Just like with The Flash, it's time to review the latest episode of Arrow. This week's episode focuses on Cupid, a woman who Oliver saved back in the season two finale and has now become psycho obsessed with him, even to the point of killing people to get his attention. Also in this episode Felicity is helping Ray out with a business deal as the two begin to develop a relationship and she floats further away from Oliver. And Thea is trying to hire a new DJ for the opening of her club. And to top it all off, the proms tomorrow!...Okay that last part is made up, but come on, this is kinda soap opera territory.
So let's talk about Cupid, I found her to be an interesting villain, the idea of someone so obsessed with someone that they would commit crime is always something that I've found quite interesting. And the character of Cupid was quite a fun character, the way how she almost had this childish demeanour to what she was doing; after all, her introduction scene last episode saying "I'm Cupid, stupid" was an entertaining line. But honestly, i don't think she was that cool in the episode, i don't remember much of what she does, just what she says. And her weird computer techy guy was just weird how he's able to find the Arrow's hideout with a laptop when the entire police force could never find him, can you say contrived? And even more so, what the hell did that scene add to anything, Cupid goes to the club, Arrow's not there, she goes to meet him at a different spot, whoopedy-doo. Oh and she joins the Suicide Squad in the end, that's cool.
And then there is the B-Plot of Ray & Felicity, and I'm sorry to all you "Olicity" shippers (I hate couple names) but let's face it, Ray & Felicity has way better chemistry than her and Ollie ever did. "Olicity" never made sense to me because there was nothing there build a relationship off of, the two of them work together because they have a set of skills that the other doesn't, but personally they don't have much in common, Felicity is the tech geek with low-confidence and often embarrasses herself, Ollie is the suave playboy badass who is always in control. I know they say opposites attract but there's gotta be something there that connects them apart from the fact they work together. Roy & Felicity have a lot more in common, they have similar personalities and they spend time talking about their personal issues with each other unlike her and Ollie. And let's not forget, Roy is just the cutest stalker ever, I mean he buys a company just to give her a promotion, gives her super expensive jewellery and is always trying to impress her...but he's just so darn likeable.
Finally for plots, there is Thea trying to hire a DJ for the club, and the DJ who ends up getting the job is literally the biggest cunt i think there is on television right now. He walks into the club, refuses to audition and just expects Thea to give him the job, waits around for the guy to get the job to fail and then at the end of the night, kisses Thea without any warning...what a prick. First of all, who do you think you are? Mariah Carey? You can't walk into an audition and be excepted to be given the job without people hearing how you play first (Besides, DJ's are just people good with iTunes so it's not something to gloat about). And waiting around at a club all night just in case the actual DJ is fired, that's not cool, that makes you come across as a loser with nothing better to do. And kissing a girl without any pre-notion that she was interested in you, that's kind of a fucked up thing to do in today's hypersensitive modern society. Seriously, this guy just screams douchebag, and does Thea really need another love interest? Wasn't Roy enough? Or if you want to give her a story, how about the one that has already been set up for her with Malcolm Merlyn? Hm?
But then that takes us to the theme of the episode; letting go of your loved ones, whether it be they're dead or just simply not all that into you. Weirdly enough this episode makes a weird contrast between the main story and the flashback. In the flashback Tatsu and Ollie go searching for her husband who may be dead, and then they learn that the people on the job he was on died, but once they get back home, he's still alive. First of all, fuck you for teasing comic book fans like that, for those people that know Tatsu's backstory, it was lame to tease it like this. And also this contradicts the theme of the episode, letting go of loved ones, but Tatsu doesn't have to learn to let go because the person she loves is still alive and with her. But in the rest of the episode, Ollie and Cupid have to accept that the people they love aren't going to love them in return, even to the point where Ollie has to give a big speech about letting go (And they even show a shot of Felicity, you know, in case we couldn't figure out who he was talking about). So why they not only tease at something we know is going to happen but also have it blatantly contradict the theme of the episode, it doesn't really make sense to me.
Finally, there were the two final scenes of the episode and teases for the rest of the season. The first one being Ray designing the Atom Exoskeleton, this doesn't really tell us much seeing as we all knew this was going to happen sooner or later, and it appears to be sooner. And the other is the appearance of Captain Boomerang...yes, you read that right, Captain-Boomerang. I've made fun of this guy in the past and...yeah this one little cameo already has me laughing on how serious they're taking him. I mean i assume it's intentionally serious but comes across as funny, i mean when he says "they always come back to haunt you" and refers to his boomerang, there is no way that was serious. My point is, this guy is the most ridiculous mainstream villain i can think of, in name and in powers, I honestly can't wait to see more of him from how stupid of an idea this is.
My final rating for this episode is a 5/10, really, nothing special happened in this episode, it has some good teases but the theme was all over the place and Thea's subplot was truly awful.
Oh, and afterthought: In the latest episode of The Flash he's already gotten the name Flash, that took 6 episodes, Arrow is 3 seasons into the show and they still haven't called him Green Arrow! Seriously?
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