Arrow

Originally posted by cdtm
You can say what you want about the show overall, but you've got to admit seeing Ollie casually smack Merlyn around was pretty satisfying. 🙂

Oh Malcolm, how the mighty have fallen.

Originally posted by cdtm
You can say what you want about the show overall, but you've got to admit seeing Ollie casually smack Merlyn around was pretty satisfying. 🙂

He has outclassed him by a mile.

Malcolm needs to get his fighting hand so he can come back to avenge such a terrible beating.

Or just let ollies son get killed by Dark. ....

Hey an episode that was interesting and had nothing to do with Diggle/Felicity.

Guess Oliver improvement was made evident though I am disappointed that it wasn't like the Season 1 finale.

Originally posted by cdtm
You can say what you want about the show overall, but you've got to admit seeing Ollie casually smack Merlyn around was pretty satisfying. 🙂

yea it was, but I first thought it was all staged between Oliver and Malcolm...

I don't understand why there would be collateral damage in ninja sword fights. Seems contrived.

Also for the love of all ****, just kill Malcolm. Holy shit. I can't believe Oliver bought his bullshit about responsibly using the League and his shitty sob stories. God damn is Nyssa a more trustworthy and moral person to be in charge of that kind of power than the guy who tried to murder half a city. Oliver sticking up for Malcolm has done literally nothing but backfire spectacularly, to the point of dooming the entire ****ing planet when he revived Vandal Savage.

Well innocent people were getting caught in the crossfire, but I'm willing to overlook that as this episode was the most interesting in a while.

As for Malcolm, he was a necessary evil in getting rid of Ra's though.

Ra's was only an issue because of Malcolm though. If Olly had snapped his neck as soon as it became a problem, Ra's would have just walked away.

> Defends Batman's asinine no kill rule
> is pissed when Green Arrow doesn't kill

Batman takes steps to at least contain his enemies, he doesn't give them a pat on the back and the services of the most powerful organization on earth.

Batman, in the movies, also had a boatload less reason to kill his opponents than Oliver has to kill Malcolm and he doesn't actively screw over his friends to protect them. He also never doomed humanity because of it. Also Oliver showed that he was willing to break his no kill rule with sufficient motivation in season 2 and at the least he still has that supervillian prison he could put him in.

The show just bends over to keep Barrowman, I just wish they did it in a less frustrating way.

Oliver stomped Malcolm hard in this episode. I guess it makes sense, to show his skill improvement over the last few years. He has also stomped Nyssa before, after all, and defeated Ra's. Though this makes Anarky all the more impressive, considering he has given Oliver hell every time they have fought so far.

But seriously, he should have killed that tool, not left it at taking his hand.

Failing to neutralize a persistent threat because of your own desperate desire to claim the moral high ground is not heroic behavior, doesn't matter if it's Batman or Green Arrow.

And yeah, I agree that Ollie's excuses are extreeeeeeeemely weak.

Oliver could've did both though unless we're supposed to forget about the "super jail".

Admittedly I'm a bit light on this episode as its been the most interesting one in weeks but his reasoning for not properly neutralizing Merlin is pretty bad.

I hope the grave is his kid. Olly's pretty much brought it on himself with his idiocy.

Why did Roy leave again (in-universe)? Was it because people thought he was the Arrow? Can't they tell that the Green Arrow and the Arrow are the same person?

To be fair to Ollie, Thea has a history of being ridiculously unreasonable. I could see him worrying that if she ever found out he killed Malcolm, she'd turn on him.

Not that he should have cared, but the reason was there.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Why did Roy leave again (in-universe)? Was it because people thought he was the Arrow? Can't they tell that the Green Arrow and the Arrow are the same person?

Also Thea has been rather tolerable this season, at least in comparison to Laurel and Felicity.

The son thing!

Here's what you do: Promise to keep the secret, except to the woman you plan to marry. Claim she has the right to know, and make clear there are two options here: Accept the concession, or try your luck in court, where everyone finds out.

Even if Ollie didn't intend to follow through, this restriction is just ridiculous.

Of course, a grown man posing as a stranger to visit his own kid is ridiculous in and of itself, in addition to kind of creepy. If you're gonna half ass seeing your illegitamate son, you probably shouldn't bother.

Beyond the son thing, the rest of the episode wasn't that bad IMO. Though I might be biased because

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I am happy that Oliver finally killed that idiot, Conklin. Also, Darhk basically doing a Vader on that other guy was pretty sweet.

Thinking about it though, the son arrangement is not a very smart plan, even for the mother's side of the arrangement, at least not in the long run. Unless she was raising a complete idiot, at some point the kid was going to reach a stage where he's going to want to know more about who and where his father is, and then the strange man, with seemingly no other ties to his mother, yet who came to visit and spend time with him since he was a little kid, is going to be an obvious suspect.