The character is garbage ever since she showed up in season 2 and casually told Diggle that she knew the secret identity of the Arrow, after Oliver spent the entire first season protecting it. Also, she is a psychopath of the 'Jack Bauer' category, except boring. She needs to take a spaceship back to the comics.

For an episode called "Canaries", I was mostly fascinated by the Thea plot, and didn't really pay attention to Laurel's adventures. Still, I was annoyed by the obvious Sara hallucination in the in media res opening, thinking about the Sara fans who watch less TV than me: I immediately assumed that was Laurel imagining…

Everyone except Barrowman, who will be Mayor.

"I killed Sara, and you didn't tell me? How could you all do this to me?! That's it, I am going to marry Slade."

There was a lot of course correction in this episode. Maybe they realized Surfer DJ was a terrible idea. Alan Sepinwall called him "maybe the single worst character introduced not only on Arrow, but on any show I've watched in quite some time".

I refuse to believe Ra's recruited a shitty club DJ

Step away from your sister…

To be fair, they all appear to have become insane.

The real stroke of genius: no build-up whatsoever, in the present or the flashbacks.

And actually… Oliver is on the Island in the "present", and in Starling City for the flashbacks. This is hilarious! Was that a dare for the writers? Did they lose a bet or something?

DoucheOliver (with a moustache) will work undercover as Moira's buttler for the rest of the flashbacks, until the end of the series.

Oliver's biggest fear is to go through the entire season without shagging. Now, why did he go to see Slade…

"My name is Oliver Queen. After five years on a hellish island, I have come home with only one goal- to save my sister, by bringing her to the hellish island."

…what? And now she's anti-Malcolm? Was she drugged again? Is she playing Oliver with Malcolm?

Need an all-MOIRA flashback episode soon!!

Starling City in the flashbacks.

DIGGLE: Oliver, you can't tell the truth to Thea, she will never forgive you. That is what I have always told you, remember?
OLIVER: Huh, not really. Since when do you care so much about Thea?
DIGGLE: It started right after my Olicity phase. Anyway, we must be getting close to my yearly episode, has anyone seen my…

I'm just disappointed Roy didn't do a sad parkour move when he saw Surfer DJ leave with Thea. It would have made that entire dumb subplot worth it.

OLIVER: Thea, you know Merlyn killed our father, blackmailed our mother, left me on an island for 5 years…
THEA: Yeah yeah, and he killed 500 innocent people. (rolls eyes) What's your point?
OLIVER: You should stay away from him.
THEA: No. I love him. I trust him. You keep lying to me.
OLIVER: Well fuck it! Yes I have…

the many references to Harry’s eyes looking just like his mother’s