Spoilers Arrow - Season 5
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I'm more fascinated with his hair. Going from afro to partially braided....is a time consuming process (in real life), so how does he do it?!!
Magic braiding nanites! You wouldn't want to delay a mission because one of your team members had to do their hair. 
I wonder about Riri Williams, the new replacement for Iron Man (or rather, Ironheart) in Marvel Comics. In a lot of the artwork I've seen of her online, she has a pretty epic afro, and I wonder what wearing the helmet does to it. Although I've seen some illustrations where she had a more compact hairstyle.
I see Arrow's still finding stuff to borrow from The Dark Knight trilogy, this time it was the plane lift escape
AFAIK, the US military experimented with such a system (i think 1940ies/50ies ).
I see Arrow's still finding stuff to borrow from The Dark Knight trilogy, this time it was the plane lift escape
James Bond also did it loooong before The Dark Knight.
James Bond also did it loooong before The Dark Knight.
yeah that's what I thought I of when I saw the scene.
What butterfly connects Barry and Diggle/Lyla sex life. It seemed like the writers picked changes out of a hat and it just makes me hate the whole Flashpoint timeline even more and at first I would loving the idea.
How does it lead to him having a new CSI partner, or to Dante Ramon dying? If you run a simulation a different time, you get different results in a lot of things, because a lot of things are influenced by many different chance factors converging in a certain way, and if you roll the dice again, those chance factors will converge in a different way.
Think of all the reactions you have to make when driving somewhere, reactions to dozens of other drivers' actions and choices. You might miss a light because there were too many cars in front of you. You might be slowed down by a traffic jam or have to detour around an accident. All sorts of factors might determine how early or late you are at your destination. And all those different drivers have their own causal factors putting them in your way or out of your way. And that's just one trip on one day, influenced by a whole branching chain of thousands or millions of small decisions. So there's no way of predicting how a cause can lead to an effect. You might be late for a job interview because a driver got in a wreck because she was out of coffee because her husband forgot to go to the store because he got bad news from his sister because she was mugged by someone who turned to mugging because he lost his job because he got a complaint from an obnoxious customer who was in such a mean mood that day because he was worried about how his overseas investments would be affected by Brexit. So the outcome of the Brexit vote would lead to you not getting the job, even though there's no direct cause and effect between the two things. Life is complicated.
And really, it's nowhere near as gratuitous as all the wholesale changes Flashpoint supposedly caused in the creation of the New 52 comics universe. Ultimately, it's best to recognize fictional time travel as just a plot device to bring about what results the storytellers want, and not worry too much about logic. For whatever reason, the writers wanted John Jr. instead of Sara -- perhaps because they realized the John Diggle Jr. we saw in the future on Legends of Tomorrow was too old not to have been born yet, or perhaps because they thought having baby Sara was confusing with Sara Lance alive again.
TV economics suggests to me that Wild Dog is going to die/leave. They have too many characters standing around who aren't series regulars. Ragman has magic powers. Mr. Terrific is gay and a minority. Artemis is a woman and they just (unpopularly) killed a woman. Therefore, Wild Dog has the least reason to stick around.
Possibly, but...
There's a behind-the-scenes photo out there of the Wild Dog actor alongside Melissa Benoist and Grant Gustin (in costume), so he'll probably survive at least as long as the big November crossover.
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I really enjoyed last night's episode.
The prison break was exciting, and I liked the team going off to do the hero thing without Ollie.
It was nice that they resolved the Ragman and Felicity stuff so quickly, I was expecting that to go on a lot longer.
I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I loved the bit where one of the new guys asked if Ollie was waiting to come in, and Curtis's says he's just that cool.
The stuff with Adrian changing his opinion on the vigilantes feels to me like they might be starting to set up him to take on his comic book identity.
The prison break was exciting, and I liked the team going off to do the hero thing without Ollie.
It was nice that they resolved the Ragman and Felicity stuff so quickly, I was expecting that to go on a lot longer.
I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I loved the bit where one of the new guys asked if Ollie was waiting to come in, and Curtis's says he's just that cool.
The stuff with Adrian changing his opinion on the vigilantes feels to me like they might be starting to set up him to take on his comic book identity.
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There aren't that many of them, if you think of the new guys as replacements for Sara, Laurel, Roy and Ray they just about even out.
Wild Dog can't die because he's Jason Todd to Oliver's Batman and the Lazarus Pit isn't working to bring him back.