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“Ra’s Al Ghul has ordered your return.” That was a “holy crap” moment early on in the season for Arrow, and apparently the hits will just keep on coming tonight. A recap of the last episode to prep you for our liveblog below.
- We learned that Sara Lance is A) alive and B) the Black Canary. And she almost immediately had more chemistry with Ollie in one episode than Laurel’s had in a season and change.
- Speaking of Laurel, last week we christened her the Laurelbadger as she really apparently does not give a crap about anything. Laurelbadger will drive with a .14 BAC, Laurelbadger don’t care.
- Did we mention she tried to lecture two people with substance abuse problems when they told her that just maybe driving drunk was a bad thing? That kind of needs its own bullet point.
- On Flashback Island, we learned that the KGBeast was aboard the prison ship, and that Sara Lance is apparently the warden or the head torturer or something. She’s had a busy year, apparently!
- And Alderdouche turned out be DC villain Brother Blood, who injected last week’s disposable villain with a mysterious green substance. Our guess? Starts with V, ends with M, and is the favorite steroid of Peña Dura’s most famous graduate.
This week, apparently Doctor Ivo will be making an appearance in the island flashbacks, explaining what, precisely, some Japanese soldiers have to do with the hot mess Ollie’s stuck in. Meanwhile, in the modern day… well, you can take a guess from the title. The shenanigans start at 8pm EST; we’ll see you right here.
Aww man, I see everyone gets on the Green Lantern Diggle train the week I’m not around to hock it.
Sooo….JOHN Diggle, former special forces military, buddy and sometimes brilliant counterpoint to Green Arrow, hero in his own right: let’s say we find out Diggle is his nickname and his real last name is Stewart. It is not a leap. It is barely a hop. Can he just be Green Lantern, pleazzzzzzze?
Laurelbadger, love it.
So they have Ra’s Al Ghul and maybe Venom. I fully expect The Joker or The Penguin to make an appearance sometime soon. Maybe Felicity will get shot in the spine and confined to a wheel chair or Quentin will put a spot light on top of the police building that throws out a giant “A” up into the sky to let Ollie know that he’s needed.
It was called the League of Shadows in the films. I can forgive Ra’s al Ghul being in the show because him and Black Canary were lovers at one point. But they’re getting dangerously close to Batman’s rogue gallery.
Speaking of a Batman TV show, this intro of the League of Assassins essentially puts Arrow firmly in Batman Begins-verse, right? Sara told Abu to “mind your surroundings.” This show better tie into the eventual Justice League movie. Otherwise this is kind of a waste of lore, splitting it between the two. So, Henry Cavill, Batffleck, Wonder Woman(introduced in Batman vs. Superman), Amell’s Green Arrow, Gustin as Flash, John “Diggle” Stewart as Green Lantern, Sarah Dinah Lance(maybe her mom really liked the name Dinah) as Black Canary. I’d see the shit out of this movie. Like more than I already would have.
Just make a Batman tv show.
Damn, I was not expecting Sarah to come out to her dad this fast.
One thing about this show, they do not let things linger. One of its strengths is that story lines don’t get stale.
I thought the fight scenes were solid tonight. That last fight in the clock tower was great.
On the last Arrow: “Wasn’t that Batman Begins?…and TDKR? Why does the daughter have a super butt chin and not the father? Why is the the “will they or wont they” so shitty? Why did that one guy say an arrow is a bad projectile when that is obviously stupid? How come no one looks at Oliver in his costume and doesn’t say, “Dude, you’re obviously Oliver.” Why isn’t Laurels sister, who stalks her, noticing the drug addiction, yet asks everyone but her to conceal her identity? How come none of Oliver’s friends asked him, “Oliver, they were just hired bodyguards who have no idea wtf is going on, why did you murder hundreds of them?” How come most situations could be fixed by guns, but then no one uses a gun? I love the show because it’s so over the top. Also, how come Arrow can just stand there while stormtrooper-like people shoot and miss so easily? I’m done.
In order: Yes; Because Alex Kingston cheated on him with Matt Smith; Because literally everyone is better than Katie Cassidy; He was trying to game him; Because the only people who see him up close are Detective Lance, who blatantly knows, and Laurel, who is marginally smarter than a bag of hammers; Because Laurel is not allowed to know anything about anybody; They kind of did, which is why he’s cut back on the murdering (he doesn’t have a problem, he can stop anytime he wants); Hey, Detective Lance uses guns, and they work.
I, too, love the show, even when the dialogue makes me cringe.
Enjoyable ep excepting the Laurel scenes.
Arrow in a nutshell.
Which were kept to a minimum, and were mostly plot-relevant!
WHOA. I really liked this episode, but I also can’t wait for next week’s. Diggle in Russia, having to work with Deadshot? That’s something I want to see.
Yes, lots to look forward to.
That was a pretty great teaser
KGBeast? he is Ollie Russian BFF
Indeed.
Hell yeah, a Diggle episode!
Well that seemed unnecessary
Deja Vu
Sara does have a nice ass.
So, here’s an idea for another DC spin off: make Diggle the fucking Green Lantern.
Come on, John “Diggle” Stewart! Please be the plot twist with Diggle. Technically, the ring is more like a sidearm than a superpower. So…let’s make this happen?
They’ve said Diggle won’t be getting superpowers. But we can dream.
but then we’d lose him on Arrow. I’m conflicted.
That would be great.
YES. ABSOLUTELY.
Truth
Alright Diggle, let’s get shithoused.
Diggle seems like more of a scotch man.
He seems like a courvosier guy. Can’t put my finger on why…
Of course. Just sayin’
I think this is more of a “help a buddy out” drink.
wait, ollie take sara into his secret lair, and then just lets her walk away?
What’s she going to do? Write a book?
She’s his Vicki Vale.
Eventually they are going to have to discuss how Ollie has organized crime ties.
We also saw a few guys in an auto repair shop last season. But he’s a goddamn captain. They don’t hand out ranks like that for making killer nachos, and you’d think by now having a golden boy and a captain of industry in their ranks would have caught somebody’s attention. Hopefully the ep next week deals with this.
Yeah, we’ve already met Ollie’s Bratva contact as of last week. We’ll be seeing him again next week based on the previews and in the present day. That makes 3 people from the island flashbacks and present day scenes so far.
Looks like it may come up next week.
LAURELBADGER DOESN’T OBSERVE BODY LANGUAGE.
Ok, kids. The secret is…my real name is Ra’s Al Ghul.
BRAAAAAAAHHHMM
This show does not have those balls, but that would be amazing.
This show just will NOT let go of a character.
I want to see a scene where Sara tells Diggle her name is Black Canary.
Well while your keeping secrets, heres another one. IM OLIVER QUEEN DUMBASS!
“I can see your face. You should probably buy a mask or something.”
I just want him to turn to Ollie and say “Yeah, duh.”
Christ, poor Quentin. Are they going to kill his dog next?!
And the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s corpse.
And the 7 herbs and spices that KFC uses.
Then make him swear that to secrecy and give him the coke recipe to protect.
Thank goodness for that dark corner for Ollie to stand in.
So now he has to keep that secret? That is a big ask there…
Ollie, just take the fucking hood off, please. I’m begging you.
Even without Felicity it is friggin obvious. Lets see, Ollie and Sara go on a boat. 5 years later Ollie comes back and boom, vigilante appears. Ollie goes away and so does the vigilante. Ollie comes back and so does the vigilante. Now, he learns that while Sara was away for 6 years, in the same part of the world where Ollie was, she became a vigilante.
Hmmm….who could the vigilante be?
Felicity is Ollie’s assistant. It isn’t that hard. Even if he didn’t know who she worked for, all he has to do is tail her for literally one day.
Except they pretty much have told him. He knows that Diggle and Felicity work with Oliver. How much more obvious could it be?
In this show, that’s likely.
I’m laying this bet years in advance: Lance will piece together that Ollie is Arrow long before Ollie tells him
Seriously.
Raysh al Ghoul damnit!
That was pretty BA
So much broken glass in this ep.
Ninjas and vigilantes are not allowed to use doors. Its a rule.
Glass is Starling City’s most vibrant industry.
Quentin gets the Indy moment he deserves.
Yes!
Quentin Lance: Good detective, horrible shot.
I like to think that Ollie is laying the groundwork for a 4 way between Felicity and the Lance sisters.
Sara > Felicity?
no.
Sara is a hell of a lot closer to Felicity than she is Laurel.
Agreed. Love Felicity’s nerdy awkwardness.
HELL NO. But I do like Sara. She is a refreshingly non-whiny and action-oriented female character on this show.
How long until Laurel starts singing “I’M SO EXCITED! I’M SO EXCITED! I’M SO…….SCARED!”
Were those caffiene pills? That stuff is dangerous.
Or she starts blabbering about spiders.
JUST SHOOT THEM, QUENTIN!
They are the least subtle assassins ever. It is nice that they always announce their appearance first.
That would be great. Indiana Jones style.
I may have audibly cheered when Ollie shot Laurel down.
I like to imagine that Felicity has a lively dating life that we just don’t see.
At around season 4, he might notice that Felicity is attractive.
His taste is slowly improving!
Goddamnit Laurel.
Goofballs! She’s hopped up on goofballs.
Why? pill addiction is one thing. There might be a whole stupid rehab intervention arc, but cancer might actually get her off the show.
If they’re really chemo drugs and she’s got cancer, I’m out.
Laurelbadger will eat all the pills!
“You left the door ajar?”
“It’s the League of Assassins, not Thieves, OK?!”
+Raysh
+1
So, remember that time I banged your sister while we were dating and she only died because I took her on a trip to bang her? About that…
“What is so wrong with me that everybody leaves?”
There’s a hole with no bottom.
Laurelbadger needs a mug of shut the hell up.
or at least to make up her goddamn mind.
Laurelbadger will talk forever. Laurelbadger doesn’t give a fuck.
He went from kind host to supervillain pretty quickly there.
Sara is AMAZO! Im starting that rumor now.
Yeah, she kinda is.
Anthony Ivo has some serious rapeface going on.
Better looking than his face from the comics.
Would you like some prison ship chips and hummus?
I love the fact that he just put it all together.
Quentin has always been pretty sharp. It’s part of the reason his character is so likeable to me.