Janina Gavankar is a beautiful woman and a talented actress, and it was fun seeing her on Arrow, not least because it makes our dreams of a League/Arrow crossover all the more vivid. And tonight, she gets to deal with a guy who has perfect abs and isn’t a total douche for once. Which is good, because this episode might go either way from the plot summary.
The villain this go-round is a jewel thief named Dodger, who might be familiar to Team Arrow fans as he was introduced back in 2008. It’ll actually be a nice change of pace for this show from the usual villains, who tend to be a bit stabbier. Also, apparently the overarching plot will kick into high gear with this episode.
Elsewhere, Thea gets her purse stolen by… Roy Harper. Who is described as “very fast”. Well, if they stop calling her Speedy, that’ll be good.
Arrow gets his date interrupted and we snark his lack of smoothness starting tonight at 8pm EST.
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Yeah when they cut to her in hot pursuit in the last episode, my whole living room erupted with the battle cry:
SHIVA KAMINI SOMAKANDARKRAAAAAAM
That sounds amazing.
I could totally see the new Mob Boss in Starling City being named Taco.
And the inevitable confrontation between Diggle and Dirty Randy. “Buddy, I don’t know who you are, but you’re about to get chlamydia.”
RAFI, YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY!
And we’re live.
I think the Zookeeper is going to steal that.
Tom Hardy has fallen on hard times.
That guy looks way too much like Doctor Bashir.
Isn’t it the same actor?
Its Gaius Baltar, right?
James Callis is the actor.
Every enemy needs a cheesy accent.
Felicity has a point.
Ollie generally ignores anyone who makes a salient point.
Heh, true.
OK, kudos for them for being honest about field medicine.
Nice zinger ollie.
Slade got off a good one as well. Blood poisoning makes you funny!
Is that the accounted from the 2nd Nolan Batman movie?
I’d have to look it up, but I don’t believe so.
Then again, I forgot what Gaius Baltar looks like, so don’t take me at my word.
Yes, that’s the accountant from The Dark Knight.
Kudos to them giving an Asian actor a character name of Frank.
Heh, Ollie is forced to apologize.
So who manufactures bomb collars?
The most serious dog trainer there is.
Thunderdome Obedience School: Pray Yours Comes Out
OK, that killed me.
I didn’t recognize the dude from Battlestar without the hot Cylon Chick next to him.
Durant has really let himself go.
New theory: Every criminal in Starling City is retarded.
DON’T YOU PEOPLE HAVE CRIMEFIGHTING TO DO?!
The CW has priorities.
OK, they have a batcave and they are planning an op at Chuck E Cheese?
Digs needs to pine.
It sets up the future ” ANNOYING TEENAGERS, YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY”
I saw what you did in the ballpit…
Aaaaand here’s Speedy.
What, she think he was afraid of those two?
Dude I would be SHIT SCARED of Laurel. She broke a dude’s leg and smashed another dude through a glass window not so long ago.
Even so….
Of course Roy is wearing a red hoodie.
Seriously. Shouldn’t he be called Jason Todd?
Smallville logic. Character must wear color scheme.
Where the hell is CNRI located that they can walk to a hot-dog cart in the ghetto-burbs?
Probably across the street from Queen manor.
Ollie, you can beat the shit out of five guys at once, talking to a woman should not be THIS hard.
I see a double date with Diggle about to happen!
Yeah, and they both go home with Diggle.
His last double date went so well….
I thinks hard to have worse double date partners than Laurel/tommy.
Is it me or is this episode cut awkwardly? The ads feel rammed in.
That took a little too long for them to put together.
Why’s she so dedicated finding her purse? Everything she owns is disposable at her income bracket.
Yeah, clothing stores are going to give out customer information to random callers.
But you don’t understaaaaa-and!
Windows Phone, Lenovo…
OH YEAH, BRILLIANT CASE YOU’VE PUT TOGETHER THERE THEA.
She is apparently a better cop than anyone in Starling City.
This is… not particularly hard.
SMOOTH, DIG. SMOOOOOOOOTH.
Talking about the dead ex, fantastic strategy.
Yeah, honestly, stickin’ it to your dead brother’s wife? Creepy.
SMOOTH, SHIVA. SMOOOOOOTH.
I’m kinda loving this cut.
“Does every fence in this town hire muscle?” So, the Dodger avoids newspapers?
Best henchmen.
Welp, there’s like several million in priceless artifacts destroyed.
Most fences have all of their valuables just sitting on crates free in a warehouse.
How else are you supposed to window shop?
I was worried there that he was going to put the collar on Ollie and make him steal stuff for him.
It worked for the Zookeeper on Leela.
I would have thrown my laptop through the TV.
I like that this guy just has bomb collars in his pocket. You know, in case the urge takes him to strap a bomb to a bystander.
Did you see him dodge that arrow? He really is the Dodger!
You could say he’s…artful. (YEEEEEEEAH, etc.)
Yeah, I thought about that joke and restrained myself.
That’s me, master of the obvious and cheap.
A gem is not an “antiquity”, Ollie.
A trained eye? He likes enormous gems.
I like big rocks and I cannot lie…
Damn, that hoodie must stiiiiiiiink.
Probably, all the hair product this clothing mannequin needs.
For some reason he reminds me of Beck from Tron legacy.
Yeah, I see it.
I’m sorry, I don’t feel bad for this guy. At all. Work at McDonald’s or something, jackass.
I finally signed up to post this. Roy Harper is the Red Arrow. Ollie’s sidekick in the comics.
You’re right. Which is weird, because originally he was “Speedy”, and that’s what they keep calling Thea.
Isn’t he going by Arsenal now?
DC changes it every ten minutes.
They sure do. When Kevin Smith was writing it, Speedy was a female heroine addict with HIV. Liked the red hoodie = Forshadowing!
Smith didn’t give her HIV. Judd Winick did, because he needs to remind you how enlightened he is about HIV.
Ah, yes. You are correct,
That is some tacky-ass costume jewelry Ollie bought.
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Nice shot of Felicity’s crotch, guys.
Am I weird for kind of preferring her as Nerd Girl.
She looks hotter with the glasses.
She’s still very attractive, don’t get me wrong, but I prefer her workday look.
Wait, he just SWIPED IT? What the hell kind of security do they have here?
Best in Starling City. I mean they had cops there.
Also why was it just stored in a sliding plastic case.
But not Quentin. If Quentin were there, he would have gotten shit done.
Guess we know who wears the next collar.
So, odds that in the next flashback, the tortured guy turns on Ollie?
I’m guessing he’s a plant Ollie beats up.
So, Dig on the bomb squad or something?
I guess Ollie has stopped caring who knows he can fight.
How many Windows 8 plugs can they cram into one episode?
Windows 8 sucks. THey need all the pub they can get.
This chase is very Bondian.
Better mask than the Guyliner
If he calls himself Adrian Chase, I’m going to laugh.
Man, the Dodger went down like an ice cream sundae.
Good thing he knew how to disarm the collar.
Diggle is a ninja.
Oh, yeah, annoying shouty guy, Ollie really can just leave you there.
Halle Berry is working for the WWE now?
All downhill since Catwoman
It would have been cool if that random biker guy was Opie from Sons of Anarchy.
That would have been glorious.
DIGS, GODDAMNIT.
This guy is as smooth as sandpaper.
So is she Mrs Diggle? Fun since Mr. Diggle is so fun to say.
I hope this guy kidnaps Thea for drug money.
I hope he sells Thea to Eddie Fyers.
Every time Roy opens his mouth, I want to hit him. So he actually makes a good partner for Thea.
That purse is not expensive.
Heh, she had that one coming.
“I lost the part of me that enjoys the Shiva.”
Awesome
Man, Quentin is a master of cockblocking on SO many levels.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he saw what was happening and brought her in ONLY to cockblock him.
“I’m giving you a hate-promotion.”
Wow. Moira isn’t screwing around, huh?
So I guess Deadshot didn’t die after all, huh?
All in all, a good but not great episode. We’re kinda back to the family drama plot separate from the bad-guy plot, but it looks like next episode promises to mix it up and also keep up the recurring villains.
I like the idea of recurring villains.
I was expecting a dud after last week’s strong episode, but I thought it delivered.
OMG!
I literally just realized this girl was the same actress as Shiva from teh league.
Normally I just skip the entire “arrow” columns and have never wondered why you always reference Shiva in them until i saw the main pic on this one.
AMAZING.
It can be… distracting, but also amusing.