Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and Arrow is back, there was a lot of stuff from the Premiere
to talk about so this will be a top 10 and my review.
But I’ll circle back around and try to hit everything that happened.
And don’t worry I’ll also be doing a q&a for both the flash and arrow tomorrow.
Careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
I’ll wait just a sec...Okay, here we go.
Top 10 Moments
Number 10 - Team Arrow has been kicking ass and taking names
Ever since the season 2 finale Oliver and Team Arrow have been systematically taking
down organized crime.
The opening action scene is just an example of how they’ve basically been steamrolling
every bad guy they can find.
And we get to see Roy roll into action in his shiny new costume
Number 9 - Roy Harper is full on Arsenal
Stephen Amell joked at comic con that he now had the second best suit on the show.
Roy’s does look pretty badass.
This is what it looks like when it’s not super dark out.
It’s funny that it’s super cool but you can’t really see a lot of the details, because
they always shoot it at night.
And for those asking, yes Roy is going to be the Arsenal version of his character.
Not Red Arrow.
Number 8 - The Hong Kong Flashbacks
Amanda Waller is trying to get Oliver to work for her as if he were a Suicide Squad member.
They haven’t used that term to describe what he’s doing, but you can think of it
as a precursor to the Suicide Squad.
Oliver’s Handlers are Tatsu and Maseo.
In the comics, Tatsu, the wife, becomes Katana.
I’ve already done a big video explaining her character that I’ll link in the description.
She’s probably going to be one of the flashback characters that shows up in the future.
The actress that plays her Rila Fukushima played Yukio in The Wolverine.
Number 7 - Quentin Unofficially joins Team Arrow
He’s Captain Lance now and it looks like he’s been helping oliver hunt down criminals
in the field for a while.
Obviously this episode brought some of those extracurricular activities into question,
he’s back in the hospital.
But his speech with Laurel at the end was basically him saying, my choice.
I’m not stopping.
Just like Diggle.
He’ll be working more directly with Oliver this year and for some reason he’ll be bald.
I think that’s just because he has to wear the captain’s hat and they thought it looked
silly with his hair.
Number 6 - Meet the New Vertigo
Peter Stormare makes for great villains.
He’s playing a villain on the Blacklist right now which I think is a funny coincidence.
If you’re confused, he’s just taking up the mantle
of Vertigo even though the Count died.
That was what his “Something’s never die” speech was about.
He’s just going to be one of the mid-level villains this year like Brother Blood was
last year.
The drug just brings out you’re biggest fears.
I thought it was a bit silly to have Oliver take another shot in the chest the second
time they fought.
I feel like he would have worn thicker body armor after the first encounter.
Number 5 - Felicity Works in a Buy More
Neither she or Oliver work at Queen Consolidated right now.
So Felicity is working tech support to earn money.
The Brandon Routh intro was just a wink to him being on Chuck.
He actually played a villain on that show, I think it’s all on Netflix if any of you
haven’t seen it.
Since Brandon Routh is buying half of Oliver’s company, they all might be working there again
really soon.
Most of his scenes will be with Felicity for the first half of the season.
Number 4 - Ray Palmer Has A Plan to Save the City
As you can tell, he’s supposed to be the Atom from the comic books before he became
the Atom.
Yes, he will get a suit and he will fight the villains with Team Arrow.
Brandon Routh said a month ago he’d seen concept art for the suit and at the time they’d
only shot about 6 episodes.
So I’m thinking we’ll see the Atom Suit in the mid-season finale.
The Arrow half of that episode, it’s a two parter.
Is Called The Brave and The Bold.
So they’re basically doing Justice League on TV.
Everyone can flip out about how cool that is.
The other big half of his speech is about re-branding Starling City as Star City.
That’s what it’s called in the comics.
The name starling is just something they changed for the show.
I’m kind of wondering if they planned things this way all along.
Like showing how Starling became Star City.
Just to address the 400 pound gorilla in the room.
Yes, Ray Palmer will come between Oliver and Felicity.
But I think when you guys see their scenes, you’ll enjoy it.
Felicity is just going to have a few more options available to her.
We even saw her kissing grant gustin in a Flash Promo.
She’s got superhero’s beating down her door to go on dates now.
Number 3 - Diggle and Lyla have a baby
I did not expect this to go down in the first episode.
They’ll get some of their own Suicide Squad episodes this season.
As for the baby, I don’t know what their plan is to incorporate it into the story.
It’s a huge deal, but because filming with babies is very difficult, they probably just
won’t show it a lot.
Number 2 - Sara is Killed
The person that shot her is Komodo, one of the other mid-level villains.
For all intents and purposes she’s dead.
Or at least they want us to think that.
With the black canary mask rolling of onto the ground.
It’s a giant call to action for Laurel this season.
If you haven’t seen the pictures, Kate Cassidy has been posting pictures of her workouts.
She’s pretty hardcore.
She’s giving stephen amell a run for his money.
If you remember the boxing scene.
One of the fighters was JR Ramirez, he’s playing Wildcat.
He’ll be getting some scenes with Laurel soon.
So it’s possible he could train her to fight.
I’m not expecting Laurel Black Canary this season, but it seems like they’re definitely
implying it’s going to happen soon.
and my Number 1 moment - All of the Olicity
This was like everyone’s fan fiction made reality, but they take it all back at the
end of the episode.
They’re not going to keep on dating.
Felicity pretty much said that they were done as a couple.
It sucks, but that doesn’t mean they’ll never end up together.
Like I said though, she’s got a ship with Grant Gustin and Brandon Routh.
So Felicity will be getting a lot of attention.
Oliver on the other hand will probably be spending a lot of time brooding.
It seemed like he was completely turned off from the idea of relationships.
So I don’t think we’ll be seeing a lot of hookups from him.
There are a couple big things we did not see in this episode.
Ra’s Al Ghul, Komodo, or at least his face, and Team Merlyn.
The next episode is called Sara, so it will directly follow up on that last scene.
Let me know though, what was your favorite moment and what do you think of Brandon Routh
so far?
Most of
the people we missed will show up by the fourth episode, Including Ra’s Al Ghul.
So Arrow
just like The Flash, is wasting no time in getting things going.
Overall I gave The Episode a solid B plus.
It’s my new favorite Arrow premiere.