Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 19 "Canary Cry"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 19 

“Canary Cry”

Synopsis:

Oliver and the team struggle to come to terms with laurel’s death, especially Diggle who is overwhelmed with quilt for choosing to believe Andy had changed. Meanwhile, Lance refuses to believe his Daughter is really gone and asks Nyssa to help bring her back.

Review:

With the entire team trying to put the pieces back together after Laural’s Death, another person has taken up the mantel of Black Canary.

Oliver, trying to stop the tarnishing of the Black Canary’s legacy, is also dealing with mourning of a friend and the grief of the team and their self blame. Diggle is the one taking it the hardest, as he is blaming himself for not listening to Oliver when he was warned that his brother could be playing both sides. This cause Diggle to snap and he goes after Ruve Adams.

With Adams using the attack on her as an excuse to go after the Vigilantes and also blame the death of Laural on the black Canary. It leave Oliver with only one choice, which was to announce at the funeral that Laural was the Canary and she died protecting the city.

Final Thoughts:

Not only have the last two episode been great, but there has been a feel to them which hasn’t been around since season two. This is a very solid news, especially going into the last few episodes of the season.

Once again it looks as if the time line between Arrow and Flash has been thrown off, We see Barry show up at the very end of the episode at the grave. Nice little tease, as he walks up to talk with Oliver, but ends up speeding away when done. I will say that it was nice to see that Barry does have his powers back, 

This was a solid episode ad regained some faith in the searies…..Who am i kidding, I will always love this show even when it gets bad.

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 18 "Eleven-Fifty-Nine"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 18

“Eleven-Fifty-Nine”

Synopsis:

Oliver and Diggle learn that Merlyn is going to try to break Darhk out of prison. Meanwhile, Laurel gets a surprising offer and Felicity has a heart-to-heart talk with Curtis.

Review:

The Previous episode left off with Andy meeting with Malcolm, this episode starts off with Andy telling Diggle the plan to help Darhk escape Iron Hights. While Diggle and Oliver are out following up on Andy’s information, Malcolm and a few loyal members of the League break into the Arrow Hide out and steal the idol which hold the powers of Darhk.

The team is tracking Malcolm to catch him prior to him handing the Idol over the Darhk, follow to a warehouse were Any takes a arrow for Oliver. Even with this act, Oliver still questions Andy’s Loyalties.

The Team is ultimately called into action when Darhk takes the guards hostage in his cell block, once the team is in Andy turns on them and hands the gem that powers the idol over to Darhk.  With Darhk fully powered up, he uses his powers and in the end Laurel pays the ultimate price. 

Final Thoughts:

We finally know who is in the grave, Laurel Lance. This is a surprise twist which I did not see coming. Not sure how I feel about this, for the first time since the beginning of season 1, I was starting to warm to Laurel. She really started to become the Black Canary and was the perfect addition to the Team. 

Now there is some interesting twist and turns which could take place and allow Laurel to come back. Technically Sara is still bouncing around time on Legends of Tomorrow. If she come back early enough the timeline could reset itself, giving that the grave scene should take place in the next few episode there technically are enough episode which would allow this to happen and make sense still. I guess we will have to wait and see how this will play out.

This is a solid episode, it works because they steered away from the relationship drama and went with more action. It was also nice to have an episode with very little felicity. I am definitely looking forward to the next few episode to see what the fall out should be. 

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 13 "Sins of the Father"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 13

“Sins of the Father”

Synopsis:

Oliver receives an offer from Nyssa that is hard to refuse, Meanwhile Thea continues to battle the bloodlust Malcolm steps in to help his daughter, and Laurel has a Heart to Heart talk with Nyssa.

Review:

The episode starts with Nyssa offering the lotus to save Thea, however she wants Merlins control over the league. Oliver has to come up with a way to get the lotus without the death of Nyssa or Malcolm. The initial plan falls apart after Malcolm decides that he doesn’t want to make a deal. After multiple battles between the two factions of the league, Merlin faces off with Oliver and the end result is the loss of his hand.

Nyssa, after getting the ring from Merlin decides to disband the league. This action leads to Merlin promising Oliver he will suffer. The end of the episode show Merlin meeting with Darhk and giving him the identified of the person Oliver cares for the most….William his son.

Final Thoughts:

With each passing season of Arrow, it seems that the creators find more ways to disband and kill off members of the DC Universe. First we saw the end of Deadshot, then the death of Amanda Waller, now the disbanding of the league of Assassins. At least we have The Flash, and his ability to bring these characters back to life.

Finally we get the evil Malcolm back, minus a hand. His deal with Damien Darhk seems to jump the story forward a lot and leaves us with some clues as to where the show will go. Oliver’s son will be the center point going forward, most likely driving a wedge between Oliver and Felicity. My guess is William will some how be involved with the grave scene. This will be a entertaining ride for sure.

How does the dismembering of Thea’s father ultimately effect the relationship between her and Oliver will have to be seen still, but at the very least she is now cured of the effects from the Lazarus Pitt.

The most interesting part of the episode has to be the weird ending to Felicity and her Father, it seems like a quick resolution with Felicity sending him to Prison. I am guessing there is much more to come.

I give this episode Two Thumbs Up, another solid episode. Let us know your thoughts and leave a comment below. 

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 12 "Unchained"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 12

“Unchained”

Synopsis:

The team faces off against a formidable villain nicknamed The Calculator. Meanwhile, Nyssa makes her move and Roy Harper returns to Star City.

Review:

The episode starts with the team chasing a Tech Theif, which turns out to be Roy Harper. Roy is being Blackmailed by a tech villain named The Calculator. While the team is trying to help Roy, Thea is close to death due to her lust to kill and not fulfilling those needs. While the team is able to stop the plans of The Calculator we learn that he is the father of Felicity.

Final Thoughts:

What an episode, so much was going on it was amazing writers were able to write a complete episode with few to no flaws. We see the return of Shado in Olivers flash backs, Tatus Yamashiro and Nyssa al Ghul have a quick but exciting fight before deciding to work together in order to help Oliver, and we were treated to the return of Roy Harper. Wasn’t it great to have Arsenal back in the mix, even if it was just for one episode. Hopefully Roy does return soon.

This episode introduced Felicity’s Father, interesting turn of events, as he has become known as The Calculator. It looks like he is working with Damien Darhk, and trying to help take down Star City.

Again it seems like Arrow is trying to direct the fans attention to the different individuals that may end up in the grave. This week, the attention was on Thea. She was on my list to begin the season, but I think this is ultimately a mis-direct. Leading my thoughts to Merlin, and unfortunately this may be the person and i am worried. With the news that John Barrowman being casted in another CW show, although its only for a few appearance this season. Barrowman might be a main stay on the Orginals leaving the creators of Arrow needing a way to write him out of the show. Than again, if you take the weird animosity between Oliver and Felicity in the Limbo scene, it may have to do with her father.

This was another solid episode of Arrow, and I am loving what they are doing each week so far. I give this episode Two Thumbs Up. Let us know what your thoughts were and leave a comment below.

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 10 "Blood Debts"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 10

“Blood Debts”

Synopsis:

Oliver seeks revenge and goes on a brutal manhun to find Darhk, After dealing with the devastating consequences of Darhk’s latest attack.

Review: 

The first thing we see in this episode is Felicity being worked on as Oliver is going around beating members of the Army of Ghost trying to locate Darhk’s location. The quest for vengeance brings Team Arrow face to face with Anarchy. Trying to use Anarchy’s want for vengeance against Darhk, Oliver decided to release and track him back to Darhk’s home.

Final Thoughts:

This may have been one of the most difficult episodes to write a review on. Between the weird time jumping, not only did we get the usual flashbacks but we jumped forward 4 months to the grave scene twice and throughout the beginning of the episode we Felicity being rushed to the emergency room while also seeing Oliver hunt down Damian Darhk. Whoa, talk about a mind fuck. 

Ok now that we got that out of the way…..Felicity is alive and she isn’t the one in the grave. however she maybe paralyzed which might confirm the rumors that she will fill the role of Oracle which in DC’s canon is the identity of Barbara Gordon. This makes sense as Arrow seems to have more in common with Batman with each passing season. As for who is in the Grave, from the beginning my prediction was that it would be either Thea or Captain Lance. This episode even place a little teaser of that with having Lance give up Darhk’s meeting location, however with that being said I am going to throw two more names into this ring. It may be Diggle or It’s going to be Oliver’s EX. Judging by the weird interaction between Oliver and Felicity in the limo, My guess is the Ex.

Like the Flash, this episode really was more to set up the rest of the season, and also to ensure all the fans of Felicity would continue to watch the show. I give this episode One Thumbs Up. Let us know what your thought of the episode were and leave a comment below.

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 6 "Lost Souls"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 6
“Lost Souls”

Synopsis:

Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) is frantic when she learns that Ray (guest star Brandon Routh) is alive and being held by Damien Darhk (guest star Neal McDonough). Felicity’s guilt over not finding Ray sooner causes tension between her and Oliver (Stephen Amell). Meanwhile, Sara (guest star Caity Lotz) joins Laurel (Katie Cassidy), Thea (Willa Holland) and the team on a rescue mission for Ray. However, the effects of the Lazarus Pit take over and threaten to jeopardize the entire operation. Donna Smoak (guest star Charlotte Ross) returns to Star City.

Review:

Welcome Back Ray Palmer. Episode 6 starts with a little flash back to season 3 when Ray’s Tech causes an explosion at Palmer Technologies. During the explosion ray shrinks and is then captured by Damien Darhk. We are finally introduced to The ATOMS Shrinking ability and we find that Darhk wants the ATOMS suite for some plan which obviously  involves the entire city. We also learn Ray has been sending messages to Felicity , which causes Felicity to question everything about her relationship with Oliver. Hopefully this will be the last time this season we will have to deal with the overly emotional Felicity. I am not a fan, I haven’t been a fan since the second episode of season 3. I think we all would really appreciate the return of the nerdy tech girl from season 1. Though the best part of the overly emotional Felicity was when her mom visits and the scolding she gives Oliver over the comms. Hey I am ok with the new code name Chatty Cathy.

We also get the return of the Canary in this episode, and while Sarah is helping the team rescue Ray we see she is dealing with some of the same issue that Thea has with coming back to life through the Lazarus Pit. Sarah had difficulty with dealing with those affects which caused her taking the life of a one of Darhk’s Ghost Army. Due to this she decides she needs some time to find herself and learn how to deal with this in her own way. So she is on her way to Central City.....Look out Flash. Hopefully when she returns, its as the White Canary. I couldn’t imagine a better way for this new character to be introduced to the DC Universe.

Final Thoughts, this was a nice episode to bring back Ray Palmer. I could have done with out the Felicity breakdown, but the team did a great job of moving through the emotions of Rays return. As of right now this doesn’t seem like it will be a multiple episode thing. If anything good came of this it would be the hilarious interaction between Felicity and Oliver about Felicity’s mom. And now we know Oliver makes a killer Chicken Cordon Bleu. We learned going forward there is a possibility that Felicity might be a target of Darhk when he learned of her relationship with Ray. This keeps brining me back to that Grave scene at the end of the first episode. Are they foreshadowing or is it just a curve ball being thrown? By the way, did anyone else enjoy the return of Diggle as Olivers confidant? it really was a return to those first few seasons. They even brought back some of the music from those first few seasons, I loved it. The very end of the episode we see that Felicitys mom meet Captain Lance……Hmmm wonder what will happen there? and we also learned Darhk was able to get enough of Palmers Tech to move forward with his plan. 

This was definitely a nice episode, we get Ray Palmer back and it tied up some loose ends. There was a lot of Character development (if you can call it that after 4 season). And finally we have an episode where a person doesn’t learn of someones Secret Identity. we didn’t get Berlanti-ed again. I give this One Thumbs Up.

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Arrow Review: Season 4 Episode 2 "The Candidate"

Arrow Season 4 Episode 2
“The Candidate” 

Synopsis:
The Green Arrow and Speedy try to protect an old Queen family friend, Jessica Danforth, when she decides to run for mayor. Meanwhile, Thea begins to exhibit effects from the Lazarus Pit; and Felicity faces a tough business decision and looks to one of her employees, Curtis Holt, for help.

Review:
Episode 2 starts off with Team Arrow battling Damien Darhk’s army of ghost. This is a nice change of pace for the show, it seems like we will get a lot more than the usual half of a season with the main villain. As the title of the episode state we are introduce to Jessica Danforth who declares she is running for mayor, Due to her choice to run for Mayor we are introduced for the first time to Anarky who was hired by Darhk to prevent Danforth from becoming Mayor of Star City. I’m personally excited to see that the creators of Arrow have brought a villain who isn’t tied to the main storyline, we haven’t had this since season two with Vertigo.

Obviously this wouldn’t be an episode of arrow without multiple storylines being played out through out every show, Which brings us to Diggle who seems to have taken the mantle of moody hero that Oliver left behind after last season, he decides to share with Laurel that he has spent the better part of the last two years searching for his brother’s killer in secret and it might be tied to Damien Darhk’s H.I.V.E. Back at Palmer Technologies Felicity is introduce to Curtis Holt AKA Mr. Terrific, its exciting to see the writer’s of Arrow get the chance to bring to life more of the DC Universe’s heroes I just wonder when or if we will get to see Mr. Terrific in action. I know with every new character who is brought into the show the writers seem to introduce them without any issue, even Ray Palmer was done in such a terrific way it allowed me to forget they casted “The Show Killer” Brandon Routh.

Finally Oliver has to address the issue with Thea and her rage which stems from the effect of being brought back to life from the Lazarus Pit. This obviously causes Laurel to come to the conclusion the pit can be beneficial to her as well, and with the final scene of Episode two we see that Thea and Laurel have dug up the grave belonging to Sarah Lance…….Who is ready for “Legends of Tomorrow”?

Arrow is finally back to making me wish this was a Netflix show, I am left wondering why DC would make us actually wait another week. There is so much going on and so much anticipation for each character new and old, We see that Oliver will be running for Mayor, this will definitely have an impact on Team Arrow as will the actions of Thea and Laurel. We know that Sarah will be back but how will this affect the team? We were introduce to Mr. Terrific aka Curtis Holt, will we see him in action or will he just be a supporting character for Felicity? The one thing we can be assured of is this season will be based in the mystical realm and you all know what that means…….CONSTANTINE. This season just might be the Comicbook Nerds wet dream. 

Episode Two is a definite Two Thumbs Up.