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Arrow
Topic Started: Jan 20 2014, 05:11 PM (1,303 Views)
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Let's talk about Arrow! Who loves the show? Who loves Stephen Amell! (ME!) Do you ship anyone? I ship #Olicity (Oliver and Felicity) and kind of want them together but I want them to do it slowly. I love the build-up. Love Diggle, love Felicity, so-so on Laurel, love Detective Lance, love bad man Malcolm Merlyn!, like Thea, really like Roy (They need to build on his character more), like Moira. I know I am forgetting someone, oh, Slade is back -- love him but the way he looks. Let's talk Arrow my peeps!!!! I will post article, spoilers and discuss the show here!!!!!

Love me some Ollie and Olicity! :cloud9: :cheer: :wub:
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Thoughts on the season finale Season 2 "Unthinkable"


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Did anyone feel that the final fights in both the tunnel and with Slade, that the bad guys were very under-powered. It seemed completely one sided fight with team arrow not even losing one person against the super powered convicts. Also DeathStroke is a absolute tactical monster and it felt like Ollie most one upped him.

Maybe the cure should only temporarily substantially lower Slade's powers rather than completely take them away since it has been coursing through his system for so long. I hope in future seasons it's revealed his powers are slowly coming back.
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May 17 2014, 03:09 PM
Thoughts on the season finale Season 2 "Unthinkable"


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Did anyone feel that the final fights in both the tunnel and with Slade, that the bad guys were very under-powered. It seemed completely one sided fight with team arrow not even losing one person against the super powered convicts. Also DeathStroke is a absolute tactical monster and it felt like Ollie most one upped him.

Maybe the cure should only temporarily substantially lower Slade's powers rather than completely take them away since it has been coursing through his system for so long. I hope in future seasons it's revealed his powers are slowly coming back.
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Deathstroke is meant to be the peak physical specimen with out "Superhuman" strength. He didn't really get that good have finish but I don't think that's the last we will see of him. Season 4 or 5 he will be back. I thought Manu Bennett did a good job.


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It was ridiculous, Roy was using his non existent training and managing to beat those guys after he was cured.


ICAM! :worthy: :worthy: Come on about Roy, I mean really, now. :rolleyes:

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And they make a big deal about Laurel, but Roy has had the quickest and easiest road to hero.

I am not sure why Oliver and Slade had to fight, other than for cinematic effect. Because if Oliver was able to trick him into curing him, then surely he could have got close enough to drug/sedate him as well.


Then why use Felicity as the bait and switch? Not necessary and total plot point. :wtf: If they are not going full throttle with them yet? Why tease the fans? JMO.

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Whole Mirakuru plot-line was huge letdown and something that more or less ruined S2 and possibly even entire show.


Agree or disagree? What did they really achieve?

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I have to respectfully disagree with you here, I thought the whole Deathstroke/Mirakuru arc was fantastic. It even raised the Deathstroke character up to a top tier favorite for me in the pantheon of cool DC villains.

I am really happy that they made the Mirakuru story-line be confined to just season 2. Ollie and team have dealt with it, all of the mirakuru is seemingly destroyed and now they can move on to a brand new story-line in S3.
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Probably because they made Team Arrow win too easily... there was pretty much no suspense at any point during the show. There was not a single moment you get worried that someone might get killed.

Compared to S1 finale, this one was disappointing. Oliver actually had more problems defeating Malcolm than he had defeating Slade and his army!



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You mean Team Arrow and Nyssa and her LoA assassins.
Once they found the cure theses goons were just that goons, why wouldn't all these highly trained people win against them.

The suspense this time was in other parts of the story which might have slipped your attention.
Like getting the cure in the first place, Slade's actions against Oliver's loved ones and that tiny detail about Waller being ready to level the city with a drone strike and Oliver having to stop Slade in time.

And going how banged Oliver was at the end of the fight I wouldn't call it such easy feat on his part.
The more important fight was that he finally outsmarted him which was what won him the fight as it gave him the advantage.


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Cure was handed to them by Blood... who shouldn't have been able to get it to begin with.

Slade's actions against Oliver's loved one would matter if CW/show runners actually had balls to kill either Felicity or Laurel. Since they don't [sadly] there was no suspense there.

Waller being ready to level the city with drone strike... that one was actually interesting considering Oliver failed to stop Malcolm and Undertaking in S1.

Oliver was actually more banged up after his fight with Malcolm... who isn't supposed to be top killer even without Mirakuru. Hell, even Oliver vs. Slade on Amazo looked more epic and amazing then their fight in present timeline.

And as for Oliver outsmarting Slade... I don't even know where to begin. Are we really to believe that Slade would fail to do something as simple and basic as CHECK to see Felicity don't carry something she can use as weapon? Isn't checking your prisoners to see they don't carry something they can use to escape one of the first things they teach at special service schools?

Slade and Mirakuru were huge letdowns and weakest parts of S2... they're even worse than all the convenient and bad story arcs Laurel had and all the Olicity pandering we had to suffer through.
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Thoughts for Season 3:

-Anyone think season 3, Thea and Malcolm are gonna be the villains? I got that feeling from the end of season 2.

-Feeling as though she is going to want to get revenge on the Arrow for taking Roy away from her. The Arrow made him the archer he is. I'm thinking she will blame the Arrow for their break up.
(Won't he become Arsenal? Roy?)

-She will become what Tommy could not be for Malcolm, in a sense. Revenge will eat her up. (dealing with 2 deaths, her mother Moira and her brother, Tommy now that she knows there siblings.)

-Betrayal when she figures out that her brother Ollie is the Arrow, how long until that happens? (Mid-way thru S3 or finale of S3? Fueling a feud/life-long grudge against her brother? Mirroring the earlier Malcolm Merlyn vs. Arrow arc.)
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We can address another hole in the finale:
Why Was Sara Going Off With Assassins Played Off As A Lighthearted Scene?

Did I miss something here? The tone of this scene made it seem like she's going off to college or something to do good with her life.

I mean :wtf: just happened? These people are cold blooded assassins. Quentin and Laurel are commiserating with Nessa and the league, as if they are good people? Huh and what? Why are they suddenly acting like her decision to join them isn't something really dark and tragic...

Sara was ready to commit suicide a few weeks ago than go back and continue to kill for them... I'm not blaming the actors here but whoever directed this scene didn't quite grasp who the League of Assassins actually are at all...
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May 17 2014, 04:49 PM
We can address another hole in the finale:
Why Was Sara Going Off With Assassins Played Off As A Lighthearted Scene?

Did I miss something here? The tone of this scene made it seem like she's going off to college or something to do good with her life.

I mean :wtf: just happened? These people are cold blooded assassins. Quentin and Laurel are commiserating with Nessa and the league, as if they are good people? Huh and what? Why are they suddenly acting like her decision to join them isn't something really dark and tragic...

Sara was ready to commit suicide a few weeks ago than go back and continue to kill for them... I'm not blaming the actors here but whoever directed this scene didn't quite grasp who the League of Assassins actually are at all...
In the next scene, her dad seemingly died and I assume they wanted to make their last moment together a pleasant one. I doubt the GA puts that much thought into it so it works for them.

That said, I do think Sara rejoining the league made sense in this episode. In "Heir to the Demon" things were relatively calm compared to the frenzy in the finale. Sara wanted to make Laurel and her dad the priority and she made a sacrifice so that they would have a chance. It makes it even more dark and tragic if Det. Lance doesn't make it, and I doubt that he will.

Which gets me even more perturbed, (and I am a HUGE Olicity shipper :bye: :cheer: ) is that people are talking more about the "Olicity kiss fake out" then what happened in the finale. (Example: Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook.)

These details should be discussed and count as far as what really happened, why they matter, or why the family seemed to react the way they did? Which in my opinion was all honky dory and odd! Oh, it's okay you kill people, my daughter can leave and go with you." Quentin (Just using as a platonic example) "Hugs and Kisses, take care of my big sis." - Laurel :no:

Meanwhile not even a few minutes later, Quentin is dying or close to it, after Sara, Nessa and the LoA are on the boat and on there way. OKAY not OKAY. :wow:
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Arrow "Unthinkable"

I am going to state right now, I did like some of the episode. I felt like it was "overhyped" by the PR machines. There were tons of plot holes, inconsistencies, nevermind the fact fans and GA viewers are focusing on the wrong things, well to me that were important to the story/episode.

1. The producers of this show were going on about how that battle in the tunnel was going to be the greatest battle on television ever (or something to that effect, I forgot what their exact words were). While I enjoyed the fight and it visually pleasing, it didn't really feel that much bigger than some of the other fights on this show (and it doesn't even compare to the Battle of Blackwater from GoT, although that's admittedly an unfair comparison). I mean for a finale episode you'd think it would be on a grander scale or there would be another aspect making you say "Wow, I can't believe what I just saw or what just happened!" :wtf: :wow:
2. How did Roy suddenly become a good archer? We know he was being trained before, but we also saw how terrible he was at the skill. Now all of a sudden, he's capable of taking out moving ones with relative ease? When before he couldn't hit anything? A huge :boo: to the writers on that one! That's really lazy writing on the writers' behalf.
3. I definitely felt the Slade fight was a too short, especially since we had been building up to it ever since the mid-season finale. I mean that was all we've been hearing about? The EPIC fight between Oliver and Slade. Huge disappointment for me.
4. Which brings me to how Slade was supposed to survive on the island? There's no food there, as far as I (we) can see. Or did I miss something, and ARGUS is still running that facility. (I would assume but we were never given any back story on that. Another plot hole!)
5. I almost face-palmed when Amanda Waller revealed that Lyla was pregnant right during the middle of a standoff over the fate of an entire city. I mean drones are headed for Starling City and you are telling Diggle, Lyla is pregnant with his child? Inappropriate time. I know I should expect soap opera moments on this show since it's the CW, but that was just painful. There are times for moments like this and then there are not. This was not that time. Um, no.
6. This season finale (Season 2) pales in comparison to the Season 1 finale, which not only had more of an epic scope, but had more genuine surprises as well. It didn't even measure up to the epic scale of Season 1.
7. I also thought that cliffhanger with Officer Lance was tres lame, since we know he's going to be a series regular next season anyway. What exactly happened to him? Did he get hurt inside the precinct?
8. I think there were so many "huge/blockbuster" episodes done by "Arrow" this year it kind of overshadowed the finale.
Edited by EjamiShipper, May 17 2014, 05:43 PM.
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I actually enjoyed the Malcolm Merlyn/Thea parts with the combination of the Team Arrow/A.R.G.U.S., Oliver/Felicity ones the most.

But I have listed all the plot holes and inconsistencies, the ones I thought were important.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZC5umo5a0
Really beautiful #Olicity video! Watch and leave a comment if you can. <3
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MONDAY
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A spectacular review where I'm (successfully) compared to Sly Stallone's "Over The Top" character: http://www.greenarrowtv.com/arrow-2-23-unthinkable-recap-review-matts-view/17818

WELL DONE!!!
1:24 PM - 20 May 2014

Arrow 2.23 Recap Unthinkable

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Arrow Season 3: The Next Big Bad, a New Canary, Malcolm's Mission and More Qs Answered
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Apr 27 2014, 05:20 PM
I just wanted to share this. If you didn't watch the 2X20 episode, then you shouldn't watch this yet. It is VERY SPOILERISH.


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I am now caught up on the show. I think she was going to tell them that he's still alive.
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I liked the finale, but it did have some issues. It did solidify my belief that Oliver and Felicity cannot be in a relationship with each other.
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