Based on the Slade - Oliver feud stemming in part from 'love for Shado' (hated this part of it IMO), I wouldn't blame some fans for thinking that Billy and Oliver would likely clash over Felicity. The track record is there. The potential for conflict is there, even if it's the typical CW tension between old bf vs. new bf.
What I'm saying is Billy doesn't even need to be a villain for there to be tension between them. Let's hope he's just a GA fanboy -- and not completely playing Felicity and everyone else. I actually hope the show doesn't default into villain-fights-protagonist-over-love-interest mode regardless of who Prometheus is, which would be very tempting, melodramatically, for the show to do again.
Billy may just turn out to be an average dude who got caught in the wrong place, wrong time being Felicity's rebound guy (most likely fate). I actually don't care if Billy turns heel or not, in terms of being invested in his character my interest is below sea level. And there's no way I'm buying that Quentin is Prometheus. At all.
As for the Oliver v. newbies issues, I see it as more of the series not knowing when to stop hammering home a point once it's made, whether it's Ollie's kill/no kill neverendum dilemma (wasn't this 'identity crisis' part of the Arrow Season 3 Greatest Hits collection), the recruits trust/faith in Ollie, or Ollie's own faith in his team (both old and new). The show has made the point -- maybe not convincingly, depending on whether you land on Ollie's side or the recruits -- but the show does need to move on.
On the flip side, the times when they did need to dwell on the issue a bit longer -- eg. Felicity-Rory tension over Havenrock, and over on the Flash universe Cisco-Barry tension over Dante's death -- they resolve it way too quickly.
The irritants here are Ollie's continuing uncertainty/indecisiveness on many things (something I hope Diggle's chat helped to resolve?) and the recruits' whining. Both are increasingly repetitive and annoying. It's one thing when the newbies do it among themselves -- in fact, I expected to see this venting, long overdue. I fully expect them to chafe under Ollie's demanding mentorship. But it's quite another when the task is at hand, mission is at stake and they still whine. That's when it's put up or shut up time. Looking at you esp., Curtis. On the Ollie front, it's time for him to put up or shut up on his "Am I a killer" problem and on whether or not he wants a team. A few more weeks of this and, dare I say he'd be venturing into SV Clark's hemming and hawing territory re: destiny. Nobody wants that for him.
There's weighing options carefully ... and then there's just dragging your feet. S5 is taking action time. Time for both Ollie and the team to step up. Shark. Swim. Move forward.
Again, I'm expecting that one or more of the recruits won't make it by season's end -- no lame magic, meta or time travel fixes -- it'll be either death, burnout or exile (either by choice or forced out somehow).
What I'm saying is Billy doesn't even need to be a villain for there to be tension between them. Let's hope he's just a GA fanboy -- and not completely playing Felicity and everyone else. I actually hope the show doesn't default into villain-fights-protagonist-over-love-interest mode regardless of who Prometheus is, which would be very tempting, melodramatically, for the show to do again.
Billy may just turn out to be an average dude who got caught in the wrong place, wrong time being Felicity's rebound guy (most likely fate). I actually don't care if Billy turns heel or not, in terms of being invested in his character my interest is below sea level. And there's no way I'm buying that Quentin is Prometheus. At all.
As for the Oliver v. newbies issues, I see it as more of the series not knowing when to stop hammering home a point once it's made, whether it's Ollie's kill/no kill neverendum dilemma (wasn't this 'identity crisis' part of the Arrow Season 3 Greatest Hits collection), the recruits trust/faith in Ollie, or Ollie's own faith in his team (both old and new). The show has made the point -- maybe not convincingly, depending on whether you land on Ollie's side or the recruits -- but the show does need to move on.
On the flip side, the times when they did need to dwell on the issue a bit longer -- eg. Felicity-Rory tension over Havenrock, and over on the Flash universe Cisco-Barry tension over Dante's death -- they resolve it way too quickly.
The irritants here are Ollie's continuing uncertainty/indecisiveness on many things (something I hope Diggle's chat helped to resolve?) and the recruits' whining. Both are increasingly repetitive and annoying. It's one thing when the newbies do it among themselves -- in fact, I expected to see this venting, long overdue. I fully expect them to chafe under Ollie's demanding mentorship. But it's quite another when the task is at hand, mission is at stake and they still whine. That's when it's put up or shut up time. Looking at you esp., Curtis. On the Ollie front, it's time for him to put up or shut up on his "Am I a killer" problem and on whether or not he wants a team. A few more weeks of this and, dare I say he'd be venturing into SV Clark's hemming and hawing territory re: destiny. Nobody wants that for him.
There's weighing options carefully ... and then there's just dragging your feet. S5 is taking action time. Time for both Ollie and the team to step up. Shark. Swim. Move forward.
Again, I'm expecting that one or more of the recruits won't make it by season's end -- no lame magic, meta or time travel fixes -- it'll be either death, burnout or exile (either by choice or forced out somehow).
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