At least there were no island flashbacks.

Amen.

At least there were no island flashbacks.

I want the actual island to have a flashback. Specifically, I want it to sing "Somebody to Lava" from the Pixar short.

The scene with Oliver talking to William was just weird. Like, strange man walks into a kid's bedroom and says, "I'm a friend of your mom," and the kid just goes along with it and starts talking to him? And believes him when he says he's met the Flash?

it was not a well written ep.

I enjoyed it. The banter at the farm house was hilarious. LOL at Thea's meta commentary on the Age of Ultron! And Barry whinging about feeling the aches in the spots where Oliver had shot him before! The back and forth between Barry and Oliver was probably my favourite thing about this ep.

The Egyption flashback made me snorfle because... 4000 year old immortal and reincarnated Egyptian prince and priestess?! I guess it's not any more ridiculous than Thor, the alien Viking prince. Ahhh comic books. Agreed that the Carter actor is completely lacking in any gravitas. He feels like a fratty douchebro, honestly.

I'm ~whatever~'ing at Oliver's baby mama drama. Of course it's not gonna end well, but Oliver kinda had his back put up against it since Sandra made it into a condition. Amell was very good at his scenes with William, I thought.

I don't like time travel being brought into Arrow.

I had the whole "but Arrow doesn't deal in overtly Sci-Fi elements!!eleventy!!" angst last season, but then they had metahumans come over to the show and resurrected a dead person, so ehhh. That boat has sailed, I think. Frankly, I wouldn't put it behind the writers do things like, I dunno, to kill off Felicity for angst value and bring over Earth 2 Felicity to replace her (wait, that might have been a fic I read that one time). These writers never met a cracktastic idea they did not like.

Like, strange man walks into a kid's bedroom

Yeah, that part was NOPE.

LOL at Thea's meta commentary on the Age of Ultron!

That made me laugh. Well played, show.

Of course it's not gonna end well, but Oliver kinda had his back put up against it since Sandra made it into a condition.

That part didn't make much sense to me, either. Why would she insist on that? I can understand not wanting the entire world to know, but one more person isn't going to hurt.

Irrational maternal fear? This show has always been weird about secret keeping. Remember Oliver not telling his teammates about Malcolm last season, blah blah Circle of Trust? It definitely smacks of manufactured drama to put a monkey wrench into Oliver/Felicity, but I expect it'll resolve itself down the road. *hands* I ship it, but I'm pretty chill about it.

I was also doing a raised eyebrow at how fast they moved along Cisco/Kendra, but I'll be damned if Carlos Valdes didn't sell the hell out of it (the Kendra actress is adorable, but not as skilled, I thought.)

I liked the banter between Barry and Ollie. I'm thinking the Arrow writers wish they could inject a little more humor into their dialogue beyond Felicity being awkward and kind of went a little overboard with Barry cracking jokes because of it.

Ollie, if you have to lie, you lie to the woman making the irrational demands on you, not to the woman you're in a loving relationship with. This shouldn't be a difficult decision.

I agree that Carter is annoying. Of course, the DCAU version was annoying, too. I haven't read enough comics with Hawkman in them to know if he's just annoying by default.

Put it this way, as far as I recall, Hawkman has been a bit of a prick. The Michael Shanks version was a bit less of one, but they also gave him a strap-on pair. (Of wings)