No worries gurugeorge; like I said, you weren’t really the one to spoil that for me, and I appreciate your liberal use of tags in discussing that stuff. It’s far more Tapatalk’s fault here than anyone’s :)
Re: timeline foibles, it’s really becoming increasingly confused. Daredevil seems to be set around the same time as Agents of Shield S2 and Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, insofar as characters mention the Battle of NY being about 2 years prior when discussing the reconstruction efforts, but no one is talking about a bunch of Murder-Robots stalking the earth and slaying people.
Neither Daredevil nor Jessica Jones appears to directly acknowledge the events of Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier or Thor 2: The Dark World (unless we take the line about knowing mind control isn’t real in the same way they also know elves aren’t real to mean that TDW hasn’t taken place yet–lulz), but then again, aside from some very limited references to the Battle of NY, they just seem not to reference the broader MCU much at all. Now, I get that these are more “street level” heroes with very immediate, pressing, and thoroughly personal concerns who might not spend a lot of time waxing philosophical about the implications of the US government funding a shadowy Nazi (or not! AoS S3 spoilers :P) organization for decades. . . but still, it’s hard to tell if it’s the shows going out of their way to be vague about the rest of the MCU, or if the big events in TWS, AoU, and TDW just haven’t occurred yet.
It’s probably worth noting here that AoU/AoS S2 both occur after TWS and TDW fairly definitively (AoS S2 in particular, since S1 directly deals with the fallout from TWS and TDW, and AoU because it deals with material gleaned from AoS S2). So yeah, hence my genuine confusion about the timeline moving forward.
edit: MCU fanmade Wiki valiantly strives to timeline the shows/movies, probably fails.
Also, to continue my offtopic discussions and directly contradict myself from earlier (sort of), I will say that while Amell’s range has grown a lot, I actually read a nice little fan theory about his “stick up the ass” emotional “acting” in the early seasons of Arrow. Some posited that after “5 years on a Hellish island” and returning home as a grizzled spirit of vengeance, Oliver had to actively “reset” back to a more human/normal persona before interacting with people in a “non-shooting-with-arrows” manner, hence his literal “big sigh and stare straight ahead” routine before every emotional conversation in the early seasons. I mean, maybe that was also due to the actor just not being able to swing said scenes in any other (more believable) way, but the in-universe explanation makes it a lot more palatable :-D