Watchable thanks to the action (and Cupid showing up of course since no one here cares for Carrie I will) but when one actually starts to think about deeds of the "heroes" and the morality of their actions it's just... uh. Seriously, how they've handled Malone's death and the aftermatch is really, really, really poorly executed. If the conversation between Quentin and Oliver took place after four episodes filled with angst, moral dilemmas and guilt weighting down on him it wouldn't feel like trying to get it out of the way as fast as humanly possible. Because apparently no one in the show cares about Billy, including his girlfriend. But I won't blame Felicity for that, but really poor writing/handling the outcome of this death. You simply can't put a hero in such a situation, then show zero remorse on his side, and then wrap it up five episodes later without a proper transition. All that dialogues with Frank Pike were not necessary bad, but simply put in wrong place when it comes to the timing (taking into consideration that they hardly touched it earlier). So I'm really on the fence - I'm glad they've addressed it, but why so late, and why they've barely scraped the surface?
Oliver says that he feels guilty about Billy's death. But he doesn't make me - as he viewer - feel that he feels guilty. And that's the whole problem.
So yeah, I liked seeing so much scenes with Quentin, I liked team up of Lance and Green Arrow as personally for me it's one of the best part of this universe (A Cop and A Vigilante trope is not that common, or perhaps putting so much focus on it is not so common), but at the same time morality of their actions is so questionable that I'm not feeling that I should sympathize with them here. Unfortunately Liza Warner was right about Quentin using double standards. Quentin, of all people!
The good thing in the episode was the epic team up of the three ass kicking women, and I especially liked the hinted dynamic (friendship they formed in jail?) between Cupid and China White. Liza was okay in this one, but I think China White would have more capabilities to be a leader here and more connection to the criminal underworld as well. Pity that the villainesses were sidelined though. I hope that China White didn't die in the end? D: I want to see her again.
Poor Rene was shot with Cupid's arrow - I wonder if it's the same leg Ollie had shot him.
Liked China's "Anything for a friend" what brought fond memories of season 1 (she said that to Moira Queen), Cupid retriving the arrows (btw. it's impossible to pull an arrow with one hand, you need to hold the target... or dead body in that case) and observing that they are expensive (yes, they are!), Thea and Oliver moments (although the fact that after doing something like this Thea thinks that the outcome could be different was, as Cupid would say, stupid), the mention of Moira and few other things (flashbacks were okay). The whole theme with sineater repeated 20 times in various configurations got exhausting after a while.
They've really should bring back Doctor Pressnall, because all of those people have serious problems they could have discuss on a therapy...
I would mark the episode good in category watchable, rather average when it comes to sense & logic & cohesion (then again at least it tried to repair some neglecting made earlier), add two points for Cupid and China White and my final mark will land somewhere between six or seven heartshaped arrowheads out of ten.
Yeah, I really like Carrie, but I don't force anyone to like her too. Not everyone has to.
Oliver says that he feels guilty about Billy's death. But he doesn't make me - as he viewer - feel that he feels guilty. And that's the whole problem.
So yeah, I liked seeing so much scenes with Quentin, I liked team up of Lance and Green Arrow as personally for me it's one of the best part of this universe (A Cop and A Vigilante trope is not that common, or perhaps putting so much focus on it is not so common), but at the same time morality of their actions is so questionable that I'm not feeling that I should sympathize with them here. Unfortunately Liza Warner was right about Quentin using double standards. Quentin, of all people!
The good thing in the episode was the epic team up of the three ass kicking women, and I especially liked the hinted dynamic (friendship they formed in jail?) between Cupid and China White. Liza was okay in this one, but I think China White would have more capabilities to be a leader here and more connection to the criminal underworld as well. Pity that the villainesses were sidelined though. I hope that China White didn't die in the end? D: I want to see her again.
Poor Rene was shot with Cupid's arrow - I wonder if it's the same leg Ollie had shot him.
Liked China's "Anything for a friend" what brought fond memories of season 1 (she said that to Moira Queen), Cupid retriving the arrows (btw. it's impossible to pull an arrow with one hand, you need to hold the target... or dead body in that case) and observing that they are expensive (yes, they are!), Thea and Oliver moments (although the fact that after doing something like this Thea thinks that the outcome could be different was, as Cupid would say, stupid), the mention of Moira and few other things (flashbacks were okay). The whole theme with sineater repeated 20 times in various configurations got exhausting after a while.
They've really should bring back Doctor Pressnall, because all of those people have serious problems they could have discuss on a therapy...
I would mark the episode good in category watchable, rather average when it comes to sense & logic & cohesion (then again at least it tried to repair some neglecting made earlier), add two points for Cupid and China White and my final mark will land somewhere between six or seven heartshaped arrowheads out of ten.
Yeah, I really like Carrie, but I don't force anyone to like her too. Not everyone has to.
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