Arrow 4x23 - Schism – Green Arrow (Season Finale) | Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #186 - Arrow 4x23 - Schism | Review – Green Arrow comes to stop Damien Darhk who is killing Donna Smoak before Felicity’s eyes. Of course, he can’t. Damien stops Ollie’s Arrows and makes off with Rubicon again. Oliver gives a hopeful speech to crazy looters, Felicity and Curtis almost magically hack a nuke heading toward the city, and then Oliver defeats Damien Darhk. Partially with the magic that Fortuna taught him, but mostly with hope from angry, hopeful citizens of Star City. That one Spider-man movie or Ghostbusters II… or most recently, Supergirl. Everyone leaves the team to go find themselves, leaving Oliver and Felicity. Also, Oliver’s taxi-cab speech made him Mayor! Oh, and in the flashbacks? We’re off to Russia!

Arrow 4x22 – Lost in the Flood | Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #181 - Arrow 4x22 – Lost in the Flood | Review - Arrow and Spartan watch Damien Darhk absorbing souls from the nuking of Havenrock, but get beat down and spared as Damien wants them to feel the skin melting when he regains control of Rubicon. Felicity doesn’t have time for dwelling on all the lives she extinguished, but Donna has time to be butt-hurt and bicker with Felicity’s dad (she’s also upset because Felicity tells her she works with Green Arrow—which I thought Donna already knew). Damien enlists Felicity’s Star Trek-quoting ex Cooper Seldon to hack back control of Rubicon, but Curtis and Felicity defeat him to humorous effect. Also, Ollie and John follow a text from Thea to the underground Tevat Noah where they fight ghosts and talk to denizens who didn’t take the yellow pills because they think Damien Darhk gave them more hope than Green Arrow did. Well, alright then. Ollie fights a mind-controlled Thea, brings her back to her senses, while Dig fights Malcolm Merlyn. Anarky meanwhile takes over the Tevat Noah command center, people fight, there’s a stray arrow, and the next thing you know, Ruve Darhk is dead, and the whole ark is destroyed with Damien and Ruve’s mysteriously unnamed and silent daughter saved. Meanwhile, Donna pressures Noah to leave (and he does). But before they fret over that development too much, Damien walks in, and he his pissed.

Arrow 4x21 – Monument Point | Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN # 176 - Arrow 4x21 – Monument Point | Review - HIVE is hacking the world’s nuclear missiles, and it’s up to Felicity and her dad The Calculator to keep them at bay! Unfortunately, they need a quantum processor or some such non-sense ... which Felicity has at Palmer Tech ... except she gets fired and escorted out of the building for being a shitty CEO. So she and her dad have to break in with Oliver, use a ridiculously well-placed electromagnet thing to get the processor, and clone the device before security shows up. And when they get back to the bunker, they succeed in stopping every missile… but one. Rather than let the nuke take out a couple of million people, Felicity hacks and directs it to a smaller location, choosing to kill tens of thousands of people instead. Ouch. Meanwhile Thea deals with Malcolm and Anarky (who seemingly kills Alex), and in the flashbacks, Oliver takes on Reiter some more.

Arrow 4x20 – Genesis | Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #171 - Arrow 4x20 – Genesis | Review - Andy lures Diggle out, captures him, tortures him, and lets him get rescued in order to track him to Lilah, who has a chip in her arm that will give Damien Darhk access and control to a bunch of nuclear missiles he can use to destroy the world. Realizing his family will never be safe (mostly because Andy keeps saying it), Diggle kills his brother. Meanwhile, Oliver and Felicity go on a quest to learn magic. Oliver is told he has too much darkness in him, but proves the theory wrong when he focuses on Felicity’s voice in his head, and lightens up enough to repel Darhk’s magic. Also, Thea and Alex take a trip to Genesis, where nothing is real!

Arrow 4x18 - Eleven-Fifty-Nine | Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #150 - Arrow 4x18 - Eleven-Fifty-Nine | Review - After months of speculation, the question is finally answered. Damien Darhk, as if you couldn't have guessed, was the dirty deeder, and he placed one of Ollie's arrows into Larurel Lance to keep his word to Quentin. Even worse, Darhk only had the upper hand in the fight because Andy Diggle betrayed the team (as Oliver said he would) leaving John blaming himself for Laurel's death. It's a tough world these characters live in. Anyway, sit back and enjoy (or re-live) our thoughts (both good and bad) on this episode of Arrow!

Arrow 4x15 - Taken | Review

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WARNING: SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #120 - Arrow 4x15 - Taken | Review - Vixen! Constantine update! Spine chip! You Shall pass! All on this week's Arrow! It's getting deep into the season here in Star City! You can tell by the shade of gloom on the leaves. Every bright spot has a shadow darker than hell. But we still have a great time talking about how much we love Vixen! Oh, and Constantine of course. And what will happen with Olicity? Things are getting scary there. DO SOMETHING, OLIVER! Almost everything really clicked on this episode of Arrow, and we're gonna talk about it!

Arrow 4x10 - Blood Debts Review

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WARNING: SPOILERS/NSFW - Buckle in, folks! We're gonna talk about Genesis! Corn! And what any of that has to do with Arrow and Damien Darhk. Why isn't Oliver hanging out with Felicity at the hospital? She's having so many surgeries... And what happens when Laurel learns that her dad is dipping Donna Smoak? And there's Speedy... uh... doing stuff. And Diggle needs to learn to interrogate his brother with playing cards! And there's Anarky and island shenanigans, too! Let's all have fun talking about Arrow, folks!
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Arrow 4x09 - 'Dark Waters' Review

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SPOILERS/NSFW - This episode we review "Dark Waters", the ninth episode of the fourth season of 'Arrow'. After Damien Darhk commands a terrorist attack on the Starling Bay that Oliver and his campaign staff and supporters are trying to clean up, Ollie decides to out Damien Darhk on television. Not a good idea. On the fun side, Felicity at least got to see that her mom and Captain Lance are bumping uglies before she got lead riddled to the most haunting rendition of Little Drummer Boy we've ever heard! Not to say that Felicity is in any real danger. They really hammered us with those reminders of her being Jewish... we take that as a "no rocks on the grave" sign.

'Arrow' 4x07 - 'Brotherhood' Review

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So Andy Diggle is back.  Not as a ghost... well, I guess he his, kinda.  So Diggle wants to take him back, but doesn't want the team to help.  Of course the team is going to help!  Even Ray! Also, Captain Lance grows some big shiny balls, and Damien Darhk continues to be one scary mother!  Until Thea shows up... Speaking of Thea, she's dating Oliver's campaign manager and receiving offers to kill pedophiles from her dad--all in the name of sating that damned blood lust.  Sigh, good times.

'Arrow' 2x06 - 'Lost Souls' Review

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Seriously, if we didn't have a podcast where we talked about 'Arrow'... well, honestly, we'd still be watching it and bitching about it. I can't help but wonder who the 'Lost Souls' of the title are.  The writers?  While there was some good in this episode (Ray), it is mostly overshadowed by a boring plot which honestly just felt like it was 'Arrow' doing its part to build up to 'Legends of Tomorrow'.  Not much else happens in this episode, really.  Felicity blames herself, Ollie wonders what he did that was so wrong (aside from texting Felicity's mom), and Quentin has a meet cute. Sigh.  Oh, and so does Thea.  Folk be hooking up, ya'll.

'Arrow' 4x05 - 'Haunted' Review

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Laurel, as usual, is an idiot, and pretty much no matter how you look at it, this is the worst she's been in a while.  She's just terrible.  But everyone should relax! John Constantine is finally here!  Here Constantine is in both flashback and present day form defeating evil with ancient incantations and his quick british wit!  We've missed the bloke for sure!  Meanwhile, Quentin Lance finds an unlikely ally in Diggle, and the two embark on a journey to erase a number of names on a list of some sort and find out why Andy Diggle (John's brother) had to die!

'Arrow' 4x03 - 'Restoration' Review

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So Laurel and Thea have gone all modern-day superhero Thelma and Louise on us, and have stolen Sarah's body from the cemetary. One short trip to Nanda Parbat later, and they're ready to start haggling with the new Ra's al Ghul over whether or not they're allowed to restore Sara's dead body in the Lazarus pit. Oh, also, they totally want to fix Thea's burgeoning bloodlust. Speaking of restoration, Felicity has decided she's had enough of Oliver and Diggle acting like a couple of children. So time to restore that relationship! Also, Double Down and Damien Darhk! Yay alliterative villain names

'Arrow' 4x02 - 'The Candidate' Review

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Team Arrow is kicking ass, but Thea is enjoying the fight a little too much! An old Queen family friend decides to run for Mayor, but as everyone knows, Mayors don't last for long in Star City!  In this case, Damien Darhk has decided to have Anarky grab the new candidate's daughter to pressure her into dropping out of the race! While looking for the kidnapper, Thea crosses the line, and all of this of course gives Laurel an idea that no one should ever have: let's raise the dead!  Just one more reason to make the unrelenting Quentin Lance hate Team Arrow even more!

'Arrow' 4x01 - 'Green Arrow' Review

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WARNING: SPOILERS/NSFW 'Arrow' 4x04 - 'Green Arrow' Review This episode we talk the first episode of 'Arrow' season 4, "Green Arrow"! Oliver and Felicity are called back to the newly renamed Star City when Damien Darhk and his army of ghosts begin an endless crime wave on the city with the hopes of destroying it! With Damien displaying healthy doses of candor, ill-will, and magic, Oliver finds himself at odds with everyone on his old team. From Diggle's inability to forgive him for his actions with the League of Assassins, to Speedy's increasingly violent behavior, things are going to be especially rocky for Team Arrow this year -- especially given that last scene in the grave yard! WTF!?

'Arrow' Season 4 Preview: What to Expect

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When last we left Oliver Queen, he had renounced his status as the Starling City viglante known as the Arrow, and moved on to a new life with Felicity Smoak. Newly resurrected Thea stayed behind with Laurel and Diggle to carry on the work of Team Arrow, and Malcolm Merlyn was settling into his new role as Ra's Al Ghul: Leader of the League if Assassins! What new challenges await Ollie now that he's retired? Will he stay retired for long? Well, no. Of course not. With a new moniker and a new, deadly villain (Damien Darhk) to defeat, Oliver must rebuild the relationships he destroyed as heir to the demon's throne, as well as keep the relationships he's nurtured from becoming so much ash. And of course, there's also that Flash/Arrow crossover and the build up to DC's Legends of Tomorrow to worry about...