Weeaboosuke
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It gets better man, just keep on trucking it'll be worth it.
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ARROW Season 3 |OT| Welcome to the New Age
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It gets better man, just keep on trucking it'll be worth it.
i'm tryin, man
it's messed up because I feel like the show started really strong, and at this point it feels like they're stretching things out for no reason
and also thea is the worst character in the history of everything
Also Felicity is basically the only likeable character in the whole show at this point, and she just feels like an ascended extra that they got lucky with
Thea is insufferable on season 1.
someone else takes that role from her real quick in season 2
I'm thinking Sin's the killer...Amell already said she was around and that she'd be back. Her height fits with Felicity's findings, and Sara's reaction would be fitting. Sin enters the league of shadows to follow in her heroine's footsteps, Ra's corrupts her and sends her to kill Sara....
Blind guessing
Laurel's mom comes back and teaches her how to use the "family trait". It's will sound okay, but will be awful in her portraying it.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Thea's the fucking best. God that whole stuck up princess thing just gets me so hot.
Motivations not there, but she's on the suspect pool
Motivations not there, but she's on the suspect pool
Nothing whatsoever. She's doing it to spite her mom in combination of not wanting to have anything to do with her. Moira's desire is that Thea be safe and not in jail, and Thea wants to run counter to that desire, even if it's cost to herself.
It's not stupid, really. If anything, that kind of conviction would be admirable if it wasn't used for such a petty purpose. Just really shortsighted and not really a conflict that is interesting or goes anywhere in terms of narrative.
Besides, she folds anyway soon afterwards, so whatever
It's always hillarious how soldiers in all kinds of media get taken out by everything head on. Some guy with a bow, various small animas, children with boomerangs, middleaged janitors, seniors, crippled seniors. Ehy bother training soldiers at all.
Frank the Great
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I subscribe to the same theory.
CreeperBlocks
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I don't think it's Sin. It's really weird not seeing her in these episodes. It's gotta be someone either from Flash or Arrow we never thought about.
Like Tommy
Dual Blade
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I agree. I find it bothersome that Roy is shown to be as good of an archer and fighter as Ollie. Did I miss something here? Did he retain some abilities from the mirakuru?
I don't think he is as good, he is competent but for instance Nyssa took him out immediately. Ollie managed to hold her off way longer.
Entryhazard
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Ollie even managed to defeat her on her first appearance in S2
Jorok Goldblade
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So in the comics, Cupid was a government agent who underwent a procedure that enhanced her physical abilities but also made her insane and obsessive. Any chance they adapt that origin through Mirakuru?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Sexy badass lovestruck insane girl who happens to be awesome with a bow is good enough for me
I like how he has a gigantic painting of Green Arrow on the wall
arrow producers are taking notes, they already made one high tech that folded itself and that punch glove tip, so why not a talking bow
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Diggle is dying and Ollie doesn't have any miraculous herbs from the Island to save him. The only option is for Felicity to download his brain into Ollie's new bow.
Napoleonthechimp
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How come every hero and villain with a bow seems to gravitate to Starling city?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Why do all the insane freaks gravitate towards Gotham City? Why do all the alien freaks gravitate towards Metropolis? Why are all the metahumans sticking around in Central City?
Just cause comics.
Jorok Goldblade
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Because the best always attracts imitators.
Pretty much
if Darkseid decided to come to Ollie's turf it wouldn't be much fun for either side
Oh god, that would be amazing. It also would enable a very strange but interesting romantic relationship between him and Felicity. She already loves computers.
Oh boy, Roy would flip out.
Jorok Goldblade
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The Outsider
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You know, I didn't think this past episode was too bad. It definitely had its moments.
Season as a whole is still... not great. The flashbacks are entirely useless and Sara's death has been handled rather clumsily.
Season as a whole is still... not great. The flashbacks are entirely useless and Sara's death has been handled rather clumsily.
I thought it was a pretty good episode. Wasn't part of the main arc but had good character development for Roy and Laurel, and we finally found out a bit more about Wildcat. The parallels between Wildcat's apprentice and Arrow/Arsenal were obvious, but it was a thread that held the episode together and it's always nice to have a theme that encapslates the episode. The memory mediation scenes were cleverly done and invited the viewer to play along as well - I was searching those flashes of memory looking for where the courier left the package.
I think a lot of this "season 3 sucks so far" sentiment is looking at the previous seasons as a whole, which is unfair. A cake that has been baked is going to taste better than one in the oven. We know where seasons 1 and 2 ended up and why they were awesome. But we had no idea if they would be good in the first few episodes.
All we have now, just like in season 1 and 2, is a bunch of plot threads in development. We still have yet to see what Ra's can do (and can you believe that people were writing him off after 20 seconds of screen time!). We don't know what Ray Palmer has to do with all of this. We have no idea how Laurel will turn out.
Who knows. At the end of season 3 we might be saying "OMG BEST ARROW SEASON EVER SLADE HAS NO SWAG NEXT TO RA'S, LAUREL'S BLACK CANARY > SARA'S BLACK CANARY"
I think a lot of this "season 3 sucks so far" sentiment is looking at the previous seasons as a whole, which is unfair. A cake that has been baked is going to taste better than one in the oven. We know where seasons 1 and 2 ended up and why they were awesome. But we had no idea if they would be good in the first few episodes.
All we have now, just like in season 1 and 2, is a bunch of plot threads in development. We still have yet to see what Ra's can do (and can you believe that people were writing him off after 20 seconds of screen time!). We don't know what Ray Palmer has to do with all of this. We have no idea how Laurel will turn out.
Who knows. At the end of season 3 we might be saying "OMG BEST ARROW SEASON EVER SLADE HAS NO SWAG NEXT TO RA'S, LAUREL'S BLACK CANARY > SARA'S BLACK CANARY"
So, episode title for S3E12 was released: 'Uprising'. Spoiler'ing thing part just in case.
If that's how it goes down, it's going to tie in so well to the overall arc of
There have been theories popping up all over the place, I posted one in /r/arrow, but it seems to tie together 'The Climb' and 'Uprising'. Basically, Oliver fights with Ra's, left for dead at the end of 'The Climb'. Everyone think's he's dead. Laurel gets the shits and takes up the Canary mantle because he's gone, during that time they fight some cartel/dude called Brick? Team Arrow/BC and Wildcat team up and take the dude down, Ollie comes back at the end of Uprising being like "yo i'm not dead".
If that's how it goes down, it's going to tie in so well to the overall arc of
Ra's Al Ghul being the main antagonist this season, and even an archer/vigilante team-up at the culmination of this season.
MHWilliams
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She is. She was planned for only a single episode.
There's a reason that's likely:
Stephen Amell mentioned on the after show that he had 9 days off shooting, which for a lead is unheard of. He mentioned that he might have a few episodes of only flashbacks so make of that what you will. Laurel is also confirmed to first suit up as Black Canary in Episode 10. So 2-3 episodes without present day Oliver huh?
Diggle suits up
This is definitely going to be unprecedented If this is how the mid-season finale looks, but with Oliver instead of Bruce, people are gonna lose their minds.
Also, if Dig doesn't suit up as GA to try and do a whole "The Arrow can be anyone" thing, that's going to be even more good. Or, if he gets his own suit. I don't mind either way.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Holy fuck, if this is what they do, the weakness of the beginning of this season is totally worth that kind of pay-off. Christ, that'd be fantastic. An Arrow riff on one of the greatest scenes in modern comic film history?
Fuck. Please have that be it. All my Nolan and MGS dialogues have been leading to this moment.
DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXxw-zXRqOs
Everything would work out perfectly.
Diggle as Arrow, Roy as Arsenal, and Laurel as Black Canary, all filling in for Ollie as he tries to survive and come back. Meanwhile, Brick attempts to seize control of the city.
Fuck I'm hyperventilating now please be true please
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Ray and Felicity make a better couple then Ollie and Felicity.
PhoncipleBone
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Barry and Felicity is still the best pairing.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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So true that it physically pains me.
a secret-boss
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I like this Roy flip, he keeps getting up and Roy just keeps flipping him down.
I'm in
just have Roy flip every episode.
the more ridiculous the better
CreeperBlocks
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Diggle is turned into Cyborg by ARGUS after being killed during his time as the Arrow when Oliver is missing.
the_firewithin
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any felicity pairing except other then her and ollie is better
This is more disturbing than any SlashFic Wozzly has come up with.
Even BFF Laurel?
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