Not Alison Brie as Catwoman, but we’ll take it.
Arrow takes another step towards our good graces tonight, as the show keeps evolving its continuity.
When we last left Ollie and the Starling City crew, Ollie just saved the life of the guy who beat the crap out of him from the assassins his mom hired, and Tommy was throwing a sulk that Ollie wasn’t going to tell him he was a murderous vigilante. Also it became a Doctor Who reunion as Alex Kingston joined the cast.
Tonight another character comes back, as you might have guessed from the title. Considering Ollie is this close to winning the Shiva (and no, we will never, ever stop calling her character that), we can imagine that will add some problems to his life. Oh, also, he’s finally opening that nightclub he’s been talking about opening for the last ten episodes or so.
In addition, Laurel, one of the more annoying characters the show hasn’t redeemed yet, might finally be getting something to do. We’ve already seen she’s fully capable of handing out a beating… a brutal beating, in fact. Now that her mother is back, and claiming her sister Sarah is still alive, she might stop whining and actually start doing things. This show is always better when characters do things. Only Felicity and Diggle should be allowed to talk.
We’ll start the Starling City shenanigans at 8pm, EST.
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I read they made the presumptive Red Arrow a regular next year. That sounds like more for Thea to do. FAIL!!!!!!!!!
I also read today that Manu Bennett/Deathstroke/Crixus will be bumped up to series regular next season too. Including Felicity, that makes a lot of new cast members. Something tells me that not everyone in the current cast is going to make it out of Season 1 alive.
If that means Deathstroke becoming the long-running Big-Bad for the show, I’m more than ok with this.
Would prefer more Deathstroke and less Thea, but I will take what I can get. Just as long as Diggle and Felicity stick around…
Either that or she dies tragically at the climax of the season, which is what I’m betting on.
Don’t get my hopes up. And would that really be tragic? Cold, I know…
Aaaand we’re live.
“It’s about Sarah. A man in a multicolored scarf with a blue phone booth took her.”
Over under of people who know his secret by the end of this episode?
I peg it at Laurel.
The shoddiness of this set actually really sells the strip club vibe.
I like that her stripper outfit is the “official” DC Huntress outfit. That’s pretty funny.
Looks like a slutty Halloween costume.
I think it’s deliberate, and honestly, that’s surprisingly funny.
A motorcycle? In platforms?
Wow, this music is terrible.
Are they kidding? Steve Aoki, how did the get Steve Aoki?
They offered him a sandwich?
Fun fact: Laurel is the only person in this scene who isn’t British.
Seems a little thin there Mom…
They took a shitty paparazzi photo of your daughter?
I genuinely feel bad for Quentin here, not least because Laurel sandbagged him.
Oh, look, it’s Thezzzzzzzzzz….
I was just here in the slums, like young socialites are wont to do…
So this is how irritating people initiate mating?
Ugh, Thea.
I’m suffering from…. Thea sickness. YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!
Giving the Bad Guys a rest seems like a shoddy job on your part ‘ole vigilante.
Considering the only good cop needs a personal day…
Don’t you hate it when your crazy ex shows up when you’re trying to bag the Shiva?
Rafi is somewhere saying it’s time for a threesome.
I would kill to have Rafi, or his actor, on this show. It would be amazing.
Contacts?
“You can go upstairs and call Tommy! He deserves it, er…”
He’ll be sorry
Stop it with the Speedy. Just stop it.
SPEEDY IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
A Phalanx of marshals?
Fun fact: Everybody in this scene has a body count!
Does Ollie even realize his hypocrisy?
She is really a better match for Ollie than the cop.
She is, but they’re trying to make her seem like a nutjob out of nowhere.
All of that time in Barcelona is really hard on a girl.
True, but her MO is like a copy of the Ollie playbook from early in the season.
Yeah, he really has no room to complain here. I’m guessing Ollie learns the truth about his mom considering it would be a neat tie to the theme, but even so, this is the guy who broke an innocent guy’s neck to cover his tracks.
Yes, Rafi on this show would be amazing. I don’t care if he is a main villain or just a random guy acting in the background.
Really adds to the mythos having a guy with a murder-boner around.
In my dreams, there’s an Arrow/League crossover where Andre blows it with Felicity, Taco buys weed from Roy, and everybody bags on Thea.
…Bobba Man?
The strange thing is on a show like Supernatural Bobba Man would fit in hell Rafi could fit in there. Please CW make this happen.
…YES. DAMMIT, YES.
I guess Roy Harper has to wear red every time he’s on screen.
It’s in his contract.
Almost out of the Smallville playbook.
At least Tommy is handling his job.
…Shit, Tommy actually has a really good point.
Hey, it’s the island from Myst!
He just wants to be your sidekick!
That’s your dramatic cut? From a missile launcher to a broken stapler?
The stapler was more….explosive.
Laurel, back up the truck, OK? Seriously!
Uh, false hope?
So, Thea has a martini… why?
Did anyone notice a bar where they get these drinks or security?
Oh there it is.
Who needs security when you’ve got dubstep as human repellent?
Gope CW does not try to sell us a CD of this music at the end of the episode.
Or hope
Uh-oh, Huntress is going to suck the magic out of Merlyn.
The “Office” best line ever for a guy who works at the club he is at.
I used to live in a place with a dive bar called The Office, for precisely the reason you suspect.
The women seem a little overdressed for a pseudo-rave.
Eh, break his arm, he’s got it coming.
The fact that the DJ was wearing a shirt of his own face amused me.
That was pretty funny.
“Don’t make me do something?” So Ollie is forcing you to bust Tommy’s arm?
Anger voice activated. Tommy go cry somewhere can’t even be a good sidekick.
It’s a good thing Ollie doesn’t have a pet rabbit…
Hey, the DJ composed music for this Kia ad, also!
Meanwhile Tommy just found out there’s a secret Arrowcave under the club.
Really it was only a matter of time. He manages the place, he handles all the vendors, he was going to notice.
Considering that this is Tommy’s first actual job and he hasn’t really had to care a whole lot before he could have not noticed for one more season.
Tommy’s doing a pretty good job, actually. He’s being genuinely professional.
So is this episode setting Tommy up to hate everyone and then turn it into the season/series villain?
If so, they are doing a decent job of it.
I’m a little surprised Tommy isn’t dead, honestly.
I really hope not. I don’t want to see Norman &Harry Osborn thing happen here with Malcolm and Tommy Meryln. I get that Merlyn’s a villain in the comics but right now I’m happy with that being Malcolm and not his son.
They should have stage for live acts like they did on Buffy.
Verdant is a crappy name for a club. Should have gone with Diggle’s Wiggle Room.
“Diggle’s Digs?”
Also, I’m calling the nightclub Diggle’s Wiggle Room from now on.
They would be required to play LMAO at least 10 times per night and that was three times too many for Tommy.
Diggle is going to relish that “I told you so” when he finally gets to say it.
Diggle Burn
Did Diggle just call Ollie racist?
I’d say it was more gender based.
Still, like you said, Diggle Burn.
OK, Diggle, that was a money line there.
…Or you could beat her up. Just saying.
Don’t they have a lock?
This is Felicity. Not only is she in on it, she can probably defeat their security measures.
Fantastic security there.
Back to being mean to Felicity. Come on Ollie
Who needs a lock when the only people who know where you are, are willing to kill you. – Ollie logic
Hey, he IS a ninja.
But what about that phalanx of marshals?
Boom Boom Boom.
Oh god got me excited just to switch to Tommy issues.
How much you want to bet Laurel beats the Huntress senseless?
Deathstroke…
Six men, six shots, no fucks given.
Thea sad. I love this nevermind.
Tommy: I am in an abusive realtionship with Tommy’s ex girlfriend.
Damnit Ollies ex girlfriend.
Oh, Tommy would hit that.
Laurel being a self-involved jerk, as usual.
“Why are you so obsessed with the fact that I have money?” BECAUSE HE’S POOR, IDIOT.
So is this guy supposed to make Thea likable? Oh god it is.
Parkour powers activate!
Red Hoodie must mean death.
Sad to say, she had it coming.
So Ollie was trapped on an island with Deathstroke… what’s Roy’s excuse for the ninja moves?
He had a hard life making his hair look like that living downtown.
Parkour and freerunning come in handy when trying to dodge authority types. Not sure about his brawling skills but I guess Roy got that from living in The Glades.
Yeah, that is an insanely empty threat.
Whoa, that was a neat dart.
Where does he get all those wonderful toys…?
It’s nice to know the US Marshall’s service doesn’t armor their vans.
That was one short race.
Hahahaha.
“Helena Bertinelli, you just got Punk’d!”
I like that Quentin is the spoiler and has a working brain. That was a clever trap.
Really was, too bad Ollie is going to have to break her out instead of just rebuffing what she says by saying she is a killer he had a short escapade with.
She does look like the T-mobile girl there.
Yeah, I laughed harder at that line than I should have.
Ok, my memory is foggy today, how did the cops know she was huntress?
She went on the run so of course they know. Barcelona is really hard on someone.
She wasn’t subtle about it the last time she was in town, and she did kill a dude on video in the opening of the episode.
She had a mask, but her mask hid nothing but crows feet.
Yeah but if guyliner works for ollie I would think her mask would be fool proof.
I love how he flipped his visor up on his helmet two times to show the audience the look on his face.
By the end of season one, noone will not know who the Arrow is.
All the main cast.
Except Thea, because they love pranking her.
Nice drumline
Ollie just let her rot.
This is actually pretty well structured. They’ve ruled out Ollie as a suspect, so of course they think she’s just being a troll.
I guess you are right.
I was surprised she didn’t say he was the vigilante.
The shirtless Arrows.
Seriously, at least color-code them according to nipples.
Gangbanger! Thea is really trying hard.
Jesus, Helena, let… it… go…
Well, there are 20 minutes left, so I think she may try again.
Or get killed.
“…my city.” Hopefully Ollie realizes how hypocritical he is being and as a series finale (?) kills himself to stop him from going through with power fantasies.
No, Diggle just slaps some sense into him.
Crap, Shiva’s dead meat.
With Ollie out of commission now let’s find out who is going to die.
uh oh.
Lady, you kill Felicity and you will have Ollie, Diggle, and this show’s entire straight male/lesbian audience on your ass for life.
The Choice of words has me scrambling for a joke.
Shiva or Felicity never choose Ollie.
NO!
Oh hell no
I love that out of the entire cast, we all love Felicity and hate seeing her threatened.
Is there anyone who comes close to as likable? I dunno…Diggle?
Felicity and Diggle are the best characters, yes.
In case anyone didn’t know, Shiva is all kinds of naked in seasons 4 and 5 of True Blood.
I knew there was something to like about that show.
Awwww, they both showed up at speed!
God even her shoes are adorable.
Saved Felicity so these cops can be murdered now.
Helena’s fast on the reload with that crossbow.
Yeah, this is a bit….off.
Oliver being self-aware? A great start.
What kind of crossbows are those? They should write laws about high capacity crossbow magazines.
Yeah, seriously.
Also, apparently all of the law enforcement in Star(ling) City got a massive shipment of defective bulletproof vests.
Oh just put an arrow in her brain and let’s go home.
Oh god Shiva.
What……
Well, he sort of is.
Apparently she went to all of Europe’s best martial arts schools.
He is like 10 feet from her. I call BS on that.
Yeah, they actually disproved that was possible on Mythbusters.
OH COME ON SHE’S WEARING A VEST!
I missed it what gun did she use?
Cop’s shotgun
Then yeah she was fucked, but it’s a television show so they could have saved her if they wanted to. They should have saved her.
Also, she used that same shotgun to shoot a door from like 10 feet away and it just left a very clean round hole.
If she can catch the arrow why not just dodge it and of course Shiva has to die because there cannot be more than one completely likable woman on the show.
That was an Ozymandas (spelling?) from the watchman catch there.
It totally was now that you mention it.
I can’t believe DC signed off on letting Huntress be a multiple cop killer.
It’s not that far from the original character’s behavior. She’s softened substantially over the years.
Didn’t the Batman originally like drop people into vats of acid?
Yep! And he also had a gun that he used regularly.
Ollie, if you break up with her now, you are an asshole.
If she’s dumping him because she thinks he can’t find the time to fly between cities, I’m guessing the sex was terrible.
Helping run the nightclub is so hard.
Oh damn Shiva is breaking up with him.
A billionaire is asking to take care of her and she is balking? On a cop’s salary?
Maybe I am being too literal for a superhero show.
I’m guessing she doesn’t want to be beholden to him.
Shiva noooo!
Yeah, I’m sorry to see her leave.
Oh, man, I really hope Sarah’s alive, Quentin should not be jerked around like this.
Oh, Tommy, back to apologizing?
Sidekick mode is back.
I actually hoped that we would get that. We know Tommy’s not thrilled that his brother/best friend is a killer but I’m hoping there is some middle ground that they can find.
Best person to help console you after getting dumper? Tommy was not at the top of the list…
Yes, I meant dumper.
/didn’t actually mean dumper
So, I guess killing is easier than lying
Kind of big for a deserted Island in east asia.
VIGILANTE FIGHT!
My vigilante can beat your vigilante up.
Shirtless arrows got to start somewhere.
Didn’t we just see a vigilante fight.
Overall, a pretty solid episode, but I wish they’d paid off the Sarah thing more. Looking forward to next week, however, especially the vigilante on vigilante action.
The fan-fiction is running full steam ahead.
Diggle/Ollie, non-con, m-preg
It was a good episode. Let’s hope Shiva shacks up with a certain pilot in Coast City.
Was anybody else having sound and video sync problems? I live on the west coast and watched the normal pacific time broadcast and it was horrible.
Ugh, that sucks. It was fine on my end. May have been a local station being weird.