ARROW – Eleven-Fifty-Nine

All cat’s out of the bag now, at last! Andy is a traitor, he’s been playing the team all season long. Now we know who is in the grave. It is Laurel Lance a.k.a. Black Canary. Am I excited about that or annoyed? I’ll get to that in just a moment.

The episode starts with Andy feeding John some bull story about Malcolm and seemingly being on Team Arrow’s side which took Spartan and Green Arrow away from the cave in enough time to have Malcolm infiltrate the hideout and steal the idol. BTW how does that man still have (former) members of the League of Assassins (which allegedly doesn’t exist anymore) at his bidding?

CRASH REVIEWS – The Flash & Arrow

Hey guys! I’m so sorry I’ve like being on some sort of personal hiatus for a while now. Had some nasty personally stuff to deal with and seems to be a downside to running a one-man show here, I was hooked up and so was the blog. Apologies.

I have four episodes outstanding to review (2 episodes of The Flash and 2 episodes of Arrow). I’ll just brush through ‘em real quick and I mean really reeeeally quickly.

Arrow - Taken

This episode of Arrow surely isn’t the best so far. I hoped for something more thrilling especially considering it’s the last one before the 3 weeks hiatus. It’s not like the episode was generally bad though but we’ve seen better. It was just underwhelming in my own opinion. I wanted Taken to give us some epic cliffhanging stuff or something to make us want to really have March 23 like tomorrow but the only thing making me yearn for that date is because I’m a fan of the show; so… loyalty. The episode didn’t give me that.

ARROW – Code of Silence

James Bamford truly is the king of stunts and it definitely was once again proven by his directing of Code of Silence – we got pretty load of purposeful action-packed fight sequences which was a warm welcome for me. So Malcolm has earned a seat on the H.I.V.E. board members seat – I guess it’s safe to say goodbye to good ol’ daddy dearest Malcolm now and welcome back the Dark Archer Merlyn. Damien did show his board members who is boss just in case you know their memory needed some refreshing. This episode was basically action packed but not with a lot going on.

ARROW - Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father was an epic episode. More solid than Unchained. Lots of cool sword fights and fights. Subsequent to Nyssa’s proposal to Oliver last week, he had to find a way to play diplomacy to try and avoid bloodshed as long as he could. That, of course, did not pan out as smoothly as he hoped but in the end Thea is saved, hooray!

ARROW - Unchained

Episode synopsis: The team faced a daunting tech-savvy adversary known as The Calculator. Back in Nanda Parbat, Nyssa escapes and is on a mission. Arsenal, Roy Harper is back to Star City

Arrow season 4 episode 12 was unchained alright because it had a whole lot of things going on which almost seem like too much for one episode tbh but that doesn’t quite mean it wasn’t a good episode because it was great actually. I enjoyed it. So… in few bullets, here’s unchained:

ARROW - A.W.O.L.

You know what was A.W.O.L. in last night's episode? Damien Darhk. He's being true to his promise and he's out of town at the moment, leave a message after the beep please *beep* well, no message.

The episode started with Lyla and Diggle having a lovely walk before Alan Chang rained on their parade (ARGUS business). I guess you can leave ARGUS but ARGUS will never leave you. There were a number of other Lyla/Diggle moments. The Diggle brothers were also shown in flashbacks back in Afghanistan were they first met Lieutenant Joyner, the leader of the Shadowspire team (like H.I.V.E. isn't enough to deal with).

ARROW - Blood Debts

Ah-ha! Told you all it wasn’t Felicity in that grave (See All I know is Felicity is not dying). Boo-yah! (Olicity fandom dance). So… some comeback episode that was last night from Arrow midseason premiere. Episode 10 was quite something. ALERT! Spoilers ahead. Arrow season 4 episode 10 in few lines:

John Diggle interrogating his brother, Andy in episode Blood Debts

ALL I KNOW IS FELICITY IS NOT DYING

The mid-season finale episode of the season 4 of Arrow aired on December 9 and it ended on not a happy note especially not for OLICITY fans or any fan (which should be almost all) who loves our favorite Tech girl, Felicity Smoak. The episode ended with her having being shot during the attack on the limo she and Oliver Queen were riding in just after the glorious moment of one of the best proposals ever.

Personally, I think it’s unfair that it would happen this way. Yeas, it’s not a fairy tale where everything should be expected to always have a happy ending but c’mon! the writers didn’t even give a break for Olicity fans to really savor the euphoria of the long-awaited proposal that just sent happiness in the air flying beautifully.