Arrow "Suicidal Tendencies" Review

The Atom, Black Canary, Arsenal, why does everyone have their superhero name except for the main character!? So this was Suicidal Tendencies, where the League of Assassins are framing The Arrow for murder so Ray Palmer decides to take things into his own hands as Iron Man--I mean The Atom! But of course he was proven wrong and is now on their side, but as he tries to convince the mayor of this, she is killed by an arrow. Meanwhile, Diggle and his wife rejoin the Suicide Squad to save some hostages, and we get flashbacks of Deadshot's life before he was Deadshot.

So let's start off with how stupid it is that everyone assumes it was the Arrow, yes, these people were killed by an arrow and someone wearing a green hood, it really isn't that hard to copy that, not to mention the only testament is from a criminal, and The Arrow has probably made a lot of enemies in his time so there are plenty of people who would want to frame him. The idea of this city thinking he's a murderer just like that is stupid, especially considering all he's done for this city in the past 2 years, god that was dumb. As for the melodramatic arguments between everyone, i just sorta phased out for them because...well it's a melodramatic argument, these type of conversations almost never end with anyone's opinion being changed or their character growing at all, this is one of the biggest flaws in all of Arrow, people complain but nothing changes, they will perform an action and something changes, rinse and repeat, except it makes the stories predictable and half of the episode would be entirely pointless. At least we got some nice action scenes out of it.

The subplot of Diggle and the Suicide Squad was fine, i thoroughly enjoyed that sequence except it felt very disconnected to the A-plot, it literally could have been its own separate episode and maybe expand more on Deadshots history and the relationship between Diggle and his wife (Still don't know her name) and create more of a contrast between them. Cupid wasn't nearly as bad as she was in her last appearance, i don't know if that's just because they reduced her to supporting character instead of lead, or maybe her episode was bad inspite of her, either way i liked her more here than there. Also I would have liked the wedding to have lasted longer, the best times to flesh out our characters are when they're just behaving like people and doing normal things, for example: Going to a wedding. Seeing them outside of vigilante work makes them seem closer as friends and humanises them for the audience.

Apart from that I really don't have anything else to say on the episode, the action was good, the story was lacking in depth and proper pacing, it's not the worst, but also not good. 4/10.

-Danny