It’s like a normal date, except you get dressed up in masks and murder people.
Last week’s episode of Arrow actually crammed in quite a bit: We finally learned who the mysterious well-dressed man is, Ollie finally got a date with somebody who doesn’t look like his sister, and Tommy continues to actually get some character development, which will likely continue as he has to actually get a job.
Thea, meanwhile, is still whiny.
The Huntress, while badly lit, was an interesting enough character that this arc should have a pretty strong payoff. Especially since there’s a mysterious second archer waiting in the wings, we’re assuming Helena might have a ticking clock on how long she’s actually breathing.
We’ll also probably see even more violence than usual tonight, what with the episode’s official title being “Vendetta” and all. We also might actually get more than ten seconds of Diggle, although he might be this episode’s official Ollie Guilt-Tripper instead of kicking ass. Note to the CW: We prefer Diggle kicking ass. In fact if Diggle can just be kicking ass, all the time, even in the background as you do the Gossip Girl stuff, that’d be great.
The fun starts tonight at 8pm Eastern time, but feel free to weigh in before or after with opinions, predictions, and/or macros making fun of Thea.
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Diggle.
One thing I noticed about Sensei after playing catch up (some how I missed the Deathstroke episode), Sensei is played by Byron Mann who was Ryu in the Street Fighter movie. I don’t know about you but being trained by old Ryu sounds super cool to me.
Thank God they didn’t cast JCVD as Deathstroke. We dodged a bullet there.
He also just played Silver Lion in Man With The Iron Fists.
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And also, that first Henchman he took out in the pilot was the British boxer villain from Ip Man.
In conclusion, I’m a huge kung-fu nerd.
Wow. That. Is. Amazing.
I was actually kind of let down with Man With The Iron Fists. I’m not sure what I was expecting but large parts of the movie just seemed kinda slow.
I’m wondering if anyone on the show is actually going to refer to her as the Huntress. I doubt it since no one refers to Ollie as Green Arrow. And how come Huntress gets to wear a Domino mask and Ollie is still rocking the guyliner? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Hey, it takes a man confident in his sexuality to wear guyliner.
Hey, Huntress has some good lighting for once!
Meanwhile, somewhere in a Chinatown set.
Well, we see him shirtless all the time. More of her that way…
Shooting China White is not going to solve your problems.
“Revenge is not justice! Because… uh… er… I have a penis and you don’t!”
He is coming off as an ENORMOUS hypocrite right now.
Yeah, Ollie is being a DICK here.
Wait, they were yelling at each other ten seconds ago and now it’s all sexy banter?
Its not my opening move its my second or third god lady
and other times, it is my first move.
Or if somebody’s seen me. Or if I’m cranky.
They are lucky no one ever listens in on their conversations because they would know EVERYTHING
Everybody in Starling City is too self-involved to notice.
Get me the number of his personal trainer, stat.
Sometimes I think Stephen Amell does this just to impress sexual partners.
OBLIGATORY SHIRTLESS SCENE.
LISTEN TO DIGGLE, OLLIE.
Those are kick-ass pullups there.
“So, now that you’re better, about having your dead husband’s boat dredged out of the ocean…”
“I’m still the woman with all the dark secrets you married.”
Im still the same woman you fell in love with and married, the woman who is also a huge criminal behind your back.
This is exposition theatre right now.
Exposition is the first language of Starling City.
So is Thea bitchy to Walter while he drives her to school.
Thats possibly her only emotion other then apologetic for five seconds.
Also drunk.
“Oh, you’re here to bang my daughter! OK.”
“We don’t have to talk.” Bang, bang, bangety bang.
Graveyard, this guy knows women.
I am almost surprised he is not shirtless in the graveyard.
“Hey, we’re at your fiancee’s grave! Wanna do a Cyclops?”
Well, she did say she did not want to talk….so…
Wait, you brought her to the grave of his ex-girlfriend’s SISTER?! What?! WHAT?!
Ill never hurt you like I did this entire family
HAVE SEX ON HER GRAVE!!
“I would never hurt you.” I DON’T THINK THAT’S THE ISSUE HERE, OLLIE.
If this show was written by the same guy who wrote last week’s one, I’ll eat my hat.
Geoff Johns? Definitely not.
I wonder how much money and research went into that best face feature on the phone. If it is more than 2 bucks, it was a waste of money.
Oh, yeah, teach her to use a bow. That will end well! Why not give her some depleted uranium rounds while you’re at it?
Needs some cheesy 70s porn music in the background for this scene.
Throw something really valuable now when hes in the zone
Ollie hates tennis balls.
“He left me a list, for rev-er, justice.”
Diggle is very disappointed in you, Ollie.
“Sleeping with this girl?” WHAT DO YOU THINK, DIGGLE?!
My fiancee: There should be a Twitter called DiggleSpeaksTheTruth.
Diggle, voice of reason. Will be completely ignored, but the voice of reason.
Tommy’s douchemeter is rising again.
Yeah…. oh well.
Why is this woman fixing computers for a conglomerate, again?
Well, she has more reasons to go rogue right now as well. Suble Walter, subtle.
“I’m sorry I did WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO DO, JACKASS.” Poor Felicity.
“No guns. Have this crossbow! That’s MUCH safer!
Pistol with a silencer is too rational.
Is this guy really trying to sell “hillbilly heroin” as high-class?
That’s what happens when you’re on hillbilly heroin. You get crazy
Every single drug deal in this city seems to take place in the exact same warehouse
They just didn’t really vary the construction at all.
That’s the plan, have the girl jump down and fight 4 guys hand to hand?
Well, yeah! A guy could get hurt doing that shit!
Although that knee breaking takedown was awesome.
Justice, we dont kill them we just sadisticly beat them into a bloody pulp while clearly taking pleasure from it.
Yeah, I’m going to need a crossbow gun and a custom made purple leather suit. What store does he shop at? I don’t think Amazon does same day delivery.
They do if you’re really rich. And he is in the Pacific Northwest…
Starling Cities one stop S&M store?
This show would be better on HBO. Just sayin’
Agreed. I like it, I like it a lot, but I think with HBO it’d be less uneven.
Plus more violence.
and more full frontal.
If it was HBO they could also probably grab a solid writter to stick with it for every ep.
Can you behead some one with an arrow? Because HBO would do it.
If I even accidentally watch even 1 minutes of the Carrie Diaries, someone hunt me down and shoot me.
Likewise. Let’s make a pact.
I;m just going to comment on what I’m watching since I’m about 15 minutes behind. Sorry guys
SHAME ON YOU.
Sorry… work and other stuff.
Mafia dad, creeping on his daughter.
Diggle’s my Chocolate Bear
Diggle’s my spirit animal.
Diggles a cockblocker from what I’m seeing here.
Diggle’s the entire Patriots defense when it comes to Ollie’s dick.
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Relevant
My fiance has pointed out that Moira and Walter often match. It’s creepy.
So, does Moira lock ANYTHING? AT ALL?!
Walter was in MI-6 in the Pierce Brosnan Bond films, right?
Good eye!
I love whatever-her-name Smoke.
Felicity.
Damn, just when you think the Ollie-Tommy-Laurel triangle can’t get MORE awkward.
Hey Helena, did you know that Tommy keeps asking my permission whenever he wants to take her out on a date?
Awkward double date alert. Awkward double date alert!
UGH WHY DID I READ THIS I WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SURPRISE AWKWAED
My fiancee described the music here as “Enya Does Dallas.”
Holy shit, this sets a new world record for awkward every sentence.
You know that grave I took you to? It was her sisters…
Nothing gets the ladies randier.
Tommy did get off a good zinger there.
Wow, Tommy just overdrove his douchemeter.
One step forward, two steps back.
It’s called a relapse. You need to be understanding.
What, was he doping to get more douchey?
Tommy is the Lance Armstrong of douche
It’s like One Life To Live plus arrows.
How were you supposed to know it’d get weird? Gee, how would dinner with your best friend and your ex be weird?
She says she is done talking a lot, but she never is….
Nobody on this show is ever done talking.
Tommy is apologizing… cue Ollie…
I could never say anything important to my bodyguard that ended in Diggle.
You laugh at his name once. Then, when the wounds heal, you never do it again.
This scene is giving me diabetes.
“I don’t speak Chinese so I’m just going to assume you said goodbye.”
Is that the best sentence of the night or the worst?!
Both.
You are like 5 minutes in front of me somehow.
I was going to say…
There are no commercials in MY world.
I can skip commercials on DVR, but not quite live TV. Impresive.
What, are you jacking the CW’s feed directly?!
OK I’ll fess up. I downloaded it from USEnet, where it was made available sans commercials around 7:35pm EST.
My fiancee: She knew he was going to come over and apologize because she lit every candle she owns.
At least Taylor Swift was not on in the background.
Diggle, you are kind of missing why he’s in denial here.
Yep, she’s dead meat.
Also, the Chinese guy quoted an English play at her.
Oh, goddamnit, how many plots does this show want to have going on at once?
Needs a Batman plot. And a Speedy AIDs plot.
Let’s also give Quentin a serial killer to investigate. Let’s just pile it on.
Lets have someone kidnap Thea then.
And a Laurel get’s pecked by a radioactive Canary plotline. And a Tommy works at a douche factory plotline. The list goes on and on
And then we pack them all in a van and they solve mysteries.
Let me finish that for you: And then we pack them all in a van and they solve mysteries… WITH MURDER
Tommy is Shaggy then.
Ugh this conversation between Helena and Oliver after the double date is just pushing the stereotype ‘women be crazy’
To be fair, they are both DEEPLY messed in the head.
More like, ‘writers be shitty’
YOU TAKE THAT BACK! THE CW IS THE PINNACLE OF WRITING INTEGRITY.
Only insane 12 years old apparently vote on E online polls.
Huntress isn’t making it out of this episode alive.
I think she’ll make it out this episode alive, but next week, dead meat.
Really? I figure she’d just leave Starling City. I mean the Huntress is a semi-big name character.
Good work, Ollie, killing some dude. In the middle of a mass murder.
Well, first option was death that time. Good for you Ollie.
Huntress loves murderin people
How did he shoot the bow out of her hand from behind her?
He was slightly offset.
That cracked me up.
Eh, it’s just a shoulder wound.
She is trying to fight him hand to hand?
Women be crazy
Shot with an arrow, that looks bad Ollie. Eerie foreshadowing music…
Poor Diggle is relegated to only delivering lines in the Arrow Cave all episode.
Yeah, less talking, more beating.
Diggle use Sand Attack!
All that Triad killing made me excited for the Chinese food I ordered
“Yeah, getting shot in the shoulder with an arrow hurts a lot, doesn’t it?”
Wow, this one night stand has gone very, very sour.
Christ that was an awful line.
Yeah, this is possibly the show’s nadir, dialogue wise.
Abed Nadir?
Diggle, please say “That is a tasty burger!”
Is Diggle his bodyguard or his dad?
Black Bodyguard Dad sounds like an awesome show
It sounds like a Tracy Jordan movie.
Or Sinbad.
OK, Diggle, Ollie, and Felicity. They need to be the only cast members.
Seconded.
Maybe Walter as well.
What is this, National Treasure?
APOLOGIZIN’ TIME
Yeah, Tommy is starting to be a bit of a wuss.
Now, are you still OK with me seeing Lauren?
Overall, good action scenes, but some of the worst dialogue this show has seen yet. I’m calling this one a wash.
So that’s definitely Tommy’s dad
Good action scenes wrapped around excrement level dialogue scenes all episode.
There was a noticeable improvement in dialogue last week and just the opposite was true about this episode. Two weeks in a row without a flashback sequence makes me hope they’re building up to something. I want to see how this night club turns out. I’m hoping they call the place Ollie Ollie Oxen Free. I also hope they build it directly over the Arrow Cave. “Look Tommy, I don’t need to explain why the blueprints call for false walls and secret slides. Just build the damn thing!”
I’m pretty damn sure former WWE wrestler Luther Reigns was one of the guards that got jumped by China White and her gang. Not too many guys rockin the high and tight haircut these days, so I’m sure it’s him.
Did he kill China White or just incapacitate her?
I think he just took her down.