Last week’s episode ended with Ollie bursting through his mom’s window in full Arrow drag, ready to skewer her. No, with an arrow.
Needless to say, things don’t quite work out the way Ollie expects.
First, the good news: One of the show’s ongoing dumbest gags/facepalm moments, Ollie telling the adorable and much-smarter-than-he Felicity a blatant line of crap, is officially dumped as of tonight. By all accounts, Felicity actually saves Ollie’s life at the beginning of the episode and drags his bullet-riddled ass straight to the lair. This also comes on the heels of news that Felicity is being promoted to full member of the cast as of Season Two. Considering she’s funnier and smarter than… well, pretty much everybody else on the show short of Diggle, that’s only a good thing.
All we can say is… about damn time. The fact that Diggle, last episode, literally just rolled his eyes and walked away pretty much says it all.
It also appears that the majority of this episode will take place in flashback: Slade Wilson plays a major part, and apparently this will detail Ollie’s first, and ill-fated, attempt to escape the island.
The shenanigans start at 8pm EST, so keep an eye out.
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Glad to see the show got picked up for a second season and Felicity getting promoted. I keep thinking Slade is going to get an arrow through the eye each time he appears. Maybe tonight’s the night. Homer did battle a Cyclops in the Odyssey, so maybe the title is a hint. Keep an eye out indeed.
I meant Homer wrote the Odyssey which had a Cyclops in it.
Is Slade Wilson going the route of comic book an anti-hero or a villain in this series? By the looks of it Slade will be the mentor to Oliver, maybe do another “You left me to die im angry and want revenge” story?
MOAR CRIXUS PLEESE
I’m glad Crixus got a job after Spartacus but at the same time, I wish his voice wasn’t forever at a whispering loud gravel. But then again, that could actually be his speaking voice.
In interviews, that’s been his speaking voice.
Aaaaaand we’re live.
It must kind of suck to beat the crap out of guys you know from the office.
“I have a distant son and a bratty daughter!”
I just realized they were like office guys and not like security.
“RANDOM OFFICE GUY, YOU NEVER PAY FOR COFFEE!”
I guess I wouldn’t shoot my mom either, but sucks for you, Ollie.
So my roommate just said, Deathstroke is to Green Arrow. As Ra’s as Gul is to Batman
Valid.
I would say Sensai might fit that role better here.
Diggle, don’t shoot Felicity!
Great Diggle face or greatest diggle face?
Greatest. I’m totally screencapping it.
To their credit, this actually not too unrealistic considering the severity of Ollie’s injuries.
I am going to store some blood for myself at my house, pretty good idea
I have a few pints in my fridge right now!
OK, any objections to just calling Felicity Chloe Sullivan at this point?
Smoakin?
Or Barbara Gordon (Oracle, now with leg movement!).
For an episode that opens with a brutal wounding, this is easily the funniest episode so far.
Crixus for the win.
Yeah, just when you think Manu Bennett can’t get more badass…
Well, the role does seem written for him.
“My name is Manu Bennett, and my spiritual dick is far vaster and more manly than yours shall ever be.”
So how’s Ollie going to screw this one up?
I like how Slade has all the weapons, and Ollie has jack.
Is that a golf club in there?
Yeah. If he runs out of ammo and his blade breaks, he’s just going to stone cold go Hitman on your ass.
“Is it a mine?” JESUS OLLIE WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
Every time I see an ad for Beautiful Creatures, I think somebody is playing a prank on America.
What sucks about this being on the CW, All beautiful creatures previews, no Die Hard ones
My fiancee gets Teen Vogue for free, for some reason, and they’re all over “Arrow”. Which is kinda weird, actually.
God I hope that movie bombs
It’s aimed squarely at teenage girls and it comes out on Valentine’s Day. It’ll rake it in hand over fist.
If it was just teenage girls, that would be one thing, but Twilight and its ilk have a secondary market that kind of scares me.
Oh, Julie Hagerty, why?!
So…why, precisely, do you need Ollie, Slade?
to find the 60 year old japanese minds of course.
That scene needed a gratuitous blood spatter
Also lots of slo-mo.
Give Fyers credit, he knows a good idea when he sees it.
“You’re welcome to help!” WOMP WOMP
Island Ollie is a much more fun character than real world Ollie.
Well, more smart-assed.
I really wish the show runners take Slade’s advice and keep those two apart forever.
Yes, absolutely.
Wintergreen?
Slade’s butler in the comics, if I remember correctly.
Wintergreen was his man-servant. Joe I think is a reference to Jericho, who was a Teen Titan. His other son was named Grant.
Oh, come on, Diggle. How stupid do you think she is?
I kind of love how they’re ripping on all the bullshit excuses Ollie fed Felicity.
So far this has been my favorite 20 minutes. Mom shoots son, Felicity joins the gang, Slade does tons of badass shit and Ollie gets a reality check.
They’re on their game with this episode. I think we’re seeing the show find its feet.
Well I don’t think we can expect all episodes to be the action oriented.
I think the show is slowly moving away from the teen drama crap, though. Witness Laurel beating the ever-loving SHIT out of like five guys last episode. Smashing a dude’s face through a window is pretty hardass.
What has the world been missing? A sequel to an exorcism movie.
That movie looks ALMOST as good as “The Exorcist II”.
Diggle needs to stop pining for his Sister-n-law and hook up with Felicity.
Yeah, I have to admit, I’m rooting for that too.
Ive played this level on Grand Theft Auto
I played it in Dishonored.
So, in this reality, Slade is also a human lawnmower?
“You didn’t say clear” —Gold
OK, somebody really needs to explain to the director that throwing a camera in a circle is not an effective dramatic technique.
Ah, so that’s how Ollie screws it up.
He has saved his has twice today, lets call the girlfriend for the hell of it and ruin it.
Does that number say “Hidden Hellhole Island?”
How did he get an outside line?
He dialed “9″
How did he remember her number?
Well, it is 867-5309.
He was calling Laurel, not Jenny.
Oh, like there’s a difference.
Is Tommy Merlin also Tommy Tutone?
“Nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” Wow. Subtle.
I did like the commercial where Amazon busts Apple for buzz words like Retina Display.
Yeah, too bad the Kindle Fire is so cheap because of its busted-ass OS.
That is one big ass dog.
So, I guess we know how Slade and Ollie have a falling out.
To this point, I do not like his chances of him actually stopping Slade from doing anything.
And Slade knows who your family is… how…?
“It’s less stressful when he’s jumping off rooftops!” HA!
Ollie, why the hell aren’t you wearing the mask?
beat me to it.
Mask on maybe?
Well, crap.
… Um, if they are on a island, why do they need to wear masks?
They actually explain that: Plausible deniability. Only Fyers knows who they are. Basically he’s an evil HR ninja.
The head Mercenary gave some sort of hand wavy explanation a couple episodes ago.
I just want to see Slade Wilson wear his Deathstroke mask.
I’m guessing we see that in modern-day Starling City.
Diggle uses that same speech anytime he wants to pick up women.
I don’t see how relating that time you blew away a kid to protect a drug dealer helps you to score. Unless it’s with Cheryl from ISIS.
It shows how sensitive and deadly you can be. Women love that!
Broken man, haunted past. Have you not seen Wedding Crashers?
The CW is plugging the CRAP out of this “Cult” series.
Even thought it is literally the least CW imaginable.
I wonder if Wintergreen under his mask looks more like the grey hair Slade Wilson from the comics.
They are going to play telephone till Ollie dies.
So is swordfighting standard ASIS training?
Using Slade as a human shield, Ollie? Kinda crappy.
The rare bad guy who shot first and then ran away. Smart.
Fyers is not an idiot, whatever his other flaws.
Do we know how long Ollie was on the island bye that point.
6 months i think
In the pilot we saw an arrow shot through the Deathstroke mask, so now we know that it doesn’t belong to Wintergreen.
Or it may be handed off. Could be Yao Fei’s.
I think we’re starting to see the larger outlines of the Undertaking.
Shado? Wow, so I guess little Connor will be running around at some point.
Eh, the deus ex machina solution of the magic hack.
Is there any way Felicity can be MORE adorable?
Probably not.
Mr. Diggle? Call me Diggle.
Or “Sexual Chocolate.” “Sexual Chocolate” is always good.
Although this Mr. Diggle shit needs to stop.
“They call me MISTER DIGGLE”
I am not that well versed in the comics so I may be using it wrong, but I was betting on Felcity becoming a version of Batman’s Oracle.
That makes sense.
One of the main reasons this was one of the best episodes of the season: No Thea!
Yeah, it helps that this was all plot.
And virtually no Laurel
Uh, Diggle, she is already involved.
Ollie, she was stalling for time to get her gun dumbass.
Ollie is being a grade-A ass here. I get why he’s pissed, but seriously, grow up man.
Diggle, yet again the voice of reason.
Seriously. Ollie needs to actually listen.
God 10 seconds in and I hate Thea.
At least she and Laurel are annoying each other.
The best clubs have 0 cell phone reception.
To be fair, his nightclub, which we never see, is basically a gigantic chunk of metal.
Felicity in a cocktail dress next week. Yahoo
Overall, one of the show’s stronger episodes. Retiring the whole “B.S. excuse delivered to Felicity” thing is welcome, and the action makes a lot of sense.
Pretty great considering it was basically a bottle episode for the Starling City scenes.
I was pretty pleased with it. Some nice nods to the comics and lets face it, WAY better use of Slade than Smallville tried.
When is Arthur Curry gonna come save Ollie….wishful thinking?