Arrow

[Slash]

Average ballpark for TVD? It's in it's 4th season, some fans are probably just holding out for 'good' news/episodes to air before checking back in. Arrow has the comic fan backing and is new (and decent/good) to boot.

[Doppelgänger]

Yeah that's average for episodes other than the premier for TVD apparently but still Arrow is kicking their butt now. So much for TVD being the top show for the CW. The Golden Child has moved.

[Slash]

So saw the preview last night for next week's episode and Dig doesn't agree with Oliver's choice it seems. "You're not a soldier, you're a criminal" is what he says to him.

[Ruby2579]

Oct 26, 2012 14:37:57 GMT -5 Slash said:

So saw the preview last night for next week's episode and Dig doesn't agree with Oliver's choice it seems. "You're not a soldier, you're a criminal" is what he says to him.

i hope he gets over that quickly! dude just saved your life

[Slash]

I'm wondering how Oliver handles it cause the preview showed Dig taking a swing at him too after saying that

[pixiestyx]

Finally got a chance to watch this. Is Deadshot dead? I thought he was one of the main Arrow enemies? Or am I getting that mixed up with someone else? Also, how did he tattoo his own stomach with the names of the ones he killed?

I liked that be brought Dig into the know. Dig is very intelligent, and I don't think it would make much sense for him not to know (thoguh I guess this is the basis for all superheros see Superman and his glasses disguise).

I'm a bit surprised that Laurel and his best friend thought he would care that much about them being together. He was 'dead' for five years and he was cheating on Laurel with her sister.

[Slash]

I don't think he is. Oliver shot him in the eye piece so I'm thinking at best, it knocked him out and at worse, he loses the eye but lives. Deadshot is actually a Batman enemy but he has had run ins like this before according to Wiki where he survives:

Just as he is about to kill the Joker, however, Onomatopoeia arrives and engages Deadshot in a shoot out. Eventually, Onomatopoeia gains the upperhand and shoots Deadshot in the head.

It is later revealed that Deadshot's armor saves him, and masks his vital signs to make it appear that he'd been killed.

So...maybe he'll appear again later but I guess that depends on what happened to his body. Oliver left in a hurry to save Dig so Deadshot could have gotten up and stumbled off.

I think the thing with Laurel and his best friend is that they expected a 'Pre-Island' Oliver reaction from the news. Pre-Island Oliver probably would have blown up on them about the whole thing which is why they didn't want him to know.

[Slash]

Shots from Ep 6 showing off Ace & King from the Royal Flush Gang (interested to see how the Gang is handled given how these 2 look and that they have to be more 'grounded'):


And Oliver getting some training from Dig :



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[Doppelgänger]

I don't think he found the bow. I think the guy on the island gave him the bow.

[Slash]

Really don't want to have to go and nab the episode for a screencap/look but I'm trying to see if the bow the guy on the island uses is the same one as Oliver's.

[phoenix]

Happy to see other Arrow fans on this site. I've been watching since it premiered and so far I really like it. I don't know anything about the comic book but I did watch Smallville so I got a little of the Green Arrow storyline, at least their version of it. I always thought Justin Hartley would get a Green Arrow show out of Smallville but it never happened. Now I'm glad cause I can enjoy Stephen Amell as the Arrow.

Slash - I don't think I've seen a close enough look at the bow the guy on the island used to comment. I doubt screen caps exist. I always watch the episode twice so I don't miss anything and it was only the one far away shot that I saw. I haven't watched this weeks episode yet so if I see it I'll post a screen cap.

My guess is that Oliver either killed the guy on the island or the guy trained him and died (otherwise he would have been rescued too) and Oliver kept his Bow. But that's just my opinion.

[Slash]

That's actually what I'm thinking that the guy may have died (against the military-ish force there) and Oliver keeps the bow now and uses it. Other case is that the teacher wants the student to surpass him and Oliver had to kill him to 'graduate' but I haven't gotten that kind of vibe from the island guy.

[pixiestyx]

I approve of this continuity of Oliver working out half naked in every episode.

I have no idea who the Royal Flush Gang are but it looks like they are wearing goalie masks.

Couldn't the island guy made an arrow for Oliver? I don't really think that Oliver killed him. He either died OR Oliver was trained enough that he could leave the island and the guy is still there.

[Slash]

Guessing this is how they're going to 'ground' them, based on their origins:

They committed petty theft of valuables or technology, or hired out their skills to serve as thieves-for-hire.

Also says they're a crime syndicate now with different suits (Hearts & Diamonds now instead of just Clubs).

Yeah, the island guy could have made a bow for Oliver or showed/made him build his own (maybe Oliver is comfortable with a different weight/form/resistance on the string).

[Slash]

So Oliver got arrested under suspicion of being the 'Hood'. Was caught on camera going into the trash can after the Deadshot shooting started. Wonder how he's going to defend that. Funny enough, it all happens after Dig comes back and takes up his offer (from a future synopsis I read, it seems Dig is going to be the one to push Oliver into helping the innocent and away from solely hunting down his father's list). I'm kind of surprised Laurel's father moved on this in the way he did. Oliver helped him in an earlier case, tipped him off to Deadshot's hits and has helped Laurel free an innocent man and protected her at the prison from being caught inbetween killing said innocent man. I would have thought he'd approach this more away from the 'Cop' angle with all that but then again, he hates Oliver for what happened to his other daughter. If he can throw him jail, he'll do it.

Oliver also screwed up in this episode under the Arrow guise. He was showing Laurel that he was doing some good and then he lost it when she was being attacked. That really crushed her outlook on him being a good thing for the city but I think that will be dealt with if she does find out he's Arrow and why he lost his temper at that point in time (cause it was Oliver). I just find it odd that we know she can handle herself well enough but didn't do so here.

I'm kind of surprised that the stepfather isn't in on whatever Oliver's mom is up to. He tracked down the $2.6 million (thanks to the IT girl from last episode) which lead to a warehouse (Oliver's mom tried to say it was for a past investment) with remains of the yacht wreckage that Oliver & his father were on. I'm actually kind of happy he's not in on whatever else is going on now. He'll do his own digging into what happened 5 years ago and I'm expecting now that he'll be the one to reveal what he finds to Oliver (that his mother tried to kill him as collateral alongside his father).

Speaking of his mother, they're onto the fact that the Hood is going after the 'List'. I think this is going to be trouble cause they were concerned initially about what Oliver was told before his father died and now that they know people on the list are being targeted, they're going to look at him again and this current accusation that he's the Hood isn't going to help.