Here’s hoping they never sleep with Oliver Queen. While I had seen artwork and casting for the Longbow Hunters, it still surprised me to see two interesting and capable women villains, which says a lot. The sonic dampener tech from the opening made for a cool fight with Black Siren – she wasn’t counting on two canary cries, reinforcing the notion that they can only take down Diaz and the Longbow Hunters by being a team. On the surface the two have so much in common, which is part of what makes their pairing so promising. Arrow has wisely chosen the hardest road for her, which will ultimately be more convincing to the audience: winning Dinah over. I’ve been skeptical about Laurel’s path toward redemption, full of stutter steps and awkward backtracks as it was last season.
I remain cautiously optimistic about whatever labyrinthine set of circumstances led both of these men to Lian Yu, and their road back to Star City. The token Felicity left him from Thea turns out to be a GPS, and it looks like the writers are smartly doling out this story line in small, enticing morsels – don’t saturate the episode, and leave us wanting more. I sort of doubt Felicity and Ollie just ditched him for no good reason. In flash-forward land, William and Roy are trying to unravel Oliver and Felicty’s mysterious actions, while we try to understand how they got there from here. Mostly I’m shocked that this gambit worked at all, given how crap our prison system is. Yes, he gets the guy in huge trouble at work, but he tried other options first, and the guy deserved it for other prisoner brutality. Oliver finds a way to keep his deal – he literally uses the shiv to get rid of York – without injuring or killing the guard, even though he’s been a rat bastard since day one. Oliver is now navigating Slabside openly as the Green Arrow, which turns out to be a bit better than he thought it would.
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