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Arrow 6x10 “Divided” Review: Things I Wish I Could Drag Into Hell To Watch Them Burn

I didn’t think season six would induce in me season five levels of rage, but it has. I didn’t think it could get any more ridiculous than the foolishness of the mid-season finale, “Irreconcilable Differences.” But Arrow has proven me wrong in one of the worst episodes of the series and the worst thus far of s6–well, as long as we aren’t counting those pointless Deathstroke episodes, then it’s a three way tie—and at the rate this is going, it doesn’t look like it’s getting any better from here.

Do you remember when Arrow used to have falling outs with the characters and it made sense? It served a semblance of a purpose. It used to be if there was a Team Arrow falling it out it was about Oliver learning a lesson. Everything is supposed to be about his journey—this is, after all, his show—and the plot was supposed to be pushing him towards becoming a better person and a better hero. When Oliver and Diggle had a falling out in season one it was about Diggle feeling taken advantage of and forsaken for the “almighty La*rel.” In season three, the worst falling out between them, Oliver betrayed his friend by going after his family. It took time and Oliver working to earn Diggle’s forgiveness for that rip to mended. But Oliver at least acknowledged that he had done a grievous wrong. And Diggle was rightfully angry at Oliver for his actions. Diggle wasn’t wrong when he told Oliver that forgiveness is a big part of being a team. Each member of OTA has made mistakes and they’ve apologized for them and sought to be better.

That is absolutely not even the case with this ridiculous storyline that divides OTA and the Newbies.

Under no situation are they to be referred to as New Team Arrow to me. The acronym NTA doesn’t even make any sense with this definition. It is literally impossible for them to be a New Team Arrow if there is no Arrow on their team. They don’t even have a copycat archer. So NTA really means No Team Arrow; and I find I like Newbies anyway. It’s just the right level of insulting. Which suits them.

Things I Wish I Could Drag Into Hell To Watch Them Burn:

The Circus Escapees: Wild Pup, Black Carnage and Bobo The Circus Clown—so named because all he does is juggle balls. And poorly. 

I genuinely felt murderous at points watching this episode. I can feel my blood pressure spiking as I recall the audacity of these little upstarts to behave in this way. They were petulant, entitled, hypocritical children. And I realize I’m insulting most children. 

Nothing that these characters did made a lick of sense. And the more they dug their heels in, the more unlikeable they became. Which, honestly, when you think about how much I already disliked them, is really saying a lot. 

Rene pleads with Curtis to hack into the DA to erase evidence of him being Wild Pup because he feels bad about the way things went down with Oliver. Curtis, however, doesn’t really see the harm in what Rene did. It doesn’t matter than Rene’s testimony could very well have put Curtis in jail, but we know it would have put Oliver in jail and destroyed his family and left his son an orphan (this was pre-Olicity marriage). None of this seems to matter to Curtis; he feels Rene was doing the honorable thing for his daughter.

Look, this episode had me sympathizing on behalf of MySon. Some things are unforgivable. 

Yet, each time Rene was confronted with OTA members, his remorse left the building. He acted like a douche canoe. I began to imagine his decapitation. I wonder if it’d be possible for Roy to come back and literally drag Rene around Star City a few thousand times. That would be forty-two minutes of perfect entertainment. Hey—maybe we can get two birds and one stone? Roy can parkour off Rene’s head at the end and knock his head off. And then we’d never, ever have to hear the pup bark again.

Dinah in the meantime is having a renaissance of her love affair with her ex-boyfriend, Vincent. It meets exactly -100% of my interest. Anyway, she’s going on dates with a man who is a known killer and has attempted to kill her former teammates as the Vigilante. But again, none of that matters. Dinah feels no loyalty at all towards Oliver, who prevented her from going down the same dark path as Vincent and gave her life purpose again. (Even when so many of us didn’t want him to and rather wish she’d been left off screen.) (We were right, be tee dubs.)

Curtis’s stance is rather poorly formed. I have the feeling that he is bitter that he ended up getting a divorce. (And that OTA doesn’t consider him one of them.) But again, that’s Curtis blaming OTA for his problems. He blackmailed his way onto the team and he’s the one that chose being a vigilante over being a husband. Paul made it clear he didn’t want to be married to a vigilante.

Curtis still seems bent out of shape over the surveillance OTA did on the newbies upon learning they’d been sold out. If Felicity doesn’t beat his stupid ass down with words “Nanite Pancakes,” I’m going to scream. Not to mention, I really don’t understand what exactly the Newbies expected from OTA. They were given intel that they had been sold out—verified intel but they needed to know the identity of the rat. Did they expect OTA to use a Ouija board to figure out the betrayer?! They use advanced technology all the time to monitor criminal activity. So do you a) go with a board game or b) go with the successful tools you have on hand to get the job done? 

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Thiiiiissssssssssssssssss

You've been kidnapped but the main character of the last TV show you watched is coming to rescue you.

Who’s rescuing you?

Barry Allen. oh god i’m so fucked.

Michael Scofield. Yes please.

Jensen Ackles  I  JIB8 2017 J2 Saturday Panel  ( credit )

ultimate shipper meme revisited:  [1/∞] smiles → ginny/mike; pitch

Pitch and the lack of fandom is greatest example of Tumblr’s hypocrisy I can think of right now.

let’s see Pitch had the following (it’s now cancelled due to lower viewership)

it was not only timely but well written, touching and funny and shame on Fox for canceling it and Tumblr for not giving it a chance

imagine if Pitch gets put on Netflix, we can have cussing and raunchiness but ya know KNOCK ON WOOD…

WE’D GET SOME 18+ SHIT OMG. NETFLIX WE NEED YOU.

WHO DO I NEED TO SELL MY SOUL TO FOR THIS??

Pitch has officially been confirmed cancelled I’m so freaking upset

NOOOOOOOO

Chasing each other across the stars.

CASSIAN ANDOR AND JYN ERSO

DONT TOUCH ME IM FRAGILE

Rest in Peace, Princess

Luminous beings are we…

(via starwarsgethyped)

Arrow 5b - Susan, Tina, and Why, for Me, The Journey Matters.

I debated whether or not to post this, because….well its borderline negative…but I had to get it out. Read at your own risk.

Ever since they announced the casting call for “Tina” and the leaked sides portrayed her as both a new team member and a love interest for Oliver, I’ve had this perpetual cloud over Season 5 that has only gotten darker as I’ve realized what a “non-love-interest” love interest Susan has turned out to be.

Now, I get it. Sides don’t necessarily accurately reflect the true storyline for the character. Someone pointed out that the sides for Nyssa had portrayed her as a love interest for Oliver too, which, she obviously wasn’t.  They might just include stuff like that as a standard chemistry test. So there’s like 5% of me that’s holding out hope that we won’t have to deal with a second love interest for Oliver in 5b.

But the other 95% of me fully believes that Tina is being set up as the “real” love interest for Oliver this season. Why? Well, let’s dissect the reasons:

1)      The first half of those sides – the part that showed Oliver tracking down a vigilante-hating, well-trained fighter type and ultimately convincing her to become a member of Team Arrow? That part of the sides was confirmed as being legitimate when Juliana Harkavay’s casting was announced. So MG can cry foul all he wants about the sides being fake “because they know they’re going to be leaked”, but they were proven to be at least halfway accurate when the casting was announced. 

2)      Susan Williams was set up as a villain-esque love interest, which effectively means she’s a non-starter. Nearly every time we see her, we’re given a subtle reminder of her original agenda. Could she really be developing feelings for Oliver? Maybe. But she’s also been portrayed as rather cut throat so I fully expect her to choose the “big story” over any feelings she may or may not be developing for Oliver when push comes to shove.

3)      Oliver’s feelings toward Susan could best be described as luke warm.

4)      Oliver has never NOT dated a female member of Team Arrow (Evelyn is an underage CHILD and therefore doesn’t count…and I hope to God I don’t have to say that Thea doesn’t count either)

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"The EPs wish we could “just enjoy” the show outside of shipping? I get that. Thats a perfectly valid thing to want. But wishing a large segment of your audience watched for a different reason than why they actually watch won’t make it true. Furthermore, crafting stories that will undoubtedly alienate that audience isn’t going to win you any pats on the back either."

YES YES YES.

And I completely agree that while a lot of people stomach this season with an 'end game' mantra, I can't. I really don't care if they 'end' up together if they destroy them in the process.

Kit and Emilia!!! 😍

In honor of Arrow 100, I spent some time remembering the part of Arrow that truly captured my heart- Oliver and Felicity. There’s so many wonderful moments that I wasn’t able to include them all… and hopefully there are so many more coming that we haven’t even seen yet!  I’m so thankful for this beautiful love story! Here’s to a 100 more episodes of their journey!

This is amazing, darling!