Apart from some seriously cheesy one liners and some anticlimactic scenes, it was a great premiere!
I hope to God Felicity is dead or dies!!!!!!!!
The proclamation of "I am the Green Arrow" was terrible. The cadence was all wrong.
Trains going that fast around that sharp of a turn, derail. Not buying it.
"Felicity Smoak, you've failed this omelet." that was EPIC XD XD
The little suburb intro was funny. And it's nice that it wasn't too long.
New villain starts a little weak. The whole, death is beautiful, it allows new things to grow speech ? Please can we do any more cliche than that ? Then you add the even more cliche where the villain kill his own man beacause he's displeased with his performance. Can we stop doing that please ? Isn't there any other way to say look, this is a bad guy! ? Neal McDonough though, there's some potential there. And despite that there's the You don't know who I am do you ? I'm Damien Darhk moment that is totally badass. So let's just hope that this beginning was just inclusive writing for the part of the audience that is too stupid to acknowledge a villain if it's not written in blood on his face and that we will move past that now that it's done.
It looks like they don't even try anymore to hide what they do. Like Laurel calls John instead of 911 and then gets away ? And then she's in the police hq, during an attack, and nobody questions her presence ? They're also openly discussing their night activities in the police station. Are all the cops in on it ? Oh look, it's Lance's daughter doing her vigilante thing again. And she thinks we don't know, how cute. How about the Green Arrow announcement ? Can anyone not recognize him ?
By the way the conversation between the Lances was surreal. They're explicitly looking for important city events, there's the main train station opening, he even lists it, that's probably the biggest thing to happen for months (years ?), and nobody registers it ? COME ON ! How bad can you be at your jobs.
Also Lance is working with the bad guy. So switching back again between good and bad, being friend/ennemy with Arrow's team. It already happened a dozen times, can we move past it ? Is this really the only thing he can bring to the show ?
Petty complaints at the train action:
1) How would the guy hear him jumping on the train over the noise ? And be stupid enough to open the door ?
2) We can see the length of the train during the first scene, and when they're next to it, there are definitely enough cars passing by to make the whole train, but it never seems to stop
3) How did Dig get on board ?
4) Did he not just blow the last wagons ? Would it be enough to stop the whole train ? Why not shoot the engine ?
5) Was the train empty ?
6) Wasn't the explosion a little weak ?
Flashbacks are back on Lian Yu again, without much surprise. They'll soon be out of time left for that, hope the story's interesting.
And the someone's gonna die preview. That sucks. This is something that will probably be ignored for 10 episodes, it was a really bad choice to put it there, even more because I bet it will turn out to be totally insignificant. Someone who's already dead ? Someone we haven't met yet ? From the Lian Yu flashbacks ? I'm willing to bet not a significant character. Barry's presence suggests Felicity, but I don't buy that. Or not dead for real maybe, just to protect her.
really ? again ? acting hit the low.. same old story again and again. and how much is ridicolous the last scene of episode ?
This Final Type How To Get Away With A Murder enjoyed going to have death.
Awesome episode with plenty of action. Plus there's less of the flashbacks which is a good thing. Hopefully it stays that way.
Spoiler: I hope that was Office Lance's tombstone over being Thea, Diggle, Laurel or Felicity.
The Arrow is baaaack! <3
Very, very good start to the season, as - let's face it - Season 3 was very ropey in patches. Looking forward to next week.
Please tell me that's not felicity in the grave
Can't wait hope it's just as good as the previous seasons
Ok that’s ridiculous you can clearly see his face in the video they broadcasted, only exited for episode 5 so I can see Constantine again.
What was it? The new Villian? Why does he have some kind of magic abilities? I thought we're having meta-guys or something in the Flash only. I'm dissapointed, again. Though I won't drop it, it's not that Arrow it used to be, not that Arrow I loved.
Olicity fans are very happy with the scenes. It started well, new bad, I hope a lot of game. Who is the one who dies within 6 months?
Please, let this be Thea's grave or his mother's. Felicity is funny and I wouldn't want to miss her.
So boring like the 3rd season. The best part was the end scene. And, the only thing that was, hm... "good" of the 3rd season was just the finals scenes.
a lot of action in this beginning
damn, who's in that grave ?
Ooooohhhhhh my gosh, this ep was awesome!!!!! I'm already crying because the final scene!! Olicity <3
(via TV Blaze for WP)
It is nice to watch...but needs to break the monotonous script and expexted climax...hoping a lot better in season 4...need to change cast for laurel
Review by diogovincenziBlockedParentSpoilers2015-10-09T00:55:33Z
This show has a weird quality that makes us keep coming back doesn't it? I re-watched the last 3 episodes of last season and holy crap how sucky was that? Makes me think why I even bother with this show. But here we are for the new season...maybe it's the completely untapped potential that keeps making us come back. But anyway, some points:
I thought the start was good. Amell seems a bit more relaxed now that he didn't have to play the ultra dark and brooding Arrow from last season. I appreciated the little suburb segment. It was a nice change of pace. I remember an episode from Chuck that did the same, but to greater effect. The truck segment was not so good. After 5 months the 3 of them should've figured it out but it felt sloppy. At least Thea was entertaining.
Neal Mcdonough was instantly better as a villain than the dude that played Ra's was all season. Right amount of cynicism and evil. Great. Having a great villain is a good step in the right direction. Although I didn't quite understand the plot to kill the city council members. It really just felt like they needed an action sequence again. sigh
The team arrow reunion was OK I guess. I specially liked Oliver interrogating Felicity about her activities on the last 5 months. The show could use more stuff like that. BTW, I haven't minded Katie Cassidy as the Canary for a while now, but I think she could turn the intensity down just a notch. Every line seems just so damn urgent all the time.
Then most of the rest of the episode was the same old of tracking down and resolving the current crisis which to me felt like the weakest part, not to mention the various mistakes they made like Diggle driving the car, Oliver jumping on the train and then Diggle magically appearing to help? WTF!? Also how sure was Oliver that only the last 3 wagons of the train were carrying the bomb? Because that's all that he stopped. And if that was it, a train without breaks is still a problem, but hey, who cares? The bomb exploded. And for something that was supposed to be a step down from a nuke, it looked pretty weak.
The final parts were really dumb though. It seems like they thought: "Hey, let's throw a bunch of crazy things here and then we can explore them as the season goes on." Problem is, this being Arrow, some of these plots will change completely by episode 3. The Green Arrow announcement was ultra stupid, Lance siding with Darkh makes little sense and the funeral was just a bad idea. That could've been done to more effect on a different episode I think. Plus who are they going to kill? I guess Felicity is the most obvious choice, but if that's her and that's the reaction from Barry Allen then they f*cked up. My vote would be for Thea, Diggle or Lyla. They can't kill Laurel anyway. The casket seemed short as well, but again, I doubt they'll even remember that when the decision time comes.
Now let's see where they go with all this. I remember the first couple of episodes last season were really good, but then the quality dropped off dramatically. If they want me back on their good graces, that can't happen again.
Final arrows:
So, we are finally coming back to the island on the flashbacks. That's good. Last season was terrible.
I like that Thea will have to deal with the Lazarus Pit effect. Wonder if they'll be consistent and tackle that with Sarah as well when the time comes.
"Felicity Smoak, you've failed this omelet."
"Ra's stabbed her right over there"; "Oh."; "We can get a rug!"
"Dude! Nice reflexes!"