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"Wanna put some pants on and help me save all of magic?"
Ah, Eliot, ever the wordsmith.

I was kinda wondering if we might sometime later see Persephone again. Julia's little sparks trick at the end makes me wonder that more.

Why do I feel that Sylvia is going to exemplify why the Poison Room is so carefully guarded?

When Adrian strode away from Oliver's desk and said "you can keep the knife", did anyone else have the compulsion to yell at Oliver to get rid of that knife as completely and immediately as possible. Could be nothing, but given the depth and complexity of Adrian's plans, on even the smallest chance that that knife is somehow associated with evidence of some other crime that, if found in Oliver's possession...

I suppose it's something of a testament to the brutal effectiveness of Promethius's writing and execution that some us -- okay, maybe it's just me and the voices in my head -- can be made so paranoid by details seemingly so small.

We all thought we'd seen and understood so much about Oliver and his darkenss, but this episode delved deeper than ever into Oliver's dark relationship with his Капюшон. Something else, indeed. One hood, two shadows.

I did like almost everything about this episode -- except maybe for the "I built the control-Z gun, even though I have no idea why I did or what it does" enormo plot-shortcut. I get that they'd written themselves into a spot from which the Legends had an awful lot to recover from in two mere episodes, but... really?

And... even the pre-Legends Leonard, roguish thief that he was, happy to mess you up any number of ways while he's stealing from you, was never a killer. He actually specifically avoided killing. So I, of course, found myself rather disappointed in this new depth of cold. Makes me wonder what sort of madness Eobard fed Leonard while recruiting him -- or if the writers just forgot who Leonard was while shoehorning him in here.

But, other than those... lots of packed-in fun, from Mad Baking Chef Hunter to Unappreciated Savior Rory. And I even find myself agreeing with Malcolm: Damien is always good for pretty entertaining bad-guy monologue,

Wow. So much in this one. So much already well-said. I'll just add that...

Up 'til now, I was actually almost convinced that Adrian, after basically steering Mayor Queen into the cornered position of declaring The Green Arrow to be shoot-on-sight Public Enemy #1, was trying to get Oliver to confess publicly that he is The Green Arrow. A sort of long and twisted version of making him dig his own grave.

But, now, it seems that Adrian doesn't care about that at all. It was all more about breaking Oliver and his Monster. At least... it seems so... so far...

I am curious though: did they say clearly which block the Bowmans were headed into? San Fernando was mentioned, but that's because that's to where everyone else was purported to be evacuating to. I didn't necessarily get the impression that that's where the Bowmans were headed. Was it? Or...? (As long as it's not Santa Monica, right?)

Does it seem to anyone else that Elliot and Margo have a tendency to panic themselves into wildly dangerous decisions a little too easily? I suppose it comes a bit from the quasi-spoiled shallow-esque brats they've been before all of this, but... sheesh.

I suppose we know now why Commander Jun Sato isn't around to be seen or mentioned during or after A New Hope -- although I'm actually slightly annoyed that those two pilots didn't demand that Sato just inform them of his plan (since they did all the work anyway) and then get the valuable asset that is "the best commander to ever come out of the Mykapo system" the hell off the ship, but maybe that's just me. Sigh.

Wow. Quentin driving home that vanquishing the big bad Beast doesn't necessarily make everybody's everything go right back to happily-ever-after normal.

Well, Quentin, and what's floating in the Wellspring, that is.

Wally starts having taunting Savitar visions, so the team thinks Savitar might be able to spy on them through Wally, so the team cuts Wally out of the planning loop, so Wally doesn't know that the team has figured out that the remaining Stone sliver is the last piece that Savitar needs, so Wally tries to get rid of it by throwing it into the Speed Force (where Savitar is), so... oops.

Savitar's detailed planning around his deep knowledge of his enemies is not only freaky, but a little too very much like Prometheus's. If Savitar turns out to be Adrian Chase...

Gypsy's "Are you trying to Luke Starkiller me?" was such a little throwaway line, but I guess that's part of why I had to flail for the pause button while I was laughing so hard at it.

"Well, take care of yourself Gypsy. I guess that's what your best as, isn't it?" ;-)

I'm a little annoyed at Talia for being so simplistic with her own you-killed-my-father contribution, like she couldn't know the whole story behind dad-Ra's al Ghul's obsession with Oliver as the prophesied next-Ra's al Ghul and all the wild implications and complications that that inflicts on everyone. I'm still hoping that some spark of sense will flicker in there somewhere.

Or maybe Señor Inigo Montoya can show up out of nowhere and tell the both of them to just shut the hell up. ;-)

But other than that... wow. This ep was dense with holy-crap moments, just getting worse by the moment. More than once I've thought that they should just tank Adrian any way they can (preferably permanently) and depend on the team (and Felicity's new friends) to find Susan, but at least it's reasonably believable that they might worry about the risk and hold on just a little longer... just a little longer... just a litt--OH, CRAP.

These characters are all always good for their artistically agile snippery, but...
"You know of Swayze?" earned a quick use of my pause button so that I could resume breathing before continuing. (And the following recitation did not disappoint.)

Did anyone else wonder just a bit if Martin's odd musical moment -- besides just being plain funny (complete with Mick's expression and join-in) -- might also have been a little yes-he-can-damn-well-sing-too nod to another very musically talented Arrowverse actor who won't happen to be included in the upcoming big Music Meister-driven The Flash and Supergirl musical crossover? (Or will he...?)

If I ignore the reverse-the-feed-and-overload-their-power-systems solution, and even with AP-5's overdoing the arrogant monologuing, it was a fun diversion before the madness heats up next ep. ;-)

"My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive. Except when the writers forget that basic tenet (which they do all too often) and write some lazy plothole that doesn't make any sense with The Fastest Man Alive because it's just quicker, easier, and more seductive..."

They do kinda screw that up now and then, don't they? I mean, I know Gypsy's very well advanced with her vibey talent, but she caught The Fastest Man Alive's approach far too easily when they tried to ambush her by the waterfront.

C'mon writers, thinking through a little more consistency wouldn't hurt that much.

After last episode -- "Large Blade", which I liked some of, but whose plot-sloppiness level had me again wondering if I should keep watching -- I kinda liked this one. Frank Whaley's character was very likable and believable here, despite everything he'd been through. And the plot-stretches weren't near as bad as in "Large Blade". The series so far is giving me a bit of whiplash, though, with such erratic levels of plot-execution quality. I keep hoping that it's just finding its feet...

One specific nit, though: Matty's insistence that, after having read through Mac's mission history, he prove to her that his improvisational work-style actually works despite her high level of dubiousness. What? She just read his mission history, so she already has plenty of said proof. Hello? Is this thing on? Sigh.

I'm just hoping that Winn's new friend doesn't turn out to be some sort of evil plant. Not that that wouldn't work story-wise, but that that approach is just too overused, and that, from what little we've seen so far, she has some potential to be more interesting than that...

Anyone else thinking that Red must be pretty desperate to interrogate Stone to have attacked an FBI prisoner-transport like that. That's going to be awfully difficult for the FBI to just shrug off this time...

Anyone else a little disturbed that Team Witness didn't go back in and verify the effects of the explosion? If the stone is still intact, it needs to be divided and hidden again; if not, that'd be good to verify. And verifying Dreyfuss post-kaboom state just seems like a good idea. And good ol' Headless... But... nah. It's Miller Time.

Otherwise, fun stuff. Although... So it seems that Dreyfuss survived the blast, but we don't see thousands of dead in Sleepy Hollow, so... What exactly happened? Is he fully immortal? Or just enough to protect him against the blast, given the limited life-source fuel involved. Or are we to buy that the explosion somehow bypassed the whole costs-lives-to-grant immortality thing.

Guess we'll find out soon enough.

If Red's ever dependable for something, it's getting very creatively interesting when he finds himself again "under siege".

Mick was all over it this ep. That intro, his near-mentoring of George Washington (terrifying as that thought might have been before). The real inspiration behind the brilliantly sneaky tactics that won the American Revolutionary War. Wow.

My only real gripe was near the end. We can't let the Spear-fragment get away! But we can't shoot Rip! But... But... Oh, dammit, just shoot him in the leg and reel 'em both in. I appreciate the we're-not-killers theme they keep trying to push (while shooting redcoats left and right--uh, waitaminute...), but that doesn't have to go hand-in-hand with a we're-idiots theme, does it?

Now to wonder what the "Truman Protocol" is going to turn out to be. Some shady dealings related to the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan or some other big initiative of around that time? Or something entirely else...

Feels like some turning points for Will and Katie: they're going to have some fine-line juggling to do going forward to keep themselves (and the kids) out of serious danger. And I'm not so sure how Maddie'll react if/when they do get caught, or whether Nolan'll support her at all if she tries to help them.

Meanwhile... What the heck are those pods for? And what's so big that those furtive labor camp prisoners think will "change everything"?

Always interesting to see how many threads the writers have woven together for this season, and how they'll all end up tugging each other as they unfold...

"Quantum" is a simplistically used buzzword, there -- wonder if they'll delve at all into this new artificial brain model concept at all beyond that -- but at least they didn't call it "positronic". (Would've been a cool reference, but an overused one, and I'd've been expecting R. Daneel Olivaw to show up next...)

Aaand yet another bonehead discovers what a mistake it is to threaten those that Will truly cares about.