Arrow "Midnight City" Review

So do Arrow and Flash have some sort of rule that only one is allowed to have a great episode per week? Because The Flash this week was great, Arrow...wasn't. So in Midnight City, Laurel officially becomes a member of Team Arrow, really because she kinda forces her way onto the team despite her sucking at fighting. She also pretends to be Sara for the sake of her father and it turns out that creepy DJ dude that works for Thea is actually working with Ra's Al Ghul, because every character needs to be a martial artist in the show apparently. Also Oliver is still with Maseo and Tatsu and we have a flashback of Oliver and Maseo saving Tatsu from gangsters. So yeah, spelling it out like that, not a whole lot happens in this episode, and the stuff that does, isn't very engaging.

Let's talk about Laurel as Black Canary first, seeing as that's the focus of the episode...um...she's not as bad i thought she was gonna be? Now don't get me wrong, she's still not good, but could have been a lot worse. She wants so hard to prove herself that she's a hero despite the fact that she's had like a month worth of boxing lessons, seriously Laurel, you're acting like a bratty 12 year old who thinks they're all grown up. In fact this makes it a good episode for Roy, being the voice of reason and trying to talk some sense into the lawyer playing dominatrix. I'm sorry but this doesn't work at all, she's not as badass as Sara in terms of physically or presentation wise and it's completely unbelievable that she'd be this good at it so quickly, the fact that she forces her way onto the team should be enough to let you know how unprepared she is for this. And she just looks out of place in that costume with the others, she doesn't look like a superhero, she looks like someone dressed up as a superhero.

You wanna know what the best part about this episode was? The banter between Ray and Felicity. As much as i've come to hate the term "shipping" especially with this show, i definitely ship Ray & Felicity, as much as people want her and Oliver get together, it's so fucking stupid, her and Oliver don't share any romantic chemistry, they don't have any similar interests and they didn't even have any romantic scenes building up to the relationship, just afterwards. Her and Ray have much better chemistry, have a lot in common and are yet to have a bad scene together, it doesn't feel forced or pandering, just stop with Olicity (Also a fucking stupid name) already, it's dumb.

And then there were the scenes with Oliver, uh...they were okay. The stuff in the present felt quite short and not very consequential to the over all plot and the same can be said for the stuff in the flashbacks, they go to a club to save Tatsu, and they do...that's it. Admittedly this is all probably building up to something bigger in the end and this just works as a way for the characters to take a break, but i dunno, i was hoping for something more considering how disappointing the main story of the episode was.

Oh and the DJ guy was a spy, first of all, where the fuck has this guy been? Second of all, why the fuck did he come back!? I said it all in his introductory episode, take away the fact that the guy is handsome and he is the creepiest motherfucker in the show's history, he's an arrogant, perverted douche bag, and for some reason i feel like the fact it was all an act, isn't gonna make me like him.

I can see in the future that this will be an episode on the DVD that i'll skip, it wasn't very interesting and has plenty of stupid, simple as that. I give it a 5/10.

-Danny