - that D'avin will leave the ship. But it worked out pretty well in that regard and D'avin needs some quality time on his own, to sort thing out with no John-crutch. One more side note: current sexual orientation - Johnny Jaqobis in black shirt. 'Nuff said.

Alex is still hotheaded, Noma is still smitten, Arika is still scheming, David is still a villain and Claire is still pregnant (and massively screwed). Nothing new. I like Michael, but with Alex he turns into a more boring version of himself. Overall, this was the episode I actually enjoyed David and Claire more than anything else.

So is Channing still attached to this Gambit project? I've read a while ago he dropped it (and cheered so loud they might have heard me in China). Re: Scott and X-men. I must be one of these people who were extremely glad seeing the producers of X-men franchise thought the same of Cyclops as I did while reading the comics. I simply didn't like the guy (Gambit was my fav). Frankly, Scott and Jean were just too boring (but I've read the old issues with Magneto's space fortress and those with Hellfire Club and Bishop, i may not have read their best issues). X-men the series would be fun, especially compared to Agents of SHIELD.

Maybe it's Nokia 3310. Nothing could kill that phone.

I'm going to say this and not regret it: I actually don't see anything wrong with Rayner's acting. I know a few guys like this, the quiet stoic type. They do act that way in real life. And the episode was really good. I hope it's renewed for another season and keeps up with this level of writing.