Art imitating life?
But yes, boneheaded choices really define Team Arrow. Always have. Also, Thea, the character, still annoys the crap out of me, and the actress is still horrible. Can she go back into a coma?
I actually like Thea, despite the current uselessness of the character. Maybe she can join the Legends.
Meh. Kid Flash is already joining them. I think that fills their quota of useless characters for the season. 
Ah, the magic Arrowverse internet, where you can hack video display panels and cause them to explode.
That is all.
That’s all the stupid you got out of this? The writers are just trolling the audience with the stupid, I’m sure. I’d say it can’t be that hard to produce semi-plausible stories, but then I remember 24. Have they had a satellite yet that not only can tell you how many people are in a 3-story building from their infrared signatures, but also what floor they are on? There’s plenty of room left for the exploding video displays to be the most rational part of the season.
Over on The Flash, Harry was able to change the composition of some deadly acid by sticking his USB cable into the vat and hacking it into something non-caustic, and that was strangely tolerable because the episode was otherwise fun and good. The writers on Arrow have piled up so many implausibilities and outright stupidities that any deviation from real-world experience now just disables our suspension of disbelief.
OK, here’s another one. Early in the season, the FBI were all up in Oliver’s case about being the Green Arrow. With the city under direct cyber-terrorist attack, there should be FBI agents all over the place. So where the frak are they?
texting?
Just now catching up on last week’s episode “We Fall.”
Fun little Easter egg: When Cayden James shows up at Oliver’s mayoral office, he introduces himself (for the secretary’s benefit) as “Ben Gale.” The actor playing James is Michael Emerson who played a character on LOST who was first known as “Henry Gale” and then later as “Ben Linus.”
Otherwise, yeah, kind of a stupid episode. I did like Dinah using her Canary Cry to stop the train–that was cool.
Drat! forgot to record the Feb 1 episode – luckily I can watch online.
Brian
This episode was better than the last one, if only for the unexpected Flash mini-crossover showing Dinah’s much-needed backstory. I’m still not convinced about Vigilante’s protestations of being “undercover”. I wouldn’t be surprised if he again turns up alive at the end of the season.
If Cayden James is such a master hacker, wouldn’t he be able to detect that the footage implicating Oliver in his son’s death was fake? After all, Felicity and Helix girl were able to do it in a matter of hours.
They should have been suspicious that Cayden used an obvious password like his son’s birthday. It screamed “setup” to me and I don’t have anything approaching Felicity’s skills as a hacker.
Why would he look into it?
He seems the type of person that doesn’t appreciate being manipulated.
Sure - but he has no reason to believe he is in this specific case. Now, if ‘somehow’ they manage to show him that he was - then I’m sure he’ll care.
The more I think about it, the more I dislike this plot development. Vigilante proclaimed himself to be “undercover”. Evil Laurel appears to be getting a redemption arc, despite turning Vigilante’s brains into goo. What’s going to happen when Cayden James discovers that the video was faked? He’ll join forces with Team Arrow to find out who faked the video and, more importantly, who really killed his son. These super villains are getting less and less villainous and we’ll be left with some lackluster not-so-big bads.
I’ve probably missed it, but have they lampshaded Wild Dog and Spartan using guns? I thought this was supposed to be a semi-violent team, not a kill them all and let (insert-deity-of-your-choice) sort them out team. And by all, of course, I mean just the hired guns, goons, and mooks.
How old is William supposed to be? He looks like he’s about 12 but he’s acting like he’s maybe 8. Master villain wants to blow up the whole city, and he’s asking why wants to go and take him down. And then he leaves the bunker to said master villains hideout -
to do what exactly?
Although I shouldn’t be calling Cayden James a master villain. His takedown was just so predictable and anticlimactic.
What do Wild Dog’s and Spartan’s guns shoot? They were talking to Canary about the team not being killers while they were shooting bad guys.
I love my superhero shows, but the writing is just so, so lazy. They really should go to shorter, 13 episode seasons so they can tell tighter stories and maybe, just maybe, put a little more effort into the writing. Wishful thinking on my part, I know.
Yeah, one of the dumbest things about the show is whether or not it’s OK to kill people. Usually, the more evil a person is, the more they’re the boss, the more they’re a real character, the more it’s not OK to kill them.
I’ve really enjoyed Michael Emerson as Cayden James, but his reaction to learning he’d been hoodwinked about his son’s murder was ridiculous. “OK, every single bit of the extraordinarily complex evil plan I’ve been dedicating the last months of my life to, abandoning the principles I presumably once had, is based on a lie. Based on someone who fooled me! And here’s the person who brought me that news. I will react by… arbitrarily forcing that person to accomplish a random sidequest with an unrealistically short deadline!”
Remind me… had we seen this Diaz guy before he showed up as one of Cayden’s team? Was he a character before? Could be interesting to have a big bad who is NOT either mystical or a superarcherninja or anything.
You’ve just described the bulk of quests in every console and computer RPG.
I’m fairly familiar with the actor playing Diaz from Fringe and 12 Monkeys (among other places), and I’m pretty sure he hadn’t been previously introduced. However, I don’t always pay the closest attention. And he was able to give Spartan a run for his money in hand-to-hand.