So it seems. Lance Hunt wears glasses, but Captain Amazing doesn’t wear glasses!
If Lance Hunt was actually Captain Amazing, when he took his glasses off, he wouldn’t be able to SEE!
I’m generally enjoying the new season.
The Laurel thing didn’t really make sense until the last episode, where we found her subconsious motivation had nothing to do with The Hood, but rather was her guilt over Tommy’s death. Tommy told her to leave the Glades, then died rescuing her. She’s the reason Tommy was there, and why he was in the building that collapsed. So it’s misplaced guilt and anger. Hopefully, that means the crusade against the Arrow will drop back down to sensible “gotta catch a vigilante” efforts, not “let rampaging murdering thieves kill FEMA truck drivers so we can catch this morally ambiguous hero”.
I’m also a bit annoyed by the stuff on the island to synch up his current status with events there. I imagine they are playing some kind of arc, where he didn’t become the killing machine overnight, or even because of the first confrontation. Rather, it was the series of losses and continued conflicts that drove him to harden up. And so we can see the course of coming to terms with killing and the parallel with his now coming to terms with Tommy’s death.
The thing about the killing on the island was he had stopped the attack on Shado and had control over the guy, and they could have interrogated him. He didn’t kill out of “it’s me or him”, he killed out of rage that the guy hurt and threatened Shado. It was the old Jedi “give in to rage” thing. He was caught up in his rage rather than real necessity. So that wasn’t the cold-blooded killer of The Hood either, it was still out-of-control. To become The Hood, he has to overcome the loss of control, he as to become ice-cold rage instead of hot passion rage, he has to become able to not kill to achieve a further goal.
What was a little more out of place was his shooting the lawyer in the shoulder to extract information. He’s trying to be better, be a hero, but that tactic was still too “old school”.
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How does an 18 year-old with a recent drug arrest just take ownership and management of a bar she doesn’t own, no questions asked? “As long as I’m not drinking?” No liquor board would let Thea keep a license.
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The license is still in Oliver’s name, but when he disappeared, she stepped in on the management level and the employees went with it to keep getting paid. Oliver showed back up, she told him “the bar’s mine now” not out of any legal ownership, but as a familial “you bailed and I’ve been doing the work, so don’t think I’m handing it back over to you now”. I can’t address how the liquor board didn’t step in as soon as they found out Thea was running the bar. Maybe they had their offices in the Glades, so they have been too busy to bother a working bar about some quibble that the manager is technically not old enough to drink, and has a drug arrest on file?
I do know that strippers can work in a bar at 18, but customers have to be 21, so there is some kind of loophole on employees vs. customers. I presume she would technically not be allowed to tend bar and serve drinks, and probably would be best not handling the liquor directly. But then she has her boyfriend doing things like stocking the bar, and he can’t be 21 either.
Tonight’s episode was hugely entertaining… they’re really doing a good job of mixing humor and action and backstory, they don’t keep building up mysteries forever without resolving them, and the acting has gotten to actually being solid, after being a bit shakey in season 1.
I also really like some small touches they throw in, such as Summer Glau’s character noticing that Felicity was promoted suddenly, and coming up with a completely logical (but totally wrong) explanation for why that was.
This may be the most fun show on TV right now.
I liked this one a lot, too. Some nice character moments, like this exchange between Diggle and Oliver: “Thanks for having my back.” “Now you know how it feels.” And the scene with Oliver and Felicity when she asked why he would hook up with Isabel.
I just realized that “Lyla” was Kim (wife of “Cool Breeze”) on The Unit.
Haven’t seen the most recent, it’s on my DVR, but I was very put off by the resurrection of Sara. They had a great story 1st season about how delusional Laura and Lance were in hoping for the impossible, and now they’ve made hash of it. Really, really annoying.
I thought it was a great touch that they had Sara wearing the cap she was wearing on the picture her mom thought was her last season.
Exactly - I knew she was alive last season when they did the ep with River Song; we had some foreshadowing. The surprise was her being the Canary.
Plus, the show’s been embracing its comic-book roots this season, to excellent effect. Of course a supposedly-dead character is back - and with a new look!
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Deathstroke unmasked in the comics. Is he scarred on half his face, as it seems he will be on the show now?
In the comics I recall him have no disfiguring, though he wears an eye-patch.
In most states (37 of them actually) you only have to be 18 to serve drinks. Only three states require servers be at least 21.
Anybody else notice that Jean Loringis Mama Queen’s attorney?
I last read Green Arrow comics in about 1965, and my recollection then was that he didn’t even HAVE his own comic, he was a second story in Action or Adventure or whatever. Didn’t have a beard, neither. So, “embracing its comic-book roots” doesn’t do much for me.
And Black Canary was after my time, as well. So I know nothing about her as a comic book character.
Yeah, I suppose that killing off characters and then resurrecting them is pretty much a comic-book staple, but this one just struck me as completely undoing the first season. I’ll give it a few more episodes, now that Black Cannery has flown off, but…
And now I see that she’s on The Walking Dead for at least a couple of episodes.
So will Summer Glau’s character turn out to be some sort of secret ass-kicker? Seems a terrible waste of her talents if not.
Well, that was pretty awesome. And of course in many ways expected. Oh Oliver, why didn’t you chop his head off when you got the chance?
Man I’m just loving this show. So much fun, so consistently.
Just saw the most recent. I was annoyed at resurrecting Laura, but NOW I’m really annoyed. Reviving Malcome???Bah. Comics can do it, but movies and TV shows should NOT. This is probably the end of my watching it.
I agree with that - also with the ‘Thea is mine’ comment - it jumped to soap opera territory that we didn’t really need. (its always skirted the edge, but now I’m just waiting for the evil twin of malcom’s son to show up).
Yeah - seeing Malcom return didn’t fill me with any happy feelings. Nor was I thrilled to find out that Thea’s actually his daughter, and not Robert’s. What’s next, will Tommy Merlin rise from the dead as well?
But it was also nice to see - re: Oliver taking down the Count when he’s about to inject Felicity with Vertigo - that Oliver’s still able to be a bad-ass when necessary.
Also, I can’t believe that Moira Queen was actually driven home by herself immediately after her acquittal. What, neither Oliver nor Thea wanted to ride with her after such an emotional moment?