So part of my problem is that I super don't care for William. I don't like kids in tv shows and it's going to be the struggle for me to watch this whole season revolve around Oliver as a dad. Ugh that's the stuff of sitcoms. I can understand why William blames Oliver for his mother's death but like at the same time, Oliver didn't force a crazy person to kidnap him or kill his mom so I need William to ease up on that. I also have a feeling that William's going to try to get Oliver to hang up the Green Arrow hood which I am also not a fan of. I'm not sure why but I always thought William would have been more of a happy kid cause isn't he a huge fan of superheroes and the Flash so this William threw me for a loop. Though with the way this kid broods, it's obvious he's Oliver's kid. The best part of this storyline is that Oliver now has a new apartment (that looks just like Felicity's like so much so that for a while I thought is was one and the same) and that Raisa is back.
But now onto positives. I loved how the show slowly revealed who was alive as though it was a big surprise but it's ironic cause half of the cast has been seen filming other stuff or has been mentioned on the other Arrowverse shows so the surprise was a bit ruined. Also how hilarious is it that all the explosions caused barely any damage to Lian Yu and the only one who died was stupid Samantha who decided that running around on an island with bombs was a great idea. Poor Thea is in a coma because of her. Do we think Thea will wake up by the midseason finale?
The flashbacks were a little weird though cause we only saw a few snippets and it seemed abrupt. How did a plane save everyone? And how much time passed that the team actually felt safe enough to go out and look for other survivors? Why didn't we get a scene of Oliver finding Diggle and Felicity? I wonder if we'll be getting more flashbacks as the season goes on because I feel like everything that happened on the island was hand waved away. Also why did Arrow jump 5 months in the future but all the other Arrowverse shows jumped 6?
It also looks like Diggle is going through some PTSD or something cause he's been struggling to shoot his gun which is confusing cause all we saw from him was a bunch of explosions and you would think after serving in multiple tours and working as Spartan, he'd be used to them. I feel like there must be more to the story that we haven't seen yet hence my wonder if we'll get more island flashbacks in the future. Also did anyone else notice something weird going on between Dinah and Diggle? Like why is she so pissed that he hasn't been shooting his gun and what was up with that slow zoom onto their hands as she shoved his gun against his chest?
Speaking of Dinah, I freaking love her Black Canary outfit and I love her character so much. Her feud with Black Siren is so much fun to watch and I'm glad she's such a good friend to Quentin. Curtis's tech seems to have evolved too and that's fun. Rene also got a new suit which is an upgrade and he'll probably get Zoey back too now that Oliver gave him a new custody hearing!
I can't tell if the show wants to redeem Black Siren or not cause there are moments like last season when she was hesitant to hurt Quentin but then she goes and not only teams up with Adrian to kill everyone including Quentin but then also tells Quentin that she would have shot him if the chance came. I wonder if she's just putting up a front now cause she's hurt that Quentin shot her. But I'm also curious about how she survived not only the bombs but also the gunshot. Like it seemed as though the gunshot just caused her to faint and then wake back up. She doesn't have an extra meta ability for healing does she? I did chuckle at her joke about wanting fishnets in her Black Canary costume. I see what you did there show.
Felicity and Oliver were weird. They seemed to be in a friendlier place than the start of last season but I expected them to be more like season 4. They seemed like they were going to restart their relationship after the end of last season and according to rumors, they're going to be married this season but like they barely spoke to each other this week? Maybe the show will jump forward a month at some point before the crossover to catch up with the rest and the show will hand wave them back in love? Also I wonder if we'll see Felicity back at Palmer Tech or running Smoak Industries this season cause I know there were rumors of that.
I didn't get to see the promo for next week and honestly I'm not even sure who our big bad is this year. We caught a glimpse of someone helping Black Siren up at the end of the episode but the show has been tight-lipped about who will be our season long villain. I think it would be fun if it was Joey aka Slade's son cause why else would the show talk about him so much. Ooh or maybe Anatoli and the Bratva!
Anyway, I'll see you all next week for my Supergirl review!
xoxo Allie
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