The fandom loses! Logic has taken precedence! All is right with the world!...Sorry, let's recap. In Uprising, the villain of Brick who has been built up the past few episodes now has complete control of the Glades, Team Arrow do the best that they can to stop them but ultimately fail, that is until they recruit as many of their allies as they can into fighting alongside them. Team Arrow & friends win and Oliver is back in Starling City.
So here's the big thing about this episode that I took away from it, Olicity, the stupid shipping between Oliver and Felicity is done. Oliver has revealed that he plans on working with Malcolm Merlyn in order to take down Ra's Al Ghul, Felicity feeling like this is the wrong move, says that she doesn't want to be with a man that can consider working with a killer like Merlyn. Now i've said it before and i'll say it again, Oliver & Felicity make a terrible couple, they have no romantic chemistry and is clearly forced, but because the fandom thinks they should be together, the writers decided to make it happen even though it doesn't make any sense. Somehow, the writers realised how stupid this was and broke them up and thank fuck for that! Now put Felicity with Ray and all will be right with the world.
Oh yeah, i forgot to mention anything about Malcolm Merlyn in the recap, he actually has a significant role in this episode. The flashbacks are centered around the death of his wife and him seeking revenge and how he took the first steps into being the man he is today, while in the present, it has Thea and Oliver trying to convince him that he doesn't have to be the man he feels he has to be, it's not too late to repent for being a killer. First of all, holy shit, who would have thought that we'd get some more development for Merlyn? I mean it's been 3 seasons, i thought they would have been perfectly fine at just leaving him as the selfish guy who was a villain, but we get some actual character growth and a new dynamic between him and several other characters, I'm actually really interested in seeing where they're going with thi--they're gonna kill him off by the end of the season aren't they?
Then there was the Dark Knight Rises big fight scene at the end, where people are carrying guns, yet for some reason charge at each other. I mean it was a decent scene, but i feel like this is the type of thing they normally pullout for a season finale, but then again if they did this for the finale then that would be 3 season finales where they do the exact same thing. Brick was a decent villain, nothing too good or bad about him, i'm not gonna miss him but he didn't overstay his welcome either.
Also Oliver somehow travelled across the globe within a few hours with no explanation how he was able to do that, wow there really are a lot of similarities to The Dark Knight Rises in this episode. It's good to see Oliver back in Starling City, he was away for a decent enough time, but i wish he had a more dynamic return, or at least actually did something important in this episode apart from stopping Merlyn from killing the bad guy.
So yeah, this was a really good episode, I do have some nitpicks with the episode but for the most part it was a good episode and they got rid of the worst subplot the show had going for it. I'm giving Uprising a 9/10.
Wow, both Flash & Arrow were really good this week, that hasn't happened in a while.
-Danny
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