Stray thoughts:

They actually used the Hong Kong flashbacks to tie into Oliver's resurrection really well. I mean, we all knew he wasn't going to stay dead, come on.

I wanted to hug Felicity and Diggle throughout this episode. It's gonna be OK, guys!

Laurel's debut as the Black Canary wasn't actually that bad. I'm kinda rooting for Cassidy to prove the haters wrong, as problematic as I have found this character throughout the series.

way kewl ep, season 3 still chugging along on pace to be the best season.

I know i'm in the minority but they need to get rid of Felicity. Her character has just been so bad this season and last week's episode was her worst so far.

Other than that, great episode.

Gurl bye.

Last night's episode was quite solid! Laurel was aces for once!

I found myself laughing very loud when Felicity alternated Laurel's voice to Sara's to contact her father. He still has zero clue that Sara is actually dead. It'll be interesting to see whether that gets resolved by the season finale.

Also, I never knew that Chase was out for Malcolm after he was on the phone with Oliver's ally (the asian guy).

Can we get Oliver back in Starling City now? I need the gang back together!

Also, a lesser show would make Laurel automatically awesome at being the Canary, which would just be ridiculous. I'm glad they're making the Laurel/Roy/Diggle/Felicity team basically a hot mess.

One thing, though: can we wrap up the whole "Detective Lance doesn't know Sara is dead" thing? It makes me sorta uncomfortabl

Felicity's blonde moment about the helicopter was pretty funny. I'm looking forward to seeing the Atom project completed - hope it's around the season finale.

Now that Roy and Merlin have butted heads, I can see a showdown between the two where Merlin kills him.



Yes, the sooner the better - it's really annoying now.

Have they actually managed to make Laurel a compelling character? I never thought I'd see the day. Katie Cassidy has stepped up her game since she suited up.

Also, I enjoyed they went for Thea being impressed by the revelation of the Arrow, not stomping off into a corner whining about it like she would've done a couple of years ago

I'm liking that Thea's character finally has some relevance to the show now though I doubt she will join Team Arrow and will probably be the one that dies at the end of the season.

After a bit of a slow start, this season has been very promising.

But please stop with the Olicity bullshit. They still had to put it in this episode with the flashback in Starling City. I honestly hope Felicity is the one that dies but that ain't happening.

The Oliver/Diggle friendship is the best on TV. Diggle had some great lines this episode, particularly owning Malcolm early on.

I do wonder though how this "twist" will play through and if they keep with it as the show goes on.

two dudes in three seasons = not a slut

flash is a total non-interest.

h8ter

Truth, but slut she is not.

Yeah strong episode but stuff is going to get even more intense here soon. Wedding mixed in with some Suicide Squad next week? Hell yeah.

But fuck Olicity.

Season 3 crushin season 2

ehh it could always be the alternate timeline which we're apparently going to see this season.

I mean I had a feeling Roy's time would be up soon but man was this a quick goodbye. Hopefully we'll see him return in The Flash or the spinoff series sometime down the rod if he never returns to Arrow.

But this was a really great episode and Ras jut completely owning Thea there at the end was hilarious but well-executed.

Pretty good send-off episode for Colton Hayes, I suppose.

I honestly thought they killed Thea off at the end of the episode but I watched it on Hulu so I didn't see the preview for next week where she's apparently still alive.

The sendoff for Colton Haynes was good. I'm also loving Brandon Routh on this show. Excited for his spinoff.

WTF at the end with Thea?

If this show did true Ras he should have killed Felicity for even trying to stand up to him.

Outside of her nonsense, another solid episode.

I'm still an avid Arrow viewer/fan, but "The Fallen" was a really, really bizarre episode. In a lot of different ways.

Like, the thought of Oliver and Felicity having sex would've had me frothing at the mouth in excitement a year ago and now it's kind of just like...ew. No. Stop. I really want them to fix Felicity as a character. It's like...as soon as Laurel got more tolerable, Felicity turned into a whiny dingbat. Correct the course, Arrow!

Last night's episode was going really well until Felicity did the whole "don't you dare touch me" line when about to be searched when meeting up with Oliver (and then he allows it to not happen!). it just doesn't make sense still why Felicity has so much importance. Hopefully this change in Oliver (which will be over by the finale given The Flash promo a few weeks back) doesn't damage the bromance of Oliver and Diggle.

That was what annoyed me this week. Felicity has been so annoying in the past few episodes. Other than her, the episode was solid but not as strong as last week.

Watched the last two episodes last night. The flashbacks are really, really boring and increasingly unnecessary. I hope they get rid of them.

The season finale was good. Nice to close out the season on a somewhat happy note.