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Maybe 3-Dragon printed a life-sized Adrian to torment Oliver.

I suppose a hallucination is the only reason I’ll be okay with. Flashbacks are a no for me - we should’ve seen everything that happened between them on the island, and I really don’t want a flashback to some thing Adrian said or did to Oliver that’s only coming into play now, which is what I’m most concerned about because Arrow.

Any reason for Adrian coming back can only be stupid, but I like Josh Segarra and I enjoyed Adrian Chase so if it’s him I’ll be excited.

I think adiwriting is a great writer and I've loved this series, but I tend to skip over a lot of the heavy Tommy chapters - mainly because I hate Tommy (from the show, which usually automatically ruins him in fics for me).

I used to think they were stitches, but stitches don't bend like that. Since she has a mountain on the back of one of her arms, it looked most like a tree to me, although I can't say I'm certain what it is.

I think it's a tree.

You take that back

I like that they used the picture from the time Oliver was trapped in an alien brainwashing and was going to leave without saying goodbye to her, haha.

It doesn’t surprise me. I don’t think any of the contributors on that site like Felicity. They let someone post that apology from Felicity fanfic about Barry and Iris’s wedding and retweeted it, no lie, about 10-15 times from the site’s account. There was a poll for people to vote for the best/worst on TV a few weeks ago and the person who published the results added in some of the comments they received on the poll. Most were positive, but there were a couple negatives and one of them was about Emily (and I think she came in third in that one, so she wasn’t even posting negative comments about the top vote getters).

Do the shorter seasons have something to do with how much the episodes cost to make? I only ever made it through half of one episode and the crossovers - is it special effects heavy?

I’m surprised dear shady Susie and the object of her investigation Oliver weren’t on this list.

I'm not sure how valuable that information is today - Netflix canceled one of its own shows without the intention of giving it a final episode. Also, is that article based at all in fact? Unless I missed one, he doesn't cite any actual references, just that people won't binge watch if there isn't a final episode (which I'm not sure many people would even realize unless they wanted to be spoiled for the series).

As per usual, this mess could've been fixed with just a few tweaks. They should've had Dinah and Vince getting back together a few episodes before they did. That way I could buy that she was devastated over losing him and acting out because of it. I mean, I do kind of get it - losing him twice - but she wasn't sure if she should believe him an ep before he died, and then he, you know...knocked her out. They just didn't give it enough time. With Quentin, unless the actual story is him losing his shit, I would've preferred a story where Thea or Oliver did successfully talk him out of his dead daughter delusions with BS, but have him still wanted to help her. It makes sense to me that he wants to help her - it's the second daughter he's lost, and having someone who looks like her definitely would mess him up. I would totally buy him being persistent about getting through to her if he just wasn't a spiraling mess while he was doing it. Then - if the point was for him to be wrong, she can still kill him or run off and be evil and I wouldn't be worried about why no one is taking him to a doctor.

Maybe there's gonna be another earthquake and they thought he'd be the best man for the job!

Bam is directing the finale. He posted it in response to a fan on Insta or Twitter - can't remember which - the other day. ETA:

Cool. The original comment that triggered the discussion was "I dont understand how MG can be so right with LoT but so wrong when it comes to Arrow." Which is, you know, a comparison.

LOL, that is comparing them.

I imagine it probably helps that LoT was conceived as an ensemble show, whereas Arrow morphed into one.

I think the difference is that they aren't - for example - continuously having to reimagine a Black Canary character or set up for spin offs (Arrow's done it twice - the first time the story didn't suffer, the second time it did). Or seemingly being forced to contend with DC wanting their characters out for other reasons (like Waller, Deadshot). That leads to sloppier writing requiring bigger logic leaps. I'd love to see what Arrow would be like if there were only 13 eps to fill.

Let's not overreact here!

He did it to get his daughter back, so taking off without completing his end of the bargain is even more dumb haha.

I would love it if BSLaurel would attempt trying a case lmao:

Oh, never mind - I thought they were talking to Oliver, haha.

Nevermind!

Yeah, but for that to be meaningful we have to know who she passes herself off as E1 Laurel to. If it's someone in ARGUS, then it's self-contained and not an issue. If it's a rando person who doesn't know about other earths and doppelgängers, it seems like they'd have to publicly acknowledge that the person who is passing herself off as Laurel Lance isn't actually Laurel Lance, was my point.