Arrow Full Season 2 Review/Thoughts

On Wednesday night CW's Arrow concluded it's 2nd season. Wow, the Emerald Archer's show really blew us all away this season. So time for an end of the season review. Top Episodes will contain no spoilers, but Thoughts and Final Review will.

5 Best Episodes:

Broken Dolls

Seeing Red 

The Promise

Three Ghosts

Heir To The Demon

3 Weak Episodes:

Birds Of Prey

Deathstroke

Blast Radius

Spoilers Ahead!

What We Liked About This Season:

• Ollie refusing to kill
• Black Canary
• Formation of the Suicide Squad
• Rise and Fall of Deathstroke
• Unique introduction to meta-humans
• Inclusion of the League of Assassins
• BARRY ALLEN!
• Roy added to Team Arrow
• Every word spoken by Felicity Smoak
• Ollie's Mask
• Return of Malcolm Merlyn
• The Worst Mayoral Race ever
• Officer Lance becoming the Gordon to Ollie's Arrow
• Loss of the Queen Fortune
• Thea Queen's farther arc
• Flashbacks involving Slade's descent into madness 
• Expanding the DC TV universe such as inclusions of Cyrus Gold and Brother Blood
• The Final Showdown Between Ollie and Slade
• Keeping Slade alive

What We Didn't Like About This Season:

• The overall acting from the Lance Sisters
• Laurel's alcoholism
• Weak one episode villains like Shrapnel 
• Not Enough Diggle
• Ollie and Sarah's Will They-Won't They
• Ollie and Felicity's Will They-Won't They
• Second half of the season's Amazo flashbacks were mostly weak
• The Sizzle of Sarah's Black Canary real fizzled by season's end
• The return of Jessica De Gouw's Huntress
• Roy's trip to a homeless shelter and subsequent capture

Best Fights:

Arrow vs. Nyssa in the episode 'Heir to the Demon'

Arrow vs. Deathstroke (Present)/Ollie vs. Slade (Flashback) in the episode 'Unthinkable'

Best Lines of the Season:

Felicity: "I may be a bitch, but I'm a bitch with wifi."

Ollie: "I detest swimming."

Slade: "Remember I made you a promise, kid."

What To Add for Season 3:

Bring Ras Al Ghul to Starling

Expand the Suicide Squad

Crossover with Flash

NIGHTWING!!

Continue to slowly incorporate meta-humans

Overall Review: Season 2 of Arrow brought Ollie further down the path of becoming a true hero. He gave up on killing his enemies and was forced to face an enemy that he mistakenly created from his past. Slade was the foe worthy of a full season arc. He brought meta-humans into the show naturally and created almost more trouble than Ollie could handle. Slade broke Ollie down to his core and showed us what Oliver Queen is really made of.
           The inclusion of Barry Allen and other DC nuggets added even more excitement to Ollie's journey. Such additions like The League of Assassins and Suicide Squad expanded the DC TV universe and make for exciting future villain possibilities. As for Amanda Waller, she can make an interesting antagonist for the flashbacks and present timeline of the show.
          Diggle and Felicity continue to be the best side characters. Felicity is funny and consistently provides Ollie with pump up speeches. As for Dig, I wish we got more of him. Sometimes he was pushed aside for other characters to shine, but when he finally did get the spotlight we got great eps like Suicide Squad. In addition, I love how Paul Blackthrone's Officer Lance has become the Commissioner Gordon of the Arrowverse.
          Laurel and Sarah Lance were the weakest actors on the show. Now that being said, it does not mean that they didn't have their bright spots. Particularly Katie Cassidy's Laurel learned of Ollie's secret and became a more overall useful character for the future of the show. Caity Lotz's Black Canary on the other side of the spectrum could serious ass.
          So for all it's exciting action, excellent villains, and interesting characters stories, the Informers give Season 2 of Arrow a 9 out of 10.

Arrow "Streets of Fire" Thoughts/Review!

Besides the wonderful Women Crush Wednesdays that happen every week, we also have Arrow! Every one knows the deal if you haven't watched the episode? That's cool we don't hate you....but don't read this article because it will spoil it for you. Anyways lets begin...

Main Plot Points:

• Ollie and Laurel trapped under the rocks where we left off
• Diggle and Ravager have an insane fight
• Laurel shoots a bow for the first time
• Felicity hits Ravager with the van and saves Dig
• Dark Archer saves Thea and reveals he is her father
• Slade's army running a muck in the city
• Team Arrow's STAR Labs guy gets hit while carrying the cure
• Detective Lance and the rest of the SCPD offer their services to the Arrow
• We discover that Sara has returned
• Nice little sister moment
• We discover the origin of "The Canary" name
• Brother Blood breaks his alliance with Slade
• After obtaining the Mirakuru cure, he hands it over to Ollie
• Ravager promptly kills Mr. Blood
• ARGUS brings the heat to help stop Slade
• Ollie blames himself for the chaos that happens in the city, Felicity acting like a pro sports coach has an unbelievable speech to realize all the good he has done
• Ollie injects Roy with the cure
• Thea "shoots"? Malcom Merlyn after a pleasant father daughter moment.

What I Liked:

• Action scenes were great
• Straight chaos the whole episode
• Fight scenes between Dig and Ravager were great, Dark Archer and Slade's army ground trooper another great one
• Felicity's speech in the clock tower
• Canary shown as a "true" hero 
• Laurel shoots the bow.....(We love Katie)
• Brother Blood has the balls to defy Slade and die for it
• Roy is cured?
• Next week's finale looks unreal
• Sara came back!!!!

What I Disliked:

• The Dark Archer/ Thea Queen interaction
• As much as there were action scenes, nothing really happened
• The CW moments
• Sara has to get some self confidence
• Theres only one week/episode left
• NOT THE ARROW VAN!

What to Expect in the SEASON FINALE!!!!

Well my friends the long awaited moment has come. Next week marks the season finale. So what should we expect to see in the last episode? Lots of fighting lets start there. We know from the preview that things are about to go down in Starling. The whole Arrow squad looks involved in this huge fight down on the streets. Take it to the streets as the kids say today. Will Slade and Ollie finally fight? YES! Its the season finale this fight has to happen? Also , something to think about, with ARGUS planning to bomb the whole city, does this mean the Suicide Squad will be making an appearance? Will we possibly see Harley Quinn down on the streets fighting with the big boys? It's a long shot but anything is possible. I think we should also consider the fact that some one will die. Some one we love and have held dear to our hearts will perish in this final great battle. Who will it be? We will have to tune in next week to see!

All in all I give this episode a solid 7.25 out of 10 rating!

Arrow returns next week 8/7 on CW

Arrow "City of Blood" Thoughts/Review!

What could be better than having a Wednesday night with 2 game 7s on for the NHL? OH YEA!!! Arrow! You know the drill my friends, didn't watch it, go watch it now then come back and read this article. So lets get into it.

Major Plot Points

• Episode opens with Moria's funeral 
• Oliver Queen is not in attendance
• The search for Ollie begins
• Dig and Felicity seek the help of Amanda Lawler after failing to find Ollie themselves
• The reincarnated Isabelle Roschev informes Thea Verdant is closing
• ARGUS team finds Ollie in a hide out that was unknown to every one except Ollie
• Ollie claims to sacrifice himself to end the suffering of his friends and family
• Laurel does some detective work and discovers the new Mayor Blood is working with Slade and was involved with Moria's murder
• When Ollie goes to meet Slade, he is shot with what I can assume is a sleeping dart
• He awakens not only to his team, but to Laurel who reveals she has known since Slade told her
• The combination of both Felicity and Laurel convince Ollie that the city needs him more than ever
• Laurel also tells Ollie of Sebastian Blood's involvement with Slade and his mother's murder
• Team Arrow moves in on Blood 
• Felicity shoes her true colors by completely (or almost completely) bankrupting Blood's personal body guard who has about 2 million dollars to his name
• Ollie and Sebasitan sit down where Ollie reveals to Blood he is the Arrow and Blood reveals to Ollie the plans for his army
• Ollie tracks Blood underground to discover his army is prepped and ready
• Fight scenes finally begin not only underground, but in the train station where Thea is, and the Police Station where Officer Lance is
• Ollie is saved by Laurel while being choked
• Diggle gets knocked out by Ravager aka Isabelle Roschev dressed in a horrible replication of Slade's suit
• Ollie and Laurel are buried beneath a pile or rubble after blowing up the ceiling
• Blood's army released into the streets

What I Liked:

• The back up Arrow cave
• Laurel looks to be getting involved with team Arrow
• Ollie realizes how much the city needs him
• The bad ass moves by Felicity 
• Slade/Blood's army looks badass
• The undercover foot soldiers of the army planted amongst the city
• Things are about to really heat up in Starling

What I Disliked:

• Episode didn't pick up until the last 10 minutes
• Lot of up and down CW moments
• Lots of talking and repetitive conversations
• Barley any action this week
• Where is Sara?
• Roy?

What to Expect in the Final 2 WEEKS?!?!

Ok so despite tonights filler/exposition episode setting up for the finale, there are certain things we should be looking forward to. The Queen's are officially bankrupt, orphans, and unknown to Ollie he lost the club as well which means his Arrow cave. Also, the greatest battle of his vigilante career is just about to get started. According to the preview for next week we see the return of a familiar character. I don't want to reveal too much before next week, but what will this character be doing while all this is going on. I also think its time to address this Felicity situation. She gets a call from STAR Labs which we know is working on the mirakuru but then we noticed Laurel question where she was. That question ended the preview for next week. Is Felicity bound to die next week? Is she leaving to go to Central City??? Does Laurel shooting a bow mean she could be more useful than most of us thought? I wouldn't mind more Katie Cassidy. Strap in for these next 2 weeks my friends. Things are about to go off.

All in all I give tonight's episode a 6 out of 10 rating!

Arrow Wednesdays 8/7 on CW