Longish TV rundown
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jedi_of_urthI had been really good about posting these in their weeks for a while, guess I was bound to slip eventually.
Supergirl 2x13
That was not a good episode. Myx was never a Superman villain I cared for and I didn’t like the way he was used here; plus I called basically every twist, in fact I was calling more twists than there actually was because I figured Mon’el must have been on the spat being fake because those fights were so theatrically exaggerated that I never bought it. That was actually a redeeming idea because with them not being fake the PTB are going way too far with this supposedly fight because they like each other thing; I don’t go for ships like that, in fact I find it annoying most of the time. So it’s kind of like the worst of both worlds here, the predictableness of it being a fake fight with the immaturity of it being real.
Apparently we are supposed to ship J’onn/M’gann and that’s weird to me. I do like Wen’s new love interest, though we are going to need quite a bit more depth going forward. I can’t decide if it’s a good performance or just predictable writing that I was pretty sure all along that Maggie’s objection to Valentine’s Day wasn’t about it being a greeting card holiday; not that I blame Alex for not instantly assuming there was a huge story connected with it, Maggie needed at least more explanation to dissuade her new girlfriend from wanting to celebrate.
Was there a reason they had this episode the week after V-day? Seems like it should have been the week of.
The Flash 2x13
That was...aggressively mediocre. As I said before and will say every time Harry comes back, why don’t we get the interesting Wells regularly instead of the annoying idiot we’re currently stuck with? We barely even got to enjoy Harry but I miss him; plus this episode was a clear demonstration of why they’ve kept finding ways to keep the actor around. I like Jesse and I guess I’m glad we get to keep her for a bit but I hate Jesse/Wally; mostly because I’m back to hating Wally in this one I suppose, Jesse says he’s “scary complete” when out as KF, I say he acts like a douchebag. I was really hopeful there for a moment that someone would actually disapprove of the way he acts, but apparently not. I like Julian, I even kind of like Julian/Caitlyn, but I’m pretty solidly feeling this is going to end badly; Caitlyn has terrible luck with relationships and Julian does not feel like a character that’s going to stick around the show for very long.
Also, I never got any sense that this mission would change the future, was in fact always pretty sure it would create the future they’re trying to avoid. I still don’t really believe they’ll kill Iris, but I’m not sure I’m going to buy any way they get around it.
Note how little I care about Barry, which I guess is a step up from hating him in the first half of the season, but I really don’t care about him.
Agents of SHIELD 4x15
So I’m given to understand that we have a hiatus coming up, which should give us a lot of fandom fun, but I found this episode kind of meh and the cliffhanger not terribly interesting. But I did completely call what May-lon would do; she was born in love with Coulson and the robot-Coulson isn’t him; this time, with no overriding directive, maybe she can’t go and save him the way she would always choose to, but she can give someone else the chance to. It does raise a question as to why Aida needs to be on a quest to understand love when clearly a robot has the capacity for it.
The FitzSimmons stuff was great and heartbreaking. I didn’t call that one at all, I thought one of the replicants had hacked the LMD detection system so that the base would be on alert for the two of them; but it does hold up and Simmons was just amazing. It’s a little less clear if Fitz-bot had all of Fitz’s feelings than it is with May, but I think enough to again not quite jell with Aida’s next move. I’m even okay with Skye getting to be the hero, because Simmons is so much more the hero here.
So I guess we’re going to be exploring the Framework for a few episodes, though maybe just one because I don’t know how they can drag this out, partly because I don’t really buy most of what we’ve seen as these people’s ideal lives. We don’t get much of Mack’s but yeah, giving him back his daughter is probably a big deal in terms of giving him a happier life. I will even accept Ward being part of Skye’s, we don’t know what else is changed about her history and while she might not think it at this moment but I can see how taking away that pain of betrayal would be a huge deal for her; plus I’ve kind of suspected since this all started that we were going to be forced to endure more Ward, so many groans. But May at Hydra? I can see how some different choices, especially removing Coulson not just from her life but apparently SHIELD, would have lead her there, but not as a *happier* life. Just separating her and Coulson (and apparently FitzSimmons) throws the whole better life thing into question. I don’t buy that Coulson really thinks joining SHIELD is his big regret; the soil in which a lot of regrets grew I suppose, but I was already surprised enough that Robo-Coulson didn’t turn to May-lon as he was explaining that and say “But then I wouldn’t have met you,” because Coulson knows that it’s not just regrets that grew in that soil but every important thing in his life (I don’t just mean May, she was the person he was expositing to and one of the big ones though).
And I might forgive them dropping the ball on making it a better world for these people, if it was at least a consistent world. Apparently though Hydra won, so unless Skye and Ward are now both Hydra in a world that also actively teaches hating Inhumans I don’t understand how it can all fit together...although I guess if Skye isn’t Inhuman... Anyway, better world by arse.
But for all I am not exactly happy with the directions it seems to be going, I’m glad I’m back to watching the episodes as they come out. I’ve liked this season so much more than last and probably the last couple, and I’m still mostly with it now. So bring on 4c.
Legends of Tomorrow 2x12
I really liked that episode, though my ‘RIP, NO’ feelings aren’t slacking off in the least. And Gideon better not get in with not-Rip either; that is not your captain, Gideon, that is a brainwashed asshole who you need to save not listen to. Also, even evil-Rip calls Sara Captain now, and I’m not sure how he’d know that except that Rip considered her the obvious choice (I guess she had taken over the captain’s office while he was Phil, which even partial Rip-mind could put the pieces together, and the Legion might have mentioned it, but I still think Rip just assumed it).
I don’t really buy that Ray would last 10 seconds against Darhk in a sword fight. *Sara* can barely last in a sword fight with Darhk and she has actual training (although Sara also may have trained Ray while he was lacking the suit, but can’t have been near enough to pull this off). I loved the lightsaber though, and really Ray all through the plot, I just don’t buy that specific aspect of the ending.
This does help justify the JSA episodes better since, looking back, they were really underdeveloped for how much of a big deal they seemed to be. I assume this leaves Captain Steel as the remaining spear guard or am I forgetting someone? I also gather the people on the ship haven’t put that together yet, although Nate might have and just not brought it up yet. Also...how long has passed since Star Girl came to Camelot? Because the 1956 mission is already 14 years after they all met in 1942 and if she built Camelot that must have taken awhile. Did she use her part of the spear to create people named Arthur and Guinevere (who I will subsequently call Gwen) and Galahad or did they actually exist and she just made them act out her idea of Camelot, or did they exist but she had to groom them from a young age to play those parts?
Okay, is that enough practical stuff for me to discuss my Rip/Sara pain? It was weird because the episode started with Sara and Gwen flirting, I was even half joking that the last mission before Rip disappeared Sara flirting with a queen and here she was doing it again; but then it settled into the parallels between Gwen/Arthur and Sara/Rip which I was a supporter of exploring. During the final fight I was even trying to figure out what the joke would be since Lance is a name perfectly fit for the times, though I didn’t call her being Lance-a lot. It turning back to Sara/Gwen then seemed...odd to me because it had become so much about Sara’s issues with becoming captain and her fight to save Rip (although in their case I’m not sure who ends up captain when it’s all said and done) that her interest in Gwen seemed almost self concerned. Which means that saving Rip was where her story this episode was leading to, and it does; although I guess we’ll have to wait for next week to have her confront him in the glass box. It’s obviously coming.
Wait...come to think of it, in the parallels going on with the Camelot folks, is Gideon Star Girl?
Just...so much “No, Rip, baby, don’t do it.” I want to like evil-Rip because it’s a good twist and played well, but it hurts my heart too much to see him like this.
Arrow 5x14
That was a much better episode, in fact it’s pretty high on the list of best episodes of the season. There was a lot of good work done on multiple fronts of plot and character, almost all of it worked for me, and aside from being cut off so abruptly I even liked the flashbacks (though I guess there wasn’t much to them, Oliver and Anatoli made it down the hall and some stairs and got into half a gunfight).
There’s plenty I could say about this episode, but I can’t seem to organize any thoughts some episodes just have that reaction and I never know when it will happen.
Supergirl 2x14
I really wanted to like that episode, but all the way through I could feel that it wasn’t going to hold together once things kicked in. I don’t mean that I had no hope it wouldn’t end happily, although I was pretty sure of that, I mean that the plot would never actually make sense. J’onn is psychic which was the only reason I ever believed Jeremiah’s story, surely J’onn would have mentioned if it wasn’t true, because there were giant holes in it all the way through. Which turn into plot holes not just because J’onn didn’t pick up on it sooner but because everyone else was completely blind to how unlikely it was that this was real.
And I get that they wanted it to be true, *I* wanted it to be true because I’ve been wanted the Jeremiah plotline to be important and resolved since basically the pilot because I never actually believed he was dead in the first place and because I want the girls to be happy. But that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have gone through a hell of a lot more screening before everyone accepted him back at face value. Even if everything he said was true as far as he knew that wouldn’t mean Cadmus didn’t do something to him that would blow up in their faces, or that them getting him back wasn’t meant as a distraction in and of itself; they could have fed him fault intel so that while he had them looking for specific radiation signatures they could have been doing something else entirely. And J’onn is telepathic, spies at the DEO should have a really hard time. If this had been a mini-arc over 2-4 episodes where they had time to lull us into a false sense of security it might have been more believable that the characters also had one and made the betrayal hurt a lot more.
I think it’s fair to contrast with say Black Siren a couple episodes ago on Arrow; they wanted it to be true just about as badly as the characters here did, but they were cautious about letting their hopes get too high. They’ve seen the impossible happen so they could hope and not instantly look for the other explanation, but they were also aware that if something is too good to be true there a decent chance it’s going to blow up in their faces at some point. And, it cannot be overstated, none of them are psychic.
Also, I found the end frustrating. It doesn’t do much that it’s probably the most I’ve ever liked either Alex/Maggie or Kara/Mon’el, it should have been about Alex and Kara. Their relationship was the one tested by what happened in this episode (as ridiculous as it is that Alex wouldn’t have had suspicions of her own) and should have been given the importance in the end; and if they’re not going to be leaning on each other that should be super important in their separate grief.
Though I am now convinced that Kara is in character quite racist and is only with Mon’el because he’s strong enough to match her. Which makes me wonder what her real attitude towards Clark/Lois is.
The Flash 3x14
This kind of has the same feeling I had a couple episodes back, that if I liked this show I’d like this episode a fair bit but because I have so little investment in these characters I still mostly feel meh about it. I like Harry, easily my favorite character in this episode, even if he is getting roped into the cult of Barry in stages.
There is value in exploring the idea of Barry considering killing his enemies (which I’m fairly sure he has done before, or at least allowed the freaks of the week to die) but the show doesn’t really explore it. The idea that Barry had tried so hard to hold himself to the highest good but sometimes he’s going to face a problem where that is actually tested; that he has the example of Oliver’s struggles to both tempt and deter him from going down the same road; that there is a cost to insisting of finding another way; but I don’t feel like any of that is really gone into with this, because I don’t really see him struggle with the test or that there are consequences (there might be down the road, but I’m not holding my breath that this issue will be fully addressed then). I want to feel that this is huge and important for the character, but I don’t, it feels like yet again Barry skates through without really having felt any of the pressure the show clearly wants me to think he was under.
I was like 90% sure Harry was lying/misleading Wally on the whole dying front, but I don’t actually blame Wally for not seeing through it as clearly as I did, or that Jesse jumped to the same conclusion. It was a well-played scene that the audience and Jesse are (for slightly different reasons) a lot more likely to see through Harry’s BS than Wally would be. But seriously, why can’t we just keep Harry? The fact that they weren’t doing effects to put Harry and HR actually on screen together was often obvious but really, why aren’t we keeping Harry?
At least Lyla got a mention, are we ever going to actually see Lyla again on any of these shows? I miss Lyla.
Arrow 5x15
This was a...solid episode it had several elements that I liked but I don’t know that I particularly liked it overall. I feel like they gave away that DA Dude was Prometheus too suddenly and easily for it to actually be true so I’m sort of expecting another twist on that (like, they have a spare Prometheus costume from Billy). I’m really annoyed that they’re continuing with this Oliver/Susan thing when it’s a terrible relationship. I thought it was pretty obvious all along that Paul wasn’t looking to get back together with Curtis and it only got more obvious the more excited Curtis got. I really wish they going somewhere with Thea’s arc, but I don’t really get that vibe from it. I can’t make up my mind yet whether I like how they’ve handled the Felicity and Pandora arc, but I kind of feel like it’s not going to pay off enough by the end to make up for the kind of iffy feeling I have for the way it’s been set up.
I like Oliver a lot in this story, actually; well besides the Susan thing. It’s kind of weird because I’ve never exactly counted myself as a huge Oliver fan, but he really has been the soul of the show especially this season and that has worked nicely. I also like that the team saved him, he made a good team and if he has to step back they’ll be okay, and I approve of that moral. Partly because I’ve always felt that has to be how this show ends, with Oliver giving up the hood and just helping out the team behind the scenes; but also because even just now Oliver needs to know the good people he has at his back.
Though I do still wonder where Evelynn got to, have we even heard about her since Christmas?
Supergirl 2x13
That was not a good episode. Myx was never a Superman villain I cared for and I didn’t like the way he was used here; plus I called basically every twist, in fact I was calling more twists than there actually was because I figured Mon’el must have been on the spat being fake because those fights were so theatrically exaggerated that I never bought it. That was actually a redeeming idea because with them not being fake the PTB are going way too far with this supposedly fight because they like each other thing; I don’t go for ships like that, in fact I find it annoying most of the time. So it’s kind of like the worst of both worlds here, the predictableness of it being a fake fight with the immaturity of it being real.
Apparently we are supposed to ship J’onn/M’gann and that’s weird to me. I do like Wen’s new love interest, though we are going to need quite a bit more depth going forward. I can’t decide if it’s a good performance or just predictable writing that I was pretty sure all along that Maggie’s objection to Valentine’s Day wasn’t about it being a greeting card holiday; not that I blame Alex for not instantly assuming there was a huge story connected with it, Maggie needed at least more explanation to dissuade her new girlfriend from wanting to celebrate.
Was there a reason they had this episode the week after V-day? Seems like it should have been the week of.
The Flash 2x13
That was...aggressively mediocre. As I said before and will say every time Harry comes back, why don’t we get the interesting Wells regularly instead of the annoying idiot we’re currently stuck with? We barely even got to enjoy Harry but I miss him; plus this episode was a clear demonstration of why they’ve kept finding ways to keep the actor around. I like Jesse and I guess I’m glad we get to keep her for a bit but I hate Jesse/Wally; mostly because I’m back to hating Wally in this one I suppose, Jesse says he’s “scary complete” when out as KF, I say he acts like a douchebag. I was really hopeful there for a moment that someone would actually disapprove of the way he acts, but apparently not. I like Julian, I even kind of like Julian/Caitlyn, but I’m pretty solidly feeling this is going to end badly; Caitlyn has terrible luck with relationships and Julian does not feel like a character that’s going to stick around the show for very long.
Also, I never got any sense that this mission would change the future, was in fact always pretty sure it would create the future they’re trying to avoid. I still don’t really believe they’ll kill Iris, but I’m not sure I’m going to buy any way they get around it.
Note how little I care about Barry, which I guess is a step up from hating him in the first half of the season, but I really don’t care about him.
Agents of SHIELD 4x15
So I’m given to understand that we have a hiatus coming up, which should give us a lot of fandom fun, but I found this episode kind of meh and the cliffhanger not terribly interesting. But I did completely call what May-lon would do; she was born in love with Coulson and the robot-Coulson isn’t him; this time, with no overriding directive, maybe she can’t go and save him the way she would always choose to, but she can give someone else the chance to. It does raise a question as to why Aida needs to be on a quest to understand love when clearly a robot has the capacity for it.
The FitzSimmons stuff was great and heartbreaking. I didn’t call that one at all, I thought one of the replicants had hacked the LMD detection system so that the base would be on alert for the two of them; but it does hold up and Simmons was just amazing. It’s a little less clear if Fitz-bot had all of Fitz’s feelings than it is with May, but I think enough to again not quite jell with Aida’s next move. I’m even okay with Skye getting to be the hero, because Simmons is so much more the hero here.
So I guess we’re going to be exploring the Framework for a few episodes, though maybe just one because I don’t know how they can drag this out, partly because I don’t really buy most of what we’ve seen as these people’s ideal lives. We don’t get much of Mack’s but yeah, giving him back his daughter is probably a big deal in terms of giving him a happier life. I will even accept Ward being part of Skye’s, we don’t know what else is changed about her history and while she might not think it at this moment but I can see how taking away that pain of betrayal would be a huge deal for her; plus I’ve kind of suspected since this all started that we were going to be forced to endure more Ward, so many groans. But May at Hydra? I can see how some different choices, especially removing Coulson not just from her life but apparently SHIELD, would have lead her there, but not as a *happier* life. Just separating her and Coulson (and apparently FitzSimmons) throws the whole better life thing into question. I don’t buy that Coulson really thinks joining SHIELD is his big regret; the soil in which a lot of regrets grew I suppose, but I was already surprised enough that Robo-Coulson didn’t turn to May-lon as he was explaining that and say “But then I wouldn’t have met you,” because Coulson knows that it’s not just regrets that grew in that soil but every important thing in his life (I don’t just mean May, she was the person he was expositing to and one of the big ones though).
And I might forgive them dropping the ball on making it a better world for these people, if it was at least a consistent world. Apparently though Hydra won, so unless Skye and Ward are now both Hydra in a world that also actively teaches hating Inhumans I don’t understand how it can all fit together...although I guess if Skye isn’t Inhuman... Anyway, better world by arse.
But for all I am not exactly happy with the directions it seems to be going, I’m glad I’m back to watching the episodes as they come out. I’ve liked this season so much more than last and probably the last couple, and I’m still mostly with it now. So bring on 4c.
Legends of Tomorrow 2x12
I really liked that episode, though my ‘RIP, NO’ feelings aren’t slacking off in the least. And Gideon better not get in with not-Rip either; that is not your captain, Gideon, that is a brainwashed asshole who you need to save not listen to. Also, even evil-Rip calls Sara Captain now, and I’m not sure how he’d know that except that Rip considered her the obvious choice (I guess she had taken over the captain’s office while he was Phil, which even partial Rip-mind could put the pieces together, and the Legion might have mentioned it, but I still think Rip just assumed it).
I don’t really buy that Ray would last 10 seconds against Darhk in a sword fight. *Sara* can barely last in a sword fight with Darhk and she has actual training (although Sara also may have trained Ray while he was lacking the suit, but can’t have been near enough to pull this off). I loved the lightsaber though, and really Ray all through the plot, I just don’t buy that specific aspect of the ending.
This does help justify the JSA episodes better since, looking back, they were really underdeveloped for how much of a big deal they seemed to be. I assume this leaves Captain Steel as the remaining spear guard or am I forgetting someone? I also gather the people on the ship haven’t put that together yet, although Nate might have and just not brought it up yet. Also...how long has passed since Star Girl came to Camelot? Because the 1956 mission is already 14 years after they all met in 1942 and if she built Camelot that must have taken awhile. Did she use her part of the spear to create people named Arthur and Guinevere (who I will subsequently call Gwen) and Galahad or did they actually exist and she just made them act out her idea of Camelot, or did they exist but she had to groom them from a young age to play those parts?
Okay, is that enough practical stuff for me to discuss my Rip/Sara pain? It was weird because the episode started with Sara and Gwen flirting, I was even half joking that the last mission before Rip disappeared Sara flirting with a queen and here she was doing it again; but then it settled into the parallels between Gwen/Arthur and Sara/Rip which I was a supporter of exploring. During the final fight I was even trying to figure out what the joke would be since Lance is a name perfectly fit for the times, though I didn’t call her being Lance-a lot. It turning back to Sara/Gwen then seemed...odd to me because it had become so much about Sara’s issues with becoming captain and her fight to save Rip (although in their case I’m not sure who ends up captain when it’s all said and done) that her interest in Gwen seemed almost self concerned. Which means that saving Rip was where her story this episode was leading to, and it does; although I guess we’ll have to wait for next week to have her confront him in the glass box. It’s obviously coming.
Wait...come to think of it, in the parallels going on with the Camelot folks, is Gideon Star Girl?
Just...so much “No, Rip, baby, don’t do it.” I want to like evil-Rip because it’s a good twist and played well, but it hurts my heart too much to see him like this.
Arrow 5x14
That was a much better episode, in fact it’s pretty high on the list of best episodes of the season. There was a lot of good work done on multiple fronts of plot and character, almost all of it worked for me, and aside from being cut off so abruptly I even liked the flashbacks (though I guess there wasn’t much to them, Oliver and Anatoli made it down the hall and some stairs and got into half a gunfight).
There’s plenty I could say about this episode, but I can’t seem to organize any thoughts some episodes just have that reaction and I never know when it will happen.
Supergirl 2x14
I really wanted to like that episode, but all the way through I could feel that it wasn’t going to hold together once things kicked in. I don’t mean that I had no hope it wouldn’t end happily, although I was pretty sure of that, I mean that the plot would never actually make sense. J’onn is psychic which was the only reason I ever believed Jeremiah’s story, surely J’onn would have mentioned if it wasn’t true, because there were giant holes in it all the way through. Which turn into plot holes not just because J’onn didn’t pick up on it sooner but because everyone else was completely blind to how unlikely it was that this was real.
And I get that they wanted it to be true, *I* wanted it to be true because I’ve been wanted the Jeremiah plotline to be important and resolved since basically the pilot because I never actually believed he was dead in the first place and because I want the girls to be happy. But that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have gone through a hell of a lot more screening before everyone accepted him back at face value. Even if everything he said was true as far as he knew that wouldn’t mean Cadmus didn’t do something to him that would blow up in their faces, or that them getting him back wasn’t meant as a distraction in and of itself; they could have fed him fault intel so that while he had them looking for specific radiation signatures they could have been doing something else entirely. And J’onn is telepathic, spies at the DEO should have a really hard time. If this had been a mini-arc over 2-4 episodes where they had time to lull us into a false sense of security it might have been more believable that the characters also had one and made the betrayal hurt a lot more.
I think it’s fair to contrast with say Black Siren a couple episodes ago on Arrow; they wanted it to be true just about as badly as the characters here did, but they were cautious about letting their hopes get too high. They’ve seen the impossible happen so they could hope and not instantly look for the other explanation, but they were also aware that if something is too good to be true there a decent chance it’s going to blow up in their faces at some point. And, it cannot be overstated, none of them are psychic.
Also, I found the end frustrating. It doesn’t do much that it’s probably the most I’ve ever liked either Alex/Maggie or Kara/Mon’el, it should have been about Alex and Kara. Their relationship was the one tested by what happened in this episode (as ridiculous as it is that Alex wouldn’t have had suspicions of her own) and should have been given the importance in the end; and if they’re not going to be leaning on each other that should be super important in their separate grief.
Though I am now convinced that Kara is in character quite racist and is only with Mon’el because he’s strong enough to match her. Which makes me wonder what her real attitude towards Clark/Lois is.
The Flash 3x14
This kind of has the same feeling I had a couple episodes back, that if I liked this show I’d like this episode a fair bit but because I have so little investment in these characters I still mostly feel meh about it. I like Harry, easily my favorite character in this episode, even if he is getting roped into the cult of Barry in stages.
There is value in exploring the idea of Barry considering killing his enemies (which I’m fairly sure he has done before, or at least allowed the freaks of the week to die) but the show doesn’t really explore it. The idea that Barry had tried so hard to hold himself to the highest good but sometimes he’s going to face a problem where that is actually tested; that he has the example of Oliver’s struggles to both tempt and deter him from going down the same road; that there is a cost to insisting of finding another way; but I don’t feel like any of that is really gone into with this, because I don’t really see him struggle with the test or that there are consequences (there might be down the road, but I’m not holding my breath that this issue will be fully addressed then). I want to feel that this is huge and important for the character, but I don’t, it feels like yet again Barry skates through without really having felt any of the pressure the show clearly wants me to think he was under.
I was like 90% sure Harry was lying/misleading Wally on the whole dying front, but I don’t actually blame Wally for not seeing through it as clearly as I did, or that Jesse jumped to the same conclusion. It was a well-played scene that the audience and Jesse are (for slightly different reasons) a lot more likely to see through Harry’s BS than Wally would be. But seriously, why can’t we just keep Harry? The fact that they weren’t doing effects to put Harry and HR actually on screen together was often obvious but really, why aren’t we keeping Harry?
At least Lyla got a mention, are we ever going to actually see Lyla again on any of these shows? I miss Lyla.
Arrow 5x15
This was a...solid episode it had several elements that I liked but I don’t know that I particularly liked it overall. I feel like they gave away that DA Dude was Prometheus too suddenly and easily for it to actually be true so I’m sort of expecting another twist on that (like, they have a spare Prometheus costume from Billy). I’m really annoyed that they’re continuing with this Oliver/Susan thing when it’s a terrible relationship. I thought it was pretty obvious all along that Paul wasn’t looking to get back together with Curtis and it only got more obvious the more excited Curtis got. I really wish they going somewhere with Thea’s arc, but I don’t really get that vibe from it. I can’t make up my mind yet whether I like how they’ve handled the Felicity and Pandora arc, but I kind of feel like it’s not going to pay off enough by the end to make up for the kind of iffy feeling I have for the way it’s been set up.
I like Oliver a lot in this story, actually; well besides the Susan thing. It’s kind of weird because I’ve never exactly counted myself as a huge Oliver fan, but he really has been the soul of the show especially this season and that has worked nicely. I also like that the team saved him, he made a good team and if he has to step back they’ll be okay, and I approve of that moral. Partly because I’ve always felt that has to be how this show ends, with Oliver giving up the hood and just helping out the team behind the scenes; but also because even just now Oliver needs to know the good people he has at his back.
Though I do still wonder where Evelynn got to, have we even heard about her since Christmas?
