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That's funny. Except for the part where they admit they know how we feel, and flip us the finger anyway.

I was so excited when I heard that Slade was coming back because I wanted to see how he'd react to OG Team Arrow. Now I'm all meh, especially since I doubt there will be much of Diggle or Felicity.

I didn't mind how they introduced Ray at first. In fact, I was glad someone was finally appreciating Felicity for what she can do professionally instead of making her basically a secretary. There are great things ahead for Ms. Smoak, if only the writers could start writing for her. But I think this plan of Ray being romantically interested in her needs to end now. I think Ray has suffered as a character by interacting only with Felicity, and given how much I dislike the plot lines of Laurel and Ra's, I'm dreading a Ray/Felicity hook-up. There's too much on the show I don't want to see, and too little that I do.

I don't know if you'll get ignored as a hater if you complain, but I suspect you'll get ignored if you don't. I'm waiting till this episodes airs so that he doesn't dismiss me for jumping to conclusions. Then Guggenheim, Kreisberg and Berlanti will be hearing from me.

If Ra's becomes enchanted with Laurel and takes her away, I could get behind that. Please, show, have Ra's take her away.

The Ray/Felicity story reminds me of Barbara Cartland and Ethel M. Dell and those old "powerful sheik rides of with virgin" stories from 115 years ago. I thought we'd move past that. I don't think Felicity and her mother counts because Mama Smoak isn't part of the group. I didn't like Felicity at dinner with Ray, although not as much as I hate her with Laurel because that's completely unearned on Laurel's part. Laurle's had one line this whole series (telling Felicity that Oliver is not dead) that's been nice to Felicity. The were a tight knit group, and that lasted till the end of the first episode. And then it went all to hell. Oliver and Felicity have been distant since Sara died, and the Team hasn't functioned as a group since episode 3x8, either Oliver isn't there (as he isn't now) or he's arguing with Diggle and Felicity or Laurel is causing discord. This is not what I want to see when I watch Arrow.

I'm going with Joe feels like he's Barry's guardian still after all those years of looking after him. ecause unless Barry has been ruled inczpable, there's no reason he should need a guardian now. Living with Joe makes sense in a "better housing, less cost, more friendship" kind of way. It's lonely living alone for both Barry and Joe. Is Iris an investigative journalist now? She's half-way through one journalism course, so pretty much no skills or experience. If Barry doesn't care what's going on at Star Labs, why should Iris? It feels like an intrusion into his personal life to investigate what happened to him because he's an adult and it's up to him to decide if Star Labs is shady or not. But okay, let's say she's going to investigate. My problem with her is that she's using her friendship with Caitlin, Barry and Cisco instead of either being honest with them and telling them she wants information from them, or investigating without involving her friends. As for friends lying by keeping secrets, count me as guilty. I signed a bunch of confidentiality agreements at work, so I guess by not telling my friends what I do, I guess I'm lying too. I think my patients would thank me for that though.

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw those buckles from the back. Also, how long does it take to undo everything so she can go to the bathroom? When you can't stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the "superhero" outfit, it kind of says it all.

Yes. Because Laurel is the show's special snowflake. I wish they would take a look at the positive response to Sleepy Hollow making Katrina evil and consider it with Laurel. They could have kept me as a viewer even with Laurel becoming BC if the focus had just stayed on Oliver/Diggle/Felicity + whatever story they were promoting at the moment. The fact that the Team Arrow I'm interested in has been broken up since early December, and there is nothing in the spoilers that I'm interested in seeing, including Oliver moping at Diggle's wedding because Ray is Felicity's +1, shows just how badly they screwed up.

I liked a lot of the episode, and some parts I didn't like. I liked the Ronnie/Stein bits and how they are still a part of each other. I loved Victor Garber's Stein. But they made such a fuss at TCA about Garber being a! gay! actor! (along with John Barrowman and Wentworth Miller) that I have a hard time buying Martin/Clarissa now. Sexual orientation promotions should be about the character, not the actor. I love how grey Harrison Wells is. I hope they don't overdo it though. I'd like the next spin-off to be all the characters that clutter up these two shows now, Laurel/Black Canary and Ray/the Atom from Arrow, Firestorm and whoever else they create on The Flash. (Poor Plastique, you would have been great.) A place to siphon them off when it gets too full. This is the part of the episode that I liked the least, Iris deciding to investigate her friends on the sly. It's nasty and sneaky. If she suspects there is something going on at Star Labs, either ask or let Mason do the dirty work. it's going to make me really dislike Iris, and since she's the long term female love interest, that's not good. I was unimpressed by Roger Howarth this episode. I know he can do better.

It's funny how season 4 is really shippy for them, and then again season 8 when they thought the show was going to be cancelled. And then the next season it all went icy. But they did get together, if you squint and look at it sideways. In the SGA where Sam, Keller and Rodney are trapped, Sam says that she's seeing an older guy who lives in Washington. And when she unpacks upon arriving at Atlantis, you can see a framed picture of O'Neill in her luggage. You know, like how Oliver and Felicity got together in the Arrow 2.5 comics. *rme*

It's here on his twitter https://twitter.com/mguggenheim Or here https://amp.twimg.com/v/1cfcc251-2a33-4ea6-aa2f-837380fec787 If this is supposed to be "a love letter to the fans", I think I'd prefer hate mail.

I don't think it would have been so easy to move the family away. Jobs weren't so plentiful in those days, his skills were limited, and they had a family of 6 to feed. Moving away would have meant hardship for everyone, including her birth children. She could have done it but I imagine Mr. Drewe would have quite a bit to say about that. If Mary wanted something, nothing would keep her from it. The advantage of believing yourself the queen of the world. I don't think Mrs. Drewe was a bad woman but did she never wonder why Edith was so attached to this child who had suddenly come to them? Why her husband was in favor of Edith visiting and hinting that she will pay for Marigold's future? Why did she take such a dislike to Edith visiting and playing with Marigold when she had three other children who needed her attention? In the end, Mrs. Drewe was just a plot contrivance, poor soul. I don't think that's realistic for who Edith is, a middle child who probably got by through life by not being noticed. Mary was spoiled rotten, the one they still give everything to, Sybil was spoiled because she's the baby but Edith was squished down all her life, by Mary, by her father who says incredibly cruel things to her almost every time he notices her and ran off the best chance to get married she had, and even by her mother who didn't stand up for her. Every time she tried to get out of her shell (e.g. writing the newspaper column ) she was put down by her family. Add to that Edith's character, which is essentially meek unlike Mary, and it takes something really awful to push her to be independent, in this case, the idea of losing both Gregson and Marigold. And even at that, she was practically begging her father for permission to make Marigold her ward. Sometimes I just want to go there and give Edith more of a backbone but JF is consistent, it took the loss of everything she loved to make her finally stand up for herself, even if she did it by running away.

Memento Mori and 200 were a couple of my favorite episodes, along with Mobius. I want nothing to do with season 6. Sapce still plays SG:1 (Canadian content?) regularly and ti's like comfort food after a bad day.

What about "The Prisoner"? 12 letters, and could be a nod to the Patrick McGoohan TV series.

They've all done questionable things, and been questioned on them by the others. And then they've sat down and talked and worked things out. Not this stupid season. I think Diggle and Felicity would be willing to talk to Oliver if he just stayed still long enough for them to hash it all out. But he's too busy making decisions for everyone. I see that as the artificial set-up. Diggle was very firm when he said that to start working with Malcolm Merlyn is the first step towards becoming him, so he's going to disagree with Oliver's decision.. Why haven't we seen him talk to Oliver about that? Diggle's always been good about telling Oliver what he needs to know. I presume so to make Felicity the only one who is against Oliver on this? It would hold more weight if it were a partner disagreement than a lovers spat. The show very badly needs to have a conversation between Oliver, Diggle and Felicity, not Oliver off on some damned island. The last time all three of Team Arrow was on the same page in in 3x09, two months ago. Far too long for them to be at odds.

I'm okay with Oliver keeping a plan secret for part of an episode as Unthinkable did. I may even be okay with him keeping it for a whole episode. But four episodes? Ten now if you're counting from The Magician when he protected Malcolm. No way. Ever since Diggle joined the crusade, he's been guiding Oliver in terms of his decisions wrt fighing and the art of dealing with an enemy. Ever since Felicity joined in 1x14, she's been helping him make the right decisions to becoming a hero (e.g. in The Dodger, she refused to work with him when she thought he was going to kill the man who was a single parent). That's more than two years that he's been counting on them to have his back as he has theirs. Oliver lost their trust when he came back, announced that they were all going to work with Malcolm Merlyn, and didn't explain or discuss it with them. Of course Diggle and Felicity are going to react badly. Of course they're going to be wondering what happened to him and at what point they're going to have to say "No, I won't do that". I don't think it has anything to do with no racing back, and everything to do with what they perceive is a lack of respect on Oliver's part towards them.

I want a "Quentin Lance and Donna Smoak solve crime in Las Vegas" spin-off. Sort of like Dresden Files but without the magic.

Because Mary is a character I love to hate, I loved it when Violet pointed out to her that she regrets Isobel getting married for more than just Isobel's rise in status. Loving someone platonically seems to be a thing Mary can't conceive of. I didn't understand why no one told Lord Merton's sons that they were behaving like petulant children at the dinner table. My great-aunt would have torn strips off of them for their rudeness. I would have expected Violet to, but I guess she has her reasons for keeping quiet, namely wanting Isobel to stay. . To my mind, that would be Edith, not Mrs. Drewe. It's interesting how differently people perceive the story. To me, it's about Edith desperately trying to keep her child in the face of society and her family. (and JF's plot contrivances). She even sleeps with Marigold's picture under her pillow. How desperate/loving is that? Ironically, if she hadn't been of the upper class but a middle-class typist, I think she could have kept Marigold and hired someone to babysit while she was at work. It was her station that called attention to her. At least she was leaving her with an adult,. Realistically, when Mrs. Drewe had to go off to do something on the farm, she would either have left Marigold alone or with one of the other children looking after her. It's a big early to have been able to hire a good nanny yet. They've been gone barely a day. Even Mary commented how quickly Edith had returned to Downton Abbey. The reason Mrs. Drewe lost Marigold was because she forbade Edith to come around. If she hadn't, and if the news of Gregson's death hadn't shown Edith there was no way she could be happy at Downton Abbey, she would still have Marigold in her family. You know what I find hard to believe? That Mrs. Drewe had the power to make Lady Edith (the aristocrat) stop coming around. Given the difference in their stations, it took gall to tell one of The Family to stay away. I think it only worked because Edith as kind and already so put-upon. I'd like to have seen her try that with Mary.

Claudia Black is also amazing the cons, if you ever get the chance to see her. She's interesting and charming, and well aware that Vala Maldoran was quite disliked by some of the audience. Although one of the funniest lines in SG:1 was Vala's comment, upon seeing Cameron Mitchell after Daniel of the "limited gene pool" on Earth. (They made Michael Shanks keeps his beard for a while so viewers could tell him and Ben Browder apart.)

You know, I'd love to see the great Ra's doing prop duty. It would show just how really ridiculous this all is.

I loved Farscape too. They stopped playing it in Canada after season 1 so I had to ask American friends to send the VCR tapes until they started it up here again. A series that I really enjoyed but doesn't get much love is Babylon 5. Characters that switched from bad guys to good (G'Kar) or at least grey (Londo), a cohesive storyline and some of the best female characters around. The scene where Delenn stares down the Earth battlefleet to protect that station still makes me feel like rejoicing. Castle has always set up plots that don't get resolved until three or more episodes down the road. Beckett's murdered mother was started in s1 and didn't get really wrapped up until s6. The 3XK killer started three seasons ago, I think. So I'm not too surprised that the "what happened to Castle" isn't being wrapped up yet. The world has been taken over by boys and their toys: from the back page of Consumer Reports, on the list of ingredients for Old Spice Pure Sport High Endurance deodorant

Why can't it be Laurel who stays behind in Nanda Parbat? (she whined). I can see Thea fitting into the Arrow team more easily than I can see Laurel. I'm dreading having Laurel there every time there's a lair scene. Except for the part where there is only one photo of Diggle and none of Felicity. I'll see the gag (as in joke) scenes on the internet with Diggle and Felicity, but the idea of Oliver/Thea/Slade on the island and Tommy/Laurel/Quentin/Thea holds no interest for me. Oliver was really against Diggle in the first few episodes of S1 because of the type of person Diggle is. Will they be able to tie that in to Oliver seeing him in the past? I have to disagree that schizophrenia is "psychosis-lite" because even when they're not in a psychotic break, they still have to battle hearing voices all the time telling them often terrible things. A psychotic break is what is usually termed "insane" but anyone with an axis I mental illness (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder etc.) has a life I don't envy. If anything, MM has a personality disorder and those are very difficult to treat because the person doesn't see it as being anything wrong. Malcolm thought that the way to clean up the crime in Starling City was to destroy The Glades and he's still sticking by it.

I think they wanted Sara so dead that we couldn't ask for her to come back and challenge Laurel for being the Black Canary, and he thought all that was so cool to do it like that. I also think he overestimated how glad people would be to see the Rise of Laurel Lance, the Real Black Canary. The people who really wanted her are happy, but the rest range from "okay, at last she has something to do" to an even greater dislike of her.

Malcolm Merlyn is a psychopath, which is not the same as being psychotic so yeah, not insane. The problem is, if they made him sane, what would they do with him? At the point Oliver doesn't need a mentor and there's even less storyline to a sane MM than there is to Walter.